Chris Wind
1) UnMythed
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This collection of poems reveals the myths within the myths revealed: what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and many others (see table of contents) have thought and done, if they had not been, the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy?
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How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera's Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, "We need to know how patriarchy works. We need to know how women disappear...." Although Spender spoke of women who disappear from the historical...
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A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain's wife, Noah's wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy? III. Letters: letters that might...
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Each piece in this socially conscious collection of poetry describes a painting or a sculpture: some, a re-vision of a classic, others, an original work not yet, realized.
Among the artists whose, work is re-imagined are Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dali, Botticelli, Monet, and Rodin.
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Lady MacBeth kill herself? Please. And Portia-you don't think someone that intelligent would be pissed to be bait and trophy? And Juliet, well, Juliet just wants to have-sex. "Soliloquies: the lady doth indeed protest" is a collection of soliloquies by Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, Regan, Portia, Desdemona, Kate, Isabella, Juliet, Marina, and Miranda-protesting the role given to them by Shakespeare.
A theatrical version of the soliloquies (interwoven...
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This collection of short stories presents a socially conscious critique of various issues in our society by re-visioning significant attitudes and activities concerning competition, militarism, environmentalism, advertising, watching TV, going to school, shopping, hunting, the news, sex, religion, and government. Social commentary and activism via fiction.
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A collection of the classic fairy tales retold - what would have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?
A feminist revision of the standards.
(Not for children.)