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Edinburgh University Press Feminist Theory and the Body
Book SynopsisThis new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory.Table of ContentsWoman as body; body space matter; biomedical bodies; sexy bodies; altered bodies; after the binary; performing the body.
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Edinburgh University Press Working Feminism
Book SynopsisWorking Feminism looks at key concepts and debates within feminist theory and puts them to work concretely in relation to the real problems faced by Filipina domestic workers and Asian youth in Canada.Trade ReviewA wonderful illustration of how to do good critical social science research in which significant theoretical and political debates are brought together and into productive tension through the lens of a concrete case study ! I wholeheartedly recommend this book ! It is an excellent contribution to a critical human geography committed to combating inequality and injustice. Provides rich detail and soul to the bald story told by labour market statistics! this book powerfully reinforces evidence of a global chain of exploitation! the book's energy and passion owe much to [Geraldine Pratt's] collaboration with an activist group, the Philippine Women's Center. A wonderful illustration of how to do good critical social science research in which significant theoretical and political debates are brought together and into productive tension through the lens of a concrete case study ! I wholeheartedly recommend this book ! It is an excellent contribution to a critical human geography committed to combating inequality and injustice. Provides rich detail and soul to the bald story told by labour market statistics! this book powerfully reinforces evidence of a global chain of exploitation! the book's energy and passion owe much to [Geraldine Pratt's] collaboration with an activist group, the Philippine Women's Center.Table of ContentsContents; List of figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Putting Feminist Theory to Work; 2 Spatialising the Subject of Feminism; 3 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny; 4 Liberalism, Universalisms and Democratic Feminist Politics; 5 Working at the Borders of Liberalism; 6 Gleaning the Home; 7 Trafficking Across Borders; 8 Song Flies Home; References; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Women Feminism and Media
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies. At the same time, the cultural shift towards ''post-feminism'' has raised questions about the continuing validity of feminism as a defining term for this work. This book explores the changing and often ambivalent relationship between the three terms women, feminism and media in the light of these recent debates. At the same time it places them within the broader discussions within feminist theory--about subjectivity, identity, culture, and narrative - of which they have formed a crucial part. The book is organised around four key topic areas. ''Fixing into Images'' offers a rethinking of one of the first preoccupations of feminist media analysis: the relationship between women and images. ''Narrating Femininity'' explores the narratives of femininity produced in media texts in the light of theories of narrative and identity. ''Real Women'' examines both the conTrade ReviewWomen, Feminism and Media is a brilliant interdisciplinary synthesis of decades of academic and activist debate. Not only does this book have a breath-taking theoretical and empirical scope but it also delivers complex ideas with an admirable clarity and situates them in the changing political and cultural contexts which are so crucial to understanding their development and significance. This is a first-class textbook and will become a must for students in media studies, women's studies and cultural studies alike. -- Jackie Stacey, Professor in Women's Studies and Cultural Studies, University of Lancaster Women, Feminism and Media is a brilliant interdisciplinary synthesis of decades of academic and activist debate. Not only does this book have a breath-taking theoretical and empirical scope but it also delivers complex ideas with an admirable clarity and situates them in the changing political and cultural contexts which are so crucial to understanding their development and significance. This is a first-class textbook and will become a must for students in media studies, women's studies and cultural studies alike.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Thinking Women, Media, Feminism; 2. Fixing into Images; 3. Narrating Femininity; 4. 'Real' Women; 5. Technologies of Difference; 6. Conclusion: Everyday Readings; Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Secular Muslim Feminism
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McClelland & Stewart We Inherit the Fire
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Park Row Books The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
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McFarland & Company Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
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Taylor & Francis Inc Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation
Book SynopsisUnderstanding multicultural feminist perspectives is vital for clinicians working to effectively help women in therapy. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy provides therapists with valuable insight and research into the identities of Asian and Asian American women, all toward the crucial goal of being more effective when providing therapeutic help. In-depth explorations into the womenâs personal experiences and psychological issues provide an empowering multicultural feminist viewpoint that challenges assumptions and stereotypes about their identities while presenting innovative therapeutic approaches.Identity is made up from several factors, such as worldview, beliefs, values, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, age, and religious orientation. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy explores how these common factors impact psychotherapy approaches for Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Asian American Women in Therapy: Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformations (Debra M. Kawahara and Oliva M. Espin) ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S PORTRAITS OF EMPOWERMENT Psychotherapy for Asian American Women Warriors (Jean Lau Chin) Making a Difference: Asian American Women Leaders (Debra M. Kawahara) CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY Too Maternal and Not Womanly Enough: Asian-American Women’s Gender Identity Conflict (Sung Ha Suh) The Construction of South-Asian-American Womanhood: Implications for Counseling and Psychotherapy (Neesha R. Patel) Psychotherapy with Filipinas (Patricia Heras) Seeking Emotional Parity in Marital Relationships: A New Identity Challenge for Chinese Immigrant Women (Irene Chung) CLINICAL ISSUES Asian American Women and Suicide: Problems of Responsibility and Healing (Eliza Noh) Feminist Therapy: Its Use and Implications for South Asian Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence (Diya Kallivayalil) Asians and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders Midlife Lesbians’ Health: A Pilot Study (Suzanne L. Dibble, Noriko Sato, and Ellen Haller) Eating Disorders in Asian American Women: Integrating Multiculturalism and Feminism (Julia Y. Ting and Wei-Chin Hwang) THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES Finding a Voice in Shakti: A Therapeutic Approach for Hindu Indian Women (Neha Navsaria and Suni Petersen) The Double Binds of Our Bodies: Multiculturally-Informed Feminist Therapy Considerations for Body Image and Eating Disorders Among Asian American Women (Kayako Yokoyama) Group Counseling with Asian American Women: Reflections and Effective Practices (Yuli Liu, Yuying Tsong, and Diane Hayashino) TRAINING Training Therapists to Be Culturally Sensitive with Asian American Women Clients (Karen L. Suyemoto and Joan H. Liem with Jennifer C. Kuhn, Elizabeth A. Mongillo, and Jesse J. Tauriac) Index Reference Notes Included
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Kwela Books Femicide in South Africa
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Kensington Publishing Corporation Blood
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The Merlin Press Ltd Beyond Digital Capitalism Socialist Register
Book SynopsisAs digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it refashioned both our ways of working and our ways of consuming, as well as our ways of communicating.Table of ContentsPROVISIONAL CONTENTS: Ursula Huws: Reaping the whirlwind: Digitalization, restructuring, and mobilization in the Covid crisis; Bryan D. Palmer: The time of our lives: Reflections on work and capitalist temporality; Larry Lohmann: Interpretation machines: Contradictions of ‘artificial intelligence’ in 21st century capitalism; Matthew Cole, Hugo Radice & Charles Umney: The political economy of datafication and work: A new digital Taylorism?; Grace Blakeley: The big tech monopolies and the state; Tanner Mirrlees: Socialists on social media platforms: Communicating within and against digital capitalism; Derek Hrynyshyn: Imagining platform socialism; Massimiliano Mollona: Working-class cinema in the age of digital capitalism; Joan Sangster: The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance; Jerónimo Montero Bressán: From neoliberal fashion to new ways of clothing; Sean Sweeney & John Treat: Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility; Benjamin Selwyn: Community restaurants: Decommodifying food as socialist strategy; Pat Armstrong & Huw Armstrong: Start early, stay late: Planning for care in old age; Pritha Chandra & Pratyush Chandra: Health care, technology, and socialized medicine; Christoph Hermann: Life after the pandemic: From production for profit to provision for need; Robin Hahnel: Democratic socialist planning: Back to the future; Greg Albo: Postcapitalism: Alternatives or detours?
