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Book SynopsisThis book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored Our Bodies, Ourselves.Trade Review"At once a rhetorical and sociological study of the best-selling women's health guide, Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book makes recent history available to a broad readership at a time when the struggles of 1960s and 1970s activists are falling out of living memory." -- Laura Otis" Our Bodies, Ourselves, and the Work of Writing is a fascinating and insightful read for anyone who wants to best understand the value of this important text." * The Midwest Review. *"Here is a unique approach to a familiar book, the first study to focus on the language, writing, and literary techniques of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Wells evokes a sense of the emotional investment that women had in seeing change in the status quo and offers insights into the women's health movements of which even the participants may have been unaware." -- Sue Rosser

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Book SynopsisIt is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decades, the feminist movement brought about significant progress on workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual assault. Yet, the proverbial million-dollar question remains: why is there still so much to be done? With this book, Lynn S. Chancer takes stock of the American feminist movement and engages with a new burst of feminist activism. She articulates four common causesadvancing political and economic equality, allowing intimate and sexual freedom, ending violence against women, and expanding the cultural representation of womenconsidering each in turn to assess what has been gained (or not). It is around these shared concerns, Chancer argues, that we can continue to build a vibrant and expansive feminist movement. After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism takes the long view of the successes and shortcomingsTrade Review"In this sweeping, unflinching account, After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism tackles the paradox of American feminism. Interrogating feminism's own thorny contradictions and challenges, Lynn Chancer offers women a bold and inspiring plan for claiming equality with men—once and for all." -- Lisa Wade * author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus *"After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism is an engaging, well written, and accessible map of our feminist past, present, and future. This book should be required reading for everyone interested in gender justice and committed to the full human rights of all women and men." -- France Winddance Twine * coeditor of Feminisms and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice *"With her characteristic brilliance, Lynn Chancer charts the hard-won victories and persistent obstacles that have marked women's changing status since the rise of second wave feminism. After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism is a tour-de-force diagnosis of contemporary feminism's conundrums and a blueprint for feminists of all stripes to come together to achieve equality." -- Kathleen Gerson * author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family *"Lynn Chancer offers us an alternative to 'leaning in,' one responsive to the needs of diverse groups of women and rooted in intersectional activism. Her insights are a welcome and revitalizing intervention, outlining a bold and practical way forward and a hopeful path toward 'big tent' feminism." -- Kerwin Kaye * Wesleyan University *"Lynn Chancer, a lifelong feminist scholar, has the perspective necessary to help us understand where feminism is now, where it came from, and where it could go. Whether you're a newly-minted feminist or an old hand, this book is a fresh read on feminism's promise for full liberation as well as the roadblocks that could stop the revolution in its tracks." -- Laurie Essig * author of Love, Inc. Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter *"After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism makes a compelling case for how feminists can find common ground from an intersectional perspective to organize for social justice. Impressive and timely, this is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in gender, social movements, and contemporary culture." -- Isabel Pinedo, Hunter College * CUNY *"Lynn Chancer's advice for completing the feminist revolution is sage, practical, and eminently useful. Feminists young and old will be reinvigorated by this call to battle." -- Judith Lorber * author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change *"Lynn Chancer illuminates the commonalities that connect feminists from across the movement. Anyone who has been marginalized because of any aspect of their being—including gender, sexuality, race, class, education, and beyond—will find solace and hope in this book." -- Beverly-Xaviera Watkins * NYU College of Global Public Health *"Throughout this well documented and cogent book, Chancer puts her finger squarely on the inextricable links between the political and personal in tackling these major issues of American feminism." -- Joan Pennel * Affilia *"[This] book provides a well-written to-do list for the next feminist generation. In her standout chapter, 'Debating the 'F' Word,' Chancer provides a concise history of America's complicated relationship with feminism....Chancer's historical storytelling is exceptional here. It is both compelling and accessible." -- Trisha L. Crawshaw * Gender & Society *"[Chancer's] attempt to think through how feminism's sometimes-unproductive divisiveness is connected to structural forces around gender is brave and insightful....