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Having and Being Had

by Eula Biss ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated PressA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the leading lights of ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated PressA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the leading lights of
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On Immunity

An Inoculation

by Eula Biss ...

A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook "Year of Books" SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year* National Book Critics Circle Award finalist * The New York Times Book Review (Top 10) * Entertainment Weekly (Top 10) * New York Magazine... ... Read more

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A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook "Year of Books" SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year* National Book Critics Circle Award finalist * The New York Times Book Review (Top 10) * Entertainment Weekly (Top 10) * New York Magazine...
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Notes from No Man's Land

American Essays

by Eula Biss ...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identityNotes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identityNotes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these
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Of Woman Born

Motherhood as Experience and Institution

by Adrienne Rich ...

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the ... Read more

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The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the
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Waveform

Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women

by Marcia Aldrich, Eula Biss, Barrie Jean Borich, Joy Castro, Patricia Foster, Sonja Livingston, Kyoko Mori, Bich Minh Nguyen, Jericho Parms, Kristen Radtke0, Cheryl Strayed1, Nicole Walker2, Amy Wright3, Jocelyn Bartkevicius4, Chelsea Biondolillo5, Laurie Lynn Drummond6, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich7, Michele Morano8, Adriana Paramo9, Meghan Daum0, Neela Vaswani1, Sarah Valentine2, Dana Tommasino3, Wendy Rawlings4, Torrey Peters5, Brenda Miller6, Margo Jefferson7, Leslie Jamison8, Roxane Gay9, Jaquira Díaz0 ...

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ... Read more

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Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works
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The Balloonists

by Eula Biss ...

Now on ebook, the brilliant debut by Eula Biss, author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man's Land"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," writes Joan Didion, with a certain skepticism. We also live by the stories we tell. It is enough for the end of a fairy tale to read simply, ". . . then they were married." I suspect my father, among others, of marrying in order to locate himself within ... Read more

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Now on ebook, the brilliant debut by Eula Biss, author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man's Land"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," writes Joan Didion, with a certain skepticism. We also live by the stories we tell. It is enough for the end of a fairy tale to read simply, ". . . then they were married." I suspect my father, among others, of marrying in order to locate himself within
... Read more
“I Don’t See Color”

Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

by Eula Biss ...

Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is demographic.This volume ... Read more

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Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is demographic.This volume
... Read more
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On Immunity

by Eula Biss ...

Narrated by Tamara Marston ...

Unabridged

6 hours 23 min

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its ... Read more

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Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its
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Having and Being Had

by Eula Biss ...

Narrated by Alex McKenna ...

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7 hours 15 min

**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated PressA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the leading lights of ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated PressA timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the leading lights of
... Read more

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Of Woman Born

Motherhood as Experience and Institution

by Adrienne Rich ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Nicole Lewis ...

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12 hours 59 min

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. ... Read more

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Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.
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The Mother Wave

Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism

Edited by Andrea O'Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...

Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers' needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women as mothers. Based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, it understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the ... Read more

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Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers' needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women as mothers. Based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, it understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the
... Read more
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The Financial Activist Playbook

8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being

by Jasmine Rashid ...

Narrated by Ozzie Jacobs ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

The first and only comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy.Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It's how we—the underestimated—collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the ... Read more

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The first and only comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy.Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It's how we—the underestimated—collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the
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