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Necessary Trouble
- Growing Up at Midcentury
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My Life written by Her.
- De Jacqueline L Larner en 09-03-23
- Necessary Trouble
- Growing Up at Midcentury
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Drew Gilpin Faust
A moving memoir that is also an amazing lesson in the fraught American history of the 1960s
Revisado: 05-02-24
Dr Faust does an incredible job of recounting her truly remarkable youth while weaving the historical relevance right into her story. As a historian of the American South, she is uniquely qualified to explore her own history in the context of the time. I learned so much not only about her own remarkable childhood, youth, and early adulthood but also about the experience of living in the segregated South of the mid-twentieth century as a brilliant, privileged, justice-minded white girl from an upperclass family. It would make an excellent addition to a high school American history course, providing students with the perspective of a young person living through the Civil Rights Era.
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Hood Feminism
- Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
- De: Mikki Kendall
- Narrado por: Mikki Kendall
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,945
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,512
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,498
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Author Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Learned So Much!!!
- De Rebecca en 06-13-20
- Hood Feminism
- Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
- De: Mikki Kendall
- Narrado por: Mikki Kendall
should be required reading
Revisado: 07-15-21
other white women who can yourselves feminists, read this book and learn. then do something!
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Home Made
- A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up - and What We Make When We Make Dinner
- De: Liz Hauck
- Narrado por: Liz Hauck
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn’t know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly an Experience
- De Cameron Dryden en 06-14-21
A personal story that exposes systemic problems
Revisado: 07-01-21
This is a beautifully written account of one woman's experiences with youth who have been failed by the system that is supposed to hold them up.Through a weekly volunteer cooking program, Liz connects with the boys who live in a group home where her father used to work. She goes in looking for a connection to her deceased father and finds so much more. In this intensely personal tale, which beginners even more personal in the author's own voice, we get a glimpse through the cracks of our broken youth services system, and are left appreciating the dozens who work to support the millions.
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Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- De: Lulu Miller
- Narrado por: Lulu Miller
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,395
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,930
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,916
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If fish don't exist, do stars matter?
- De K. Ishihara en 12-05-20
- Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- De: Lulu Miller
- Narrado por: Lulu Miller
so good
Revisado: 02-03-21
This was surprisingly good! I really, really loved it. I had no idea what to expect, and I was totally drawn in.
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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- De: Jia Tolentino
- Narrado por: Jia Tolentino
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,950
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,638
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,618
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t stop listening
- De Alice en 08-25-19
- Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- De: Jia Tolentino
- Narrado por: Jia Tolentino
Timely and excellently written
Revisado: 05-08-20
The essays fit together to provide insights into the political moment. It's a deeper dive into subjects I thought I understood, and I learned so much.
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