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Book Synopsis This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women's studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about ""second wave"" feminist academics. The contributors explain how the intellectual and political revolution begun by small groups of academics - often young, untenured women - at universities across Canada contributed to social progress and profoundly affected the way we think, speak, behave, understand equality, and conceptualize the academy and an academic career. A contextualizing essay documents the social, economic, political, and educational climate of the time, and a concluding chapter highlights the essays' recurring themes and assesses the intellectual and social transformation that their authors helped set in motion. The essays document the appalling sexism and racism some women encounter in seeking admission to doctoral studies, in hiring, in pay, and in establishing the legitimacy of feminist perspectives in the academy. They reveal sources of resistance, too, not only from colleagues and administrators but from family members and from within the self. In so doing they provide inspiring examples of sisterly support and lifelong friendship. Trade Review"The collection of brief, largely autobiographical pieces offers a taster 'menu' of feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada, and an invitation to read more deeply in the field. A more comprehensive tasting would take up several thousand pages--as do the collecive works of the editors and contributors. The array of scholars and perspectives demonstrates the nature and extent of feminist and women's studies at a pivotal point in Canadian academic history. The preface and opening chapter, 'Changing Times', provide an overview of women's organizations, projects, and actions, and highlight educational and scholarly landmarks.... There are numerous reminders of the particular struggles women academics have survived.... Minds of Our Own offers a multifaceted view of an important chapter in academic history and inspiration and affirmation for women and feminist scholars who still struggle for acceptance, recognition and legitimacy. It should be required reading for administrators, and for all who persist in creating and maintaining obstacles to equality and freedom of enquiry.'" -- Valerie Alia, Royal Roads University -- British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 24, no. 1, 2011, 201110"A vision and courage--that's all it took for a feminist revolution in academia! This is a book to remind people how this resolute group pulled it off. It will be an inspiration to young feminists as they face the future in our education institutions." -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University -- 200805"The stories are compelling, enthralling, and chilling...and make it clear that women's studies was born in struggle, both as an intellectual project and a political movement.... The anthology opens with a splendid integrated overview of women's history in Canada and Quebec over the remarkable decade. It has a bibliography to die for--a gift in itself... [A]s a record of a moment of joy and hopefulness, it stands as a glowing testimony of how women's studies and the women's liberation movement began as two branches of the same enterprise--wanting nothing less than to change the world." -- Susan Prentice -- 200910"Certainly, the personal accounts of the people involved in the early Women's Studies movement are central to this book, but the introduction and the conclusion should be essential reading for anyone connected with Women's Studies. For those who were not there, or are too young to know, these sections emphasize that there was a time in Canada and Quebec when women could be denied employment or fired if they married, when birth control and abortion were illegal, and as Sandra Pyke tells it, when a married woman could only get credit in the name of her husband, when the ideology of marriage and motherhood had a powerful hold on women, when pay discrimination based on sex was legal, when women's education was narrowly defined, when Aboriginal women's experiences were all but ignored, and a time when sexual orientation was openly viewed as deviant. For those who were part of the Women's Studies revolution in the ten years covered here or who came to the discipline in its early years, these two chapters allow us to reflect on the many limitations women accepted. The emergence of Women's Studies shows that some women were willing to challenge the status quo." -- Margaret Kechnie, Laurentian University -- Historical Studies in Education, Fall 2010, 201101"The aptly named Minds of Our Own is a page-turner. An opening chapter sketches the social, political, economic, and academic conditions under which the first Canadian Women's Studies projectts were launched. The conclusion outlines a series of themes that emerge across the core of the volume, comprise of more than forty brief but telling first-person narratives, some co-authored, all about 'inventing feminist scholarship' at various sites throughout the country between 1966 and 1976.... The gathered narratives are as compelling as the tale of editorial collaboration behind the work emblematic of growing networks among scholars in the field. Three parallel efforts to document Women's Studies' early years are brought together in this text, which offers an archive of personal reflections on a process of academic inquiry that continues to unearth the complexities of knowledge politics. The project is indebted to similar collections by American feminists but emphasizes the Canadian situation as unique. It acknowledges that anglo- and francophone environments for Women's Studies in Canada have remained distinctiv, that finding and generating locally relevant materials for study was both daunting and an on-going revelation from the start, and that there were and still are gaps in shared awareness about how diversely felt and situated the experiences of different communities of women remain in Canadian and international contexts. Graced by a cover that presents in textile art, a bitten pomegranate with at least one seed airborne off the page, the book invokes a time when enough critical mass had formed to defy western cultural interdictions against women's power to know in public and counterpublic ways.... Minds of Our Own lends itself to qualitative analyses that would unpack some of the affinities and contradictions that surface among and within accounts. In advance undergraduate classes, one could place selected narratives beside the galvanized feminist voices that took on poorly informed critiques of Women's Studies in the national media recently, or the untenable claim that gender equity has been achieved in Canada, even as the gender-based disparities abroad become a cornerstone of foreign policy. Minds of Our Own makes a useful contribution to the project of Canadian Women's Studies by detailing some of the groundbreaking strategies that formalized feminist academic inquiry in the mid- to late twentieth centuries. It points at once to past challenges and aTable of Contents Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, and Francine Descarries PREFACE CHANGING TIMES Women's Organizations (before 1960) Women's Changing Social Position The Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s Women in Post-Secondary Education Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies ESSAYS Creating a Tradition of Canadian Women Writers and Feminist Literary Criticism Clara Thomas Mother Was Not a Person, So I Became a Feminist Marguerite Andersen Fanning Fires: Women's Studies in a School of Social Work Helen Levine with Faith Schneider Feminism: A Critical Theory of Knowledge Marie-Andrée Bertrand Women's Studies: A Personal Story Dorothy E. Smith Contributing to the Establishment of Women's Studies and Gender Relations Anita Caron Feminism and a Scholarly Friendship Jill Ker Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis Midwife to the Birth of Women's Studies at McGill Margaret Gillett How the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University Grew from Unlikely Beginnings Maïr Verthuy Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian Alison Prentice Doing Feminist Studies without Knowing It Micheline Dumont A Matrix of Creativity Frieda Forman Transforming the Academy and the World Deborah Gorham Reminiscences of a Male Supporter of the Movement towards Women's Liberation Leslie Marshall You Just Had To Be There Greta Hofmann Nemiroff The Second Wave: A Personal Voyage Sandra Pyke A Lifetime of Struggling to Belong Vanaja Dhruvarajan Once Upon a Time There Was the Feminist Movement Nadia Fahmy-Eid Women's Studies at the University of Alberta Rosalind Sydie, Patricia Prestwich, Dallas Cullen Women's Studies and the Trajectory of Women in Academe Annette Kolodny Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, 1966-76: A Dialogue Andrea Lebowitz, Honoree Newcombe, Meredith M. Kimball Nascent, Incipient, Embryonic, and Ceremonial Women's Studies Linda Christiansen-Ruffman To Challenge the World Margrit Eichler From Male and Female Roles to Gender Relations: A Scientific and Political Trajectory Danielle Juteau Second Wave Breaks on the Shore of U of T Lorna Marsden Surviving Political Science ... and Loving It Jill Vickers Blood on the Chapel Floor: Adventures in Women's Studies Kay Armatage Genesis of a Journal Donna Smyth The Saga Marylee Stephenson Coming of Age with Women's Studies Meredith M. Kimball Doing Women's Studies Pat Armstrong Pioneer in Feminist Political Economy: Overcoming the Disjuncture Joan McFarland Women's Studies at Guelph Terry Crowley Women's Studies: Oppression and Liberation in the University Meg Luxton Reflections on Teaching and Writing Feminist Philosophy in the 1970s Susan Sherwin From Marginalized to ""Establishment"": Doing Feminist Sociology Maureen Baker ""To Ring True and Stand for Something"" Wendy Robbins Socialist Feminist and Activist Educator Linda Briskin My Path to Feminist Philosophy, 1970-76 Christine Overall Women's Sight: Looking Backwards into Women's Studies in Toronto Ceta Ramkhalawansingh PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION: SOME REFLECTIONS The Patriarchal Context Countervailing Social Movements Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation Inventing a New Scholarship and New Structures Disciplinarity and/or Interdisciplinarity Student-Teacher Relations Personal Impacts Interesting Times APPENDIXES Appendix A. Alphabetical List of Authors Appendix B. List of Authors by Discipline NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThe True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.

