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FEMINIST ETHICS LECTURE: What kind of a story shall a 21st century woman create?

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       The books I dearly hold at the moment. A Lecture on Feminist Ethics  What are the words that come to mind when we hear the word, Femininst? Girl, Female, Woman, Womanhood, Feminist, Maternal, Matriarchal, Herstory These are the words we associate with our being a woman. I wish I have another word    to set myself apart from the rest of the pack. But the reality is, I am not an original. I immensely benefitted from the thinking and story weaved by women who fought for what I enjoy right now and men who supported those thoughts and story. We are the fruit of the struggles of the past women, and the men who supported them. The online poster the Communnications and Technology students came up with. But why do I have the desire to set myself apart? With the informations we are fed each day just by checking our social media or hitting google search and Wikipedia, we think that the answers to all our questions relating to WOMAN had ...

Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Roberts' We are our mother's daughters

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  Gift from the sea  By Anne Morrow Lindbergh We are our Mother's Daughters By Cokie Roberts What I liked about the Gift From the Sea is that it is a personal conversation between Lindbergh and the women of her times but then all the women from her time up to now can truly relate to her words of wisdom. It is not instructive but it surely is reflective on many things a woman can and could face during her lifetime. It is an unassuming conversation yet it is powerful. It is indeed a gift, for women who wanted to be everything to everybody at a time but then integrally an artist by heart who celebrates solitude. This book is timeless, and has something to say to a woman in whatever stage she may be in her life. *** While reading this book, another favorite is summoned by my memory. I loved Cokie Roberts' We are our Mothers' Daughters because it is a modern run down of how women attained liberation. I can truly feel that the efforts of the women inclu...