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A Mother’s Clock

By Lydia Kiesling — 2019

Time follows no standard when you become a parent.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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First and Only: A Black Woman’s Guide to Thriving at Work and in Life

As Black women, we have to work twice as hard to be perceived as half as skilled. We have to work until August of this year to earn what a white man made by last December. We are besieged by racist and sexist bullying online.

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Jennifer R. Farmer
2021
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Raising Tomorrow’s Champions: What the Women’s National Soccer Team Teaches Us About Grit, Authenticity and Winning

An extraordinary parenting and life lessons book as told through the eyes of the greatest women’s soccer players of all-time, including Mia Hamm, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Crystal Dunn and more than 100 others.

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Joanna Lohman, Paul Tukey, Carli Lloyd (foreword)
2025
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Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

In a society that is digging deep into the misogyny underlying our traditions and media, the world of sports is especially fertile ground.

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Julie DiCaro
2022
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Work-Life Balance: Balancing Time or Balancing Identity? | Michelle Ryan | TEDxExeter

Some argue that women choose not to go into particular jobs, often because of the hours required and the sacrifices that need to be made.

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2015
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Audre Lorde Reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde reads the essay “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power.” There are some ad-libs, but this reading is pretty faithful to the final text, which can be found in Lorde’s essay collection Sister Outsider, among other anthologies. One of the most important essays of the 20th century.

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Audre Lorde
2019
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace. Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant.

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Sheryl Sandberg
2025
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Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality.

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Meredith Ralston
2025
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Women of Wisdom

Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics.

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Tsultrim Allione, Chögyam Trungpa (foreword)
2000
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas.

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Rebecca Solnit
2021
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich’s influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own―as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother―but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere.

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Adrienne Rich
1995
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