To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
by Rebecca Walker
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A revolutionary exploration of the nature of feminism today, its impact on everyday life, and its promise for the future. Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political and economic equality for all humanity, these exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own experiences and beliefs. Inspired by activist and writer Rebecca Walker, they speak out, challenging many of their own assumptions about the women's movement show more and demanding that readers recognize a new relationship between the personal and the political. Black and white, male and female, gay and straight, they fearlessly describe their liberation from the feminist ideals that conflict with the reality of who they are, expose shocking secrets, and acknowledge long-hidden accommodations and anomalies. show lessTags
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Rebecca Walker is the author of the memoirs Black, White, and Jewish and Baby Love and editor of the anthologies To Be Real, What Makes a Man, and One Big Happy Family. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, The Washington Post, Book-forum, BOMB, Newsweek, Vibe, Real Simple, and Interview, among many others.
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- Original publication date
- 1995
- Dedication
- For all the aunts, keepers, and teachers who helped to raise me up:
Mrs. Cornelius, Grandma Miriam, Louisa Floyd "Patchogue," Mimi Hunt and Debbie Perez, Auntie Ruth and Uncle Bobby, Judy, Susan Howard, Cyntharee Powe... (show all)lls, Henri, Gene Mattingly, and Ms. Spilken
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for my father - Publisher's editor
- Meyer, Arabella
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1426 .T623 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
- BISAC
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- 339
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 2
