Feminism and feminist theory Books

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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Book SynopsisBorn in 1898 in Bunkerville, Nevada, Juanita Brooks led an early life similar to that of many who grew up in isolated, tightly knit, rural Mormon communities. An early marriage suggested her future would follow a predictable course, but the death of her husband, the need to raise a young son, and a passion for knowledge led her along a different path, when at mid-life she became a well-known author after publishing The Mountain Meadows Massacre. In this book she exposed the killing of some 100 California-bound emigrants travelling through southern Utah in 1856 as an atrocity carried out by a Mormon militia with Indian allies and not solely as an Indian massacre, as it had been for so long portrayed. Juanita Brooks was a faithful and active member of the Mormon Church, and her courage to tell the truth about this dark moment in Mormon history established her reputation as a respected historian. While there was no official church condemnation of the book, there was unofficial disapproval and Brooks was shunned by many in her community. She nevertheless doggedly pursued church authorities to revise their stand on the incidents at Mountain Meadows. The desire to tell the truth as she saw it became her hallmark, and Brooks's life as wife, mother, teacher, community member, and undaunted historian became an uncommon story of personal stamina and intellectual courage.

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Book SynopsisHistorian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities—in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge’s detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement’s goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisAs feminism gained prominence in twentieth-century popular culture, dramatic conventions progressed accordingly, offering larger and more diverse roles for women characters. Feminist Rehearsals documents the early stages of feminist theatre in Argentina and Mexico, revealing how various aspects of performance culture—spectator formation, playwriting, professional acting and directing, and dramatic techniques—paralleled political activism and championed the goals of the women’s rights movement. Through performance and protest, feminists enacted new identities and pushed for myriad social and legislative reforms during a time when women were denied suffrage and full citizenship status. Together, feminist theatre and demonstrations politicized women spectators’ collective presence and promoted women’s rights in the public sphere.Trade Review“This study provides a deserved platform for female artists and activists who continue to exert influence over our understanding of the role of the arts in inspiring a questioning of dominant patriarchal values. Most importantly, it will update everyone’s ideas of what constitutes a theatre history in the dynamic field that is Latin American theatre, especially as it relates to feminist movements across the Americas."—Analola Santana, author, Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater"Feminist Rehearsals is an impressive study of the political, sociocultural, and intellectual struggles women playwrights, actresses, and activist pioneers experienced during the early twentieth century in Argentina and Mexico. With a fresh look at feminist theory and practice, Farnsworth offers a crucial analysis regarding the role women had in the public sphere through the lens of theatre and performance studies."—Paola HernÁndez, author, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives"An authoritative, nuanced, and thoughtful analysis of the role of feminist political and aesthetic movements in Argentina and Mexico, Feminist Rehearsals offers new insights into how women in the Americas create space for feminist spectatorship in the twentieth century. This book is for anyone engaged in feminist performance scholarship."—E. J. Westlake, Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisVirginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in particular. While striving to change society's expectations for women, she also gave voice to the important role of women in the home. A lifetime of dedication made Virginia Meredith "the most remarkable woman in Indiana" and the "Queen of American Agriculture." Meredith was also an integral part of the history of Purdue University. She was the first woman appointed to serve on the university's board of trustees, had a residence hall named in her honor, and worked with her adopted daughter, Mary L. Matthews, in creating the School of Home Economics, the predecessor of today's College of Consumer and Family Sciences.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Farm and Family 1. A Hoosier Family's Rise to Prominence 2. An Independent Woman Emerges 3. The Woman Farmer from Cambridge City 4. A Voice for Rural People Community and Service 5. Empowering Women Through Club Work 6. The Lady Manager from Indiana at the Chicago World's Fair Educator and Advocate 7. Advancing the Science of Home Life 8. Purdue University's First Woman Trustee 9. A Landmark for Veterans and a Home for Women 10. Farewell to the Grand Lady of Agriculture Epilogue Appendix 1: Complete Text of "Farm Life: Its Privileges and Possibilities" Appendix 2: Complete Text of "Why Short-horns Are the Best Cattle for Indiana Farms" Appendix 3: Complete Text of "The Relation of Women to the Columbian Exposition" Appendix 4: Complete Text of "The Need of Special Training for Agricultural Pursuits" Appendix 5: Complete Text of "Roads of Remembrance" Appendix 6: Obituary of Virginia C. Meredith, Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier Appendix 7: Complete Text of "Mrs. Virginia Meredith," Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier Notes Sources Index

