(Part 2) Best women biographies according to redditors
We found 335 Reddit comments discussing the best women biographies. We ranked the 149 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
23. Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football
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Sex with your slaves was not a "perk", by any stretch. It was in fact quite illegal to force sex on anyone, slave or otherwise.
The problem comes in the fact that a black person, slave or freeman, was not allowed to testify against a white person in court. So if you, a slave owner, raped your slave you had in fact broken a very real law. But if you were otherwise unseen, you had literally nothing to worry about, because the only witness was legally prevented from doing anything about it.
Additionally, antebellum southern "code" (lacking a better word, apologies) would have looked harshly on rape of any sort, again, slave or otherwise. This, however, combined with a few slave owning men also being in a position to write laws, resulted in exactly the sort of laws you mentioned above. These laws were written precisely to avoid the scandal, not because it was accepted.
There's actually a really decent book called "Celia, a slave" which goes into a lot of the laws surrounding all of this, if you're interested. (trial info is here, if you want a condensed version)
I read Yellow Birds over the summer, I quite liked it. Sharon Olds' poetry: http://www.amazon.com/Stags-Leap-Poems-Sharon-Olds/dp/0375712259
Or they were forced, against their will, to have the baby and had it ripped from them in a forced adoption and spent the rest of their lives feeling a mixture of shame and worry about what happened to their child.
Highly recommended reading: http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered-ebook/dp/B008RMF4GS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448998604&sr=1-1&keywords=the+girls+who+went+away
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Maybe not what you are looking for, but "Baby Catcher" by Peggy Vincent is a great read. It's not fiction, but it is a chronical of her time as a midwife and tells a lot of good birth stories from her perspective. I read it as an L&D nurse and loved it, but I bet it would be a great read for a non-nurse pregnant woman too!
There is a great book about this: https://www.amazon.com/Celia-Slave-Melton-Mclaurin/dp/0380803364
Every single "person with similar views as nolimitsoldier" I have encountered has always fallen into 1 of the following groups.
To learn more about feminism you can read or watch the following websites,books, or videos:
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Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide: https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Auto-Clinic-Glove-Guide/dp/1501144111
I haven’t read it but this came up at some Pt as a possible book club book.
War - Sebastian Junger - British war journo embedded with front line American grunts in Afghanistan.
A Bike Ride - Anne Mustoe - A retired school teacher cycles around the world back when it wasn't something any berk in lycra could do.
Mud, Sweat & Tears - Bear Grylls - Love him or think he's a ponce you can't deny he's not a bit of a badass. The section on his SAS selection is awesome. The part after he gets a bit religious and the book goes downhill though.
Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Lies-Headlocks-Wrestling-Entertainment/dp/1400051436/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940482&sr=1-2
Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW
http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-History-Extremely-Unauthorized-Edition/dp/1613210418/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940563&sr=1-1
Pure Dynamite
http://www.amazon.com/Pure-Dynamite-Tom-Billington/dp/0953709701/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940610&sr=1-2
Missy Hyatt: First Lady of Wrestling
http://www.amazon.com/Missy-Hyatt-First-Lady-Wrestling/dp/1550224980/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940713&sr=1-1
The Death of WCW: WrestleCrap and Figure Four Weekly Present
http://www.amazon.com/The-Death-WCW-WrestleCrap-Present/dp/1550226614/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940760&sr=1-4
The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!
http://www.amazon.com/The-WrestleCrap-Book-Lists/dp/1550227629/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940787&sr=1-18
Tales From A Dirt Road
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-From-A-Dirt-Road/dp/145644090X/ref=sr_1_40?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334940841&sr=1-40
oh, you mean the history books written by white men? i wonder why that is!! color me shocked
https://www.amazon.com/Well-Behaved-Women-Seldom-Make-History/dp/1400075270
if you want to know what real historic women do :)
Have you read Losing My Faculties?
There's documented historical evidence in the Zuni tribe of a berdache, or "two-spirit"--it's not some 21st century invention. My professor loaned me her copy of The Zuni Man-Woman in college. The book is not perfect, but it is an interesting glimpse into the culture that expands beyond an exact male/female dichotomy.
I'm an embroiderer but a coworker sent me the Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch book, which is where the Frida Kahlo pattern can be found.
WOW cross-stitching takes so long and used somuch more thread than I was expecting! I really enjoyed it though and can't wait to keep making my way through this book...and now I know to keep the stitches all going the same way! Maybe one day I'll get around to creating my own patterns.
OF NOTE for anyone looking at this book: in the intro it says a "minimum of 6" hoop" can be used for most patterns. I would say that is incorrect- you should use an 8" hoop. I wasn't able to fit the full name on to this 6" hoop and didn't have enough fabric to bump it up to the 8". I should have checked before I started, but I trusted the intro!
I'm currently reading Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent, and I strongly recommend it! https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Catcher-Chronicles-Modern-Midwife/dp/0743219341
I've checked and all of these are available new and are not exorbitantly expensive. I haven't read all of them, some are just from my own personal wish list. These are radfem but not directly trans-focused. Sorry if that was more what you were looking for, if so I can check for more along those lines.
