![]() ![]() Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their "joy of betraying Big Brother," as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China's authoritarian regime today. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China's educated, urban women. In 2018, Leftover Women was named on the New York Times list of recommended books on China. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. A feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is co-originator of the database WIKED (Women's International Knowledge Encyclopedia and Data) and founding editor of the Athen Dale Spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. She started lecturing at James Cook University in 1974, before going to live for a while in London and publishing the book Man Made Language in 1980. In the later half of the 1960s she also taught English Literature at Dapto High School. In her youthful days she was a Miss Kodak girl. She attended the Burwood Girls High School, in Sydney. The eldest of three, she has a younger sister Lynne, and a much younger brother Graeme. Spender was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, a niece of the crime writer Jean Spender (1901–70). ![]() ![]() Dale Spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was intrigued by learning about the unique place of nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Mississippi culture, commonly thought of as biracial. In 1963, as a junior, he spent a semester in Mississippi, an experience in a different culture that led him to question what he had been taught about United States history. Loewen was raised in Decatur, where he attended MacArthur High School and was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in 1960. ![]() His father, David, was a medical director and physician from an immigrant Mennonite community his mother, Winifred (Gore), was a librarian and teacher. Loewen was born in Decatur, Illinois, on February 6, 1942. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. James William Loewen (February 6, 1942 – August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) Lies Across America (1999) Sundown Towns (2005) The Mississippi Chinese (1971) ![]() ![]() ![]() Her stories are always simple and engaging on the surface, but underneath they invariably present an age appropriate lesson. ![]() Not only are her distinctive illustrations carefully executed, they contain so many small details that little children delight in studying them. Shirley Hughes is one of my absolute favorite children’s authors/illustrators. John Paul II wrote in his Letter to Artists: “beauty is the visible form of the good.” Here are five authors who grasp this and personally pour effort both into crafting their story and creating artwork to accompany it.ġ. The story is important, but so are beautiful illustrations! As St. Small children notice more than we think about picture books. We were stunned that such a small child noticed McCloskey’s distinctive illustrations and correctly identified all the other McCloskey books we owned. When we finished the chapter, she went to the bookshelf and out of the confusion of several hundred picture books she carefully selected Blueberries for Sal, Make Way for Ducklings, and One Morning in Maine. One day, our then three year old daughter C was watching me read Homer Price to her older brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there was a long era with very little material. ![]() ![]() For Completionists:Īfter reading the original 1976 series (and taking that detour through “The Mighty Thor”) the second “Eternals” run (started in 1985 and only 12 issues) comes next, and the great Walt Simonson worked on the last part! You can read the whole thing in “The Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga”. Awesomely, all that side stuff has been conveniently collected in “Thor and the Eternals: The Celestials Saga”. Also, there’s a pretty important storyline with the Eternals in “Thor” #283-291 v1 & “Thor” Annual #7 v1 that is essentially the wrap-up for the cancelled 1976 series and brings the mythological past and heroic present of The Eternals into the main Marvel Universe with Thor and therefore Spider-Man, the X-Men, and everybody else you probably know from their blockbuster films. ![]() ![]() Valorie’s journaling questions and research-based process will shift your perspective, give you clarity and courage, and equip you with a plan of action to let go of the guilt for good. ![]() ![]() Stop setting yourself up for stress, anxiety, and obligation, and instead set yourself for a life of joy and freedom.Flip those guilt trips so you can keep others from manipulating you, and.Stop guilt from sneaking its way into your everyday decisions and interactions,.Valerie is a bestselling author of multiple books and coach who helps people find joy and. Break the surprising habit that tempts you to subconsciously choose guilt over joy, On this episode Jon Gordon talks with Valorie Burton.Recognize and overcome the five thought patterns of guilt.Through her signature self-coaching process, powerful questions, and practical research, Valorie Burton shows you how to: Let Go of the Guilt helps you peel back the layers of emotional, cultural, and spiritual expectations that make it difficult to navigate your multiple roles, dreams, and daily demands on your life. Both working and stay-at-home moms agree that the expectations of women have risen dramatically in recent decades.Īs a result, many women overcompensate and over-apologize while the guilt dampens the joy of motherhood, relationships, and professional accomplishments. Learn how to leave guilt behind for good! Life coach Valorie Burton teaches you a simple yet profound method that will free you from the “false guilt” that is so common among busy women today.Įven women who feel fulfilled often struggle to meet the demands of modern life. ![]() ![]() The central murder of the book becomes "a crime born of love." Even Mrs McGillicuddy is given her share of tragedy in the form of unrequited feelings. A minor, happily married character is given a sordid backstory of sexual assault. ![]() The prim politician detests his exaggeratedly unattractive wife and bitterly resents his parents' happiness. The shady businessman type also breaks down crying after his disappeared accomplice. The cocky, smug artist of the book publicly announces he's an artistic failure and breaks down crying in front of his father in the film. The lecherous old man who called his wife stupid becomes a grieving widower.
![]() ![]() ![]() Wells' life and death received widespread coverage in the northeastern United States, but there is no evidence that it was printed in newspapers or periodicals in England or Scotland. Stevenson was born in Scotland, several years after Wells had committed suicide in New York. whether any factual basis exists for Stevenson to be aware of Wells' life, and also if it played any role in creating the novel's plot. We examined Stevenson's letters, biographies, and other references in the literature, press, and online to determine. Hyde derived inspiration from the real-life tragedy of the final days of Connecticut dentist Horace Wells, innovator of the clinical use of the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide. It has been suggested that Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have always been glad that I could not look into the future. If someone had told a small boy hurling mud balls that he would be throwing hand grenades twelve years later, he would probably have been laughed at. The stories we heard later the Depression veterans with their apple stands on sleety New York street corners the horrible photographs of dead bodies and mutilated survivors “Johnny Got His Gun” and the shrill college cries of the Veterans of Future Wars drove the small-boy craving for war so far from our minds that when it finally happened, it seemed absolutely unbelievable. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. We went to the village hall and studied the rust rifles and machine guns that the Legion post had brought home from the First World War and imagined ourselves using them to fight Germans.īut we never seriously thought that we would ever have to do it. David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Then, pretending that we were doughboys in France, we assaulted one another with clods of clay and long, dry reeds. I walked up the brook behind our house in Bronxville to a junglelike, overgrown field and dug trenches down to water level with my friends. ![]() ![]() “Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows she needs to stay away from him, but Cam is freaking everywhere, with his charm, his witty banter, and that damn dimple that’s just so… so lickable. The one thing she didn’t need and never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she’s building for herself.Ĭameron Hamilton is six feet and three inches of swoon-worthy hotness, complete with a pair of striking blue eyes and a remarkable ability to make her want things she believed were irrevocably stolen from her. ![]() All she needs to do is make it to her classes on time, make sure the bracelet on her left wrist stays in place, not draw any attention to herself, and maybe-please God-make a few friends, because surely that would be a nice change of pace. Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at the Halloween party five years ago-an event that forever changed her life. ![]() |