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The Merlin Press Ltd Capitalism and Power
Book SynopsisThe 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register examines the growth of corporate power and other important organizational trends in global capitalism. It rejects such notions as stakeholder capitalism and reviews the organisation and strategies of unions and the left, and its current and potential practices,Table of ContentsProvisional Contents: Nicole Aschoff: New organizational complexes of US capital; Steve Diamond: Myths of corporate governance; Adam Hanieh: World oil: Contemporary transformations in ownership and control; William Carroll & Nicolas Graham: Extreme oil: Climate breakdown and beyond; Patrick Bond: Big Pharma: Vaccines and TRIPs; Charmaine Chua & Spencer Cox: Amazon and global logistics; Genevieve Lebaron & Ali Bhagat: Unfree labour, exploitation and global supply chains; Kyle Bailey: Delusions of ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’; Minqi Li: Chinese Capitalism, from ‘996’ to ‘Lying-Flat’; Pun Nagai: & Peier Chen: Infrastructural capitalism and class conflict in China; Armando Boito: Capital: neoliberalism and imperialism in Brazil; Chirashree Dasgupta: State, capital and neoliberalism in India; Richard Saunders: Extractivism, resistance and corporate power in Africa; Rafeef Ziadah: Logistical landscapes, corporate power on the high seas; James Meadway: The Left after the pandemic; Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher: Finance capital and American empire; Madeleine Davis: Leo Panitch on British labourism; Rafael Khachutarian interview with Leo Panitch: The capitalist state and socialism.
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The Merlin Press Ltd Capitalism and Power
Book SynopsisThe 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register examines the growth of corporate power and other important organizational trends in global capitalism. It rejects such notions as stakeholder capitalism and reviews the organisation and strategies of unions and the left,Table of ContentsNicole Aschoff: New organizational complexes of US capital; Steve Diamond: Myths of corporate governance; Adam Hanieh: World oil: Contemporary transformations in ownership and control; William Carroll & Nicolas Graham: Extreme oil: Climate breakdown and beyond; Patrick Bond: Big Pharma: Vaccines and TRIPs; Charmaine Chua & Spencer Cox: Amazon and global logistics; Genevieve Lebaron & Ali Bhagat: Unfree labour, exploitation and global supply chains; Kyle Bailey: Delusions of ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’; Minqi Li: Chinese Capitalism, from ‘996’ to ‘Lying-Flat’; Pun Nagai: & Peier Chen: Infrastructural capitalism and class conflict in China; Armando Boito: Capital: neoliberalism and imperialism in Brazil; Chirashree Dasgupta: State, capital and neoliberalism in India; Richard Saunders: Extractivism, resistance and corporate power in Africa; Rafeef Ziadah: Logistical landscapes, corporate power on the high seas; James Meadway: The Left after the pandemic; Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher: Finance capital and American empire; Madeleine Davis: Leo Panitch on British labourism; Rafael Khachutarian interview with Leo Panitch: The capitalist state and socialism.
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Rivers Oram Press Writing on the Wall Selected Essays
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Rivers Oram Press Feminism and Poetry Language Experience Identity
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Guilford Publications Female Authority
Book SynopsisFor women in Western society, there is no straightforward path of development to autonomous adulthood. The double-bind of female authority--that a women cannot be both a healthy adult and an ideal woman-- is the context in which a woman must construct her self in this culture. Whether she sees herself as too needy or too controlling, too insecure or too self-reliant, she is gathering evidence to support a theory of personal inadequacy. The traditional perspectives of psychodynamics and psychopathology reinforce women's sense of inferiority. How then does a woman claim her own authority-- the validity of her own truth, beauty, goodness, originating in her own experience. Young-Eisendrath and Wiedemann break with the tradition of deficit thinking, the examination of what is absent, wrong, or deficient. Recognizing this as a fundamental barrier to the empowerment of women, they work instead from an understanding of what is already strong and satisfying in the lives of women and girTrade ReviewHighly recommended to all therapists, male and female, who are looking for a new window through which to see the plight of women in today's society. - Psychotherapy in Private Practice
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Occasional Papers Born in Flames
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Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Theorizing Empowerment Canadian Perspectives on
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Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Women and Bears The Gifts of Nature Culture and
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Random House USA Inc We Should All Be Feminists
Book SynopsisOffers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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Hanover Square Press Supersaurio
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Palgrave Macmillan Twentyfirst Century Feminism Forming and
Book Synopsis1. Introduction; Angela Smith 2. 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism And The 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies In Crossfit, Leslie Heywood 3. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying And Banter In Early Twenty-First Century Make-Over Television, Angela Smith 4. Boredom And Reinvention For The Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs, Jennifer Anyan 5. 'In Full View': Involuntary Porn And The Post-Feminist Rhetoric Of Choice, Anne Burns 6. Miranda And Miranda: Comedy, Femininity And Performance, Rosie White 7. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii In Japanese Girls' Culture, Makiko Iseri 8. Strange Case Of Woman's Vanishing Agency And Other Neo Victorian Tales Of Obfuscation And Effacement, Karen Sturgeon-DodsworthTable of Contents1. Introduction; Angela Smith 2. 'Strange Borrowing': Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism And The 'Cruelly Optimistic' Gendered Bodies In Crossfit, Leslie Heywood 3. Big Sister TV: Bossiness, Bullying And Banter In Early Twenty-First Century Make-Over Television, Angela Smith 4. Boredom And Reinvention For The Female Gaze Within Personal Fashion Blogs, Jennifer Anyan 5. 'In Full View': Involuntary Porn And The Post-Feminist Rhetoric Of Choice, Anne Burns 6. Miranda And Miranda: Comedy, Femininity And Performance, Rosie White 7. Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii In Japanese Girls' Culture, Makiko Iseri 8. Strange Case Of Woman's Vanishing Agency And Other Neo Victorian Tales Of Obfuscation And Effacement, Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Women in the Age of
Book SynopsisEllen Pollak is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and is author of The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope and Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Edited by Ellen Pollak Introduction The Life Cycle: Motherhood during the Enlightenment, Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bodies & Sexuality: Sex, Gender, and the Limits of Enlightenment, Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Visionary Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA Medicine & Disease: Women, Practice, and Print in the Enlightenment Medical Marketplace, Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA Public and Private: Public and Private Lives in Eighteenth-Century France, Joan B. Landes, Penn State University, USA Education & Work: The Case of Laboring Women Poets in England, Scotland, and Germany, Susanne Kord, University College London, UK Power: Varieties of Female Political Power in Enlightenment England, Charlotte Sussman, Duke University, USA Artistic Representation: The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown, Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire
Book SynopsisTeresa Mangum directs the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, USA, and is author of Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel.Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire, Edited by Teresa Mangum Introduction The Life Cycle: Women and the Life-Cycle, c.1800-1920, Pat Thane, University of London, UK Bodies & Sexuality: Sexuality and Bodies in the Age of Empire, Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Women and Wandering Jews after Daniel Deronda, Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Medicine & Disease: Women and Medicine in the Age of Empire, Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida, USA Public & Private: The Fault Lines Between Public and Private Selves in Women's Autobiographical Writings, Linda Peterson, Yale University, USA Education & Work: Women and the Education Acts, Florence Boos, University of Iowa, USA Power: Memsahibs, Manners, and Empires, Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa, USA Artistic Representation: Travel Narrative and the Construction of Female Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century, Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC MoreThanHuman Literacies in Early Childhood
Book SynopsisMore-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood draws on a long-term ethnographic research into the role of place, materiality and the body in the literacies of young children aged 12-36 months. It builds a picture of how children participate in, or become caught up in, literacies and language in the contexts of their everyday lives. Throughout the book, recognised understandings of young children are decentred in favour of experiential knowing of parents and communities, body-place knowing and ordinary affects. Abigail Hackett argues that young children's literacies are always more-than-human, involving sounds, gestures and movements between humans and nonhuman places and things. By paying close attention to the more-than-human nature of these literacies, which rely on bodies, places, animals, humans, objects and atmospheres for their ongoingness, a case is made for the decentring of young children. The book will be of particular interest to researchers lookiTrade ReviewHackett contributes a bold and conceptually rich rupturing of the dominant discourses of early childhood literacy. * TACTYC (Association of Professional Development in Early Years) *At a time when data-driven system and evidence-based practice continue to hold sway in educational settings, this book make a powerful plea for engaging with the everyday, for recognising the affective intensities of wild, more-than-human literacies and unsettling the certainties that work to hold inequalities in place. It is one of the most compelling books on language and literacy that I have read for some time – beautifully written, provocative and very moving. * Cathy Burnett, Professor of Literacy and Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK *An interesting blend of theory and practice that describes the relationship between posthuman thought and literacy. The book is beautifully written, well laid out and has carved out a niche within the existing theoretical frameworks that is unique. * Radhika Viruru, Clinical Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, Texas A&M University, USA *Abigail Hackett’s richly descriptive portrayal of young children’s language and literacy practices provides us a view into an everyday world that we instantly recognize but that is most often shoved aside as “off-task” within linear, instrumental versions of development and learning. Through her marvelous storytelling, Hackett makes accessible, clear, and compelling the power of conceptualizing young children’s literacies as embodied, collective, entangled in flows of affect, and engaged with the more-than-human world. * Gail L. Boldt, Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, USA *More-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood is an engaging read. This is largely due to the warmth within Hackett’s recounting of her time in the field. Nevertheless, the text is simultaneously theoretically challenging, bringing together multiple concepts related to post-humanism and feminist new materialism, as well as the politics and ethics related to the education and care of very young children. -- Samantha Hulston, University of Cambridge * Literacy *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Series Editor's Introduction Part 1: Starting with Community and Place 1. More-Than-Human Literacies in Community Spaces of Early Childhood 2. Acting Like an Ethnographer, Thinking with Posthumanism: Notes on Methodology and Method 3. The Politics of Describing the World 4. Literacies in Early Childhood as Mundane Politics Part 2: Re-Conceptualizing Early Childhood Literacies as More-Than-Human 5. Wild Literacies 6. Moving Bodies 7. Thing-Ness and Literacies 8. Vocalizations as More-Than-Human Part 3: Where Did We Get To? 9. Beyond Progress? What is Lost and What is Gained? 10. Literacies Yet-To-Come Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dismantling the Patriarchy Bit by Bit
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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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola offers the first comprehensive overview of the director''s impressive oeuvre. It includes individual chapters on her films, including The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010), The Bling Ring (2013), The Beguiled (2017), and On the Rocks (2020). While focused on her films, contributors also consider Coppola''s shorter works for television, commercials and music videos, as well as explorations of the distinct elements of her signature style: cinematography, production/costume design, music, and editing. Additional chapters provide insights into the influences on her work, its popular and scholarly reception, and interpretations of key themes and issues.The international team of contributors includes leading scholars of film, music, fashion, celebrity and gender studies, visual and material culture, reception studies, as well as industrTrade ReviewThis Handbook provides the most significant work to date on Sofia Coppola compiled in a single volume, and focuses on a wide range of topics, some of which have received little scholarly attention to date. In time to come it will surely establish itself as a touchstone text. -- Joel Gwynne, National Institute of Education, SingaporeThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola should have one word added to its title: it is undoubtedly the essential handbook to the filmmaker and cultural icon at its center. The essays included here are not only informative introductions but compelling, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising re-evaluations of one of the most interesting celebrity artists in the contemporary media scene. -- Mallory Young, Tarleton State University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) I The Big Screen 1. The Virgin Suicides The Cinematic Style of Loss: Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides - Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 2. Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation: Liminality, Loneliness, and Learning from an-Other - Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 3. Marie Antoinette The Journey: The Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette - Nicole Richter (Wright State University, USA) 4. Somewhere Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere: The Most American of European Films - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 5. The Bling Ring Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring - Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 6. The Beguiled The Knowledge of Feeling in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled - Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick, UK) 7. On the Rocks Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks and “Personal” Filmmaking - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) II Small(er) Screens and Streaming 8. Music Videos “If You Don’t Have At Least Two Careers, You Don’t Fit In”: Transmedia Authorship and the Music Videos of Sofia Coppola - Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) 9. Short Film Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola’s Lick the Star - Cynthia Felando (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Television Rewriting the (Christmas) Genre: The Legacy of Robert