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Book SynopsisJapan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in interwar and wartime Japan, and positions them as critical sites where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethnonationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history.Trade Review"The pronatalist slogan, Umeyo! Fuyaseyo! (Give birth! Grow [the Nation]!), was ubiquitous during the heyday of Japanese imperialism, and the targeted population of 100 million was reached a half century later in 1970. Today, Japan has one of the fastest aging and shrinking populations among post-industrial countries, and the postwar democratic state can no longer exercise autocratic control over citizens' reproductive lives. Through her careful analysis of early 20th century birth-control 'research societies' and their discursive matrices, Lee complicates the socio-political construction of marriage, motherhood, and modernity in Japan that continues to shape the intersecting discourses of demography today in Japan."—Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan"Sujin Lee's Wombs of Empire provides a brilliant analysis of interwar and wartime Japan's biopolitics with a focus on the discourse on birth-control and its pivotal role in the problematization of population. Deftly interweaving a Foucauldian analysis and the intricacies of modern Japanese history,Lee illuminates the centrality of biopolitics for Japan's modernity or modernity at large. A tour de force."—Katsuya Hirano, University of California, Los Angeles"Wombs of Empire is a compelling and rigorous study of the politics of population control offering a multi-scalar analysis that traverses discourses of gendered and racialized sexual practices, linking individualized morality and hygiene to national population control through eugenics policies and the criminalization of birth control. With erudition and eloquence, Sujin Lee forwards an illuminating and fascinating analysis of Japanese biopolitics within a transnational context which spans debates ranging from neo-Malthusianism, leftist birth control movements, eugenic feminism and calls for proletarian birth strikes."—Setsu Shigematsu, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsIntroduction: Population: A Discursive Site of En-gendering Life 1. The Population Problem and Utopian Remedies 2. Voluntary Motherhood: The Feminist Politics of Birth Control 3. Scientific and Imperialist Solutions to Overpopulation 4. Building a Biopolitical State: The Mobilization of Health for Total War 5. "Fertile Womb Battalion": The Gender and Racial Politics of Motherhood Epilogue: The Continued Politics of the "Population Problem"

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Book SynopsisJapan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in interwar and wartime Japan, and positions them as critical sites where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethnonationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history.Trade Review"The pronatalist slogan, Umeyo! Fuyaseyo! (Give birth! Grow [the Nation]!), was ubiquitous during the heyday of Japanese imperialism, and the targeted population of 100 million was reached a half century later in 1970. Today, Japan has one of the fastest aging and shrinking populations among post-industrial countries, and the postwar democratic state can no longer exercise autocratic control over citizens' reproductive lives. Through her careful analysis of early 20th century birth-control 'research societies' and their discursive matrices, Lee complicates the socio-political construction of marriage, motherhood, and modernity in Japan that continues to shape the intersecting discourses of demography today in Japan."—Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan"Sujin Lee's Wombs of Empire provides a brilliant analysis of interwar and wartime Japan's biopolitics with a focus on the discourse on birth-control and its pivotal role in the problematization of population. Deftly interweaving a Foucauldian analysis and the intricacies of modern Japanese history,Lee illuminates the centrality of biopolitics for Japan's modernity or modernity at large. A tour de force."—Katsuya Hirano, University of California, Los Angeles"Wombs of Empire is a compelling and rigorous study of the politics of population control offering a multi-scalar analysis that traverses discourses of gendered and racialized sexual practices, linking individualized morality and hygiene to national population control through eugenics policies and the criminalization of birth control. With erudition and eloquence, Sujin Lee forwards an illuminating and fascinating analysis of Japanese biopolitics within a transnational context which spans debates ranging from neo-Malthusianism, leftist birth control movements, eugenic feminism and calls for proletarian birth strikes."—Setsu Shigematsu, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsIntroduction: Population: A Discursive Site of En-gendering Life 1. The Population Problem and Utopian Remedies 2. Voluntary Motherhood: The Feminist Politics of Birth Control 3. Scientific and Imperialist Solutions to Overpopulation 4. Building a Biopolitical State: The Mobilization of Health for Total War 5. "Fertile Womb Battalion": The Gender and Racial Politics of Motherhood Epilogue: The Continued Politics of the "Population Problem"

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Book SynopsisThe idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s successes in creating individual opportunity in education conceals ongoing problems and ignores the continuing need for a fair and equal education for all, regardless of gender or sexuality. In this manifesto for education, Miriam David rejects the notion that gender equality has been achieved in our age of neoliberalism. She puts the focus back onto issues such as changing patterns of women’s and girls’ participation in education across the globe, feminist strategies for policy and legal interventions around human rights, and violence against women and children. She discusses waves of feminism linked to school-teaching and pedagogies in higher education as well as an illuminating case study of an international educational programme to challenge gender-related violence. Revealing neoliberal education to be ‘misogyny masquerading as metrics’, Miriam David argues for changes in the patriarchal rules of the game, including questioning ‘gender norms’ and stereotypical binaries, and for making personal, social, health and sexuality education mainstream.Trade Review"Gender eqaulity in our time? Not in education, argues David in this important work."Times Higher Education Supplement "At the heart of this rousing book is a call not to forget the gains and legacies of earlier feminist reforms while recognising the work that still needs to be done in new social and political circumstances and in response to obdurate problems of gender-related violence. […] Confronting and keeping visible these challenges for contemporary feminism, in the context of documenting its history of activism, is a key achievement of this fine book." Julie McLeod, British Journal of Sociology of Education Review SymposiumA Feminist Manifesto for Education […] opens up a generative space for further interrogation of what education to counter violence (in all its modes) might look like, and what might be its accompanying dangers. […] David's thoughtful book provokes important questions about how educators seeking to counter GRV [gender-related violence] and VAWG [violence against women and girls] might fold in discussions of violence perpetrated by individuals against other individuals with the violence of the state." Eve Mayes, British Journal of Sociology of Education Review Symposium"A passionate analysis of why we need to change 'the rules of the patriarchal and sexist game.' With scrupulous research and fascinating insights into a number of ongoing projects, Miriam David provides the necessary tools for all contemporary educators, and citizens, to start this vital task."Melissa Benn writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman and is the author of The Truth About Our Schools"Once again, Miriam David leaves no stone unturned. Toggling back and forth between her comprehensive genealogy of past and present feminist interventions in gender and education and her important call for innovative feminist pedagogies and practices, David delivers a critical blueprint for transforming education for children and young people that will ultimately rid us of gender-related violence not only in the future but in the here and now." Ileana Jiménez, founder of Feminist Teacher"Miriam David’s vigorous manifesto for feminism and education brings together many strands of her work. She recognizes changes in feminism, and worldwide gains in girls' access to schooling - but also resistance, rising misogyny and sexualization, and continuing gendered violence. A strong, informed argument for new educational strategies for gender justice." Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney"Miriam David draws our attention to a lack of commitment on the part of governments to take consistent, comprehensive and supportive approaches to gender related violence.[...] Do read this strong and important book. [...] The issues have not gone away: they have become more urgent."Critical Professional LearningTable of ContentsIntroductionPART 1: Socio-Cultural and Political Backgrounds and ContextsChapter 1: Feminist Research on Gender and EducationChapter 2: Political Changes on Gender Equality in EducationChapter 3: Feminist Political Campaigns on Gender and ViolencePART 2: Feminist Waves about Gender Equalities and Gender ViolenceChapter 4: Changing Political Landscapes of Feminism: Waves and Educational Values?Chapter 5: Challenging Gender Violence for Children and Young People through EducationChapter 6: Reflections on a Feminist Educational Manifesto

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Book SynopsisThe idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s successes in creating individual opportunity in education conceals ongoing problems and ignores the continuing need for a fair and equal education for all, regardless of gender or sexuality. In this manifesto for education, Miriam David rejects the notion that gender equality has been achieved in our age of neoliberalism. She puts the focus back onto issues such as changing patterns of women’s and girls’ participation in education across the globe, feminist strategies for policy and legal interventions around human rights, and violence against women and children. She discusses waves of feminism linked to school-teaching and pedagogies in higher education as well as an illuminating case study of an international educational programme to challenge gender-related violence. Revealing neoliberal education to be ‘misogyny masquerading as metrics’, Miriam David argues for changes in the patriarchal rules of the game, including questioning ‘gender norms’ and stereotypical binaries, and for making personal, social, health and sexuality education mainstream.Trade Review"Gender eqaulity in our time? Not in education, argues David in this important work."Times Higher Education Supplement "At the heart of this rousing book is a call not to forget the gains and legacies of earlier feminist reforms while recognising the work that still needs to be done in new social and political circumstances and in response to obdurate problems of gender-related violence. […] Confronting and keeping visible these challenges for contemporary feminism, in the context of documenting its history of activism, is a key achievement of this fine book." Julie McLeod, British Journal of Sociology of Education Review SymposiumA Feminist Manifesto for Education […] opens up a generative space for further interrogation of what education to counter violence (in all its modes) might look like, and what might be its accompanying dangers. […] David's thoughtful book provokes important questions about how educators seeking to counter GRV [gender-related violence] and VAWG [violence against women and girls] might fold in discussions of violence perpetrated by individuals against other individuals with the violence of the state." Eve Mayes, British Journal of Sociology of Education Review Symposium"A passionate analysis of why we need to change 'the rules of the patriarchal and sexist game.' With scrupulous research and fascinating insights into a number of ongoing projects, Miriam David provides the necessary tools for all contemporary educators, and citizens, to start this vital task."Melissa Benn writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman and is the author of The Truth About Our Schools"Once again, Miriam David leaves no stone unturned. Toggling back and forth between her comprehensive genealogy of past and present feminist interventions in gender and education and her important call for innovative feminist pedagogies and practices, David delivers a critical blueprint for transforming education for children and young people that will ultimately rid us of gender-related violence not only in the future but in the here and now." Ileana Jiménez, founder of Feminist Teacher"Miriam David’s vigorous manifesto for feminism and education brings together many strands of her work. She recognizes changes in feminism, and worldwide gains in girls' access to schooling - but also resistance, rising misogyny and sexualization, and continuing gendered violence. A strong, informed argument for new educational strategies for gender justice." Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney"Miriam David draws our attention to a lack of commitment on the part of governments to take consistent, comprehensive and supportive approaches to gender related violence.[...] Do read this strong and important book. [...] The issues have not gone away: they have become more urgent."Critical Professional LearningTable of ContentsIntroductionPART 1: Socio-Cultural and Political Backgrounds and ContextsChapter 1: Feminist Research on Gender and EducationChapter 2: Political Changes on Gender Equality in EducationChapter 3: Feminist Political Campaigns on Gender and ViolencePART 2: Feminist Waves about Gender Equalities and Gender ViolenceChapter 4: Changing Political Landscapes of Feminism: Waves and Educational Values?Chapter 5: Challenging Gender Violence for Children and Young People through EducationChapter 6: Reflections on a Feminist Educational Manifesto

