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The whole woman germaine5/24/2023 With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing.Įrudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism. Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality. THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE. Thirty years since the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer returns to the subject of feminism - with the book she always vowed she would never write.
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Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She has published six books, among them The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in history, the George Washington Prize, and the National Book Award for nonfiction. Gilder Lehrman Trustee Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Highlighted in this weekly news post are programs, resources, and other matter related to Black Lives in Founding Era. The Gilder Lehrman Institute initiative “ Black Lives in the Founding Era” restores to view the lives and works of a wide array of African Americans in the period 1760 to 1800, drawing on our archive of historical documents and our network of scholars and master teachers.
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Big lies small town5/24/2023 She has pleaded not guilty and contends the charges are politically motivated. A group of voters then circulated petitions, prompting the recall election.įormer Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters faces seven felony charges for allegedly allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made while searching for fraud during a 2021 update of election equipment. Michigan State Police started an investigation to determine if any tampering had been done, but no criminal charges were filed. Scott told The Detroit News that she didn’t trust other officials to maintain custody of the data. The tablet “is the computer that contains software, an operating system, and some mirrored election data from previous elections,” said Abe Dane, Hillsdale County’s chief deputy clerk. It was later seized by Michigan State Police after Scott allegedly refused to turn it over. She was stripped of her duties in October 2021.Īnd when the Hillsdale County clerk’s office took custody of an election tabulator and a voter assist terminal from township offices to prepare for a public accuracy test, they discovered the tabulator’s tablet had been removed. The state intervened after Scott allegedly refused to allow a contractor to perform preventive maintenance and failed to conduct accuracy tests, among other issues.
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Especially Guillermo – his inner monologue is so self-aware I frequently forgot he was just a teenager. I’ve read adult romances with less mature characters than Regan and Guillermo. My biggest complaint is that though this book really does a good job of handling issues that teenagers will likely empathize with, the characters read as way older than they are. I think it tackles questions that teenagers care about – like what to do when your parents have a specific vision for you and you aren’t interested in that version of your life at all, or how do you come back from a big mistake? Regan and Guillermo are both dealing with things that all teenagers go through on some level – disappointing your parents or feeling like nobody knows who you are, really. Regardless of my complete ignorance of what to talk about in this review, I really did enjoy The Right Side of Reckless. The Right Side of Reckless is the very first young adult contemporary novel I’ve reviewed, and as I was reading it, it occurred to me I have no idea how to review YA contemporary! I’ve reviewed plenty of YA fantasy before, and there’s a lot to talk about there in terms of world building and such, and I’ve reviewed adult romance novels, but I feel sketchy talking about young adult characters in the same way I would for an adult book.
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When by Victoria Laurie5/24/2023 Why was Maddie caught off-guard when she saw the picture of Faraday and Wallace? Wallace's deathdate kept switching back and forth between 20. Why does Agent Faraday think the killer is obsessed with Maddie? She's loosely connected to each of the victims. He also gets to film her doing it, and she cannot have any electronics on her. Where were the bodies of Robert Carter, Tevon Tibbolt, and Payton Wyly all found? Along the Waliki River What is the test Agent Faraday gives Maddie? He gives her a stack of photos of people she would not know and gives her five minutes to write down all of their deathdates. Principal Harris has done nothing to stop the bullying. She was attacked by Mario and Eric, and although he saw the attack, Jacob Guttman did not report it. Her locker was smeared with bits of eggshells and shaving cream, and a foul odor emanated from the inside. What did the agents find that they thought was very interesting when they searched Maddie's house? Maddie's notebook What happened to Maddie at school that caused Donny to be furious? Her bike had been turned to a ruined mess of metal, toilet paper, eggs, ketchup, mustard, shaving cream, and dog poop.
