Feminism and feminist theory Books
WW Norton & Co In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
Book SynopsisLively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a masterful critic and master teacher (Walton Myumba, Boston Globe)
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Feminist Perspectives in Therapy Empowering
Book SynopsisFeminist Perspectives in Therapy: Empowering Diverse Womenaddresses core issues in feminist psychological practice along withstrategies and techniques for understanding the development andexperiences of women throughout their lives. Two leading feministpsychologists provide a model that integrates feminist andmulticultural theory and practice, incorporating both internal andexternal sources of women''s psychological distress andwell-being. This Second Edition is filled with valuable information on thelatest developments in research and major issues faced bytherapists treating women, along with clinical case studies thatprovide practical examples of how to put theory intopractice. Topics covered include: * Promoting physical and psychological health * Confronting interpersonal abuse and violence * Balancing career and family * Integrating multicultural and diversity issues * Negotiating relationships Complete with self-assessment activitiesTable of ContentsPrologue. PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF FEMINIST THERAPY. Foundations of Feminist Counseling and Therapy. Socialization for Womanhood: Developing Personal and SocialIdentities. Empowerment Feminist Therapy. Feminist Transformation of Counseling Theories. A Feminist Approach to Assessment. PART II: LIFE SPAN ISSUES IN COUNSELING WOMEN. Dealing with Depression. Choosing a Career Path. Surviving Sexual Assault. Confronting Abuse. PART III: BECOMING A FEMINIST THERAPIST. Reconsidering Research. Exploring Ethics and Practice Issues. Implementing a Feminist-Diversity Model of Training. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Seven Stories of Threatening Speech
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The University of Michigan Press Bluestocking Feminism and BritishGerman Cultural
Book SynopsisExamines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously Electors of Hanover. Alessa Johns investigates how, in the period of the American and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinct discourses of liberty even though they were non-revolutionary countries.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The New Woman International
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe New Woman International reveals the complicated web of intentions, receptions, and conditions of women around the world as formulated by emergent reproductive technology." — Brooklyn Rail"This book is particularly relevant in this current era, in which it is more important than ever for us to be adept at analyzing messages in visual media. This is a necessary and potent text for anyone interested in visual culture and feminism." — International Center for Photography"The New Woman International delivers an exciting, fresh, and diverse examination of the imagery, consumer culture, metropolitan life, and technology that gave rise to startlingly innovative feminine symbols that changed gender norms." — Afterimage"For readers interested in feminist modernism and popular culture, the editors have assembled truly stellar examples of new methodologies in book history, periodical studies, global modernisms, film studies and multimedia studies." — The Latchkey Journal of New Woman Studies"The New Woman International has accomplished an enviable level of coherence, organization, and balance. It covers a broad geographic and historical range while maintaining a tight thematic and theoretical focus; it encompasses diverse scholarly approaches and manages to bring them into a coherent and meaningful conversation with each other; and finally, it succeeds in producing a true interdisciplinary polyphony, without losing sight of the unifying subject of study: the role of the New Woman in the technology-based visual arts of film and photography. It is not difficult to imagine that all of the contributions to this volume, including the excellent introductory essay, could become required reading for students in a variety of disciplines: the visual arts, German studies, and women’s studies." — German Studies Review"In addition to its significance to scholars, the interdisciplinary nature of this collection recommends it as an excellent reader for courses covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography, mass media, and, above all, feminist history." — Woman's Art Journal "[The New Woman International] shows why visual autonomy was so important to women’s political and domestic emancipation, and it contributes to the recent project to draw out transnational linkages between these syndicated modern feminine types with much detail, diversity, and applied creative analysis." — Modernism/modernity
£29.40
The University of Michigan Press Stately Bodies
Book SynopsisExplores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Liberating Economics Second Edition
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£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Gendered Vulnerability
Book SynopsisExamines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections - a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term gendered vulnerability.Trade ReviewDrawing on an incredible array of evidence, Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt provide impressive new evidence that female legislators are better at their jobs than their male counterparts and important new theoretical reasoning that explains why this difference emerges. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of American politics, particularly those interested in how biases affect incentives and behavior."" - Justin Grimmer, Stanford University
£65.55
University of California Press Listen to the Herons Words
Book SynopsisIn many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Transcription and Transliteration Note on Kinship Terms Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India (AGG and GGR) 1. Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India (GGR) 2. Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs (AGG) 3· On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin (GGR) 4· On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality (GGR) 5· Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case (AGG) 6. Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story (AGG) 7· Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions (GGR with AGG) Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Feminism on the Border
Book SynopsisFeaturing contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. It analysis the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers - Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena Maria Viramontes and a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS I Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana 2 Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to Global Solidarity 3 Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands I La Frontera 4 Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's Border Narratives 5 "I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire": Geopolitical Feminisms NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Provocations A Transnational Reader in the
Book SynopsisEmphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this title heralds an approach to studying feminist history.Trade Review"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-DiploTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index
£67.20
University of California Press Smart Girls
Book SynopsisAre girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting girls' academic success. This title investigates how academically successful girls deal with stress, the "supergirl" drive for perfection, race and class issues, and the sexism that is still present in schools.Trade Review"A compelling look into the complex topic of female academic success." Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword by Anita Harris Acknowledgments 1. Are Girls Taking Over the World? 2. Driven to Perfection 3. Fitting In or Fabulously Smart? 4. Sexism and the Smart Girl 5. A Deeper Look at Class and "Race": Belongings and Exclusions 6. Cool to Be Smart: Microresistances and Hopeful Glimpses Appendix: Study Participants Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Interpreting the Internet Feminist and Queer
Book SynopsisEvery user knows the importance of the @ symbol in internet communication. This book provides the exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet to support their counter publics.Trade Review"A grounded and well thought-out book. It is essential reading to anyone new to feminist counterpublics in Latin America, and I suspect to many feminist activists who may want to contextualise the work they do online." Gender & ITTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Interpreting the Internet: A Feminist Sociomaterial Approach 1. Conceiving Latin American Feminist Counterpublics 2. The Creation of "a Modern Weaving Machine": Bringing Feminist Counterpublics Online 3. Weaving the "Invisible Web": Counterpublic Organizations Interpret the Internet 4. La Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina: Constructing a Counterpublic 5. From Privacy to Lesbian Visibility: Latin American Lesbian Feminist Internet Practices Conclusion. Making the Internet Make Sense Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Women in Place
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing.Women in Placeoffers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women's rights in contemporary Iran. AuthorNazaninShahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men's soccer matches.The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends.Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries,Women in Placechallenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women's rights.Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women's bodies and movements within the boundaries of the proper but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.
