The Old-Girl Network

The Old-Girl Network
Author: Catherine Alliott
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 024195830X

Dreamy, scatty and impossibly romantic, Polly McLaren is a secretary in an advertising agency, but the day a stranger on a train catches her eye, her life changes forever. This American Romeo begs Polly to help him find his missing Juliet.

The Old-Girl Network

The Old-Girl Network
Author: Catherine Alliott
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Love stories
ISBN: 9780718179588

Number one bestselling author Catherine Alliott tells a hilarious story about the twists and turns of love, loyalty and getting mixed up in someone else's affairs in The Old-Girl Network.Finding true love's a piece of cake - as long as you're looking for someone else's true love . . . Polly McLaren is young, scatty and impossibly romantic. She works for an arrogant and demanding boss, and has a gorgeous if never-there-when-you-need-him boyfriend. But the day a handsome stranger recognises her old school scarf, her life is knocked completely off kilter.Adam is American, new to the country and begs Polly's help in finding his missing fiancé. Over dinner at the Savoy, she agrees - the girls of St Gertrude's look out for one another. However, the old-girl network turns out to be a spider's web of complications and deceit in which everyone and everything Polly cares about is soon hopelessly entangled.The course of true love never did run smooth. But no one said anything about ruining your life over it. And it's not even Polly's true love . . .Step into Alliott Country with The Old-Girl Network.'Compulsively readable' The Times'Hilarious and full of surprises' Daily TelegraphCatherine lives in a rural spot on the Herts/Bucks borders which she shares with her family and a menagerie of horses, sheep, chickens and dogs, which at the last count totalled eighty-seven beating hearts, including her husband. Some of her household have walk-on parts in her novels, but only the chickens would probably recognize themselves.

The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing
Author: Casey Miller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2001
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0595159214

Man, he brotherhood, founding fathers. It is argued that such words are and always have been used by educated people to encompass all humanity—men and women. Psychological and historical research in the past few years has produced evidence to the contrary: for most people “false generics” seldom if ever convey a female image, nor are they ancient unchangeable rules of the English grammar that have always been used by the educated. Using hundreds of examples, mostly from published sources, the authors illustrate what certain words are saying to us on a subliminal level. Solutions are supplied that range from word substitutions to suggestions for rewriting. Without a trace of self-conscious righteousness, and with refreshing humor, Miller and Swift provide surprising insights into the English language and the ways in which people use it and are used by it. They demonstrate that to be in command of the language, we must find clear, convincing, and graceful ways to convey our ideas accurately. We must recognize and replace exclusive, distorting, ambiguous, and injurious words.

Women's Networks

Women's Networks
Author: Carol Kleiman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1981
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780345293558

The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder
Author: Nicholas Lore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 450
Release:
Genre: Career changes
ISBN: 1451608322

Shifting Scenes

Shifting Scenes
Author: Alice Jardine
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231067720

This now classic work is the only definitive collection available of interviews with leading French women intellectuals.

Feminist Practices

Feminist Practices
Author: Lori A. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317135644

Women continue to be extremely under-represented in the architectural profession. Despite equal numbers of male and female students entering architectural studies, there is at least 17-25% attrition of female students and not all remaining become practicing architects. In both the academic and the professional fields of architecture, positions of power and authority are almost entirely male, and as such, the profession is defined by a heterosexual, Eurasian male perspective. This book argues that it is vital for all architectural students and practitioners to be exposed to a diversity of contemporary architectural practices, as this might provide a first step into broadening awareness and transforming architectural engagement. It considers the relationships between feminist methodologies and the various approaches toward design and their impact upon our understanding and relationship to the built environment. In doing so, this collection challenges two conventional ideas: firstly, the definition of architecture and secondly, what constitutes a feminist practice. This collection of up-and-coming female architects and designers use a wide range of local and global examples of their work to question different aspects of these two conventional ideas. While focusing on feminist perspectives, the book offers insights into many different issues, concerns and interpretations of architecture, proposing through these types of engagement, architecture can become more culturally, politically and environmentally relevant. This 'next generation' of architects claim feminism as their own and through doing so, help define what feminism means and how it is evolving in the 21st century.

Traveling through the Boondocks

Traveling through the Boondocks
Author: Terry Caesar
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2000-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0791492125

What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorates our understanding of higher education by illuminating the everyday conditions under which academics work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded.

Taking Charge

Taking Charge
Author: Joan Steinau Lester
Publisher: Conari Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1609256972

Offers proven, effective strategies for every woman, whether secretary or CEO. Provides encouragement and goal-setting guidelines. Gives detailed suggestions for forming action support groups.