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Book SynopsisBy combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha''s wife. Although often marginalized, Yasodhara''s narrative here comes to life. Written with a strong feminist voice, we encounter Yasodhara as a fiercely independent, passionate and resilient individual. We witness her joys and sorrows, her expectations and frustrations, her fairy-tale wedding, and her overwhelming devastation at the departure of her beloved.It is through her eyes that we witness Siddhattha''s slow transformation, from a sheltered prince to a deeply sensitive young man. On the way, we see how the gods watch over the future Buddha from the clouds, how the king and his ministers try to keep the suffering of the world from him and how he eventually renounces the throne, his wife and newly-born son to seek enlightenment. Trade ReviewSasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha explores the emotional dimensions to the story of the Buddha while also making new connections in familiar material ... to brilliant effect. * Times Literary Supplement *Yasodhara and the Buddha by Professor Sasson is a seminal and original contribution to Buddhism literature in terms of the life of the Buddha. An inherently fascinating, impressively informative, exceptionally well written, and thoroughly entertaining, Yasodhara and the Buddha is especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library collections. * Midwest Book Review *Sasson’s book is a page-turner, an enchanting fairytale, and at the same time grounded in the realities of the human condition. I was captured and pulled into the events of a time and place to which I was already predisposed. It opened my eyes to the human side of Buddha’s story. * Shambhala Times *Vanessa R. Sasson combines the spirit of fiction with the beauty of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research. She shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha’s wife. * Integral Yoga Magazine *Yasodhara and the Buddha is splendid for conjuring visions of floating, of gods and a tree watching over Buddha, of doors of flowers in the forests, or of love walking in the form of a man as it speaks about human ways of comprehending life. * Asian Book of Reviews *A feminist rendering of an ancient myth, Yasodhara and the Buddha lovingly revives the story of the Buddha’s spouse for modern readers. Written by a religious scholar, the novel comes complete with scholarly sources, tracing its roots to the tradition of epic Indian religious storytelling. Marvellous. * Historical Novel Society *Table of ContentsIntroductory Note Foreword, Wendy Doniger Prologue 1: Beginnings 2: Monsoon Rain 3: Adjustments 4: Durga 5: Festival Day 6: Surpanakha 7: The Choosing 8: The Peacock Garden 9: The Competition 10: Wearing the Red Line 11: Soil and Suffering 12: News 13: The First Sights 14: The Fight 15: In the Arms of a Tree 16: Departure 17: Sadness 18: Tapestries 19: Holding on and Letting Go 20: Out the Gates 21: Devadatta 22: Splendour 23: The Return 24: Overcoming Obstacles 25: Departures Study Questions Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014), exploring their tremendous discursive and ideological power in order to understand the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body. Discussing a range of conflicting meanings contained in the narratives, Gerhards critically looks genre's engagement with everyday sexism and violence against women, power relations in heterosexual relationships, sexual autonomy and pleasure, (self-) empowerment, and (self-) surveillance. She asks: Why are these genre texts so popular right now, what specific desires, issues and fears are addressed and negotiated by them, and what kinds of pleasures do they offer?Trade ReviewInsightful, compelling and provocative, this book offers an enlightening analysis of the global phenomenon of vampire romance that has as much to tell us about gender, sexuality and post-feminism as it does the vampires that we love, or love to hate. A must-read for fans and scholars alike -- Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton London, UK.Interrogating the tricky terrain of post-feminist discourse via a close reading of three vampire juggernauts of the early 2000s, Gerhard's book offers an incisive deep-dive into contemporary gender politics. -- Natalie Wilson, California State University San Marcos, USA.Gerhards offers a comprehensive look at three populist vampire texts that provides a strong introduction to vampire studies for undergraduates across the liberal arts. Using a sophisticated analysis, she reconstructs arguments from many well know feminist and cultural theorists to help guide new scholars through the ways vampire products can help students navigate gender and identity in the 21st century. -- Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Editors’ Introduction Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Vampire Romance 1. More than a Backlash: The Contradictions of Postfeminist Culture 2. Paranormal Romance: A Quintessentially Postfeminist Genre? 3. The Politics of Looking: Female Protagonists between Subject and Object 4. Vampire Transformation as Makeover: The Making of Ideal Postfeminist Subjects 5. Fantasy Solutions to Postfeminist Culture: Vampire Heroes and Postfeminist Masculinity Conclusion: Paradoxical Pleasures Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the only female contributor to The Futurist Cookbook (1932) with her recipe for Italian Breasts in the Sun. Providing something more complex than a traditional biographical account, Griffiths presents a feminist critique of Mori's art, converging on issues of gender, culture, and history to offer new critical perspectives on Italian modernism.If subsequently written out of modernist memory, Mori was once at the center of the Futurism movement in Italy; yet she worked outside the major European capitals and fluctuated between traditional figurative subjects and abstract experimentation. As a result, her in-between pictures can help to re-think the margins of modernism. By situating Mori's most significant artworks in the critical context of interwar Fascism, and highlighting her artistic contributions before, during, and after her Futurist decade, Griffiths con