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Book SynopsisThe juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay. . . . So begins Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (1924-1964). In September, 1956, it burst onto the American scene as the most controversial novel of the century. Its publication was also an extraordinary story of personal triumph. Grace Metalious, an unpretentious housewife from the wrong side of the tracks, had written an explosive bestseller. From a ramshackle cottage in a small New England milltown, she zoomed to national stardom. She met movie stars, famous writers, and the hangers-on who gravitate to those who achieve sudden wealth. She partied with the glamorous; she traveled; always a generous friend, she entertained lavishly. It was a Cinderella dream. But it did not last. Grace refused to be confined by the fifties' notions of a woman's place. In her struggle to find herself, she lifted the lid off sex and violence, power and powerlessness, truth and hypocrisy, and became known as the Pandora in Blue Jeans. ""If I'm a lousy writer,"" she said, ""then an awful lot of people have got lousy taste."" Reporters could not resist the story: A wife and mother of three had written this sensational exposé. Her own affairs, her personal excesses, her outspokenness, continually shocked and fascinated America. Emily Toth has given us a complete and sympathetic portrait of Grace: the idealistic young scribbler, the partier, the sometimes reluctant wife and mother. Tracing the television shows, the films, the Peyton Place sequels and later novels, Toth shows Grace plagued by periods of self-doubt and loneliness, striving desperately and feeling pressured to create another ""hit."" Grace Metalious's life is the material modern novels are made of. Inside Peyton Place is the story of a woman out of step with her times, a poignant tale of a strong yet vulnerable individual who dreamed of having everything -- and then unfortunately found it. Emily Toth, a professor of English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University, is the author or editor of ten books, including Unveiling Kate Chopin (University Press of Mississippi) and Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.

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Book SynopsisAn explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill BialoskyBialosky urgently captures the moment in an adult's life when reflection leads to regret, and a desire to recapture the promise of one's youth becomes a kind of desperation. A vulnerable and searching tale of art, myth, and mortality. —Oprah DailySomething terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum's austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future.The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet.

