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Women today remain a surprisingly, depressingly long way from gender and racial equality. It’s worth asking: Why do we keep playing a game we were never meant to win?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren McKeon examines the many ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage. In doing so, she reveals why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game. She talks to people doing power differently in a variety of sectors and uncovers new models of power. And as the toxic, divisive, and hyper-masculine style of leadership gains ground, she underscores why it’s time to stop playing by the rules of a rigged game. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She’s patient but forceful in offering her many (many) facts. I’ve never liked the word nice, and liked the idea of aspiring to be nice even less. Thankfully, McKeon makes nice a non-word — a notion or descriptor that means nothing and does nothing. She sets us free of the rhetoric associated with niceness and exchanges the burden of playing by the rules for the data, statistics, and emphasis on intersectionality that will help us, collectively, to obliterate them.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Anne","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Lauren McKeon is one of the most important journalists writing about feminist issues in this country today. This impeccably researched and reported book is a revelation, an inspiration, a punch in the gut, and a fierce rallying cry. It’s a definite must read for anyone who cares about women’s current reality, and women’s future in this country and beyond.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere’s a huge market for books on feminist literature and ongoing attention to women’s issues in popular media. \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e picks up where her 2017 book,\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, left off.\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e looked at the supposed demise of the feminist movement, while this book reimagines the very concept of power itself. Perfect for fans of feminist nonfiction by Gemma Hartley, Soraya Chemaly, Robyn Doolittle.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR’S INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH AND STYLE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMcKeon’s intersectional approach led her to many interviews with people whose experiences with power is more layered than her own, including people of all genders, Native American women, women of colour, women with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+. She practices what she preaches: all interview subjects are referred to by their chosen pronouns and none are described by their physical appearances unless that is relevant to the discussion of power or a man would be physically described in the same situation. Her nuanced and intentional writing is also fun to read. Having developed her writing for online audiences as well as for readers of long-form print journalism, McKeon’s prose style — sharp, honest, and entertaining — is persuasive, and will appeal especially to readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMED TO COINCIDE WITH TWO SIGNIFICANT DATES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will publish the book on March 3, 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8. Also worth noting is that in 2020, it will be twenty-five years since the Beijing Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls which came out of the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing. The anniversary of the Beijing Platform, and how much progress has or has not been made over the last twenty-five years, will be much discussed in the media. McKeon is very well connected in the media, and we will work with her to effectively market and promote the book to women’s long-lead magazines and national literary media (magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, podcasts, blogs) in addition to her spotlight in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLauren McKeon’s long-form writing has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e (Goose Lane, 2017), was nominated for Rakuten Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prize. She contributed a chapter to the book \u003cem\u003eWhatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault\u003c\/em\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College and has taught long-form writing at Humber College. She was the editor of Canada’s progressive, independent \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e from 2011 to 2016, where she helmed one of the bestselling issues in recent years, “Why Canada Needs More Feminism.” She writes for \u003cem\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eKit\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the digital editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PRESTIGE AND SUCCESS OF THE WALRUS BOOKS IMPRINT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe inaugural publication of Walrus Books, \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e, sold well and earned wide media coverage and prize attention. Lauren McKeon’s book follows Harley Rustad’s as a fine product of the same strong partnership between \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the Chawkers Foundation, and House of Anansi Press. The Walrus Books imprint publishes strong, rigorous works of narrative nonfiction that reflect the excellence of both \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e and Anansi brands.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eOn November 8, 2016, I tried to pretend the TVs at my gym did not exist. I’d shown up that night to my weekly class expecting to walk out sweaty and exalted. If America elected a woman as its leader (as all the pundits and polls suggested the country would) then, surely, Canada would follow. Anything felt possible. I imagined a cascade of broken status quos — belligerent white men in crisp suits falling like dominos. But over the next hour disbelief replaced excitement. At one point, our class melted away from our workout stations to pool, lost, around the TV. Women muttered shit, what, no, over and over again. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I stayed seated on my bed, cross-legged, stunned. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t American, or that one of the wokest men on Earth supposedly ran my own country. Electing a blatant misogynist to one of the world’s most powerful positions symbolized something: we were fucked.