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This lively anthology features thirty stories by mainly British and North American women writers of the past hundred - and - odd years, and is by turns poignant, funny, thought provoking and uplifting.

And Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most renowned Afro - American woman writers, wrote reactionary essays (some of which appeared in the Reader's Digest) and gave her allegiance to the Republican Party — facts often overlooked by her contemporary feminist followers.

Not exact matches

A woman alone behind the desk, with the microphone in front of her and a posse of the best writers in the country behind her, is in one of the most significant positions of influence in American popular culture.

There are African Americans, Hispanics, women preachers, apocalyptic seers, lobbyists, missiologists, postmodernists, writers, radio preachers, megachurch pastors, a few scholars, and, mirabile dictu, two Catholics: the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, and the editor - in - chief of First Things, Father Richard John Neuhaus.

More than a few women in Chile, France and elsewhere told her that wives need to boost men's egos and be softer, if not quite submissive — a message American women hear a lot from conservative writers (I'm thinking of you, Suzanne Venker) and that's overwhelmingly upsetting to feminists.

In celebration of African American History Month in February, our cover story is award winning poet Juliet Howard, founder and curator of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS) based in New York City.

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

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Andrea Stith, Ph.D., Contributing Writer and Volunteer Dr. Stith was a consultant with organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, MinorityPostdoc.org, and the Asian Women's Leadership University Project.

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century AmeWomen, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century Amewomen whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

The «Americans» actress plays a woman obsessed with Jane Austen novels in the directorial debut from «Napoleon Dynamite» writer Jerusha Hess

In this panel, Black Lightning star Cress Williams and executive producers Salim Akil & Mara Brock Akil will join the acclaimed John Ridley, author and comic book writer Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone, Earth M), and Black Girl Nerds Editor - in - Chief Jamie Broadnax as they look beyond the super suit to the African - American men and women who are heroes to their community.

ACE Eddie = ACE Eddie Awards (Jan. 26, 2018) ADG = Art Directors Guild Awards (Jan. 27, 2018) AFI = American Film Institute Awards (Dec. 7, 2017) African American = African American Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 12, 2017) Alliance of Women = Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards (Jan. 9, 2018) Atlanta = Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Annie = Annie Awards (Feb. 3, 2018) ASC = American Society of Cinematographers Awards (Feb. 17, 2018) Austin = Austin Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 8, 2018) Australia = Australian Academy Awards (Jan. 5, 2018) BAFTA = BAFTA Awards (Feb. 18, 2018) Black = Black Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Black Reel = Black Reel Awards (Feb. 22, 2018) Boston = Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Boston Online = Boston Online Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) CAS = Cinema Audio Society Awards (Feb. 24, 2018) CDG = Costume Designers Guild Awards (Feb. 20, 2018) Chicago = Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Chicago Indie = Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 30, 2017) Columbus = Columbus Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 4, 2018) Critics» Choice = Critics» Choice Awards (Jan. 11, 2018) Critics» Choice Doc = Critics» Choice Documentary Awards (Nov. 2, 2017) Dallas - Fort Worth = Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 13, 2017) Denver = Denver Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 16, 2018) Detroit = Detroit Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 7, 2017) DGA = Directors Guild of America Awards (Feb. 3, 2018) Dublin = Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 14, 2017) European Film = European Film Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) Florida = Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 23, 2017) Georgia = Georgia Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 12, 2018) Golden Globe = Golden Globe Awards (Jan. 7, 2018) Gotham = Gotham Independent Film Awards (Nov. 27, 2017) Grammy = Grammy Awards (Jan. 28, 2018) Hawaii = Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 12, 2018) HMMA = Hollywood Music in Media Awards (Nov. 17, 2017) Hollywood = Hollywood Film Awards (Nov. 5, 2017) Houston = Houston Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 6, 2018) IDA Doc = International Documentary Association Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) Independent Spirit = Film Independent Spirit Awards (March 3, 2018) Indiana = Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Iowa = Iowa Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 9, 2018) Las Vegas = Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Kansas City = Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) LGBTQ = Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (a.k.a. GALECA)'s Dorian Awards (Jan. 31, 2018) London = London Film Critics Circle Awards (Jan. 28, 2018) Los Angeles = Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 3, 2017) Los Angeles Online = Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 19, 2017) Memphis Online = Memphis Online Film Critics Awards (Dec. 11, 2017) MPSE = Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (Feb. 18, 2018) MUHS = Make - Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (Feb. 24, 2018) Music Critics = International Film Music Critics Association Awards (Feb. 22, 2018) Music Supervisors = Guild of Music Supervisors Awards (Feb. 8, 2018) NAACP = NAACP Image Awards (Jan. 15, 2018) NBR = National Board of Review (Nov. 28, 2017) Nevada = Nevada Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 22, 2017) New Mexico = New Mexico Film Critics Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) New York = New York Film Critics Circle Awards (Nov. 30, 2017) New York Online = New York Film Critics Online Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) North Carolina = North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 2, 2018) North Texas = North Texas Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) NSFC = National Society of Film Critics Awards (Jan. 6, 2018) Oklahoma = Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards (Jan. 2, 2018) Online = Online Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 28, 2017) PGA = Producers Guild of America Awards (Jan. 20, 2018) Philadelphia = Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Phoenix = Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 19, 2017) Phoenix Critic = Phoenix Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 16, 2017) SAG = Screen Actors Guild Awards (Jan. 21, 2018) San Diego = San Diego Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 11, 2017) San Francisco = San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Satellite = Satellite Awards (Feb. 11, 2018) Seattle = Seattle Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Southeast = Southeast Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) St. Louis = St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Toronto = Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) USC Scripter = USC Scripter Awards (Feb. 10, 2018) Utah = Utah Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Vancouver = Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) VES = Visual Effects Society Awards (Feb. 13, 2018) Washington D.C. = Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 8, 2017) WGA = Writers Guild of America Awards (Feb. 11, 2018) Women = Women Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 22, 2017)