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Book SynopsisA candid and generous color-illustrated account of women artists creating politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, and actions over two tumultuous decades This abundantly illustrated personal narrative takes readers through twenty-two years of activism in the women's art movements in New York City during a period of great cultural change. Author Sabra Moore vividly recounts life in this era of social upheaval in which women artists responded to war, racial tension and reconciliation, cultural and aesthetic inequality, and struggles for reproductive freedom. We learn intimately how she and fellow women artists found ways to create politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions. The book features Moore's involvement in pivotal art organizations of this time and her own development as an artist, counterbalanced with her connections to family in rural East Texas and friends in New Mexico. Moore was a member of the Heresies Collective, an influential feminist activist group, became editor of their art and politics journal Heresies, and was president of the NYC/Women's Caucus for Art. She helped coordinate and curate many of the earliest large-scale exhibitions of women artists in NYC, including Views by Women Artists (1982), and the collaborative shows Reconstruction Project and Connections Project/Conexus. Moore was a principle organizer of the 1984 demonstration against MoMA over their lack of inclusion of women artists and was a member of various groundbreaking collaborative arts groups in the 1970s, including Atlantic Gallery and WAR (Women Artists in Revolution). While Openings is an historical narrative of women artists' actions, organizations, and ideas, it also candidly describes their periods of challenge, including the death of sculptor Ana Mendieta and the indictment of her husband and the author's own attempted murder by her former art teacher. The book is illustrated throughout by a treasure of 950 color and black & white images of the art from this momentous period: a valuable collection that is concurrently being archived by Barnard College along with papers, letters, show cards, posters, original artworks, and other documents. This eye-opening book includes forewords by renowned art critic Lucy Lippard and poet/activist Margaret Randall.Trade Review“Openings puts you right there—at the heart of the passion, brilliance, and creative chaos of the feminist art uprising . . . an intimate and soulful glimpse into a critical epoch." -- Chellis Glendinning * author of My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization *"The writing is so fluid and honest . . . it really hasn't been done before." -- Lucy R. Lippard * Art critic and activist *“This is important reading for aspiring women artists today, and evidence that the received history of the feminist movement . . . is not always the full picture.” -- Artist, Professor of Art, University of Southern California, Roski School * Suzanne Lacy *"[Openings is] crucial to the understanding of women artists in New York . . . it really captures what it must have been like to be an artist in New York in the 70s and 80s." -- Patricia Hills * Art historian and Professor Emerita, Boston University *"Moore's memoir is radical not only because it frames feminist art history as central, but also in its very telling, where monumental events in the art world stand equal to Moore's personal life, her dreams, and her poetic tenderness.” -- Rachel Kauder Nalebuff * playwright, creator of My Little Red Book, and co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project *“Deeply complex and vivid.” -- Moira Roth * Trefethen Professor of Art History, Mills College *

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Book SynopsisA feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall reveals the struggles of women fighting for their rights during the rise of the Right in Europe Visitors tells the story of Ann Snitow’s adventures as a Western feminist helping to build a new, post-communist feminist movement in Eastern Central Europe. Snitow stumbles onto this fast-changing, chaotic scene by chance, but falls in love with the passionate feminists she meets in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. What kinds of feminism should they hope for? Visitors is a book about forging enduring relationships and creating formerly unimaginable institutions—a feminist school, the Network of East-West Women, women’s centers, gender studies programs. It is about unity amid fractiousness and perseverance through uncertainty, Snitow’s flickering lodestar. Visitors moves gracefully between vivid anecdote, political analysis, and unsparing introspection. It is richly peopled with “brilliant” comrades and vexing detractors alike, all described with respect and humor. Every sentence is imbued with the experience and insight of this sui generis feminist activist, writer, and pedagogue of 50 years. Most of all, Visitors is the story of friendship, the heart and sinew of the leaderless feminist movement. Reading like the best historical novel, it is intimate and worldly, resolutely unsentimental yet finally, even as the political skies darken, optimistic in the conviction that feminism can make life meaningful, fascinating, fun, pleasurable—and better for everyone, even as better is redefined again and again.Trade Review"This is an inspired piece of personal journalism that takes us to Eastern Europe where we follow the social and political adventures, over a period of twenty five years, of one of the great feminists of the Second Wave. As Ann Snitow discovers the historic antagonism to women’s rights that marks the region, she also experiences the remarkably courageous women who are spending their lives fighting it. Richly informed, emotionally centered, beautiful written, Visitors is a book to be read by all who crave a deeper understanding of the times in which we live." -- Vivian Gornick"Ann Snitow’s extraordinary gifts for friendship and organizing spill off the pages of this illuminating memoir, which lights up a formerly obscure but important aspect of our history. The lucky reader gets to follow Ann and her new friends as they create a broad, potent network of feminist activists practically from scratch in the ruins of Soviet communism." -- Alix Shulman