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Over the following decade, the four sisters-sweet, naïve Louise ambitious Pauline complacent Diane, and cunning Marie Anne-will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed as various factions put their best foot-and women-forward. Their scandalous story is stranger than fiction but true in every shocking, amusing, and heartbreaking detail.Ĭourt intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. Set against the lavish backdrop of the French Court in the early years of the 18th century, The Sisters of Versailles is the extraordinary tale of the five Nesle sisters-Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-four of whom became mistresses to King Louis XV.
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Near the very end of her book, Solnit tells a story of having a dream one night of carrying a leaking tortoise around her childhood bedroom. Her third recognition is that these aren’t negative at all. Darkness is part of the texture of light. It has to do with a recognition that, first, none of these is avoidable, and that, second, each is the yin to a yang of some seemingly positive aspect of human existence.įor instance, you can’t have heartbreak without having had love. The deep place where life is richest, fullest. Solnit looks deeply into how various people and peoples have faced all of these seemingly negative aspects of existence and how she has faced them in her own history.Īnd she finds in them the deepest life. Rebecca Solnit’s 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a celebration of much that is disdained and feared by mainstream American society:ĭoes that list give you nightmares? Then, A Field Guide to Getting Lost is not for you.
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Elektra book review5/23/2023 Spoiler-free Review: In her second novel, Jennifer Saint explores the story of three of the most important women of the Trojan War. (( Disclaimer: This review is based on an ARC copy provided to Glass Mountain in exchange for a review, so certain edits and changes may have been made between this copy and the official release )) When the resulting Trojan War begins, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in a brutal manner, and she spends the rest of the ten-year war plotting her revenge. Helen marries the gentle Menelaus, only to leave him for Paris of Troy. Beginning when twins Clytemnestra and Helen are just children and following them into adulthood, the story unfolds around these women as they grow.Ĭlytemnestra agrees to be married to Agamemnon, though she is aware of the grisly curse surrounding his family. Plot Overview: Elektra follows the women surrounding the Trojan war: Clytemnestra, Helen, Cassandra, and the titular Elektra.
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When she receives a letter telling her that the college is closing before she’s able to complete her training, Miss Price decides to travel to London in order to get her final spells from Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson) himself. Regardless, she’s still able to do magic from the spells sent to her from the Emelius Brown Correspondence College of Witchcraft. As Miss Price is still only an apprentice witch, her spells are often short-lived and just slightly off of their intended purpose. What follows is a hilarious attempt to blackmail her by Charlie that backfires fairly quickly, but is important as a setup for his cynical nature. The children, Charlie (Ian Weighill), Carrie (Cindy O’Callaghan), and Paul (Roy Snart), immediately plot to run away, but quickly discover Miss Price’s secret. She is reluctant to do so primarily because she is training to be a witch and all her time is devoted to her studies. Based on a series of children’s books by Mary Norton, the film begins when Miss Price (Angela Lansbury) is forced to take in three displaced orphans. Set in England in August 1940, the movie is understandably very focused on World War II and its effects throughout the country, particularly a small village Pepperinge Eye. Disney’s 1971 feature film, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, is a classic of the time period.
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Bring up the bodies bbc5/23/2023 Mantel is a stickler for historical detail, and in order to let us into Cromwell's world, she had to "live inside his skin for a few years". He has influence."Īll of which put a target on his back - but make him a fascinating "narrative host" in the meantime. He has a ledger of gossip and rumour and (mostly) badly written love poems. He is a collector of information as well as taxes. He will also charm the kitchen boy into his service, steal the riches from the church and slip a coin to the maid who saw it all and ensure he's the one who will receive her secrets. "This is a man who can help skin the eels from a barrel in the kitchen, and will happily walk through the back alleys and ditches and past the churches of his London. Kate Evans, of RN's The Bookshelf, describes Cromwell as "a character who notices the texture of a wall - and the cost of building it or pulling it down." "Nothing gives me more joy than to bring into the light these people who've been lost for so long … the small players, people whose names have never been spoken in maybe hundreds of years - and suddenly there's a buzz in the air and they're back." |