Altman in Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 11. Advertising Fashion Campaigns: Sofia Coppola’s “Mini-Films” - Caryn Simonson (University of Arts London, UK) III “Coppolism” 12. Cinematography Sofia Coppola’s Minimalist Mystique - Cameron Beyl (Independent filmmaker) 13. Fine Art and Photography Art on Film/Film as Art: Sofia Coppola’s Cinema - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 14. Music The Feeling of the Moment: Music in the Cinema of Sofia Coppola - Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University, USA) 15. Design Designing Luxury: Sofia Coppola’s Production Design - Saige Walton (University of South Australia, Australia) 16. Acting Sofia Coppola, Indiewood, and Performance - Cynthia Barron (Bowling Green State University, USA) & Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK) IV Interpretations 17. Auteurism Sofia Coppola: Commodity Auteur - Pam Cook (University of Southampton, UK) 18. Curation Sofia Coppola: The Auteur as Curator - Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex, UK) 19. Feminism “You Cannot Go Deaf to Women’s Voices”: Feminism and the Films of Sofia Coppola - Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 20. Postfeminism Postfeminist Approaches to Sofia Coppola - Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter, UK) 21. Race and Class Making Whiteness: The Absent Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola’s Feature Films - Jamie Ann Rogers (Clemson University, USA) 22. Place Psychogeography and Cinema(car)tography: Cinematic Tourism and Sofia Coppola’s Films - Laura Henderson (University of Melbourne, Australia) 23. Celebrity Celebrity in Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: The Aesthetics of Performance - Delphine Letort (Université du Maine, France) V Reception 24. Critical Reception “All That Style Overwhelms the Substance”: The Critical Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Work - Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) 25. Academic Response Sofia Coppola in the Curriculum: Feminist Film Pedagogies - Emma McNicol, Whitney Monaghan, Grace Russell, and Belinda Smaill (Monash University, Australia) 26. Popular Reaction Sofia Coppola, Cosmopolitan Icon - Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy) Sofia Coppola: A Timeline References Filmography List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Designing Gender
Book SynopsisThis book offers an ideal first step for designers looking to disrupt contemporary design practice by challenging gender inequality. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, it outlines key concepts and applies them to a broad spectrum of design activity. By developing feminist design approaches and methods, it provides a practical resource for designers wanting to make a change. Designing Gender covers essential topics including definitions of sex, gender and sexuality, histories of women in design, parity in professional design practice, diversity of users, non-binary design approaches, and sustainable and equitable futures. Filled with examples from around the world, the book recognises the culturally specific nature of gendered experience. Interviews with designers working in a diverse range of fields including user experience design, visual communication, interaction design and critical design, highlight the challenges and opportunities involved in designingTrade ReviewIntegrates theory and case studies backed by useful exercises that that will improve the (design) world in tangible ways for all -- Michelle Marzullo * California Institute of Integral Studies, USA *A tremendously enjoyable read that has stimulated a lot of thought and reflection -- Nathan Martin * Arizona State University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Gender, Feminism and Things Introduction: The Complexities of Sex and Gender Defining Gender Feminism and Systems of Oppression Gendered Things Case Study: Gender Swapping, Karin Ehrnberger, Stockholm Gendered Processes Interview: Lindsey Brinkworth, Senior Researcher, Magic+Might, Chicago Designing Intersectional Gender Justice Activity 1: Gender Journal Activity 2: Norm Discussion Cards 2. Women, Craft, and Technology Introduction: Questioning Design (His)stories Craft as Feminist Resistance Case Study: Buen Vivir-Centric Design, Diana Albarrán González, Mexico/Aotearoa Redesigns and DIY Aesthetics Cyberfeminism and Gender Hacking Interview: Cornelia Sollfrank, Artist and Researcher, Berlin Activity 1: Pick a Theme/Make a Zine Activity 2: Hack It Game 3. Women and Design as Profession Introduction: Gender in the Design Industries Women and the Professionalisation of Design Design Knowledge and the Making of the Professional Masculinities at Work in Design Cultures Interview: In-ah Shin, Graphic Designer, Feminist Designer Social Club. Seoul Addressing Inequality in the Workplace Case Study: Designers Speak (Up) Catherine Griffith, Aotearoa New Zealand Challenging Gender Norms in Professional Design Practice Activity 1: Situational Knowledge Map Activity 2: Listening Positionality Exercise 4. Making Gender Inequality Visible Introduction: Gender Justice as a Global Issue Data, Power and Invisibility Interview: Brindaalakshmi K, Thematic Lead, Point of View, Chennai Design and the Gender Data Gap Feminist Counter-data and Queering AI Visualising Inequality Case Study: Visualizing Gender-based Violence, Nepal Activity 1: Queering Algorithms Activity 2: Gendered Life Data Drawing 5. Feminist Design Futures Introduction: Design and the Future Speculative Futures and Design Fictions Speculative Design and Inequality Interview: Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Artist and Researcher, Brazil/Germany Feminist Visions of the Future Futuring Tools and Approaches to Time Case Study: Freak Science, Mary Maggic, Vienna Speculative Design and Gender Activity 1: Participatory Futures Tool Activity 2: Speculating with the Past 6. Sustainable Practice and Design Beyond Binaries Introduction: Feminism and Ecological Crisis Towards Non-Binary Design More-Than-Human Entanglement, Post-nature and Queer Ecology Interview: Sixto-Juan Zavala, Designer and Illustrator, Texas/London Indigenous Worldviews, Design and Becoming-With Case Study: Lehuauakea, New Mexico, US and Papa’ikou, Hawaii Unmaking Design Practice Activity 1: Mapping Entanglements Activity 2: Feral Experiments Epilogue List of Figures References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Plural Feminisms
Book SynopsisDrawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. How individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities. Plural Feminisms spurs a discussion on how structural violence is identified and resisted, and the invisible and emotional labour that goes on behind this resistance. The book documents the resistance strategies feminists employ on a daily basis to survive, and to form and sustain dissident kinships, that remain unread, unheard, overlooked, and excluded from dominant discourses of being and becoming. Through autoethnography, feminist, queer and/or trans and genderqueer, indigenous, Black and racialised, disabled and neuroTrade ReviewPlural Feminisms is a deeply feminist text offering contemporary insights from those who resist the neo-liberal orthodoxy of the academy. The authors reflect upon what it means to be a feminist, uncover the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and show the socio-cultural and political value of subversion. * Elizabeth Ettorre, University of Liverpool, UK *Architecture. Fatphobia. Spiritual activism. The sanism of academia. Scholarly performativity. Again and again, these lively essays show how mundane feminist insurgence must be distributed, poly, not so sure of itself. Centering the synergies and unexpected affinities between theory and practice, we feel alongside the writers, the rage, delight and rustle of how feminism might be otherwise. A touchstone, especially for those worn down by market-mediated feminisms. * Yasmin Gunaratnam, King’s College, London, UK *Table of ContentsAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Editorial Introduction Sohini Chatterjee (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Po-Han Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) PART ONE WITNESSING AND INHABITING INTERSECTIONALITY 1.Multitemporality and Feminist Resistance in Transition Corin Parsons (University of British Columbia, Canada) 2.Walking the “Feminist Tightrope”: Navigating