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Including new chapters. Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly...

In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes...

A radical re-framing of conservative takes to "political correctness." It grapples with the thorny PC question from a progressive perspective, side-stepping traps inherent in fighting on the enemy's terrain. Relies on interviews with an international range of activists and...

The one great question that today agitates the whole civilized world is an economic question. It is not the production but the distribution of wealth; in other words, the wages question,—the wages of men and women. Nowhere do we find any suggestion that capital and the landlord do not receive a...

Cuentos cortos, crónicas personales, artículos que no pretenden ser tales, cartas nunca enviadas, monólogos, chistes… componen este libro que jamás quiso ser escrito por su autora, según ella confiesa, pues de no haber sucedido lo que en él cuenta, ahora tal vez sería una mujer feliz y cuerda,...

Vicky Pryce's motorbike-riding mother wanted to study physics at university, but her family told her it was impossible for a woman. She was determined that her daughter would have the opportunities she hadn't - and the young Vicky went on to forge a glittering career as an economist, with high-profile...

What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated...

Existe el hábito de aceptar con total naturalidad que hay cosas de las que «no se habla» a pesar de que suceden ininterrumpidamente a nuestro alrededor. Una de ellas es la sexualidad de las mujeres que han superado los sesenta años. Históricamente, la sexualidad femenina ha sido un tema difícil,...

En la actualidad, numerosas enfermedades y otros trastornos de la salud de las mujeres tienen una causa ambiental. Si bien los hombres también se ven afectados, crecientes evidencias científicas muestran que el cuerpo de las mujeres es aún más vulnerable a la contaminación existente en el medio...

Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups is a philosophical treatment of classification in the social sciences and everyday life, focusing on moral, social, and political implications. The use of labels is essential to how people navigate and understand the world. Classifications...

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the...

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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.