£27.00
University of California Press The Feminist War on Crime
Book SynopsisMany feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tendto make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of lastnot firstresort.Trade Review“This interesting, densely written, challenging book illustrates the phenomenon of unintended consequences. . . . Following from Gruber's main point that now is the time to recognize that incarceration is not a solution, the state should concentrate on increasing the resources available to women affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Gruber offers an exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system." * PEN America *"The Feminist War on Crime is a timely call for feminists to reckon with the harms of the criminal institutions they helped to build. Ultimately, Gruber is asking for a new wave of feminism that prioritizes material gains for all women over expressive protection for the elite few. . . . The key lesson from Gruber’s book is that instead of punishing our way into good governance, feminists should define new modes for accountability and devote energy toward the provision of resources that actually improve the lives of women. As Gruber argues, now is the time for millennial feminists to move away from punishment." * Harvard Law Review *"The Feminist War on Crime is at the same time provocative, educational, and necessary for our moment where people are beginning to question the utility of imprisonment as a panacea for social ills without denying the fact that those ills demand our attention and effort." * Law & Society Review *"Deeply researched and forcefully argued. Gruber outlines the long-term corrosiveness of carceral anti-violence policies and compels readers to take anti-violence and anti-incarceration as inseparable political commitments." * Feminist Formations *"Gruber brings to light the ties between feminist movements and mass incarceration in this deeply researched, timely analysis." * Library Journal *"The Feminist War on Crime is cutting, provocative, and crucial reading for critical scholars, intersectional feminist thinkers, and anyone who seeks to pursue justice without further retrenching unjust systems." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Opening Battle: Fighting Patriarchy with Purity 2 • The Enemy: From “the Man” to Bad Men 3 • The Battle Plan: Arrest Is Best 4 • The Weapon: Ideal Victims 5 • The New Front: Date Rape 6 • From the Sexual Cold War to the New Sex Panic 7 • Endless War? Conclusion Notes Index
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University of California Press A Wider Type of Freedom
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the center of universal liberation. In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as a philosophy based on a contempt for life, a totalizing social theory that could only be confronted with an equally massive response, by restructuring the whole of American society.A Wider Type of Freedom provides a survey of the truly transformative visions of racial justice in the United States, an often-hidden history that has produced conceptions of freedom and interdependence never envisioned in the nation's dominant political framework. A Wider Type of Freedom brings together stories of the social movements, intellectuals, artists, and cultural formations that have centered racial justice and the abolition of white supremacy as the foundation for a universal liberation. Daniel Martinez HoSang taps into moments acrossTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface: "Restructuring the Whole of American Society" Introduction: "A New Humanity" 1. The Body: "A World Where All Human Life Is Valued" 2. Democracy and Governance: "My Rise Does Not Involve Your Fall" 3. Internationalism: "Sing No More of War" 4. Labor: "To Enjoy and Create the Values of Humanity" Conclusion: "A New Recipe" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Rethinking Womens Roles
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£64.00
University of California Press Anticolonial Eruptions Racial Hubris and the
Book SynopsisThis incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance. Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial revolts and slave rebellions have often been described by those in power as eruptionsvolcanic shocks to a system that does not, cannot, see them coming. In Anticolonial Eruptions, Geo Maher diagnoses a paradoxical weakness built right into the foundations of white supremacist power, a colonial blind spot that grows as domination seems more complete. Anticolonial Eruptions argues that the colonizer's weakness is rooted in dehumanization. When the oppressed and excluded rise up in explosive rebellion, with the very human demands for life and liberation, the powerful are ill-prepared. This colonial blind spot is, ironically, self-imposed: the more oppressive and expansive the colonial power, the lesser-than-human the colonized are believed to be, the greater the opportunity for resistance. Maher calls this paradox the cunning of decolonization, an unwitting reversal of the balance of power between the oppressor and the oppressed. Where colonial power asserts itself as unshakable, total, and perpetual, a blind spot provides strategic cover for revolutionary possibility; where race or gender make the colonized invisible, they organize, unseen. Anticolonial Eruptions shows that this fundamental weakness of colonialism is not a bug, but a permanent feature of the system, providing grounds for optimism in a contemporary moment roiled by global struggles for liberation.Trade Review "Anticolonial Eruptions offers a critical repository of popular power—from the enslaved and the indentured to smugglers, organizers, workers, tricksters, anticolonials, and abolitionists—whose disruptive and eruptive actions shocked the white supremacist, colonial, slavocratic status quo and precipitated movements that reconfigured social relations." * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Overview Volcanoes 1. The Cunning of Decolonization 2. The Colonial Blindspot 3. The Second Sight of the Colonized 4. The Decolonial Ambush Moles Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Lights Camera Feminism
Book SynopsisCelebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human traffickinga subject of feminist concernand they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation 2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016 3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability Notes References Index
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University of California Press Lights Camera Feminism