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Book SynopsisA feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall reveals the struggles of women fighting for their rights during the rise of the Right in Europe Visitors tells the story of Ann Snitow’s adventures as a Western feminist helping to build a new, post-communist feminist movement in Eastern Central Europe. Snitow stumbles onto this fast-changing, chaotic scene by chance, but falls in love with the passionate feminists she meets in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. What kinds of feminism should they hope for? Visitors is a book about forging enduring relationships and creating formerly unimaginable institutions—a feminist school, the Network of East-West Women, women’s centers, gender studies programs. It is about unity amid fractiousness and perseverance through uncertainty, Snitow’s flickering lodestar. Visitors moves gracefully between vivid anecdote, political analysis, and unsparing introspection. It is richly peopled with “brilliant” comrades and vexing detractors alike, all described with respect and humor. Every sentence is imbued with the experience and insight of this sui generis feminist activist, writer, and pedagogue of 50 years. Most of all, Visitors is the story of friendship, the heart and sinew of the leaderless feminist movement. Reading like the best historical novel, it is intimate and worldly, resolutely unsentimental yet finally, even as the political skies darken, optimistic in the conviction that feminism can make life meaningful, fascinating, fun, pleasurable—and better for everyone, even as better is redefined again and again.Trade Review"This is an inspired piece of personal journalism that takes us to Eastern Europe where we follow the social and political adventures, over a period of twenty five years, of one of the great feminists of the Second Wave. As Ann Snitow discovers the historic antagonism to women’s rights that marks the region, she also experiences the remarkably courageous women who are spending their lives fighting it. Richly informed, emotionally centered, beautiful written, Visitors is a book to be read by all who crave a deeper understanding of the times in which we live." -- Vivian Gornick"Ann Snitow’s extraordinary gifts for friendship and organizing spill off the pages of this illuminating memoir, which lights up a formerly obscure but important aspect of our history. The lucky reader gets to follow Ann and her new friends as they create a broad, potent network of feminist activists practically from scratch in the ruins of Soviet communism." -- Alix Shulman

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Book SynopsisUnited States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey's range of forms and subjects is wide. In compact sonnets, elegant villanelles, ballad stanzas, and free verse, she creates monuments to mixed-race children of colonial Mexico, African American soldiers from the Civil War, a beautiful prostitute in 1910 New Orleans, and domestic workers from the twentieth-century North and South.Because her white father and her black mother could not marry legally in Mississippi, Trethewey says she was ""given"" her subject matter as ""the daughter of miscegenation."" A sense of psychological exile is evident from her first collection, Domestic Work (2000), to the recent Thrall (2012). Biracial people of the Americas are a major focus of her poetry and her prose book Beyond Katrina, a meditation on family, community, and the natural environment of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.The interviews featured within Conversations with Natasha Trethewey provide intriguing artistic and biographical insights into her work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet cites diverse influences, from Anne Frank to Seamus Heaney. She emotionally acknowledges Rita Dove's large impact, and she boldly positions herself in the southern literary tradition of Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. Commenting on ""Pastoral,"" ""South,"" and other poems, Trethewey guides readers to deeper perception and empathy.