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSince then, the question of women and power has undergone something of a renaissance — largely because we’ve been forced to confront, once again, how much of it women still don’t have. Quite literally overnight, many of us went from believing, with good reason, that we’d never been closer to equality — and power — to reckoning with just how far away from both women truly were. In response, women woke up, gathered, and demanded change. All around the world, they protested. The momentum from the Women’s March on Washington built into #MeToo and a very public reckoning with the everyday ways in which women’s power and autonomy are constantly undermined.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWatching it all, I was galvanized. But I also felt as though I was stuck in a not-so-fun house of magic mirrors. Come one, come all! Watch as the road to equality shrinks, stretches, distorts! Sometimes it seemed as if our fury, powerful in its own right, could propel us anywhere we wanted to go: into public office, into the C-suite, into a world in which we had bodily autonomy. Other times, as the anti-feminist backlash grew louder, bolder, and more expansive, it seemed as though women were in our most precarious spot yet. I began to think of feminist power as a paradox: from some vantages, we seemed closer than ever to achieving it; from others, we’d never been farther away.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eI have spent the bulk of my journalism career investigating the ways in which women navigate, and in many cases push back against, the expectations of the world around them. In doing this, I now realize, what I’ve really been asking, consciously or not, is how women disrupt and reimagine power structures, how they gain power both in and over their lives. Many of the women I’ve interviewed are pioneers in their fields, often ones dominated by men, and you could say they are subverting from within. Others are pushing at established power structures from the outside, rallying from the grassroots. They are all inspiring and amazing. But is what they’re doing working? These past few years have illuminated some stark, and seemingly contradictory, truths. Despite immense progress, no amount of success can immunize women against the toxic, sexist environments around them, and it is not uncommon for women to be utterly alone: one of few in their field, the only woman in management at their company, or the only one breaking a certain convention.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe more I heard their stories, the more I wondered: Even if a woman won the next American or Canadian federal election, what would that victory gain us? Or, put another way: Do we have the very concept of women and power all wrong? I’m not saying I want all the feminists to give up the fight, retreat to their kitchens, and let one pucker-mouthed man and his acolytes burn the planet. I want women to attain the same powerful positions afforded to men, in equal numbers. But it’s also dangerous to see that status, in and of itself, as a panacea to centuries of Western civilization, all built on foundational histories of sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. A woman prime minister certainly wouldn’t “cancel out” this seemingly new brand of misogyny, dredged up for all the world to see. In fact, the past few years have revealed that any woman, or member of another equity-seeking group, who stands where white, straight, cisgender men usually do is certain to face violent backlash. Or, as University of Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard argues in her short manifesto Women and Power, throughout time women have been placed in, or near to, positions of power simply to fail. To illustrate her point, Beard borrows from Greek mythology, referring to Clytemnestra, who rules over her city while her husband fights in the Trojan War, only to be murdered by her own children after she refuses to cede her new leadership upon his return (well, okay, she also killed her husband rather than go back down the patriarchal chain). Or more recently, Beard suggests, consider Theresa May or Hillary Clinton. For women, power is messy from every angle.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003ePerhaps, then, it’s finally time to start rethinking feminism’s one-time end goals, to ditch our old checklists for equality. Yes, let’s not abandon our strategizing toward getting more women to the top, but let’s also examine a deeper, less considered problem: that is, what the view from “the top” looks like for women once they’re there. What if we could redefine not just women’s path to power but the very concept of power itself? Or more radical yet: What if we stopped focusing on playing the game better, ditched the rulebook, and refused to play their game at all? What would power even look like to us if we weren’t always visualizing it within the context of men?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[Lauren McKeon’s] vital, keenly insightful work is a must-read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"McKeon uses plain language and an army of external sources to illuminate the puppet strings of power . . . No More Nice Girls avoids despairing, instead positing a hopeful roadmap toward a future wherein women will not just attain power, but will topple and rebuild it in their own image.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Through a wealth of examples of women and communities working to topple power structures in a variety of sectors, No More Nice Girls is a thoughtful, bold read that envisions a future in which women create new styles of leadership.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eTimely … [\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e] will open your eyes to a better way of doing things.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"I’ve Read This","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a rallying cry for feminists of any age to once again challenge the current paradigm and institutions that continue to disempower women. McKeon’s book contains a healthy amount of outrage and antidote that will leave the reader with tools to do more than just get angry — it will also create for themselves and for future generations recipes for working toward systemic change … \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e belongs on the bookshelf alongside Susan Faludi’s Backlash, Susan Douglas’s Enlightened Sexism, Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women, Power, Politics, and Linda Trimble’s Ms. Prime Minister — all important contemporary books that lay out feminist issues. It adds to the conversation and stands upon the shoulders of these giants in terms of moving feminist thought ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","Subtitle":"Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
No More Nice Girls
An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.
