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Thank you We sneak What's the book of the city

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of ladies about my last name so it's imagining this

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place full of like powerful women from across time right

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So there's this art piece called the dinner party chicago

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maze which has like a different place setting for all

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these famous women throughout his it's a similar concept right

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that you're gathering together women across history played to each

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other on whose work belongs alongside each other Yeah so

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it's like this imaginative powerful thing where you know even

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in this world in which actually you see lots of

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powerful men get to talk to each other you're putting

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together some conversations that you don't actually get to have

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all the women think about them is their own city

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and you get all this incredible stuff You get arguments

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for having women in society who get warnings against misogyny

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morning is against her treacherous men khun b i mean

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this's basically taylor swift squad Yeah she's up early and

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she's also just arguing for a place for women in

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society like taylor swift She's in kind of a bind

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right She's in a society that is only going to

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really give you a voice if you're sexy and also

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wants to try to do with that what she can

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to make it less of a place that only values

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what is sexy She is to play into societal expectations

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But it's absolutely not In a passive way yeah she's

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always recur hooping and recuperating those structures to say something

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And in this case that's Hey women are important and

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then be kind of awful and they have been for

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a long time How does christine to present Choose your

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characters What topics are discussed in the book We're accepting 00:01:46.34 --> [endTime] nominations for mayor of the city of ladies

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