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Book SynopsisAbolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.Trade Review“In Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie—four visionaries whose longstanding abolitionist work is inseparable from their feminist principles—brilliantly show how abolition feminism has always offered the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Feminist approaches to the carceral regime reveal the connections between state violence and intimate violence, between prisons and family policing, and between local and global organizing. By illuminating the genealogy of anti-carceral feminism and its vital struggles against all carceral systems, the authors compel us to see the urgent necessity of abolition feminism now.” —Dorothy Roberts, author, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build A Safer World “In this powerful, wise and well-crafted book, filled with insight and provocation, Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary. Offering vivid snapshots from a political movement, the book explains how organizing to end violence without turning to violent institutions such as prisons and the police as remedies, is how we learn what we need to do to make change possible. Abolitionist feminists, they teach us, in taking up the slow, practical and painstaking work of campaigning, also expand our political horizons and create imaginative tools for world building. Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.” —Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects “This little book is a massive offering on where we have been, where we are right now, and what we are imagining and organizing into being as abolition feminists. Breaking us out of every container and binary, Abolition. Feminism. Now. invites us to be in the complexity and contradictions of our humanity in the massive intersectional work of structural change. The ideas of abolition and feminism are rivers moving through us towards a liberated future which we can already feel existing within and between us. Invigorating and rooting, this text is instantly required reading, showing us how everything we have done and are doing is accumulating towards a post-punitive, transformative future - our lineage is bursting with brilliance! And we are prefiguring this possibility - wherever we are is a site of practice, a place where we are collectively becoming accountable to a justice infused with humanity, compassion and the belief that we can change. This book is a lineage of words and visuals, showing us the beauty of our efforts, and gently reminding us that we are not failing - we are learning, and we are changing.” —adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice “Neither manifesto nor blueprint for revolution, this extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence, domestic policing and militarism, the street, the home, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience, Davis, Dent, Meiners, and Richie offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here, lessons learned, battles won and lost, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice. A provocation, an incitement, an offering, an invitation to a difficult struggle to which we must all commit. Now.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination “This is the book we’ve all needed for a long, long time.” —Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives “Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a demand in every way. It pushes readers not to accept simple stories but to embrace complexity and new ways of thinking. But it is also a celebration of feminist agitators and freedom fighters who undermine the carceral state while building new sources safety, repair, and accountability. Of an ever-changing, growing, and evolving movement that puts survivors at the center of its analysis, not the periphery. And of a historic political struggle that considers freedom worth the fight. And, in the end, the authors make it clear that abolition feminism isn’t on its way; it’s already unfolding all around us.” —Nia T. Evans, Boston Review “Abolition, as a theory and practice, is gaining in public visibility. But abolition’s feminist genealogies are less visible. And at this moment—one of political uncertainty, a global health crisis, the simultaneous proliferation of misinformation and intellectual curiosity, and a collective willingness to discuss and commit to abolitionist ideas and practices—influential thinkers and activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie offer a beautifully and accessibly written text on carceral systems and abolition and feminism. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a timely work, offering an essential and critical genealogy of anticarceral feminism and ongoing conversations about the tools and solutions needed for structural change.” —LaShawn Harris, author of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy “Abolition. Feminism. Now. challenges us to move beyond the accessible, popular, and trendy toward a substantive and meaningful conceptualization of abolition feminism that is capacious enough to fundamentally change us.” —Jenn Jackson, author of Black Women Taught Us “These authors’ exhortation to remember abolition’s feminist lineages are important reminders now that large-scale protests have quieted into less visible (and more protracted) organizing.” —Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

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Book SynopsisThe evolution of how gender and feminism have been portrayed within media and literature has changed dramatically over the years as society continues to understand the importance of representation within entertainment. To fully understand how the field has changed, further study on the current and past forms of media representation is required. The Handbook of Research on Gender Studies and Feminism in Literature and Media engages with literary texts, digital media, films, and art to consider the relevant issues and empowerment strategies of feminism and gender and discusses the latest theories and ideas. Covering topics such as gender performativity, homophobia, patriarchy, sexuality, LGBTQ community, digital studies, and empowerment strategies, this major reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

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Book SynopsisModern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else''s happiness for their sake.Mary Harrington shows that women''s liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We''ve now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. This shift may benefit the elites, but it also makes it easier to commodify women''s bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abilities. Feminism has been captured by well-off white-collar women, who use it to advance their own economic and political interests under the pretense that these are the interests of all women—all the while wielding the term like a club against anyone, male or female, who dissents.

