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Cass: Cassandra, or "Cass" for short, is the main protagonist of all the books.A smart, sarcastic, 12-year-old adopted girl (as discovered in the second book, If You're Reading This, It's Too Late), Cass embarks on adventures with Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji to stop the Midnight Sun and its sinister plans to achieve immortality.
The book is a first-person narrative in which Mildred Lathbury records the humdrum details of her everyday life in post-war London near the start of the 1950s. Perpetually self-deprecating, but with the sharpest wit, Mildred is a clergyman's daughter who is now just over thirty and lives in "a shabby part…very much the 'wrong' side of Victoria Station".
The School Library Journal cited the free verse as a highlight of the book, naming A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl its "Book of the Week" in January 2006. [ 5 ] A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl landed on the American Library Association 's Top 10 Banned Books List in 2013 because of its inclusion of drugs, alcohol, and smoking; nudity ...
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why, Jude Doyle, then called Sady Doyle (2016) The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, Jill Filipovic (2017) Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, by Rebecca Traister (2018)
She wants women to stop seeing feminists as radical man-haters and to start seeing them as advocates for true equality. In her book Moran calls out any woman who doesn't identify as a feminist saying that all women are inherently feminists unless they reject any notion of personal freedom. Being labeled as a feminist could be positive or ...
Fascinating Womanhood has gained the attention of feminist writers, who largely regard the book as detrimental to women in various ways. In 1978, psychologist Martha L. Rogers wrote an article ("Fascinating Womanhood as a Regression in the Emotional Maturation of Women") positing the argument that women who follow the book's teachings were ...
Philogyny is not to be confused with gynephilia, which is sexual attraction to women or femininity. Philogyny is love of, admiration for, or fondness (Impartiality) for women or girls. It is a form of philanthropy and philosophy that empowers and celebrates women at an equal status as men, thus dismantling the social roles of patriarchy and ...