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Galileo Publishers The Maiden Faust
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Scribe Publications Abortion: a personal story, a political choice
Book Synopsis‘How better to honour the women who have fought for abortion rights, those who are still fighting around the world, those who have suffered from its illegality, those who still suffer from its limitations, than to continue to talk about it?’ In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed account of her abortion. Reminiscent of Annie Ernaux’s Happening, Abortion is nuanced, complex, honest, and precise. Harmange gives voice to the emotions, reflections, and contradictions that someone could experience when they choose to terminate a pregnancy. At a time in which women’s reproductive rights are being called into question around the world, Abortion is a clarion call, a powerful personal testimony, and a resolutely political vision: to restore power to our experiences, all our experiences, by sharing them, and to transform society for the better.Trade Review‘Abortion: a personal story, a political choice … defuses arguments on both sides of the abortion rights issue by presenting an intelligent, heartfelt understanding of what matters most … a solid, thought-provoking read that proves to be a noteworthy effort to open a much-needed discussion about a societal taboo.’ * Shelf Awareness *‘In this nuanced account, Harmange (I Hate Men) reflects on her decision to have an abortion … She uses her story as a launching pad to explore the politics of abortion and laments that taboo inhibits frank discussion of the “feelings of ambiguity, negativity, sadness, and insecurity” that can accompany the procedure … Harmange excels at illuminating intersections between the personal and the political, and her willingness to probe her own pain makes for powerful reading. Timely and affecting, this packs a punch.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘Harmange’s essay so perfectly marries the personal and political, illustrating why we need to keep the conversation going around abortion and the nuances of experience.’ * Ramona Magazine *‘In this personal essay, [Harmane] explores the need for a space in which women are free to talk about the feelings of ambivalence, negativity, sadness and insecurity that can follow an abortion. When she decided to undergo this procedure because of her economic circumstances, she thought it would be “quick and easy, over and done”. But it wasn’t that simple. While she didn’t regret it, she still had to live with the legacy of society’s attitudes toward the termination of pregnancy and her own body’s visceral response. Her candid ruminations add valuable nuance to this fraught debate.’ -- Fiona Capp * The Sydney Morning Herald *‘The vulnerability and openness with which Harmange shares her emotions reveal that for many women who find themselves pregnant — often despite contraception, the decision to abort is not an easy one…In many ways, Abortion is a bookend to Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s book Happening.’ * The Arts Fuse *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘A delightful book.’ -- Roxane GayPraise for I Hate Men: ‘Rousing … a call to liberation. Her writing is full of hope, unwavering in its trust of other women and their abilities.’ * Independent *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘Written in wise prose, devoid of excess or rage, I Hate Men explores the terrain of contemporary feminism, its arguments in keeping with those of writers like Rebecca Solnit, as well as the movement’s key ideas: patriarchy, the mental load, #MeToo, and solidarity.’ * L’Obs *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘An exhilarating essay to be read in one sitting.’ * Libération *
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Legend Press Ltd A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Hero
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Common Notions The Feminist Subversion of the Economy:
Book SynopsisThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, undoubtedly, the task of sustaining life continues to be privatized, made invisible, and feminized. We must ask: what does a dignified life look like, especially one that transforms the gendered labor divisions and a racialized, exploitative feminized care economy that falls mainly on the shoulders of women—from the household to the wider effects of the capitalist economy on social reproduction. At the same time, these questions are intimately connected with considerations of our environment. The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the conection between patriarchy, capitalism, and ecological crisis—and rallies women, the LGBTQ+ community, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a just ecology and economy. Public intellectual, academic, and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco offers a vision beyond the myths of development (unlimited growth), wealth (accumulation of capital), and work (limited to waged labor) and, at the same time, accounts for the tasks, networks, and economic subjects that, materially and daily, guarantee that life keeps going. Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Desse, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.Trade Review“Through a rigorous, relentless exposure of the destructive logic governing capitalist development, Orozco sets the foundations for a feminist politics capable of subverting the myths propagated by capitalist economy and radically transforming the conditions and ends of our social reproduction. A must not only for feminists movements but for all engaged in the struggle to create a more just society.”—Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero and Caliban and the Witch“Amaia Pérez Orozco skillfully recenters the feminist critique of contemporary capitalist economics on the practices of sustaining life. The result is analytically rich and politically provocative.”—Kathi Weeks,Feminist Subversion of the Economy well articulates the road to creating a clear commitment to achieve the interconnections and solidarity that will create and sustain a better world. Amaia Perez Orozco’s contributions for life against capital remind us of our humanness, and the contributions of ecofeminism to dismantling hierarchies, exploitation, and invisibleness, in order to fulfill our collective responsibilities to establish a good life for all.—Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York; and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s The Feminist Subversion of the Economy is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”—Kai Bosworth, author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century
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Thorntree Press, LLC Ask: Building Consent Culture
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Ugly Duckling Presse Made of Dream
Book SynopsisIn a short collection of poems about dreams, Stephanie Borges observes how images and language can create experiences of freedom for Black women. In her verses, individual and collective experiences are evoked by voices that dissolve and blur the boundaries of the self. The tension between body and language emerges among the many possible meanings of a dream. As an element of waking life, imagination blends with daily tasks, because a dream is also something that demands work, dedication and choices, just like writing.
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Feminist Press at The City University of New York Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika
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Row House Publishing All the Black Girls are Activists: A Fourth Wave
Book Synopsis“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice’s book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness as tools of liberation. All The Black Girls Are Activists is a love letter to Black girls and Black women, asking and attempting to offer some answers to “Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” by naming Black women’s wellness, wholeness, and survival as the radical revolution we have been waiting for. About the Author: EbonyJanice is a dynamic lecturer, transformational speaker, passionate multi-faith preacher, and creative focused on Decolonizing Authority, Hip Hop Scholarship, Womanism as a Political and Spiritual/Religious tool for Liberation, Blackness as Religion, Dialogue as central to professional development and personal growth, and Women and Gender Studies focused on black girlhood. EbonyJanice holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. She is the founder of Black Girl Mixtape, a multi-platform safe think-space centering the intellectual and creative authority of black women in the form of a lecture series, an online learning institute, and a creative collaborative. EbonyJanice is also the founder of Dream Yourself Free, a Spiritual Mentoring project focused on black women's healing, dreaming, ease, play, and wholeness as their activism and resistance work.