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Book SynopsisMaking Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications - including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl - that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, this book provides insight into the politics of feminism's recent past.Making Feminist Media brings together interviews with magazine editors, research from zine archives, and analysis of the advertising, articles, editorials, and letters to the editor found in third-wave feminist magazines. It situates these publications within the long history of feminist publishing in the United States and Canada and argues that third-wave feminist magazines share important continuities and breaks with their historical forerunners. These publishing lineages challenge the still-dominant - and hotly contested - wave metaphor categorization of feminist culture. The stories, struggles, and strategies of these magazines not only represent contemporary feminism, they create and shape feminist cultures. The publications provide a feminist counter-public sphere in which the competing interests of editors, writers, readers, and advertisers can interact. Making Feminist Media argues that reading feminist magazines is far more than the consumption of information or entertainment: it is a profoundly intimate and political activity that shapes how readers understand themselves and each other as feminist thinkers.Trade Review"In her accessible and entertaining Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld brings a nuanced historicizing eye to print magazines in the 90s and 00s. By connecting contemporary zines and magazines to the publishing practices, constraints, and market conditions of the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Groeneveld illuminates historical continuities that are too often ignored. And with her close readings, she demonstrates that feminist print media--like feminism itself--is always more complicated than as described by others." -- Lisa Jervis, founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop CultureTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age PART ONE: HISTORICIZING THIRD-WAVE MAGAZINES 1. ""Someone Else Actually Cares as Much as Me"": Sassy Magazine, Grrrl Zine Culture, and Feminist Magazines2. ""Serious and Material Business"": Third-Wave Magazines and the Marketplace in Historical Perspective PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF THIRD-WAVE MAGAZINES 3. HUES Magazine, the Politics of Alliance, and Critical Multiculturalism4. ""Be a Feminist or Just Dress Like One"": BUST, Fashion and Lifestyle Feminism5. ""Join the Knitting Revolution"": Representations of Crafting in Feminist Magazines6. Dildo Debacle: Advertising Feminist Sexualities in Bitch Magazine ConclusionAppendix: Publication Histories of Third-Wave MagazinesNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.Teaching about and for social change has been a core value of the field since its inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part of the curriculum in the professional schools. However, liberal arts faculties are increasingly under pressure to integrate community engagement practices and respond to labour market demands for greater student ""employability."" That demand creates challenges and possibilities as WGS programs and instructors adapt to changing post-secondary agendas.This book examines how WGS programs can continue to prioritize the foundational critiques of inequality, power, privilege, and identity in the face of a post-secondary push toward praxis as resumé building, skills acquisition, and the bridging of town-and-gown differences. It pushes students to reflect critically on their own experiences with feminist praxis through critical reflections offered by the contributors along with examples of practical approaches to community-based/experiential learning.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Learning Elsewhere? Challenges and Possibilities for Community-Based Praxis Learning in Canadian Women's and Gender Studies Programs - Susanne Luhmann, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Amber Dean Feminist Praxis / for Credit / under Neo-liberalism 2. Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and University-Community Engagement: What Sorts of Encounters with Difference Are Our Institutions Prioritizing? - Amber Dean 3. Feminist Praxis and Community Service-Learning in Canada's Changing Non-Profit Sector - Joanne Muzak 4. There's More Than One Way to Save a Baby: Navigating Tensions Between Activism vs. Community Service and Anti-Racism vs. Multiculturalism - Sarita Srivastava 5. Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Sexual Violence, and Neoliberal Governance - Lise Gotell Critical Approaches to Praxis / In and Out of the Classroom 6. Relations with the Dead? Ethics of Feminist Memorialization in Service Learning - Ilya Parkins 7. Quick to the Draw: Shooting from the Hip in Feminist NGOs - Judith Taylor 8. Evaluating the Effects of Community-Based Praxis Learning Placements on Campus and Community Organizations in the ""Doing Feminist Theory Through Digital Video"" Project - Rachel Hurst 9. Interrogating Feminist Praxis Inside the Classroom: ""Storying up"" Race, Indigeneity, and Alliance Building - Margot Francis 10. The De-Territorialization of Knowledge Production in Canadian Women's and Gender Studies Programs - Jennifer L. Johnson Afterword: Feeling Elsewhere - Catherine Orr Contributors Amber Dean, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Jennifer L. Johnson, Thorneloe University at Laurentian, Sudbury, ON Suzanne Luhmann, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Judith Taylor, University of Toronto, ON Rachel Hurst, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS Sarita Srivastava, Queen's University, Kingston, ON Ilya Parkins, University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Kelowna, BC Lise Gotell, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Joanne Muzak, independent scholar, Montreal, QC Catherine Orr, Beloit College, Beloit, WI Margot Francis, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

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Book SynopsisFeminism has changed the world; it is radically reshaping women’s lives. But what about men? They still hold most of the power in the economy, in government, in religions, in the media and often in the family too. At the same time, many men are questioning traditional views about what it means to be a man. Others resent the gains women have made and want to turn back the clock. Nikki van der Gaag asks the question: how might feminism improve the lives of men as well as women? And is there a place for men in the feminist story?Trade ReviewThoroughly researched, engagingly written and refreshingly global in scope, Feminism and Men contributes significantly to the continuing debate over men's role in feminism. Nikki van der Gaag exhaustively examines her subject from multiple angles - political, economic, social, psychological and historical - to substantiate her argument that men must be more fully engaged in the struggle for gender justice. * Alyson Cole, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, City University of New York, and author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror *Globally, women have always been the vanguard in the struggle for gender equality. Yet as this book argues so persuasively we urgently need to engage men everywhere in the process, thereby allowing both women and men more freedom to pursue their full humanity, wholeness and balance. An essential text for all those engaging with development studies or any aspect of gendered education and health. * Lynne Segal, author of Why Feminism? *This book is thoughtful, insightful, and an effective mix of theory and personal narratives which build a strong case about the importance of feminism embracing men and men embracing feminism. * Michael Kaufman, co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign *Men's relation to feminism has long been a contentious issue, irresolvable by a simple yes or no. Which is what makes Nikki van der Gaag's book so valuable: she teases out different strands of engagement and support in a variety of venues. It's not a question of whether or not men can "be" feminists, but a question of how and where, and how they remain accountable. * Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University, author of Angry White Men and The Guy's Guide to Feminism *This book is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in issues around feminism and gender and could be the starting point for anyone looking to get an overview of men’s involvement in this movement. * San Francisco Review of Books *Nikki van der Gaag successfully includes global voices in the conversation about men and feminism. With its attention to issues of work, education, caregiving and violence, this book is a welcome addition for all those seeking gender justice worldwide. * Shira Tarrant, PhD, author Men and Feminism and Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power. *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Beyond the binaries: feminism and men 3. Shifting cultural and social attitudes 4. No zero-sum game: education and health 5 Giving up power? Women, men and work 6 The fatherhood revolution? 7 Proving their manhood: men and violence 8 Conclusion: becoming connected