Book SynopsisCelebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human traffickinga subject of feminist concernand they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation 2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016 3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability Notes References Index
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University of California Press My Girls
Book SynopsisReveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give. Friendships among young people in poor, urban communitiesoften framed as risky sources of peer pressure and conflictoffer crucial support and self-esteem. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, find stability, embrace adulthood, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating studyone of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldworkblends firsthandTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction I · Friends and Forms of Care 1 Broke: Getting By 2 Bored: Time Management 3 Emotional Support and Breakdown 4 Bodies, Boyfriends, and Sex II · Friendships under Threat 5 Technologies of Trauma 6 Dealing with Difference III · After Graduation 7 Struggle and Support at College Conclusion A Note on Research and Writing Final Reflections: Ten Years Later Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press My Girls
Book SynopsisReveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give. Friendships among young people in poor, urban communitiesoften framed as risky sources of peer pressure and conflictoffer crucial support and self-esteem. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, find stability, embrace adulthood, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating studyone of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldworkblends firsthandTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction I · Friends and Forms of Care 1 Broke: Getting By 2 Bored: Time Management 3 Emotional Support and Breakdown 4 Bodies, Boyfriends, and Sex II · Friendships under Threat 5 Technologies of Trauma 6 Dealing with Difference III · After Graduation 7 Struggle and Support at College Conclusion A Note on Research and Writing Final Reflections: Ten Years Later Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£20.70
University of California Press Imperfect Victims Criminalized Survivors and the
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Imperfect Victims
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
£18.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Vera Brittain
Book SynopsisThis is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .Trade Review"Gorham has written an important life of Vera Brittain that scholars and students of the period will not want to miss." American Historical Review, June 1997 "By far the most substantial product of academic interest in Brittain to have appeared to date." Times Literary Supplement "Sensitive and compelling biography." The Toronto Star "Gorham is to be commended for producing a balanced book, and for making extensive and intelligent use of feminist criticism. Gorham has been blessed with extensive source materials and has used them well in a fine, provocative, inspiriting biography." The Women's Review of Books, July 1996Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Macclesfield and Buxton:. 2. Origin, 1893-1911. 3. 'Provincial Young Ladyhood', 1911-1914. Part II: 'History's Greatest Disaster': Love and Work in the Great War:. 4. Somerville, 1914-1915. 5. Love in Wartime. 6. War Work. Part III: 'Lady into Woman': Friendship, Work and Marriage in the 1920s:. 7. Friendship and Feminism. 8. Feminism and Internationalism. 9. Semi-detached Marriage. Part IV: 'Having Crossed the Rubicon': The 1930s and After:. 10. The Writing of Testament of Youth. 11. 'Having crossed the Rubicon.'. 12. Conclusion.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Patriarchy
Book SynopsisSylvia Walby provides an overview of recent theoretical debates -- Marxism, radical and liberal feminism, post--structuralism and dual systems theory. She shows how each can be applied to a range of substantive topics from paid work, housework and the state, to culture, sexuality and violence, relying on the most up--to--date empirical findings.Trade Review"Walby offers a powerful and stimulating demonstration of the centrality of patriarchy to social structure and historical analysis." Gillian Rose, Queen Mary College, London "Sylvia Walby has undoubtedly broken the stalemate in theorizing about patriarchy." Mary Maynard, University of YorkTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. 1. Introduction. 2. Paid Work. 3. Household Production. 4. Culture. 5. Sexuality. 6. Violence. 7. State. 8. From Private to Public Patriarchy. Footnotes. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theology and Feminism
Book SynopsisDr Hampson argues that the Christian Church cannot by definition come to terms with the equality of women, having developed in a world where women were subordinate. Feminism suggests ways to conceive God and reformulate theological ideas for a world in which Christianity is no longer tenable.Trade Review"A very important and challenging book." Theology "Hampson writes with passionate conviction, keen intellect, and an extensive knowledge of Christian theology, past and present." The Ecumenical Review"It will be an invaluable tool for all those concerned with women's issues inside and outside the Christian churches, posing hard questions to radicals and conservatives alike. Essential reading, whether or not you agree with the conclusions." Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury "A brilliant reflection on religion by one of Europe's finest feminist theologians ... Her powerful analysis should both inspire and challenge all those who think seriously about religion." Naomi Goldenberg, University of Ottawa "A thoughtful, well balanced examination of the thoroughly sexist character of Christianity. A fine book." Gordon Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emiterus, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgement. Introduction. 1. Methodology. The Nature of Christianity. The Conservative Response. Attempts to Bridge. The Denial of Discontinuity. A Post-Christian Position. 2. Christology. The Limits of Christianity. Patristic Christology. Feminist Christologies. Conservative Christologies. Counterbalances to Christology. Christ and Feminism. 3. Concretion. The Concretion of Religion. Biblical Religion. The Imaging of God. The 'Feminine' as Construct. Appropriating the Past. Breaking Free. 4. Anthropology. Feminist Anthropology. Sin. Salvation. Creation. 'Angst', Death and Eternal Life. 5. Theology. The Task of Feminist Theology. The Christian God. Renaming God. The Shape of God. Perceptivity. Select Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Three Guineas