[Her] creative strategic suggestions should spark conversation and thought." -- Nancy Whittier * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Taking Stock chapter abstractThis chapter provides an overview of the book and introduces the argument that commonalities and differences are both needed for a revitalized feminist movement. A review of progress and pitfalls, including ongoing ambivalence about the word feminism, is offered. Four shared causes are suggested: inequalities in the workplace and at schools, personal freedoms and reproductive justice, ending violence against women, and the problem of sexist imagery. These are linked with "partial successes" aimed at reframing these social problems. For instance, achieving gender parities in the political and economic realms, where the United States still lags, will likely require availability of high-quality and affordable daycare for all women. Likewise, stereotypes may not be overcome until women have equal power and control of the culture industries. Finally, the chapter provides brief previews of the volume. 2Debating the "F" Word chapter abstractAiming at identifying a set of reasons for ambivalence still felt by many women (and men) toward the word feminist, this chapter begins by exploring early antifeminist reactions that sought to stigmatize feminists as judgmental and "anti-male." The author argues that judgments also sometimes divided feminists themselves, from the second wave onward. Moreover, problems involving women who pursued careers and those who worked at home may have unwittingly become separated as "mass issues" as the American feminist movement unfolded. Other reasons cited for ambivalence include insufficient attention to race and class differences among women, and the structurally divisive character of gender itself, which often goes unrecognized. The chapter underscores the importance of taking feminist standpoints on social issues rather than judging individuals; such standpoints can inform policy positions so that all women's needs and experiences are constructively encompassed. 3Achieving Political, Economic, and Educational Equalities chapter abstractIn the public realms of politics, the economy, and education, women have made great progress but have not yet achieved equal participation (or gender parity) with men. By some statistical measures, American women's political participation lags behind many other countries and has plateaued or worsened. While women now make approximately eighty cents to the dollar of male earnings, reflecting steady gains, complete parity has not been reached here either. Nor have women become equal participants in all academic disciplines, such as the sciences. This chapter suggests that part of the problem in the United States is that contrary to early feminists' intentions, universally affordable and high-quality daycare has not yet been achieved for women across class, racial/ethnic, and other differences. Without this achievement, the author argues, parity will be hard to attain for all women; she calls for renewed feminist attention to this issue. 4Liberating Sexual Choices chapter abstractIntimate freedoms—involving reproductive rights and justice, as well as LGBTQ sexual freedoms—still elude achievement for all women, even though important battles involving legalization (of abortion rights in 1973, and of gay marriage in 2015) have been won since the second wave. Yet by several political and ideological criteria, pro-choice advocates are on the defensive as abortion's availability has contracted relative to earlier decades. The LGBTQ movement has recently been able to use rights and equality discourses effectively, though ongoing biases and setbacks have recently occurred also. The author argues that both of these feminist issues—reproductive and sexual freedoms—have been affected by challenges to the constitutional separation of church and state. She suggests that the two movements are best fought for separately and together to maximize collective feminist efficacy on these issues of personal choice. 5Ending Violence against Women—and Men chapter abstractAs with overall violence in the United States, violence against women diminished in recent decades. However, gender skewing continues as violence is committed disproportionately by men. Feminist approaches to violence against women have been criticized for inadequate insensitivity to intersectional concerns. This chapter suggests that feminists ask why violence against women continues in the first place; the author argues that changing "ordinary" sexist assumptions is needed, as these may exist on the same continuum as "extraordinary" sexist acts and violence. Kindred with C. J. Pascoe's concept, the idea of "compulsory masculinity" is used to denote pressures on young men to act in sexist and heterosexist ways to avoid stigmatization. The chapter advocates renewed attention to both intersectional differences and common sexist ideas as experienced by young men and women at school, in families, and within other social institutions. 6Changing Sexist Imagery chapter abstractHuge transformations have occurred in how gender is portrayed in popular culture, from television to films, music, advertising, and news. However, when examining not only changes in gendered contents but forms—that is, whether women hold equal power and control in these industries—the situation is less sanguine. Evidence suggests a tremendous disparity between progress in altering gendered cultural contents and progress in diminishing the male-dominated character of the culture industries overall. What the author calls "looksism," or sexist biases on the basis of looks, is also an ongoing problem for women. Awareness is shifting as feminists in Hollywood, partly inspired by the Me Too movement, call for equal power. This chapter documents the need for "taking back" these male-dominated industries, suggesting that without such change, the gender revolution in culture will remain incomplete. 7Taking Back a Revolution chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the book's chief arguments for the simultaneous consideration of commonalities and differences, and for bringing together common issues reframed so as to take both dimensions into account. It also returns to the language of the feminist "third wave" to indicate that other renewals of feminism(s) have occurred. But argued here is that the present situation is especially urgent for renewing feminist commitments, some of which may be newly threatened; the author contends that unnecessary divisiveness can be particularly consequential. Most important, the chapter argues for awareness of feminist concerns about taking both emotions and rationality into consideration when approaching the major remaining tasks outlined throughout the volume.

