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Renzetti, Elizabeth.
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Women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Feminism.
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Renzetti, Elizabeth.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Feminism.
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Shrewed : a
wry
and
closely
observed
look
at the
lives
of
women
and
girls
:
essays
/ Elizabeth Renzetti.
by
Renzetti, Elizabeth.
House of Anansi, 2018.
Call #:
305.4 R424s
Subjects
Women
-- Social conditions.
Women
's rights.
Feminism.
ISBN:
9781487003043 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Shrewd
: a
wry
and
closely
observed
look
at the
lives
of
women
and
girls
:
essays
Description:
278 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"Why are there so few
women
in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to
women
? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's playground? These are some of the questions that author and journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of
essays
. Drawing upon Renzetti's decades of reporting on feminist issues, Shrewed is a book about feminism's crossroads. From Hillary Clinton's failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty
look
at how far we've come - and how far we have to go. If Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. If they'd lived at the same time. And in the same country. And if IVF had been invented. Well, you get the point. Elizabeth Renzetti is a columnist for the Globe and Mail and she is the author of the novel Based on a True Story. She
lives
in Toronto.
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