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Sibylline Press After Happily Ever
Book SynopsisA witty and fresh reimagining of the paths of Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty long after their storybook endings. Princesses Neve, Della, and Bry are sisters-in-law, having married into the royal Charming family, and for the last thirty-plus years, they’ve been living a coveted happily-ever-after life in the idyllic kingdom of Foreverness. But royal life isn’t what it seems. Bry’s people-pleasing is exhausting her, Della’s exquisite and renowned beauty is fading with time, and Neve dreads the prospect of becoming queen one day, because power makes one a target, and she doesn’t want to be killed ... again. Then the king’s sudden death thrusts each princess into a personal quest that shows her the truth behind the kingdom’s “perfection” and challenges her sense of purpose. Will each of the royal women take her rightful place, build her new legend, and create her own new happily-ever-after, in midlife? And will the kingdom of Foreverness survive the drastic changes?
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Daraja Press Finding A Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and
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Springer International Publishing AG Man-Made Women: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls
Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique, feminist approach to ‘sex’ dolls and ‘sex’ robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women’s centred critique. The emergence of ‘sex’ robots is situated within the wider context of the attack on women’s rights and the relentless rise of techno-pornography. As an outgrowth of the industries of prostitution, pornography and child sex abuse, these objects offer new ways to dehumanise women and girls. While support for ‘sex’ robots is positioned as progressive and emancipatory, the contributors in this volume argue they reduce women to consumable parts. They explore how law, the arts, ethics, economy, politics and culture are interconnected with harmful technological developments.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The end of sex robots - for the dignity of women and girls.- 2. Modern-Day Pygmalions – Reproducing the Patriarchy.- 3. Mapping the uses of ‘sex’ dolls: pornographic content, doll brothels and the similarities with rape.- 4. Fetishism and the Construction of Male Sexuality.- 5. Playthings and Corpses - Turning Women into Dead Body Objects.- 6. Patriarchal imaginaries beyond the human: ‘Sex robots’, fetish, and fantasy in the domination and control of women.- 7. Paedophilia, child sex abuse dolls and the male sex right: Challenging justifications for men’s sexual access to children and child sexual abuse material.- 8. The Voice of the ‘Sex Robot’: From peep-show bucket to willing victim – the terrorism of women’s speech.- 9. The End of Sex Robots: Porn Robots and Representational Technologies of Women and Girls.
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Hirmer Verlag Barbara Hammer: Evidentary Bodies
Book SynopsisBarbara Hammer (b. 1939) is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. In October 2017, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art will present a comprehensive solo exhibition to celebrate the depth and expa nse of Hammer’s five decades of art making. Bringing together both known and previously unseen works of film and video, installations, works on paper, and material from her archive, the exhibition addresses critical themes that appear in Hammer’s work, inc luding: lesbian representation, subjectivity, and sexuality; intimacy and sensation; and conditions and maintenance of life and illness. This exhibition highlights the resonating impact of Hammer’s artistic narrative and material experimentation across dis ciplines within queer art history. Additionally, as part of this exhibition, we are putting together a publication that will touch on different aspects of Hammer’s body of wor k and practice. The material included will look at her work in relationship to experimental queer cinema; lesbian sexuality and lesbian feminist history; hapticity and wildness; viruses, medicine, and environment; to name a few. We desire for the book to f eature a wide range of responses, from academic analysis to poetic interpretation, sprinkled with personal and artistic anecdotes. More of a hybrid monograph and catalogue raisonne, we are very excited that this book will be the first of its kind that cele brates five decades of Hammer's work.
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Prestel Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
Book SynopsisThis book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women’s sporting attire in Western fashion over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among many others, it features familiar names in the development of sport, industry, and dress, as well as significant rediscoveries. Standing at the intersection of the history of fashion and feminism, Sporting Fashion highlights the extraordinary impact of new technologies and evolving social mores on women’s clothing for sport. It explores how the basic forms of women’s sportswear we know today—from swimsuits to sneakers— were developed and codified during a time when women were achieving more freedom. Full colour illustrations of sport and leisure ensembles are included, along with magazine spreads and archival images. In thematic sections, the authors approach the range of ways women entered into the sporting world— from traveling to calisthenics, golfing to tennis, motorcycling to promenading. The book looks at examples of clothing that allowed women to walk freely and compete in sports previously restricted to men. It explores how designers both reacted to and encouraged the growing acceptance of exposed skin at public beaches and pools—and how cold weather fashion made its way onto the slopes and the ice. Never before have the garments and accessories that defined women’s roles as both spectators and athletes been presented on this scale and in such detail.Trade ReviewThe Costume Society of America is pleased to announce Kevin Jones and Christina Johnson as recipients of the 2022 CSA Millia Davenport Publications Award for their work titled Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800-1960.
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Set Margins' publications Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed: Inquiries in
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Double 9 Books Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisWoman in the Nineteenth Century, published by Margaret Fuller, is a landmark essay which criticizes cultural standards and gender roles of the time. The work of literature is a powerful manifesto for women's liberation and empowerment in a world marked with tight expectations and limited risks. Margaret Fuller, a well-known feminist, writer, and thinker, is a staunch supporter of women's equality and liberty in both the public and private spheres. In beautiful words and serious analysis, she challenges patriarchal structures and advocates for women's self-awareness, education, and freedom.
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Double 9 Books Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US: The Indian Woman’s
Book SynopsisSavitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others have, since the nineteenth century, fought for and won equal rights for Indian women in a variety of areasuniversal suffrage, inheritance and property rights, equal remuneration, prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace, and others. Pioneering feminists believed that due to these hard-won rights, their daughters and granddaughters would have the opportunity to have rewarding careers, participate in the social and political growth of the country, gain economic independence, and become equal partners in their marriages. On paper, it would appear that theot of Indian women in the twenty-first century has vastly improved but, in reality, the demands of capitalism and the persistence of patriarchal attitudes have meant that they continue toeadives that are hard and unequal, especially when compared to their male counterparts. Indian women are among the most overworked in the worldthey spend on average 299 minutes on housework and 134 minutes on caregiving per day, shouldering 82 per cent of domestic duties. They are burdened with work from such a young age that many are forced to drop out of schools,eave theabour force, and give up dreams of financial independence. For those who have the privilege of choosing to have a career, the only way they can make this viable is by doing the double shift'': women are expected to do most of the housework, childcare, and caregiving, whether they have jobs or not. While these problems apply to all women across the country, those in India''s middle class face an altogether unique challenge because middle-class families have mastered the art of simulating an environment of empowerment in their homes.ies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman''s Burden takes a closeook at the gender inequality that forms the bedrock of India''s middle classthis forces women try and be superwomen'' while ignoring the deleterious effects on their mental and physical health. Using available data and anecdotal evidence from the realives of Indian women across the country, journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick asks if, in our patriarchal society, the assertion that women can have it all'' comes at too high a price.