Life and Death by Dworkin
Intercourse by Dworkin
Letters from a war zone by Dworkin
The creation of patriarchy by Lerner
Origin of the family, private property and the state by Engels
Ain't I a woman: black women and feminism by hooks
Pornland by Dines
Anticlimax by Jeffreys
Are woman human? by MacKinnon
http://www.amazon.com/Missy-Hyatt-First-Lady-Wrestling/dp/1550224980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396225733&sr=8-1&keywords=missy+hyatt
Thanks so much for posting, this is terrific. You’ve managed to be both incredibly informative and highly readable. Seriously, kudos.
I recently was gifted this edition of the Goetia which oddly enough has the author recounting a working with Orobas in the introduction which really caught me. I’m currently finding myself in a similar work situation as you described here.
I was wondering what specific ritual resources you used to put your ceremony together? Ive been trying to get a working together but feel like a need a few more sources to help me with structure.
Also I’ve recently moved into a new place that has a terrific shed, I’m really itching to turn it in to a temple.
Boys Will Be Boys. All about the Secret Service, prostitution, protection of their own, and who gets hurt.
Camp Wandawega!
I love this book too, which is about a one-bedroom cabin on the property.
I second the "watch as much as you can" approach, but here are two books that might help you with the subtleties of the game.
Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!
Yes, the subtitle is "A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football," but give it a shot. Very casual writing style, and it got very good reviews on Amazon.
Football for Dummies
Written by Howie Long, who probably knows more about football than he does about Chevys. Also got pretty good reviews.
I just finished to read Not without my daughter and dispite the horrible side of iran it show i was thinking there must be some nice and happy things happening. A hope you just shattered, i really hope things get better for you and everyone else living
In the same time what do you think is the best thing about iran/iranien and what are you missing the most?
The Chronology Of Water is the most I impressive book read this year, if not ever.
It's a memoir of a woman who has had a lot of shit to deal with, and she writes it beautifully.
I just finished Hot Pink by Adam Levin, and I'd recommend it.
Zazen is a fantastic book, but it came out about 10 months ago I believe.
Unsaid was superb as well, and should fit into your timeline.
Pulphead was the best collection of essays that I've read since Twain's probably.
The Devil All The Time was superb, but probably too well known.
I'd also suggest The Chronology of Water, but it's a memoir.
You should read Anne Mustoe. For my money, she is the most inspirational travel writer I have ever read. She cycled around the world, solo, at 53 years of age, after not riding a bicycle since her 20s. Later, she did it again, in the other direction, as well as the Silk Road, circumnavigated the Mediterranean, the American Pioneer Trail, the Roman amber route and more. She was amazing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Mustoe
Her first book, titled with superlative modesty "A Bike Ride", is just wonderful - but all her half-a-dozen others are good, too.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bike-Ride-miles-around-world/dp/0863696503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332969023&sr=8-1
So, yes, a woman alone can absolutely do this. Also see Josie Dew whose long-distance travels are very impressive, too.
I recommend Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds. It came out in 2012 and one the Pulitzer. The collection deals with her impending divorce with her husband and then the process of the actual divorce. Very straightforward and accessible, but also heartbreaking and has a lot of great musings on love and what happens when the love is gone.
http://www.amazon.com/Stags-Leap-Poems-Sharon-Olds/dp/0375712259
The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot is also wonderful. It came out in 2011. She creates these weird realities that feel slightly abstract and bizarre but also very relatable. Much lighter than Stag's Leap, I enjoyed this collection immensely. It was very playful but had a lot of great melancholic moments.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bigger-World-Noelle-Kocot/dp/1933517522
Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong is another great collection. It was published in 2012. There are three main sections to this book, all these slightly different realities. First is like old west, so a lot of ballads and narratives. Second takes place in an imagined factory town in China, I think this section follows a worker who works in a factory reproducing famous pieces of work. Third section is an imagined future where people have become even more ingrained within technology, slightly dystopian depending on your point of view. What I like a lot about this collection is you can see how she changes her styles and forms of writing to reflect what she is writing about in any given section.
http://www.amazon.com/Engine-Empire-Cathy-Park-Hong/dp/039334648X
Flies by Michael Dickman was published in 2011. I personally really enjoyed this. The collection deals mainly with the death of Dickman's brother. It's very bizarre and dark. He kind of creates this "grief world" and kind of shoves you in it. It felt very personally and honest to me. Poems require a bit more unpacking than the other collections, but really great stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Lannan-Literary-Selections-Michael-Dickman/dp/1556593775
One of my favorite collections I read last year was The Earth Avails by Mark Wunderlich. I think it was first published in 2014. For this collection he took an old german prayer book and translated/repurposed the prayers in it into his own poetry. If you like nature/natural stuff this would be great. There is a weight and spirituality to the poems that I really liked. The poems do not feel super modern, but feel fresh. Really, really beautiful writing.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Earth-Avails-Mark-Wunderlich/dp/1555976662
Hustle by David Tomas Martinez, also published in 2014, is a very accessible collection and easy to read. The back of the book says, "Hustle documents the author's latino youth in San Diego, California. An inferno of stolen cars, silent sex, and murdered valedictorians," I feel like this is the best description of the collection. Really vivid imagery and wonderful, straightforward story telling.
