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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Laura Kipnis sits down with Reason's Matt Welch to talk about campus feminism, Title IX, why Hustler's Larry Flynt and anti-porn activist Andrea Dworkin have a lot in common, and her recent book, Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. A Reason TV production.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
By several measures, men are in trouble. As women’s participation in the U.S. labor force climbs, men are dropping out in record numbers. Women are also enrolling in college and graduating in higher numbers. Meanwhile, men face higher levels of substance abuse, more overdoses, greater incarceration rates, lower life expectancies, and suicide levels that are nearly four times above those of women. Men could use a hand, supporters argue, lest these...
4) Exit
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. "Exit" is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
7) The Stroll
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of color during this era, began sex work in an area known as “The Stroll” in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan, where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence.Reuniting her...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions that The Price of Fairness sets out to answer, beginning with a surprising set of social experiments in Norway, which suggest that our willingness to support systems of inequality is far greater than we are often prepared to admit. In Atlanta, we take a different look at fairness, from the perspective of a group of capuchin monkeys. Behavioral scientist...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"So many of the words that we use to chronicle women’s lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words for women’s daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision protecting people's right to have an abortion in the United States, will be overturned within a year, says reproductive rights attorney Kathryn Kolbert. In this electrifying call to action, she breaks down the systematic attack against reproductive freedom in the US and envisions what a post-Roe world could look like. "First, we've got to build a badass social justice movement," she says. (This...
12) 49 Pulses
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Utilizing survivor interviews, re-enactments, and police body cameras, this documentary examines the Orlando nightclub tragedy, one of the worst mass shootings in US history.
13) Not A Tame Lion
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
John Boswell read and translated fourteen ancient and modern languages, became a Yale Professor by age thirty and was granted full access to the highly classified and restricted Vatican archives from which he researched four award winning books, making him a world renowned expert in Medieval History and Linguistics. Boswell was also openly gay without apology in an era that was neither tolerant nor accepting. "Not a Tame Lion" offers the first-hand...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Sid Mukherjee's Emperor of All Maladies, a medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around personal health, self-improvement, and the future of healthcare for everyone"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024..
Language
English
Description
"From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A'ja Wilson comes an inspirational collection on what it means to grow up as a Black girl in America. This is a book for all the girls with an apostrophe in their name. This is for all the girls who are "too loud" and "too emotional." This is for all the girls who are constantly asked, "Oh, what did you do with your hair? That's new." This is for my Black girls. In this empowering...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de televisión más seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada deácido acético con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que suéxito aumenta lo hacen también sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no sólo esté enseñando a las mujeres a cocinar sino también desafiándolas a alterar el...
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