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Crooked Lane Books Song of the Hell Witch
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Quercus Publishing Does My Butt Look Big in This: A Body Positivity
Book Synopsis'I wish I had this book growing up' - Emma Lucy Knowles, author of The Power of Crystal Healing'A must-read for all!" - Louise Boyce, mamastillgotit'An honest, inspiring and helpful guide' - Nana Acheampong, styledbynana*******Part manifesto, part guide to harnessing the power of self-love and body positivity.Felicity Hayward - curve model and founder of the online movement #SelfLoveBringsBeauty - is a leading voice for change within the UK's fashion industry. Rooted in her own personal journey navigating the fashion world, Felicity's debut book is a joyful and powerful guide to how you can take control of your own self-image and learn to love your true and authentic self.From dispelling harmful body myths to finding your own unique style, tips for mental self-care to navigating toxic social media, Felicity shares her own highs and lows and gives practical, actionable advice to achieve true body confidence.Inspirational, frank and funny, Felicity shows you that only by embracing your 'flaws' can you redefine what beauty means to you.Trade Review'Felicity crafts with fun, colour and energy a body positivity guide that can be digested with ease and magic. I wish I had this book growing up - but the beauty of this book is that we get to go back and fall in love with ourselves all over again!' - Emma Lucy Knowles, author of The Power of Crystal Healing'A must-read for all!' - Louise Boyce, @mamastillgotit'An honest, inspiring and helpful guide to self-love and building self-confidence.' - Nana Acheampong, @styledbynanaFelicity is a force of nature and this book will make one hell of an impact. She is eternally the best friend you always wish you had and you end this book feeling more comfortable in your skin than when you started, a triumph! - Glyn Fussell, co-founder of Sink the Pink and author of Manifesto for Misfits'... A book for everyone to learn the secret to big booty love.' - Jayde Adams, comedian
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Little, Brown & Company Never Met a Duke Like You
Book SynopsisLady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke's daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather excellent at arranging it.Faced with an insolvent estate, the Duke of Greydon has no choice but to return to England in a final attempt to revive his family's fortunes. He's been gone for years, happy to have escaped his mother and the petty circles of the ton. To his dismay, not much has changed, including the beautiful and vexing heiress next door.But when an accident of fate traps the friends-turned-enemies in an attic together, the explosive attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore and even harder to resist. They are total opposites and their lives don't align in the slightest, but fate, the ultimate matchmaker, appears to have other plans . . .
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Spinifex Press The Good-Hearted Gardeners
Book SynopsisWhat do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over. Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It’s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that English is even more widespread than anyone had thought. Even the birds and the fish, the cows and the kangaroos can speak it – when they choose. The Good-Hearted Gardeners set about trying to talk to anyone – crows, magpies, robins, goldfish, cows, horses, rats, mice – who will talk to them. With climate change and technology gone mad, what’s in store is a frightening scenario that threatens everyone – humans, animals, plants. Can the headlong rush to extinction be halted? When the birds, and the cows and the horses and the mice and all the rest come together, much is made possible. But at what cost? Will the planet and its inhabitants be saved? A comedic allegory for our future.
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Spinifex Press Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to
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Spinifex Press Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance
Lifelike, replica women and girls produced for men’s sexual use, sex dolls and robots represent the literal objectification of women. They are marketed as companions, the means for men to create their ‘ideal’ woman, and as the “perfect girlfriend” that can be stored away after its use. Advocates claim the development of sex dolls and robots should be actively encouraged and will have many benefits – but for who? Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating exposes the inherent misogyny in the trade in sex dolls and robots modelled on the bodies of women and girls for men’s unlimited sexual use. From doll owners enacting violence and torture on their dolls, men choosing their dolls over their wives, dolls made in the likeness of specific women and the production of child sex abuse dolls, sex dolls and robots pose a serious threat to the status of women and girls. “Sex dolls and robots in the female form function as an endorsement of men’s sexual rights, with women and girls positioned as sexual objects. The production of these products further cements women’s second class status.”
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Spinifex Press Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and
Book SynopsisIn this blisteringly persuasive and piercingly intelligent book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that women live under penile imperialism, a regime in which men are assumed to have a ‘sex right’ of access to the bodies of women and girls. She reasons that the ‘sexual revolution’ that began in the 1960s unleashed an explicit male sexual liberation and that even now, under current laws and cultural mores, women do not have the right to self-determination in relation to their bodies. Sheila Jeffreys argues that the exercise of the male sex right has mainstreamed misogynist attitudes and so-called sexual freedom has meant the freedom of men to use women and children with impunity. The power dynamics of sex, rather than being eliminated, has been eroticised, supported by state regulations and structures that have further entrenched male domination. And while men’s sexual fetishisms such as BDSM and transvestism have been normalised, women now have to fight as their spaces are being erased and their voices silenced in a faux inclusivity that has ‘naturalised’ sexual harassment. Sheila Jeffreys contends that women’s human rights are profoundly harmed and sexual violence is used more than ever to enforce social control of women. This is a sobering and brilliant analysis of the modern predicament of women that is impossible to ignore.Trade ReviewFew feminist critics have written more trenchantly than Sheila Jeffreys. From her first book The Spinster and Her Enemies to her most recent Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women’s Subordination, Jeffreys has always been clear that the sexual exploitation of women in all its forms is located in a male sexual rights movement that throughout history has championed and achieved the liberation of male sexuality —what Jeffreys names ‘liberating the perversions’. Deepened by Jeffreys grasp of history, Penile Imperialism is a bold book that calls for a profound understanding of ‘the reign of terror’ that has shaped and harmed many women lives. – Janice Raymond, PhD, author of Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism, A Passion for Friends and Women as Wombs Sheila Jeffreys has written a sobering, devastating – indeed, an exceptionally lucid book about male sexual violence and the consequent erasure of womankind. Her discussions about public sexual harassment, the increase of pornography and prostitution, and a new kind of anti–feminist men’s rights movement carried out by a sexually fueled and well financed group of male transvestites flying under the banner of transgender rights is absolutely essential reading. Jeffreys’ chapters on pedophilia, ‘kink’, and male sexual fetishes taught me things I never knew and that are crucial for a feminist understanding of contemporary reality. Brava Sheila for having the tenacity and vision and sheer stomach–churning capacity to bring this all to our attention. –Phyllis Chesler, PhD, author of Women and Madness, A Politically Incorrect Feminist and Requiem for a Female Serial Killer Incisive and prescient. Sheila Jeffreys attacks the entitlement of the ‘male sex right’ as going above and beyond the notion of ‘consent’. She also sounds an alarm about the dangerous sanitisation of male perversions – both historic and contemporary. While there is a categorical attempt at pushing misogynistic practices on women across age groups – strategically ensconced under the postmodern veneer of ‘choice’ and ‘sexual liberation’ – Penile Imperialism takes no prisoners as it lambasts all forms of sexual slavery. Jeffreys' words serve both as a punch in the gut, and much-needed prophetic wisdom of the matriarch. –Vaishnavi Sundar, feminist writer, filmmaker and activist from IndiaTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Construction of the Sexuality of Male Domination Chapter 2 Everyday Sex: Coercion and Consent Chapter 3 The Industry of Prostitution: Warehousing Women for Men’s Use Chapter 4 Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women Chapter 5 The Paedophile Liberation Movement Chapter 6 The Rise of Kink: Normalising Sexual Violence Chapter 7 From a Sexual Fetish to a Human Right: The Extraordinary Trajectory of Transvestism Chapter 8 Transvestism and the Erasure of Women Conclusion: Feminist Resistance
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Seal Press Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's
Book SynopsisIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism reaches young women of color, generating connections in all corners of the country. And yet we remain a country divided by race and gender.Now, a new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future. In Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to the strength of community and the influence of color, to borders and divisions, and to the critical issues that need to be addressed to finally reach an era of racial freedom. With prescient and intimate writing, Colonize This! will reach the hearts and minds of readers who care about the experience of being a woman of color, and about establishing a culture that fosters freedom and agency for women of all races.