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Book SynopsisAt the outbreak of the Civil War, Sarah Kennedy watched as her husband, D.N., left for Mississippi, leaving her alone to care for their six children and control their slaves in a large home in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. D. N. Kennedy left to aid the Confederate Treasury Department. He had steadfastly supported secession and helped recruit local boys for the Confederate army. The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South showcases the letters Sarah wrote to her husband during their time apart, offering readers an inside look at life on the home front during the Civil War through the eyes of a slave-owning, town-dwelling wife and mother.Featuring fifty-two of Sarah Kennedy’s letters to her husband from August 16, 1862, to February 20, 1865, this important collection chronicles Sarah Kennedy’s personal struggles during the Civil War years, from periods of illness to lack of consistent contact with her husband and everything in between. Her love and devotion to her family is apparent in each letter, contrasting deeply with her resentment and harsh treatment toward her enslaved people as Emancipation swept through Clarksville. A useful volume to Civil War historians and women’s history scholars alike, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy pulls back the curtain on upper-middle-class family life and social relations in a mid-sized Middle Tennessee town during the Civil War and reveals the slow demise of slavery during the Union occupation.

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Book SynopsisWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story house in Cleveland, Ohio, to his mother’s three-room house in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. The loss of her piano casts a shadow over Emily’s life in Knoxville, a city she could never love. Throughout the rest of her life, Emily longs to return to Cleveland, where she had an idyllic youth with many boyfriends and girlfriends and was, above all, a good piano student. Her life becomes like that of a nomad, moving from house to house and from job to job.Her great love of life is expressed by dancing in highway honky-tonks, along with her six beautiful girlfriends. After divorcing her lovable, alcoholic husband, Emily falls deeply in love with troubled married men. She doesn’t enjoy whiskey or smoking, but she’s not a churchgoer. She raises three boys in poverty. A fourth son dies soon after birth. Oldest Dickie becomes a life-long petty conman, but little brother John, known as “Sunshine,” becomes a legendary rescuer of wayward boys and girls. Jerry, the middle brother, becomes a merchant seaman, a soldier, and finally a professor and successful writer. Rather than a chronological narrative, Madden employs an impressionistic style that enables readers to experience Emily’s memories as he imagines them. In sharply focused scenes, Madden evokes the colorful expressions of the articulate, witty woman he has spent all his life listening to—and this memoir will inspire readers to listen eagerly, too.

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Book SynopsisIn an era of online streaming, it may be difficult to recognize the importance of a woman who in 1908 established the first silent movie theater in Richmond, Virginia: the Dixie nickelodeon. But Amanda Thorp, an independent, self-made woman, was on the ground floor of a popular culture that would grow to be enormously influential in our modern era. In Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville: The Forgotten Story of Amanda Thorp, Kathi Clark Wong’s extensive archival research uncovers Thorp’s impressive contributions not only to moviegoing and its growth in America, but also perhaps even more surprisingly, Thorp’s support of early Black vaudeville in the Jim Crow South. Movie theater entrepreneurs like Thorp, who got her start at her Wonderland Theater in Bucyrus, Ohio, helped create our culture’s insatiable appetite for film. But it was after she established the Dixie in Richmond, that Thorp—a White woman—also saw a market for providing Black-centric entertainment. She converted the Dixie to all-Black patronage and began to bring in scores of Black vaudeville acts. Later, she built the Hippodrome Theater, in the heart of Richmond’s now-historic Jackson Ward, expressly for Black entertainment. Though she eventually left the field of Black entertainment behind, Thorp developed other movie venues in Richmond that brought in tens of thousands of (White) moviegoers over the years and which were widely admired for their elaborate trappings. Thanks to Wong’s research, contemporary readers can now benefit from the story of Amanda Thorp, a woman who amidst severe gender role constraints not only claimed social capacity on the crest of a rapidly growing industry but also, almost inadvertently, contributed to the success of early Black vaudeville, a subject which thus far has not received the scholarly attention it deserves.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organizers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimize all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential. Chapters in this volume are drawn from a wide range of countries including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Georgia, Haiti, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Tanzania and The United States all addressing issues of educational inequity, economic constraint, class bias and the links between education, poverty and social status.The individual chapters provide examples of theory, research, and practice that collectively present a lively, informative, cross-perspective, international conversation highlighting the significant gross economic and social injustices that abound in a wide variety of educational contexts around the world while spotlighting important, inspirational, and innovative remedies. Taken together, the chapter’s advance our understanding of best practices in the education of economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized populations while collectively rejecting institutional policies and traditional practices that reinforce the roots of economic and social discrimination.Chapter authors, utilize a range of methodologies including empirical research, historical reviews, case studies and personal reflections to demonstrate that poverty and class status are socio-political conditions, rather than individual identities. In addition, that education is an absolute human right and a powerful mechanism to promote individual, national, and international upward social and economic mobility, national stability and citizen wellbeing.

