{"product_id":"my-three-dads-patriarchy-on-the-great-plains-paperback","title":"My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessa Crispin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blending 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e to race, from chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots to Utopian communities, \u003ci\u003eMy Three Dads \u003c\/i\u003eopens 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in Crispin's well-honed voice--smart, assured, comfortable with darkness--\u003ci\u003eMy Three Dads\u003c\/i\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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessa Crispin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Ladies Projec\u003c\/i\u003et, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. She has written for \u003ci\u003ethe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. Originally from Lincoln, Kansas, she currently resides in Philadelphia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.54 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765902901536,"sku":"9780226820101","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/36c74c14ed74c9d32dc9557e50cf4d7a.webp?v=1780282597","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-three-dads-patriarchy-on-the-great-plains-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}