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Book SynopsisJudith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita (1978-2001) in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University, USA. She is the founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, established by Brodsky in 1986, renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in 2006, and now located at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky is also the co- founder of the Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art (the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities) and The Feminist Art Project. She is a former president of the College Art Association, the Women's Caucus for Art, and ArtTable. Her publications include The Fertile Crescent, Gender, Art, and Society (2012) and Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts (2018).Trade ReviewAt last! A book that restores women to the history of digital art and shows how they transformed it. What is unique about Brodsky’s brilliant book are the firm lines of connection from the feminist art movement of the 1970s to the digital art of today. Brodsky highlights women digital artists informed by feminist theory, who are ‘dismantling the patriarchy,’ subverting and replacing the hierarchic binaries at its root. * Norma Broude & Mary D. Garrard, Professors Emeritae of Art History, American University, USA, and authors of The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s *Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit is a broad look at women who embrace feminist theory and use technology to create art. Brodsky argues that these artists have influenced the development of technology, which is widely considered a male domain. * Kathy Rae Huffman, Curator, co-founder of the online community FACES: Art, Gender, Technology *This book reclaims and contextualizes important female practitioners of technology—like Joan Jonas, Charlotte Moorman, Jenny Holzer, Vera Frenkel, Muriel Magenta, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, VNS Matrix, subRosa, and countless others—and resituates them on a par with their male contemporaries. This is a must-read for all interested in Feminist Art and New Media. * Maura Reilly, author of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating *With the explosion of interest in digital art recently, Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology provides a needed overview of the creative and critical work that artists in this realm are doing to disrupt hegemonic forces. -- Charlotte Kent * Woman's Art Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Reinserting Women into the History of Digital Art: Pioneer Feminist Artists 2. The 1970s: Feminism and Digital Art Inside and Outside the Academy 3. Reimagining the Binary Nature of Digital Technology 4. Using Websites and Browsers to Deliver Social Justice Messages 5. Provoking the Patriarchy Through Digital Language 6. Queerness, Race, and Digital Art 7. The Avatar 8. The Female Body Disappears 9. Creating Feminist Paradigms of Knowledge through Digital Technology 10. Surveillance 11. Feminist Artists and the Gaming Industry 12. Japanese Feminism, Video Games, and Anime 13. Artificial Intelligence (AR), Facial Recognition, and Virtual Reality (VR) 14. Digital Public Art and Augmented Reality (AR) Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIs there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of human rights which presupposes just such a universal ethics. This basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian projectincluding especially the monumental work of Jürgen Habermashave all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical.Must we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? By way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Trade ReviewBenjamin Bennett’s Shaping A Modern Ethics offers a series of provocative case studies, focusing on Lessing and Freud, on Nietzsche and Rorty, on Habermas and Wittig. Bennett introduces us to Enlightenment thought and a post-Enlightenment relativism that also re-centers our attention towards Jewish philosophy and feminist thought. This is a very timely book that will be appreciated by students of philosophy and literature alike. -- Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, USAOne of the foremost literary scholars of our times, Benjamin Bennett, with his signature flair and brilliance, argues in his newest book for the ethical significance of literature—precisely when it defies all ethical propositions. In the tradition of Leibniz, Lessing, Nietzsche, Kafka, Wittgenstein, and Bachmann, he resists the clamor for extrinsic guidelines and the authoritarian injunction to literal interpretation. Instead, Bennett celebrates the non-compliant, ironic, and experimental text. A refreshing voice! * Alice Kuzniar, Professor of German and English, University of Waterloo, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Preliminary Remarks: Wittgenstein and Strawson Chapter One: Introduction: Ethics, “Literature,” and Irony Chapter Two: Nietzsche and Rorty: The Ethics of Irony Chapter Three: Kant and Leibniz Chapter Four: Lessing: History, Irony, and Diaspora Chapter Five: Lessing and Freud: Theory, Wisdom, and the Scope of Ethics Chapter Six: Habermas, Rorty, and Machiavelli Chapter Seven: Woolf, Bachmann, Wittig: Toward a Feminist Ethics Conclusion, or Not

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Book SynopsisShakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies. It takes as its premise that gender and sexuality studies are key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be it his texts and their historical contexts, contemporary stage and cinematic productions, or adaptations from the Restoration to the present day. Approaching sex' from four main perspectives heterosexuality, third-wave intersectional feminism, queer studies and trans studies this book tackles a range of key topics, such as medical science, rape culture, the environment, disability, religion, childhood sexuality, race, homoeroticism and trans bodies.The 12 essays range across Shakespeare's poems and plays, including the Sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Richard IIITable of ContentsIntroduction – Jennifer Drouin (McGill University, Canada) Part I: Heterosexuality and its Perils 1. Greensickness and Shakespeare – Jessica C. Murphy (University of Texas, Dallas, USA) 2. ‘For me, I am the mistress of my fate’: Lucrece, Rape Culture and Feminist Political Activism – Kay Stanton (California State University, Fullerton, USA) Part II: Intersectional Sex 3. Sex/ecology: Madness in Method – Sharon O’Dair (University of Alabama, USA) 4. Crip Sexualities and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure – Allison P. Hobgood (Willamette University, USA) 5. Protestantism, Marriage and Asexuality in Shakespeare – Melissa E. Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 6. Children’s Metamorphoses: Ovid, Shakespeare, Sex and Childhood – Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle University, UK) 7. ‘Live, and Beget a Happy Race of Kings’: Richard III, Race and Homonationalism – Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Toronto, Canada) Part III: Queer Shakespeares 8. Sex in the Sonnets: The Boy and Dishonourable Passions of the Past – Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada) 9. When Coriolanus was Hot: Reading for Homoeroticism Across Time – Huw Griffiths (University of Sydney, Australia) 10. Queer Eye for the Not So Straight Guy: Ocular Excesses and Erotic Gazes in The Two Noble Kinsmen – Jennifer Drouin (McGill University, Canada) Part IV: Trans Shakespeares 11. ‘Bless thee Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated’: Gender Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare – Kathleen E. McLuskie (Shakespeare Institute, UK) 12. A Woman’s Prick: Trans Technogenesis in Sonnet 20 – Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTen chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discourses