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Book SynopsisWomen have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from the Caspian Sea to Siberia. With this ground-breaking and original study, Razia Sultanova examines the experiences of Muslim women in the region and the ways in which religion has shaped their daily lives and continues to do so today. 'From Shamanism to Sufism' explores the fundamental interplay between religious belief and the cultural heritage of music and dance and is the first book to focus particularly on the role of women. Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of field work, 'From Shamanism to Sufism' shows how women kept alive traditional Islamic religious culture in Central Asia, especially through Shamanism and Sufism, even under Soviet rule when all religion was banned. Nowhere was the role of women more important than in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, the cradle of female Islamic culture and a centre for women's poetry and music. This area is home to the 'Otin-Oy', a sisterhood of religiously educated women and members of Sufi orders, who take a leading part in rituals, marking the pivotal moments in the Islamic calendar and maintaining religious practices through music and ritual dances. Sultanova shows how the practice of Islam in Uzbekistan has evolved over time: long underground, there was a religious resurgence at independence in 1991, boosting national Uzbek identity and nationalism - 500 new mosques were built - only to be followed by a return to persecution by a repressive state under the banner of the 'war against terror'. Now events have come full circle, and once again covert worship by women remains crucial to the survival of traditional Muslim culture. Ritual and music are at the heart of Central Asian and Islamic culture, not only at weddings and funerals but in all aspects of everyday life. Through her in-depth analysis of these facets of cultural life within Central Asian society, 'From Shamanism to Sufism' offers important insights into the lives of the societies in the region. The role of women has often been neglected in studies of religious culture and this book fills an enormous gap, restoring women to their rightful historical and cultural context. It will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the History or Religion of Central Asia or in Global Islam.Trade Review'Sultanova has written a magnificent portrait of the social life and mores of the mysterious and little known but largest land mass in the world. Her remarkable book portrays past and present Central Asia through its music and lifestyle that includes Shamanism and popular Sufism. A wonderful read.' Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban 'This book shows the role played by Central Asian women in the harmonisation of non-Muslim and Muslim spiritual and ethical trends and arts in Shamanism and popular Sufism. It gives insight into the interconnection between music and mysticism and the mentality of Sufi female musicians and singers.' Thierry Zarcone, Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 'An insightful work that scholars from many disciplines will enjoy.' Earle Waugh, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Historical Overview 1. Early religious practices and beliefs 2. Islam in Central Asia 3. Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule 4. Land ploughed by Cultural Revolution Chapter 2: Shamanism in Central Asian nomadic culture 5. Theory and practise 6. How to become shaman? 7. Women and Shamanism in Central Asia 8. Kyrgyz heroic epic 9. Shamanism and Islam Chapter 3: Sufism in Central Asia 10. Historical development 11. Main Tariqas of Central Asia Chapter 4:Female Sufism: historical overview 12. Female Sufism: historical overview 13. Sufi poetry in Central Asia: Ghazal and female poets Chapter 5: Transmission of Sacred Knowledge 14. Usto-shogird in medieval sources 15. Usto-Shogird tradition today 16. Mehterlik or Professional guilds 17.Professional training: Hafizlik Chapter 6: Music and Female Sufis . 18. Sufi Masters in Music 19. Sufi music in Central Asia: from court to folk traditions 20. Maqam music and Sufism 21. Female Maqam singers 22. Munojat Yulchieva 23. Sufi origin genre Katta Ashulla Chapter 7: Interaction of Shamanism and Sufism 24. From healing rituals to protective songs 25.Femalee shamanism in Turkmenistan 26.Galeke 27.Tajikistan Chapter 8: Female music making: Musical instruments and Dance 29. Musical instruments: from Shamanism to Sufism 30. Dutar 31. Dances in Central Asian culture Chapter 9 : Female folk Sufism 32. Female Sufi practises 33. Otin-Oy as female Sufi Pirs 34. How to become an Otin-Oy 35. Current situation: female religious school in Bukhara Chapter 10 : Female rituals led by Otin-Oys 36. Female rituals 37. Zikr 38. Other rituals led by Otin-Oy 39. “O’qish” (reading) as a ritual’s session 40. Calssification 41. Ichkari: the inner space 42. Pre-Islamic believes and practices in rituals 43. Female rites of passage 44. Toy: the main ritual in human life as a Sufi feast 45. Calendar Rituals led by Otin-oy 46. Otin-Oy in Uzbek pop music Chapter 11: Otin-Oy in the neighbouring areas 47. Female rituals in Turkic speaking world 48. How musical are female rituals Conclusion Apendix: 1. Female poetry References and notes Comprehensive glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGlobal events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist–feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to answer pressing questions of how we should understand the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism, and how we can envision a feminist project which emancipates both women and society. With contributions from both renowned scholars and new voices, Marxism and Feminism is set to become the foundational text for modern Marxist-feminist thought.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the body of radical analysis that left feminists can use to educate ourselves about old and new theoretical, political and methodological debates on the left. It also is a signal that such debates are receiving new energy in the 21st century by new generations of left feminist intellectuals and activists dissatisfied with the academic compromises that institutionalized feminism has made, and the failure to incorporate feminist insights into Marxist-inspired theory and politics.' * Against the Current *Discussions of democracy, finance capitalism, nationalism and imperialism release feminist theory from the confines of the so-called woman question by theorising the global social moment … held together by a commitment to dialectical inquiry and revolutionary feminist praxis.' * Historical Materialism *Marxism and Feminism is an outstanding contribution to the shared project of scholar-activists across diverse disciplines and movements. The collection is both the result of, and a significant contribution to, a (re)emerging conversation - one that attends to, as Shahrzad Mojab succinctly notes, "two major emancipatory projects." The keywords approach is inspired, providing breadth and depth in a single, accessible, and highly engaged volume. * Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto *Reading this book made me aware of how much such a book is needed to awaken a dialogue between Marxism and feminism. I didn't agree with all that I read, but that's exactly what a book with this framework should do to awaken us. * Dorothy Smith, University of Victoria *The relationship between Marxists and Feminists has always been problematic. But in these times of an ongoing crises of capitalism, when the whole world is looking for alternatives to the present destructive World System, Shahrzad Mojab's Marxism and Feminism is especially necessary today. I hope that many women and men read it. * Maria Mies, author of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale *Marxism and Feminism is a serious, nuanced collection that covers a great deal of ground in a clear and concise way. The essays here represent a profoundly warm, human way of thinking through some of the toughest political problems of our age. It will be of great use to anyone thinking seriously about the relationship between Marx and feminism, not to mention gender, race, class, intersectionality, patriarchy, work and many other key topics today. * Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman *Marxism and feminism are back! This book marks a refreshing return to basics after years spent in the wilderness of identity politics and the 'cultural turn'. Offering a rich synthesis of the key concepts in both schools of thought, the book provides a valuable resource for rethinking Marxism, feminism, a renewed project for human emancipation and, yes… revolution. * Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster *Reading this book, I was gripped by a feeling that it will mark a politically-necessary moment in the history of Women’s and Gender Studies as well as educational theories encompassing class, race, disability, sexuality and all axes of identity formation … this book is a pedagogy – a form of resistance. * Sona Kazemi, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Marxism and feminism - Shahrzad Mojab Part I: Class and race in Marxism and feminism 2. Gender relations - Frigga Haug 3. The Marx within feminism - Frigga Haug 4. Building from Marx: reflections on 'race', gender and class - Himani Bannerji Part II: Marxist-feminist keywords 5. Democracy - Sara Carpenter 6. Financialization - Jamie Magnusson 7. Ideology - Himani Bannerji 8. Imperialism and primitive accumulation - Judith Whitehead 9. Intersectionality - Delia D. Aguilar 10. Labour-power - Helen Colley 11. Nation and nationalism - Amir Hassanpour 12. Patriarchy/patriarchies - Kumkum Sangari 13. Reproduction - Michelle Murphy 14. Revolution - Maryam Jazayeri 15. Standpoint theory - Cynthia Cockburn 16. Epilogue: gender after class - Teresa L. Ebert

