2 June 2011
Call no: 305.2
Genre: non-fiction, sociology
8 Stars
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After a career writing about feminism and girls in culture Peggy Orenstein found herself the mother of a girl. And so brought face to face with the practicalities of what she had been theorising about, how to raise a girl to believe in herself and how to try
and avoid the madonna/whore dichotomy. And then her daughter entered her “Disney princess” phase.
8 April 2011
Call no: 305.5
Genre: non-fiction, sociology
Setting: USA, Virginia
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a memoir of Redneck America ISBN: 9781846272578 It happens perhaps once of twice every August: a deep West Virginia sundown drapes the farmhouse and ponds in red light, as if the heat absorbed during the dog days will erupt from … Continue reading
15 January 2011
Call no: 305.4
Genre: history, non-fiction, sociology
6 Stars
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In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. eBook number 3420 ; Read for A … Continue reading
20 December 2010
Genre: history, non-fiction, sociology
Setting: Britain, Interwar Europe
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Full title: Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War ISBN: 9780670915644 In 1978, when she was eighty-five years old, Margaret Jones, known as May, wrote her autobiography. The term “lost generation” is … Continue reading