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Book SynopsisIn late 19th-century America, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land or adventure, leaving their wives to handle family, farm and business affairs on their own. Based on the experiences of over 50 women, this text examines the lives of these "women in waiting".

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Book SynopsisDevoted wife and mother. Novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote published novels, short story collections, stories and essays, and innumerable illustrations. Darlis Miller examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman.

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Book SynopsisThe first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis Miller traces one woman’s quest for professional recognition in the face of social constraints.

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Book SynopsisOver a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Revolution in Mood: Emblems, Embodiment, and Ephemera 2. On the Stage: Dramatized Women’s Rhetoric 3. In Sociable Venues: Clubs, Salons, and Debating Societies 4. On the Page: Written Rhetoric and Arguments About Education Reflection on Findings Appendix A: Eighteenth-century Terminology for Sex and Gender Identity Appendix B: Table of Precedency Among Ladies Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAfter portraying Mary Todd Lincoln in hundreds of performances and giving lectures over a more than thirty-year career, Donna D. McCreary has fielded every imaginable inquiry about the First Lady. Gathered here, readers will find answers to the most frequently asked questions to come from live audiences.Trade Review “The remarkable amount of biographical and interpretive coverage in this volume is a tribute to the author’s persistence and ability. Donna D. McCreary has cleared away whole swaths of error in fact or opinion left by previous writers and passers-by about Mary Lincoln. If the author had merely touched upon her great knowledge of Mary’s wardrobe, family, photographs, travels, views on slavery or suffrage, or friends, this book would still be invaluable; yet she has addressed in depth two dozen more topics than those. At last, Mary Lincoln is given her due.” —James M. Cornelius, coauthor of Under Lincoln’s Hat: 100 Objects, That Tell the Story of His Life and Legacy “Dismissing Mary Lincoln as a villain does no justice to her, to Abraham Lincoln, or to history. She was not a caricature. She was a complicated, intelligent, passionate, flawed human being. To demystify her is to know her better and, in turn, to know Abraham Lincoln better; and McCreary seeks to do just that by illustrating Mary Lincoln’s humanity.”—Stacy Pratt McDermott, author of Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman “McCreary offers many interesting—and uncommon—details about our famous first lady, and includes some downright unique information. It has been years since I’ve read any new or detailed information about the Todd family and Mary’s dynamic within it; and McCreary’s chapter on Mary’s experiences and opinions regarding slavery and African Americans is something that has been sorely needed in the canon for a long time.”—Jason Emerson, author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln and Mary Lincoln for the Ages “It’s doubtful that anyone, not even Abraham, ever believed they had fully demystified Mary Lincoln, but in laying the most important questions before us and offering accessible and well-informed answers, Donna McCreary has done the next best thing.”—Gerald Prokopowicz, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association “McCreary’s insatiable curiosity, encyclopedic knowledge, lucid prose, and inventive QA format allow her to include the multitude of details that cannot all be included in a traditional narrative.”—The National Book Review “McCreary’s book contains information not found elsewhere… and a uniquely thorough timeline. While sympathetic to the woman she portrayed for two decades, McCreary examines both sides of contro­versial issues and presents the facts with her trademark style and flair. This book will be a fine reference for quite a long time.”—Illinois State Historical Society Awards Selection CommitteeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Mary Grows Up in the Bluegrass: TheLexington Years, 1818 to 1835 2. Wife, Mother,andFriend:The Springfield Years, 1835 to February 1861 3.Assailedfrom All Sides:The White House Years, 1860 to 1865 4. The Darkest Night of All:Lincoln’s Assassination, April 15, 1865 5. Widowhood and Exile, 1865 to 1882 6. The Issue of Sanity 7. Family Relationships 8.Mary, The Issue of Slavery, and African Americans 9. Personality and Personal Habits 10. Beyond the Grave Appendix I – Her Family Appendix II – Her Friends Appendix III –Timeline Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the implications for Christian theology of Jung's special insights into the feminine. Ann Belford Ulanov gathers together in one volume what Jung and Jungians have discovered about the feminine in order to explore what Jungian thought and methods may illuminate about the place of the feminine in Christian theology.

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Book SynopsisThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many key works that are virtually unknown or unavailable.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of films, María Pía Lara dissects cinematic images of women's struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation.Trade ReviewMaría Pía Lara's magnificent book brings an urgent new perspective into old debates about the public sphere: by exploring the potential of the current cinematic imagination, she discloses powerful new tools for feminist critique. A must-read." - Chiara Bottici, author of A Philosophy of Political Myth"Beyond the Public Sphere offers a highly original conceptualization of the feminist cinematic imaginary as a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to the forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism. By foregrounding issues of gender subordination and sexual violence, Lara's book shows brilliantly how critical theory of the Frankfurt School tradition can speak to the political paradoxes and challenges of the #MeToo era." - Amy Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory"Fighting domination and promoting emancipation is not only a matter of norms and arguments but also of powerful images, creative metaphors and the bold imagination of different lives and other spaces. Reconstructing and recovering an important but often neglected thematic strand in Critical Social Theory and Feminist Philosophy, MarÍa PÍa Lara powerfully advances and exemplifies a view of political and social struggles that highlights the decisive role of images and the imagination." - Martin Saar, author of The Immanence of Power: Political Theory After/According to SpinozaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The New Topography of Space 1. The Feminist Imaginary Through the Cinematic Imagination 2. Three Models of Imagination: As Faculty, as Context, and as Imaginal 3. A Genealogy of the Concept/Image of Rape: A Critical Reconstruction of the Patriarchal Social Imaginary 4. Anachronisms and Representations as Tools for a Critical Feminist Social Imaginary 5. The Lost Promise of Feminist Agency in Modern Political Theories Conclusion: The New Road to Visibilities: Overcoming Secrets, Invisibility, and Exclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFeeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: internal and complex, entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and joy, and manifesting artistic production itself as the meaning of the work.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Feel Me Chapter 1. A Black Study in Grief : Salish Sea Chapter 2. Lucille Clifton’s Atheology of Joy! Chapter 3. Ecstatic Vocal Practice Chapter 4.Shame and the Visual Field of Black Motherhood Chapter 5. Toward a Methodology of Anger The End: Everything in the Ocean Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAfrican feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with bread, butter, and power issues.Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.Trade Review"This book is the best thing I've seen on the question-not only of 'feminism' in its African articulation but also, more generally, on the question of how feminism emerges and what it means to those who espouse it." * Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton *

