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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.
Adrienne Rich (Author), Gabra Zackman, Nicole Lewis (Narrator)
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Los personajes de Falsa guerra son náufragos en tierra firme, varados en zona de nadie. Algunos quieren marcharse de Cuba y no pueden, otros se fueron y nunca acabaron de llegar del todo. Viven en una especie de limbo, en un impasse perpetuo entre la realidad y el deseo, entre el pasado y el futuro, entre el país de origen y el de destino, a la espera de una promesa, una confirmación o, simple y llanamente, una tregua. Algo que les siga recordando que la vida es posible. ¿Qué diferencia hay entre un inmigrante, un exiliado y un refugiado? Abocados al caos, a la angustia o al hastío, los desplazados perennes son asediados por un mundo que a cada paso -en ese simulacro de avance hacia el espejismo de la sociedad de consumo- les recuerda que no existe un lugar para ellos. En esta novela coral, los personajes parecen moverse con desparpajo nómada entre Cuba, Estados Unidos, México, Francia o Alemania, si bien todos ellos se hallan paralizados, inmersos en una falsa guerra que se libra en virtud de ninguna verdadera pasión, de ninguna auténtica idea. Estructurada en una narración atomizada que refleja con brillantez la desintegración que representa el desarraigo, y llena de ternura, desencanto y melancolía, Falsa guerra es una novela extraordinaria que confirma a Carlos Manuel Álvarez como una de las voces ineludibles de su generación, un recuento memorable y conmovedor de los pasos perdidos hacia ninguna parte que impone el exilio.
Carlos Manuel Alvarez (Author), Sandor Juan (Narrator)
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Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity. With insight and honesty, he explores a range of difficult, sometimes uncomfortable topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood. Writing from experience, Justin invites us to move beyond the scripts we’ve learned since childhood and the roles we are expected to play. He challenges men to be brave enough to be vulnerable, to be strong enough to be sensitive, to be confident enough to listen. Encouraging men to dig deep within themselves, Justin helps us reimagine what it means to be man enough and in the process what it means to be human.
Justin Baldoni (Author), Justin Baldoni (Narrator)
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Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together. Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world's defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women's presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced search for a vaccine. They are leading our provinces and territories. At home, they are leading families through self-isolation, often bearing the responsibility for their physical and emotional health. They are figuring out what working from home looks like, and many of them are doing it while homeschooling their kids. Women crafted the blueprint for kindness during the pandemic, from sewing masks to kicking off international mutual-aid networks. And, perhaps not surprisingly, women have also suffered some of the biggest losses, bearing the brunt of our economic skydive. Through intimate portraits of Canadian women in diverse situations and fields, Women of the Pandemic is a gripping narrative record of the early months of COVID-19, a clear-eyed look at women's struggles, which highlights their creativity, perseverance, and resilience as they charted a new path forward during impossible times.
Lauren Mckeon (Author), Katie Ryerson (Narrator)
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Punching the Clock: Adapting to the New Future of Work
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trends already underway towards the Future of Work and the gig economy rapidly and unexpectedly accelerated. Physical isolation, travel restrictions, and social distancing challenged organizations to rethink how work gets done and by whom, with ramifications that will stretch beyond the pandemic. Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to this new Future of Work, using the best of psychological science as a guide. Although the nature of work might have changed, the drives and needs of workers have not. Psychologists working across disciplines have amassed a deep understanding of these psychological forces, and when brought to bear on the changing workplace landscape, this knowledge can inform our ability to adapt and thrive. By drawing together cognitive, social, and organizational psychology with empirical research of the workplace, Ungemah examines the extent to which the Future of Work and the gig economy can be realized without breaking down the social fabric that holds the workplace together.
Joe Ungemah (Author), Paul Brion (Narrator)
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.
Ellen Meiksins Wood (Author), Jo Anna Perrin (Narrator)
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Mom Genes: Inside The New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
"For anyone who is a mother, or who has a mother, [Mom Genes] is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is at once utterly ordinary and wondrously strange." —Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood. Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as whether a new mom's brain ever really bounces back, why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), and how maternal aggression makes females the world's most formidable creatures. Part scientific odyssey, part memoir, Mom Genes weaves the latest research with Abigail Tucker's personal experiences to create a delightful, surprising, and poignant portrait of motherhood. It's vital reading for anyone who has ever wondered what rocks the hand that rocks the cradle.
Abigail Tucker (Author), Samantha Desz (Narrator)
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#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington. While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be. #ChurchToo turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction, revealing just what makes sexualized violence in religious contexts both ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing. It also lays the groundwork for not one but many paths of healing from a religious culture of sexual shame, secrecy, and control, and for victims of assault to live full, free, healthy lives.
Emily Joy Allison (Author), Emily Ellet (Narrator)
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How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet
A radically practical guide to making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken—Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria—Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet?—Sophie Egan helps us navigate the bewildering world of food so that we can all become conscious eaters. To eat consciously is not about diets, fads, or hard-and-fast rules. It’s about having straightforward, accurate information to make smart, thoughtful choices amid the chaos of conflicting news and marketing hype. An expert on food’s impact on human and environmental health, Egan organizes the book into four categories—stuff that comes from the ground, stuff that comes from animals, stuff that comes from factories, and stuff that’s made in restaurant kitchens. This practical guide offers bottom-line answers to your most top-of-mind questions about what to eat. “The clearest, most useful food book I own.”—A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author
Sophie Egan (Author), Sophie Egan (Narrator)
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Desde los primeros momentos de su embarazo, Jazmina Barrera inició un diario que pronto se convirtió en un ensayo. Pero escribir sobre la gestación es también hacer la crónica de un proceso: el relato del comienzo de la vida. Así, Linea nigra es una novela ensayística o un ensayo novelado donde la autora, con la inteligente curiosidad y el lenguaje transparente que la caracterizan, da cuenta de la enigmática transformación de su cuerpo gestante: una labor tan común como asombrosa e incomprensible. Entre sismos, el acompañamiento de su esposo, la búsqueda de nombres y las visitas al ginecólogo, la escritora se relaciona con el ser que crece dentro de ella, mientras profundiza en las historias de las mujeres de su familia y tiende puentes con la experiencia de una treintena de creadoras que encontraron en el arte y la literatura un lenguaje para pensar el cuerpo materno y la crianza. Dialogando con Rosario Castellanos, Mary Shelley, Frida Kahlo, Ursula K. Le Guin, Luz Jiménez, Tina Modotti, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Munro o Margaret Atwood, la mirada lúcida de Barrera narra con honestidad el dolor, la angustia o la felicidad propios del embarazo y la lactancia, ese lugar del espacio-tiempo en que coexisten la luz y la oscuridad en el cuerpo de una mujer.
Jazmina Barrera (Author), Karla Hernandez (Narrator)
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Beauty in a Box:Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture
One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media-newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources-that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American-owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled "ethnic hair care") occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada's mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers. Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.
Cheryl Thompson (Author), Koumbie T-T (Narrator)
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and overexposed to its harms. Drawing on extensive historical research as well as interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party, Nelson argues that the Party's focus on health care was both practical and ideological. Building on a long tradition of medical self-sufficiency among African Americans, the Panthers' People's Free Medical Clinics administered basic preventive care, tested for lead poisoning and hypertension, and helped with housing, employment, and social services. In 1971, the party launched a campaign to address sickle-cell anemia. In addition to establishing screening programs and educational outreach efforts, it exposed the racial biases of the medical system that had largely ignored sickle-cell anemia, a disease that predominantly affected people of African descent.
Alondra Nelson (Author), Machelle Williams (Narrator)
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