The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sieghart
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Category: Essays
You probably, in the abstract, believe in equality between men and women, and accept that women are as intelligent and competent as men. But do you actually take women as seriously? Do you listen as attentively to what they say? Do you read the books they write? For a lot of us, the answers to these que ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
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Category: Essays
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand h ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
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Category: Essays
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
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Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
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Category: Essays
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
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Category: Essays
The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and some ...Show more
The Socialist Manifesto - The Case for Radical Politics in an era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
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Category: Essays
The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine ...Show more
The Jews of Ukraine: The Jewish Quarterly JQ 251 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
Dark Star: The Political Turning of Elon Musk: Jewish Quarterly 255 by Richard Cooke
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Category: Essays
Elon Musk - head of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter - has become a neo-reactionary online troll. What has caused his troubling political transformation? This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the troubling political evolution of Elon Musk. In a captivating essay, Richard Cooke explores Musk's ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Essays
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZINE AND TIME MAGAZINE**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what w ...Show more
The New Middle East: Shifting allies, enemies and loyalties - Jewish Quarterly 245 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
The Middle East is changing as tensions rise and new rivalries, blocs and partnerships form. What is causing these shifts, and how will they affect the region's future?This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the dramatic changes unfolding in the Middle East, as the region's powers form new rivalries ...Show more