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{"id":6660407492667,"title":"No Stars in the Sky","handle":"no-stars-in-the-sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-27T09:39:21-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-21T10:09:18-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Bátiz Martha","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-05-03"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39645093101627,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010027","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":274,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010027","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39645094477883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010034","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010034","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243508518971,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The power of these stories comes from the writer’s understanding of the politics of exploitation and her refusal to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, masterfully crafted collection that explores the trauma of loss. Its vivid characters stayed with me long after I finished the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with unforgettable characters who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shines with brilliance and will leave you breathless. Bátiz’s prose sparkles against the dark background of heartbreaking choices and harsh realities, and lights up the senses. This book is meant to be read slowly and savoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Christina Kilbourne, author of Safe Harbour and The Limitless Sky","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Bátiz travels across countries and cultures with confidence, humour, and an ear for the musicality of language. Her stories, both beautiful and terrifying, deal with loss, depression, injustice, and the need to love and be loved. 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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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{"id":6811235254331,"title":"On Love and Tyranny","handle":"on-love-and-tyranny","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn an utterly unique approach to biography, \u003ci\u003eOn Love and Tyranny \u003c\/i\u003etraces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. 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This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Love and Tyranny \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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By relating Arendt’s theoretical reflections to her life, Heberlein paints a dramatic and compelling portrait of this major period in Western history (Arendt lived from 1906 to 1975). \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn Hannah’s \u003cem\u003eDenktagebuch\u003c\/em\u003e, her intellectual diary, there is a reflection on love and evil. Taking the concept of \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e as her starting point, she muses on the difficulty of loving the world. Why is it so hard, and why must we love the world? The love Hannah discusses here is not love in the conventional sense. To love the world means reconciling oneself with it, in all its imperfection and weakness — because this reconciliation is necessary for its continued existence. For Hannah Arendt, it was a case of “understanding and accepting what really happened.” How could anyone love the world after the Holocaust? In what world is something like the Holocaust even possible?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah links love for the world, \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e, to responsibility, reflection, and judgement. A love that presupposes reflection over one’s own actions and an understanding of their consequences. In this approach, there are parallels to her thoughts on evil. Indifference can, according to Hannah, be fertile ground for evil, and the opposite of indifference is reflection. As a result, everyone has a responsibility to reflect on their own actions, a responsibility to choose, a responsibility not to simply obey orders and follow the crowd.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eYet the argument Hannah would come to call the \u003cem\u003ebanality of evil\u003c\/em\u003e aroused strong disgust and anger in many of her contemporaries. Hannah’s description of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, as an unimaginative bureaucrat who was simply doing his job shocked the world. Critics saw Hannah’s argument as a diminishment of Eichmann’s guilt, and the book was slated everywhere. Friends and colleagues turned their backs on her. In an infamous interview with Günter Gaus on West German TV, just after the publication of \u003cem\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), Hannah is asked whether she wishes she had never written the book. Does she believe that, despite all the negative reactions — all the hate — she did the right thing by writing the book the way she did?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah, a middle-aged woman by the time of the interview, listens to Gaus’s question with a frown. She is wearing a dark dress, and her once-black hair, though thick as ever, is flecked with grey. She has one leg nonchalantly crossed over the other, her dark eyes guarded yet alert, and she is holding a cigarette in one hand. Gaus, clean shaven in a white shirt and thick rimmed glasses, seems almost breathless as he waits for her reply.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah leans back in her armchair, studies Gaus intently, and takes a deep drag on her cigarette before she speaks. Her answer paraphrases Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I’s motto, \u003cem\u003efiat iustitia, et pereat mundus: fiat veritas, et pereat mundus\u003c\/em\u003e — let truth be done, though the world may perish. She raises her free hand and points at Gaus, as though to stress the importance of her words: “The truth must be told, regardless of the consequences of that truth.” A worthy motto for someone who put their life on the line on more than one occasion in their steadfast belief in what is true and right.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eCombines rigorous biographical research with a novelistic story of Arendt’s passion … This book should be required reading for serious scholars and anyone who wants to be immersed in an intercontinental epic romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"St. Louis Jewish Light","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-01-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","Subtitle":"The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
On Love and Tyranny
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.