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies Features a new section, Writing ''Glocal'', which covers feminism''s dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading Trade Review“Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader is an indispensable guide, companion and handbook for students and teachers of women’s literature. No other anthology offers so many bite-sized tasters of work on gendered authorship, literary production, critical reception, sexuality and genre – from romantic fiction to travel writing. Mary Eagleton’s clear and informative introductions contextualize the debates represented by each extract, suggest connections between them and point to further reading. This third edition maintains and develops the irreplaceable breadth of the previous editions with several new pieces on such areas as autobiography, science fiction and border talk. The extra section, ‘Writing “Glocal”’, investigates dynamically evolving dialogues between feminism and postcolonialism, diaspora narratives and transculturalism. Whether you read from start to finish or choose to sample selectively, this rich collection will expand your knowledge and understanding of feminist thought, both as an historical discipline and as an excitingly relevant and progressive set of ideas.” —Jane Dowson, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsPreface xii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Finding a Female Tradition Introduction 1 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 9 A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing Elaine Showalter 11 ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’ Adrienne Rich 15 Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory Chris Weedon 19 ‘The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies’ Ann Ducille 21 ‘Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties’ Paul Lauter 26 ‘Telling Feminist Stories’ Clare Hemmings 33 Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture Rita Felski 37 ‘Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought’ Linda R. Williams 41 Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon Jane Spencer 45 ‘Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986’ Nancy K. Miller 47 ‘What Women’s Eyes See’ Viviane Forrester 50 ‘Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy’ Shoshana Felman 51 Writing Women’s Literary History Margaret J. M. Ezell 52 The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Betty A. Schellenberg 56 2 Women and Literary Production Introduction 61 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 70 ‘Professions for Women’ Virginia Woolf 75 Silences Tillie Olsen 77 The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82 ‘Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics’ Terry Lovell 90 The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen Jane Spencer 93 ‘Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics’ Carol Ohmann 95 ‘Toward a Black Feminist Criticism’ Barbara Smith 98 ‘Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading’ Isobel Armstrong 103 ‘Conversations’ Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106 ‘Mapping Contemporary Women’s Fiction after Bourdieu’ Mary Eagleton 110 Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain Claire Squires 115 The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins Graham Huggan 119 The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730 Paula Mcdowell 123 ‘Black Woman Talk’ Black Woman Talk Collective 126 ‘Introduction’, Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Lauretta Ngcobo 127 Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Simone Murray 129 ‘Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore’ Kathryn Mcgrath 131 3 Gender and Genre Introduction 135 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 143 Literary Women Ellen Moers 145 ‘Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis’ Juliet Mitchell 147 Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel Nancy Armstrong 151 ‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’ Susan S. Lanser 154 Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Marilyn R. Farwell 158 Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms Robyn R. Warhol 161 ‘Introduction’, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Cora Kaplan 163 ‘Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights’ Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166 ‘Varieties of Women’s Writing’ Clare Brant 167 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson 172 Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today Rosalind Coward 173 Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Alison Light 177 The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism Nicola Humble 182 ‘Afterword: The New Woman’s Fiction’ Shari Benstock 186 Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction Susan Sellers 187 4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing Introduction 191 ‘“This Novel Changes Lives”: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article “Summer Reading”’ Rosalind Coward 199 ‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’ Michèle Barrett 203 ‘What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon’ Lillian Faderman 207 ‘American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction’ Cheri Register 210 ‘Introduction’, Feminism Meets Queer Theory Elizabeth Weed 216 ‘Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’ Annette Kolodny 219 ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ Elaine Showalter 222 Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi 225 Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity Alice A. Jardine 228 ‘Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism’ Rachel Bowlby 230 ‘Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism’ Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234 ‘Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern’ Robyn Wiegman 235 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Bell Hooks 238 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism Madhu Dubey 241 Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Susan Stanford Friedman 244 The Radical Aesthetic Isobel Armstrong 248 What is a Woman? And Other Essays Toril Moi 251 Undoing Gender Judith Butler 254 ‘The Race for Theory’ Barbara Christian 257 ‘Woman Can Never Be Defined’ Julia Kristeva 261 ‘Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey’s Feminism’ Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262 5 Writing, Reading and Difference Introduction 266 Literary Women Ellen Moers 275 Thinking about Women Mary Ellmann 277 ‘Writing Like a Woman’ Peggy Kamuf 280 Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism Mary Jacobus 282 ‘Talking about Polylogue’ Julia Kristeva 284 Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing Nancy K. Miller 286 The Resisting Reader Judith Fetterley 288 ‘Reading as a Woman’ Jonathan Culler 291 ‘Reading Like a Man’ Robert Scholes 294 ‘How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296 The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 Kate Flint 300 Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England Jan Fergus 303 Reading Groups Jenny Hartley 306 ‘The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’ Luce Irigaray 308 ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ Hélène Cixous 311 ‘Castration or Decapitation?’ Hélène Cixous 314 ‘Language and Revolution: The Franco–American Dis-connection’ Domna C. Stanton 316 ‘Made in America: “French Feminism” in Academia’ Claire Goldberg Moses 318 Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321 6 Locating the Subject Introduction 325 ‘A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview’ Julia Kristeva 333 ‘Femininity and Its Discontents’ Jacqueline Rose 335 Critical Practice Catherine Belsey 340 What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference Shoshana Felman 343 A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Janice A. Radway 347 ‘Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation’ Seyla Benhabib 349 ‘Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory’ Linda Alcoff 352 ‘Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory’ Teresa De Lauretis 355 Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference Diana Fuss 358 ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ Donna Haraway 361 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa 366 Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Carole Boyce Davies 369 ‘The Straight Mind’ Monique Wittig 372 Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375 ‘Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology’ Kate Soper 378 7 Writing ‘Glocal’ Introduction 381 En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Sangeeta Ray 389 Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities Avtar Brah 391 Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Reina Lewis 393 ‘French Feminism in an International Frame’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396 ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399 Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402 ‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’ Sara Suleri 405 Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies Rey Chow 407 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt 411 Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855–1902 Laura E. Franey 415 ‘Introduction’, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417 Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique Benita Parry 420 Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985 Adrienne Rich 423 Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Caren Kaplan 425 Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Anne Mcclintock 428 Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland Susan Strehle 432 Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer 434 Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Rosi Braidotti 437 Bibliography of Extracts 439 Index 447

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Book SynopsisThe first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.Irish vegan studies are poised for increasing relevance as climate change threatens the legitimacy and longevity of animal agriculture and widespread health problems related to animal product consumption disrupt long held nutritional ideologies. Already a top producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, Ireland has committed to expanding animal agriculture despite impending crisis. The nexus of climate change, public health, and animal welfare present a challenge to the hegemony of the Irish state and neoliberal European governance. Efforts to resist animal rights and environmentalism highlight the struggle to sustain economic structures of inequality in a society caught between a colonialist past and a globalized future. Animals in Irish Society explores the vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism. From its zoomorphic pagan roots to its legacy of vegetarianism, Ireland has been more receptive to the interests of other animals than is currently acknowledged. More than a land of "meat" and potatoes, Ireland is a relevant, if overlooked, contributor to Western vegan thought.

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Book SynopsisTHE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2018 UN PEACE PRIZE THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN' ON WOMEN DRIVING.  'Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world'  Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox 'Manal al-Sharif is following in a long tradition of women activists around the world who have put themselves on the line to expose and challenge discriminatory laws and policies' Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International NewsManal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalismTrade Review'Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif, whose voice is laden with quiet dignity even at its most urgent. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world.' -- Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox'Manal is no Chanel-draped, chauffeur-driven Saudi princess. Her account of why a single working mother’s life compelled her to confront the kingdom’s fiercely patriarchal ways is touching and revealing in equal measure. This is such an astonishing, humble, truthful book, more illuminating than a hundred newspaper stories on Saudi Arabia.' -- Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad'A captivating read. Manal al-Sharif refuses to hide her scars, unveiling what she endured and sacrificed to become a professional who has fearlessly pushed the boundaries of tradition.' -- Elena Gorokhova, author of Russian Tattoo

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

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Book SynopsisTina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up the increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law and gender relations and new movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp. She looks in particular at contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure and desire.

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Book SynopsisDisordered Violence looks at how gender, race and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Caron Gentry examines the profiles of 8 well-known terrorist actors and looks at the gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told.