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HarperCollins Publishers Sisters Gonna Stitch Step by step embroidery
Book SynopsisA fabulous collection of funny, sassy, uplifting embroidery patterns for the modern-day stitcher.Be inspired to kickstart your crafting journey with 50 gorgeous designs, as well as hints and tips from the experts at Cotton Clara.Each pattern features an empowering, inspirational message that will speak to a new wave of embroiderers looking to add a fun, feminist slant to their artwork. Favourites include: WOMEN WHO LEAD, READ CATS AGAINST CATCALLS FRIES BEFORE GUYS TAKE UP SPACE ANOTHER DAY TO SLAYTrade Review ‘Accessible and brilliant for all abilities, even if you are completely new to embroidery. Can't recommend this book enough and can't wait to gift my creations to my friends and family! Also beautifully designed and shot book. 10/10’ JC ‘Wonderful! So many favourites already – can’t decide which one to stitch first. I have a lot of embroidery books and this is by far the fullest yet easy to flick through!! I really love it.’ Iona Scott ‘A fabulous book of beautiful modern designs’ Katharine
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MIT Press Designing Motherhood
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MIT Press A Brief History of Feminism
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Microcosm Publishing My Vag: A Rhyming Coloring Book
Book SynopsisA lighthearted, rhyming colouring book about the body.
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Verso Books Trans: A Memoir
Book SynopsisIn July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a writer, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Revealing, honest,humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?Trade ReviewTrans challenges us all, no matter what our gender or sexuality. Ultimately, it makes us look at ourselves, and wonder what price we pay for the identities we assume, or which we have thrust upon us. -- Philip Hoare * New Statesman *Juliet Jacques's Trans ... provides a lyrical exploration of her own gender journey against the background of increasing media interest in transgender issues. Thoughtful and intimate, it's a fine successor to books such as Jan Morris's Conundrum. -- Helen Lewis * Guardian *Powerful and engaging. . . it's hard not to see her as anything other than brave, even as she pushes readers to recognize that what is revolutionary is the very ordinariness of her day-to-day life * New York Times *Brutally honest and funny. * Marie Claire *Provides a lyrical exploration of her own gender journey against the background of increasing media interest in transgender issues. Thoughtful and intimate, it's a fine successor to books such as Jan Morris's Conundrum * Helen Lewis, Guardian, Books of the Year *Challenges us all, no matter what our gender or sexuality. Ultimately, it makes us look at our selves, and wonder what price we pay for the identities we assume, or which we have thrust upon us. * Philip Hoare, New Statesman *Brave and moving, Trans is necessary reading for anyone who cares about gender,power, freedom and desire. Juliet Jacques deals with the forces of cruelty andignorance with hard-won clarity and calm. A vital voice in our turbulent times * Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Spring *Amarvelously nuanced journey through gender, brilliantly contextualized in thedisparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS . a terrificread by an accomplished author. * —Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger *Understated and urgent, Jacques comes across as a woman carrying an ambiguity she doesn't seem to want or feel able fully to shed...She confounds the distinction, not just between male and female, but also between the emotional atmospheres which the various trans identities are meant - 'instructed' may be the right word - to personify. -- Jacqueline Rose * London Review of Books *A thoughtful and honest account of the realities of life as a trans woman ... accessible and relatable, regardless of your gender identity * Independent *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why Women Will Save the Planet
Book SynopsisBig cities don’t have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women. This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the environmental and feminist movements, and academics. The essays collectively demonstrate both the need for women’s empowerment for climate action and the powerful change it can bring. A rallying call – for the planet, for women, for everyone.Trade ReviewThis book contains a wealth of information that will be useful to many readers looking for an overview on the diversity of perspectives on gender and climate change. * Women's Budget Group *There couldn’t be a clearer example of how important it is to recognise the intersectionality of the issues we’re facing. * Peace News *The essays in this book make the case for women’s empowerment for climate action and the powerful change it can bring. * Stylist *…this book is relevant to a wide audience (arguably everyone): to inform our understanding of discrimination against women, and to provide inspiring insight and encouragement into opportunities for achieving not only gender equality but environmental sustainability too. * Praise for the First Edition, Environment and Urbanization *Provides a depth and breadth of diverse perspectives to answer yes to the question: "Could women’s empowerment transform the chances of achieving environmental sustainability?". * Local Environment *As we look to address the greatest challenge humankind has ever faced, we do so with one of the greatest possible resources: womankind… Empowering the next generation of women leaders is a concrete step towards securing a bright, sustainable future for all. Through this book, we are seeking to share the wisdom of a pioneering generation of women leaders with the leaders to come. * Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, from the Foreword *Hope is a potent catalyst. And while our failure to adequately appreciate and guard against ecological destruction fills me with frustration, my hope is not meek or weak. It is urgent and raging. It’s a hope that believes a better world – away from cyclical war, the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor – is possible. * Caroline Lucas MP *If women are given equal opportunities to contribute to the global condition we will be able to create a safer, more just and more prosperous world. Universal wellbeing created by universal participation. * Christiana Figueres, Architect of the Paris Climate Agreement *A wake-up call for the environmental movement * Praise for the First Edition, Craig Bennett, CEO of Friends of the Earth *An inspiring call to action * Liz Hutchins, Campaigns Director, Friends of the Earth *Climate action offers the opportunity to transform social and economic development for the better. We must take this opportunity to elevate women and girls as equals in a stable and sustainable society marked by lasting peace and prosperity. That is how women will save the planet. * Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change *You can’t save the planet without equality … We need a new economics informed by the larger picture, an economy that puts women and the Earth at the centre. * Vandana Shiva *Table of ContentsForeword by Anne Hidalgo Introduction by Nicola Baird 1. The Power of Stubborn Optimism - Christiana Figueres 2. Empowering Women to Power up the Paris Agreement on Climate Change - Patricia Espinosa 3. The Hissing of Summer Lawns: Cities, Gender, and Climate Change - Susan Buckingham 4. What’s Happening in Durban: From ‘Tree-Preneurs’ to Trendsetters - Zandile Gumede 5. Women’s Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability in the Context of International UN agreements - Diane Elson 6. Walking the Talk: Empowering Tomorrow’s Women Leaders - Alexandra Palt 7. How Holistic Thinking Benefits People and Planet - Lola Young 8. How Gender-Sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? Selected Findings from a Desk Review of Thirty-One Sub-Saharan African Countries - Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg 9. Why Educating Girls is Essential for a Sustainable Future - Atti Worku 10. Women, Conflict and the Environment in Somali Society - Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell 11. The Close Ties between Social and Environmental Justice - Karin Nansen 12. Engendering Urban Climate Policy - Gotelind Alber 13. Why do Gender Equality and Sustainability