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Because Every
Revolution Needs A Renewal Now
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With clear-eyed humor supported by
statistic and fact, filmmaker
Maryann Breschard delivers a wake-up call to women, declaring that the
only thing women have holding them back is women themselves.
Written to expand on the themes in her feature documentary, Running
in High Heels,
Breschard creates a new political voice for the masses - left, right
and center - who, like so much of America, is tired of the status quo
and looking for real wisdom to explain it all.
Breschard reminds women that they are
the majority of the population,
outnumbering men by the tens of millions, and are empowered to turn the
world around any time they chose. All they have to
do is shake off the calls of special interests that profit while
holding back progress and learn how to take the catfight that they
usually inflict on each other to where it will do them the most good.
With something valuable for everyone
to think about, American
Catfight is
100+ pages of entertaining cultural criticism and well-suited for busy
women wondering what is next, young women who Twitter and text, and
anyone engaged with issues of political power.
Find out why readers say:
"It's a total paradigm shift."
"Oh, my God, I'll never shop the same
way. Or watch Martha Stewart in the same way."
"My eyes are open. I
understand the agenda underneath the agenda of all those people
who
pretend they are advocating for the issues I care about."
"This
book has changed for the better my relationship with my sister,
my
friends, and the women I work with."
"I realize now that feminism
really shouldn't be so complicated and so divisive."
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER
MARYANN BRESCHARD
MARYANN
BRESCHARD is a writer, producer and director. She
is best known for her feature documentary, Running in High Heels,
which followed the story of a political aspirant akin to Sarah Palin -
well before Sarah
Palin exploded onto the
national stage.
The film explores the behaviors and criterias women use in
both
supporting and criticizing
other women and how
those affect
their
current political and economic state. It argues that women
do
not need to rise up but to
instead wake up and free themselves from
stereotypes -- but not their femininity! Running
in High Heels premiered
in 2006
and continues to play on
college campuses across the country.
Her
book, American
Catfight: Political Wisdom for Women &
Other Thoughts Towards Feminine Statecraft for the 21st Century,
continues
the discussion of women's true will to independence, equality and power
by provoking
with humor habitual stances and conditioned thinking.
As
with Running
in High Heels,
it charms women to change their thinking and push
useless
paradigms aside by turning widely-held presumptions upside down.
Maryann was
born
in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY. Her fifth
great-grandfather was Louis-Francois, the Count of Achun, for
whom the
French Revolution did not work out so well. Upon
arriving
in America afterwards, the newly untitled Breschards became half of
the Breschard & Pepin Circus which is widely believed
to be
the first circus in the United States. In
1806, the
Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street
Theatre,
which still operates today. During the venue's
early era,
the now-famous Barrymores were stagehands in the employ of the
Breschards...but as with the Revolution, things for the family went
awry... Maryann, untitled and happy to have her head, currently resides
in New
York City.
maryannbreschard.com
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
Preamble
A Quick Nod to Women’s Accomplishments
The Mercenaries of Feminism
The Life Less Heroic
Haters & Pork Barrel
Feminism
Perfectionists
Femamentalists
The Catfight of Miss, Mrs. and Ms.
Nuns with Guns, A Slightly Modest Proposal
Post-Amble: Strategizing the
Century
About the Author
Glossary of New Feminist Terms
Discussion Guide
Notes
Index |
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