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Book SynopsisAs we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate—and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as disperseTrade Review“Its writing limpid, its organization elegant, its argument scintillating, this book is inspirational. And radical. Annemarie Mol effectively unseats the mindset that cannot see past people as thinking and embodied beings. While her address is to questions as they are posed in philosophy, this book will find huge sympathy among those dealing with anthropological materials of all kinds and stages a striking provocation for the general reader who asks whether scholarship can tell us anything new.” -- Marilyn Strathern, author of * Relations: An Anthropological Account *“In characteristically crisp and inviting prose, Annemarie Mol thinks through eating—its social acts, sensory experiences, and metabolic processes—to re-metabolize the wisdoms so many of us have absorbed about knowing and relating, being and doing, subjectivity and agency. Eating in Theory offers a nourishingly pluralistic vision of humans permeable to their surroundings, interdependent rather than autonomous, and hungry for further thinking. It’s a book to savor.” -- Heather Paxson, Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Eating in Theory is a tasty and satisfying treat for anyone interested in human-nature relationships, refreshing theoretical perspectives, food studies, ethnography and more." -- Ola Plonska * LSE Review of Books *"[I]n detailing much of her critical reflection on a certain valued practice of thinking over those of eating, Mol eloquently brings into the limelight the vitality of abandoning grand theories aimed at explaining all human beings, and especially those not situated in their own theorization." -- Elin Linder * Anthropology Book Forum *"A remarkable book. . . . By dispensing with the ontological need for knowledge to be universal, Eating in Theory lives up to its title and truly theorizes eating as an act of meaning and meaning making. . . . Mol’s analysis unfolds fluidly and clearly. . . . Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- M. A. Lange * Choice *"I know of no health researcher who so compellingly takes health out of individual bodies and situates it in the collective ecology that bodies depend on. . . . No writings seem more relevant to the crises of the present moment." -- Arthur W. Frank * Journal of Medical Humanities *"[A] terrific little book. . . . . Anthropologists and sociologists with an interest in Food Studies can easily make strong use of Eating in Theory, as well as of course philosophers of many disciplines preoccupied with the question of what we can wrap our collective Western mouth—rather than our head—around the most pernicious theoretical effects of the Anthropocene." -- Megan Volpert * Popmatters *"I find this book a valuable philosophical and theoretical contribution to our understanding of eating and food. I find it especially useful because Annemarie Mol demonstrates, through her scrutiny of such philosophical categories as Being, Knowing, Doing, and Relating, the multiple entanglements between people, between humans and nonhumans, that highlight the complexities of eating. As she successfully demonstrates, this traditionally banalized act can be productive for thinking about what it means to be human at a time when multiple empirical realities challenge universal philosophical understandings." -- Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Eating in Theory proves to be not only brief and approachable, but exciting and thought-provoking for foodways scholars. Reminiscent of Sarah Pink’s work on sensory ethnography, Mol introduces the reader to exciting new approaches in studying food and eating. Through thoughtful fieldwork passages and engaging analysis, Mol teaches us to view the world through eating, relating it to larger issues of overconsumption and ecological sustainability." -- Ema Noëlla Kibirkstis * Digest *"This book unravels the particular and ever-present model of the human derived from Western epistemologies while demonstrating its perniciousness by experimenting with alternatives. . . . Mol's voice is precise, challenging, and insightful. . . . Mol's ideas inspire a way of laboring in the world, of which the academia is part." -- Jessica Hardin * Anthropological Quarterly *"Eating in Theory brings Mol’s sophisticated approach to materiality and its enactment to bear on the prosaic topic of eating. This fascinating yet complex topic is much enriched by her approach and clarity. . . . Mol’s choice of the familiar yet always fascinating topic of eating has allowed her to create a very helpful primer and companion for a posthuman understanding of being, knowing, thinking, and relating. Naturally it is of interest to anyone interested in the topic of food and eating but should also be read widely across the humanities and social sciences for its contributions to thinking around ecological sustainability and philosophy." -- Hannah Drayson * Leonardo *Table of Contents1. Empirical Philosophy 2. Being 3. Knowing 4. Doing 5. Relating 6. Intellectual Ingredients Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJennifer DeClue examines Black feminist avant-garde films from filmmakers including Kara Walker, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary that visualize violence suffered by Black women in the United States.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Visitation 1 1. The Archive and the Silhouette: Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema 29 2. Reckoning at the Bridge: Saved and the Archive of Laura Nelson 65 3. Carrying the Knowledge / Performing the Archive: An Afternoon with Marsha P. Johnson 99 4. Ecstasy and the Archive: A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom 143 Coda. On Tenderness 183 Notes 187 Bibliography 211 Index 221

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Book SynopsisRevisits the sex wars of the 1970s and '80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era#MeToo's stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changedand amplifiedconversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is and toppled prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how punishment should be doled out and how justice should be served. The New Sex Wars reveals that these clashes are nothing new. Delving into the contentious debates from the '70s and 80s, Brenda Cossman traces the striking echoes in the feminist divisions of this earlier period. In exploring the history of past conflictsthe resistance to finding common ground, the media's pleasure in portraying the debates as polarized cat fights, the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sexshe shows how they have come to shape the #MeToo era. From the '70s to Trade Review"The New Sex Wars is extremely well mapped and well conceived. Cossman’s capacity to wrestle an unwieldy social problem to the ground and apply a clear and analytic eye is unparalleled. This book will make a significant contribution to gender studies, especially in law but also more generally." -- Libby Adler, author of Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Reform"Brenda Cossman clears a fabulously feminist path out of the ‘sex wars of infinite regress.’ By reconstructing the polarizing flashpoints of our contemporary sexual politics, The New Sex Wars impresses upon us the urgency of reading for repair. Too much ink has been spilt charting the alleged antipathies across feminisms; Cossman instead mines generative contestations within feminist formations so that we might countenance rather than caricature our comrades’ definitions of, and proposed remedies against, sexual violence. Taking sexual harm seriously, Cossman shows, will require unlinking anger from vengeance and decoupling justice from the carceral." -- Joseph Fischel, Yale University"If anyone has the potential to upend the recursive logic of the sex wars it is Brenda Cossman, whose writing has for years used nuance, empathy, and humor to offer confident, innovative queer critiques that nonetheless speak to feminist sensibilities. Here she takes on that project of repair or reconciliation in earnest, and connects it to a set of controversies that will garner her a wide range of readers. Cossman’s clear-eyed, imaginative reconceptualization should by all rights transform this debate, but will in any case deeply enrich its participants." -- Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law"The New Sex Wars is essential reading for those interested in a nuanced evaluation of feminist contestations over sex, both present and past." -- Aya Gruber, author of The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration"Cossman provides a nuanced and illuminating analysis of the role of due process talk in #MeToo discussions, and of contestations regarding ‘sexual misconduct’ … The New Sex Wars is an excellent exercise in how to think about contemporary feminist issues." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"In The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, Brenda Cossman, a law professor, dubs #MeToo 'Sex Wars 2.0' even as she aims to disrupt 'binary antagonisms' by building on the insights of 'sex-positive feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral feminism'... [she] provide[s] us with important insights about the interrelationships among feminism, sexuality, harm, pleasure, and race." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *

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Book SynopsisHow activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests aliveOn January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, feminist activists and allies across many progressive movements assembled across the United States to express their displeasure with the new President and his agenda. These marches were unprecedented in size, bringing together as many as 5.3 million Americans, with at least 408 protests in cities and towns across the country. These protests were large and dramatic, and had an outsized impact. But, they do not tell the whole story of this wave of contention. Keeping the March Alive follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after the Women's March across ten cities from Amarillo and Atlanta to Pasadena and Pittsburgh to tell the whole story of how some social movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter. Catherine Corrigall-Brown explains how activists navigate their local context andTrade ReviewPenetrating cross-sectional analysis of how different grassroots networks formed and endured through the challenges of the Trump years. This is a book both for the moment and – given the enduring challenges to American democracy – for the future. * Sidney Tarrow, author of Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development *A terrific contribution to our understanding of the strategic choices that affect the ongoing mobilization of social movements. The book provides an impressive model of multi-method research and demonstrates the importance of tactics, coalition work, recruitment techniques, and online technologies in keeping the movement alive. * Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Grassroots Environmentalism *With great nuance and an impressive trove of quantitative and qualitative data, Corrigall-Brown’s deep dive into grassroots activism shows how local contexts fueled and shaped mobilization during an intense period of resistance. Not only an empirically rich and engaging read, Keeping the March Alive is also a welcome theoretical achievement in terms of movement context and survival, tactics, coalitions, and online mobilization. * Alison Dahl Crossley, author of Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution *

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award Winner for Biography and AutobiographyNamed one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's NonfictionOffers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with painWhat can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism. Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, Scarred reframes pain as a transnational feminist object, something that we can carry across international borders. Drawing on her own experience traveling across twenty countries within just over a year, Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that they might ask themselves, How can I live with pain differently?By using pain as a lens of feminist analysis, Scarred allows us Trade ReviewSaraswati applies a feminist analytic lens in her approach to pain in this transformative work. She believes that everyone carries pain, and offers provocative theories about how to manage it. Part memoir, this book examines Saraswati’s own pain in addition to her scholarly critique, which enhances and supports her findings and conclusions. * Library Journal, Best Books of 2023 *With her latest book, L. Ayu Saraswati offers readers an original, inclusive and intimate examination of pain through a feminist lens. As rigorous as it is readable, Scarred seeks to reframe our relationships to pain, healing, embodiment and enchantment. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *Drawing on her travels across 20 countries in just over a year, Saraswati, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies, shines a feminist light on pain. Her book fuses several modes of storytelling, including memoir, academic theory, ethnography, and criticism, and aims to reframe the reader’s understanding of pain and the female body. * Publishers Weekly *Theoretically astute yet intensely readable, this book suggests that all of us carry pain—and that everyone also inherently possesses the ability to work with pain instead of fighting against it. The book emphasizes that pain is integral to people; it’s not an incidental feature of circumstances. An exceptional discussion of strategies for processing pain with and through the body. * Library Journal (starred review) *How do we create new conversations with and about pain–conversations that are humane, enchanting, and subversive? How do we cultivate new, life-sustaining relationships with pain–rather than reject, repress, or in other ways deny it? (And why would we even want to do so?) How do we address both the private/personal and the social/systemic/political dimensions of pain? Traveling with and through pain, L. Ayu Saraswati explores these and related questions. She risks the personal, offering invaluable lessons and additional perspectives into the complex entanglement of feminist theory/praxis, healing, embodiment, enchantment, and pain. * AnaLouise Keating, author of The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook *An intimate tour de force. Scarred is a necessary intervention into the human quest to understand pain and its im/possibilities. Indeed, even more so in this neoliberal world that encourages pain's suppression and elimination. From yoga retreats in Costa Rica, to the feminist practice of ‘gibberish’ in the mountains of Nepal, to experiences of ‘feminist enchantment’ in Ecuador, Iceland, and Catalonia, this book—part memoir, part ethnographic analysis—is a transdisciplinary and transcontinental fete of feminist cultural studies scholarship. Its theoretical insights, display of feminist autoethnographic fieldwork, and writing craft will have a lasting influence. * Devika Chawla, author of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition *Saraswati artfully weaves memoir and auto-ethnography; theorizing and storytelling; and self-reflection and critical analysis to create a beautiful meditation on her feminist journey through pain. This methodologically innovative and theoretically provocative text is a must-read for anyone seeking insight into how we can live with pain differently. * Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, author of Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach *

