{"product_id":"do-the-work-roxane-gay-9780711268968","title":"Do The Work","description":"Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide.\n \nPower is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights, this guide provides a foundation for examining hierarchies and inequalities and establishes a framework for understanding power and how it shapes our lives and communities.\n \nBetween these pages, theory, commentary, and analysis create an engaging, creative, and mindful reading experience. This guide features approachable overviews of complex topics, thought-provoking questions, evocative illustrations, pages for your reflections, and steps we can all take to reframe our relationship to power and reinvigorate our desire to empower the people around us.\n \nThanks to the work of writer and scholar Megan Pillow, educator and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, and New York Times bestselling illustrator Aurélia Durand, Do The Work is a must-read for a more just future—and a more equitable now.\nDo The Work asks:\nWhat can we learn about power from history and from our current moment?\nWho are the powerful, and who are the people denied power?\nWhere are our own sources of power?\nHow do we recognize our mistakes and become more self-aware?\nWhat does it mean to reclaim our power and to build community?\nDo The Work explains:\nHow theorists from Aristotle to Hannah Arendt have shaped our understanding of power\nWhy Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality is at the heart of power discussions\nWhat Laura Mulvey and Audre Lorde can teach us about power and gender\nHow poverty, redlining, and The Voting Rights Act all illustrate power imbalances\nWhat the Stonewall Riots showed us about resistance and community\nHow to train ourselves in collective thinking, and what it means to “choose the margins”","brand":"Quarto Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50399203721504,"sku":"9780711268968","price":11.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780711268968_604023.jpg?v=1793731984","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/do-the-work-roxane-gay-9780711268968","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}