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One Bird's Choice
One Bird's Choice is a hilarious and heartwarming comic memoir that bridges the divide between the Boomer and Boomerang generations.
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One Foot on the Platform
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A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree womenn in their own words.
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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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Park Cruising
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
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Perspectives on Our Age
These interviews give unique insight into Jacques Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.
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{"id":6813780901947,"title":"Political Correctness","handle":"political-correctness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecolumnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? Or, by confronting head-on the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalized groups are we creating a more equitable and just society? For some the argument is clear. Political correctness is stifling the free and open debate that fuels our democracy. 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The drive towards inclusion over exclusion is essential to creating healthy, diverse societies in an era of rapid social change.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:28-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:15:03-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Contributions by Dyson Michael Eric","Contributions by Fry Stephen","Contributions by Goldberg Michelle","Contributions by Peterson Jordan","Edited by Griffiths Rudyard","House of Anansi Press","Munk Debates","pub date: 2018-11-06","The Munk Debates"],"price":995,"price_min":995,"price_max":1495,"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":40205692141627,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005252","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Political Correctness - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005252","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205693386811,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005269","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Political Correctness - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487005269","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205693681723,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005276","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Political Correctness - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487005276","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1011637f-3913-4413-9c8d-47081b7ef06c.jpg?v=1654445433"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1011637f-3913-4413-9c8d-47081b7ef06c.jpg?v=1654445433","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170981924923,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1011637f-3913-4413-9c8d-47081b7ef06c.jpg?v=1654445433"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1011637f-3913-4413-9c8d-47081b7ef06c.jpg?v=1654445433","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecolumnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? 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Political Correctness
The twenty-second semi-annual Munk Debate discusses the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech.
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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"}
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Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing discusses personal freedom and responsibility in a world prone inherited structures of unquestioned belief.
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I had occasion to be speaking again with Mark in early February, when he suddenly said that he had a delicate\/awkward matter to raise with me. Apparently there was a possibility that President Bush would attend the UN meeting scheduled for the end of May, and the UN desperately wanted him to be there. \r\n\r\nI had been told (I can surmise by whom, but it was never revealed) that if I were to attack the United States before that date, the president probably wouldn't come. \r\n\r\nYou must understand that though I take myself overly seriously from time to time, it was a bit much to think that my words could deter the President of the UNited States. Nonetheless, Mark said to me (I think I'm capturing it with authentic accuracy), \"Stephen, I must ask you, no, I must plead with you, no, I must instruct you that you are not to attack U.S. policy before the meeting in May. 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Race Against Time
Humanitarian Stephen Lewis describes how the world is falling desperately short of UN goals for reducing poverty, inequality, and mortality rates.