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Book SynopsisTells the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage.Trade Review"In an entanglement of opinions and assumptions, Greenwald thoroughly iterates the principal arguments and struggles of this time and any scholar researching feminism, or perhaps simply a curious reader, would do well to pick up this book."—Celina Vargas, French Review"Scholars of twentieth-century feminist history on both sides of the Atlantic will want to take note of Lisa Greenwald's comprehensive account of the ideological debates that underpinned feminist-led public policy changes in postwar France."—Sandra Reineke, American Historical Review“‘Femininity and womanhood had long been expressions of women’s power and the root of their identity in French society,’ writes Lisa Greenwald. Her lively, smart, and thoroughly researched book shows how those terms—and the power arrangements and identities they stood for—were revised, reinterpreted, and repudiated. . . . The fiftieth anniversary of May ’68 will direct new attention to its powerful aftershocks. Feminism was one of those aftershocks, and Greenwald’s book will be part of our reappraisal of this historical moment.”In an entanglement of opinions and assumptions, Greenwald thoroughly iterates the principal arguments and struggles of this time and any scholar researching feminism, or perhaps simply a curious reader, would do well to pick up this book. Judith G. Coffin, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin“Lisa Greenwald introduces anglophone audiences to the breadth and depth of second-wave feminism in France. Her bold analysis encompasses much more than theory by restoring to us the complexity of the activist components of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes.”—Karen Offen, senior scholar, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University“Finally! In her remarkable book on the history of French feminism after World War II, Lisa Greenwald restores overlooked feminist activists of the 1950s and 1960s to their rightful place. Embedding them in their changing historical context, Greenwald follows feminism through upheaval and fracture after 1968, exploring both the unresolved dilemmas and the profound changes feminists brought about.”—Sarah Fishman, associate dean for undergraduate studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston“A solid and well-documented investigation into the Women’s Liberation Movement in France: its actions, its components, its relations with previous generations, and its painful internal conflicts. It reveals the very important role played by radical and materialist feminists. It is an effective antidote against the invention of ‘French feminism’ by some American scholars.”—Sylvie Chaperon, professor of contemporary and gender history at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Laboratory FRAMESPA“This is the book you need in order to grasp the complex history of French Second-Wave Feminism.”—Bibia Pavard, senior lecturer in history, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of Media (CARISM) at the University Paris II"In the United States, there remains the belief that French feminism of the second wave is only a literary and/or theoretical movement, leaving in the shadow its political struggles, internal conflicts, and their real impacts. The novelty of this work is to place the women's liberation movement in the historical and intellectual contexts in which it emerged and grew . . . Lisa Greenwald's book will therefore be of interest in more than one way: not only does it offer, for the first time on the other side of the Atlantic, a history of the women's liberation movement in France and highlights—in a comparative perspective with the United States movement by example—the peculiarities that cross it. It also lets us French readers see a new approach to second wave feminism by placing it in a longer time frame—by linking it to the French political and intellectual context and to the first writings and first actions of women (mainly since the end of World War II)."—Archives du Feminisme"Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement, is the story of modern-day French feminism which was both impactful and full of intellectual and personal conflict."—Marshal Zeringue, Page 99 TestTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Reigniting French Feminism for the Twentieth Century 1. Liberation and Rethinking Gender Roles: 1944–1950 2. Reform and Consensus: Feminism in the 1950s and 1960s 3. The May Events and the Birth of Second-Wave Feminism: 1968–1970 4. New Feminist Theory and Feminist Practice: The Early 1970s 5. The Mouvement de Libération des Femmes and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom: 1970–19796. Takeover? Feminists In and Out of Party Politics: The Late 1970s 7. Who Owns Women’s Liberation? The Campaigns for French Women Not a Conclusion: The Socialist Party’s Ascendancy and French Feminism’s Second Wave Appendix: The Feminist Press in France, 1968–1981 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as its plans for how to rectify them.Trade Review"What if pornography built the body as we know it and can also help dismantle it? In What Pornography Knows, Kathleen Lubey tracks texts like a detective across centuries as they hide on secret library shelves, analyzes them with verve, and shows us, brilliantly, how pornography doesn't just celebrate endless sex but in fact constructed sex as we know it, and with more ambivalence than we'd realized. A masterful rethinking of the history of pornography."—Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right"Kathleen Lubey's dazzling study makes available an astounding new history of pornographic narrative––or, rather, of pornographic dilation, since 'narrative' is among the categories of representation we will have to rethink in response to this landmark study, along with 'knowledge,' 'embodiment,' and 'sexuality.' This book will make a lasting impact in a number of scholarly fields––and it is sorely needed: a non-phobic, but characteristically skeptical, treatment of a pornography as a far more complex genre than hitherto perceived."—Grace Lavery, author of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis"With analysis that is nothing short of astonishing, Lubey offers a dramatic, eloquent cultural history of pornography with an ingenious throughline in a single much-transformed text. What Pornography Knows offers significant new information about literary fields from the eighteenth century to the present and makes available new insights about the social hierarchies in which they participated."—Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago, author of Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action"Lubey's greater argument, that pornography places sex in a discursive whirl that assesses how culture and sex refract each other, remains useful for porn studies and histories of erotic literature. This monograph will feel especially interesting to researchers working on porn's reception history and the intersection of eighteenth century book history with spheres of erotic production."—Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Critical Inquiry"What Pornography Knows is a rare achievement in that it balances serious archival acumen and book history with theoretical sophistication and, in the end, a consequential presentism which left me thinking differently about a period and topic that I have long researched. It is as much a virtuoso literary history as it is a roadmap for the exciting directions that eighteenth-century scholarship can take."—Jason S. Farr, Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Pornography Without Sex 1. Genital Parts: Detachable Properties in the Eighteenth Century 2. Feminist Speculations: Penetration and Protest in Pornographic Fiction 3. The Victorian Eighteenth Century: Publishing an Erotics of Inequity 4. Uncoupling: Pornography and Feminism in the Countercultural Era Coda: A Mindful Pornography

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Book SynopsisIn this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for social polarization, she shows how there is substantial pressure on women not just to be employed, but to prioritize working life. She fiercely challenges the media gatekeepers who shape contemporary womanhood by means of exposure and public shaming, and pays particular attention to the endemic nature of anti-welfarism as it is addressed to women, thereby reducing the scope for feminist solidarity. In this theoretically rich and deep analysis of current cultural processes, McRobbie introduces a series of concepts including 'visual media governmentality' and the urging of women into work as 'contraceptive employment'. Foregrounding a triage of ideas as the 'perfect-imperfect-resilience' McRobbie conveys some of the key means by which consumer capitalism attempts to manage the threats posed by the new feminisms. She proposes that 'resilience' emerges as a compromise, as hard-edged neoliberalism proffers the option of a return to liberal feminism.A lively and devastating critique, Feminism and the Politics of Resilience offers a much-needed wake-up call. It is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, media, sociology, and women's and gender studies.Trade Review"Jam-packed with insights, these essays from our leading sociocultural analyst are a brilliant commentary on how feminist norms and counter-norms have shaped contemporary work, culture, and politics. Required reading, for all genders." Andrew Ross, NYU "Angela McRobbie has a remarkable ability to interpret the present with precision and lyricism. Feminism and Neoliberalism provides both a magisterial analysis of shifting gender politics and a persuasive new academic agenda for radical social democracy." Jo Littler, City University, London "This short volume makes a thought-provoking start on the crucial task of mapping the current conjuncture - a task on which McRobbie readily acknowledges there is still much to do." Paul Cammack, What's Worth Reading"McRobbie's book is a valuable contribution to the growing scholarly literature on gender, feminism, and neoliberalism. Because of its narrow focus on the UK, it is especially helpful in tracking how neoliberal popular feminisms and discourses of private responsibility vary across national contexts."Hypatia

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of ‘the other woman’, a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork’s aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers – Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey – who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.Trade Review'In looking at the decade that occupies a unique place in the ongoing history of the transnational feminist movement, [Lamm has] uncovered hitherto unassessed materials and proposed insightful new readings in the archives of feminism, whilst also presenting us with an archival rearrangement that produces new objects with which to think about art history.'Association for Art History -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresIntroduction: addressing the other womanPart I: Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 1 Adrian Piper’s textual address2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela DavisPart II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud4 Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura MulveyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of people affected by Ireland's constitutional abortion ban. Through in-depth research and interviews, the author uncovers how the 8th Amendment led women and gestating people live their bodies as future aborting bodies, and how the need to 'prepare' for crisis pregnancies shaped everyday practices.

