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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Noon - 1:00 pm
Free and open to all
Lunch will be served for those attending in-person

Location: In-Person and virtual
Please register here for location and Zoom details and to provide a count for catering

The ten women―Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century.

Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten brilliant women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules. It serves as an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.

Richard Fox will lead the discussion during National Friends of the Library week in October.

Join us for a discussion of shared intellectual and cultural history - and enjoy lunch with Friends of the Library.

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/y56a5FxfF6

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Standing Again at Sinai by Judith PlaskowISBN: 0060666846Publication Date: 1991-02-01A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing involvement of women in naming and shaping Jewish tradition. Still I Rise by Roland Owen Laird; Taneshia N. Laird; Charles Johnson (Foreword by); Elihu BeyISBN: 0393045382Publication Date: 1997-10-01A complete documentary history of African Americans in one cartoon narrative. Art Spiegelman and Larry Gonick opened the door for an all-out renaissance of the cartoon form, bringing a medieval form of history -- through pictures -- together with a modern sensibility. In Still I Rise Roland Laird and Elihu Bey take the form to another level, using cartoons to tell the rich history of the achievements, struggles, hopes, suffering, and triumphs of people of African descent in America. 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Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815 by Clarissa Campbell Orr (Editor)ISBN: 0521814227Publication Date: 2004-08-12This pioneering survey of court cultures in the age of the High Baroque through to the age of Enlightenment uses the role of the queen consort as the principal means of inquiry. The principal themes explored are the consort's formal and informal power, her religious role, and her cultural patronage. The book reveals the dynamics of dynastic politics as courts used their family linkages to advance themselves in the hierarchy of European powers, and suggests how women sometimes formed their own networks. The courts surveyed include those of France, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, the Imperial court at Vienna, and the three German electorates linked to monarchies: Brandenburg-Prussia, Saxony-Poland and Hanover-Great Britain. 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Children of the Roojme by Elmaz AbinaderISBN: 0299157342Publication Date: 2018-12-31In this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, Children of the Roojme is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to western Pennsylvania. More than that, it bears intimate witness to the hardships of World War I, the disintegrating Ottoman empire, abandonment of centuries-old villages, and the New World conflict between cultural tradition and assimilation....