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Book SynopsisIn a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary posthuman condition? In this important new book, Rosi Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist theory and practice. She defines the posthuman turn as a convergence between posthumanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other, and she examines their complex relationship and joint impact. Braidotti claims that mainstream posthuman scholarship has neglected feminist theory, while in fact feminism is one of the precursors of the posthuman turn, through diverse social movements and political traditions. Posthuman Feminism is an analytic and creative response to contemporary conditions and a call to action. It highlights the constraints but also the potentialities available to feminist political subjects as they confront the ever-growing injustices of sexism, racism, ecocide and neoliberal capitalism. This bold new text by a leading feminist philosopher will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences.Trade Review“This profound and energising book is uncannily insightful: read it as a talisman against the present and as a map out of its baleful conditions.”Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London“Posthumanism Feminism is astonishingly wide-ranging and characteristically impressive in its contemporary relevance. Attending closely to submerged knowledge traditions including Indigenous and Black perspectives, Braidotti enriches our understanding of both posthumanism and feminism by showing how they are mutually generative and intimately imbricated. Everyone who engages with ideas emerging in these areas will need to know what this book has to say.”Simone Bignall, University of Technology SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Feminism by Any Other Name Part I Posthuman Feminism as Critique Chapter 1: Feminism is Not (Only) a Humanism Chapter 2: The Critical Edge of Posthuman Feminism Chapter 3: Decentring Anthropos: Ecofeminism Revisited Part II Posthuman Feminism as Creation Chapter 4: New Materialism and Carnal Empiricism Chapter 5: Technobodies: Gene- and Gender-editing Chapter 6: Sexuality Beyond Gender: a Thousand Little Sexes Chapter 7: Wanting Out! Epilogue: “Get a life!” Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution? These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the acclaimed manifesto 'Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation'. Hester develops a three-part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of technomaterialism, anti-naturalism, and gender abolitionism. She elaborates these ideas in relation to assistive reproductive technologies and interrogates the relationship between reproduction and futurity, while steering clear of a problematic anti-natalism. Finally, she examines what xenofeminist technologies might look like in practice, using the history of one specific device to argue for a future-oriented gender politics that can facilitate alternative models of reproduction. Challenging and iconoclastic, this visionary book is the essential guide to one of the most exciting intellectual trends in contemporary feminism.Trade Review"This is without doubt one of the most exciting texts I have read for quite some time. Lucid, well-grounded and brilliantly original, this short book is a breath of fresh air."Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University�Helen Hester has her eyes set firmly on the future... its impact will be far reaching.�DIVA Magazine�Pithy and engaging... I heartily recommend this well-argued, provocative, and timely text.�Philosophy NowTable of Contents Contents Introduction 1. What is Xenofeminism? 2. Xenofeminist Futurities 3. Xenofeminist Technologies Conclusion: Xeno-Reproduction Endnotes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisFeminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over the past twenty-five years. Adopting an intersectional approach – a framework concerning the interconnected character of oppression based on gender, race, class, and other constructed identities – Alison Harvey takes a global view of gendered practices in and around the media. She provides an accessible overview of classical and contemporary issues in media culture by exploring the past, present, and future of feminist media studies, accounting for changes in the media landscape, from digital technologies and globalized media systems to emergent inequalities, discourses, and practices. By engaging with research from a diverse body of scholarship, this book situates feminist media studies as vital to researching and analysing a range of significant issues. The go-to textbook for a new generation of students, as well as an important resource for scholars, Feminist Media Studies is both an exciting invitation to the field and a passionate call to arms.Trade Review‘Alison Harvey offers an excellent introduction to contemporary gender-based media research while advocating an ethical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approach that attends to possible sites for action. Clearly presenting the key concerns, methods, and theories at play in feminist media criticism, and insightfully revealing both the challenges of such work and the potential opportunities that arise from it, Harvey provides an informative, well-crafted roadmap for the newbie feminist media scholar as well as a refreshingly provocative update for those already working in this area.’Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame ‘Drawing on diverse scholarship and emphasizing intersectionality, this is a timely and necessary book that demonstrates how feminist media studies should approach our rapidly changing media environments. Alison Harvey succinctly explicates methods committed to social justice, and signposts key concepts in a student-friendly way.’Aristea Fotopoulou, University of BrightonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction to Intersectional Feminist Media Studies2 Feminist Media Critique3 Representing Gender4 Transnational Feminist Media Studies5 Feminist Digital Media Studies6 Gendered Media Work7 Conclusion: The Future of Feminist Media Studies and ActionReferencesIndex

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

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Book SynopsisWhy did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ – at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity. Genuine female empowerment requires us not only to recognize the liberating potential of markets and smart government policies but also to challenge the double-standard of many modern feminists when they celebrate the brain while denigrating the body. This iconoclastic book is a devastating exposé of what we have lost from ignoring ‘the sex factor’ and of how reversing this neglect can drive the smart economic policies we need today.Trade Review'[Victoria Bateman is] a bold, intelligent and original thinker... the Lady Godiva de nos jours.'The Amorist"A spirited exposure of the way that economics neglects gender, enlivened by the author's own experiences and beliefs. The unpaid work of women brings forth the labour force but is not properly acknowledged. And the more women are free to earn, the more their societies flourish."Professor Avner Offer, University of Oxford 'It always was insane to think of markets and the public sphere as independent of domestic life and the private sphere, as male economists did for centuries. In her crystal-clear book, Victoria Bateman provides a sane alternative. Read it and you’ll know how we all became free and rich and, we hope, a little bit saner.'Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, author of Bourgeois Equality 'Ever controversial, Victoria Bateman’s new book will cause a stir. While fun and engaging, it also packs a serious punch and explodes the myth that economics is gender neutral. If you are passionate about economics and feminism, this is well worth a read.'Ayesha Hazarika, stand-up comedian and former special adviser to Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman 'A fascinating argument…it certainly has originality on its side.'Andrew Billen, The Times"Strong and adventurous"The Guardian 'Leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – “the sex factor” – at the heart of the picture. Scouring the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity.' GQ 'Thought-provoking' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Prosperity Chapter 1. Censored: How the West (supposedly) got ahead Chapter 2. Uncensored: The Secret Recipe of Economic Success Part II: Inequality Chapter 3. When did sexism begin? Chapter 4. Income inequality: what does sex have to do with it? Chapter 5. Sex sells Part III: State versus Markets Chapter 6. Marx versus Markets Chapter 7. Why women make better states Part IV: Humanity Chapter 8. Me, Myself and I: a history of the individual Chapter 9. Humans versus Robots Chapter 10. Economics meets Feminism Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhy did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ – at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity. Genuine female empowerment requires us not only to recognize the liberating potential of markets and smart government policies but also to challenge the double-standard of many modern feminists when they celebrate the brain while denigrating the body. This iconoclastic book is a devastating exposé of what we have lost from ignoring ‘the sex factor’ and of how reversing this neglect can drive the smart economic policies we need today.Trade Review‘[Victoria Bateman is] a bold, intelligent and original thinker... the Lady Godiva de nos jours.’The Amorist"A spirited exposure of the way that economics neglects gender, enlivened by the author's own experiences and beliefs. The unpaid work of women brings forth the labour force but is not properly acknowledged. And the more women are free to earn, the more their societies flourish."Professor Avner Offer, University of Oxford ‘It always was insane to think of markets and the public sphere as independent of domestic life and the private sphere, as male economists did for centuries. In her crystal-clear book, Victoria Bateman provides a sane alternative. Read it and you’ll know how we all became free and rich and, we hope, a little bit saner.’Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, author of Bourgeois Equality ‘Ever controversial, Victoria Bateman’s new book will cause a stir. While fun and engaging, it also packs a serious punch and explodes the myth that economics is gender neutral. If you are passionate about economics and feminism, this is well worth a read.’Ayesha Hazarika, stand-up comedian and former special adviser to Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman ‘A fascinating argument…it certainly has originality on its side.’Andrew Billen, The Times"Strong and adventurous"The Guardian 'Leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – “the sex factor” – at the heart of the picture. Scouring the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity.' GQ 'Thought-provoking' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Prosperity Chapter 1. Censored: How the West (supposedly) got ahead Chapter 2. Uncensored: The Secret Recipe of Economic Success Part II: Inequality Chapter 3. When did sexism begin? Chapter 4. Income inequality: what does sex have to do with it? Chapter 5. Sex sells Part III: State versus Markets Chapter 6. Marx versus Markets Chapter 7. Why women make better states Part IV: Humanity Chapter 8. Me, Myself and I: a history of the individual Chapter 9. Humans versus Robots Chapter 10. Economics meets Feminism Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman – right? Wrong! In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists. Although some of these women were well known in their time, they were excluded from most of academic economics, and, over the past centuries, their work has been neglected, forgotten, and thus become invisible. Edith Kuiper introduces the reader to an amazing crowd of female pioneers and reveals how their insights are invaluable to understanding areas of economics ranging from production, work, and the economics of the household, to income and wealth distribution, consumption, public policy, and much more. This pathbreaking book presents a whole new perspective on the development of economic thought. It will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the history of economic thought and feminist economics.Trade Review“This excellent detective work solves a kind of murder mystery: it reveals the underappreciated heroines of a remarkably longstanding effort to improve the scope of economic theory.”Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts “History is written by the victors, and for too long economics has been dominated by old white men. This pioneering book denounces the male bias in economics and sets the record straight. Edith Kuiper shows that proper consideration for women’s many contributions to economic thinking opens up economics to badly needed new ideas and perspectives. We need less history and more herstory.”Carlo D’Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome“A most enlightening book.” The Society of Professional Economists Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The emergence of Political Economy Chapter 2. Power, agency, and property rights Chapter 3. Education Chapter 4. Women’s relation to wealth: Capital, money, and finance Chapter 5. Production Chapter 6. Distribution Chapter 7. Consumption Chapter 8. Government polices Chapter 9. Findings, Feminist Economics, and further explorations References