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Book SynopsisExplores the often-overlooked psychological health of astronauts, examining how they are cared for and what changes have been made in recent years to support space travellers on long-term missions. Moore's story is a riveting journey inside the high-pressure world of one of America's most elite agencies and the life of one beleaguered astronaut.Trade Review"Moore...explains in her gripping debut how Nowak, a decorated astronaut and mother of three, could risk everything for love.... This is must reading for true crime fans." —Publishers Weekly“In 2007, former astronaut Lisa Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to confront U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the woman who broke up the ongoing affair between Nowak and another NASA astronaut, William Oefelein. She was arrested for assault after pepper-spraying Shipman, but the police had reason to believe murder may have been her intent. The details of Nowak’s crime are saved until the second half of the book. The first half focuses on her space flight in 2006, her colleagues’ thoughts about her, and her subsequent failure to qualify for a trip to the moon. Journalist Moore, who originally covered Nowak’s criminal trial for Florida Today, makes a compelling case that Nowak was suffering a breakdown at the time of the crime; not in spite of being an astronaut, but rather directly related to her career. The sections exploring the mental and emotional demands made of astronauts, and NASA’s declining mental-health screening and counseling protocols will fascinate readers. While the very detailed information about moon missions may distract some true-crime fans, this is an engaging character study of a woman who seemed to have everything and lost it all.”—Booklist

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Book SynopsisExamines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organisations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora.

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Book SynopsisExamines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organisations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora.

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Book SynopsisIn this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938-2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconventional life of a woman who grew up in a rural South Florida homestead and rose to occupy one of the top positions in the United States government.Trade ReviewThe warm biography of a consequential attorney general—atrailblazer whose singular experiences helped her to navigate some of thecountry's thorniest legal challenges."—Foreword Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis feminist analysis of mothers, mothering and motherhood combines an evaluation of empirical and theoretical work with firsthand personal accounts by mothers or caregivers.Trade ReviewCombining sociological feminist analysis with personal narratives, Chase attempts to anchor the historical and social contexts of motherhood in the real world. . . . The book does work, however, mostly because the authors chose to discuss important issues surrounding motherhood and because the structure of analysis and narrative is excellent. * Choice *In combining theoretical and empirical investigation with the actual personal narratives of caregivers and mothers, this feminist work offers not only an original view of motherhood, but also looks at how issues of race, sexuality, feminism, poverty, and reproductive health affect womenÆs lives. * Sociological Abstracts *Chase and Rogers confront these confusing and conflicting beliefs about motherhood from an explicitly feminist perspective. They clearly delineate their theoretical framework, making many of their assumptions explicit in the introduction. . . . An illuminating book, providing a much-needed perspective on the concept of motherhood. The chapters and lively and easy to read, and Rogers and Chase make most of their theoretical assumptions transparent allowing the reader to evaluate the presented material for herself. * Contemporary Sociology *A skillful balance of feminist scholarship and first-person accounts, Mothers and Children richly conveys the many challenges and pleasures of feminist motherhood. Clear, insightful, and moving, the book is ideal for classroom use. -- Linda L. Layne * author of Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Anthropological Analysis of Pregnancy and *Mothers and Children brings theory and experience together to show the complexity of feminist thinking about motherhood. It is a wonderful contribution to the literature on feminism and motherhood. -- Lauri Umansky * author of Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties *

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Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from a variety of fields, including law, comparative politics and sociology, this volume represents an interdisciplinary, multimethodological and multicultural feminist approach to changes in the welfare system of Western industrialized countries.

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Book Synopsis No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the 'wave' metaphor for capturing the complex history of women''s rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women''s movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women''s rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women''s advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the conTrade Review"From Seneca Falls to hip-hop, this striking collection pushes us to rethink the who, what, when, where, and why of U.S. feminist history. The wide-ranging essays toss out the overly tidy generational model and replace it with complex, rich, and inclusive accounts of our feminist past. Highly recommended." -- Joanne Meyerowitz * author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States *"An important contribution to the ongoing dialogue on the meaning of feminism and its application not just within the academy, but also to a larger and more general political, social, and intellectual forum. Recommended." * Choice *"As an intellectual enterprise the book successfully established the overlapping and intertwined configurations of feminist movements from the 1840s to the present. Hewitt's book is a compelling guide to contemporary interpretations of American feminisms. Its thought-provoking essays will be especially useful in classroom distussions about historical practice." * Journal of American History *"No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference." * Signs *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming HistoriesChapter 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Chapter 2. Multiracial FeminismChapter 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency“We Have a Long, Beautiful History”Chapter 5. Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”Part II: Coming Together/Pulling ApartChapter 6. Overthrowing the “Monopoly of the Pulpit”Chapter 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on WomenChapter 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s MovementChapter 9. Rethinking Global SisterhoodChapter 10. Living a Feminist LifestyleChapter 11. Strange BedfellowsChapter 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie CulturePart III: Rethinking Agendas/Relocating ActivismChapter 13. Staking Claims to IndependenceChapter 14. “I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before”Chapter 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative ActionChapter 16. U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style!Chapter 17. “Under Construction”