Go Hand in Hand? - Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach 14. The Benefits of using a Gender Lens - Naoko Ishii 15. Is there a Specific Role for Women in Helping to Achieve Environmental Sustainability through Politics? - Caroline Lucas 16. Empowering a Balanced and Useful Economics of Sustainability: The Role of Gender - Julie A. Nelson 17. Hand in Hand: Women’s Empowerment and Sustainability - Vandana Shiva 18. How the Defence of the Commons and Territories has become a Core Part of Feminist, Anti-Capitalist Struggles - Celia Alldridge 19. Mother Earth - Maria Mies 20. From Icebergs to Climate Refugees - Jude Kelly 21. From Individual to Communal Rights: Empowering Women for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources - Nidhi Tandon 22. The Role of Fashion in Bringing About Social and Ecological Change - Anna Fitzpatrick 23. Family Planning: A Win-Win for Women and Sustainability - Carina Hirsch 24. The Power of Grassroots Action for Women’s Empowerment and the Environment - Kate Metcalf and colleagues 25. One Hundred Years of Collective Action for Environmental Change - Marylyn Haines Evans 26. The Impact of Gender Balance in the Renewable Energy Sector - Juliet Davenport 27. More Women in Business for a Sustainable Economy - Emma Howard Boyd
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Verso Books The Feminist and The Sex Offender: Confronting
Book SynopsisWith analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state's unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible?Drawing on interviews, extensive research, reportage, and history, The Feminist and the Sex Offender develops an intersectional feminist approach to ending sexual violence. It maps with considerable detail the unjust sex offender regime while highlighting the alternatives we urgently need.Trade ReviewOne of our most important scholar/activists, Erica Meiners always challenges us to engage critically with the complex and sometimes surprising ideological strategies that bolster the expanding carceral state -- Angela Davis, University of California Santa CruzIn their timely and compelling book, Levine and Meiners ask: How do we, as feminists, address sexual violence without expanding and strengthening the violent carceral state? The Feminist and the Sex Offender dives into the history-and consequences-of relying on policing and prisons to address sexual violence. -- Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind BarsSystematically dismantling the paradigm of punishment, the authors provide a new lens of hope and political clarity, melding feminism and abolition into a powerful manifesto of liberation. -- James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass IncarcerationFor all who desire a humane future, The Feminist and the Sex Offender offers a bracing liberationist and abolitionist dream of freedom and throws down a practical and heady challenge. -- JoAnn Wypijewski, author of What We Don’t Talk about when We Talk about #MeTooThis book confirms everything I believe in as a sex crimes expert, restorative justice practitioner, and survivor of sexual violence. -- Alissa R. Ackerman, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, California State University, FullertonLevine and Meiners show how the contingent now called "carceral" feminists (from the same root as incarcerate), spurred by rage and an eagerness for retribution - and by the exhilaration of "at last we're getting the bastards" - has played a large role in expanding the prison industrial complex, along with that cruel sex offender registry, precisely at the time that other feminists and civil rights activists are trying to rein it in. -- Dr. Carol Tavris * Skeptic *Pulls back the curtain on the history of the sex offender registry, its roots and its injustices, and how we can strive for a future with neither sexual harm nor state violence. -- Lyra Walsh Fuchs * Dissent *
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Goldsmiths, Unversity of London Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional
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Columbia University Press Sexual Politics
Book SynopsisA new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.Trade ReviewMillett's classic woke me up, changed my perception of women and myself, as it did for tens of thousands of American women when it first appeared. -- Leslie Crawford, "Kate Millett, the Ambivalent Feminist," Salon Sexual Politics dissected the beliefs, the cultural language, that supported sexual hierarchy. Millett's arguments cut through contemporary culture almost as surely as they did when written. In fact, it seems looking back to this old radicalism would help today's feminists to move forward. -- Katie Ryder, "Why Kate Millett Still Matters," Bookforum A passionate book by an acute literary analyst. New Yorker Supremely entertaining to read, brilliantly conceived, overwhelming in its arguments, breathtaking in its command of history and literature. New York Times A richly informative book. Washington Post Book World A well documented intellectual masterpiece. Pittsburgh Press [Millett] translates the war of the sexes from the language of nineteenth century bedroom farce into the raw images of guerilla warfare... Even more than a political system, our sexual order is a 'habit of mind and a way of life.' Millett's book may go far toward subverting it. TimeTable of ContentsForeword, by Catharine A. MacKinnon Introduction to the Illinois Paperback Introduction to the Touchstone Paperback Preface Part I. Sexual Politics 1. Instances of Sexual Politics 2. Theory of Sexual Politics Part II. Historical Background 3. The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830-1930 4. The Counterrevolution: 1930-60 Part III. The Literary Reflection 5. D. H. Lawrence 6. Henry Miller 7. Norman Mailer 8. Jean Genet Postscript Afterword, by Rebecca Mead Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Indiana University Press Material Feminisms
Book SynopsisOffers a robust understanding of materiality from a feminist point of viewTrade ReviewThis richly layered collection of essays explores materiality from the perspectives of an international group of feminist theorists. The editors categorize the essays into three sections: Material Theory, Material World, and Material Bodies. In the introduction, the editors argue that feminist theorists tend "to focus on the discursive at the expense of the material." Rather than the concept of mind over matter, this work maintains that matter and mind are equal forces, and that there are real consequences to placing one above the other. After defining the theory, section two looks at nature, which the editors state is "entangled with the nature of philosophy, politics, literature, and popular culture." The third section grounds the other two, giving body to the theories of material feminisms. It is in this last section that readers can see how feminist theory can embrace matter without hierarchy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. -- K.G. Saulton * Choice *. . . Material Feminisms . . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . [It] provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today. . . . Material Feminisms includes articles that address race, ethnicity, and disability. -- Olivia P. Banner * SIGNS *. . . clearly charts new theoretical waters, demonstrating how feminist thinking about materiality suffuses multiple disciplines and keeps them in lively conversation with one another. . . . provide[s] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today. -- Olivia P. Banner * University of California, Los Angeles *This richly layered collection of essays explores materiality from the perspectives of an international group of feminist theorists. . . . Recommended.November 2008 -- K.G. Saulton * Capella University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan HekmanPart 1. Material Theory1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance / Elizabeth Grosz2. On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential / Claire Colebrook3. Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism / Susan Hekman4. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter / Karen BaradPart 2. Material World5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms / Donna J. Haraway6. Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana7. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? / Vicki Kirby8. Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature / Stacy Alaimo9. Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking through (My Mother's) Body and Place / Catriona Mortimer-SandilandsPart 3. Material Bodies10. Disability Experience on Trial / Tobin Siebers11. How Real Is Race? / Michael Hames-García12. From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism / Suzanne Bost13. Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals and the Embodiment of Depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson14. Cassie's Hair / Susan BordoList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press The Rights of Women