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the impact of International Conflict Feminism's alliance with powerful global institutionsIn this book, Vasuki Nesiah tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. ICF refers to a repertoire of policy agendas and legal strategies allied with those institutions to focus on women's vulnerabilities, fight impunity for sexual violence, and promote women's roles in peace-building processes. ICF emerged from feminist networks anchored in the Global North that gained momentum in the aftermath of the Cold War. Although this volume offers a testament to ICF's remarkable success, it also analyzes how this success was intertwined with the defeat of alternative visions and agendas, including a range of dissident and heterodox feminisms that were eclipsed as ICF gained traction.Emerging from Nesiah's dual occupations in academia and international law and policy practice, In

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Book SynopsisAn unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future A new wave of feminist energy has swept the globe since 2016—from women’s marches and the #MeToo movement to transwomen’s inclusion and exclusion in feminism and participation in institutional politics. Amid all this, an organization declared dead or dying for thirty years—the National Organization for Women—has seen a membership boom. NOW presents an intriguing puzzle for scholars and activists alike. Considered one of the most stable organizations in the feminist movement, it has experienced much conflict and schism. Scholars have long argued that factionalism is the death knell of organizations, yet NOW continues to thrive despite internal conflicts. Fighting for NOW seeks to better understand how bureaucratic structures like NOW’s simultaneously provide stability and longevity, while creating space for productive and healthy conflict among members. Kelsy Kretschmer explores these ideas through an examination of conflict in NOW’s local chapters, its task forces and committees, and its satellite groups. NOW’s history provides evidence for three basic arguments: bureaucratic groups are not insulated from factionalism; they are important sites of creativity and innovation for their movements; and schisms are not inherently bad for movement organizations. Hence, Fighting for NOW is in stark contrast to conventional scholarship, which has conceptualized factionalism as organizational failure. It also provides one of the few book-length explorations of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the modern context. Scholars will welcome the book’s insights that draw on open systems and resource dependency theories, as well as its rethinking of how conflict shapes activist communities. Students will welcome its clear and compelling history of the feminist movement and of how feminist ideas have changed over the past five decades.Trade Review"In this examination of NOW from 1966-2009, Kelsy Kretschmer takes on the puzzle of how a long-lived organization such as NOW can survive all the schisms, splits, and turmoil it has experienced throughout its history. In this detailed analysis, Kretschmer illustrates how an organization that can be viewed as ‘dully’ bureaucratic instead tells an important story of how movement organizations ride the tide of conflicted activism and shifts in resources and political eras, as well as gains and defeats in the quest for social change." —Jo Reger, editor of Nevertheless, They Persisted: Feminisms and Continued Resistance in the U.S. Women’s Movement "Fighting for NOW is an exciting addition to the literature on feminist organizations. Kelsy Kretschmer provides a new perspective on the National Organization for Women as a bureaucratic organization by examining how infighting, schisms, and factionalism in NOW just might have helped the organization—and the American women’s movement—to survive and remain relevant for so many years." —Suzanne Staggenborg, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Feminist Organizations: Stability versus Creativity?2. Bureaucracies, Boundaries, and Splitting3. Breaking at the Roots: Local Schism in NOW4. Sticking at the Top: National Factionalism and the Choice to Stay5. Fracturing Task Forces6. Splitting Satellites: Nonprofit Status and Schism in Social MovementsConclusion: Schisms Aren’t Always BadAppendix: Data Sources and Research MethodsBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future A new wave of feminist energy has swept the globe since 2016—from women’s marches and the #MeToo movement to transwomen’s inclusion and exclusion in feminism and participation in institutional politics. Amid all this, an organization declared dead or dying for thirty years—the National Organization for Women—has seen a membership boom. NOW presents an intriguing puzzle for scholars and activists alike. Considered one of the most stable organizations in the feminist movement, it has experienced much conflict and schism. Scholars have long argued that factionalism is the death knell of organizations, yet NOW continues to thrive despite internal conflicts. Fighting for NOW seeks to better understand how bureaucratic structures like NOW’s simultaneously provide stability and longevity, while creating space for productive and healthy conflict among members. Kelsy Kretschmer explores these ideas through an examination of conflict in NOW’s local chapters, its task forces and committees, and its satellite groups. NOW’s history provides evidence for three basic arguments: bureaucratic groups are not insulated from factionalism; they are important sites of creativity and innovation for their movements; and schisms are not inherently bad for movement organizations. Hence, Fighting for NOW is in stark contrast to conventional scholarship, which has conceptualized factionalism as organizational failure. It also provides one of the few book-length explorations of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the modern context. Scholars will welcome the book’s insights that draw on open systems and resource dependency theories, as well as its rethinking of how conflict shapes activist communities. Students will welcome its clear and compelling history of the feminist movement and of how feminist ideas have changed over the past five decades.Trade Review"In this examination of NOW from 1966-2009, Kelsy Kretschmer takes on the puzzle of how a long-lived organization such as NOW can survive all the schisms, splits, and turmoil it has experienced throughout its history. In this detailed analysis, Kretschmer illustrates how an organization that can be viewed as ‘dully’ bureaucratic instead tells an important story of how movement organizations ride the tide of conflicted activism and shifts in resources and political eras, as well as gains and defeats in the quest for social change." —Jo Reger, editor of Nevertheless, They Persisted: Feminisms and Continued Resistance in the U.S. Women’s Movement "Fighting for NOW is an exciting addition to the literature on feminist organizations. Kelsy Kretschmer provides a new perspective on the National Organization for Women as a bureaucratic organization by examining how infighting, schisms, and factionalism in NOW just might have helped the organization—and the American women’s movement—to survive and remain relevant for so many years." —Suzanne Staggenborg, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Feminist Organizations: Stability versus Creativity?2. Bureaucracies, Boundaries, and Splitting3. Breaking at the Roots: Local Schism in NOW4. Sticking at the Top: National Factionalism and the Choice to Stay5. Fracturing Task Forces6. Splitting Satellites: Nonprofit Status and Schism in Social MovementsConclusion: Schisms Aren’t Always BadAppendix: Data Sources and Research MethodsBibliography

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother argues that the question of the mother is essential to comprehend the matrix of contemporary culture and society and to pursue feminist political projects. Focusing on Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in feminist politics since the 1960s, this volume provides a multifaceted panorama of its engagement with currents of thought including structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism. Starting from the simple insight that the mother is the one who gives us both life and language, these thinkers develop concepts of the mother and sexual difference in contemporary society that differ in crucial ways from both French and U.S. feminisms. Arguing that Diotima anticipates many of the themes in contemporary philosophical discourses of biopolitics—exemplified by thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito—Another Mother opens an important space for reflections on the past history of feminism and on feminism’s future. Contributors: Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Paris 8 U–Vincennes Saint-Denis; Ida Dominijanni; Luisa Muraro; Diana Sartori, U of Verona; Chiara Zamboni, U of Verona.Trade Review"To those of us who teach, study, and value activist feminist thought, this collection is a gift. It makes accessible to Anglophone readers Italian feminist philosopher-activists’ radical theorization and practice of sexual difference and establishes that concept not as a relic of the ‘Second Wave’ but as a vital resource for theorizing biopolitics, for fighting violence against ‘the feminine,’ and for envisioning and practicing anti-racist political projects."—Lisa Disch, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Another Mother, Another IntroductionCesare Casarino and Andrea RighiPart One: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Politics of Sexual Difference1. The Contact WordIda Dominijanni2. To Knit or to Crochet: A Political-Linguistic Tale on the Enmity between Metaphor and MetonymyLuisa Muraro3. On the Relation between Words and Things as FrequentationLuisa Muraro Part Two: On the Maternal Symbolic and Its Language4. Maternal Language between Limit and Infinite OpeningChiara Zamboni5. Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Dead Mother ComplexLuisa MuraroPart Three: The Mother and The Negative6. With the Maternal SpiritDiana Sartori7. The Undecidable ImprintIda DominijanniPart Four: Thinking with Diotima8. And Yet She Speaks!: “Italian Feminism” and LanguageAnne Emmanuelle Berger9. Origin and Dismeasure: The Thought of Sexual Difference in Luisa Muraro and Ida Dominijanni, and the Rise of Post-Fordist PsychopathologyAndrea Righi10. Mother Degree Zero; or, of Beginnings: An Afterword on Luisa Muraro’s Feminist Inaptitude for PhilosophyCesare Casarino Index