Feminist Identities within Anti-Violence Work with Men Madison Brockbank (McMaster University, Canada) 3.Queerly Mad: Cripping Grief and Post-Traumatic Fibromyalgia Syndrome Kody Muncaster, (Western University, Canada) 4.Why all the Black Women Sit Together on the U-Bahn? Black Femme Resistance in Germany Madeline Bass, Cienna Davis, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Laetitia Walendom 5.Feminist Practices in Architecture: How Women Develop Resistance Through Criticism and Action Maria Silvia D’Avolio, (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) PART TWO EMBODIED ANTI-NORMATIVITY AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE 6.Against ‘the Devil from Within’: Doing Feminism through Re-Membering the Multiple Selves Po-Han Lee 7.Neoliberal Precarity and Neuroqueer Possibility: Exploring Care, Kinship, and Relational Becoming as Resistance Sohini Chatterjee 8.Aazhawigamig (the Space Between Two lodges): An indigenous Matricentric Feminist Perspective on Mothering and Resistance as Everyday Praxis Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard, (Western University, Canada) 9.Settler Theory and Feminisms Beyond Compulsory Relating: A Polyqueer Autoethnography Rowan J. Quirk 10.A Reflexive Consideration of the Apocalyptic Child E. Scherzinger, (McMaster University, Canada) 11.Exploring Emotional Vulnerability in Autoethnography: Unpacking and Rethinking Everyday Trauma Yi-Hui Lin, Independent Researcher PART THREE CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS FEMINIST INTERVENTION 12.Feminist Praxis in Exile: A Collaborative Autoethnography Gülden Özcan, Simten Cosar, (Carleton University, Canada) 13.Confronting Contradictions, Chasing a Feeling: “Witchy,” Feminist Pandemic Teaching as Spiritual Activism Kascindra Shewan, McGill University, Canada) 14.Taking up Sites of Resistance in the Neoliberal University: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Belonging Elizabeth Chelsea Mohler, (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 15.Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based Violence Maria Silvia D’Avolio, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, (University of Brighton, UK), Deanna Dadusc, (University of Brighton, UK)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Space Feminisms
Book SynopsisEmploying a global approach to feminist theory, this book examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures.Rather than simply a platform for imagining the future, it cultivates radical and alternative modes of inquiry around space through seeing space as a material reality that reflexively encodes humans' self-perceptions of their planet and beyond. Bringing together essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts past and present in one volume, Space Feminisms inspects the transformation of terrestrially held notions of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial, whilst drawing new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.Space Feminisms makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are already expanding into
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Navigating Womanhood in Contemporary Botswana
Book SynopsisStephanie S. Starling is Chief of Staff at Justice Defenders, an NGO providing legal practice, education, and training to prisoners in Africa. She was previously Head of Research for a major data journalism studio specialising in international development trends.Trade ReviewA contemporary approach to the ethnography of gender in southern Africa, this book makes an important contribution through its exploration of the intersections between gender, fertility, and personhood in Botswana. It illustrates the precarity and positionality of women in this region and the need for ethnographic understandings of the lived experiences of those with whom we work. * Rebecca Upton, Colgate University, USA *A necessary and beautiful book that delves deep, with such tact and academic rigour, into contemporary womanhood in Botswana by centring the women’s narratives. By analysing, and exposing the intricate bi-legal, historical, societal and gendered interconnections, the book illuminates the complexities and contradictions of Black Batswana womanhood without being universalistic. * Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton, The University of Stavanger, Norway *Stephanie's book is a fluent, compelling, challenging read. The experience of navigating womanhood that she sets out is filled with pain and unachievable standards. Whilst Stephanie explores some of the ways in which attitudes towards womanhood are changing, it seems that change comes very slowly. * Alexander McLean, Founder and CEO of Justice Defenders *Written in an accessible and captivating manner this book weaves the story of Batswana women through multiple facets of their lives. It brilliantly amplifies the voices of the women telling their stories in their own words. Although written about Botswana, it is very much the story of all African women and indeed many aspects will resonate with women across the world. While acknowledging the positive strides made so far, it also captures the ground that is yet to be won. A must read for all gender and development practitioners, students and women everywhere. * Evelyne Opondo, Africa Director at International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) *This book is an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the construction of womanhood in a particular context and location while also contextualising it for women worldwide. It is an in-depth, scholarly study, nevertheless written in clear, accessible English and has my warmest recommendation for readers to further their understanding of the subtleties of gender construction and the implications for diverse women’s lives. * Robin Burns, Formerly of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia *Table of ContentsAbstract Acknowledgments Chapter One – “Inferior in every way to a man”: Women in Botswana Chapter Two – Research Design and Methodology in Cross-Cultural Interviewing Chapter Three – “If you look at a woman you see a mother”: Achieving Womanhood Chapter Four – “I keep on feeling like they take advantage”: The Costs of Womanhood Chapter Five – “The life of women has changed very, very much”: Womanhood in Transition Chapter Six – “No men ever worked harder than Batswana women”: Conclusions References Appendix: Participant Details
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminism is Queer
Book SynopsisMimi Marinucci is professor of philosophy and women's and gender studies at Eastern Washington University, USA. Her teaching and research are focused on feminism and philosophy, particularly as represented in popular culture. She is especially interested in popular culture as a medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge about who we are as women and men. She is also the founding editor of Wave 2.5: A Feminist Zine, a two-time Utne Independent Press Award nominee (2005, 2009).Trade Review[Feminism is Queer] is an outstanding reference for students and faculty attempting to understand the history and current issues in the LGBTQ+ communities. * Choice Connect *Marinucci handily synthesizes new and classic theories regarding cultural and scientific definitions of sex, gender, and sexuality in a comprehensive text that is both lucid and erudite. This book will surely become required reading in many courses in women’s and gender studies and in sexuality studies. * Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Eastern Washington University *In wonderfully accessible and penetrating analyses, Marinucci makes the case that feminist and queer theory are inseparable allies – or should be. With its comprehensive appendix and carefully organized chapters, Feminism is Queer is an ideal text for teaching about gender, sexuality, and the practice of theorizing. * Marjorie Jolles, Roosevelt University *This brief yet comprehensive book is perfect for anyone who is interested in the origins and meanings of the concept ‘queer.’ Marinucci’s impressive interdisciplinary depth and breadth combine with a readily accessible writing style to make Feminism is Queer a lucid and intelligent treatment of an essentially complex and controversial concept. * Nancy Slonneger Hancock, Northern Kentucky University *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition: The Cultural Currency of Queer Preface to the First Edition: Not Just the New “Gay” Section I: Sexuality 1. The Social Construction of Sexuality 2. The Social History of Lesbian and Gay Identity 3. Queer Alternatives Section II: Sex 4. Unwelcome Interventions 5. Welcome Transitions Section III: Gender 6. Gender Refined and Redefined 7. Feminism Re-Examined and Reconsidered Section IV: Queer feminism 8. Notes Toward a Queer Feminism 9. Questionably Queer? From Straight Allies to Queer Solidarity Appendix: Terms and concepts
