{"title":"Jessa Crispin","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the thought-provoking and incisive works of \u003cem\u003eJessa Crispin\u003c\/em\u003e, an author known for her bold exploration of identity, creativity, and societal norms. Crispin's collection offers a unique blend of genres, combining Biography \u0026amp; Memoir with Travel \u0026amp; Adventure, and filtering them through the lens of Self-Help \u0026amp; Personal Development and Science \u0026amp; Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eMy Three Dads\u003c\/strong\u003e, Crispin delivers a personal and candid memoir exploring the complexities of family dynamics and identity. This narrative invites readers into Crispin's intimate world, offering insights that are both universal and deeply personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Creative Tarot\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fascinating guide for those interested in tapping into their creative potential. Here, Crispin reimagines the ancient art of tarot reading as a tool for inspiration and artistic growth, offering readers new ways to engage with their own creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbark on a journey with \u003cstrong\u003eThe Dead Ladies Project\u003c\/strong\u003e, where Crispin marries travelogue with biography. This book explores the lives of fascinating women who defied conventional paths, all while Crispin navigates her own existential journey across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChallenging and provocative, \u003cstrong\u003eWhy I Am Not a Feminist\u003c\/strong\u003e critiques contemporary feminism with fearless precision. Crispin’s analysis encourages a critical re-examination of feminism, pushing readers to think beyond the mainstream narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJessa Crispin's works are perfect for readers who crave intellectual stimulation and a deeper understanding of the social and personal forces that shape our world. Her books promise to engage, enlighten, and inspire reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"why-i-am-not-a-feminist-a-feminist-manifesto-by-jessa-crispin-9781863959056","title":"Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA searing rejection of contemporary feminism and a bracing manifesto for revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAre you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve all the same rights as men? If so, then you are a feminist . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOr are you? Is it really that simple? Outspoken cultural critic Jessa Crispin says somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, she demands more—nothing less than the total dismantling of the system of oppression—and of what people currently think of as \"feminism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe author's ferocious critique effectively reframes the terms of any serious discussion of feminism. You'll never trust a you-go-girl just-lean-in bromide again. Forget busting glass ceilings. Crispin has taken a wrecking ball to the whole structure.\u003c\/em\u003e -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminists have, in fact, become polite insiders, and Crispin is here to show them how to punch their way out. A rallying manifesto; start swinging.\u003c\/em\u003e -Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRabble-rousing, impolitic, and eloquent, \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e models the latitudes and freedoms it wants us all—us women, us feminists, us humans—to embody. Enough with the safety mongering, says Crispin— Let's break stuff! Let's get messy! Let's make feminism radical again.\u003c\/em\u003e Laura Kipnis, \u003ci\u003eMen: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342916767980,"sku":"9781863959056","price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17803273482851.jpg?v=1743950256"},{"product_id":"the-creative-tarot-by-jessa-crispin-9781501120237","title":"The Creative Tarot","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Language of Birthdays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSteal Like an Artist\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if the path to creativity was not as challenging as everyone thinks? What if you could find that spark, plot twist, or next project by simply looking at your life and your art through a different lens?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for novices and seasoned readers alike, \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique guidebook that reimagines tarot cards and the ways they can boost the creative process. Jessa Crispin guides you through the intuitive world of the tarot to get those creative juices flowing again. Thought to be esoteric and mystical, tarot cards are approachable and endlessly helpful to overcoming creative blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrispin offers spiritual readings of the cards, practical information for the uninspired artist, and a wealth of fascinating anecdotes about famous artists including Virginia Woolf, Rembrandt, and David Bowie, and how they found inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith five original tarot spreads and beautiful illustrations throughout, \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e is an accessible, colourful guide that demystifies both the tarot and the creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516720304364,"sku":"9781501120237","price":64.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12481993482722.jpg?v=1748928327"},{"product_id":"my-three-dads-by-jessa-crispin-9780226820101","title":"My Three Dads","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the American ideals of god, home, and country. But for those like Jessa Crispin who have grown up in Kansas, the realities are much harsher. She argues that the Midwestern values we cling to cover up a long history of oppression and control over Native Americans, women, and the economically disadvantaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending personal narrative with social commentary, Crispin meditates on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in our country's mythic self-image. Ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/em\u003e to race, from chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots to Utopian communities, \u003cem\u003eMy Three Dads\u003c\/em\u003e opens on a comic scene in a Kansas rent house the author shares with a (masculine) ghost. This prompts Crispin to think about her intellectual fathers, her spiritual fathers, and her literal fathers. She is curious to understand what she has learned from them and what she needs to unlearn about how a person should be in a family, as a citizen, and as a child of god—ideals, Crispin argues, that have been established and reproduced in service to hierarchy, oppression, and wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in Crispin’s well-honed voice—smart, assured, comfortable with darkness—\u003cem\u003eMy Three Dads\u003c\/em\u003e offers a kind of bleak redemption, the insight that no matter where you go, no matter how far from home you roam, the place you came from is always with you, “like it or not.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855813824748,"sku":"9780226820101","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20429293482268.jpg?v=1759279114"},{"product_id":"the-dead-ladies-project-by-jessa-crispin-9780226278452","title":"The Dead Ladies Project","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dead Ladies Project\u003c\/i\u003e is an account of that journey—but it’s also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle dependent on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin interweaves biography, incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich meditation on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxicating proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal and profane, funny and fervent, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Ladies Project\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the nineteenth century to the present, from historical figures to brand-new hangovers, in search, ultimately, of an answer to a bedrock question: How does a person decide how to live their life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072374128876,"sku":"9780226278452","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/31121c9aab4d7b327d0204bcc4996b81.jpg?v=1765187841"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/jessa-crispin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}