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Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender | Gloria Steinem
Steinems career-spanning collection of essayseach one a book in itselfre-imagine everything from the masculinization of wealth to Freudian thought and aging With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our understanding of human psychology would be different in a witty reversal: What if Freud had been a woman who inflicted biological inferiority on men (think womb envy)? In other essays, the author presents positive examples of people who turn stereotypes on their heads, from a female bodybuilder to Mahatma Gandhi, whose followers absorbed his wisdom that change starts at the bottom. And in some of the most moving pieces, Steinem reveals something of her own complicated history as a writer, woman, and citizen of the world.
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“ Gloria Steinem‘s career-spanning collection of essays—each one a book in itself—re-imagine everything from the masculinization of wealth to Freudian thought and aging. With cool humor and rich intellect, #GloriaSteinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be...” #TBR | #Feminist | #Feminism | #EqualRights | Day 11: #TitleStartswithM - #AprilBookishMadness

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Cathythoughts Dreaming is a form of planning 👍❤️( I love it ) and there I thought I was controlling, by planning too much. 7y
merelybookish @Cathythoughts I like it too. I find it comforting. 7y
Andrew65 Love this! 7y
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To give this some context, its in Steinem's reversal of Frued's theories in order to make it obvious how ridiculous his actual theories were. So funny. This might turn out to be my next favorite book.

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LitsyFeministBookClub
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Let's keep moving after a powerful weekend of unity. Every small act matters. Support each other and let us decide to do something positive every day to affect change. 💪🏾💪🏻💪🏽💪🏿💪🏼

#MondayMotivation

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OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS. I picked up these two Steinem books off the clearance wall last night and I come to find THIS!! Signed in 1994! Holy crap. 😱😱😱 I can't even believe this.

Megabooks 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
daena Amazing! 8y
DaniRa 👏🏼👍🏼awesome! 🙌🏼 8y
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MrBook 😎👌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
Robothugs What an awesome surprise! 8y
cathysaid Nice! 8y
sprainedbrain Awesome!! 8y
LeahBergen 👍🏼👍🏼 8y
Alohamoraopenabook 😳 🍀👍 8y
Leelee.reads Gotta say, Rob wasn't the greatest friend! Who gives a book signed "With friendship" away? And from Gloria herself! 8y
LDuffN What a great find! 8y
WordWaller @Leelee.reads haha, RIGHT!???? -and how the eff did this end up on our clearance wall.. 8y
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