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Book Synopsis'A brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power' - RUBY RARE'Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work' - VANITY FAIR'This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job' SUNDAY TIMES'An important read for any young women starting out on their sexual life' SUNDAY INDEPENDENTWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISSIE HYNDE, JENNY ECLAIR AND MANY OTHERSWhat goes through a woman's head while she's having sex?Women on Top of the World is a collection of 51 first person testimonies by 51 women from around the globe, from all ages and from all walks of life. Searingly honest, they reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex to writer Lucy-Anne Holmes. The result is an incredible compendium of true disclosures that are funny and sad, shocking and tender.Every experience is different, unique and fascinating. From 19-year-old Melodie in the UK to 32 year-old Wambui from Kenya and 74-year-old Lucy in New Zealand, we as readers are led down as many paths as there are ways to have sex. There are heterosexual women, gay women, bisexual women, queer women, monogamous women, polyamorous women, those who identify as non-binary and transgender women. There is beautiful sex, bored sex, auto-sexuality, crazy sex, tantric sex, sad sex and sex that is experienced as colours and melted toffee. A range of hugely talented, cutting-edge artists from all over the world - both male and female - have given their visual interpretations with rich and remarkable illustrations that convey the range of emotions contained within these intimate revelations.The result is a stunning, transportive book that will help quench the obvious thirst for narratives for women by women about their journeys of sexual self-discovery.Trade ReviewA brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power * Ruby Rare *This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job * The Sunday Times *Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work * Vanity Fair *An important read for any young women starting out on their sexual life * Sunday Independent *Genius writer * The Sun *

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Book SynopsisWhen Jennifer Palmieri realized that everything in her life had been shaped by men, she wanted to make a change. From work behaviour and use of language to wardrobe choices, she decided to follow her own convictions and reject paternalistic expectations. In an era of wage gaps, the Kavanaugh hearings, the #MeToo movement and a domineering administration, Jennifer found a way to move beyond the bounds of patriarchy and wants to show readers a way out.Where Dear Madam President introduced a blueprint to succeed and the tools to prosper, We Proclaim gives readers the advice they need to to step out of a man's world and into their own. Jennifer believes that every woman has "power to change the world by changing the way she behaves in it." We Proclaim celebrates the accomplishments and history of the women's movement and it will inspire you to be subversive, courageous and bold.This book is a Declaration of Independence for women, broken into three types of sections:A preamble that expresses gratitude for the lessons of a man's worldAn assertion: the time has come for women to declare their independence from a world not created for them.Each chapter begins with a "whereas" clause and includes advice for combating the reality of living in a patriarchy.Through personal reflections and stories of other inspirational female leaders, Jennifer shares the key lessons she's learned from her journey to success.

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Book SynopsisKicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts. Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture’s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women. "An important addition to women’s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts." —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC "Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports." —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports "Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight." —Sue Jaye JohnsonTrade Review"Seconds Out is, to put it bluntly, a joy to read, even for those (like this reviewer) who have no real interest in professional fighting." —Quill and Quire Review

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1993, Transforming a Rape Culture has provided a new understanding of sexual violence and its origins in this culture. This groundbreaking work seeks nothing less than fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes about power, gender, race, and sexuality. This new edition includes eight new essays that address topics such as rape as war crime, sports and sexual violence, sexual abuse among the clergy, conflict between traditional mores and women's rights in the Asian American and Latin American communities, as well insightful analyses of cyberporn. The diverse contributors are activists, opinion leaders, theologians, policymakers, educators, and authors of both genders. An excellent text for undergraduate classes in Women's Studies, Family Sociology or Criminal Justice, the book is being reissued on the 10th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act.

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Book SynopsisAs women seek to cultivate an understanding of their lives, a mythological model can provide a tool for self-discovery and realising individual potential. THE CIRCLE OF NINE presents nine archetypes that represent different, but equally important aspects of the feminine psyche. They portray both the life of the individual and the story of woman as a whole - a circle of ever-changing patterns that is a source of wisdom and inspiration. Three mothers, three queens and three ladies form the circle. The Great Mother nurtures her children with a love that embraces the cycle of life, the Queen of the Night transforms the raw energy of instinct into skill and vision and the Lady of the Hearth brings warmth and creativity into the home. By recognising these and the other six archetypes of the circle, women can hold up a mirror to their souls to gain new perspectives and unlock their potential. Drawing from history, her work with women''s groups and contemporary observations, Cherry Gilchrist presents a mythology that explores the psychology of the modern woman. Her analysis, interpretations and practical advice help to unravel the mystery of the divine feminine and provide a useful guide for daily life.First published in 1991, this new edition contains a new introduction and content related to the author''s life experience.

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Book SynopsisThis study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism.

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Book SynopsisReflections on the legacy and impact of radical black feminists of the 1960s on today's feminist and anti-racist movements. The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organisation and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today's struggles.Trade Review“This new collection of a four-decades-old text reminds us that black women have long known that America’s destiny is inseparable from how it treats them and the nation ignores this truth at its peril.” —The New York Review of Books “A striking collection that should be immediately added to the Black feminist canon.” —Bitch Media “An essential book for any feminist library.” —Library Journal “The publication of How We Get Free marks the 40th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective statement, which is often said to be the foundational document of intersectional feminism. As white feminism has gained an increasing amount of coverage, there are still questions as to how black and brown women’s needs are being addressed. This book, through a collection of interviews with prominent black feminists, provides some answers.” –Rachael Revesz, the Independent “For feminists of all kinds, astute scholars, or anyone with a passion for social justice, How We Get Free is an invaluable work.” –Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisIn 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of “doctors” well known to police throughout New England. A fascinated public followed the suspect’s flight from justice, as many rooted for the fugitive. The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill takes a close look not only at the Guilfords, but also at the cultural shifts and societal compacts that allowed their practice to flourish while abortion was both illegal and unregulated.Focusing on the women at the heart of the story—both victim and perpetrator—Biederman reexamines this slice of history through a feminist lens and reminds us of the very real lives at stake when a woman's body and choices are controlled by others.Table of ContentsPrologue 1. When Harry Met Nancy 2. Creating a Doctor 3. Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin 4. Lethargy 5. The Salem Trials 6. New Haven, Hotbed of Abortion 7. Road Trip 8. Coming Home to Her Funeral 9. Link by Link 10. Transcontinental Dragnet 11. A Much-Persecuted Woman Afterword Acknowledgments Notes

