Yugambeh–Bundjalung man Luther Cora’s portrait of a young woman: ‘I’ve found that I can use my photography to be a voice and speak for me and my people and other people will listen and pay attention.’
Natalie Haynes – broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist – taking Pandora and her jaras the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.
‘I’m not OK. It’s been a hard six months post birth and I’m doing all sorts of things to heal and learn this new version of myself. I’ve sunk into depression more times that I am proud of in the last few months. Dealing with obstetric violence is no joke and the system hasn’t been designed to support postpartum.’
‘Scarred is a self-portrait two weeks post a total thyroidectomy due to a retrosternal multinodular goitre. This image documents the progress of the surgical scar healing as well as the erratic physical implications and body changes through a difficult period of adjustment where my experience and symptoms were dismissed and I often felt invalidated.’
In 2022, Katie underwent craniectomy surgery to remove an infected titanium plate from her skull. ‘The graft site on my scalp will never be capable of growing hair as it does not contain follicles to do so. Some would call it a permanent disfigurement to my appearance; I like to say it’s a story to tell. Essentially my body is the vessel which is carrying me through life, in this second chance I have been given.’
The Retreat of the Butterflies
A masked portrait of a teenager in an underage penitentiary centre in the Dominican Republic. Participants in the photo project were encouraged to regain possession of their image and become actors in their lives in a place that deprives them of freedom. Blast asked each participant to send a message to their future selves. Selected extracts were transcribed on to the images.
"The process of nation building cannot be limited to only expanding working hours, but it has to focus on improving work conditions and pushing for norms that are inclusive and not blind to socio-cultural realities of contexts."
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change.
Hudson Bay Bound
Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic Canoeing with the Cree, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho faced unexpected trials.
A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Here 14 women of diverse background offer an intimate look at life in the occupied territories and Arab society. Not primarily a book about Palestinian-Israeli politics, the book is rather a collection of vital, resonant voices that reveal what it is like to be Palestinian and female.
Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories
This highly original book recounts the surprisingly candid stories of three Palestinian mothers and their daughters. Beautifully told and sensitively edited, these linked narratives bear witness to their experiences of Israeli occupation, their memories of the wars of 1948 and 1967, and the profound changes that have occurred in their political and personal lives.
America's Jewish Women
A History from Colonial Times to Today
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers#America #Jewish#women@bookstodon
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political, social, and economic. The volume widens and deepens understanding of women in relation to the inequalities they face, based not only on gender, but also on race, class, religion, and more.
In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's war, through a host of individual women's experiences. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again ...
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women -- in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed.
We interviewed the fabulous Dr Emma Southon about her latest book ‘A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women’. It’s a fantastic ride through Rome’s ancient history!
A Spell of Good Things, by Ayobami Adebayo. You are a highly capable and independent young Nigerian doctor, which is maybe why the patriarchy feels the need to insert itself in your life in subtle and not so subtle ways. 4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@iwashyna@bookstodon Finally my public library had After Sappho on the shelf! #AmReading these smart and beautifully written, challenging, and inter-related 'cascading vignettes' of #women's lives. 'Tho things have changed on the surface, we all need to pay attention to the genitive. The masculine continues as "the patron and the possessor and the proprietor and the patriarch" in too many women's lives.