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Even if you're broken : essays on sexual assault and #MeToo / by Pryal, Katie Rose Guest,author.(CARDINAL)500751;
Includes bibliographical references."From the bestselling author of 'Life of the Mind Interrupted' comes an essay collection 'rich in vulnerability and candor.' How do we make a good life in a world where sexual violence always lurks in the shadows? Katie Pryal, a rape survivor, a former law professor, and a bestselling author, takes on the rapidly changing legal and social landscape of #MeToo, Title IX, and the lawsuits they've empowered women to bring. Moving between the deeply personal and the socially critical, the essays in this collection are incisive dispatches from survivor territory. In these fiery essays, Pryal documents reporting her rape to a university Title IX office, in grim, yet hilarious, detail. She turns her law-trained eye to the Bill Cosby case and to musician Kesha's struggle to break free of her recording contract because of alleged abuse by her producer. This book is for survivors, those who love them, and those who want to make the world a better place for them. These stories strip away shame. They burn off fear. They lay bare the injustices women face and how we can fight them. Most of all, Pryal shows how she has fought those injustices herself-and by showing us, she inspires us to do the same. "Rich in vulnerability and candor, Pryal's evocative essays remind us that the survivor journey is far from linear, and that there is power and beauty in our imperfect journey." -Andrea Pino, co-author of We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out"--$cProvided by publisher.
Subjects: Rape; Sexual harassment; Crimes against women; Women; Sexual harassment in universities and colleges; Femicide; Women victims of crime; Sexual harassment on campus; Sexual harassment in the workplace; Workplace sexual harassment; Sex role in the work environment; Assault, Criminal (Rape); Assault, Sexual; Criminal assault (Rape); Nonconsensual sexual intercourse; Sexual assault;
© 2019, Blue Crow Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The night/ by Blanco Calderaon, Rodrigo,1981-author.; Hernaandez Gonzaalez, Noel,translator.; Hahn, Daniel,translator.(CARDINAL)688447;
"Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism's failure to resist US influence. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Blanco Calderaon said about the potential of language, "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words" (Caracas, 2010)"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Electric power failures; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A history of women in 101 objects / by Hirsch, Annabelle,1986-author.(CARDINAL)890369; Updegraff, Eleanor,translator.(CARDINAL)888906;
Includes bibliographical references pages (409-413)."This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women's daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women were perceived by others, how they perceived themselves, how they fought for freedom. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. These are artifacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it. With variety and nuance, Hirsch cracks open the fissures of what we think we know to illuminate a much richer retelling: What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? What does a mobile phone have to do with femicides? Or Kim Kardashian's diamond ring with Elena Ferrante? Wide-ranging, subversive, witty, and superbly researched, this is a book that upends all our assumptions about, and presentations of, the past, proving it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Women; Women in art; Museum objects.; Material culture.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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Their blood got mixed : revolutionary Rojava and the war on ISIS / by Biehl, Janet,1953-author,artist.(CARDINAL)856820;
Islamic state -- Why I'm here -- Links in a chain -- A place of refugees -- The revolution of 2012 -- Women's protection units (YPJ) -- Women and men -- Qamislo scenes -- Economics -- Kobane plus four years -- Afrin -- Security -- Social ecology -- Democracy -- Self-administration."In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic. And women were not only permitted but encouraged to participate in all social roles alongside men, including political and military roles. To implement these goals, Rojava wanted to live in peace with its neighbors. Instead, it soon faced invasion by ISIS, a force that was in every way its opposite. ISIS attacked its neighbors in Iraq and Syria, imposing theocratic, tyrannical, femicidal rule on them. Those who might have resisted fled in terror. But when ISIS attacked the mostly Kurdish city of Kobane and overran much of it, the YPG and YPJ, or people's militias, declined to flee. Instead they resisted, and several countries, seeing their valiant resistance, formed an international coalition to assist them militarily. While the YPG and YPJ fought on the ground, the coalition coordinated airstrikes with them. They liberated village after village and in March 2019 captured ISIS's last territory in Syria.Around that time, two UK-based filmmakers invited the author to spend a month in Rojava making a film. She accepted, and arrived to explore the society and interview people. During that month, she explored how the revolution had progressed and especially the effects of the war on the society. She found that the war had reinforced social solidarity and welded together the multiethnic, gender-liberated society. As one man in Kobane told her, "Our blood got mixed."" --
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Nonfiction comics.; IS (Organization); Kurds; Women and socialism;
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Jalisco / by Phoenix, Kayden,author.; Diaz, Hannah,illustrator.; Félix, Gloria,Colorist.; Gonzalez, Amanda Julina,illustrator.; Ortega, Mirelle,Colorist.; Romero, Sandra,Lettering.; Sonda, Addy Rivera,Colorist.;
Her origin story is simple. Jalisco's a humble girl that lives on the outskirts of Guadalajara. Her mom takes her to the park to cheer her up with folklorico dance, and out of nowhere- Jalisco's mom disappears. Jalisco goes to the cops, who brush her away. She goes home in hopes that her mom is there, but she's not. Jalisco ends up going to the bar to ask for help- anyone's help. Again, everyone snubs her. So Jalisco sets off on her own to find her mom. Luckily for her she gets saved by a band of Adelitas. They all know the fate of her mom but can't tell her about the rampant femicide. Instead Adella, the matriarch of the Adelitas, says she'll train her so she can learn to protect herself. Jalisco says she just wants to find her mom. Adella tells her about Malinche, the traitor to our gender and the leader of the femicides. And the story continues...