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." * Choice *"A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." -- Florence E. Babb * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” -- Carla Freeman * Emory University *"The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *"This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." * American Ethnologist *"The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PrologueRayna R. Rapp Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher EpilogueTom Boellstorff Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Trade Review"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." * Choice *"A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” -- Carla Freeman * Emory University *"A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." -- Florence E. Babb * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *"This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." * American Ethnologist *"The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PrologueRayna R. Rapp Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher EpilogueTom Boellstorff Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisBrodsky and Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in this volume have made their mark as arts leaders by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts.Trade Review“There will never be too many books teaching Women’s Herstory. Brodsky and Olin’s case studies describe the outrageous and humiliating strangleholds all women have endured and continue to face. Brodsky and Olin champion us to reach our goals.” -- Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD * Founder, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum *“New histories need to be written. Preserving stories that complicate and enrich mainstream narratives is vitally important, and the inspired and inspiring contributions groundbreaking women have made to our cultural world deserve to be celebrated. In addition to leading this charge themselves in their own remarkable careers, with the publication of Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin have given us the gift of expanding the canon through these remarkable case studies in creative leadership in the arts.” -- Catherine Morris * Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum *“Here's a round of applause for Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, founders of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (now the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, the first feminist art center on a university campus) and heartfelt thanks for Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts, their rich insights into generations of women leaders in the arts on the global stage. As arts leaders in their own right and as historians of the rich tradition to which they belong, Brodsky and Olin document feminist cultural history as, just as importantly, they continue to make it. We are doubly in their debt.” -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, author of The History of White *"Quick to See and Quick to Lead: Women and Power in the Arts" by Stuart Mitchner * Town Topics *" Recommended." * Choice *"This much-needed volume, with its primary focus on visual arts professionals, brings attention to a group of women whose biographies have not been joined before....[Brodsky and Olin's] sound scholarship is essential to advancing the understanding about the contributions of these women as well as the general contributions of women in the arts. No similar books offer case studies on women leaders across different professions with this focus. Hopefully, more such accessible tomes will follow." * Woman's art Journal *"Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints," by Ilene Dube * Hyperallergic *Table of Contents1 Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918) Philanthropist, president of the Board of Lady Managers, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 2 Louise Noun (1908 – 2002) Philanthropist, art collector, scholar 3 Samella Lewis (1924-) Artist, art historian, arts administrator 4 Julia Miles (1930-) Theater director and producer; founder, Women’s Project Theater 5 Miriam Colón (1936-2017) Broadway and Hollywood film actress; founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 6 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940-) Artist and activist 7 Bernice Steinbaum (1941-) Gallerist and advocate for diversity 8 Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943-2008) Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art 9 Martha Wilson (1947-) Artist, activist, archivist; founder, Franklin Furnace Archive 10 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-) Choreographer; founder of the dance company, Urban Bush Women 11 Kim Berman (1960-) Artist, activist; founder, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, South Africa 12 Gilane Tawadros (1965-) Arts administrator; founding director, Institute for International Visual Arts (InIVA), United Kingdom 13 Veomanee Douangdala (1976-) and Joanne Smith (1976-) Social and cultural entrepreneurs, Laos

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. This theoretically sophisticated book bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read." * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) * Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) *"This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities." -- Susan Stryker * coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly *"A vital addition to the field of trans studies. Martínez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies." -- Paisley Currah * coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly *"Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well." -- Heather Love * University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Part I Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces Chapter 1 Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin Chapter 2 Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education Pauline Park Part II Trans Imaginaries Chapter 3 “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change Lucas Crawford Chapter 4 Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican Keja Valens Chapter 5 TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy Jian Chen Part III Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender Chapter 6 When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics Toby Beauchamp Chapter 7 Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival Nora Butler Burke Chapter 8 Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression Aren Z. Aizura Part IV Trans Activism and Policy Chapter 9 The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)? Mickael Chacha Enriquez Chapter 10 Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa Chapter 11 LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy Jody L. Herman Part V Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy Chapter 12 Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes Sel J. Hwahng Chapter 13 Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy A. Finn Enke Conclusion Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGrounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically. Trade Review"Shadow Bodies engages the work of Hurston and Morrison, Beyonce and Rihanna, in a theoretically nuanced examination of the scripts of Black Women’s bodies in popular and political culture. It highlights the material consequences of silence and rhetoric, and is an extraordinarily good example of interdisciplinary, intersectional, engaged political science." -- Renee Ann Cramer * author of Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump *“Shadow Bodies takes the reader on a sobering journey through aspects of black womanhood that are usually divorced from social scientific inquiry: how personal experiences with and public discourses about domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness shape black women’s political socialization. Embracing classic formulations in black feminist thought, the author bravely exposes and deconstructs the forced silences that black women must break as we move ever more fully into American public life.” -- Zenzele Isoke * author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19 2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30 3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52 4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV/AIDS Talk 76 5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101 6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124 7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140 Appendix 157 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 References 169 Index 195

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Book SynopsisGrounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically. Trade Review"Shadow Bodies engages the work of Hurston and Morrison, Beyonce and Rihanna, in a theoretically nuanced examination of the scripts of Black Women’s bodies in popular and political culture. It highlights the material consequences of silence and rhetoric, and is an extraordinarily good example of interdisciplinary, intersectional, engaged political science." -- Renee Ann Cramer * author of Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump *“Shadow Bodies takes the reader on a sobering journey through aspects of black womanhood that are usually divorced from social scientific inquiry: how personal experiences with and public discourses about domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness shape black women’s political socialization. Embracing classic formulations in black feminist thought, the author bravely exposes and deconstructs the forced silences that black women must break as we move ever more fully into American public life.” -- Zenzele Isoke * author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19 2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30 3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52 4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV/AIDS Talk 76 5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101 6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124 7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140 Appendix 157 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 References 169 Index 195