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Examining Wollstonecraft’s philosophical writings on sex, sexuality, and motherhood—as a lens through which to view the history of feminism in the United States—Bachiochi argues that between the 19th and 21st centuries, too many American women abandoned Wollstonecraftian ideals of virtue and fairness, replacing them with the self-defeating ideology (and various waves) of progressive feminism." —National Review"The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision . . . portrays women as increasingly disadvantaged by principles that became prominent in the 20th century's conception of liberty. Rather than merely liberating, [Bachiochi] argues, the industrial and sexual revolutions have disrupted longstanding dynamics that allow the sexes to pursue authentic freedom; that is, the freedom to pursue virtue in familial and social relationships." —FoxNews“Part history, part legal theory, and part political philosophy, The Rights of Women provides a compelling contribution to feminist dialogue, both applauding the gains and critiquing the missteps made during women’s quest for advancement. . . . Bachiochi offers a judicious analysis of women’s history that informs her refreshing portrait of dignitarian feminism.” —Law & Liberty"Along with the maternal accompaniment of Our Lady, the Wollstonecraft-Glendon understanding of women’s rights—a truly ennobling and liberating moral vision—reimagines feminism, and Bachiochi’s book brilliantly explains how that understanding evolved." —National Catholic Register"Bachiochi offers us a cohesive historical lens through which to adopt Wollstonecraft’s program of virtue today, even as we already see it bearing fruit in households that we admire. 'Without that intentional human development properly prioritized in the life of the home,' Bachiochi asserts, 'persons (and markets) [will] do little good outside of it.'" —The Interim"The purpose of freedom is for human flourishing, not flouting the virtues, as this excellent work so clearly demonstrates." —Catholic Medical Quarterly"Bachiochi’s work is a call to reimagine feminism. What if men and women pursued equality, not as self-destructive license, but as freedom for the sake of human excellence? " —National Catholic Register"At the heart of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is the assertion that human beings are not defined by autonomy but rather by relations of dependency and obligation." —The Catholic World Report"Bachiochi takes her readers on a thorough and scholarly examination of leading feminist thought as it developed through the past 200-plus years, through the lens of early feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. . . . Let us hope that Bachiochi’s vision is realizable, for it would certainly be the beginning of a more humane world, for both sexes." —The University Bookman"In Bachiochi’s book, we see Wollstonecraft’s legacy percolate through the 19th-century American women’s movement—in which the tension between individualism and life in common hums." —UnHerd"Erika Bachiochi, in her book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, offers a memorial to Wollstonecraft, an effort to reclaim the moral vision of this early feminist for our time. . . . I earnestly commend Bachiochi’s book to a wide audience and to feminists of every stripe." —Marginalia"Rights of Women doesn’t claim to be a conservative book, but it renews a challenge that cuts to the heart of the conservative movement." —The American Conservative"Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women is the most impressive anti-abortion book to appear in years." —First Things"Now and then a book comes along that changes the way one thinks about the world. Erika Bachiochi's The Rights of Women is one of these books." —Modern Age"Women’s (and men’s) freedom is linked to the response to the question, what are freedoms for? According to Bachiochi’s account, freedoms are rooted neither in the market, nor in power clashes or gender antagonism, but in a heritage that celebrates everyday human flourishing." —Church, Communication, and Culture"Just as Wollstonecraft challenged prevalent mistakes in thinking about the rights of women, so too Bachiochi is uprooting mainstream myths about what women’s wellbeing and success require today. The effort of students and teachers to read her work carefully will be well-rewarded." —American Journal of JurisprudenceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Moral Vision 2. Men, Marriage, Law, and Government 3. The Young Republic and the Unequal Virtues of the Agrarian Home 4. Women’s Suffrage, Rational Souls, Sexed Bodies, And the Ties that Bind 5. The Industrial Revolution and the Debate Between Abstract Rights and Concrete Duties 6. The “Feminine Mystique” and Human Work 7. Sex Role Stereotypes and the Successful Quest for Equal Citizenship Status 8. Caring for Dependency in the Logic of the Market 9. Sexual Asymmetry, American Law, and the Call for a Renewed Family Ecology 10. Reimagining Feminism Today in Search of Human Excellence
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University of California Press The Gender of the Gift
Book SynopsisArgues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1. Anthropological Strategies 2. A Place in the Feminist Debate PART ONE 3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the New Guinea Highlands 4. Domains: Male and Female Models 5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims 6. Work: Exploitation at Issue PART TWO 7. Some Definitions 8. Relations which Separate 9. Forms which Propagate 10. Cause and Effect CONCLUSION 11. Domination 12. Comparison Notes Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
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University of California Press The Feminist War on Crime
Book SynopsisMany feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tendto make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil pTrade Review“This interesting, densely written, challenging book illustrates the phenomenon of unintended consequences. . . . Following from Gruber's main point that now is the time to recognize that incarceration is not a solution, the state should concentrate on increasing the resources available to women affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Gruber offers an exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system." * PEN America *"The Feminist War on Crime is a timely call for feminists to reckon with the harms of the criminal institutions they helped to build. Ultimately, Gruber is asking for a new wave of feminism that prioritizes material gains for all women over expressive protection for the elite few. . . . The key lesson from Gruber’s book is that instead of punishing our way into good governance, feminists should define new modes for accountability and devote energy toward the provision of resources that actually improve the lives of women. As Gruber argues, now is the time for millennial feminists to move away from punishment." * Harvard Law Review *"The Feminist War on Crime is at the same time provocative, educational, and necessary for our moment where people are beginning to question the utility of imprisonment as a panacea for social ills without denying the fact that those ills demand our attention and effort." * Law & Society Review *"Deeply researched and forcefully argued. Gruber outlines the long-term corrosiveness of carceral anti-violence policies and compels readers to take anti-violence and anti-incarceration as inseparable political commitments." * Feminist Formations *"Gruber brings to light the ties between feminist movements and mass incarceration in this deeply researched, timely analysis." * Library Journal *"The Feminist War on Crime is cutting, provocative, and crucial reading for critical scholars, intersectional feminist thinkers, and anyone who seeks to pursue justice without further retrenching unjust systems." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Opening Battle: Fighting Patriarchy with Purity 2 • The Enemy: From “the Man” to Bad Men 3 • The Battle Plan: Arrest Is Best 4 • The Weapon: Ideal Victims 5 • The New Front: Date Rape 6 • From the Sexual Cold War to the New Sex Panic 7 • Endless War? Conclusion Notes Index