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Children's stories; Folk dancing, Mexican; Missing persons; Women superheroes; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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They will dream in the garden / by Miravete, Gabriela Damián,author.; Demopulos, Adrian,translator.;
"In They Will Dream in the Garden, Otherwise Award-winning author, Gabriela Damián Miravete elaborates the disconcerting experience of living as a woman in Mexico--a territory characterized by its great contrasts, from violence and activism to affectionate and communal resistance: flowers that arise from the earth to expand the cosmic consciousness of those who take it, nuns who create artifacts so that their native languages do not perish, a memorial for the victims of femicide that the State controls, but whose old guardian wants to turn into a laboratory to return their lost future... They Will Dream in the Garden shows the journey that its author has undertaken towards a more conscious writing that, through wonder and beauty, trusts in the possibilities that literature offers to unite, question, and transform our being in the world" -- Cover, page 4.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Horror fiction.; Science fiction.; Short stories.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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Born a girl : it takes courage / by Dussutour, Alice,author.(CARDINAL)890251; Warriner, David(Linguist),translator.(CARDINAL)799154;
"When you're born a girl, some parts of the world are kinder places to grow up in than others. Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and injustice, just because they are female. These girls navigate the challenges and horrors of period poverty, female genital mutilation, lack of access to education, body shaming and femicide. The stories are heartbreaking but also inspiring, as the girls are surrounded by people who bring hope and speak out for equality. Following each story is a section that explains the real-life circumstances for girls in many parts of the world, important terms, and what girls and women are doing to take action today. For these girls, their individual experiences of being born a girl may be different, but their desire for freedom and equality is universal."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Illustrated works.; Young adult literature.; Young women; Girls; Women; Feminism.; Young adult literature.; Women.; Womyn.; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Girls.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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The simple art of killing a woman / by Melo, Patrícia,1962-author.(CARDINAL)381347; Lewis, Sophie,translator.(CARDINAL)402096;
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential of the jungle to save us all. To escape her newly aggressive lover, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about the rampant attacks on the region's women, which have grown so commonplace that the cases quickly fill her large notebook. What she finds in the jungle is not only persistent racism, patriarchy, and deforestation, but a deep longing for answers to her enigmatic past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of Icamiabas, warrior women bent on vengeance--and gradually, she recovers the details of her own mother's early death.
Subjects: Novels.; Fiction.; Women lawyers; Women; Murder; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Lima : limón / by Scenters-Zapico, Natalie,author.(CARDINAL)802637;
Lima limón :: infancia -- Neomachismo -- In the age of Los Zetas -- Lima limón :: Azahar -- At a party I tell a story & ask: -- I am á la mode -- My macho takes care of me good -- Lima limón :: madurez -- Women's work -- He has an oral fixation -- Lima limón :: vejez -- Sonnet for a dollar -- Kept -- Discovery -- I didn't know you could buy -- Lima limón :: decrepitud -- Macho :: hembra -- She is á la mode -- My gift -- Macho :: hembra -- Aesthetic translation -- He finds a kissing bug -- More thanone man has reached up my skirt -- Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, México -- Macho :: hembra -- In the culture of now -- The women wear surgical masks -- Libro gore -- Macho :: hembra -- A crown of gold snakes on my head -- My brother -- Notes on my present: a contrapuntal -- Macho :: hembra -- Body -- There is no such thing as confession in Latinx poetry -- Macho :: hembra -- You are a dark body -- I wait for a bus -- Bad mother :: bad father -- Receta en el cajón -- There is a bird in my mouth -- For my son born in la Mariscal -- Last night I was killed by man -- Criada -- I am with child -- Argyria -- Marianismo -- Buen esqueleto -- The hunt."In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limón illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience, of life as a woman in the U.S. and Mexico, and of the politics of the present day. Drawing inspiration from the music of her childhood, her lyrical poems focus on the often-tested resilience of women. Scenters-Zapico writes heartbreakingly about domestic violence and its toxic duality of macho versus hembra, of masculinity versus femininity, and throws into harsh relief the all-too-normalized pain that women endure. Her sharp verse and intense anecdotes brand her poems into the reader; images like the Virgin Mary crying glass tears and a border fence that leaves never-healing scars intertwine as she stares down femicide and gang violence alike. Unflinching, Scenters-Zapico highlights the hardships and stigma immigrants face on both sides of the border, her desire to create change shining through in every line. Lima :: Limón is grounding and urgent, a collection that speaks out against violence and works toward healing"--
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry; American poetry; American poetry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Reckoning / by V,1953-author.;
Introduction -- Words were burning -- Walls ; Make love not wall ; Ladies ; I was a funny person once ; 666 -- AIDS ; Terrorist Angel ; All of us are leaving ; Extraordinary Measures ; Paul ; Paul ; For Richard -- Mother Hunger ; Dear Mother ; My mother was not my mother ; How fragile ; The whole world is raining ; Battered Baby ; Dear white women -- Femicide ; Rachel's Bed ; Women left for dead and the man who's saving them ; Baptized ; The bureau of sex slavery ; Disaster patriarchy ; Freeing the birdsong -- Grief ; Folding ; Theresienstadt ; Where all the grief -- Falling ; How do you live on the edge of what's over? ; After the fires ; Dear Mother (earth) ; Cicadas -- Skin ; Here's how we like it ; All snap in my jaw ; The war has begun ; It will all go like this ; Sometimes it's so can't stop ; Who will we become without touch? -- Reckoning ; Let him be our unifier ; Keep us fed ; The alchemy of apology ; Finding your place ; Roses the size of teacup saucers ; To all those who dare rob us of our bodily choice ; Eve's revolution ; "Becoming part of that suffereing and dancing country" ; Disruption ; "Is this the moment" ; Then we were jumping -- Epilogue ; V:A dream vision of my new name."The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes readers from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family. Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; V, 1953-; Dramatists, American; Authors, American; Political activists; Women authors; Feminists; Change (Psychology); Feminists.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 18
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