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Book SynopsisForty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words, revealing how each woman deals with the trauma of bereavement differently. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.Trade Review“Women have learned to find fortitude in sharing the truth of their lives - not because we have the same truth, but because we find community and support there. The stories in this honest and loving book will give strength to those experiencing widowhood and wisdom to those trying to help them build the rest of their lives.” -- Suzanne Braun Levine * author Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood *“Widows’ Words is an invaluable tool for understanding loss, mourning and grief, and an equally fascinating and compelling read with diverse and varied points of views, which proved to me that every loss is unique yet universal. Nan Bauer-Maglin has brought together many strong female voices that both define and redefine the concept of 'widow.'" -- Jonathan Santlofer * author of The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir *“This collection is a comforting, necessary companion for the many, many women whose love outlasts their partners' lives. The stories are honest, unsentimental and as complicated and varied as marriages themselves.” -- Anna Sale * host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money *"This heartfelt collection should help widows, and widowers as well, feel less alone as they move through a wrenching transition." * Publishers Weekly *"Expertly compiled and deftly edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin, "Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between" is a unique and very highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Gentle, wry humor and strong advice that feels like it’s offered in a warm blanket and a hug. It all makes Widows’ Words a great reference and good comfort even though, for the newly bereaved, it can’t be­gin to cover everything." * Post News Group *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Prologue: Expectant Widows Alice Goode-Elman “What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir” Kelli Dunham “The Queen Has Spoken” Penelope Dugan “Living a Life” Melanie K. Finney “Preparing for the Journey through Grief”Nan Bauer-Maglin “Deserted/Dumped for a Second TimRecent Widows Nan Bauer-Maglin “A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months” “My Other Half: Raquel Ramkhelawan interviewed by Maxine Marshall” Lauren Vanett “The Cloak” Alice Derry “’The Most Precious Fit’— A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed” Michele Neff Hernandez “On Grief” Elisa Clarke Wadham “Wedding Rings” Deborah E. Kaplan “The Afterlife of an Archive” P.C. Moorehead “A Healing Garden” Mimi Schwartz “You See, I Told You So!” Anne Bernays “Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone”Long-Time Widows Edie Butler “The Grief Convention” Debby Mayer “10 Scary Things I Have Done Since My Husband Died” Sonia Jaffe Robbins “Being Alone” Barbara E. Marwell “Recreating My Life” Maggie Madagame “Becoming Maggie” Roni Sherman Ramos “Who I Am Revealed” Doris Friedensohn “Losing the Artist, Living with His Art” Nancy H. Womack “After the Aftermath” Joan Michelson “Three Poems”Unique Takes or Digging Deeper Tracy Milcendeau with Merle Froschl, Andrea Hirshman, Molly McEneny, and Heather Slawecki “Widow-to-Widow” Kathleen Fordyce “Parenting as a Widow” Patricia Life “Memories of a Widow’s Daughter” Nancy Shamban “Lost Acts…..” Susanne Braham “Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing” Alice Radosh “Synchroncity and the Secular Mind” Parvin Hajizadeh “Mourning American-style” Jean Y. Leung “The Rocks that Bind” Joan Gussow “On Not Feeling Sad” Kathryn Temple “What They Do Not Tell You” Carrie L. West “Nine Things Resilient People Do After Losing a Spouse or Partner” Lise Menn “Make Lemonade?!” Epilogue Christine Silverstein “The Missing Vow” Acknowledgments Tara Sabharwal “Artist’s Statement” Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fascinating biography, Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position now includes a new epilogue that probes the painful mystery of Heilbrun's 2003 suicide. In her moving final chapter, Kress, whose sense of personal loss is palpable through these pages, balances a life story of extraordinary accomplishment with the troubling ending Heilbrun chose to give it. [This book] is a deeply satisfying account of a woman writer whose pioneering words and example inspired many women to change their lives." — Nancy K. MillerThe Graduate CenterCity University of New Yorkand, author of But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives"To her insightful meditation on the growth of a feminist’s mind, Susan Kress has added a brilliant epilogue that reveals surprising and moving facets of Carolyn Heilbrun’s life and work. A haunting posthumous tribute." — Susan GubarIndiana Universityis the, author of the forthcoming Rooms of Our Own

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Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.

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Book SynopsisAddressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ellen Malenas Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. The collection engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous character and her other life-giving work.

