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Julsmarshall
Gilded Age: A Novel | Claire McMillan
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Quietly mysterious, this exploration of the Cleveland upper class and the young adults trying to find their way was interesting, scathing, and quite sad. I didn‘t know what to expect going in but it gave nods to the House of Mirth and The Awakening and made me think just like they did. I will look for more from this author, this was her debut in 2012. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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OutsmartYourShelf
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A quick look back through history at how women have been silenced in the arena of public speaking for centuries. From the first written example of Telemachus telling his mother Penelope to shut up in 'The Odyssey', to women being hounded off social media today for daring to have an opinion.

It contains an analysis of the ways in which those in power have usually been educated in classical education & how the male-centric views of (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf Ancient Greece & Rome have survived down to modern-day politics. We know that the bullying of women online can reach horrific proportions & Mary Beard herself has been on the receiving end of misogynistic comments about her looks & age.

The author notes at the end that some of the book is now dated (Teresa May anyone) but it seems that the attempt of silencing of women & removal of power in the public sphere is ageless. 4🌟
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 3mo
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 3mo
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TrishB
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I didn‘t particularly learn anything new- but things I feel anecdotally were backed up with a lot of statistics and evidence.
There was a lot of guidance on how to address some things. But a lot still comes down to personal courage. If you‘re constantly cut across by your male boss in meetings what do you do? Very personal but sometimes it‘s the micro aggressions that affect us everyday.

Cathythoughts Sounds interesting! Yes , the micro aggressions 👍🏻 10mo
TrishB @Cathythoughts and very hard to evidence! 10mo
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Parvez
The 48 Laws Of Power | Robert Greene
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Finally, I got my hands on a complete collection of concise series.

Desha I‘ve wanted to read these for a while now. If you do a review of any of them I‘d love to read it! 📚📚📚 10mo
Parvez @Desha Already read 48 laws of Power, Mastery, and Laws of Human nature. I can say anyone can start with laws of human nature and then get into 48 laws of power, as it is a little controversial regarding its subject matter. 10mo
Desha Thank you! I have browsed through 48 laws a few times and it‘s got some good stuff in it. I didn‘t know about Laws of Human Nature so I‘ll start there! 10mo
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AmyG
Momzillas | Jill Kargman
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Happy Mother‘s Day, Mamas. ❤️

Pageturner1 happy mother‘s day 💐 11mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You too ❤️ 11mo
Deblovestoread Happy Mother's Day, friend! 11mo
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mrp27 Happy Mother‘s Day!💐 11mo
Reggie Happy Mother‘s Day, AmyG! 11mo
AmyG Thank you sweet @Reggie! 11mo
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ravenlee
On violence | Hannah Arendt
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This wasn‘t at all what I expected: it‘s largely a criticism of the state of the world that led to university uprisings/rebellions around the world in the 1960s. There‘s a lot of referring to works by other writers, both seminal (Engels) and contemporary (lots of late-1960s magazine/journal articles) without context or actual quotes (many of the quotes given aren‘t translated). This was my first Arendt and it was not a good starting point.

Clare-Dragonfly Oh wow. I hated it when texts I read for college had untranslated quotes. More than a decade out from that, I have even less patience for dense text! 11mo
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ravenlee
On violence | Hannah Arendt
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I admit I‘m not following much of this so far, but this statement seems wildly prescient, especially given a publication date of 1970:
“…Western representative democracy(which is about to lose even its merely representative function to the huge party machines that ‘represent‘ not the party membership but its functionaries).”

Clare-Dragonfly Wow, 1970! I hadn‘t thought of the present-day political parties as “machines” like Tammany Hall before now, but it‘s so accurate. 11mo
ravenlee @Clare-Dragonfly I‘ve been following Heather Cox Richardson‘s political/historical daily news updates for the past few years, and she does an amazing job of putting current events into historical context. She‘s on Facebook and has a blog or listserve or something as well. If you don‘t read her already, I highly recommend it. 11mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Even though for me it covers ground I‘ve seen in other books, it‘s a great book & highlights many of the issues & problems we still haven‘t managed to “fix”. In fact, I think the pandemic actually heightened some of the disparities even more. As white supremacy seems to be wedding itself to misogyny online (not that they weren‘t always) as anyone who reads online comments has surely noticed, I don‘t think this issue is going away anytime soon. ⤵️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ maybe more of… it isn‘t bothering to hide in the shadows anymore. 12mo
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Dilara
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The number of books in English on the shelves of my local library tripled recently and look what I found: Women & Power in a shiny shiny cover. I don't know whether the publisher was trying to appeal to the YA fantasy market (in which case good for them!) or what... Anyway, it is both informative and engaging, as you would expect from Mary Beard.

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MallenNC
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The people who most need to read a book like this probably never will. I liked that the author recognizes she can‘t speak for all kinds of women so she gets input from many successful women from different places, fields, and backgrounds. The “What We Can Do About It” is only one chapter, but it does cover individuals, society, teachers, parents, etc. A good book if you haven‘t read similar books before. #SheSaid