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother argues that the question of the mother is essential to comprehend the matrix of contemporary culture and society and to pursue feminist political projects. Focusing on Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in feminist politics since the 1960s, this volume provides a multifaceted panorama of its engagement with currents of thought including structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism. Starting from the simple insight that the mother is the one who gives us both life and language, these thinkers develop concepts of the mother and sexual difference in contemporary society that differ in crucial ways from both French and U.S. feminisms. Arguing that Diotima anticipates many of the themes in contemporary philosophical discourses of biopolitics—exemplified by thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito—Another Mother opens an important space for reflections on the past history of feminism and on feminism’s future. Contributors: Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Paris 8 U–Vincennes Saint-Denis; Ida Dominijanni; Luisa Muraro; Diana Sartori, U of Verona; Chiara Zamboni, U of Verona.Trade Review"To those of us who teach, study, and value activist feminist thought, this collection is a gift. It makes accessible to Anglophone readers Italian feminist philosopher-activists’ radical theorization and practice of sexual difference and establishes that concept not as a relic of the ‘Second Wave’ but as a vital resource for theorizing biopolitics, for fighting violence against ‘the feminine,’ and for envisioning and practicing anti-racist political projects."—Lisa Disch, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Another Mother, Another IntroductionCesare Casarino and Andrea RighiPart One: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Politics of Sexual Difference1. The Contact WordIda Dominijanni2. To Knit or to Crochet: A Political-Linguistic Tale on the Enmity between Metaphor and MetonymyLuisa Muraro3. On the Relation between Words and Things as FrequentationLuisa Muraro Part Two: On the Maternal Symbolic and Its Language4. Maternal Language between Limit and Infinite OpeningChiara Zamboni5. Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Dead Mother ComplexLuisa MuraroPart Three: The Mother and The Negative6. With the Maternal SpiritDiana Sartori7. The Undecidable ImprintIda DominijanniPart Four: Thinking with Diotima8. And Yet She Speaks!: “Italian Feminism” and LanguageAnne Emmanuelle Berger9. Origin and Dismeasure: The Thought of Sexual Difference in Luisa Muraro and Ida Dominijanni, and the Rise of Post-Fordist PsychopathologyAndrea Righi10. Mother Degree Zero; or, of Beginnings: An Afterword on Luisa Muraro’s Feminist Inaptitude for PhilosophyCesare Casarino Index

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Book SynopsisA deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a conceptual artist, Rosemarie Trockel has never before been examined at length in a dedicated book. This volume fills that gap while articulating a new interpretation of feminist theory and bodily identity based around the idea of schizogenesis central to Trockel’s work.Schizogenesis is a fission-like form of asexual reproduction in which new organisms are created but no original is left behind. Author Katherine Guinness applies it in surprising and insightful ways to the career of an artist who has continually reimagined herself and her artistic vision. Drawing on the philosophies of feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, and Monique Wittig, Guinness argues that Trockel’s varied output of painting, fabric, sculpture, film, and performance is best seen as opening a space that is peculiarly feminist yet not contained by dominant articulations of feminism. Utilizing a wide range of historical and popular knowledge—from Baader Meinhof to Pinocchio, poodles, NASA, and Brecht—Katherine Guinness gives us the associative and ever-branching readings that Trockel’s art requires. With a spirit for pursuing the surprising and the obscure, Guinness delves deep into a creator who is largely seen as an enigma, revealing Trockel as a thinker who challenges and transforms the possibilities of bodily representation and identity.Trade Review"Rather than merely offering a dry recounting of Rosemarie Trockel's career, sprinkled occasionally with analyses of key artworks, Schizogenesis uses the occasion of scholars' and critics' perplexity as an invitation to perform—imaginatively and enthrallingly—the associative and ever-branching readings which Trockel's art beckons."—Jane Blocker, author of Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art"Katherine Guinness’s guiding concept of schizogenesis ingeniously frames Rosemarie Trockel’s multilayered practice in terms of split production and rapid regeneration, metaphors of procreation that simultaneously evoke destruction and violence. Written in lively, witty prose, this book does justice to Trockel’s complex works by thinking of them as ‘theoretical objects’ that demand Guinness’s extended, probing analyses."—Gregory H. Williams, author of Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.Contributors: Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven; Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cárdenas, U of Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole; Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M; Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U; Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim, Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois; Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine; Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology, Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.

