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Activism/Service & gender justicebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Activism/Service and gender justice.

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Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth

What if women forgot everything they’d been taught and radically redefined modern leadership? For those who have spent years playing by the rules only to suffer the cost, and who are now ready to transform their world and work, a soulful guide to knowing their power and using it for change at the...

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The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist’s Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.

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Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays

In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America’s most necessary social commentators.

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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.

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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society...

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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965

The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing.

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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks’s classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the ’80s.

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What Can I Do? The Path from Climate Despair to Action

In 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C.

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This Is How We Rise: Reach Your Highest Potential, Empower Women, Lead Change in the World

From an inspiring voice in the movement for gender equality, a practical guide to achieving success through a new kind of leadership--rooted in purpose and activism for social change We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for women.

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Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within

In this empowering work, Carol S.

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