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{"id":6814247256123,"title":"Once More with Feeling","handle":"once-more-with-feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning author Méira Cook comes a novel exploring the intricacies and interconnected lives of one community in a small and colourful prairie city. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. 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She has also published five poetry collections, most recently \u003cem \u003eMonologue Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She has won the CBC Poetry Prize and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, and the Winnipeg Public Library. 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Miss Leonard volunteered all her free time to the Mission and consequently had a proprietary attitude. She called everyone folks: the old timers sipping coffee and playing checkers in the dining room, the born-agains who came for breakfast and stayed for Christ, the teenage boys with their wire hanger shoulder blades angling through their “Born to Rock” T-shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a woman would sidle or shuffle or strut into the Mission, her gait keeping pace with her disposition; the coin tosses of bravado or despondency that saw her through her days. Singly, or in spindly little groups, the women would wait in line at the lunch counter, their hunger for food or companionship rendering them bold. And they were folks, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive or six men were idling outside the Mission when Annunciata arrived, a thin brown girl clutching at the balloon-string of her occasional buoyancy. The snow had finally rotted away, winter rushing through the gutters and gurgling down the drains. A couple of the men were smoking, coaxing a last puff from their burnt-down cigarettes, holding each breath until their eyes bulged. The Mission opened its doors to the city’s jobless, the street people, the panhandlers, the squeegee kids, the homeless ones, although once, when Annunciata had wondered aloud at these poor doorstep ghosts, the Senior Admin. had corrected her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We don’t say homeless here, Anna. We say ‘persons experiencing homelessness.’” Senior Admin. was a stocky girl with a permanent furrow above her brow. A little asterisk in the arid homelessness of her face, although what it bore witness to, Annunciata couldn’t exactly say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Experiencing homelessness” was meant to convey the temporariness of the condition, the vagrant hope that poverty was merely a refugee camp on the way to permanent citizenship. A waystation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning, Isaac, Donny, Bodo,” Annunciata called, stepping through the men who obligingly allowed her passage, sucking back their smoke and paddling at the air in front of them. “Morning, Nachos and Mr. Wilson.” Weary of being told what not to call the Mission people, Annunciata had decided to learn as many names as she could and use them accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning Mr… Um.” His name wasn’t really Um but the old fellow was uncooperative when asked, and Mr. Um was the best she could do. Annunciata thought that perhaps he was secretive about his name because it was the only thing he owned. On the other hand, maybe he’d just forgotten it—drink did that to a fellow, and crack, and the dog-eyed loneliness that eats its own paws. His eyes were yellowish and his few remaining teeth were grayish. He never smiled and seldom spoke, but when he was hungry he rapped out a shave and a shoeshine on the metal shutters of the kitchen window, and when he was feeling perky he did a soft shoe shuffle in the dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnunciata stopped to watch and applaud. “Bravo!” she clapped. Mr. Um made jazz hands and blew her a purposeful kiss. He had a heavy, stumbling gait but a perfect pitch for imaginary music. “Nice weather we’re having,” Annunciata replied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pizza, chicken,” he confided. Something like that. But Annunciata thought he said “pizza,” and then some other kind of food. Possibly chicken. It was going on nine and she had to hustle to report for kitchen duty. So did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heavens, child, I’m glad we’re not waiting for you to make any big announcements,” said Miss Leonard when Annunciata came into the kitchen shrugging off her jacket and tying an apron around her waist. She meant the miracle of the Lord’s birth which, if she was an angel, Annunciata would have been in charge of. 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Once More With Feeling manages to be both sharp and tender, tragic and fiercely funny, and wholly satisfying.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_1":"The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_2":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Once More with Feeling
A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.
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Our Voice of Fire
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples.
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Paris Undressed
In the spirit of Bringing Up Bébé comes the quintessential book about what French women can teach us about the world of lingerie.
