Unbought and Unbossed

Unbought and Unbossed | Shirley Chisholm

Happy International Women‘s Day Litsy Fam! What have you read lately by inspiring women? #womensupportingwomen

SpellboundReader I've been reading a historical fiction novel about a woman born into an aristocratic family during the mid-1800s, whose dearest goal is to attend veterinary school. Of course the immediate family tries to dash those dreams. The story is compelling so far and I'm a picky HF reader. Available on HOOPLA, at least through my library's subscription level:

The Invincible Miss Cust: A Novel

10mo

IndoorDame @BeeCurious looks cool! I‘ll have to check Hoopla to see if it‘s available through my library as well! 10mo

IuliaC Happy Women's Day! 10mo

IndoorDame @IuliaC 💜💜💜 10mo

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IndoorDame

Unbought and Unbossed | Shirley Chisholm

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This was fabulous! I‘m super excited it was my #doublespin this month. @TheBookHippie thank you for the recommendation!
Written while she was still serving in congress, this starts as an autobiography but quickly morphs into a scathing incitement of what she encounters in society that no one‘s talking about & has to change: sexism, structural racism, the backhanded ways our government actually functions to serve power instead of the population⬇️

TheAromaofBooks

IndoorDame All of these are things we hear about today, but this was published in 1970 and just saying these things out loud was a truly revolutionary act. 2y

IndoorDame @LibrarianRyan #BBRCAdultProblematic As much as I loved this it‘s unsurprising that a political analysis from 52 years ago has things that strike me as problematic. Every time she described Americans as “black, white, red, yellow & brown“ I was especially taken aback because I know in 1970 the instances of individuals within the Asian & Native communities using Yellow/Red as identifiers were far from widespread, & they were mostly slurs (edited) 2y

LibrarianRyan Hummm. Sounds interesting. 2y

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y

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IndoorDame

Unbought and Unbossed | Shirley Chisholm

The kittens are getting cuddlier every day! So far they still tolerate sharing attention with my book, but they already climb right onto the laptop any time it‘s open so we‘ll see how long they‘re patient with my reading habits. #catsoflitsy

AllDebooks So cute looks like you have a serious case if feline incapacitation too. 2y

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S3V3N

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition | Shirley Chisholm

#weekendreading @Andrew65

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S3V3N

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition | Shirley Chisholm

Crop failures caused famines in the Caribbean islands in the early 1920s.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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dogra

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition | Shirley Chisholm

My friend just started reading this autobiography by the great Shirley Chisholm. Now it‘s on my list.

Brooklyn‘s own, daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she became America's first African-American Congresswoman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

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LitsyFeministBookClub

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition | Shirley Chisholm

#MondayMotivation this Presidents' Day is from Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. She was also the first Black candidate to run for a major party's presidential nomination and the first woman to campaign as a democrat when she ran for the presidency in 1972.

BookishFeminist, TheNextBook, rachelm

Riveted_Reader_Melissa And yet she persisted! 8y

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