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I am an emotional creature : the secret life of girls around the world
Presents fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe.
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My name is Jody Williams
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, \"Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.\" From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman—and third American woman—to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life. In a voice that is at once candid, straightforward, and intimate, Williams describes her Catholic roots, her first step on a long road to standing up to bullies with the defense of her deaf brother Stephen, her transformation from good girl to college hippie at the University of Vermont, and her protest of the war in Vietnam. She relates how, in 1981, she began her lifelong dedication to global activism as she battled to stop the U.S.-backed war in El Salvador. Throughout the memoir, Williams underlines her belief that an \"average woman\"—through perseverance, courage and imagination—can make something extraordinary happen. She tells how, when asked if she'd start a campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines, she took up the challenge, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) was born. Her engrossing account of the genesis and evolution of the campaign, culminating in 1997 with the Nobel Peace Prize, vividly demonstrates how one woman's commitment to freedom, self-determination, and human rights can have a profound impact on people all over the globe.
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The apology
\"This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and a expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers to since she began to understand the impact of her father's abuse on her life: How do we offer a doorway rather than only a locked cell? How do move from humiliation to revelation, from curtailing behavior to changing it, from condemning perpetrators to calling them to reckoning? The Apology is a remarkably original book that explores the deepest and most intimate questions that can be asked at this moment: Why do men carry out abuse, often against the people they know and love the most? How can we--together--stop it? What does it mean to apologize for these acts? What will it take for the men who have committed abuse to make a deep reckoning and actually apologize? As Tony Porter from A Call to Men says, \"We've called men out, now how do we call them in?\" The Apology is an acutely transformational book--about how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re-emerge and heal. It is a revolutionary book asking everything of each of us: courage, truthfulness, and forgiveness\" -- Provided by publisher.
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الاعتذار
مثل ملايين من النساء، انتظرت إيف إنسلر اعتذارا فترة طويلة من حياتها. فقد اعتدى أبوها عليها جنسيا وبدنيا بشكل متكرر. وصارعت إيف آثار هذه الخيانة طوال حياتها، وهي تتوق إلى محاسبة صادقة لرجل مات منذ زمن. وبعد سنوات من العمل كناشطة مناهضة للعنف، قررت أنها ستكف عن الانتظار، وأنه يمكنها أن تتخيل اعتذارا بنفسها، من أجل نفسها، وموجها إلى نفسها. كتبت إيف الاعتذار من وجهة نظر أبيها، وبالكلمات التي تاقت إلى سماعها، محاولة التغلب على الإساءة التي عانتها، بصدق، وتعاطف، ورؤية واسعة للمستقبل. وفرت إيف، من خلال الاعتذار، طريقة جديدة لنفسها، وطريقا محتملا لأخريات، حتى يمكن أخيرا للناجيات من الاعتداءات الجنسية تصور كيفيةٍ للتحرر. عالجت هنا أسئلة سعت إلى الإجابة عنها منذ أدركت للمرة الأولى الأثر الذي تركه اعتداء والدها على حياتها : كيف نقدم مخرجا بدلا من زنزانة مغلقة ؟ كيف ننتقل من الذل إلى البوح، ومن تقييد السلوك إلى تغييره، ومن إدانة الجناة إلى استدعائهم للمحاسبة ؟ ما الذي سيتطلبه الأمر كي يعتذر المعتدون بإخلاص ؟ الاعتذار كتاب استثنائي وأصيل عن إمكانية أن نبدأ من جديد، وأن نتعافى من جراح الاعتداء الجنسي. إنه كتاب ثوري، يطلب من كل منا كل شيء: الشجاعة، والصدق، والقدرة على العفو.
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Strongmen : Trump, Modi, Erdoğan, Putin, Duterte
We're edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers confronts five would-be dictators.
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