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Book SynopsisInternational Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organizers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimize all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential. Chapters in this volume are drawn from a wide range of countries including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Georgia, Haiti, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Tanzania and The United States all addressing issues of educational inequity, economic constraint, class bias and the links between education, poverty and social status.The individual chapters provide examples of theory, research, and practice that collectively present a lively, informative, cross-perspective, international conversation highlighting the significant gross economic and social injustices that abound in a wide variety of educational contexts around the world while spotlighting important, inspirational, and innovative remedies. Taken together, the chapter’s advance our understanding of best practices in the education of economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized populations while collectively rejecting institutional policies and traditional practices that reinforce the roots of economic and social discrimination.Chapter authors, utilize a range of methodologies including empirical research, historical reviews, case studies and personal reflections to demonstrate that poverty and class status are socio-political conditions, rather than individual identities. In addition, that education is an absolute human right and a powerful mechanism to promote individual, national, and international upward social and economic mobility, national stability and citizen wellbeing.

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Book SynopsisAuthor, advocacy journalist, disability rights activist, feminist, and founder of Mouth magazine, Lucy Gwin (1943—2014) made her mark by helping those in "handicaptivity" find their voice. Gwin produced over one hundred issues of the magazine—one of the most radical and significant disability rights publications—and masterminded its acerbic, sometimes funny, and often moving articles about people from throughout the disability community.In this engrossing biography, James M. Odato provides an intimate portrait of Gwin, detailing how she forged her own path into activism. After an automobile accident left her with a brain injury, Gwin became a tireless advocate for the equal rights of people she termed "dislabled." More than just a publisher, she fought against corruption in the rehabilitation industry, organized for the group Not Dead Yet, and much more. With Gwin's story at the center, Odato introduces readers to other key disability rights activists and organizations, and supplies context on current contentious topics such as physician-assisted suicide. Gwin's impact on disability rights was monumental, and it is time her story is widely known.

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing of the slaves in their churches, as they rowed their boats from island to island, and as they worked and played. Already a skilled musician, she determined to preserve as much of the music as she could, quickly writing down words and melodies, some of them only fleeting improvisations. Upon her return to Philadelphia, she began composing musical settings for the songs and in the fall of 1862 published the first serious musical arrangements of slave songs. She also wrote about the musical characteristics of slave songs, and published, in a leading musical journal of the time, the first article to discuss what she had witnessed.In Songs of Sorrow renowned music scholar Samuel Charters tells McKim's personal story. Letters reveal the story of young women's lives during the harsh years of the war. At the same time that her arrangements of the songs were being published, a man with whom she had an unofficial ""attachment"" was killed in battle, and the war forced her to temporarily abandon her work.In 1865 she married Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and in the early months of their marriage she proposed that they turn to the collection of slave songs that had long been her dream. She and her husband--a founder and literary editor of the recently launched journal The Nation--enlisted the help of two associates who had also collected songs in the Sea Islands. Their book, Slave Songs of the United States, appeared in 1867. After a long illness, ultimately ending in paralysis, she died at the age of thirty-four in 1877. This book reclaims the story of a pioneer in ethnomusicology, one whose influential work affected the Fisk Jubilee Singers and many others.

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Book SynopsisThis first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence - including emails - and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography.The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving ""more life"" at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.Trade ReviewRollyson and Paddock's determined research, especially the interviews they conducted...make this book a valuable resource." - The Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisEschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women’s history. Also challenging the contemporary “lean-in,” trickle-down feminist philosophy and asserting that women’s histories all too often depoliticize politics, labor issues, and divergent economic circumstances, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry demonstrate that the post-Suffrage women’s movement focused on exploitation of women in the workplace as well as on inherent sexual rights. The authors carefully revise our “wave” vision of feminism, which previously suggested that there were clear breaks and sharp divisions within these media-driven “waves.” Showing how history books have obscured the notable activism by working-class and minority women in the past, Feminism Unfinished provides a much-needed corrective.Trade Review"The authors…pose a rich, radical history of women's struggles… This is a necessary book." -- Sarah Leonard - The Nation"A quick, compelling and astute history of the women's movement from the 1920s to today and the first major history of women's political, social and economic progress in the United States in a generation." -- Scott Porch - Chicago Tribune"Edgy and important, Feminism Unfinished gives us one hundred years of feminist activism across all divides of class, race, and difference. It is a powerful corrective to hearten us in these mean times: The Global Feminist Movement Is Unfinished, and Everywhere Ongoing." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt"Forcefully disrupting misguided clichés, this pointed narrative highlights the transformative ideas and innovations driven by many generations of American women struggling for equal justice and aiming to be individuals and full citizens. Here, the full and continuous range of feminist efforts springs to life, tumultuous and internally varied as it was." -- Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University