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Everyday matters
Book SynopsisBrings together the previously unpublished letters of three women, Lilian Ngoyi, Bessie Head, and Dora Taylor. While Ngoyi, Head, and the lesser-known Taylor each made vital and perhaps underappreciated contributions to the southern African struggle, these letters record their ordinary, domestic lives.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Strike a Rock
Book SynopsisIt is not easy. Having a dream, having talent and being faced with a world that wants you to have neither - it is not easy. This is not an easy story. This is a book about difficult odds, about cruelty, about broken families and addiction. This is also a story about hope.
£11.35
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Magazine Movements
Book SynopsisLaurel Forster is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research interests and her range of publications contextualize the portrayal of women and women's cultures in magazines, women's writing and on television.Trade ReviewEver since the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in 1963, academic studies have sought to gauge the extent to which mass-market commercial magazines directed toward female readers in the US and UK have either contributed to gender stereotyping or offered arenas in which women could contest stifling gender roles. Forster (media studies, Univ. of Portsmouth, UK) makes a solid, important contribution to this ongoing debate by investigating a group of British “magazines” published from the mid-20th century to the present that have been almost entirely overlooked by scholars. These include not only print magazines—Arena Three (1964–71), the first openly lesbian magazine in Britain; Mukti (1983–87), aimed at South Asian women; and a number of overtly feminist magazines—but also the television magazine Houseparty (1972–81) and various radio magazines. The most fascinating chapter examines the history and significance of the Cooperative Correspondence Club (1935–90), a small group of women with diverse geographic, religious, and class affiliation, which twice monthly hand-produced a copy of a magazine, comprising individual women's letters, that circulated among the group's members. Forster's extensive archival research, incisive analysis, and jargon-free writing makes this book a pleasurable as well as an educational experience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *An enjoyable read. * Journal of Magazine Media *Magazine Movements significantly broadens and deepens the historical treatment of women’s magazines, and refuses easy generalisation about their meaning and role. Juxtaposing experimental, political and niche-audience titles to mainstream commercial products enables Forster to trace an inclusive, provocative history of British feminism across the second half of the twentieth century. Her innovative discussion of magazine formats, spanning print and broadcast media, charts the persistence and influence of the magazine genre for both commercial and counter-cultural negotiations of gender, race, sexuality and modernity. This is an authoritative and critical media history that makes important contributions to understanding women’s lives and political engagement. * Lucy Delap, Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK *Laurel Forster’s wide-ranging and thought-provoking case studies remind us that the ‘magazine’ format has not been confined to print. She reveals how the magazine has proven to be a highly adaptable mode for communicating and interacting with a range of audiences. * Maria DiCenzo, Professor of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Writing Friendship and Support in CCC Chapter 2: Refashioning Femininity in Wartime Housewife Chapter 3: Linking Private and Public Over the Airwaves in Woman's Hour Chapter 4: Exploring Sexuality in Arena 3 Chapter 5: Politicising the Personal in Shrew Chapter 6: Networking the Magazine Format in Houseparty Chapter 7: Mukti: A Magazine 'Against Oppression as Women, Black People, and Workers' Chapter 8: Feminism on the Internet in the f-word Bibliography Index
£34.99
Rowman & Littlefield Professor Mommy
Book SynopsisProfessor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who are trying to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The authors tackle these issues not only during the infant/toddler stages, but also follow the demands of motherhood all the way through the empty nest.Trade ReviewTwo Bowdoin College professors address the challenges of pursuing an academic career while raising children, offering counsel and advice to women seeking to combine 'the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood.' Connelly, the mother of four sons, is an economist whose international research addresses intersections between work and family life; Ghodsee is an expert in gender and women's studies who received Fulbright and National Science Foundation grants. Their individual experiences inform the book, which provides not only a step-by-step program from graduate studies to tenure but also a 'what to expect when you're expecting' and mothering while chiseling out a profile inside ivied halls. Connelly and Ghodsee tell tough truths—academics is a hard and demanding career for anyone, and most difficult for women with children—but they recommend outsourcing whatever does not contribute directly to your job; availing yourself of good full- or part-time child care; finding an institution with fair work-family policies; attending conferences, networking, and coauthoring publications; saying 'no' to nonessential work; relocating as opportunities arise; and staying hyper vigilant about time management. A well-presented guidebook for academics. * Publishers Weekly *Bowdoin faculty members Connelly and Ghodsee are mothers who've struggled with the challenges of research, teaching, publishing, and caring for children in defiance of the conventional wisdom that women in academia have to choose between family and career. They devote an entire chapter to debunking the myths that discourage many women from pursuing tenure during their most fertile productive years. Drawing on their experiences and on surveys of and interviews with a variety of women in academia, they first review the decision to have an academic career and the decision to have children, including how many and when to have them. They proceed with a detailed chronology of the tenure track, a comprehensive guide, and unwavering encouragement. They are frank about sacrifices and challenges encountered during graduate study and the PhD dissertation, and they detail the hurdles presented by low salaries, undesirable work locations, and long working hours. But they also note the rewards of both academic life and motherhood. Women interested in careers in academia should appreciate this helpful, encouraging resource. * Booklist *In Professor Mommy, Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee present a thorough set of questions for women to consider and strategies to utilize in order to make informed decisions about pursuing both an academic career and family life. ... Professor Mommy is a practical guide written for women who are considering or currently combining family life and the pursuit of tenure. The authors recognize that tenure-track fathers have challenges when they are involved parents of small children, but Connelly and Ghodsee intentionally speak to the particular concerns and situations that mothers face. ... Professor Mommy has many helpful insider tips for any junior faculty member or graduate student who has not had these conversations with a trusted (mommy) mentor. ...