A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.
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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A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.
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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A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.

A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.

A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.

A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.

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Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523092734
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 05/11/2021
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Eliza VanCort is a Cook House Fellow at Cornell University, an advisory board member of the Performing Arts for Social Change, and the creator of a highly regarded talk commissioned by MIT that focused on mentorship and institutionalized racism. She is the founder of the Actor's Workshop of Ithaca and has dedicated herself to empowering women of all experiences and backgrounds to claim space. VanCort gave a 2018 TED Talk called "Women, Power and Revolutionizing Speech," in which she shared her personal story and offered concrete yet transformative tools for real change.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Claim Physical Space

1 Posture 17

2 Voice 31

3 Body Language 47

Part 2 Claim Space Collaboratively

4 Know Your Worth 77

5 Disconnect from People Who Would Make You Small 87

6 Forge Connection 107

Part 3 Never Cede Your Space

7 Why Not to Lie like a Sociopath 129

8 Crazy Feminist Bitch 133

9 Boundaries Keep You Safe 145

Part 4 Claim Safety in Any Space

10 Find Your Compass 165

11 Anger, Bullying, Sexual Harassment 173

12 Microaggressions 183

13 Interruptions 191

14 Mansplaining 201

Part 5 Claim Space United

15 The Need to Be Right Will Cause You to Do Wrong 217

16 There Is a World White People Can Never Fully See 223

17 Understand What You Were Given 233

18 How Not to Be a Foke White Person 245

19 Creating Safe Spaces for All 253

Conclusion 261

Notes 267

Acknowledgments 272

Index 277

About the Author 285

Discussion Guide 287

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