The story is about two white women, Rebekah and Bertie, sisters born into the racist and sexist society of mid-nineteenth South Africa. One sister remains in the Cape, marries and has children, the other becomes a kept woman and then a...
Women--Social conditions
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Auteur:Carstairs, Catherine, Janovicek, NancySommaire:In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women's and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate...
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Auteur:Dranoff, Linda SilverSommaire:Lawyer, activist, and former Chatelaine legal columnist Linda Silver Dranoff details her trailblazing journey from a traditional 1950s childhood to the battlegrounds of the courts of law and the halls of power where she and a generation...
- Auteur:Mazigh, MoniaSommaire:
1984 : les émeutes du pain — 2010 : la Révolution du jasmin. Deux périodes tumultueuses vécues à près de trente ans de distance par une mère et sa fille. Nadia quitte sa Tunisie natale pendant les émeutes qui secouent le pays en 1984....
- Auteur:Manne, KateSommaire:
Down Girl is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics. Kate Manne argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's...
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Auteur:Orenstein, PeggySommaire:The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays-funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing,...
- Auteur:Sangster, JoanSommaire:
One hundred years of feminist activism, from the 1880s to the 1980s, presented multiple paths for women's search for equality, autonomy, and dignity. Women fashioned different dreams of freedom and social transformation, yet what...
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Auteur:Cossette, ConnilynSommaire:From Connilyn Cossette, a story of love, desperation, and hope during a great biblical epoch.
- Auteur:Hill, AnitaSommaire:
“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors - It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together...
- Auteur:Schwartz, Selby WynnSommaire:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We...
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