Book SynopsisThe controversial Three Guineas was Virginia Woolf's most explicit statement of her feminism. Forming part of the Shakespeare Head Press series of Woolf's works, this new edition includes her carefully considered selection of photographs, her discursive endnotes and annotations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Abbreviations. Frontispiece. List of Illustrations. THREE GUINEAS. Editor's Notes. Appendix A: Emendations. Appendix B: Textual Variants. Appendix C: Passages Found Only in the First American Edition of Three Guineas. Appendix D: Books Cited or Referred to by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas. Appendix E: Periodical Sources Cited or Referred to by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Weyward Sisters
Book SynopsisIn this fresh alternative to traditional Shakespeare studies, Dympna Callaghan, Lorraine Helms, and Jyotsna Singh address Shakespeare''s works in terms of, amongst other things, the feminist history of sexuality, the ideology of romantic love, and feminist interventions in performance. Their objective is to produce new interpretations of the plays by locating them at the intersections of a range of contemporary critical, theoretical, and cultural practices.Trade Review"This is a fine book. An important and original contribution to feminist Shakespeare studies." Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania "This is a fresh book, which will have an invigorating effect on Shakespeare studies. Nothing quite like it exists, and I imagine a wide audience among Shakespeare scholars and students." Jean Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Interventions of History: Narratives of Sexuality: Jyotsna Singh. 2. The Ideology of Romantic Love: The Case of Romeo and Juliet: Dympna Callaghan. 3. Acts of Resistance: The Feminist Player: Lorraine Helms. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Literature and Feminism
Book SynopsisLiterature and Feminism is an exemplary new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of the most important, but also most difficult, areas of contemporary literary studies.Trade Review"A genuinely introductory account of feminist literary criticism and theory which will be of help to all students starting out on literary study." Jennifer Birkett, University of Birmingham "This book is suitable for first year students ... It presumes no prior knowledge, yet covers a wide range of material with admirable clarity and directness." Mary Eagleton, the University College of Ripon & York St John "The pedagogical value of this book is enhanced by this style of presentation and the inclusion of lists of further reading and a glossary of terms ... Morris's book provides an informative introduction to feminist literary debates." VisionsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Why 'literature and feminism'?. Part I: Literature?. 1. Re-vision: Reading as a Woman. 2. Challenging the Canon and the Literary Establishment. 3. Writing by Women. Part II:. 4. The Construction of Gender: Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. 5. Writing as a Woman: Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Ecriture Feminine. 6. Identities in Process: Poststructuralism, Julia Kristeva and Intertextuality. 7. A Return to Women in History: Lesbian, Black and Class. Criticism. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Working with Feminist Criticism
Book SynopsisUsing the concepts and practices of feminist literary criticism, this constantly challenging workbook not only makes the connection between womena s writing and womena s lives but breaks new ground in enabling students to apply critical concepts and to feel more at ease with the texts common to feminist literary theory.Trade Review"Working with Feminist Criticism is both a guide to understanding and using feminist criticism and also a valuable source book for simple classroom exercises and for wider reading. This is not a daunting tome, but a fantastic source of ideas for the teacher of more advanced English language. It is also a worthwhile addition to the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in criticism and a passion for reading." Vatime Newsletter. "Working with Feminist Criticism is an invaluable resource for students coming to feminist literary criticism for the first time. However, it contains lots of useful and illuminating ideas that could be taken up by more experienced students." Caroline Guerin University of Adelaide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Speech and Silence 16 Defining a Feminist Text 32 Creating a Matrilineage 37 The Woman Author: Lost and Found 49 The Death of a Woman Author? 65 Gender and Genre 77 Feminism and Genre Fiction 91 Feminist Publishing 105 Feminist Reading 119 Feminist Criticisms 135 Patriarchal Binary Thought 146 Gender Play 158 Feminine Writing and Reading 172 Finding the Subject 189 The Politics of Location 208 Conclusion 219 Works Cited 221 Index 234
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism
Book SynopsisElizabeth Faya s invaluable book addresses the student in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequalled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature.Trade Review"Drawing heavily on the many new historical and feminist interrogations of British romantic texts over the last decade, Elizabeth Fay provides a useful overview of the major areas of feminist enquiry into canonical and non-canonical romantic writing. Fay provides several fresh insights into non-canonical texts as well as helpful classifications of the range of women's writing in the romantic period." Studies in Romanticism Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. List of Women Writers Discussed. 1 A Feminist Approach to Romantic Studies and the Case of Austen. Standard Definitions and Revisions. The Historical Period. Feminist Theory and Romantic Studies. Jane Austen, a Case Study. 2 Women and Politics: Writing Revolution. Letters and the Maternal: Political Metaphors. Revolution as a Frame of Mind. Revolutionary Writing. Maternal Nationalism and Children's Literature. 3 Women and the Gothic: Literature as Home Politics. Defining the Gothic. The Gothic as Domestic: Social Critique Gothics. Psychological Drama Gothics. The Romance of Real Life and the Radical Critique. 4 Women and Thought: Intellectual Critique. The Bluestocking Circle in London. Dissent and the Rights of the Home. Women and History. Literary Criticism as Art. Intellectuality and the Years of Reaction. 5 Women and Identity: Visuality in Romantic Texts. Seeing and Seen: The Writer and the Proper Lady. Display and the Specular Heroine. Tableaux Vivants, Theatrics and Burney's The Wanderer. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies
