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The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy
The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy | Maya Oppenheim
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The essential guide for women everywhere, The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy is full to the brim with unbelievable stats, shocking figures and empowering knowledge to understand and fight the patriarchal systems holding all of us back. Across the world, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; with the majority of homicide victims who are women being killed by partners or relatives. In some countries, women who get abortions after they are raped face jail time. Less than 20 per cent of landholders in the world are women. Despite all these truths, many would prefer to blame women. For not demanding a seat at the table. For walking home alone at night. For not working hard enough to overcome the odds that are stacked against them. In her first fact-filled, inclusive and energising book, Maya Oppenheim supplies you with the unforgettable realities, real-world anecdotes and tales of resistance to help you combat denial and continued injustice as the far-right grows and women's rights come under attack. If yet another rebuttal of patriarchy leaves you lost for words, this book can be pulled out of your pocket. Utilising her breadth of experience as Women's Correspondent at The Independent - and as the only women's correspondent at a UK news outlet - Maya leaves no stone left unturned and sparks new conversations on: Women's Health Sexual Violence Criminal Justice System Sex Work Policing Far Right Abortion Rights And much more. Combining poignant stories with startling evidence, The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy is a blazing examination of the systems rigged against us and offers a way forward that could prompt sustainable reform and build a better world for us all.
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I‘m curating my own gender studies course.
Any readings I‘m missing?

fredthemoose I can‘t totally see them all, but here are a couple more to consider… 10mo
fredthemoose It‘s been a couple of years since I read this—I don‘t remember it clearly, but might be worth a look 10mo
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fredthemoose Or maybe the Witches Are Coming. Looks like a great selection. Hope you have a great course! 10mo
fredthemoose Oh, one more. This has been on my TBR since hearing the author on the Ezra Klein show. 10mo
staci.reads I agree with @Bookwormjillk Invisible Women is one of the best I've read. Also the tagged. 10mo
KathyWheeler I agree with the Invisible Women suggestion. 10mo
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