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Book SynopsisThis captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of ContentsCover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on the TextAbbreviationsPreludeChapter 1. Daughter of MethodismChapter 2. Mother and AuthorChapter 3. Children’s Book Writer and FriendChapter 4. Governess and NetworkerChapter 5. Colonist and SlaveholderChapter 6. School Owner and MournerChapter 7. North American GrandmotherCodaNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisVictorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest—and most enduring—influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers’ community. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Genealogies Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Family Portraits Foreword Dr. David Cole Preface Acknowledgments Note to the Reader 1 France, 1792–1795 2 America’s Turn 3 Wilmington, Delaware 4 Emergence 5 Post-Rivardi Years 6 Ferdinand 7 Mourning on the Brandywine 8 Departures and Arrivals 9 Life and Spirit on the Brandywine 10 The Brandywine Manufacturer’s Sunday School 11 A New Superintendent 12 Second Mother 13 A Growing Family, a Thriving Community 14 National Recognition 15 Legacies and Conflicts 16 Loss and Restoration 17 A Time to Build 18 Bells 19 Feeling an Interest 20 Nearing Home 21 Pathway’s End 22 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOut of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Subversive Stories: Literary Contexts and Categories 2. Fact versus Fiction: Parisian Prostitutes Meet Libertine Fantasies 3. La Belle Allemande, or The Empire of Beauty 4. Margot la ravaudeuse, or The Libertine Public Sphere 5. La Cauchoise, or Dear and Venerable Sisters 6. Histoire de Juliette, or The Rejection of Motherhood Appendix: Contexts and Summaries of the Putain Memoir Novels Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisOut of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Subversive Stories: Literary Contexts and Categories 2. Fact versus Fiction: Parisian Prostitutes Meet Libertine Fantasies 3. La Belle Allemande, or The Empire of Beauty 4. Margot la ravaudeuse, or The Libertine Public Sphere 5. La Cauchoise, or Dear and Venerable Sisters 6. Histoire de Juliette, or The Rejection of Motherhood Appendix: Contexts and Summaries of the Putain Memoir Novels Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisThe Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptaméron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The Heptaméron’s approach to reform emerges from statistical analysis of the text’s seventy-two tales, which reveals new insights into trends within the work, including the different categories of wrongdoing by male, institutional representatives from the Church and aristocracy, as well as the varying responses to injustice that characters in the tales employ as they pursue reform. Throughout its chapters, The Visionary Queen foregrounds the trope of the labyrinth, a potent symbol in early modern Europe that encapsulated both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Marguerite de Navarre: The Visionary Queen Part I: Labyrinthine Motifs in Marguerite’s Era, Endeavors, and Spiritual Outlook 1. The Labyrinth as Structure and Symbol: From Experience to Writing in the Medieval and Early Modern Contexts 2. From the Labyrinth, a Vision: Competing Influences on Marguerite’s Religious, Political, and Creative Endeavors 3. “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”: Exegesis, Pilgrimage, and Labyrinthine Connections in the Reformation Part II: The Heptaméron as Textual Labyrinth 4. Into the Labyrinth: Mirroring Sin, Prompting Reform 5. Down Tortuous Paths: Exploring Approaches to Justice and Reform 6. Above the Labyrinth: A Higher Vision for Reforming the Self and Society Conclusion. The Empirical Reader at Labyrinth’s End: Responding to Marguerite’s Vision Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHistorically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and cultural norms. Labor trends suggest that students of color are likely to sit in front of many more white women teachers than males or non?white teachers, thus making it imperative to better understand the nature of white women’s work in culturally diverse settings and the factors that most profoundly impact their effectiveness. This book examines how white women teacher dispositions (i.e. knowledge, beliefs, and skills) intersect (and/or interact) with their racial identity development, the concept of whiteness, institutional racism, and cultural perspectives of racial difference. All of which, as the authors in this volume argue, matter for nurturing a teaching practice that leads to more equitable schooling outcomes for youth of color.While it is imperative that the field of education recruits and retains more nonwhite teachers, it is equally important to identify research?supported professional development resources for a white woman?dominated profession. To that end, the book’s contributors present critical insight for creating cultural contexts for learning conducive to effective cross?cultural and cross?racial teaching. Chapters in the first section explore white women’s role in establishing and maintaining school environments that cater to Eurocentric sensibilities and white racial preferences for learning and social interaction. Authors in the second section discern the implications of white images, whiteness, and white racial identity formation for preparing and professionally developing white women teachers to be effective educators. Chapters in the third section of the book emphasize the centrality of race in negotiating academic interactions that demonstrate culturally responsive teaching. Each chapter in this book is written to investigate the intersectionality of race, cultural responsive pedagogies, and teaching identities as it relate to teaching in multiethnic environments. In addition, the book offers solution?oriented practices to equip white women (and any other reader) to respond appropriately and adequately to the needs of racially diverse students in American schools.

