I M Every Woman

How well do you know yourself? Are you ready to own your glow? Do you ever feel like you don't measure up? Like you didn't make the cut. Are you tired of the unrealistic expectations the world places on your appearance and personality? I'm Not Every Woman offers simple, profoundly intuitive answers to these questions. This book will show you how to reconnect with your personality, creativity, identity, and self-awareness amid the confusion and chaos of today's unrealistic expectations. With perfect clarity, I'm Not Every Woman demands that you get to know your true self. What Others Are Saying? "I'm Not Every Woman will help you love, appreciate, and celebrate the woman God created you to be. We all need more of what Barbara shares and teaches." -Robi Reed Emmy Award Winning Casting Director, SVP Talent and Casting BET Networks "An intimate, powerful, and poignant conversation about women, this book is poetic justice. It is lyrical and intuitive and provides candid instruction to the wife, the mother, the businesswoman, and every woman who wears a title. This book is a license to be free-to be uniquely who we were designed to be. No pressure, no labels, no rules, no borders. Just us! Great work, Barbara. I'm not every woman-I'm ME!" -Holly Carter President and CEO, Releve' Entertainment "I have read countless books, attended numerous seminars, and watched many videos that cover similar topics as those in I'm Not Every Woman, but Barbara Bryant lays it out in a way that really lit up my soul. If you want to better understand yourself, this insightful and inspiring book is a perfect place to begin." -Dorinda Clark Cole Grammy Award Winning Gospel Artist

C'est d'épouses, fiancées et copines dont il est question dans ce livre... Madame Elvis Presley, Madame Joseph Staline, Madame Jackson Pollock et plein d'autres. Réunies par un seul et même destin : être les victimes d'hommes incapables de se comporter de façon normale et raisonnable avec leur partenaire. Qui étaient vraiment ces femmes et comment leur désir de vivre un amour romantique a pu pourrir à un tel point toute leur existence ? Page après page, Liv Strömquist lance ses flèches empoisonnées contre l'ordre patriarcal. Elle en explore dans les moindres recoins les dispositifs de domination sans oublier de donner au passage, toujours avec l'humour cinglant et la légèreté qui sont les siennes, des réponses à des questions telles : Qui étaient les pires boyfriends de l'Histoire ? Pourquoi Ingmar Bergman a cru bon féconder toutes les femmes qu'en Suède avaient des ambitions artistiques ? Pourquoi l'archange Gabriel a appelé les femmes des "putains" ? Pourquoi tous les enfants sont-ils des conservateurs bien de droite ? Et pourquoi les hommes qui plus défendent les valeurs de la famille nucléaire (à l'instar d'un certain Pape), ne vivent jamais dans des familles nucléaires ? En s'appuyant sur des références qui vont de la sitcom "Friends" à la biographie de Staline de Simon Sebag Montefiore, Liv Strömquist poursuit avec intelligence et finesse sa critique sans concessions des valeurs masculines qui dominent la société contemporaine.

The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.

I AM EVERY WOMAN 15 women across the world share how resilience, stoicism, and courage shaped their lives.

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture identify the factors that limit electoral possibilities for women. Pundits have been predicting women’s political ascendency for years. And yet, although the 2008 presidential campaign featured Hillary Clinton as an early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and Sarah Palin as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee, no woman has yet held either of the top two offices. The reasons for this are complex and varied, but the authors assert that the question certainly encompasses more than the shortcomings of women candidates or the demands of the particular political moment. Instead, the authors identify a pernicious backlash against women presidential candidates—one that is expressed in both political and popular culture. In Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture, Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson provide a discussion of US presidentiality as a unique rhetorical role. Within that framework, they review women’s historical and contemporary presidential bids, placing special emphasis on the 2008 campaign. They also consider how presidentiality is framed in candidate oratory, campaign journalism, film and television, digital media, and political parody.

“Ann Holmes has created the perfect guide to help women turn their dreams into a reality.” –Donna Mullen Good, CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise If you’ve ever dreamed of starting your own business, or if you’ve ever wondered about how to build up the business you already run, but worry because you don’t have an MBA or a couple of years of college business courses, this book is for you. Based on extensive interviews with more than eighty women entrepreneurs from around the country, There’s a Business in Every Woman offers inspiring success stories (and instructive missteps) in a wide range of businesses–from catering, landscaping, personal training, and wedding and events planning to interior and clothing design, staffing, manufacturing, and product design. What the trailblazing women in this book have in common is a good idea and the courage to turn a dream into a money-making reality through hard work, passion, and drive. Take, for instance, the woman who started an IT consulting company in her basement and now has more than a thousand employees in three states; two jogging buddies who commiserated about their uncomfortable bras and went on to design and produce a jog bra, creating a company that Playtex ultimately bought for millions; the mom whose hand-made birthday-party invitations made such a splash that she launched her own custom party invitation company, which she expanded to include holiday cards, gift tags, bags, and more; the sixty-five-year-old corporate wife and mother who applied her domestic talents to opening a profitable B&B; the twenty-three-year-old who bought a fledging real estate franchise and now earns a healthy six figures annually. These success stories highlight the practical: focusing on what you’re good at; setting up your business properly–even if you are starting out from your basement or garage; getting financial backing when you need it; marketing your products with sizzle; networking like the “good old boys”; understanding how and when to diversify your products or services; managing your growth; and, most important, knowing what your company is worth and when it might be lucrative to cash out. An accessible crash course in starting and running your own business, There’s a Business in Every Woman will teach you everything you need to know to turn your pipedream into serious profits.