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Book SynopsisIn 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Egypt. In Casting off the Veil, her granddaughter Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi uses never-before seen letters and photographs to explore the life and thought of Egypt's first feminist, as she campaigned against British occupation, as well as striving to improve conditions for women throughout the country. From her birth into a wealthy and powerful family, her early years spent in a harem, to her iconic status as one of the most influential feminists in Middle Eastern history, this is a fascinating portrait of a determined and ground-breaking woman, a rich and important story which will captivate everyone with an interest in Egyptian, feminist or colonial history.Trade Review""Huda Shaarawi an icon. A wealthy woman who dedicated her life and her financial resources to the betterment of Egypt. She set up a number of charitable works that also educated and trained women so they could earn a living. She was the first feminist in the country and Egyptian women all owe her a debt for her indefatigable work on their behalf, and thus this book, which deals with the history of this remarkable woman, will appeal to a very wide audience in Egypt of both sexes. Interweaving Shaarawi's life with the history of Egypt, and bringing in new material from private papers, this book is highly recommended for all interested in the history of women in Egypt and the wider Middle East."" Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Professor Emerita, UCLA" "Huda Shaarawi was one of the truly heroic figures of the modern Middle East. And this book will not only provide a wealth of new information, but may also change the unconscious views of many readers, especially Western ones, about the nature of the Middle-Eastern family and Middle-Eastern society in general."" John Rodenbeck, Professor Emeritus, The American University in Cairo""A very unique account."" - Al-Ahram Online" "By tracing the life of Huda Shaarawi with depth, honesty and completeness, Sharawi Lanfranchi not only takes us back to a journey in the past, but to a journey in the mind, heart and soul of one of the greatest women of all times."" Midan MasrTable of Contents1: Childhood in a conservative home 2: First steps in social work 3: International feminism and the EFU 4: Against the occupation 5: A Wafdist ministry 6: A lesson in diplomacy 7: The game of politics 8: The question of Greater Syria 9: The natural enemies of war 10: Turning points 11: Peace and justice 12: The Second World War 13: The UNGA divides Palestine

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Book SynopsisFeminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment. Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own.