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Pluto Press The Kurdish Womens Movement
Book SynopsisA detailed ethnographic account of the revolutionary Kurdish women's movementTrade Review'Dilar Dirik is one the foremost writers, scholars and participants in the Kurdish women's movement. Her revolutionary work against all forms of state and social oppression and exploitation is unsparing in its truth-telling and expansive in its political orientation - a true people's historian from below' -- Harsha Walia, author of 'Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism' (Haymarket, 2021)'Compelling [...] As a social history from below, it goes beyond the hype and reveals the radical roots of this movement' -- Dr Yara Hawari, writer, academic and political analyst'Read to 'feelthink' and to embrace the memories of the historical struggle of the Kurdish sisters against the fascist and capitalist patriarchy. From the mountains, academia and daily life in resistance, their legacy walks towards liberation, healing and dignity' -- Lorena Kab'nal, Mayan Ancestral Healer, Territorial Community Feminist and Community Social Psychologist'What should a women's revolution look like? With clarity, Dilar Dirik lays bare the thoughts and experiments of the inspiring Kurdish women who for decades having been setting example to anyone fighting for a more equal world. This is an important book for everyone interested in revolution, gender equality, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist struggle' -- Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics and award-winning authorTable of ContentsFigures Abbreviations and acronyms Locations in Kurdish Map Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Kurdistan women’s revolution – A social history from below PART I: HISTORY 1. Mapping the Kurdistan of women 2. The Kurdistan Revolutionaries 3. Berxwedan jiyan e! – The Diyarbakır prison resistance 4. Vejîn! – The first bullet 5. Edî bes e! – The dirty war 6. Towards women’s autonomy 7. International conspiracy and internal crisis 8. The battle for the PKK’s soul 9. Enter Democratic Confederalism PART II: THEORY 10. ‘Struggling woman’: Ideology and identity 11. Building ‘democratic modernity’ 12. Jineolojî: ‘A science of woman and life’ PART III: PRACTICE 13. Stateless society 14. Öcalan: Leader, prisoner, comrade 15. Revolutionizing love 16. Mothers 17. Self-defence 18. Martyrs 19. Prisoners 20. Education 21. Media 22. Ecology 23. Mexmûr: From displacement to self-determination 24. Bakur: Women against politicide 25. Başûr: ‘Freedom is more than the absence of dictatorship’ 26. Rojava: A women’s revolution 27. Resistance or feminicide: Women against Daesh 28. Şengal: From feminicide to women’s autonomy 29. Kobanê did not fall 30. Life after Daesh: Women’s solidarity in Manbij 31. War and peace PART IV: EMPOWERMENT OR REVOLUTION? 32. Two rivers, two freedom agendas? Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics
Book SynopsisPrison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political groundsTrade Review'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey' -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of ‘Women of Kurdistan’'A powerful testament that a caged bird can still sing, this is an inspiring chorus for people world-wide to join hands and carry forth the fight for freedom, and for life, no matter what the circumstances' -- Alpa Shah, author of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas', and Professor of Anthropology at London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsTranslation Coordinators’ Preface - Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun, and Janet Biehl Preface to English Edition - Gültan Kışanak Overview: The Growing Struggle for Women's Liberation - Gültan Kışanak 1. How Will You Find That Many Women? - Aysel Tuğluk 2. Mother, Child, Prison - Burcu Çelik Özkan 3. We Never Considered It from That Angle - Çağlar Demirel 4. Hurry up and Fix Things-Don't Let Us Down Before Our Husbands- Diba Keskin 5. I Struggled Hard, But I Never Gave Up - Dilek Hatipoğlu 6. We Have Your Keys. You Can Come and Get Them - Edibe Şahin 7. Women's Worked Viewed as Frivolous - Evin Keve 8. You're Going to Eat with the Men? - Fatma Doğan 9. History Has No Love for Women Who Stop and Keep Quiet - Figen Yüksekdağ 10. Three Times Elected, Three Years Barred from Serving - Gülser Yıldırım 11. Being a Woman is Hard … Even Dangerous - Gültan Kışanak 12. Are Men Going to Walk Behind a Woman? - Leyla Güven 13. Mayor, We Don't Dare Say Anything to These Women Anymore - Mukaddes Kubilay 14. One Must Travel from City to City. Women Can't Do It - Nurhayat Altun 15. Women Should Be the Ones to Handle Finances - Sara Kaya 16. This Woman Is Tough as Nails - Sadiye Süer Baran 17. From Prison to Parliament - Sebahat Tuncel 18. Imprisoned for Providing Services - Selma Karakoç 19. One Woman Became Eighty - Yıldız Çetin 20. Is Sir Chiefwoman in? - Zeynep Han Bingöl 21. They've Turned It into a Women’s Municipality - Zeynep Sipçik 22. Breaking Down the Doors - Selma Irmak Freedom for Aysel Tuğluk Translators and Coordinators
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Cornell University Press Damaged Identities Narrative Repair
Book SynopsisHilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people—including Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals—whose identities have been defined by those with the power to speak for them and to constrain the scope of their actions. By placing...Trade ReviewThe nature of identity, especially of groups such as Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals is explored by comparing the stories these groups express of themselves against the narratives written about them. * Feminist Academic Press *
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Cornell University Press Whose Science Whose Knowledge
Book SynopsisSandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...Trade ReviewWhose Science, Whose Knowledge? represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science. -- Shulamit Reinharz * Gender & Society *Harding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism. -- Steven Yearley * British Journal of Sociology *This is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?—that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences—has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice. -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research * Science *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Red Feminism American Communism and the Making of
Book SynopsisRed Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women's movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society.Trade ReviewRichly detailed... It will appeal to general readers interested in the history of U.S. progressive movements and women's history. Publishers Weekly The gulf between first- and second-wave feminism seems less broad thanks to this thoughtful analysis of women's activism with the Communist Party U.S.A. between World War II and the mid-1950s... An important supplement to standard histories of American feminism. Booklist This excellent book will play a strong part in passing on ideas and concepts to future Democrats, Republicans, Communists, and citizens of the world. -- Char Roone Miller History of Education Quarterly An interesting, well-documented book. -- Marian J. Morton American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Old Left Women, the U.S. Women's Movement, and the Legacy of Anti-CommunismPart I: FoundationsChapter 1. Building Unity Amidst Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in the Early Years of American CommunismChapter 2. The Mary Inman Controversy and the (Re)Construction of the Woman Question, 1936–1945Chapter 3. The Congress of American Women: Catalyst for Progressive FeminismPart II: TransformationsChapter 4. Women's Work Is Never done: Communists' Evolving Approach to the Woman Question, 1945–1956 Chapter 5. Claudia Jones and the Synthesis of Gender, Race, and ClassChapter 6. Communist Culture and the Politicization of Personal LifePart III: ConnectionsChapter 7. Old Left Feminism, the Second Wave, and BeyondNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Benedict Reading Mead Feminism Race and