http://www.amazon.com/Hustle-David-Tomas-Martinez/dp/1936747774
Last recommendation is Trickster by Randall Potts. This is another collection from 2014. Tbh I can't remember a way to characterize this except for mythic (not sure exactly why that word is popping to my head), but I do remember really enjoying it.
http://www.amazon.com/Trickster-House-Poets-Randall-Potts/dp/1609382846
Hope this helped! Hope you enjoy whatever you end up reading. Poetry is the best.
I don't recommend any electronic devices as many school districts have policies against hooking up personal devices to school equiptment (both schools I have worked in do). However, none seem to have any problem with thumb drives or external hard drives. I have an external hard drive and I cannot start to explain how helpful it has been. When you're creating powerpoints and prezis and loads of documents, moving them between your home computer and work computers becomes frustrating without some decent storage.
I also suggest:
Its a hilarious book, and the first third of the book will remind her that all teachers go through the same insanity during their first few years.
Hope these help -- I've been a teacher for 10 years and these gifts would absolutely make me smile (and my life easier).
Pattern source: Feminist Icon Cross Stitch book: https://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Icon-Cross-Stitch-Designs-Celebrate/dp/0762462906
Gave it to my cousin as a birthday gift!
You can do goetia without all the fancy toys. Problem is, if you had experience you would know this already, and if you don't have experience then the goetic ritual is just not going to work. Or, it could go bad. But more likely, nothing will happen at all. Then you can walk away and say "whelp, demons ain't real" without ever having even dipped your toe in the water.
If you want to give it a shot, try this book. But cutting corners because of impatience never goes over well in magick.
The Girls Who Went Away is a good book about this that's widely available. Women share their experiences of maternity homes and what it was like to give birth and treated like they didn't deserve the same care as married mothers.
I always think of it... probably because I read the following when I was young https://www.amazon.com/Not-Without-My-Daughter-Harrowing/dp/0312925883
Well in Germany it is like that. If you wan´t to make fast money, come to Germany and write a book on Turks or Muslims beeing a threat to society. Thilo Sarrazin did it with "Deutschland schafft sich ab" and sold 1.5 million copies. Right now a female police officer is making big cash by complaining on how muslims and Turks are disrespecting female officers and not showing respect. Deutschland im Blaulicht
solche Bücher gibt es doch schon
Gut scheint es nicht unbedingt zu sein, wenn man sich die kontroversen Rezensionen anschaut.
Absolutely! The more the merrier! I'm actually a football nerd too so I can help with that one if you'd like! (Not so good at basketball though.)
I have a chick friend who is trying to get more into football to watch it with us on Sundays and I gave her this book as a bit of a gag gift last year for Christmas. Turns out it's super informative if you skip over the blatantly sexist parts! (Some of it's super cute though since it's written by a former football player's wife. She lists her favorite football butts and of course lists her husbands as her favorite.) Although it's a bit outdated.
excellent book
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>>First, I haven't done it lately so see Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Copyright_and_licensing. I do know you have to get permission from the owner of the photo (who possibly is not the owner of the website.) And you'd have to upload it to WikiCommons. See How to submit letter of permission from owner to Wikicommons.
>>If that doesn't work, search image.google for any private photos that might be easier to use and get their permission. Finally, I believe Wikipedia still let's you upload a book or magazine cover without permission. Check the policy. Here's a couple possibilities: book cover; Summer 2005 edition magazine. Maybe not great, but at least it's a context she'd approve of.
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https://www.amazon.com/Zuni-Man-Woman-Will-Roscoe/dp/0826313701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522683320&sr=8-1&keywords=zuni+man+woman&dpID=41Qat%252BY5AbL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
> Truth in advertising, I don’t really know how to work on cars. I might know a little more about it than the average lady because I drove clunkers for the first ten years of driving and I’ve had a lot of things go wrong with them. But I generally bring my cars into a mechanic for anything more than the most simple maintenance. The project car would mostly be fun because I could learn more without being worried about screwing up my daily driver 😂
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>I’ve been flirting with reading this book, mb we can do it for book club some month.
I probably know more than the average lady from being an information sponge and picking up troubleshooting tips from my bio dad (who worked on our clunkers when I was growing up) and from subsequent repairs on my cars...but the most I've done is replace a battery/bulb/wiper blades and do an oil change. Woooo, big time mechanic over here. ;)
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I totally love your book club idea for that book, I would totally join for that one!
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*vrooms off with obnoxious muffler and gigantic spoiler*
Todd Palin has been linked to human trafficking... Shailey Tripp.
https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Will-Be-Morality-Coverup/dp/147009102X
Make your own conclusion.