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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 11, 2008, 05:10:56 pm ---Who cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
Great book on a woman's POV of history. Witty and sardonic. I love it.
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I'm tempted to get it for the title alone.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 11, 2008, 04:07:38 pm ---
The chapters are all just two or three pages, each presenting some double standard with a catchy name, describing the problem and suggesting a remedy. Some examples (in addition to the title one):
He's a man, she's a mom.
He's chill, she's on the pill.
He's tough, she's a tomboy.
He's gay, she's a fantasy.
He's the boss, she's a bitch.
He's manly, she's Sasquatch [regarding hair removal].
He's lucky, she's Lolita.
He's distinguished, she's driving Miss Daisy.
He can be a beast, she must be a beauty.
And so on. I don't think I agree that all of them predominate all the time, but they are thought-provoking. (If any need further explanation, let me know). At Amazon, as you can see, you can look inside the book. I saw it in a bookstore and could not resist.
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I liked She's a Stalker and He's a Romeo. That's so true. Women who go after men are either desperate, sluts or stalkers. Men however, are in love, cute, or passionate, etc.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 09, 2008, 01:08:15 pm ---Let us gather a shelf full of essential books for today's woman! In my humble estimation, there are two books which every enlightened woman should own: Women Who Run With the Wolves, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The first book, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, retells some folk and fairy tales and uncovers the ancient truths and archtypes within them.
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For people unfamiliar with Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Wikipedia has a very good summary at Wikipedia Some highlights, including a background sketch making it clear that Estes isn't a sheltered academic:
--- Quote ---As post-trauma specialist, she began her work in the 1960s at hospitals caring for severely injured children, 'shell-shocked' war veterans, and their families. Her teaching of writing in prisons began in the early 1970s at the Men's Penitentiary in Colorado; the Federal Women's Prison at Dublin, CA, and in prisons throughout the Southwest. She ministers in the fields of childbearing loss, surviving families of murder victims, as well as critical incident work. She served at natural disaster sites, developing post-trauma recovery protocol for earthquake survivors in Armenia, and teaching citizens deputized to do post-trauma work on site. She recently served Columbine High School and community after the massacre, 1999-2003. She works with 9-11 survivor families on both east and west coasts.
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--- Quote ---She is controversial for proposing that both assimilation and holding to ethnic traditions are the ways to contribute to creative culture and to a soul-based civility. She successfully helped to petition the Library of Congress, as well as worldwide psychoanalytic institutes, to rename their studies and categorizations formerly called, among other things, "psychology of the primitives," to respectful and descriptive names, according to ethnic group, religion, culture, etc.
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And a few memorable quotes:
"Nature and human beings are not separate. You can be sure that when the land and creatures are wounded by humans, that those humans are copying their own psychic wounds into the earth and animals as well; what is wounded and without thought, wounds others..." (from essay "Massacre of the Dreamers")
"When, after a conflict, the best balanced leaders who have a stake in the future of all persons, are bypassed, and instead power is seized by the angriest and most grudge-holding, whose greatest stake is in the past… without new consciousness, and without strong reconciling actions, thus erupts a horrible recycling of living out the least of what is human in this world." (from Letter To The Prince on the Anniversary of Kristallnacht" )
"All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below." (from the poem Abre La Puerta in 'Theatre of the Imagination' )
Marge_Innavera:
Oh, forgot to add ---
Estes is now a contributor at the Moderate Voice blog. Her current entry is titled Which Political Mixture Are You?
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 11, 2008, 05:10:56 pm ---Who cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
Great book on a woman's POV of history. Witty and sardonic. I love it.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 11, 2008, 06:30:48 pm ---I'm tempted to get it for the title alone.
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The topic of cooking made me think of this book...
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances
by Laura Schenone
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This is the "synopsis" from the Barnes and Noble website:
--- Quote ---A stunningly illustrated book that celebrates the power of food throughout American history and in women's lives.
Filled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove will make you think twice about the food on your plate. Here is the first book to recount how American women have gathered, cooked, and prepared food for lovers, strangers, and family throughout the ages. We find native women who pried nourishment from the wilderness, mothers who sold biscuits to buy their children's freedom, immigrant wives who cooked old foods in new homes to provide comfort. From church bake sales to microwaving moms, this book is a celebration of women's lives, homes, and communities. Over fifty recipes, from Federal Pancakes to Sweet Potato Pie, are beautifully presented along with over one hundred images from artists, photographers, and rare sources. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove is the shared history of all American women...
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