Book SynopsisNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyTrade Review"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound." - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret MeadPart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming MeadChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational DoublenessChapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and GenderChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in SamoaPart II: Erasures and InclusionsChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal FeminismChapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on RacePart III: Imperial VisionsChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as ValueChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese CultureChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of WomenPart IV: Echoes and ReverberationsChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of ParadiseChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth BenedictPart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and MeadChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal FigureChapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns RevisitedChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret MeadNotesContributorsIndexIllustrations
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Southern Illinois University Press The Dark Days of Abraham Lincolns Widow as
Book SynopsisWritten in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former’s 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum.Trade Review “This is a complicated narrative about a complex woman. Rife with drama, the backstory, as told by writer Jason Emerson, is as compelling as the book itself. . . . In Pritchard and Emerson’s hands, Mary Todd Lincoln is no less enigmatic but just as fascinating as ever.”—Stacy A. Cordery, Journal of Illinois History “Reading these notes in conjunction with the reprinted letters, a more accurate account of Mary Lincoln’s insanity emerges. Rather than an unjustly imprisoned former First Lady, one finds a woman overwhelmed by grief and neuroses, grappling with the shadows enveloping her mind.”—Sarah Bischoff, The Journal of Southern History “The tale of Mary Lincoln’s mental derangement, her incarceration in a mental hospital, her release four months later, and her subsequent estrangement from her only surviving son forms one of the saddest chapters in the Lincoln family saga. When Jason Emerson wrote his revelatory study The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), he utilized valuable new letters he had discovered. In the present volume, he makes available the text of those documents and the dramatic story of their recovery from historical oblivion. Emerson deserves the thanks of all Lincolnians.”—Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life “This companion to [Emerson’s The Madness of Mary Lincoln] contains both the voice of Mary herself as well as an account of the (largely successful) contemporary efforts to silence her. Those wishing to retrace Emerson’s detective work will find this illuminating.”—Patrick A. Lewis, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society “Jason Emerson is a rising star in Lincoln studies, and this volume is further evidence that those of us who never tire of learning about the life and times of Abraham Lincoln are in his debt. This carefully crafted volume illuminates dark corners of Mary Lincoln’s life and enhances our understanding of the First Lady after that night at Ford’s Theatre.”—Michael S. Green, author of Lincoln and the Election of 1860 “Emerson portrays Mary realistically but sympathetically [and] dispels the old extreme stereotypes.”—Karen S. Campbell, editor for the Lincoln Society of Dayton, Let the Journeys Begin “Not only has Jason Emerson uncovered letters by Mary Lincoln, he has uncovered an entire manuscript by James and Myra Bradwell’s granddaughter, who tried to use her privileged position to sell the story to the less-discriminating press of her day. It is good to have the Pritchard manuscript in print at last, after eighty hidden years, to have both its insights and its embarrassing sororal prejudices. Emerson, by unearthing a new landmark in the historical treatment of the tragic Mary Lincoln, helps to reconfigure how we view the tragic ex-First Lady”—James M. Cornelius, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum “With this edited volume, Jason Emerson makes an original and valuable contribution to our scholarly understanding of Mary Todd Lincoln’s later years. It succeeds and builds on the intriguing and fruitful detective work that the editor achieved in The Madness of Mary Lincoln, which provided the most important and original insights into her later years that have been produced in at least the preceding generation. The result is a long-missing yet vital puzzle piece that has long been missing that helps to complete our understanding of Mary Lincoln’s commitment proceedings and her eventual release and final difficult years.”—Kenneth Winkle, Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of American History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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University of Minnesota Press The Matrixial Borderspace
Book SynopsisAn intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. This book presents a theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. The author replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency.
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University of Minnesota Press The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Capacity Contract brings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens."—Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities ‘within some normal range,’ but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a ‘capacity contract’ is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms."—Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota"A very interesting read."—Catholic Medical Quarterly"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"The Capacity Contract should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices."—The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming EmpoweredAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
Book SynopsisEmblematic of the tensions that white southern women of the era experienced between independent creative expression and traditional familial and community expectations.Trade Review“Sara Mayfield leaves the reader unsure what is fact and what is fiction, and our experience ultimately mirrors hers in provocative ways. She peeks at us alluringly through Horne's lucid prose—as an author, an inventor, and maybe even as a government agent.”—Kathryn McKee, author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post–Civil War South "Montgomery, Alabama, in the early Twentieth Century was an enigma where powerful white men defended the final redoubt of male privilege and the South's romantic past while a generation of women chiseled away the foundation on which male hegemony rested. Sara Mayfield, Tallulah Bankhead, Sara Haardt (Mencken), and Zelda Sayre ((Fitzgerald) lived near each other growing up in Montgomery, graduated to notable careers in theater or as writers who defied conservative social conventions and charted their own lives. Odyssey of a Wandering Mind is an excellent starting place in pursuit of what it meant to strong-minded Alabama women a century ago to be a woman. And the dangers to which that independence exposed them."—Wayne Flynt, author of Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives "With Odyssey of a Wandering Mind, Jennifer Horne brings out of obscurity an Alabama talent often regarded as a supporting player to her more famous friends, Sara Haardt Mencken and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Sara Mayfield was so much more than a biographer of the Southern belles of her generation who chafed against being known merely as “the wife of” their literary-lion husbands. By turns a novelist, playwright, journalist, and an inventor, Mayfield was first and foremost a survivor who led a remarkable life throughout a near century of culture upheaval. Horne does a phenomenal job of humanizing a figure who for decades battled her demons to find her greatest success in her mid-sixties, long after Haardt and Sayre has passed prematurely." —Kirk Curnutt, co-editor with Sara A. Kosiba of The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise
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