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Book SynopsisReexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their abusers publicly—from well-known celebrities to politicians and high-profile business leaders. Not surprisingly, conservatives quickly opposed this new movement, but the fact that “sex positive” progressives joined in the opposition was unexpected and seldom discussed. Why We Lost the Sex Wars explores how a narrow set of political prospects for resisting the use of sex as a tool of domination came to be embraced across this broad swath of the political spectrum in the contemporary United States.To better understand today’s multilayered sexual politics, Lorna N. Bracewell offers a revisionist history of the “sex wars” of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Rather than focusing on what divided antipornography and sex-radical feminists, Bracewell highlights significant points of contact and overlap between these rivals, particularly the trenchant challenges they offered to the narrow and ambivalent sexual politics of postwar liberalism. Bracewell leverages this recovered history to illuminate in fresh and provocative ways a range of current phenomena, including recent controversies over trigger warnings, the unimaginative politics of “sex-positive” feminism, and the rise of carceral feminism. By foregrounding the role played by liberal concepts such as expressive freedom and the public/private divide as well as the long-neglected contributions of Black and “Third World” feminists, Bracewell upends much of what we think we know about the sex wars and makes a strong case for the continued relevance of these debates today. Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a history of feminist thinking on topics such as pornography, commercial sex work, LGBTQ+ identities, and BDSM, as well as discussions of such notable figures as Patrick Califia, Alan Dershowitz, Andrea Dworkin, Elena Kagan, Audre Lorde, Catharine MacKinnon, Cherríe Moraga, Robin Morgan, Gayle Rubin, Nadine Strossen, Cass Sunstein, and Alice Walker.Trade Review"Why We Lost the Sex Wars is a fascinating read. It provides a gripping social history of both feminist movement and of feminist political theory, including archival research into interviews and writings that current feminist ‘legends’ did as graduate students. This is intertwined with incisive and creative theoretical analysis of the arguments offered in courts, conferences, and publications. Lorna N. Bracewell shows that the so-called ‘sex wars’ were not warlike, nor a clear-cut duality, but rather multiple and complex, and that these debates and arguments still influence feminism and feminist theory today. In Bracewell’s account of the central role that feminists of color played, which is often overlooked, is particularly insightful and important. This book is essential reading for all of us interested in the history of late twentieth-century feminism and in understanding how we got to where we are today."—Nancy Hirschmann, author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory"Lorna N. Bracewell’s careful treatment of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1980s demonstrates how their framing in terms of liberal philosophies of the eighteenth century contributed to a reductive misunderstanding of key questions about freedom and sexuality that continue to resurface decades later. This is a timely and important work."—Judith Grant, Ohio University"Thoroughly researched, yet immensely readable, Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a clear, illuminating, and utterly engaging account of antipornography feminism and sex radical feminists’ consequential encounters with liberalism. It details how liberalism remade both and, in that remaking, helped to foreclose feminist imaginations regarding damage and reparation and worked to lead us to our carceral present. It, rightly, highlights the oft-overlooked interventions of Black and ‘Third World’ feminists who critiqued the ‘monism’ of white antipornography and whose analysis helped to clarify that pornography could do far worse than simply objectify women. The book skillfully and seamlessly combines historical accounts and close textual reading. Among the latter method, the author's convincing illustration of the impact of antipornography feminism on one of liberalism's most revered feminist critics, Carole Pateman, stands out, as it demonstrates how the feminists, who we too often understand to have lost their fight ultimately, helped to shape her understanding of male power. An important contribution to feminist political theory."—Shatema Threadcraft, author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic "A timely revisionist scholarly history certain to spark debate."—Kirkus Reviews "Why We Lost the Sex Wars is incredibly detailed, well-researched, and well-organized."—Kara Reviews "An illuminating retelling of this period of American feminist history."—The New Yorker "A thorough, thoughtful account of the multiple and evolving constellations of perspectives and interactions that composed the so-called Sex Wars."—Gender & Society Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the Sex Wars1. “Pornography Is the Theory. Rape Is the Practice”: The Antipornography Feminist Critique of Liberalism2. Free Speech, Criminal Acts: Liberal Appropriations of Antipornography Feminism3. Ambivalent Liberals, Sex Radical Feminists4. Third World Feminism and the Sex WarsConclusion: The Liberal Roots of Carceral FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity Curiosity is political. Who is curious, when, and how reflects the social values and power structures of a given society. In Curiosity and Power, Perry Zurn explores the political philosophy of curiosity, staking the groundbreaking claim that it is a social force—the heartbeat of political resistance and a critical factor in social justice. He argues that the very scaffolding of curiosity is the product of political architectures, and exploring these values and architectures is crucial if we are to better understand, and more ethically navigate, the struggle over inquiry in an unequal world. Curiosity and Power explores curiosity through the lens of political philosophy—weaving in Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida in doing so—and the experience of political marginalization, demonstrating that curiosity is implicated equally in the maintenance of societies and in their transformation. Curiosity plays as central a role in establishing social institutions and fields of inquiry as it does in their deconstruction and in building new forms of political community. Understanding curiosity is critical to understanding politics, and understanding politics is critical to understanding curiosity. Drawing not only on philosophy and political theory but also on feminist theory, race theory, disability studies, and trans studies, Curiosity and Power tracks curiosity in the structures of political marginalization and resistance—from the Civil Rights Movement to building better social relationships. Curiosity and Power insists that the power of curiosity be recognized and engaged responsibly.Trade Review "How curious that recent philosophy has been so incurious about curiosity. But Perry Zurn, to use his apt descriptor for Foucault, shows us how to be ‘incontrovertibly curious’ about curiosity itself. Zurn shows that this is no simple virtue but rather bears within itself a potential for dissecting dominations. There is a politics not only to our incuriosity but also to all our curiosities."—Colin Koopman, author of How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person "This book is an invitation to engage in curiosity with careful attentiveness to otherwise possibilities. It is also a reminder that curiosity can turn situations into spectacles, cutting into bodies to extract knowledge and value. Perry Zurn navigates this ambiguity with insight, clarity, and compassion, teaching us to encounter the world anew, with both courage and humility."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives "Curiosity and Power offers a call to acknowledge the importance of collective inquiry."—Art Discourse "The book crucially contributes not only to enhancing curiosity’s status in philosophical inquiry but also o enhancing the role of philosophy in curiosity studies. "—The European Legacy Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceWhy the Politics of Curiosity?1. A Political History of Curiosity Part I. Episodes from Political Theory2. Friedrich Nietzsche: Curiosity and the Scene of Struggle3. Michel Foucault: Institutionalized Curiosity and Resistance4. Jacques Derrida: Sovereign Curiosity and DeconstructionPart II. Archives of Political Experience5. Curiosity, Activism, and Political Resistance6. Cripping Curiosity: A Critical Disability Framework7. Trans Curiosity: Beyond the Curio Unsettling CuriosityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity Curiosity is political. Who is curious, when, and how reflects the social values and power structures of a given society. In Curiosity and Power, Perry Zurn explores the political philosophy of curiosity, staking the groundbreaking claim that it is a social force—the heartbeat of political resistance and a critical factor in social justice. He argues that the very scaffolding of curiosity is the product of political architectures, and exploring these values and architectures is crucial if we are to better understand, and more ethically navigate, the struggle over inquiry in an unequal world. Curiosity and Power explores curiosity through the lens of political philosophy—weaving in Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida in doing so—and the experience of political marginalization, demonstrating that curiosity is implicated equally in the maintenance of societies and in their transformation. Curiosity plays as central a role in establishing social institutions and fields of inquiry as it does in their deconstruction and in building new forms of political community. Understanding curiosity is critical to understanding politics, and understanding politics is critical to understanding curiosity. Drawing not only on philosophy and political theory but also on feminist theory, race theory, disability studies, and trans studies, Curiosity and Power tracks curiosity in the structures of political marginalization and resistance—from the Civil Rights Movement to building better social relationships. Curiosity and Power insists that the power of curiosity be recognized and engaged responsibly.Trade Review "How curious that recent philosophy has been so incurious about curiosity. But Perry Zurn, to use his apt descriptor for Foucault, shows us how to be ‘incontrovertibly curious’ about curiosity itself. Zurn shows that this is no simple virtue but rather bears within itself a potential for dissecting dominations. There is a politics not only to our incuriosity but also to all our curiosities."—Colin Koopman, author of How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person "This book is an invitation to engage in curiosity with careful attentiveness to otherwise possibilities. It is also a reminder that curiosity can turn situations into spectacles, cutting into bodies to extract knowledge and value. Perry Zurn navigates this ambiguity with insight, clarity, and compassion, teaching us to encounter the world anew, with both courage and humility."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives "Curiosity and Power offers a call to acknowledge the importance of collective inquiry."—Art Discourse "The book crucially contributes not only to enhancing curiosity’s status in philosophical inquiry but also o enhancing the role of philosophy in curiosity studies. "—The European Legacy Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceWhy the Politics of Curiosity?1. A Political History of Curiosity Part I. Episodes from Political Theory2. Friedrich Nietzsche: Curiosity and the Scene of Struggle3. Michel Foucault: Institutionalized Curiosity and Resistance4. Jacques Derrida: Sovereign Curiosity and DeconstructionPart II. Archives of Political Experience5. Curiosity, Activism, and Political Resistance6. Cripping Curiosity: A Critical Disability Framework7. Trans Curiosity: Beyond the Curio Unsettling CuriosityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. But what if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, or mass incarceration? To create moments of empathy and dialogue between Black Lives Matter and the police? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact. Here Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett address the four major theories of humor—superiority, relief, incongruity, and social play—through the lens of feminist and game-changing comics such as Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro. They take a radical and holistic approach to the understanding of humor, particularly of humor deployed by those from groups long relegated to the margins, and propose a powerful new understanding of humor as a force that can engender politically progressive social movements. Drawing on a range of cross-disciplinary sources, from philosophies and histories of humor to the psychology and physiology of laughter to animal studies, Uproarious offers a richer understanding of the political and cathartic potential of humor. A major new contribution to a wider dialogue on comedy, Uproarious grounds for us explorations of outsider humor and our golden age of feminist comics—showing that when women, prisoners, even animals, laugh back, comedy along with belly laughs forge new identities and alter the political climate. Trade Review"What happens when a professor of philosophy and a professor of history walk into a comedy club? If these professors are Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett, they write a brilliantly astute, acutely insightful, and sharply original book on gender, politics, ethnicities, empathy, humanism, and humor. In Uproarious, they stand up for the power of stand up, with Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro headlining their deeply erudite arguments. The result is an intellectual riot, overturning shibboleths and raising the roof—while breaking the glass ceiling—of ideas about women and comedy."—Gina Barreca, author of “If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?”: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times"Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett take the reader on a delightful and inspiring voyage into the belly of satire, comedy, and laughter. While we may have a visceral sense of humor’s powers, philosophy has not yet found the language for it. In giving us just that, Uproarious expands our understanding of feminist and race politics and exposes dimensions of sociality, embodiment, and empathy that carry rich (and, yes, humorous!) implications for critical theory and aesthetics."—Monique Roelofs, author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic"If you think humans are the only animals with a sense of humor, Uproarious surely will break you out of your misleading speciesist perspective. There's a lot we can learn from other animals about how and why humans' sense of humor evolved. This wide-ranging, transdisciplinary, and future-looking collection of essays nicely lays the groundwork for stimulating discussions freed from human exceptionalism."—Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado

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Book SynopsisA radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. But what if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, or mass incarceration? To create moments of empathy and dialogue between Black Lives Matter and the police? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact. Here Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett address the four major theories of humor—superiority, relief, incongruity, and social play—through the lens of feminist and game-changing comics such as Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro. They take a radical and holistic approach to the understanding of humor, particularly of humor deployed by those from groups long relegated to the margins, and propose a powerful new understanding of humor as a force that can engender politically progressive social movements. Drawing on a range of cross-disciplinary sources, from philosophies and histories of humor to the psychology and physiology of laughter to animal studies, Uproarious offers a richer understanding of the political and cathartic potential of humor. A major new contribution to a wider dialogue on comedy, Uproarious grounds for us explorations of outsider humor and our golden age of feminist comics—showing that when women, prisoners, even animals, laugh back, comedy along with belly laughs forge new identities and alter the political climate. Trade Review"What happens when a professor of philosophy and a professor of history walk into a comedy club? If these professors are Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett, they write a brilliantly astute, acutely insightful, and sharply original book on gender, politics, ethnicities, empathy, humanism, and humor. In Uproarious, they stand up for the power of stand up, with Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro headlining their deeply erudite arguments. The result is an intellectual riot, overturning shibboleths and raising the roof—while breaking the glass ceiling—of ideas about women and comedy."—Gina Barreca, author of “If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?”: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times"Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett take the reader on a delightful and inspiring voyage into the belly of satire, comedy, and laughter. While we may have a visceral sense of humor’s powers, philosophy has not yet found the language for it. In giving us just that, Uproarious expands our understanding of feminist and race politics and exposes dimensions of sociality, embodiment, and empathy that carry rich (and, yes, humorous!) implications for critical theory and aesthetics."—Monique Roelofs, author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic"If you think humans are the only animals with a sense of humor, Uproarious surely will break you out of your misleading speciesist perspective. There's a lot we can learn from other animals about how and why humans' sense of humor evolved. This wide-ranging, transdisciplinary, and future-looking collection of essays nicely lays the groundwork for stimulating discussions freed from human exceptionalism."—Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado

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Book SynopsisWinner of Outstanding Book Award of Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human RightsAn award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition A fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies, Daring to Be Bad is a must-read for both students of gender history and activists of intersectionality. This thirtieth anniversary edition reveals how current debates about race, transgender rights, queer theory, and sexuality echo issues that galvanized and divided feminists fifty years ago. Trade Review"Thirty years after its publication, Daring to Be Bad feels more essential than ever. Alice Echols captures the heady vision of radical feminism and documents the wrenching challenges the movement confronted, not least within its own ranks. Both rigorous and generous, Daring to Be Bad offers vital lessons to students of the revolutionary past, and to aspirants for a feminist future."—Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America “Many younger feminists have a fairly negative stereotype of radical feminism: that it was an exclusively white and middle-class movement that promoted gender essentialism, ‘woman’s energy,’ separatism transphobia, and banning pornography . . . No book shattered that stereotype for me more than Daring to Be Bad.” —Julia Serano, bitchmedia “To learn more about the rise and fall of radical feminism, I highly recommend Alice Echols’s Daring to Be Bad, a detailed and vivid account of the movement’s history.”—Susan Faludi, The New Yorker “This balanced study deftly explores feminism, from its break with the coalition of leftist activist groups of the ’60s to its abandonment of radicalism and separatism in the ’70s. . . . Echols masterfully re-creates a perpetually divisive atmosphere.” —Publishers Weekly “If we are still debating the relative importance of gender, class, and race, combating the power of capitalism and patriarchy, this valuable study shows that the discussion owes much to the radical feminists who hewed out the outlines of these issues.”—Library Journal “Daring to Be Bad offers the kind of critical attention that contemporary feminism has lacked.” —The Nation “Far beyond mere nostalgic value, the enduring worth of Echols’s book is as a resource, not only for future women’s studies courses but for all who want to understand contemporary feminism. The book supplies essential background that explains the splits that persist in the feminist movement today. . . . Cheers to Daring to Be Bad.” —New Directions for Women “Daring to Be Bad is a welcome addition to feminist bookshelves. It breaks new ground, making creative use of extensive interviews and early feminist publications to recreate the environment that elicited and shaped radical feminism.” —Sojourner “Daring to Be Bad is like a long consciousness-raising session: it prods, validates, and witnesses. Echols offers an oral history that is also an homage. . . . we’re given the benefit of a clear and honest eye cast over two decades’ span of women working on that most influential social struggle toward liberation.” —Village Voice “This fine and sympathetic interpretation of the origin and evolution of radical feminism will give students of women’s history a glimpse of the passion of those hours and help explain why a new order did not emerge from them.” —American Historical Review “Echols gives a rich, detailed history of radical feminism’s heyday from 1967 to 1971 . . . offers the type of critical interpretation of the women’s liberation movement that contemporary feminism has lacked.” —Socialist Review “Daring to Be Bad is path-breaking . . . based on abundant and painstaking interviewing, as well as the tracking down and assembling of the ephemera of short-lived committees, cells, and association. . . . Echols’s writing is lucid, detailed, and extremely responsible.” —American Quarterly

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Book SynopsisA provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative powerWhile both fans and foes point to Mad Max: Fury Road’s feminist credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist or radical happening on the screen? The four authors—from backgrounds in art history, American literature, disability studies, and sociology—ask what is possible, desirable, or damaging in theorizing feminism in the contested landscape of the twenty-first century. Can we find beauty in the Anthropocene? Can power be wrested from a violent system without employing and perpetuating violence? This experiment in collaborative criticism weaves multiple threads of dialogue together to offer a fresh perspective on our current cultural moment. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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Book SynopsisConstructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference One of the oldest, most persistent issues in gender and sexuality studies is the dominance of white, northern theorizing and its consequences for what we know about sex, gender, and sexuality. There is an ongoing neglect of the significance of histories of empire and coloniality, particularly in U.S. sociology, where the United States and its theoretical productions are routinely sanitized of such histories. In Webbed Connectivities, Vrushali Patil offers a global historical sociology that reembeds the United States within histories of empire, situating the emergence of northern and U.S.-based concepts and frameworks squarely within these histories.Webbed Connectivities intercepts the political economy of knowledge production within the social sciences to argue for the work of centering the role of imperial hierarchies in knowledge production and circulation. Patil develops a new approach—webbed connectivities—which tracks imperial processes and impacts across borders, shifting from an emphasis on particular experiences and identities to the constitution and creation of the categories themselves.A sociologist of feminist thought and gender and sexuality studies, Patil explores the theoretical spaces that spotlighting imperial hierarchies within knowledge production might open, including making productive and essential connections across sites of the global south and north.Trade Review"Singular and groundbreaking! Webbed Connectivities undercuts U.S. sociology’s investments in colonial legacies, epistemologies, and categories. Vrushali Patil brilliantly shows that gender and sexuality are neither universal nor western categories but are, instead, products of intricate transnational webs of racial and imperial entanglements. The eye-opening research and piercing arguments make it impossible to return to the business of gender and sexuality (and sociology) as usual."—Jyoti Puri, author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India"Vrushali Patil has written an historically informed and theoretically rich text that will transform how global and transnational sociologists think about the intersection of sexuality, race, and empire. Through careful historical study and nuanced theoretical engagement, Webbed Connectivities challenges many of our extant concepts while offering a path forward for new and exciting work."—Zine Magubane, Boston College"Vrushali Patil's Webbed Connectivities analyzes how empire occupies the concepts that we use to think gender and sexuality. In doing so, the book provincializes both those concepts and the procedures that make up the sociology of sex and gender. May the field of sociology learn this book's lessons and learn them well."—Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional QueerTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Where Is the Transnational (and the Imperial)?1. The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect2. The Biopolitics of Binary Bodies: Considering Scale, Race, and Empire3. The Special Oriental Vice, the Savage Vice, and the Sexual Furor: Racial-Imperial Webs and the Invention of “Modern” Sexuality4. The Reordering of Empire and the American Invention of GenderConclusion: Locating the Transnational and the ImperialNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisConstructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference One of the oldest, most persistent issues in gender and sexuality studies is the dominance of white, northern theorizing and its consequences for what we know about sex, gender, and sexuality. There is an ongoing neglect of the significance of histories of empire and coloniality, particularly in U.S. sociology, where the United States and its theoretical productions are routinely sanitized of such histories. In Webbed Connectivities, Vrushali Patil offers a global historical sociology that reembeds the United States within histories of empire, situating the emergence of northern and U.S.-based concepts and frameworks squarely within these histories.Webbed Connectivities intercepts the political economy of knowledge production within the social sciences to argue for the work of centering the role of imperial hierarchies in knowledge production and circulation. Patil develops a new approach—webbed connectivities—which tracks imperial processes and impacts across borders, shifting from an emphasis on particular experiences and identities to the constitution and creation of the categories themselves.A sociologist of feminist thought and gender and sexuality studies, Patil explores the theoretical spaces that spotlighting imperial hierarchies within knowledge production might open, including making productive and essential connections across sites of the global south and north.Trade Review"Singular and groundbreaking! Webbed Connectivities undercuts U.S. sociology’s investments in colonial legacies, epistemologies, and categories. Vrushali Patil brilliantly shows that gender and sexuality are neither universal nor western categories but are, instead, products of intricate transnational webs of racial and imperial entanglements. The eye-opening research and piercing arguments make it impossible to return to the business of gender and sexuality (and sociology) as usual."—Jyoti Puri, author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India"Vrushali Patil has written an historically informed and theoretically rich text that will transform how global and transnational sociologists think about the intersection of sexuality, race, and empire. Through careful historical study and nuanced theoretical engagement, Webbed Connectivities challenges many of our extant concepts while offering a path forward for new and exciting work."—Zine Magubane, Boston College"Vrushali Patil's Webbed Connectivities analyzes how empire occupies the concepts that we use to think gender and sexuality. In doing so, the book provincializes both those concepts and the procedures that make up the sociology of sex and gender. May the field of sociology learn this book's lessons and learn them well."—Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional QueerTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Where Is the Transnational (and the Imperial)?1. The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect2. The Biopolitics of Binary Bodies: Considering Scale, Race, and Empire3. The Special Oriental Vice, the Savage Vice, and the Sexual Furor: Racial-Imperial Webs and the Invention of “Modern” Sexuality4. The Reordering of Empire and the American Invention of GenderConclusion: Locating the Transnational and the ImperialNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new edition of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. In this bold book, of its time and ahead of its time, whiteness is made visible in power relations, presenting a dialogic of how white feminists represent Indigenous women in discourse and how Indigenous women self-present. Moreton-Robinson argues that white feminists benefit from colonization: they are overwhelmingly represented and disproportionately predominant, play the key roles, and constitute the norm, the ordinary, and the standard of womanhood. They do not self-present as white but rather represent themselves as variously classed, sexualized, aged, and abled. The disjuncture between representation and self-presentation of Indigenous women and white feminists illuminates different epistemologies and an incommensurability in the social construction of gender.Not so much a study of white womanhood, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman instead reveals an invisible racialized subject position represented and deployed in power relations with Indigenous women. The subject position occupied by middle-class white women is embedded in material and discursive conditions that shape the nature of power relations between white feminists and Indigenous women—and the unjust structural relationship between white society and Indigenous society. Table of ContentsContents20th Anniversary Preface by Aileen Moreton-RobinsonPreface by Karen BrodkinIntroduction: Talkin’ the TalkChapter OneTellin’ It Straight: Self-Presentation withinIndigenous Women’s Life WritingsChapter TwoLook Out White Woman: Representations of“The White Woman” in Feminist TheoryChapter ThreePuttem “Indigenous Woman”: Representations of the“Indigenous Woman” in White Women’s Ethnographic WritingsChapter FourLittle Bit Woman: Representations of Indigenous Womenin White Australian FeminismChapter FiveWhite Women’s Way: Self-Presentation withinWhite Feminist Academics’ TalkChapter SixTiddas Speakin’ Strong: Indigenous Women’sSelf-Presentation within White Australian FeminismChapter SevenConclusion: Talkin’ Up to the White WomanNotesReferencesIndexWhiteness Matters: Implications ofTalkin’ Up to the White WomanAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisWho’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians, playwrights, feminist theorists, and men's-rights activists since its publication in 1999. More than twenty years after its publication the international reverberation of Young-Girls shows no signs of weakening. Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun is a guide to this ongoing postdigital conversation, engaging with artworks and textual criticism provoked by Tiqqun’s audacious, arguably misogynistic textual voice. Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson show how Tiqqun’s polarizing figure has grown and matured but also stayed unapologetically girly in the works of artists and scholars discussed here. Rethinking the myth of Echo and Narcissus by performing a different kind of listening, they take us on a journey from VSCO girls to basic bitches to vampires.With an ear for the sound of Tiqqun’s polemic and its ensemble of Anglophone and Francophone rejoinders, Young-Girls in Echoland offers a model for analyzing the call-and-response of pop philosophy and for hearing the affective rhythms of communicative capitalism.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Garbage-Core Is My Favorite Kind of Music1. Iteration2. Orality3. Conclusion, or Fucking UpAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism.By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.Trade Review "This truly revelatory work pushes the already rich encounters between contemporary left feminist scholars and 1930s radical women writers in new directions—new ways of thinking and new fields of desire. Beautifully written, it is a model of engaged, compassionate, and grounded activist research."—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and coeditor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 "Rosemary Hennessy’s latest book (re)introduces women writers of the Communist Left who thought the unthinkable of their time and increasingly ours: Black left feminism, radical ecology, the ‘erotics of race work.’ Their work, and Hennessy’s, are primers and love letters for liberation. In the Company of Radical Women Writers exemplifies materialist feminism, scholarship on the American Left, and literary studies for the twenty-first century."—Cheryl Higashida, author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 "In the Company of Radical Women Writers is significant; it covers 1930s literary history, the civil rights and women’s rights movements, and the under-heralded work of seven powerful writers."—Foreword