[F]or those of us who desire to seek tenure within the existing system, having access to the information in Professor Mommy is invaluable. The book does what it sets out to do, providing information and options for women to make decisions that will position them as best as possible for tenure and promotion within the existing system. Recognizing that the assimilationist approach will not work for every woman, it provides guidance for the many. * Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources *With this new how-to guide for mothers in academia, Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee invite women academics to muster their courage and proceed despite the potential pitfalls. Their unblinking analysis of the risks and rewards of combining academic life with motherhood is a welcome and unique addition to the literature on the topic. . . . Connelly and Ghodsee draw from published literature, surveys and interviews of colleagues, and their combined experience to illustrate that it is indeed possible to succeed as both a mother and a faculty member. They offer concrete advice for each stage of the climb from PhD student to full professor, from caretaker of infants to parent of teenage children, encouraging readers to proceed realistically and know that they can achieve their work and life goals if they are committed to the task. The authors are, as they admit, “brutally honest” about the difficult road many “professor mommies” face (8), and they give little credence to the idea that the academy will become more family-friendly in the near future (suggesting that women wait to advocate for systemic change until they have earned the protection of tenure). But this hard-nosed realism is a necessary anchor for their enthusiasm, and the book is an essential resource for anyone considering the life of a “professor mommy." * On Campus With Women *A smart, readable description of the hurdles facing women who have children while in graduate school or on the tenure track. And while the book does not minimize the difficulties of being both mommy and professor, it is directed at women who want to "opt in"....This is an excellent book; the chapter “On Deciding to Become an Academic” is a must-read for students considering graduate school, as is their chapter on debunking the popular myths of mothering in academia (“myth #1: an academic job will allow you to spend more time with your kids”). They are frank about the trade-offs of being a successful academic – you won’t have a clean house, and you might not see your child’s first step – but these are the same struggles of a high achieving mom in any profession. Perhaps that is the point: academia is not a haven from sexism, workaholism, or politics. But if you want to do it anyway (and want to have more than one child!), this book offers clear advice to achieving success. * Inside Higher Ed *Two tenured Bowdoin College professors, economist Rachel Connelly and gender and women's studies scholar Kristen Ghodsee, have thrown out a rope to women scholars in hopes of helping them get a foothold in the slippery slopes of academia without having to forgo motherhood. The pair has just written book enlivened by anecdotes and statistics that offers step-by-step guidance for women at all stages of their families and careers to help them successfully negotiate the 'maternal wall' in academia. Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia (Rowman Littlefield 2011) describes in thorny detail the personal costs that many women in academia face, yet offers savvy, encouraging strategies for juggling the demands of an academic career and motherhood. * Bowdoin Campus News *Professor Mommy addresses many concerns of professional women in academia who desire to combine their professions with motherhood. . . . the book is a useful resource for career and employment counselors who see clients with similar issues. This book provides a plethora of information and tactics that are helpful when counseling women interested in pursuing a career in academia while also incorporating a busy home life. . . . an overall outstanding read. . . . Although the purpose of Professor Mommy is to serve as a guide to young women who would like to combine life as an academic with the joys of motherhood, the book is extremely beneficial to counselors who assist women addressing issues of balancing career and family in other occupational areas as well. * Journal of Employment Counseling *Bringing to light the juggling mothers toiling beneath the radar, often in the middle of the night, is precisely the goal of Rachel Connelly’s and Kristen Ghodsee’s enlightening, amusing, and truth-telling book, Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia. Their book is a hopeful treatise on the success of mothers working in universities....Part philosophical discourse, part advice, the book is divided into nine conversational chapters—easy for the working mother to peruse between meetings or read straight through in one sitting. . . . The book is well worth the time, not only for working mothers, but also for any scholar considering a life in academia. * The Chronicle of Higher Education *Don't believe the myths—you can conquer the academy while raising children. It isn't easy, but few worthwhile things in life are. Connelly and Ghodsee show, step by step, how smart women win at work and win at home by protecting their time and focusing on what matters most (hint: it's not grading papers or ironing shirts!). -- Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You ThinkDo read this 'can do' book for mothers who want to pursue an academic career! Yes, you can succeed and this book guides you through every step and pitfall—from choosing the type of institution that is for you to coming up for full professor. It doesn't shy away from the very real obstacles, like exhaustion during the early child-raising years, but offers alternative strategies for climbing the ladder. The sound advice is aimed at mothers—but it could be the handbook for any Ph.D. who is deciding on an academic career. I will recommend it to all my graduate students. -- Mary Ann Mason, professor and co-director of the Center, Economics & Family Security at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; aRachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee have written a book that is not just a must-read for anyone contemplating the intricate and as-yet imperfect balance of academic life and family life, but for anyone at all interested in promoting equity in the workplace and more importantly, in the world of ideas. Professor Mommy lays out in stark detail the dismal record and very real statistics of the “maternal wall,” “glass ceiling” and the steep personal costs that women academics often face. But rather than stop there, they offer detailed, practical and user-friendly guidance on how to set your own priorities, draw boundaries and forge a path through this thorny obstacle course. They show it is not easy, but it is indeed possible to be both a successful academic and a loving parent with a rich family life. More, Professor Mommy is a call to action: that lasting change and that longed-for balance will come only when men become aware of the stacked deck against women and when women academics make the hard decision not to opt out, but to opt in, writing, publishing, thinking, promoting their ideas, and by their very presence, change the calcified system from within. -- Brigid Schulte, Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize co-winnerTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Why We Decided to Write this Book and Who We Are Anyway Chapter 1: A Success Story Told with the Hindsight of 20/20 Vision Chapter 2: The Nefarious Nine or the Not-So-Pretty Truth about Motherhood and Academia Chapter 3: Know Thyself Part I -Deciding to Become an Academic Chapter 4: Know Thyself Part II -Deciding How Many Children to Have and When To Have Them Chapter 5: The Last Year of Graduate School: Heading for the Job Market and Choosing the Institution that is Right for You Chapter 6: On the Tenure Track Part I - Scholarship and Networking Chapter 7: On the Tenure Track Part II - Teaching, Service, and Your Family Chapter 8: The Immediate Post-Tenure Years Chapter 9: Coming up for Full Professor Conclusion Appendix 1: Different Types of Institutions Appendix 2: The Other Perspective: Words from our Children Suggested Reading
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Andrews McMeel Publishing How to Be Successful Without Hurting Mens
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Hodder & Stoughton Hot Feminist
Book SynopsisThe good feminist's guide to being hot. And cool. And fit (all senses). And maybe - just maybe - a little bit thinner. Or firmer (all senses). And definitely extremely well-dressed. And uncompromised. And right.
