
A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space
Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard
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Eliza VanCort
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Eliza VanCort
For too long, women have been told to confine themselves - physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space.
Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. Eliza VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choosing safely and without apology.
VanCort identifies the five key behaviors of all “Space Claiming Queens”: use your voice and posture to project confidence and power, end self-sabotage, forge connections, neutralize unsafe spaces, and unite across differences. Through personal narrative, research, and actionable strategies, VanCort provides how-tos on combatting challenges like antimentors and microaggressions and gives advice for building up your “old girls” club, asking for what you’re worth, and owning your space without apology.
Bold, fun, and enlightening, this book is birthed from VanCort’s incredible story. Having a mother with schizophrenia forced VanCort to learn to be small and invisible at an early age, and suffering a traumatic brain injury as an adult required her to rethink communication from the ground up. Drawing on these experiences, and those of real women everywhere, VanCort empowers women to claim space for themselves and for their sisters with courage, empathy, and conviction because “when we rise together, we rise so much higher”.
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I resisted the urge to share this book, constantly, until chapter 3. At that point, I couldn't resist any longer because I KNEW so many people needed this as much as I did. It gave me a the courage, and now the confidence, to become the advocate that I've been encouraging the people around me to be. I can again stir the shit pot of inequality and injustice for those around me without feeling as if I'm in the wrong just by being present. Moreso, I find myself adjusting my posture, tone, and thinking wherever I am so that people can know that I'm a CFB and not to be dismissed.
This Space is Claimed: Empowered From the Start
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Fantastic!
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This book might just start a revolution!
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A must read for every man and woman!
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Best Book in the History of Ever!!!
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This is an incredible book! 100% recommend!
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A Woman’s Guide to Claiming Space was also written to inspire women to lift one another up. Ms. Van Cort employs anecdotes in a manner which demonstrates that the ability of each woman to claim space is tied to her ability to network with other women. If you are imaging a slick, corporate, self-help manual written by a corner office exec., then you will be delightfully surprised! Listening to Ms. Van Cort read her book is like discovering a new best friend. She is funny. She is uncompromising. She is nobody’s fool. A Woman’s Guide to Claiming Space is part memoir, part manifesto. This writer’s goal is nothing short of starting a movement. A movement of white women reaching out to women of color. A movement of women of color propping up other women of color, rather than competing for the same spot at the (white men’s) table.
Ms. Van Cort has coached all sorts of people. Throughout her career she has been especially focused on empowering women of color. She has been brought in by Professors of color at top Universities to do workshops with young women of color pursuing STEM fields. She has worked with at least one CEO on an actual private island. But her well-organized, good-humored advice is always the same. Don’t make yourself small. Use your voice strategically. Claim one armrest the next time you fly. (Let someone else have the other armrest.) Learn how to claim space in a way that makes the world a better place for you—and a better place for all of us who identify as women and girls.
I encourage you to listen to this book! You will love it. You will grow in unexpected, beautiful ways. And you will claim space. I certainly did!
READ THIS BOOK TODAY!
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Eliza has a few chapters about Mansplaining and how even well meaning male allies can do better at helping us claim space in a way that doesn’t undermine women.
Lastly, she talks throughout her book about Inter-sectionalism and how White women can educate themselves, Listen to BIPOC voices and elevate them and how we need to claim space in order to be able to elevate all Women so they can claim space as well.
Eliza’s reading is engaging, funny and enjoyable to listen to. I’m really glad I got the Audiobook because you can really get a feel for exactly what she’s trying to convey. You feel like you are a trusted friend who has been pulled into the kitchen or bathroom and Eliza is there to tell you the secrets to claiming space she has learned. I’ve never rated or written a review for an audiobook but I feel this book is super important and I want to do my part to elevate Eliza’s words.
Please share this with your Women friends!
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From posture in the boardroom to dealing with unhealthy behaviors in relationships Eliza VanCort lays it all out.
So if there is a woman in your life that needs a step by step guide to being a boss a$$ b!tch then ook no further.
A godsend to the women in my life
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VanCort’s book touches on a range of essential topics for those of us who never learned the language of dominant-coded behavior. It also dives deep into the topics of systemic sexism, systemic racism, and allyship. The goal of this book is not just to teach the audience how to make themselves heard, but how to empower others to be heard as well.
As a non-binary person, I was not initially sure if this book was meant for me. However, as the book continues, the author does use the words “all genders” more frequently. Because I understand the nuance of gender, gendered spaces, and how people in Western society are generally either socialized “boy” or “girl,” I felt comfortable reading this book. Dysphoric transmascs and non-binary individuals who want to learn how to speak for themselves or use their voices to empower others should be forewarned that, as per the title, the intended audience is still -women- and the verbiage of the book reflects this.
I especially appreciated VanCort’s frank and informed discussion on racism. She used the voices and input from her BIPOC students, colleagues, and friends to call out the racism inherent to the white audience, myself included, and remind white readers that being a white woman (or white transgender individual) is not the same as being a BIPOC woman (or BIPOC transgender individual). This book would not have been complete without this section, and its discussion about allyship is genuine and informative.
VanCort’s audiobook is well produced. Her performance is on par with most high-production narrations, and the recording even includes the voices of four of her BIPOC students.
Ultimately, this book covered a lot of good basic jumping-off points which I hope VanCort will expand into more in-depth topic-specific books of their own. I also hope to see more from VanCort targeted toward the transgender community in the future.
A life-changing book every woman and transgender individual should read.
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