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The Public Square eBook Series

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  • Sex & Secularism

    Series series The Public Square
    How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women—from the author of Gender and the Politics of History .One of The Guardian 's Best Books of the YearJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claim... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Veil

    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Essays and Speeches

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    Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave. Written by Himself.

    Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York ... Read more

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  • On Liberty

    On Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he conceived as a prerequisite to the ... Read more

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  • Drop the Ball

    Achieving More by Doing Less

    by Tiffany Dufu ...
    Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to ... Read more

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  • We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy

    **In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton ... Read more

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  • F*cked

    Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed

    Are You a Dirty, Nasty Slut? Or a Sexually Repressed Nightmare?Regardless of your background or bedroom resume, someone or something has probably made you feel that way at some point. This was what Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson discovered when they created the wildly popular Guys We Fucked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast. What started as an outlet to interview—You guessed it!—guys they'd ... Read more

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

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  • Feminism and Pop Culture

    Seal Studies

    by Andi Zeisler ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism ... Read more

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  • Why We Can't Wait

    Series Book 4 - King Legacy
    Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, ... Read more

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