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{"id":6814254235707,"title":"Passing Ceremony","handle":"passing-ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:27-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:25:04-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Weinzweig Helen","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Polk Jim","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2017-08-26"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206684127291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002602","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002602","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206701559867,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002619","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002619","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206702641211,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002626","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002626","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170944929851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A remarkable piece of writing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Polished, forceful, and poetic.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_2":"Handled with skill.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_3":"A brilliant first work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"[Passing Ceremony] crackles with the energy of chance. 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Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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{"id":6813806657595,"title":"Power Politics","handle":"power-politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:25:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Atwood Margaret","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Zwicky Jan","pub date: 2018-03-06"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205725990971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004552","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487004552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205976469563,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849121","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849121","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205977157691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897366","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551970875,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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It is a measure of her achievement that, over decades, these masterful poems continue to speak with undiminished accuracy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Anne Michaels","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Power Politics remains a path-breaking lyric utterance on sexual politics and human survival, unflinching in its emotional honesty. Beyond truth, Atwood writes, tenacity . . . and no poet has proven more prescient or more courageous in this pursuit. 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It goes beyond sexual politics into the dark heart of a tottering global village.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Phyllis Webb","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eATWOOD IS HOTTER THAN EVER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe hugely acclaimed Handmaid’s Tale television series swept the 2017 Emmy Awards, advancing a discourse on women’s rights and body politics that is becoming rather disturbingly timely given the current political climate in the U.S., and indeed, North America. 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Power Politics
A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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She has also covered stories in conflict zones from Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Jordan, and Israel. She is a four-time winner of the Amnesty International Canada media award, the recipient of ten honorary doctorate degrees, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Armstrong, Sally (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. 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From delicate handprints on a cave wall to goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia; from political tyranny that came in the guise of a message from God to the convoluted journey to emancipation — the story of women is the longest revolution in history. So many times change was in the wind. So many times the finish line blurred. And so many times hope soared. Still, from Toronto to Timbuktu, the promise of equality has eluded half the world’s population. Now there’s a power shift. There’s never been a better time in human history to be a woman. And despite the blowback from misguided politicians, leftover chauvinists, and hypermasculine misogynists, women are closer to gaining equality than ever before. The journey ahead is bound to be epic, and it will affect everything — our wallets, our jobs, our very future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy now? How come the power shift didn’t happen during the first wave of the women’s movement (1848–1920), when the suffragettes struggled to get the vote? Or the second wave (1963–80), when women “put all our faith in the pill” and attended consciousness-raising sessions that discussed the oppression of women and demanded change in the status of women? Or even the third wave (1992–2010), which began after the American lawyer and academic Anita Hill was called to testify at the televised confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, whom she had accused of sexual harassment, thus challenging his fitness for the position? Hill was then excoriated by the all-male Judiciary Committee, who didn’t believe her, and Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court. The fallout became a watershed moment in American politics and a turning point in raising awareness of sexual harassment. But still the long-term status of women was mostly unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with the fourth wave, a movement that began in 2012 when social media took off, there’s a focus on intersectionality, a push for greater empowerment of traditionally marginalized groups — Indigenous people, people of colour; LGBTQ; ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities; people with physical and developmental disabilities; people of differing social classes — and for greater representation in politics and business. Fourth-wave feminists argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporate the perspectives of all people. While earlier feminists fought to shake off the ties that bound them to subservience, this new wave calls for justice against discrimination, assault, harassment, and it calls for equal pay and individual choices over our own bodies. Words like “cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “polyamorous” reflect the new vocabulary of a changing, more diverse society, and the clarion call for inclusion is being heard around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wave created hashtag feminism and put abusive powerful men on notice. And by all accounts, this one got liftoff. The symbiotic relationship between social media and individualism is likely driving the bus for change. The internet is all about “instant.” Twitter and Facebook can elevate people and create extreme celebrity and propel movements. Some of these, like #MeToo and #TimesUp, have been amplified by attention from influential entities such as the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the Hollywood film industry, but others have been simmering over the last decade. As a journalist, I have watched human rights and the rights of women and girls