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02863aam a2200265Ki 4500 001 D4318C088E9511EA8111504697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505010111 008 200309t20202019nyu e b 000 0aeng c 020 $a 1501162551 020 $a 9781501162558 035 $a (OCoLC)1143695294 040 $a LE# $b eng $e rda $c LE# $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Unbecoming : $b a memoir of disobedience / $c Anuradha Bhagwati. 250 $a First Atria Paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Atria Books, $c 2020. 300 $a xii, 321 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Home fires -- Are you a girl with a star-spangled heart? -- Becoming a Marine -- Womanizing the Corps -- Heart of darkness -- A few good men -- Joining the grunts -- One last oorah -- Invitation to a beheading -- Unraveling -- Rising up -- The civilian invasion -- Shock and awe -- Bleeding hearts -- Handling the truth -- Our last best hope -- Red (white) and blue. 520 $a "A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military. After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons her grad school career at Harvard University to join the Marines. It's the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military: the perfect place for her to prove that she's the ultimate Cool Girl, someone who can brawl with the boys in every sense of the word. Or at least that's what she thinks. From the moment training begins, Anuradha's G.I. Jane fantasy is punctured. As a bisexual woman of color in the military, she faces adversity and underestimation at every stage, confronting misogyny, racism, abuse, and astonishing injustice perpetrated by those in power. Pushing herself beyond her limits to prove her ability, she is forced to wrestle with what exactly drove her to pursue such punishment and violence in the first place. Once her service concludes in 2004, instead of retreating and putting it all behind her, she decides to do the exact opposite: take to task the leaders and outmoded conventions that she found so objectionable and even dangerous. Full of strength, courage, and heroic resilience, Unbecoming is about one woman who learned to believe in herself in spite of everything; it is the kind of story that will light a fire beneath you, and that will inspire our next generation of fierce female heroes to always persist"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200505010448.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D4318C088E9511EA8111504697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search