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Book SynopsisLondoners Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson are collaborating with author Rebecca Solnit and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to reimagine London's classic tube map. The new public history project 'City of London Women' will redraw Transport for London's classic underground map by naming each stop after a woman, non-binary person or a group. By consulting with artists, historians, community organizers and others through an open call, the project aims to identify remarkable female or non-binary Londoners who have had an impact on the city's history in some way. It will allocate them to each of the stations depicted on the London tube map according to their connections to a local area. Some of these people might be household names, others might be unsung heroes or figures from London's hidden histories. The names might be drawn from arts, civil society, business, politics, sport and so on. Attractively produced and packaged as a large poster map, this will be an ideal gift item that will find a place in museums and art stores as well as bookshops across London and beyond.Trade Review'How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are gendered ... and it's usually one gender, and not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging from underground, a reminder that it's all connected, and that we get around.' -Rebecca Solnit

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking double-volume engages the theme of abolition feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence organizing, Black feminist and feminist of color rebellion, survivor knowledge production, strategies devised inside and across prison walls, and a full, fierce refusal of race-gender pathology and punitive control. This analysis disrupts the politics of carceral feminism as conversations about the ramifications of the prison-industrial complex continue.

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Book SynopsisHating Girls is a collection of cutting-edge essays addressing the pervasive problem of misogyny from an intersectional framework, particularly focused on identities of gender, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Scholars, activist reformers, and social justice practitioners offer multiple perspectives on the misogyny that dominates our culture, providing both macro-views and case studies in the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis exposes the destructive, oppressive beliefs and practices inherent in our society and offers a progressive, equitable way forward.Contributors are: Portia Allie-Turco, Mary Sue Barnett, Melissa Brennan, Angela Cowser, Diane Dougherty, Dorislee Gilbert, Kristi Gray, Tammy Hatfield, Sarah E. Johansson, Sandy Phillips Kirkham, Francoise Knox-Kazimierczuk, Debra Meyers, Donna Pollard, Meredith Shockley-Smith, Tara M. Tuttle, Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos, and Stephanie A. Welsh.Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction   Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett1 Sexual Assault Prosecutions   Kristi Gray and Dorislee Gilbert2 Intentionally Inclusive Pedagogy  Pedagogical Practice as an Act of Social Justice    Tammy Hatfield, Portia Allie-Turco, Sarah E. Johansson and Melissa Brennan3 The Dangers of “You Are Not Your Own”  How Purity Culture Props Up Rape Culture   Tara M. Tuttle4 Objectification and Sexualization of Girls  A Case Study   Debra Meyers5 A Squeegee in Your Path  Resisting Erasure   Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos6 Resistance to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide   Mary Sue Barnett7 Child Marriage  A War on Girls   Donna Pollard8 Let Me Prey Upon You   Sandy Phillips Kirkham9 Patriarchal Power and the Catholic Church   Diane Dougherty10 African-American Pan-Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal Women Preachers   Angela Cowser11 Black Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Clergywoman at the Crossroads in Ministry   Stephanie A. Welsh12 Misogynoir and Health Inequities  Giving Voice to the Erased   Francoise Knox Kazimierczuk and Meredith Shockley-SmithIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Awakening of Indian Women is a classic work of anti-imperial feminist theory. Kamaladevi Chattophadyay offers a clear vision of India liberated from the yoke of British colonial rule. Awakening presents a dynamic portrait of the Indian feminist movement in the early 20th century, written by a vibrant cast of activists at the centre of anti-colonial and feminist agitations.

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Book SynopsisBird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive.Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they're ours to hold.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary and deftly written memoir, Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces is an inherently compelling read from beginning to end. Complex, candid, and offering an intrinsically fascinating account that will prove to be an enduringly valued addition to both community and academic library Contemporary Biography collections. -- Margaret Lane -- Midwest Book Review, 20180622"Bird-Bent Grass is a rich contribution to memoir and epistolary literature. As in the letters of Paul in the Bible and Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, for example, Venema explores the rich literary potential of changing and interweaving perspectives as well as the intrigue of letters gone astray. "This book contains lush language on global themes of conflict, abuse, estrangement and death, and reminds us of the significance of what a letter once was. I want to clap a glass case on it; letters have become museum artifacts, and this project shows what has been lost since the first emails were sent seven years after these first letters were written in 1987. Venema has done a marvellous job of examining the significance of letter-writing in cementing bonds across mother-daughter, African-North American and historic-past-present relationships." - Faith Eidse, co-editor of Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global and author of Healing Falls (forthcoming)Readers who are walking the journey of Alzheimer's with a loved one should find a sense of rapport with this story. Venema describes the progress of the disease in an honest and straightforward way, tinged with sadness, but always spiced with laughter. -- Barb Draper -- Canadian Mennonite, 20181101It's a deeply beautiful, thoughtful, celebratory book ... important and elegant. -- Charlene Diehl, Director, Winnipeg International Writers Festival"I felt [...] both moved and enlightened by the documenting of two such curious and articulate and inclusive intellects--by the conversations that move through this memoir, and link its disparate parts--by wise and profound detailing of this auto-ethnography. The image of "bird-bent grass" from the title evokes for me both a close observation of affect and a contemplation of impermanence, and I was invited to experience both of these states inside a lively, articulate, and sensitive account." Karen Hofmann, Prairie FireBird-Bent Grass is a compelling memoir that offers a thoughtful and evocative engagement with questions of identity, memory, and the relationships that help to shape and define a person. -- Canadian Literature (web), 20181114[Bird-Bent Grass] demonstrates that, and how, a substantial, complex memoir can be fashioned out of domestic life writing (personal correspondence, diaries, and recorded conversations and reminiscences). Such an achievement is especially welcome at a time when the family archive is endangered by the broad shift to electronic communication and social media. -- G. Thomas Couser -- BiographyTable of Contents you come home. we need to talk 1 perfect correspondence 2 crosswords 3 post secret 4 new meadow 5 holy shipwreck postscript: waiting for you here notes acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisMartine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. She draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation.

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Book SynopsisThe Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clément contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers-the weary sons of Freud.The analyst's once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like.Trade ReviewA work of ferocious humour and loving spite. What, she asks herself (and us) loud and direct, are psychoanalysts for? * La Nouvel Observateur *Brilliantly written ... to be read in one sitting. * Le Monde *

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