Book SynopsisThis text presents a comprehensive introduction to feminist epistemologies which are situated at the intersection of philosophical, sociological, and cultural investigations of knowledge. It provides critiques of more traditional approaches, and explores the alternatives proposed by feminists.Trade Review"One of the strengths of the book is Tanesini's attention to detail in argument and her capacity to draw fine distinctions between the positions she discusses." Alison Ainley, Radical Philosophy "The scope of the book is wide, and I would recommend it as a text book for students in the final year of their degree, postgraduate students and also to academics in general. It is very clearly written and the issues are explained in detail and contextualised adequately. There is no simplification of the topics, and the analyses offered by Tanesini are throrough. I would classify this as an accessible but sophisticated introduction to feminist epistemology." Stella Gonzalez Arnal, Women's Philosophy Review, no. 24, 2000Table of ContentsPart I: Varieties of Epistemology:. 1. Epistemology. 2. The Study of Scientific Knowledge:. a. Philosophy of Science. b. The Sociology of Knowledge. c. The Cultural Study of Scientific Knowledge. Part II: Feminism and "Mainstream" Epistemology. 1. Feminist Criticisms of Individualism in Epistemology. 2. Feminist Objections to the Traditional Epistemic Subject. Part III: Feminism and Science:. 1. Sexist Science. 2. Science and Values. Part IV: Feminist Empiricism:. 1. Contextual Empiricism. 2. Naturalised Empiricism. 3. The Limits of Empiricism. Part V: Naturalised feminist Epistemology:. 1. Feminism and Naturalised Epistemology. 2. Sociology and Naturalised Epistemology. Part VI: The Importance of Standpoint in Feminism:. 1. What is a Standpoint: Beginning from Women's Experience. 2. Starting from Marginal Lives. Part VII: Objectivity and Feminism:. 1. What is Objectivity?. 2. Objectivity and Objectification. Objectivity, Values, and Responsibility. Part VIII: Knowledge and Power:. 1. Power, Knowledge, and Human Interests. 2. Disciplinary Power, Bio-Power, and Science. Part IX: Reason and Unreason in feminism:. 1. Reason and masculinity. 2. Reason and the Philosophical Imaginary. Part X: Feminism and Postmodernism:. 1. Epistemology: Rejection or Transformation?. 2. Knowledge and the Subject.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisUses the writings of 16th and 17th century women to construct a feminist perspective on drama by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Ford, and their contemporaries. This book includes plays such as: Doctor Faustus, Measure for Measure, The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy and The Maid's Tragedy.Trade Review"In this valuable book Alison Findlay attempts to develop historically grounded feminist responses to a wide variety of Renaissance plays . . . Findlay writes with admirable clarity and concision, offering interpretations that are informed but never obscured by contemporary - especially Lacanian - critical theory. This is a good book, worth reading and debating." Early Modern Literary Studies. "All the essays are new, and together they illuminate a wide range of issues across a reasonable spread of plays. The book offers a range of thoughtful and stimulating approaches to gender on the Renaissance stage." The Yearbook of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1.'Heavenly matters of theology'. 2. Revenge Tragedy. 3. 'I please my self': Female Self-fashioning. 4. Household Tragedies. 5. Queens and Subjects. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Black Feminist Reader
Book SynopsisOrganized into two parts, Literary Theory and Social and Political Theory, this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements.Trade Review"This volume brings together ten essays in the development of black feminism. The selections reflect the literary, social and political critiques that mark this form of feminist and antiracist thought as unique and transformative." Black Issues Book Review "This collection is certain to become another essential text in the field of women's studies. . . Recommended for public and academic libraries." Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Editors' Introduction. List of Contributors. Part I: Literary Theory:. 1. The Race for Theory: Barbara Christian. 2. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken": The Afro-American Presence in American Literature: Toni Morrison. 3. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book: Hortense Spillers. 4. A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism: Michael Awkward. 5. Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un-silencing the 'Demonic Ground' of 'Caliban's Woman.': Sylvia Wynter. Part II: Social/Political Theory:. 6. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory: Bell Hooks. 7. Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation: Angela Davis. 8. The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought: Patricia Hill Collins. 9. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics: Kimberlé Crenshaw. 10. Radicalising Feminism: Joy James. Appendix: Key Feminist Statements. I. Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement (1972). II. African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991). Part III: Open Letter from Assata Shakur (1998):. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminist Geography in Practice
Book SynopsisA feminist geography text devoted to methodology, it provides a framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline. It encourages readers to take on, think about, and do feminist research in geography and offers suggestions for going about it. It also features pedagogical material, developed with students in the classroom.Trade Review"Feminist Geography in Practice offers a fast-paced field guide to feminist research in Geography…. One of the key contributions of this book is that it develops and demonstrates the understanding that feminist research always takes place at the intersection of the personal, the political, and the academic…. This is a timely textbook that represents the maturing of a field. It will be invaluable for courses in research methodology and in feminist geography, and it should be mandatory reading for students and practitioners who are undertaking – or want to undertake – research that is explicitly feminist." – Professor Joni Seager, The University of VermontTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. List of Figures and Tables. Notes on Contributors. 