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Unbecoming : a Memoir of Disobedience by Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.;"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. Aftera 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 forher 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 stag

Who reads Unbecoming : a Memoir of Disobedience?

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Bhagwati, Anuradha Kristina
Publisher
Atria Books
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781501162541
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Military, Memoir, Biography
Rating
4.5 / 5 (145 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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