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Book SynopsisRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism.By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.Trade Review "This truly revelatory work pushes the already rich encounters between contemporary left feminist scholars and 1930s radical women writers in new directions—new ways of thinking and new fields of desire. Beautifully written, it is a model of engaged, compassionate, and grounded activist research."—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and coeditor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 "Rosemary Hennessy’s latest book (re)introduces women writers of the Communist Left who thought the unthinkable of their time and increasingly ours: Black left feminism, radical ecology, the ‘erotics of race work.’ Their work, and Hennessy’s, are primers and love letters for liberation. In the Company of Radical Women Writers exemplifies materialist feminism, scholarship on the American Left, and literary studies for the twenty-first century."—Cheryl Higashida, author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 "In the Company of Radical Women Writers is significant; it covers 1930s literary history, the civil rights and women’s rights movements, and the under-heralded work of seven powerful writers."—Foreword

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Book SynopsisNow available in paperback with a new preface and foreword by Stella Nkomo. How might imperialist, masculinist and white supremacist grips on leadership be loosened? In this thought-provoking and accessible new study, Helena Liu suggests that anti-racist feminism can challenge conventional models and practices of power. Combining a critical review of leadership theory with enlightening examples from around the world, the book shows how the intellectual and activist elements of feminist movements provide antidotes to contemporary leadership research and practice. For those interested in management, organisation, feminism, race and many more studies, it sets the agenda for a radical reimagining of control and leadership in all its forms.Trade Review“Helena Liu writes an incisive critique of whiteness and anti-woman scholarship while articulating a stirring call for change in the way we think about, practice and research Leadership. A must-read for any scholar seriously engaging with Leadership.” Sadhvi Dar, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Violences of Leadership Dominance Purity Destruction Salvation Part II: Anti- Racist Feminist Redemption Anti-Racist Feminisms Undoing Leadership White Allyship Restoration

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Book SynopsisWith austerity’s disproportionately heavy impact on women now apparent, this engaging book considers activism against it from a feminist perspective. Emma Craddock goes deep inside activist culture to explore the many cultural and emotional dimensions of political participation. She questions what motivates and sustains protest, considering the enabling aspects of solidarity and empathy, as well as the constraining factors of negative emotions and gendered barriers associated with activism, examining the role of gender and emotion within protest. This is a lived-in study that gets to the heart of what it means to be an anti-austerity activist and an important addition to social justice debate.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Establishing Context A Critical Review of Social Movement Theory: Gender and Emotion in Activist Cultures The Empirical and Political Context of Anti-Austerity Activism Part II: Doing Activism: Enabling and Constraining Factors The Affective, the Normative and the Everyday: Exploring What Motivates and Sustains Anti-Austerity Activism Barriers to Doing Activism PART III: Being Activist: The Activist Identity and Its Problems The Authentic and Ideal Activist Identities: Having the ‘Right’ Motivation and Doing ‘Enough’ of the ‘Right’ Type of Activism The Dark Side of Activist Culture and its Gendered Dimension Part IV: Concluding Remarks Subverting/Reinforcing Neoliberal Capitalism: The Complex Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Activism References Appendix

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Book SynopsisePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds with this rhetoric. Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in these sectors. Contributors flesh out the differences and similarities across different Nordic countries and explore how the shifts in labour market conditions have impacted on women in research and innovation. This is an invaluable contribution to global debates around the mechanisms that maintain gendered structures in research and innovation, from academia to biotechnology and IT.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Gabriele Griffin 2. Research and Innovation in the Academy: A Precarious Business - Gabriele Griffin 3. Navigating Career Imaginaries in Academia: A View from Women Researchers in Biotechnology - Oili-Helena Ylijoki 4. Unconventional Routes into ICT Work: Learning from Women's own Solutions for Working Around Gendered Barriers - Hilde G. Corneliussen and Gilda Seddighi 5. Changes in Funding and the Intensification of Gender Inequalities in Research and Innovation - Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen and Päivi Korvajärvi 6. Promoting Gender Equality in STEM-oriented Universities: Institutional Policy Measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway - Charlotte Silander, Ida Drange, Maria Pietilä, Liza Reisel 7. Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting Female Associate Professors - May-Linda Magnussen, Rebecca W. B. Lund and Trond Stalsberg Mydland 8. "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" How Early Career Researchers Imagine the (Im)Possible Future in Academia - Siri Øyslebø Sørensen and Guro Korsnes Kristensen 9. "If It Had Been Only Me, It Would Not Have Worked Out": Women Negotiating Conflicting Challenges of ICT Work and Family in Norway - Gilda Seddighi and Hilde G. Corneliussen 10. Co-creative Platforms for Societal Impact of Research on Gender Issues: A Comparative Study of the Gender Academy and Gender Contact Point - Malin Lindberg, Ulf Mellström and Paula Wennberg 11. The Discourse of Rurality in Women’s Professional-life Narratives: Gender and ICT in Rural Norway - Hilde G. Corneliussen, Gilda Seddighi, and Carol Azungi Dralega

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Book SynopsisMary Butts wrote and lived among notable modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, H.D., and Ezra Pound, and was on her way to becoming one of the most respected British female writers of the twentieth century. Yet, after her death in 1937 at the age of forty-six, her reputation suffered a decline. Butt's idiosyncratic spirituality did not lend itself to easy critical examination, modernism was generally considered a masculine endeavor, and her papers were not made public for over fifty years. The recent acquisition of those papers by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, however, has brought about a resurgence of interest in her unique writings. Mary Butts confronts and reinterprets reality in extraordinary ways, and her modernist vision recalls the natural origins and powers of the female divine. Her intense dedication to ancient rites and myth, and her dabbling in the occult, became embedded in her fiction and led to her own brand of mysticism. Indeed, the Butts heroine is at once, healer, sacred priestess, earth goddess, lover, and daimon/demon. In presenting her characters this way, Butts valorizes what she calls "the soul living at its fullest capacity." Roslyn Reso Foy gives us the first sustained critical study of Butts, exploring the signficance of feminism, mysticism, and magic in her life and writings. Foy's thoughtful analysis, combining scholarship with straightforward discussion, will serve as an introduction to, and foundation for, further critical studies of this remarkable female modernist whose work coincides with contemporary concerns and who can no longer be ignored.