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Book Synopsis_____________________________We all know a good boy. He's a 'Feminist’... in his Tinder bio. He ghosts you, but then feels bad. (For a moment.) He’s not mansplaining, just aggressively clarifying. And he's open to being wrong. Theoretically. Ready to call time on rewarding those who clear the low bar of not being outwardly awful? Awards for Good Boys explores why so-called and self-proclaimed good boys are actually not that great, and makes literal our tendency to applaud men for doing the absolute least. It will make you cry-laugh, feel validated, and help you unravel your own assumptions about what makes us good. ______________________________'Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.' Samantha Irby, author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life ‘A short book of one woman’s opinions. It’s funny, but I prefer when men are funny or else my ego feels bruised.’ Ben from TwitterTrade ReviewShelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book. * Samantha Irby, author of 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life' *Nothing captures the stress of modern dating quite so brilliantly as Shelby Lorman’s illustrations. * Stylist *A satirical look at the ways in which these so-called good boys expect to be patted on the back for doing the bare minimum ... We all mess up. The important thing is to find constructive – and ideally funny – ways to talk about it. * Refinery29 *The book is a combination of her signature cartoons and nightmarish tales from her love life. Both will make you laugh and cringe in equal measure; I guarantee it. * The Skinny *Hilarious. * Vice *

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Book SynopsisFacing Patriarchy challenges current thinking about men’s violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men’s violence within the structures and processes of patriarchy. Addressing the limitations of current violence prevention policies, Bob Pease argues that a nuanced conceptualisation of patriarchy, that accounts for a variety of patriarchal structures, intersections with other forms of inequality, patriarchal ideologies, men’s peer group relations, men’s sexist practices and the construction of patriarchal subjectivities, is required to understand the links between gender and men’s violence against women. Pease shows that men’s violence against women needs to be understood in the context of other forms of men’s violence, including violence against boys and other men, in the involvement of men in wars and conflicts between nations and men’s ecologically destructive practices which constitute a form of slow violence. With crucial implications for priorities in violence prevention, gender equality promotion and in strategies for engaging men in this work, Facing Patriarchy offers new hope for the elimination of men’s violence. This is an essential book for scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers involved in violence prevention in national and international contexts.Trade ReviewIn this current era of populism, a rabid anti-feminist backlash, and a rising right, this is a much needed book. Pease’s ground-breaking offering reminds us of the importance of emphasizing a rich gendered understanding of men’s violence against women. Indeed, as he correctly points out, we cannot understand and eliminate woman abuse without recognizing that a substantial number of male actions, values and beliefs are micro-social expressions of broader patriarchal forces. Facing Patriarchy is destined * to become a classic piece of feminist scholarship, one that every man must read.’ *Facing Patriarchy is a highly accessible, critical examination of the urgent problem of men’s violence to women, linking it to other forms of violence, and making strong contributions to stopping it. * Jeff Hearn, author of Men of the World and editor of Unsustainable Institutions of Men *In the struggle for sex/gender justice, Bob Pease’s title is on target – the key is Facing Patriarchy. His radical analysis demonstrates over and over that we will not make serious progress against men’s violence and a host of other problems without a deep critique of patriarchy. In a cultural moment where academic jargon and political euphemisms are designed to derail radical feminism, Pease’s book is a welcome addition to our toolkit for challenging men to be fully human. * Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, author of The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Facing patriarchy Part I. Rethinking frameworks and policies addressing men’s violence against women 1. The limits of public health approaches to violence against women prevention 2. The limits of gender equality policies for violence against women prevention Part II Locating men’s violence against women within the pillars of patriarchy 3. Transnational and intersectional structures of patriarchy 4. Patriarchal ideology and hegemonic gender beliefs 5. Homosociality and patriarchal peer support among men 6. Coercive control and familial patriarchy 7. Patriarchal masculinities and masculine selves Part III. Linking men’s violence against women to other violences by men 8. Gendering men’s public violence against men 9. Gendering militarism, war and terrorism 10. Gendering global warming and environmental violence Part IV. Overcoming a violent gender order 11. Disrupting men’s complicity in the pillars of patriarchy 12. Fostering a feminist ethic of care in men