£10.99
John Murray Press Ambition Redefined
Book SynopsisIt''s time to acknowledge that not all working women are interested in climbing the corporate ladder or securing the corner office. Most want and need flexible, less life-consuming work to accommodate their real lives, and it''s not weak, lacking ambition or letting down the sisterhood to pursue professional fulfillment and financial security through less lofty, or headline-making ways.Eye-opening and practical, Ambition Redefined is a welcome alternative to ''women''s business books''. Sollmann calls it like it is: everyday women want and need flexible work that allows them to unapologetically pursue their own brand of ambition and success. She shows them how without sacrificing themselves, their careers or their families. Armed with practical insights and tools, readers will be empowered to go after opportunities beyond traditional definitions of work, career and success. They will learn why they should never leave the workforce, how to make a case for flexibility Trade ReviewFamily schedules don't always meld with a 9-to-5, in-office, 5-day-a-week job, which is why the advice here is critical, so mothers can keep caring for their children and gain financial stability. -- Meredith Bodgas, Editor-in-Chief of Working Mother magazineA great read for women of all ages and career stages. As Sollmann wisely advises, when it comes to work it's not about leaning in or out but leaning in the direction of financial security. -- Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner OfficeCreating greater harmony among the different domains of life is possible.Ambition Redefined, which offers a clear path to realizing how you can make flexwork a real and enriching part of your life, is an essential guide for getting there. -- Stew Friedman, founder of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project and author of Total LeadershipIn my experience in the flexible job market over more than a decade, I've seen first-hand exactly what Kathryn Sollman is recommending. Professional, high-quality flexible jobs do exist for every age and stage, and this book shares fantastic information and advice for women to find them. -- Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobsKathryn Sollmann doesn't pull punches in her provocative new book. Ambition Redefined is a must-read for women of all ages, as they navigate their careers and make crucial choices about what kind of work fits their life stage. This smart guide is a wake-up call. -- Kerry Hannon, New York Times columnist, career and personal finance expertFinally! A smart book for women who want to balance meaningful work and caretaking obligations - without sacrificing their long-term financial security. Chock full of practical advice, tested strategies and vetted resources; Ambition Redefined is a must-read that will guide your work-life choices at pivotal moments throughout your career. -- Nancy Collamer, Founder of MyLifestyleCareer.com and author of Second-Act CareersAmbition does not have to mean dreams of the C-suite, the US author argues...In the book, she argues that the most burning issue for women in the US is not "breaking the glass ceiling" but a rather more modest one: whether or not to continue to work once they have had children. * The FT *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminist Moments
Book SynopsisKatherine Smits is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (2005) and Applying Political Theory (2009).Susan Bruce is Professor of English at Keele University, UK. She is editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1999) and Fiction and Economy (2007).Table of ContentsContributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies by Nadia Margolis 2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of ‘the female voice’ by Susan Bruce 3. Mary Astell’s Critique of Marriage by Patricia Springborg. 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women’s Coffee House by Vicki Spencer 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women by Joseph Zizek 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Kari Lokke 7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Wheeler and William Thompson By Jim Jose 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by Alexandra Lewis 9. ‘Something Akin to Freedom’: Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition by Susan Hays Bussey 10. On the Enslavement of Women’s Minds: John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women by Katherine Smits 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress by Catherine Dollard 12. ‘How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”’ by Shirley Samuels 13. Ecology and Virtue in Roquia Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream by Maitrayee Chaudhuri 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by Miriam Cooke 15. Virginia Woolf, genre-bending, and feminist life-writing: A Room of One’s Own by Amber Regis 16. “Your sister in the ’gator and the ’gator in your sister”: Judgment in Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Glenda R. Carpio 17. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’. The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir’s Account of Woman: The Second Sex by Céline Leboeuf 18. Betty Friedan’s Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity by Rebecca Jo Plant 19. ‘Writing as Re-Vision.’ Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck by Claire Hurley 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse by Helen Pringle 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela’s Bedside Manners (Realidad nacional desde la cama) By Valeria Wagner Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
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Edinburgh University Press Espionage and Exile
Book SynopsisThe first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.
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Edinburgh University Press Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics
Book SynopsisTowards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosopher - Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. It offers new readings of Denis' films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates.Trade Review"Attuned to what Kristin Hole describes as Denis's cinema of affective reorientation and 'shared vulnerability and responsibility, Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics offers fascinating reflections on connections between Denis, Nancy and Levinas, while drawing productively on contemporary feminist philosophies of ethics, co-existence and the body. An insightful, imaginative and lucid study." -- Laura McMahon, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge "A wondrous journey through the work of Denis, moving toward the cinematic ethics of its title in different ways in each chapter." -- Sarah Cooper, King's College London, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
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Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
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Edinburgh University Press May Sinclair
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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Edinburgh University Press Simone De Beauvoirs Philosophy of Individuation
Book SynopsisLaura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir s phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels, the important role of her student diaries and her early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.
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Edinburgh University Press Spinoza and Relational Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis collection of 13 new essays shows what Baruch Spinoza can add to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. By offering a relational understanding of the nature of individuals centred on the role played by emotions, Spinoza offers not only historical roots for contemporary debates but also broadens the current discussion.
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Edinburgh University Press Agonistic Mourning
Book SynopsisAthena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question which both challenges and extends the current orthodoxy: what would it be like to mourn the dead of the enemy?
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Edinburgh University Press The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film 19591973
Book SynopsisDevelops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.
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