1. Taking on, Thinking about, and Doing Feminist Research in Geography. (Pamela Moss). Part I: Taking on Feminist Research. Defining Feminism?: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. Short 1. Being Feminist in Geography - Feminist Geography in the German-Speaking Academy: History of a Movement. (Elisabeth Baschlind). 2. Making Space for Personal Journeys. (Mary Gilmartin). 3. Feminist Epistemology in Geography. (Meghan Cope). 4. The Difference Feminism Makes: Researching Unemployed Women in an Australian Region. (Louise C. Johnson). Study Material for Taking on Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. Part II: Thinking about Feminist Research. Delimiting Language?: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. Short 2. Putting Feminist Geography into Practice - Gender, Place and Culture: Paradoxical Spaces?. (Liz Bondi). 5. Paradoxical Space: Geography, Men, and Duppy Feminism. (David Butz and Lawrence D. Berg). 6. Toward a More Fully Reflexive Feminist Geography. (Karen Falconer Al-Hindi and Hope Kawabata). 7. People Like Us: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in the Research Process. (Gill Valentine). Study Material for Thinking About Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. Part III: Doing Feminist Research. Decentering Authority!: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. Short 3. Doing Geography as a Feminist - Reconsidering Success and Failure in Feminist Research. (Maureen G. Reed). 8. Doing Feminist Fieldwork about Geography Fieldwork. (Karen Nairn). 9. Quantitative Methods and Feminist Geographic Research. (Mei-Po Kwan). 10. Borderlands in Feminist Ethnography. (Joan Marshall). 11. Negotiating Positionings: Exchanging Life Stories in Research Interviews. (Deirdre McKay). 12. Interviewing Elites: Cautionary Tales about Researching Women Magazines in Canada's Banking Industry. (Kim V. L. England). 13. Studying Immigrants in Focus Groups. (Geraldine Pratt). Study Material for Doing Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group. 14. Further Notes on Feminist Research: Embodied Knowledge in Place. (Isabel Dyck). References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory
Book SynopsisThe Concise Companion to Feminist Theory introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the last 35 years. * Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years. * Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory.Trade Review"A Consise Companion to Feminist Theory is essential reading for researchers engaged in the diverse fields of feminist studies ... Even non-specialist readers with a view to getting started in feminist theory and practice will find the book quite interesting and thought provoking. A book with such a wide sweep of readership is no mean achievement." Discourse & SocietyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1Mary Eagleton 1 Place and Space 11Linda McDowell 2 Time 32Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson 3 Class 53Rosemary Hennessy 4 ‘Race’ 73Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Meg Coulson 5 Sexuality 93Rey Chow 6 Subjects 111Chris Weedon 7 Language 133Sara Mills 8 Literature 153Mary Eagleton 9 The Visual 173Griselda Pollock 10 Feminist Philosophies 195Rosi Braidotti 11 Cyberculture 215Jenny Wolmark 12 Feminist Futures 236Sara Ahmed Select Bibliography 255 Index 257
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Harvard University Press The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Book SynopsisAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose includes an introduction that sketches the poet's life.
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Harvard University Press The Return of Thematic Criticism
Book SynopsisHow to determine the theme of a text—can a focus on form be the theme? Can the motif be a formal category? What operations permit us to say that texts are variants of the same theme? The contributors challenge the dismissal of “merely” thematic approaches and offer different ways to tackle the issue of what a piece of writing is “about.”Trade ReviewThis interdisciplinary collection sets the most advanced poetic and ideological approaches side-by-side to resolve the ancient conflict between formalism and the study of content. As a corollary, Sollors’ anthology seeks to sweep away or at least rehabilitate the theoretically impoverished notion-hunting of certain feminists, many new historicists, and race/class/gender critics, to say nothing of second-generation Derrideans… The distinguished contributors…definitely place thematic criticism back on the agenda, and, at the same time, call for a higher level of humanistic discourse. * Virginia Quarterly Review *This study of thematics opens up afresh the problems of literary theory… It also might be an impetus to re-examine the history of postmodernist theory which has co-opted one aspect of thematics in response to modernism but appears to have blithefully ignored what remains problematic. -- John Stephen Martin * Ariel *This collection of essays on thematic criticism, edited by Werner Sollors, can be considered among the most successful and useful examples of the genre… The Return of Thematic Criticism gives a new turn to, and offers new points of observation on, a critical debate that has reached a phase of general confusion and has entered some blind alleys. It should stimulate a broad discussion of international scope, given the importance of the subject and the numbers of centers of research interested in it. The book can also be of notable help to scholars and students, for it can give new theoretical awareness to those who are engaged in some form of thematic criticism without having a theoretical awareness of what they do and without being bothered to consider the methodological problems involved. -- Remo Ceserani * Southern Humanities Review *This is a judicious, wide-ranging study. -- J. F. O’Malley * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Feminisms Forgotten Fight
