This book summary is all about power: who gets to wield it, what we do with it, and how we can empower ourselves and others. Book summary for Women & Power by Mary Beard. Writing in an academic, yet lively and accessible style, Beard details how society constructed power to exclude women and urges readers …
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Paris (2023) is the frank, entertaining memoir of the celebrity icon Paris Hilton. She shares the highs and lows of her life in the limelight, from epic parties to public humiliation. Introduction: The not-so-simple life of Paris Hilton. Who is Paris Hilton? Perhaps you think of her as an air-headed heiress with a chihuahua named …
In “She Comes First,” clinical sexologist and avid cunnilingus practitioner Ian Kerner shares his methodology, filling our culture’s sexual-information-for-men void with a tour of the finer points of pleasuring a woman. This book summary explains sexual activity through the framework of foreplay, coreplay, and moreplay; introduces the 10 pleasure hot spots in a woman’s clitoral …
Too many women are comfortable earning too little, and a lifetime of devaluing themselves has led women to embrace the familiarity of under-earning. It’s time to shake off your deep-seated beliefs about your value and stop denying your potential. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, you’ll learn the attitudes and techniques you can employ to own …
Loving yourself is life-altering. It changes how you see yourself, how you behave, how you treat others, and how others treat you. When you learn to approach the world from a place of radical self-love, you interrupt the system of oppression that inflicts wounds of shame on all bodies. In this book summary of The …
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is the story of Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant scientist who has the misfortune of being a woman in 1950s America. After a frustrating failed academic career, Zott finds success in an unlikely place: as the host of a television cooking show. Introduction: The sweetly subversive tale of a scientist-turned-TV-cook. Elizabeth Zott …
Women around the world are overflowing with unfulfilled dreams. In this book summary, you’ll learn how to set aside your fears and start taking serious action toward the success you want in your life. Stop fearing your goals and start achieving them. READ THIS BOOK SUMMARY IF YOU: Doubt how valid or meaningful your goals …
Musician Amanda Palmer has worked as a living statue on the street, couchsurfed with fans, and asked for meals, equipment, and medicine over Twitter. She’s put her music online for free and asked for donations, and she’s used Kickstarter to raise over $1 million. In short, her entire career is built on asking. In this …
Lois Frankel wants you to take charge of your career, and stop making the mistakes that women make at work as a result of the socialization they get as little girls. While nice-girl behavior may have served you well at some point, it will not work well in today’s workplace. If you are to have …
Behind Neil Armstrong and John Glenn — behind the many white faces that peppered NASA’s public presence — were a handful of unlikely heroes whose talents in mathematics, engineering, and computing helped secure America’s victory in the epic space race against Russia. In this book review of Hidden Figures, you’ll learn about the black women …