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American PublishersFifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswereduntil now. Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.Antler's exhilarating new book features dozens of compelling biographical narratives that reveal the struggles and achievements of Jewish radical feminists in Chicago, New York and Boston, as well as those who participated in the later, self-consciously Trade ReviewFrom consciousness-raising groups, to health collectives, to militant lesbians and women standing up to religious patriarchy, historianAntlerspends time with the dozens of Jewish personalities of radical feminist movementswomen who challenged the structure of society far beyond the reach of laws. * Lilith *"Jewish women were a major force in second wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s. [Antler] illuminates this previously underappreciated history and draws clear parallels to forces shaping contemporary political and social movements . . . A critical volume for feminist Jews to understand the past and a useful primary source for historians of feminism and Judaism. * Library Journal *Jewish Radical Feminism traces the emergence of [womens liberation] collectives, including in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, and the backgrounds of these bold and inspirational women and the influence their Jewish roots played in shaping their lives and views. It also tells a parallel story, that of Jewish women who, beginning in the 1970s, confronted the male-dominated Jewish institutions and transformed them. * The Jewish Journal *A captivating and timely new book... that brings to light, for the first time, the ways in which feminist trailblazers were influenced by their divergent and often unspoken Jewish backgrounds. * Jewish Telegraphic Agency *Antler broadens intersectional understandings about the day-to-day workings of the U.S. women’s movement in a period of intense activity and rapid change, and about the lives and thought processes of modern Jewish American women...the book is a remarkable achievement—a thorough and engaging study. * American Historical Review *Compelling, original, and urgent reexamination of the past . . . ReadingJewish Radical Feminismfeels like witnessing a collective in the making.Those deeply committed to understanding, learning from, and building on the vital social and civil rights movements of the pastwould do well to invest in this captivating history. * Contemporary Jewry *Its reassuring to learn how these iconic women navigated their own struggles with multiple identities in their own time, and to recognize the tremendous contributions they made, even from outside the mainstream. * Forward *Antler is a deservedly esteemed historian, a complex thinker, a compelling storyteller, and a feminist with a flair, who, once again, has expanded the terrain of women's history and the history of feminism, especially second-wave feminism, American-Jewish history, the history of radicalism, the Left, histories of anti-Semitism, and multiculturalism. Jewish Radical Feminism transforms our understandings of late twentieth-century social activism and offers a powerful corrective to narrow notions of identity feminism and Judaism. -- Journal of American HistoryAntler’s thorough and meticulously researched study examines the convergence of Jewishness and activism through a nuanced analysis of Jewish radical feminism and Jewish feminism. Antler demonstrates how these two streams of feminist activism are simultaneously distinct and intricately woven together. -- Journal of Religion and CultureThe most profound reasonJewish Radical Feminismshould be widely read is that it puts many current disputes about gender and Jewish identity into long perspective. * Tablet *Antler is a first-rate historian. Her work manages to answer the question of Jewish women’s representation and self-understanding in the context of feminist movements without either overgeneralizing or individualizing; the answers were not the same for everyone but neither were they wholly unique to each person. Jewish Radical Feminism collects and tells stories from a feminist movement whose importance continues to affect American Jewish life. -- H-Net ReviewsJoyce Antler offers us a new understanding of the struggles, themes, accomplishments, and failures of my generation. It's a remarkable synthesis of landmark moments in late-20th Century Jewish feminism and an important contribution to the history of women. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin,author and co-founder of Ms. MagazineAntler complicates histories of feminist activism by revealing the presence of Jewishness in the backgrounds of dozens of influential radical women. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Antler’s work makes visible Jewish feminists contributions to Jewish history and women’s history; the interviews also served to make some of the participants' Jewish identity more visible to themselves. -- CHOICEDisplayed over the interior pages are the labeled photographs of forty seminal radical American feminists who advocated for change from both inside and outside the Jewish community...never before has a scholar brought these diverse voices together to explore the impact of Jewishness on these women’s actions and life choices. * Journal of Jewish Identities *Antler is a first-rate historian. Her work manages to answer the question of Jewish women’s representation and self-understanding in the context of feminist movements without either overgeneralizing or individualizing; the answers were not the same for everyone but neither were they wholly unique to each person. Jewish Radical Feminism collects and tells stories from a feminist movement whose importance continues to affect American Jewish life. * H-Net Reviews *Joyce Antler provocatively explores the special qualities of being Jewish and Feminist in the 1960s and 70s. She cogently unwinds the personal stories of leading activists to trace how intertwined identities produced powerful political consequences. This enjoyable and illuminating book will encourage readers to probe their own complicated heritages. -- Alice Kessler-Harris,author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanThis is an utterly absorbing and valuable book. Having the insight and courage to probe many questions unasked before, and not trying to press the answers into a simple story or a single model, Antler succeeds beautifully in illuminating the underrecognized ways in which feminist convictions have been related to Jewishness. Her oral interviews with scores of women having differing levels of Jewish attachment provide the books mainspring, and supply original perspectives on matters from the 1960s New Left to the 1980s World Conferences on Women. -- Nancy F. Cott,author of The Grounding of Modern FeminismThis is the book we've been waiting for. Based on exhaustive historical scholarship and written with elegance and grace, Joyce Antler has given us the gift of knowledge, ending the silence about Jewish feminists and feminist Jews. -- Ruth Rosen,author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

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Book SynopsisExplores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme.

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Book SynopsisCharts the arc of the Egyptian women’s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women’s status in Egyptian society and politics.Trade ReviewTadros’s study of the Egyptian women’s movement following 2011 explains its ‘red lines’ while providing rich and nuanced empirical analysis of the women’s movement’s organizational, ideological, and legal challenges.""—Diane Singerman, editor of Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity""An important contribution to the literature on women’ s movements in the Arab world as well as to theoretical debates about transitions to democracy and collective action.""—Hoda Elsadda, author of Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008

