Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future
An impassioned plea and workable solution for women and men to imagine a better world, embrace their differences, find ways to end oppression, and learn how to work better together.

We are currently at a strategic cultural intersection with relationships between women and men eroding. And it seems no one knows what to do. While it is good for women to expose their pain, what often happens is that they immediately blame the person at the other end of it, which sets up a never-ending cycle of accusations, denial, avoidance, and ultimately devastation for everyone involved.

This moment of discovery should not signal the end but instead become an opportunity to create a different world where men and women are better together.

Better Together is a beacon of hope in a challenging storm. It’s where thoughts can be rechanneled and hope rekindled as author Danielle Strickland offers steps toward a real and workable solution. Her premise is that two things are needed for change:

1) imagine a better world, and

2) understand oppression.

Understanding how oppression works is an important part of undoing it.

Danielle says, “I refuse to believe that all men are bad. I also refuse to believe that all women are victims. I don’t want to be just hopeful, I want to be strategically hopeful. I want to work toward a better world with a shared view of the future that looks like equality, freedom, and flourishing.”

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Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future
An impassioned plea and workable solution for women and men to imagine a better world, embrace their differences, find ways to end oppression, and learn how to work better together.

We are currently at a strategic cultural intersection with relationships between women and men eroding. And it seems no one knows what to do. While it is good for women to expose their pain, what often happens is that they immediately blame the person at the other end of it, which sets up a never-ending cycle of accusations, denial, avoidance, and ultimately devastation for everyone involved.

This moment of discovery should not signal the end but instead become an opportunity to create a different world where men and women are better together.

Better Together is a beacon of hope in a challenging storm. It’s where thoughts can be rechanneled and hope rekindled as author Danielle Strickland offers steps toward a real and workable solution. Her premise is that two things are needed for change:

1) imagine a better world, and

2) understand oppression.

Understanding how oppression works is an important part of undoing it.

Danielle says, “I refuse to believe that all men are bad. I also refuse to believe that all women are victims. I don’t want to be just hopeful, I want to be strategically hopeful. I want to work toward a better world with a shared view of the future that looks like equality, freedom, and flourishing.”

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Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future

Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future

Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future

Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future

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Overview

An impassioned plea and workable solution for women and men to imagine a better world, embrace their differences, find ways to end oppression, and learn how to work better together.

We are currently at a strategic cultural intersection with relationships between women and men eroding. And it seems no one knows what to do. While it is good for women to expose their pain, what often happens is that they immediately blame the person at the other end of it, which sets up a never-ending cycle of accusations, denial, avoidance, and ultimately devastation for everyone involved.

This moment of discovery should not signal the end but instead become an opportunity to create a different world where men and women are better together.

Better Together is a beacon of hope in a challenging storm. It’s where thoughts can be rechanneled and hope rekindled as author Danielle Strickland offers steps toward a real and workable solution. Her premise is that two things are needed for change:

1) imagine a better world, and

2) understand oppression.

Understanding how oppression works is an important part of undoing it.

Danielle says, “I refuse to believe that all men are bad. I also refuse to believe that all women are victims. I don’t want to be just hopeful, I want to be strategically hopeful. I want to work toward a better world with a shared view of the future that looks like equality, freedom, and flourishing.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780785230151
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 02/11/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Danielle Strickland is an author, speaker, trainer, and global social justice advocate. Her aggressive compassion has served people firsthand in countries all over the world, from establishing justice departments for the Salvation Army to launching global antitrafficking initiatives that create new movements to mobilize people toward transformational living. Affectionately called the “ambassador of fun,” she is host of the Danielle Strickland Podcast, cofounder of Infinitum, Amplify Peace, and Brave Global, and founder of Women Speakers Collective. Danielle is married to Stephen and lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with their three sons.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bob Goff xiii

The Map xvii

Part 1 Where We Are Going

Chapter 1 Starting from the Future 3

Chapter 2 What It Could Look Like and Why It Matters 11

Chapter 3 The Truth About Oppression 27

Chapter 4 A Vision for Reconciliation 39

Part 2 Where We Find Ourselves

Chapter 5 How We Feel: The Pull Back of Fear, the Push Forward of Action 51

Chapter 6 How We Live: The Pull Back of Segregation, the Push Forward of Proximity 67

Chapter 7 How We See: The Pull Back of Patriarchy, the Push Forward of Clarity 79

Chapter 8 How We Think: The Pull Back of Rooted Beliefs, the Push Forward of Transformed Beliefs 89

Chapter 9 How We Connect: The Pull Back of Porn, the Push Forward of Truth 99

Chapter 10 How We Act: The Pull Back of Power Abused, the Push Forward of Mutuality 111

Part 3 How We Get There

Chapter 11 Stopping the Blame Game 133

Chapter 12 Start Now and with You 149

Chapter 13 Never, Ever Give Up 163

Chapter 14 Keeping Hope Alive 175

Acknowledgments 189

Notes 193

About the Author 203

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