Shrill

Author : Lindy West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784295547
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrill written by Lindy West and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindy West wasn't always loud. She was once a nerdy, overweight teen who wanted nothing more than to be invisible. Fortunately for women everywhere, along the road she found her voice, and that cripplingly shy girl, who refused to make a sound, somehow grew up to be one of the loudest, shrillest, most fearless feminazis on the internet. Here, she recounts how she went from being the butt of people's jokes, to telling her own brand of jokes - ones that carry with them with a serious message and aren't at someone else's expense.

Author : Lindy West
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316348457
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrill written by Lindy West and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.

Author : Kate Côté Gillin
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172926
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrill Hurrahs written by Kate Côté Gillin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adapt or resist changes to their way of life. Gillin accurately perceives racial violence as an attempt by white southern men to reassert their masculinity, weakened by the war and emancipation, and as an attempt by white southern women to preserve their antebellum privileges. As she reevaluates relationships between genders, Gillin also explores relations within the female gender. She has demonstrated that white women often exacerbated racial and gender violence alongside men, even when other white women were victims of that violence. Through the nineteenth century, few bridges of sisterhood were built between black and white women. Black women asserted their rights as mothers, wives, and independent free women in the postwar years, while white women often opposed these assertions of black female autonomy. Ironically even black women participated in acts of intimidation and racial violence in an attempt to safeguard their rights. In the turmoil of an era that extinguished slavery and redefined black citizenship, race, not gender, often determined the relationships that black and white women displayed in the defeated South. By canvassing and documenting numerous incidents of racial violence, from lynching of black men to assaults on white women, Gillin proposes a new view of postwar South Carolina. Tensions grew over controversies including the struggle for land and labor, black politicization, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, the election of 1876, and the rise of lynching. Gillin addresses these issues and more as she focusses on black women’s asserted independence and white women’s role in racial violence. Despite the white women’s reactionary activism, the powerful presence of black women and their bravery in the face of white violence reshaped southern gender roles forever.

Author : Worth Books
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504044754
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary and Analysis of Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman written by Worth Books and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much to read, so little time? Each volume in the Worth Books catalog presents a summary and analysis to help you stay informed in a busy world, whether you’re managing your to-read list for work or school, brushing up on business strategies on your commute, preparing to wow at the next book club, or continuing to satisfy your thirst for knowledge. Get ready to be edified, enlightened, and entertained—all in about 30 minutes or less!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lark's Shrill Notes. [Song.] Sung by Mrs. Vincent, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard CHAPMAN (Minister of the Word of God at Hunmanby.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hallelu-jah: or, King Davids shrill trumpet, sounding a loude Summons to the whole world, to praise God, etc written by Richard CHAPMAN (Minister of the Word of God at Hunmanby.) and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shrill Travesty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144244066X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taking Tree written by Shrill Travesty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the story of the “selfless” tree that gave all she had just to make sure a young boy was “happy.” This is a different tree. This is a different boy. This is a very different book. The Taking Tree is not pleased when the boy takes her twigs to pick on his sister, or when he cuts off her branches to build a house that he burns for insurance money. And the boy is not sorry at all. Ever. In fact, he’s kind of a jerk. So what happens when the tree finally gets fed up? Let’s just say the story doesn’t end sweetly with an old man sitting on a stump.

Author : Lindy West
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316449849
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shit, Actually written by Lindy West and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge **Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa-WHO IS A LION-to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?! From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones-the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are. At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook. Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.

Author : Helen Harper
Publisher : Harperfire
ISBN 13 : 9781913116026
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shrill Dusk written by Helen Harper and published by Harperfire. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charley is a cleaner by day and a professional gambler by night. She might be haunted by her tragic past but she's never thought of herself as anything or anyone special. Until, that is, things start to go terribly wrong all across the city of Manchester. Between plagues of rats, firestorms and the gleaming blue eyes of a sexy Scottish werewolf, she might just have landed herself in the middle of a magical apocalypse. She might also be the only person who has the ability to bring order to an utterly chaotic new world. This is the first book in The City Of Magic series.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: