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“Can’t you understand that, when you have to be careful all the time, it’s dreadful to see things like that being accepted? They’re not even alive.” Pratchett’s Look at Oppression and Personhood

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

January 5, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I’m a Discworld fan but have never done a complete read of all the books, and so my experience has been a bit chaotic in reading these. I picked this up on a trip randomly and just got around to it a few months later, so another entry in my piecemeal approach to Pratchett’s work. Often times my big grand plans like that end up coming face to face with reality (and the monetary cost of buying 40 books), but sometimes the slow and steady […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, british humor, fantasy creatures, human rights, philosophizing, Terry Pratchett

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, british humor, fantasy creatures, human rights, philosophizing, Terry Pratchett ·
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The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

March 18, 2016 by borisanne 1 Comment

This short, deeply smart collection of essays is really important. Seriously, “Men Explain Things to Me” resonated with me on every level. It’s a perfect gut-check… when some (most) men imply that I’m not entitled to articulate my own experience… when some (most) men cut me off in conversation about a topic on which I’m an authority because they have a couple of thoughts about it… when colleges and universities respond to reports of rape by instituting curfews and behavioral guidelines for women… when my […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: abuse, Assault, CBR8, Equal Rights, essays, feminism, gender, Harassment, human rights, Power, Rebecca Solnit, Solnit, Women's Lib

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:10 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: abuse, Assault, CBR8, Equal Rights, essays, feminism, gender, Harassment, human rights, Power, Rebecca Solnit, Solnit, Women's Lib ·
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How did we get human rights?

Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

February 14, 2014 by lyndamk Leave a Comment

This semester I am taking a graduate class on the history of human rights. It has been fantastic even though snow has interrupted it twice now. One of our first books was Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt. She examines the language of human rights as it emerged with the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Declaration of Independence. She argues that before and during that time period we see a change in thinking and a rise in empathy towards other people. This coincided […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: human rights, lyndamk

lyndamk's CBR6 Review No:2 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: human rights, lyndamk ·
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