Author : Mercer Mayer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2001-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307119416
Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter is—hesitantly—spending the day with his little sister in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he’s teaching her how to skateboard, how to fish, or how to make and fly a paper airplane, both parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A perfect way to celebrate the special bond between brothers and sisters!
Author : Giti Chandra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000245551
Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe, with some countries and societies more impacted than others, and interacted with existing feminist movements, struggles, and resistances. This interdisciplinary handbook identifies thematic and theoretical areas that require attention and interrogation, inviting the reader to make connections between the ways in which the #MeToo movement has panned out in different parts of the world, seeing it in the context of the many feminist and gendered struggles already in place, as well as the solidarities with similar movements across countries and cultures. With contributions from gender experts spanning a wide range of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, law, literature, and philosophy, this groundbreaking book will have contemporary relevance for scholars, feminists, gender researchers, and policy-makers across the globe.
Author : Tarana Burke
Publisher : Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250621755
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Searing. Powerful. Needed." —Oprah “Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and love.” —Brené Brown From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words—me too—and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn’t always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black literature and power, and the other was the bad, shame ridden girl who thought of herself as a vile rule breaker, not as a victim. She tucked one away, hidden behind a wall of pain and anger, which seemed to work...until it didn’t. Tarana fought to reunite her fractured self, through organizing, pursuing justice, and finding community. In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls, and the devastating realization that to truly help these girls she needed to help that scared, ashamed child still in her soul. She needed to stop running and confront what had happened to her, for Heaven and Diamond and the countless other young Black women for whom she cared. They gave her the courage to embrace her power. A power which in turn she shared with the entire world. Through these young Black and brown women, Tarana found that we can only offer empathy to others if we first offer it to ourselves. Unbound is the story of an inimitable woman’s inner strength and perseverance, all in pursuit of bringing healing to her community and the world around her, but it is also a story of possibility, of empathy, of power, and of the leader we all have inside ourselves. In sharing her path toward healing and saying "me too," Tarana reaches out a hand to help us all on our own journeys.
Author : Donald Lamont Jack
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"After being dragged out of jail and placed on parole by Comrade Trotsky..." is the opening sentence in this book of memorable memoirs. It begins with a flashback to 1920 in Russia, where Bandy was sent to fight the Bolsheviks, but after his peace-time adventures in New York our hero returns in 1923 to his home in Gallop, Ontario. "Good Lord -- you're not the Bandy, are you?" is what he encounters at the Ministry of Defence in Ottawa when he tries to make an honest living. Soon he is so desperate that he agrees to run as a Liberal candidate in a by-election. To the horror of the party leaders -- especially Prime Minister Mackenzie King -- he wins and takes his seat in Parliament. His own exciting adventures as a rum-runner flying supplies to the Prohibition-parched United States makes him an authority on Liberal corruption, which leads to his lightning elevation to the Liberal Cabinet. Will this last? Will landing his float plane on the swimming Prime Minister tell against him? Will his girlfriend forgive him for being kept hidden in his parents' attic for three whole days? These are good questions, well worthy of this unforgettable fifth volume. Donald Jack was born in England in 1924 and served in the Royal Air Force before coming to Canada. He is best known for his ongoing series, The Bandy Papers (starting with Three Cheers for Me, That's Me in the Middle, It's Me Again and Me Bandy, You Cissie) which has won three Stephen Leacock Awards for Humour -- and a devoted following. Book jacket.
Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1438487614
Screening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Production Code in Hollywood, which resulted in more frequent and increasingly graphic images of sex and violence being included in mainstream movies. Focusing on narratives in which surveillance and sexual violence feature prominently, contributors from North America and Europe examine a variety of film genres, including spy films, teen comedies, kitchen sink dramas, coming-of-age stories, rape/revenge films, and horror films. Reflecting the increasing social and academic awareness of sexual violence in Hollywood film and its transmission and cultivation of rape culture in the United States and abroad, they are concerned not only with the content of the films under scrutiny but also with the clear relationship between the stories, how they are being told, and the culture that produced them. Screening #MeToo challenges readers to look at mainstream Hollywood films differently, in light of attitudes about art and power, sexuality and consent, and the pleasures and frustrations of criticizing "entertainment" films from these perspectives.
Author : Bianca Fileborn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030152138
#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-sexual violence activism and justice-seeking. It draws together 19 accessible chapters from academics, practitioners, and sexual violence activists across the globe to provide diverse, critical, and nuanced perspectives on the broader implications of the movement. It taps into wider conversations about the nature, history, and complexities of anti-rape and anti-sexual harassment politics, including the limitations of the movement including in the global South. It features both internationally recognised and emerging academics from across the fields of criminology, media and communications, film studies, gender and queer studies, and law and will appeal broadly to the academic community, activists, and beyond.
Author : Jamie Harper
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316605526
The only time Grace can get away from her little sister Lucy, who copies her every move, is when she goes to swimming class, in a funny and heartwarming story about the ups and downs of having a little sister or brother.
Author : Jodi Kantor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052556036X
Now a major motion picture, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan "An instant classic of investigative journalism...‘All the President’s Men’ for the Me Too era." — Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the untold story of their investigation of Harvey Weinstein and its consequences for the #MeToo movement For years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated, and in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. But during months of confidential interviews with actresses, former Weinstein employees, and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed. When Kantor and Twohey were finally able to convince sources to go on the record, a dramatic final showdown between Weinstein and the New York Times was set in motion. In the tradition of great investigative journalism, She Said tells a thrilling story about the power of truth and reveals the inspiring and affecting journeys of the women who spoke up—for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves.
Author : Mark Greene
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780983466963
In just seventy-five brief pages, Good Men Project Senior Editor Mark Greene exposes the brutal price that man box culture extracts from men and women world wide. The Little #MeToo Book for Men is a concise, no holds barred call to action, inviting men to step out of silence and isolation and into the battle for a better future.From the introduction:For millions of men, manhood can seem like a foregone conclusion, mapped out for us by universally understood rules for being a 'real man.' These rules determine how we walk, how we talk, what we think and do, what we view as our responsibilities and most importantly, how we pursue or fail to pursue our deepest needs, wants and desires.These rules of manhood become so central to what we believe as to render the distinction between ourselves and our culture of manhood invisible to us.When millions of men live our lives subject to the rules of a culture we are not fully conscious of, it can be damaging for our families, our communities, our collective quality of life, and even our longevity. The Little #MeToo Book for Men seeks to encourage a conversation about how boys and men arrive at what we believe."If this conversation can reveal even the slightest glimmer of daylight between our dominant culture of masculinity and our own daily choices as men, my hope is we will find, in that space, a more vibrant and authentic connection to our agency, our power and our humanity.Mark Greene's articles on fatherhood, men and emotional expression have received over half a million social media shares and twenty million page views. Greene writes and speaks on men's issues for the Good Men Project, the Shriver Report, the New York Times, Salon, the BBC and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter @RemakingManhood
Author : Meighan Stone
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0349015325
'You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening' Malala Yousafzai 'Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving' Hillary Rodham Clinton All over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights. In Brazil, women run for office at the risk of intimidation and murder. In China, activists drown out internet censors and defy arrests. In Egypt, the president calls protestors terrorists. In Tunisia, activists bring down a predatory government minister. In Nigeria, the movement unites Muslim and Christian survivors. In Pakistan, actresses confront accused assailants in court. In Sweden, the movement rocks citizens to their core. Awakening reveals the true scope of the greatest global reckoning on women's rights in history.