Touched North American Premiere Writer / Director: Karl R. Hearne Starring: Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery Logline: A ghostly, psychological drama about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who tries to track her down.

The story of an American writer having an affair with a French woman on French terms — limited to two decorous hours an evening — works as long as it stays cute and light.

Writer - director Kelly Reichardt returns to the American frontier with Certain Women, though the bleak, unforgiving plains featured in her 2011 western Meek's Cutoff are now encrusted with Starbucks and Jiffy Lube and and Pizza Hut, beacons of capitalism peppered across the howling void.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

A low - key highlight of the recent South by Southwest Film Festival now making its L.A. premiere, Stella Meghie's appealing debut feature focuses on three generations of Jamaican American women, including the endearingly indecisive young New York writer (an excellent Taylour Paige) who gives the movie its title.

An easy target to be sure, the all - white, nearly all - Caucasian woman writer's seminar in Storytelling is presided over by an African - American Pulitzer Prize - winning author (Mr. Scott, played by Robert Wisdom) who isn't quite as mean as Harlan Ellison, though he tries.

Strained of much of its Englishness by the casting of American leads and a relocation from 1892 England to 1930 Italy, A Good Woman earns most of its good will from those Wildean epigrams, many pilfered from elsewhere in the writer's repertoire.

The story centers on Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante), an American writer in Rome, who witnesses a brutal attack on a woman in an art gallery.

Best known for his Chronicles of Narnia children's stories, the writer is perfectly happy being a quiet Oxford professor, until he meets an American woman (Debra Winger) with whom he has exchanged letters.

Thus was born the story of Kennedy's presidency as a golden period, described as «a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.»

HBO's Game Change isn't the first time director Jay Roach and writer Danny Strong have tackled American electoral politics, and it's not the first time they've portrayed women in politics either.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».

A Manual for Cleaning Women By Lucia Berlin Picador • $ 16 • ISBN 9780374202392 When these stories were published in hardcover last year, the New York Times» Dwight Garner said the posthumous collection marked «the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time.»

She directed the Virginia Writers Conference for five years, is an advisor for the Bay School for the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women and The Authors Guild.

Beloved and renowned in China, Tie Ning's numerous books have never before been translated into English; this publication of The Bathing Women introduces a brilliant writer of uncommon talents, vision, and compassion to American readers.

Kim Wells has a PhD in American Lit with a specialty in Women Writers, has produced the Women Writers third wave «zine» since 1998, and indie published her first novel, Mariposa, in December 2014.

Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit's own life.

A bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart - wrenching novel of World War I, painting a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.

With striking detail and impish wit, she chronicles her «American Mexican» youth, sexuality, and yearning for self - understanding as both a woman and a writer.