Book SynopsisKirsten Swinth reconstructs the comprehensive vision of feminism’s second wave at a time when its principles are under renewed attack. In the struggle for equality at home and at work, it was not feminism that failed to deliver on the promise that women can have it all, but a society that balked at making the changes for which activists fought.Trade ReviewChronicles in careful detail the efforts by feminist activists both male and female to remold the structures of family and work life that had historically contributed to a thankless and even punishing existence for most women. -- Ashley Fetters * The Atlantic *Explores how and why our society is structured to make motherhood so hard… [Swinth] documents second-wave feminists’ push for systemic changes to marriage, the workweek, childcare, and welfare that would make being a parent, and a worker, more sustainable and rewarding… Illustrates that policy shifts just don’t happen without cultural shifts. -- Rebecca Stoner * Pacific Standard *Uncovers the all-but-lost history of the women’s movement’s advocacy for mothers. -- Alice B. Lloyd * Weekly Standard *Swinth makes the case that second-wave feminism was never about ‘having it all’—it was about freeing women from the straitjacket of narrow gender roles and the economic penalties associated with all the unpaid labor that keeps society going. -- Natalie Shure * Jacobin *Swinth's point is that the history of post-WWII feminism is far more complex than today's pundits make it out to be, and that we accept reductionist sloganeering at the risk of losing important lessons from our past…It achieves the goal of depicting a rich and varied movement, full of difference, diversity, and idealism. -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *Swinth persuasively argues that second-wave feminists advocated work-family balance for women and changed the social fabric in ways that benefit them. This is a smart, nimble corrective history of a rousing fight for societal equality. * Publishers Weekly *Swinth systematically dismantles the myths and stereotypes about second-wave feminism that pervade our culture. Based on rigorous and extensive research, her book traces the numerous ways that feminists of all stripes worked to fight the dilemmas facing working mothers. -- Sara Evans, author of Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's EndMommy wars and lean-ins step aside! You have met your match in this sweeping, very readable book which recovers the lost feminist vision that equality requires structural transformation of both work and family to become real. Kirsten Swinth shows not only that ‘having it all’ was a myth but that ‘second wave’ feminists were not responsible for selling such an impossible dream to U.S. women during the last third of the twentieth century. -- Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State‘Have it all’ was a marketers’ slogan, not a feminist one. Instead, as Swinth describes in rich detail, women’s groups thoughtfully debated how to reorganize personal relationships and work arrangements in ways that were fair to women, men, children, and families of different racial and economic backgrounds. We might do well to revisit some of their ideas. -- Stephanie Coontz, author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960sSwinth reveals the ‘having it all’ myth for what it truly is—a backlash against feminism masquerading as feminism. In its place, she unearths what feminists actually fought for, and sometimes, against great odds, achieved. Her brilliant reconstruction of the wide-ranging activism of 1960s and 1970s feminists rescues their work from contemporary parodies and enables it to serve, once again, as a template for the fairer world that we may yet achieve. -- Beryl Satter, author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
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Princeton University Press In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Book SynopsisAn ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1994 Harry J. Benda Prize, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Honorable Mention for the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994Table of ContentsPrefaceOpening: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen3Pt. 1Politics of the Periphery391Marginal Fictions512Government Headhunters723Family Planning104Pt. 2A Science of Travel1214Leadership Landscapes1275Conditions of Living1546On the Boundary of the Skin178Pt. 3Riding the Horse of Gaps2077Alien Romance2138Riding, Writing2309The History of the World253Reprise285Notes303References Cited311Index335
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Princeton University Press Edgework
Book SynopsisBrings together seven of Wendy Brown's essays in political and cultural theory that range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. This work is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. Each essay probes a problem.Trade Review"Attentive to the paradoxes and fragilities of contemporary democratic life, Wendy Brown's Edgework traverses democratic and feminist theory to deepen our appreciation of love in a time of hostility, equality in a time of difference, and action in a time of felt paralysis. Timely yet not simply 'relevant,' Edgework manifests throughout that quality that Hannah Arendt admired and named 'care for the world.'"—Bonnie Honig, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation; author of Democracy and the Foreigner"There is no one who occupies the place Brown occupies, who thinks as she thinks, or who writes with the same startling combination of bravery and moderation. There is no one who has such an acute eye for the structural perversities of American politics. There is no one who can so easily break the surface of political controversies and local scholarly debates, and dive into the profound questions below and behind them."—Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empireand 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and MethodTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter One: Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times 1 Chapter Two: Political Idealization and Its Discontents 17 Chapter Three: Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy 37 Chapter Four: At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory 60 Chapter Five: Freedom's Silences 83 Chapter Six: Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics 98 Chapter Seven: The Impossibility of Women's Studies 116 Notes 137 Index 155
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Princeton University Press For the Many
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Cobble’s appreciation for the integrity of the full rights feminists’ line of reasoning and their persistence shapes her book."---Nancy F. Cott, New York Review of Books"Cobble’s impressive research draws on countless primary sources from collections spanning archives, libraries, and research institutions from around the globe, making her book a must read for students interested in transnational feminism." * Choice Reviews *"[A] comprehensive new history. . . . Cobble’s book is brimming with stories of women who similarly moved in and out of unions, feminist organizations, and government posts."---Laura Tanenbaum, Jacobin"Dorothy Sue Cobble's sweeping, carefully-researched, and beautifully-written story of full-rights feminists. . . . will no doubt remain a touchstone for the history of feminism and labor for years to come."---Jocelyn Olcott, International Review of Social History