become the focus of conversation, whether in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo or the savannah in Kenya, in the deserts of Afghanistan or the college campuses in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have always depended on political will to change up the agenda — the stroke of the politician’s pen to install the stop sign or build the shelter or legislate a new law. It often took public will — marches and petitions — to push the politician to make change happen. But in the last few years, I’m seeing what I call personal will as the driving force behind both public and political will. Malala Yousafzai is a good example. She was fifteen years old, living in the Swat Valley in Pakistan; she wanted to go to school to learn to think for herself. But the Taliban, who claim they act in the name of God, forbade education for girls. She defied the cowardly thugs by speaking out publicly on girls’ rights to an education. On October 8, 2012, she climbed onto the school bus. The last words she heard were: “Which one is Malala?” The Taliban gunman shot that child in the head for going to school. But Malala recovered, and then she started a movement. Today everyone knows her. She’s become the world’s daughter, not because a politician in the Swat Valley insisted that the girls go to school; not because there were marches and petitions demanding education for girls. It was personal will that propelled Malala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other telling side to this episode is that atrocities like this happen every day. But this time the world grabbed on to the story and didn’t let it go. I believe it was more evidence of liftoff, of the changing status of women; proof that people realize that dismissing half the world’s population is dangerous and expensive and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe holy grail for the social innovators of the twenty-first century is knowing how campaigns such as #MeToo and the rise in personal power can be sustained. Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms, authors of \u003cem\u003eNew Power\u003c\/em\u003e, think they know the formula. They call it the difference between old power and new power. “Old power works \u003cem\u003elike a currency\u003c\/em\u003e,” they say. “It is held by few. Once gained it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads, and it captures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs for new power, as exemplified by the #MeToo movement, it operates “\u003cem\u003elike a current\u003c\/em\u003e. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.” Their conclusion is that #MeToo gave a sense of power to the participants, and that each individual story was strengthened by the surge of the much larger current.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday that empowerment is taking on everything from date rape to old lingering mores that cling to the lives of women the way barnacles attach to ships, slowing them down, denying their fair passage. It is also fuelling change — enormous, life-altering change.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This is a far-reaching account of the plight of women and girls throughout history and across continents, often told via the moving personal stories of survivors who have endured sexism’s many atrocities . . . With her thorough research and undeniable gift for personal storytelling, Armstrong dispels faulty beliefs and damaging myths; lays bare horrific injustices; and illuminates a variety of economic, political, and cultural truths . . . An ambitious and thoroughly convincing undertaking.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","Subtitle":"The Longest Revolution","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Power Shift
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.
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Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood.
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Serafim and Claire
A beautiful and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected, set in the streets of 1920s Montreal.
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From Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we’ve come — and how far we have to go. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. If they’d lived at the same time. And in the same country. And if IVF had been invented. 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Everyone from Caitlin Moran to Roxane Gay and even Lindy West have tackled women's issues with intelligence and humour, and Elizabeth Renzetti will do the same, discussing everything from the personal to the political, public and private spaces, patriarchy vs. matriarchy, and more, with her trademark wit and piercing, intelligent observation.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUBLICATION TO COINCIDE WITH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will publish the book in early March 2018 to coincide with International Women's Day on March 8, 2018. Renzetti is extremely well connected in the media and literary world, and we will work with her to effectively market and promote the book to women's long lead magazines and national literary media (magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, podcasts, blogs), which will no doubt receive a lot of attention.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHUGELY POPULAR COLUMNIST\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Renzetti is the author of the debut novel \u003cem\u003eBased on a True Story\u003c\/em\u003e and a widely read and hugely popular columnist at Canada's \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e. Renzetti has a large fan base: so many of the people who came to her events for \u003cem\u003eBased on a True Story\u003c\/em\u003e told her directly how much they love her column. Similar to Renzetti's columns, \u003cem\u003eBased on a True Story\u003c\/em\u003e received fabulous praise for its incredible wit and humour. \u003cem\u003eShrewed\u003c\/em\u003e will be no exception and will be sure to delight Renzetti followers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. OUTREACH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRenzetti attended Winter Institute in 2016 so many booksellers will be familiar with her work.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Artfully examines the considerable achievements of women.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Reader’s Digest","OtherText_Review_1":"Renzetti's wit and fierce intelligence are on display in full force in this essay collection . . . This is a book that will make you laugh, then move you to tears, and you're going to want to give a copy to every woman you know.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"49th Shelf","OtherText_Review_2":"Renzetti’s prose is clever, witty, and accessible, making the book fun for feminists and a good gift for anyone who questions why feminism is still necessary.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"Renzetti moves effortlessly between serious systemic inequality and the equally enraging, if sometimes amusing, everyday absurdities women face, effectively capturing this cultural moment and offering a resounding call to recognize — and organize against — the pernicious sexism that still exists in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_4":"Renzetti takes a pointed look at how far we’ve come — and how far we have left to go.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Bookseller","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"A Chatelaine Book of the Year","PrizeName_1":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.","Subtitle":"A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Shrewed
An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
