LEARNING TO SUBMIT

The Pioneer Woman meets Fifty Shades of Grey in LEARNING TO SUBMIT. It is a story with a daring socio-cultural edge that is sure to spark dialogue, especially amongst contemporary feminist thought leaders.

In it, staunch feminist Valdes explores how a sexy cowboy turned her life and her belief systems upside down. Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’ childhood home and her hippie academic Marxist parents raised her to believe that she was cut out for better things than playing with Barbie dolls and wearing eye shadow. She lived much of her adult life cultivating a fierce autonomy according to her strong feminist beliefs, until at 42, bitter and divorced, she met an agnostic libertarian cowboy who helped her reclaim her traditional womanhood and learn how to love with her guard down.
Alisa Valdes is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Dirty Girls Social Club, which spent 21 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold 700,000 copies in 11 languages. Named one of Time magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America and at 22 labeled one of the “top feminist writers under 30,” she is a Pulitzer-nominated award-winning former staff writer for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Valdes has thousands of followers on Facebook and Twitter (@MizAlisa), she writes a popular weekly column for Mamiverse.com called “Teaching My Son to Break the Rules!: The Cowboy’s Guide to Raising Boys for Single Moms,” and has a blogcalled “Learning to Submit.” (www.learningtosubmit.com) Valdes was a featured TEDx New York speaker in October 2011, and she speaks regularly to audiences across the country, particularly at universities. Visit www.alisavaldesrodriguez.com