£37.80
Princeton University Press Sex and Secularism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017""Sex and Secularism offers a series of bracing and illuminating reflections on a whole culture of oppression that ought to have been exposed much earlier."---Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"Sex and Secularism must be praised for drawing attention to the history of secularism and gender inequality. Scott’s message is no doubt timely in light of the powerful effect of the #MeToo campaign, which should give anyone pause before boasting about the superior treatment of women in the secular west."---Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Guardian"Scott’s ardent and principled opposition to the prejudice and hostility expressed towards Islam – more specifically towards Islamic countries, societies and practices – by 'secularists' in Europe (principally France) and the United States is timely and necessary."---Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Times Literary Supplement"In Sex and Secularism, Scott broadens her scope geographically and temporally. Here the subject is women’s relationship to secularism in modern western nation-states. This is a big and complex subject for a compact volume, but Scott is especially well-positioned to tackle it. . . . A challenging, timely, and important book. . . . Readers of Sex and Secularism will be forced to rethink their assumptions about the role of women and their bodies in contemporary political debates."---Susan B. Whitney, Literary Review of Canada"Sex and Secularism is a challenging, timely, and important book. . . . Her aim, she continues, was to 'open--not to definitively close--a conversation about the place of gender equality in the discourse of secularism.' That she has definitively done, as few other scholars could."---Susan Whitney, Literary Review of Canada"In her new book, the eminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott[’s] . . . aim is to sketch a speculative history of the relationship between sex and secularism: to uncover how ideas about the proper place of religion and the proper place of women have influenced each other and to show how both have been placed in the service of Western imperialism. . . . Scott does not contend that religious societies are more egalitarian than secular ones, but she wants to draw attention to the long history of conflict whitewashed by the assertion that feminism and secularism are naturally aligned."---Namara Smith, Bookforum"Scott's theoretical, historical narrative in Sex and Secularism takes its place in a wider conversation in which critical thinkers working in many genres-including film, music, and fiction-ponder gender, race, religion, and sexual difference in a way that refuses essentialism while taking seriously the political effects of these categories on people living in worlds of ongoing inequality and violence. Secularism is not the savior, nor is it the demon in this narrative; it is, like all political ideals, including feminism, a promise that variably incites and excludes."---Pamela E. Klassen, Public Books"Wide-ranging, sophisticated and up-to-date. . . . Anyone from a good senior school student to an expert can expect to learn a great deal from Scott's narrative and notes."---Chris Forbes, Ancient History Resources for Teachers"Joan W. Scott has written an important and timely book."---Sarah B. Farris, H-Diplo Roundtable Review"In many ways, the true success of Sex and Secularism should be pointing out the obvious. A secular society does not mean an equal society. . . . By expertly countering this assertion with a carefully crafted argument throughout the pages of this work, Scott has successfully revealed the continued hypocrisy of Western democracies."---Meltem Ince-Yenilmez, Journal of Global Analysis"Joan Scott argues in this finely crafted, well-argued, wide-ranging, and timely book, secularism has never been a set of abstract truths, but has rather been a historically produced, discursive operation of power based on sexual difference."---Laura L. Frader, H-France Review"Some academic books are so rich and complex that they leave a lasting impression and feed the mind long after the reader has finished them. [Sex and Secularism] is one of those rare books."---Marta Trzebiatowska, Journal of Religion in Europe"Sex & Secularism is a passionate argument against Islamophobia and its rationalization in arguments that only secular societies foster gender equality and sexual liberalization."---Edward Andrew, European Legacy
£29.75
Princeton University Press Accidental Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
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Princeton University Press Chains of Love and Beauty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Faced with Michael Field’s vast and extraordinary output, of prose, poems and plays, selections such as the ones offered in [Chains of Love and Beauty] certainly lend the reader a welcome 'pair – of – scissors.'"---Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement"In Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field . . . scholar Carolyn Dever pulls that diary out of a century of obscurity and unfurls 30 years and almost 10,000 pages to reveal a genre-defying, protomodernist document."---Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Los Angeles Review of Books
£28.80
Princeton University Press Accidental Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation""Revealing the infrastructural scaffolding and affective registers through which the accidental works its power, this book is an important contribution to expanding legal and organisational sociology beyond Euro-American contexts in deepening readers’ understanding of professional women’s entry into the workforce in India."---Dr Hemangini Gupta, LSE Review of Books
£74.80
Princeton University Press Helen of Troy in Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging."---Harry Strawson, Times Literary Supplement"An enlightening and accessible overview of the pervasive presence of Zeus’s daughter in American popular culture, ranging from silent Hollywood cinema to televised speculative fiction . . . [and] a must read for scholars of both classical reception and popular culture."---Gabrielle Stecher, Popular Culture Studies Journal"A smart exploration of how this mythic figure has been portrayed in film and television. [Blondell] has written a thematically bold book that entertainingly contemplates what Helen of Troy signifies in old and modern Hollywood productions."---Christopher Schobert, The Film Stage
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