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Book SynopsisIn this work, young feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973, discuss the things that they consider matter now - both in looking at the accomplishments and failures of the past, and in planning for the future.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These are crucial manifestos that changed the discourse and clarified our situation in the postmodern in stunning and beautiful ways. That we are animal and machine and human and full of potential is Donna Haraway’s enduring and inspirational message."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora and the Mars trilogy "Here Donna Haraway’s manifestos are marvelously composted in the rich humus of reflection, erudition, and reasons for laughter that makes thinking with other people so generative. The brilliance that sparks between Cary Wolfe and Haraway illuminates everything that is between, around, underneath, and beside two most profound moments in critical thought."—Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge "Donna Haraway’s essays are invitations to scientists, artists, and everyone-who-must-improvise for respectful play with chimeras, hybrids, cyborgs, GMOs, holobionts, mosaics, allies, and fusions. They are invitations to generate new creative relationships for flourishing during and after the Anthropocene. As always, when presented with essays by Haraway, accept the invitation at the risk of becoming a different person."—Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College"The social relations of science was a whole movement in the 1930s...It did not survive the cold war purges of intellectual life. Science studies has reinvented many of its themes and in many ways improved upon them. Yet perhaps, as Haraway once noted in passing, the “liberal mystification that all started with Thomas Kuhn…” has erased a little too much of its radical past. We are very fortunate that Donna Haraway and her kith reinvented it."—Public Seminar"Unusual and exciting. Every word adds a new detail, facet, nuance, reflection, to an infinitely detailed, faceted, nuanced reality."—London Review of Books"Manifestly Haraway is a timely and necessary publication in response to our own political moment if we are to link up with past failures, and explore new affinities for the future."—Arcadia"Widely influential."—Science Fiction Studies"Important, feminist, bio-political work."—Annals of Science "Manifestly Haraway is illuminating and engaging. Donna Haraway contextualizes the manifestos and considers how some of these early ideas are developing alongside fresh concepts and influences." —SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Cary WolfeThe ManifestosA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant OthernessCompanions in ConversationDonna J. Haraway and Cary WolfeAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Explicating complex theories in accessible ways, Asha Nadkarni explores the link between feminism and nationalism through the lens of women’s reproduction. Eugenic Feminism adds to the debates over continued feminist investments in maternalist nationalism and in population control that negatively effect the women most marginal to the nation." —Monisha Das Gupta, author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development1. Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias2. Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance3. "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate4. The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950s5. Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of SubalternityEpilogue: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother IndiaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global SouthGovernance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. GaTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJanet HalleyPart I. Feminism Wields the Sword1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral FeminismKaren Engle2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking CampaignsElizabeth Bernstein3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth DiscourseHelen Reece4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention CourtsAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate MogulescuAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success StoryLeigh GoodmarkPart II. The Long March through the Institutions7. Governing Sex through BureaucracyJacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS ResponseAziza Ahmed9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security AgendaDianne Otto10. Sex Quotas and Burkini BansDarren RosenblumPart III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in CanadaMariana Valverde12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United StatesLibby Adler and Janet Halley13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and FeministsMaleiha Malik14. Gay Governance: A Queer CritiqueAeyal GrossPart IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law ReformsPrabha Kotiswaran16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in PakistanVanja Hamzić17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in ColombiaIsabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied PalestineRema Hammami19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to EmpowermentVasuki NesiahAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisContributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.Trade Review“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.” —Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called HopeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra Graban Acknowledgments Introduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette Part I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri Hauman Chapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman Chapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara Propper Chapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker Milbourne Chapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean Sharp Part II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica Ouellette Chapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin Winet Chapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. Kondrlik Chapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz Lane Chapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa Blankenship Part III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine Fredlund Chapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye Roberson Chapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany Kinney Chapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy Ratliff Chapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. Banaji Chapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany Mannon Afterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. Blair Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of articles exploring the role of journalism in creating, maintaining, and developing the analysis and membership of the first wave of American feminism. Drawing on theories of social movements from the discipline of communications, this volume, expertly edited by Martha Solomon, begins with the relationship between the suffrage movement and newspapers.... Seven useful case studies follow. Historians will benefit from this volume's meticulous documentation of a plethora of publications and its discussion of their rhetorical strategies. - Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society; ""A work of great historical interest... well-edited and well-annotated.

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Book SynopsisThis is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. It chronicles what it was like being a Latina girl in the Jim Crow South, struggling to understand both a foreign country and the horrors of our nation's race relations.Table of ContentsContents Author's Note Prologue: Home Movies Chapter 1: In the Dark Chapter 2: Passage Chapter 3: Blending In Chatper 4: Ginny\u2019s Books Chapter 5: Ancestral Lines Chapter 6: An American Education Chapter 7: Dear Argentina Chapter 8: Good News, Bad News Chapter 9: Know Alabama Chapter 10: School Lessons Epilogue: Long Night\u2019s Journey into Day Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisFrankie Welch (1924-2021) combined a creative mind and an entrepreneurial spirit to establish herself as a leading American textile, accessories, and fashion designer in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s. This lavishly illustrated book provides a lively account of her life and career.Trade ReviewFrankie Welch’s Americana introduces readers to the ultimate Washington insider. With charm, skill, and entrepreneurial zeal, Welch worked her way into the closets of first ladies and other political women as a stylist, personal shopper, and designer of campaign fashions. Ashley Callahan’s lively telling of the story of Welch’s career makes an important contribution to the story of American design." - Susan Brown

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Book SynopsisHow have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, this book examines how her philosophy of ‘living more abundantly’ envisioned educational access and institutionalized campus thriving for Black college women.

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