Marian is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Women's Fiction Writers Association.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free - spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

Her essays have been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing 2013, Readings For Writers, The Best Women's Travel Writing, 20 - Something Essays by 20 - Something Writers, and The Innocent Abroad.

Merilee is currently a member in good standing with Luxury Society, the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the International Travel Writers Alliance, the San Diego Press Club, and the National Association of Professional and Executive Women (NAPEW).

Particular highlights included: Brenda Romero's inspiring talk «Mother, Woman, Girl: A Lifetime in Games»; Warren Spector meeting fellow Ion Storm alumni John Romero over Skype backstage — pictured; the Guardian interview panels on the Wednesday and Thursday, with Keith Stuart and Jordan Erica Webber (pictured at the top of this feature); Gary Napper at Supermassive describing the moment a tough American bro was reduced to a gibbering wreck after playing VR; discovering Seb «Snake Pass» Liese from Sumo owned two snakes names «Solid» and «Liquid»; and the Edge Presents interview on - stage with writer Ben Maxwell and John Romero — pictured.

1:00 pm Panel: Women of Latin American Film Moderated by Michelle Farrell, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Fairfield University, CT, with panelists: Diana Vargas, Artistic Director, Havana Film Festival New York; Laura Gómez, Director and Actor, New York; and Ana Katz, Writer, Director, Actor, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

2007 Juicy Mother II artist and Contributors» Panel, Bluestocking Bookstore, NY Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Lecture, Brooklyn Museum, NY Bloomfield College Visiting Artist Lecture, New Jersey Artists Talk on Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York South Asian Women's Creative Collective Slide Slam, Asian American Writers» Workshop, NY Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: Feminist Art Symposium, CalArts, CA New York Studio School, NY, Visiting Artist Lecture

Exhibition highlights from this period include One Portrait of One Woman, a 1916 portrait of Paris - based American writer Gertrude Stein by Maine - born artist Marsden Hartley, who lived in Europe from 1912 - 1916.

Exhibition highlights from this period include One Portrait of One Woman, a 1916 portrait of Paris - based American writer Gertrude Stein by Maine - born artist Marsden Hartley, who lived in Europe from 1912 — 1915.

Friday, May 9th 6:30 - 9 pm @ Asian American Writers Workshop 112 W 27th St # 600, New York, NY 10001 Please join Plus 91 Foundation and the South Asian Women's Creative Collective for an artist talk with Mithu Sen followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Thursday, February 15 6:30 - 8:30 PM Roundtable discussion with community organizers and activists Roundtable Panelists: Mieko Gavia, independent writer Monica Mohapatra, board member of South Asian Diaspora Artist Collective Mark Tseng - Putterman, writer and PhD student, Brown University Department of American Studies Ambika Trasi, artist, board member of South Asian Women's Creative Collective, curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art Betty Yu, multi-media artist, educator and co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade

«Miami Arts Project,» Miami, FL, January — March, 1998; brochure «I'm Still In Love With You: Visual Artists and Writers Respond to the 1972 Album by Al Green,» Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA, February 14 — March 14, 1998 «Postcards from Black America,» Breda, De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands, 1998; catalogue «Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,» curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, São Paulo, Brazil, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From Pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, 1998 «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90's,» from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1998

Among them are Niki Black, legal tech writer and speaker; Carolyn Elefant, founder of MyShingle; Joan Feldman, editor - in - chief of Attorney at Work; Mary Juetten and Jules Miller, the women who cofounded Evolve Law before selling it this year to Above the Law; Sarah Glassmeyer, project manager specialist at the ABA Center for Innovation; Ivy B. Grey, author of American Legal Style for PerfectIt, a proofreading and editing software for lawyers, and a frequent contributor to Law Technology Today; Margaret Hagan, director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School; Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership; Lisa Needham, editor at Lawyerist; Jean O'Grady, blogger at Dewey B Strategic; Lisa Salazar of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog; and Nicolle Schippers, legal industry advocate at ARAG North America.

Previous Speaking Events & Audiences: The American Bar Association Americorps and Breakthrough Miami GetHired Miami The National Resume Writers» Association Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School and Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High School UAC School of Global Management The Academy Computer Training Centers Sheridan Technical College Aventura Sunny Isles Chamber of Commerce Fortune 200 Companies Women Empowerment Expo Women's Chamber Of Commerce BNI Chapters Broward County Jewish Federation