Litsy

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado Perez

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If women didn‘t already feel like everything in society was stacked against them, this book provides the concrete proof. Data heavy book but easy to read. Our society depends so much on women & all of their invisible labor. Women are 50% of the population but we continue to have laws made against us, not for us. “One recent quantitative data analysis has found ‘compelling evidence‘ that countries where women are kept out of positions of power &

ncsufoxes treated as second-class citizens are less likely to be peaceful.” ✊🏻 And always F the patriarchy (edited) 2h

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ManyWordsLater

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home | Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung

This book was initially published in 1989 but has some revisions from 2008. The discussions of gender strategies and the “myths” we create in our own homes to make the family work (or not) is rocking my world.

What myths have I created to justify how my family functions? Are they serving me and the rest of my family or should I rephrase my reality to better serve us all?

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

Hello #SheSaid!

Did you make it through? Such a tough read right now, but also a really timely one…. 😬

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Sace

Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay

“Reading remains one of the purest things I do.”

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️ 7d

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staci.reads

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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I finished this one up last weekend before my Libby loan expired. It's only my 2nd audiobook ever, and I learned nonfiction isn't going to work for me without a print copy. Keeping in mind that the mode probably affected my opinion of the book, I found this was good, but not great. The topics for each chapter are so very important, but I struggled to be engaged. It could also be that I'm just weary of intolerance and hate right now ⬇️

staci.reads and feel the temptation to bury my head in the sand. I won't. Stakes are too high. But, man. These reads are harder than they used to be 😔#Shesaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 1w

kspenmoll I can only do fiction on audiobooks! 1w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads I understand, the next 4 years (and hopefully not more) are going it be tough, and I feel it in my non-fiction reading already after 2 months 🫠 4d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @kspenmoll for me it is totally narrator dependent. 😂 4d

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Jen2

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery | bell hooks

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Inspiring.

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MaggieCarr

Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 book Herland is a thought-provoking work of utopian fiction and a time capsule of early twentieth-century feminism. On the eve of the First World War, sociology student Vandyck Jennings goes on an expedition with two of his friends to search for a society rumored to consist only of women. On the way to what they will name "Herland," Van and his friends ponder the type of women they hope or expect to see when they...

MaggieCarr ...get there... but they find no fantasies when they arrive. Herland is an all-female, community-driven utopia. Van and his friends are skeptical of a society that doesn't even need men to procreate, but women and girls who live there have all been raised in a world entirely removed from the patriarchy of the wider world. To them, Herland is a paradise; there are no wars, no conflicts, and no oppressive concepts of gender. These young men... 1w

MaggieCarr ... however, are not easily brought into the fold. During their time in Herland, Van and his friends must decide whether they will remain entrenched in their own views of women and society, or if they will open their minds to a way of living, they could scarcely have ever imagined. 1w

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Sace

Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay