In this week's edition of AuthorSalon.tv, I interview Anita Finlay who wrote a controversial and important
book about women in politics.
More than 20 years ago, I wrote
a book about women finding their purpose and passion in life.
I'm featuring a fascinating
book about the women of the Bible: Vindicating the Vixens.
Carre Otis is authoring
a book about women's issues with writer and clinical psychologist, Sarah Spinner, Psy.D.
So perhaps it is not surprising that an important new
book about women in Parliament has been overlooked so far in the pre-election debate.
Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls»,
a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.
This is
a book about women who have resisted the ideology of quality control and the paradigm of perfection.
Reist writes: «Defiant Birth is
a book about women who have resisted the present day practice of medical eugenics.
Spiritual struggles became as interesting as politics; women still hardly ever wrote books, but people wrote
books about women.»
I'm always caught up by
books about women and their work so my bedside is piled with two kinds of books — cookbooks and biographies.
There were many «how to» books, but there weren't many
books about a woman's romantic journey in cyberspace.
read graveyard poetry, I read psychology
books about women similar to Lucille, without giving away any spoilers.
When I set out to write S.E.C.R.E.T.,
a book about a woman named Cassie Robichaud who's on a potent sexual journey, my «what if» had to do with my own reluctance to write erotica.
So many
books about women focus on their love lives; we appreciate this look at a complicated relationship based on mutual respect, science and survival.
Before The Secret of Chanel No. 5 you published The Widow Clicquot,
a book about the woman behind Veuve Cliquot.
I particularly love
books about women — wives, sisters, mothers and daughters, at different stages in their lives.
This will still be a club where readers interact with the author, and where you can discover great
books about a woman's emotional journey — ands there will still be a giveaway each month!
Known for her provocative
books about women, society and sexuality (the film Secretary was based on one of her short stories), Gaitskill is turning her talents this time to the subject of family and surrogate motherhood.
The only way (at least in traditional publishing circles) to move towards a world where there is equal gender representation is to purchase
books about women and girls.
So I wrote
a book about a woman who turns invisible in moonlight.
She will make presentations on two recent
books about women in aviation — Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 years of flight published by Dundurn Press for teens and adults; and Air - Crazy, fascinating stories about Canadian women in the air published by Another Chapter Publishing for kids 8 +.
Do you rewrite the history books, inserting the female artists where they belong, or do you write new
books about women artists, perhaps reinforcing a marginalized status?
Just read
this book about a woman who founded an adoption agency specifically for adoptions from China.
Not exact matches
But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less
about the
books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile
women — the kinds of
books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.
This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In:
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that
book, but it's also stirring up controversy
about privilege.
I'm reading a
book called Breaking Night,
about a
woman's journey from homelessness to Harvard.
«When I was interviewing couples for my
book The Daddy Shift, I found the happiest ones were those who weren't hung up on ideas
about what a man should do and what a
woman should do.
Every few years, a new
book ignites debate
about structural and social impediments to
women achieving professional parity.
In my 2007
book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first
woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.
We talk
about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the
woman who literally wrote the
book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).
She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling
books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a
women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.
Shaq's
book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is
about a young man who has power, wealth, and
women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»
Her new
book, «Love Rules,» is
about navigating romantic relationships in today's climate, and ahead of a panel on the subject at the
Women in the World Summit, we asked how her thoughts on #MeToo apply to the workplace.
In my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in
women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not
books targeted at
women but
books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by
women.
I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the
woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a
book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.
An Alberta
woman is hoping her contribution to a new
book will inspire
women to feel more worthy
about themselves.
She has authored a dozen
books about marketing, branding, social media, copywriting, and technology and is the founder and editor - in - chief of
Women on Business, a blog for business w
Women on Business, a blog for business
womenwomen.
There were 38 stories in the
book, but only seven were
about women.
Now, let's look at what each
book say
about the
women at the tomb.
The present
book looks at the organizational dimension of the Presbyterian (and mainline) «predicament» in twelve essays, dealing with denominational structures; financial changes;
women's, men's, and special - interest groups; and in two provocative concluding essays, some speculative conclusions
about where the changes have brought us.
The
Book of Relevation also talks
about armor - clad locusts with teh face of a man, the hair of a
woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of scorpion wearing tiny little crowns.
There's even a whole sub-category specifically
about sex: The Act of Marriage, Intended for Pleasure, Celebration in the Bedroom... Many of these types of
books have an almost myopic focus on a
woman's obligation to have sex with her husband.
So let's say this movie is
about a
woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the
book) is
about her coming to terms with the truth
about personal love and death and all that.
But as helpful as these marriage
books can be, they tend to work off of generalizations
about men and
women that may not apply to everyone (I'm a
woman, and I certainly crave respect!)
If more
women were pastors or preachers, we'd have a lot more sermons and
books about the metaphors of birth and pregnancy connecting us to the story of God.
In the Christian publishing world,
women do
about 70 percent of the
book purchasing.
Hill wrote the 2010
book «Washed and Waiting,»
about being gay, Christian, and celibate, and told students how he came to his position that sex is between man and a
woman in marriage.
Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth have written a fascinating and insightful
book about five
women from the Gospels.
So I thought that a
book in which some of these
women told their own stories
about Jesus would not only bring the Gospels to life in our minds, but it would also bring Jesus alive in our hearts.
I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires
women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the
book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate
about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul,
about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon,
about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11,
about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and
about what we really mean when we talk
about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the
book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.