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Book SynopsisInventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before.'A mind-blowing page-turning un-put-downable heartwarming empathetic formally inventive horror suspense thriller, with a life-affirming and timely feminist message' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot'Where our obsession with true-life crime meets page-turner' Stylist, The best summer reads for 2020'Provocative' Red 'Clever and inventive, this is a supremely accomplished debut about the nature of truth in a world littered with monsters both real and imagined. It's up to the reader to decide which is which' Daily ExpressAfter a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat. Rumours spread about what they did to her, but later they'll tell the police a different version of events. Alice will never remember what truly happened. Her fracture runs deep, hidden beneath cleverness and wry humour. Nick - a sensitive, misguided boy who stood by - will never forget.That's just the beginning of this extraordinary journey into memory, fear and self-portrayal. Through university applications, a terrifying abusive relationship, a fateful reckoning with addiction and a final mind-bending twist, Alice and Nick will take on different roles to each other - some real, some invented - until finally, brought face to face once again, the secret of that night is revealed. Startlingly relevant and enthralling in its brilliance, True Story is by turns a campus novel, psychological thriller, horror story and crime noir, each narrative frame stripping away the fictions we tell about women, men and the very nature of truth. It introduces Kate Reed Petty as a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction.Trade ReviewI literally cannot believe this book exists. A mind-blowing page-turning un-put-downable heartwarming empathetic formally inventive horror suspense thriller, with a life-affirming and timely feminist message? What? This would be an amazing fifteenth novel for a person to have written and it is Kate Reed Petty's first one. What an incredible talent! -- Elif BatumanKate Reed Petty is such a gifted writer that she can make even a college application essay feel utterly heartbreaking. And in True Story, she has given us a riveting and totally innovative novel about the power of lies to shape the truth, a book built like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle whose picture becomes thrillingly clear only after you've locked in the very last piece. -- Nathan Hill, author of * The Nix *Brilliant - a darkly gripping enigma of a book. Petty boldly plays with genre and voice to tell the story of an assault and a rumour that shapes the trajectory of a woman's life. The result is a beautifully prismatic and profound meditation on victims and perpetrators, lies and truth, and above all the dangers and powers of storytelling and what it means to finally claim your voice. -- Mona Awad, author of * Bunny *True Story is a spectacular first novel - innovative, convincing, daring, suspenseful, heart-warming, and altogether astonishing. Kate Reed Petty is a force. What a beautifully unified, richly imagined, and skilfully composed work of literary art. I hope it wins the prizes Petty deserves. -- Tim O'Brien, author of * The Things They Carried *True Story is a superb novel, genuinely frightening, almost unbearably suspenseful and yet, with all that, wonderfully tender and compassionate towards its characters. The writing is exemplary: economical, elegant, searching, precise. It is almost impossible to believe that such a powerful and accomplished book is a first novel. But this isn't just a great first novel, it's an important book for the difficult and highly topical subjects it takes on, bravely and with the kind of care for truth that is all so rare in the current climate.True Story is a brilliant achievement - original, powerful, and playful, flipping formats like a kaleidoscope whose fractals rearrange with each twist until the truth comes into final focus. But beyond its formal daring and assurance, it's a thoroughly engrossing read. I may have held my breath through the whole thing, and I will think about it for a long time. This is a shapeshifting, sneak attack of a novel that leaves a permanent imprintMy first book of 2020 is #truestory by @PettyKate and I loved it. Such a smart, powerful, ambitious book, very high concept and so effectively realised. Definitely one to look out for this summerTrue Story is where our obsession with true-life crime meets page-turner. * Stylist *BEST SUMMER READS FOR 2020* *One of the most creative novels I've read. It's hard to believe it's a debut: the writing is confident and assured and draws the reader in. * Women's Way *Inventive and readable, it asks questions about truth and what defines us. * Daily Mail *Plays constantly with genre while weaving an addictive, perfectly balanced tale about a high school lacrosse party that ends in an accusation of sexual assault . . .[T]he work that Kate Reed Petty's powerful and haunting debut most resembles is not another novel but Michaela Coel's incendiary TV series I May Destroy You. * iNews *This debut novel about memory and truth is disturbing and thought-provoking. * Sunday Express (S Mag) *A powerful and thought-provoking examination of how the manipulation of stories can shape whole lives. * Guardian *Clever and inventive, this is a supremely accomplished debut about the nature of truth in a world littered with monsters both real and imagined. It's up to the reader to decide which is which * Daily Express *Stephen King, but make it feminist: this audaciously ambitious page-turner straddles genres to try and navigate memories of a traumatic sexual assault. Deserves to be read by many more people * Evening Standard (30 best novels of the year) *

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Book SynopsisThe majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Indigenous women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist. This book is by and about Indigenous feminists, whose work demonstrates a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Indignenous women in their struggles against oppression and for equality. Indigenous feminism is international in its scope: the contributors here are from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland), and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapters include theoretical contributions, stories of political activism, and deeply personal accounts of developing political consciousness as Aboriginal feminists.Trade Review‘The book certainly achieves its goal of creating a space for the voices of Indigenous feminists ... is a brilliant piece to use in discussions around the power relations that have forged our common histories and that are present in all societies with an Indigenous presence today' Nadine Charron, Policy Research GroupTable of Contents Introduction: From Symposium to Book - Joyce Green Part I: What is Indigenous Feminism? 1. Taking Account of Indigenous Feminism - Joyce Green 2. Aboriginal Women on Feminism: Exploring Diverse Points of View - Verna St. Denis 3. Metis and Feminist: Reflections from the Margins - Emma Larocque Part II: Aboriginal Feminist Analysis and Theory 4. Sami Women and Feminism: Strategies for Healing and Transformation - Rauna Kuokkanen 5. Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change - Andrea Smith 6. Gender, Essentialism, and Feminism in Samiland - Jurunn Eikjok translated by Gunhild Hoogensen 7. Indigenous Feminism as Resistance to Imperialism - Makere Stewart- Harawira 8. Balancing Strategies: Aboriginal Women and Constitutional Rights in Canada - Joyce Green Part III: Aboriginal Feminist Activists and Sister-Travellers 9. Looking Back, Looking Forward - Shirley Green 10. Maori Women and Leadership in Aotearoa - Kathie Irwin 11. Yes, My Daughter, We Are Cherokee Women - Denise Henning 12. My Home Town Northern Canada South Africa - Emma LaRocque 13. Culturing Politics and Politicizing Culture - Shirley Bear 14. An Aboriginal Feminist on Violence Against Women - Tina Beads with Rauna Kuokkanen 15. Colleen Glenn: A Metis Feminist in Indian Rights for Indian Women - Colleen Glenn with Joyce Green 16. Woman of Action: An Interview with Sharon McIvor - Sharon McIvor with Rauna Kuokkanen

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Book SynopsisHere is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art. Using exciting new feminist approaches and taking as her starting point two key works, Corby reveals the way in which Hesse has been constructed as a 'woman artist' and explores the overlooked legacy of the Holocaust and refugee life in her art practice. Considering creativity and the feminine, trauma and historiography, and providing a reassessment of Hesse's relationship with her mother and its impact on her work, the book also confirms the importance of drawing practice within Hesse's wider oeuvre.

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