The Guilty Feminist

The Guilty Feminist
Author: Deborah Frances-White
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1580059538

A witty take on feminism for every woman who wants equality but sometimes wants a day off from fighting for it Sometimes we feel a bit like "I'm a feminist, but..." As in, "I'm a feminist, but I skipped the Women's March to buy face cream." As in, "I'm a feminist, but I've never found time to read Sylvia Plath (but I have watched fifteen seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians)." In The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White reassures us that we don't have to be perfect to be a force for meaningful change. Exploring big issues of identity, equality, intersectionality, and the current feminist agenda, she explodes the myth of the model activist and offers a realistic path toward changing the world.

The Podcaster's Dilemma

The Podcaster's Dilemma
Author: Nicholas L. Baham, III
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119789885

A fascinating exploration of modern podcasting as a tool for decolonization In The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism, Drs. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham III connect contemporary podcasting to the broader history of the use of radio technology in the service of anti-colonial struggle and revolution. By organizing the book’s analysis of decolonization through podcasting via three distinct activities—interrogation and critique, counter-narrative, and call to action—the authors create a lens through which they analyze and evaluate the decolonizing potential of new podcasts. The book also critiques the threat to the decolonizing efforts of some modern podcasts by the growing phenomena of surveillance capitalism and the emerging podcast oligopoly. The Podcaster's Dilemma reveals both potential and challenges in the podcasting space as podcasters struggle to put forward insightful new narratives funded by anti-capitalist models. This important book also includes: A thorough introduction to the podcasters profiled in the book and an examination of how they’re using podcasts to decolonize themselves from colonial mentalities Practical discussions of how the profiled podcasters interrogate and critique the veracity of neoliberal, racist, imperialist, patriarchal, heterosexist, classist, and ableist white-centered ideologies Comprehensive explorations of the counter-narrative production phase of a decolonizing podcaster’s process In-depth treatments of the community activism created by decolonizing podcasts The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism is an indispensable new resource for critical media, communications, ethnic studies, and political science scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. It is also perfect for anyone interested in the broad expansion of intersectional voices in dialogue about everything from political organizing to plant-based diets.

Mistress of Mirth’s Comedy Tour

Mistress of Mirth’s Comedy Tour
Author: Justine Sless
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2022-04-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1922669377

‘I know you wouldn’t know it to look at me, but I once sneezed a bit of carrot onto a woman’s hand …’ A good joke takes you somewhere completely unexpected and makes you laugh, an excellent joke makes you laugh and think. Welcome to The COMEDY Tour woven through with comedic facts, comments and short stories; this is a joke like no other and a mirthful mutiny on the historically – or is it hysterically? – male-dominated world of stand-up comedy.

The Guilty Feminist

The Guilty Feminist
Author: Deborah Frances-White
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780349010137

A funny, frank, accessible book about embracing both feminism and our imperfections, from the host of the hit comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist. From confidence to crying, from motherhood to activism, Deborah Frances-White explores what it means to be a 21st century woman in a series of essays that will make you laugh and think. Deborah's writing has the same qualities warmth, humour, sharpness, intimacy and honesty - that have attracted a dedicated and ever-growing following to her podcast, but you don't need to have listened to the podcast: this will be a book for anyone who has enjoyed reading Sara Pascoe, Caitlin Moran and Bridget Christie. Though sharing the same tone as the podcast, it will be all new material. The Guilty Feminist podcast has 500,000 regular listeners, with over 2m downloads total. Celebrity fans include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gemma Arterton, Sharon Horgan (all of whom have appeared on the podast) and Giovanna Fletcher, and other podcast guests have included Rachel Bloom, Sara Pascoe, Sarah Millican and Shappi Khorsandi. They have regular sold-out live recordings and a line of merchandise and workshops, and their audience is only growing.

Smart, Stupid and Sixty

Smart, Stupid and Sixty
Author: Nigel Marsh
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 0143794361

Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel wrote about falling off the corporate hamster wheel and surviving. Now that he's approaching sixty, he can't help but notice it's been a while since he stepped onto that wheel with other hamsters. One day he reads that a graduate trainee who used to work for him in London is now a global CEO with an office on the top floor of a skyscraper in New York. Nigel, by contrast, is wearing a dressing-gown and sitting at his writing desk in a dank storage room under his garage in Sydney. It's enough to give anyone a moment of self-doubt - even a man whose ground-breaking TED Talk on work/life balance has been downloaded a whopping five million times. Could it be that Nigel's most successful days are behind him? Or is conventional success simply that - conventional success? And is it possible that his happiest days lie ahead? In his memoir for his sixth decade on earth, Nigel ponders ageing well, sex, parenting adult children, his parents' passing, and the secret to his living a happy life. By turns humorous, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming, Smart, Stupid and Sixty is a celebration of the third trimester as a privilege to be enjoyed rather than a sentence to be endured.

Tough Crowd

Tough Crowd
Author: Andi Osho
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2023-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008430993

Don’t miss the new laugh-out-loud novel from Andi Osho, the bestselling author of Asking for a Friend!

Asking for a Friend

Asking for a Friend
Author: Andi Osho
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008478961

No woman gets left behind Three best friends are going to solve their relationship woes once and for all

The Fraud of Feminism

The Fraud of Feminism
Author: Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1913
Genre: Feminism
ISBN:

By denying the existence of women's oppression and claiming that women have historically been in privileged social positions, the author attacks and ridicules feminism.

Feminist Ethics

Feminist Ethics
Author: Claudia Card
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1991
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Fifteen essays address subjects ranging from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism and present feminist perspectives on such topics as terrorism, bitterness, women trusting other women, and survival and ethics. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Feminist Criticism

Feminist Criticism
Author: Sara Ekici
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3640461525

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (Fachbereich für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Schakespeare, language: English, abstract: Female characters play an important role for the dramatic run of events in Shakespeare's plays. Just as in reality, women of Shakespeare's dramas have been bound to rules and conventions of the patriarchal Elizabethan era. Therefore, it was very common back in Elizabethan England to compel woman into marriages in order to receive power, legacy, dowry or land in exchange. Even though the Queen herself was an unmarried woman, the roles of woman in society were extremely restricted. Single women have been the property of their fathers and handed over to their future husbands through marriage. In Elizabethan time, women were considered as the weaker sex and dangerous, because their sexuality was supposedly mystic and therefore feared by men. Women of that era were supposed to represent virtues like obedience, silence, sexual chastity, piety, humility, constancy, and patience. All these virtues, of course, have their meaning in relationship to men. The role allocation in Elizabethan society was strictly regulated; men were the breadwinners and woman had to be obedient housewives and mothers. However, within this deprived, tight and organized scope, women have been represented in most diverse ways in Shakespearean Drama. The construction of female characters in Shakespeare's plays reflects the Elizabethan image of woman in general. For all that, Shakespeare supports the English Renaissance stereotypes of genders, their roles and responsibilities in society, he also puts their representations into question, challenges, and also revises them.