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Book SynopsisMaterialist Feminisms investigates the crucial theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and American feminism over the last thirty years. As intellectual terrain has shifted during these decades from Marxism to cultural materialism and poststructuralist literary theory, questions of race and ethnicity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and green politics have converged and sometimes collided with the categories within feminism, but analyze many of the most important texts and movements of contemporary cultural theory. Offering not so much a unified history as an analysis of important moments within these debates, this book examines the work of such feminist theorists as MichUle Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, the m/f collective, Tania Modleski, Jacqueline Rose, Gayle Rubin, Hortense Spillers, and Gayatri Spivak. Materialist Feminisms includes new, exemplary readings of feminist detective, African-American, and postcolonial fiction, three kinds of textures commodity currently fetishized in the literary marketplace. What might the success of these kinds of writing signify about politics and desire in contemporary Anglo-American culture? Demonstrating how the poststructuralis critique of essences and identities need not end in a complete paralysis of political action, as has sometimes been claimed, Materialist Feminisms argues that feminism, soicalism, and deconstruction are not theoretical dead ends, but names for unfinished business.Table of ContentsThe Argument vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Part I Beyond the Marxist--Feminist Encounter 1 Origins UK and US 19 2 Institutionalizing Feminism 42 3 Deconstruction and Beyond 60 Part II Feminism and Cultural Critique 4 Feminism and the History of the Novel 83 5 How PC Can a White Girl Be When Her Sisters of Color Can Represent Themselves? 95 6 History and Poststructuralism 125 Part III The Politics of Contemporary Theory 7 The Politics of Essence 145 8 Identity and Sexuality 153 9 The Theory "Race," Imperialist Fractures, and Postcolonial Subjects 183 10 Towards a Green Cultural Criticism 206 Conclusion 229 Works Cited 231 Index of Names 248 Index of Subjects 253

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Book SynopsisIn this outstanding collection of essays, contributed by some of America's leading feminist writers, the current terrain of American feminism is charted as never before. Covering a broad range of subjects and a diversity of approaches, this volume demonstrates just how far American feminism has come in developing distinctive and sophisticated strategies for combining theory and practice. While many of the writers represented have made their careers within the academy, their interests are never exclusively academic. Indeed, at the heart of this book lies a broad concern with the key social issues of our day. Thus, Catherine MacKinnon writes on sex equality under the law, Cynthia Enloe on international politics, bell hooks on cinematic representation of blackness, and Donna Haraway on the biopolitics of postmodern bodies. The selection also includes important essays by Gayle Rubin, Tania Modleski, Rey Chow, Trinh Minh-ha, Sandra Harding, Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne, Evelyn Fox Keller, Joan Wallach Scott, Linda S. Kauffman, Paula Treicher, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua and Jean Bethke Elshtain.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Contributors. Introduction. Part 1: Sexuality and Gender:. 1. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality: Gayle S. Rubin (1984). 2. Seductive Sexualities: Representing Blackness in Poetry and on Screen: bell hooks (1990). 3. Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film: Tania Modleski (1991). Part II: Theories of Difference:. 4. 'It's you, and not me': Domination and 'Othering' in Theorizing the 'Third World': Rey Chow? (1989). 5. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man: Trinh T. Minh-ha (1989). 6. Reinventing Ourselves as Other: More New Agents of History and Knowledge: Sandra Harding (1991). Part III: The Status Of Science, Technology, Academic Disciplines: . 7. The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology: Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne (1985). 8. Making Gender Visible in Pursuit of Nature's Secrets: Evelyn Fox Keller (1991). 9. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Donna Haraway (1989). 10. Women's History: Joan Wallach Scott (1992). 11. The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or An Infant Grifter Grows Up: Linda S. Kauffman (1992). Part IV: Feminist Issues, Activism, and The National Scene: . 12. AIDS, Gender and Biomedical Discourse: Current Contests for Meaning: Paula A. Treichler 1988. 13. Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties: Angela Y. Davis (1991). 14. Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law: Catherine A. MacKinnon (1991). Part IV: American Feminism in an International Frame: . 15. La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a new Consciuosness: Gloria Anzaldua (1987). 16. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Cynthia Enloe (1989). 17. Realism, Just War and the Witness of Peace: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1990).

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Book SynopsisThis new introductory text constructs a Christian feminist theology, and lays out a view of the world indebted to both traditional Christian faith and recent feminist thought critical of that faith. Throughout the book Professor Carmody weaves back and forth, trying to develop a conversation stimulating for both partners. Christians, she suggests, need to reconsider their traditional categories for dealing with God, nature, the self, and human community, under the challenge of feminists who find such categories inadequate and even destructive. And feminists need to stay in touch with the perennial questions of being, sin, grace, sacramentality, and the like, which have found some truly profound answers in the history of Christian theological speculation. The book will be suitable for undergraduate college or university students, and presupposes no background in theology.Trade Review"Carmody aims for constructive theology - a theology which makes use of its sources, traditional Christianity and feminism, to present Christian theology as a relevant voice in our time... Carmody's book is certainly an important contribution to the genre of undergraduate textbooks. It shifts feminist theology from its marginal position of being an optional extra, an academic luxury or a side interest of mainly female theologicans, to being an essential part of mainstream theology, an important tool for re-reading and making sense of the Christian tradition. Carmody's book is not one of ready-made answers, but the author introduces her reader to critical and constructive theological thinking, presented in accessible language. As such the book represents both a challenge and a useful tool, and will hopefully find its way on to reading lists in universities and colleges. It's for anyone interested in a basic understanding of a Christian feminist theology and critical thought - for those with no theological background." Feminist Bookstore News "Carmody's style is fluid and sweeping, engaging in its lyricism .... Carmody's approach is balanced and judicious, equally adept at critiquing secular feminism and the oppressive record of the Christian churches toward women." Francis J. Buckley, University of San Francisco for HorizonsTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Constructive Christian Feminist Theology. 2. Foundations. 3. Revelation and Tradition. 4. Creation: Nature and Ecology. 5. Ecclesiology: Society and Politics. 6. Anthropology: The Self Sick and Healthy. 7. Theology: God So Far and Yet So Near. 8. Practice: Ethics and Spirituality. 9. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of ""The Feminine Mystique"" and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe. The links between the ""Popular Front"" of feminism of the ""Old Left"" and the ""New Left"" feminism of the 1960s is delineated, thereby casting doubt on the claims of novelty that many have made about social movements of the 1960s. He illuminates important details by mining everything from her papers while a student as Smith College, to her articles for the labour press. Horowitz advances the historiography with descriptions of women's experiences of left-wing politics and culture in the 1940s and 1950s and by limning Friedan's place within that context.

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Book SynopsisEach year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil.The Laveaus were free women of color and prominent French-speaking Catholic Creoles. From the 1820s until the 1880s when one died and the other disappeared, gossip, fear, and fierce affection swirled about them. From the heart of the French Quarter, in dance, drumming, song, and spirit possession, they ruled the imagination of New Orleans.How did the two Maries apply their ""magical"" powers and uncommon business sense to shift the course of love, luck, and the law? The women understood the real crime--they had pitted their spiritual forces against the slave system of the United States. Moses-like, they led their people out of bondage and offered protection and freedom to the community of color, rich white women, enslaved families, and men condemned to hang.The curse of the Laveau family, however, followed them. Both loved men they could never marry. Both faced down the press and police who stalked them. Both countered the relentless gossip of curses, evil spirits, murders, and infant sacrifice with acts of benevolence.The book is also a detective story--who is really buried in the famous tomb in the oldest ""city of the dead"" in New Orleans? What scandals did the Laveau family intend to keep buried there forever? By what sleight of hand did free people of color lose their cultural identity when Americans purchased Louisiana and imposed racial apartheid upon Creole creativity? Voodoo Queen brings the improbable testimonies of saints, spirits, and never-before-printed eyewitness accounts of ceremonies and magical crafts together to illuminate the lives of the two Marie Laveaus, leaders of a major, indigenous American religion.

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Book SynopsisOctavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur ""genius"" grant, the first for a science fiction writer, Butler created worlds that challenged notions of race, sex, gender, and humanity. Whether in the postapocalyptic future of the Parable stories, in the human inability to assimilate change and difference in the Xenogenesis books, or in the destructive sense of superiority in the Patternist series, Butler held up a mirror, reflecting what is beautiful, corrupt, worthwhile, and damning about the world we inhabit. In interviews ranging from 1980 until just before her sudden death in 2006, Conversations with Octavia Butler reveals a writer very much aware of herself as the ""rare bird"" of science fiction even as she shows frustration with the constant question,""How does it feel to be the only one?"" Whether discussing humanity's biological imperatives or the difference between science fiction and fantasy or the plight of the working poor in America, Butler emerges in these interviews as funny, intelligent, complicated, and intensely original.

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Book SynopsisIn 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of her—Henriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette Récamier, a well-known and admired socialite. Drawing on many disciplines, Norman Bryson explains how such a combination of paintings could reveal the underlying nature of the Directoire, the period between the vicious and near-dictatorial Reign of Terror (1793–94) and the coup in 1799 that brought Napoleon to power. Hersilia’s Sisters illuminates ways that cultural life and civil society were rebuilt during these years through an extraordinary efflorescence of women pioneers in every cultural domain—literature, the stage, opera, moral philosophy, political theory, painting, popular journalism, and fashion. Through a close examination of David’s work between The Intervention of the Sabines (begun in 1796) and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (begun in 1800), Bryson explores how the flowering of women’s culture under the Directoire became a decisive influence on David’s art. With more than 150 illustrations, this book provides new and brilliant insight into this period that will captivate readers.

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