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Book SynopsisCelebrating the centenary of women legislators’ membership in the Arkansas General Assembly, Stateswomen shines a light on the women who have served as some of the state’s central decision makers. Drawing on documentary research and oral histories, Lindsley Armstrong Smith and Stephen A. Smith present lively, concise biographies for the nearly 150 women legislators who have served in the general assembly to date, chronicling their personal histories, volunteer work and social activism, and legislative victories. In a probing introduction, the authors examine the neglected role of women in Arkansas political history alongside the “long history of resistance to full citizenship rights for women in Arkansas”—demonstrating that political representation is essential for improving opportunities in the wider society. The first comprehensive study dedicated to these trailblazing Arkansas legislators, Stateswomen will surely inspire history buffs, community-minded citizens, and political hopefuls alike.

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Book SynopsisIntelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Samara A. Cahill has produced a comprehensive study of one of the central tropes in the evolution of feminist orientalism, from the turbulent 1690's to the revolutionary 1790's, with detailed analyses drawing on a variety of discourses, both competing and complementary, from an impressive array of genres and texts." -- Martine W. Brownley * Emory University *"In Intelligent Souls, Cahill shows how an especially disturbing aspect of anti-Islamic thought—the false notion that Muslims believe women do not have souls—found purchase not only in eighteenth-century Christian theology, but also in British feminism. Troubling and important, this study is crucial reading for all who wish to understand how racism and religious bigotry informed early assertions of (European, Christian) women’s rights, and thus how the work of assembling more intersectional, inclusive feminisms can proceed". -- Laura M. Stevens * The University of Tulsa *"Theologically rich." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Intelligent Souls? contributes many new avenues for scholarly exploration...Cahill challenges us to understand how Islamophobia entered the proto-feminist rhetoric of the eighteenth century and, further, how it has remained a staple in Western feminism, all without excusing its presence in either period. She handles the most misogynistic of texts without endorsing them. She highlights factually inaccurate information that circulated in eighteenth-century writing, particularly regarding the Islamic faith, and arms her readers with sound analysis that corrects misconceptions about Quranic teachings without giving into the convenience of presentism. Cahill’s interventions in Intelligent Souls? are as much literary as they are historical, theological, and political, and she effortlessly passes between disciplines to produce rich and rewarding scholarship." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Intelligent Souls? is well written and argued and presents vignettes from hundreds of treatises and novels. Where too many plot synopses can be considered a fault in a work of literary criticism, Cahill shows how this can be done in an interesting way. At the same time, she gives readers access to obscure texts they would not otherwise read but should read if they want to understand the role of Islam in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English intellectuals’ engagement in polemics around women’s rights as human rights." * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Samara A. Cahill has produced a comprehensive study of one of the central tropes in the evolution of feminist orientalism, from the turbulent 1690's to the revolutionary 1790's, with detailed analyses drawing on a variety of discourses, both competing and complementary, from an impressive array of genres and texts." -- Martine W. Brownley * Emory University *"In Intelligent Souls, Cahill shows how an especially disturbing aspect of anti-Islamic thought—the false notion that Muslims believe women do not have souls—found purchase not only in eighteenth-century Christian theology, but also in British feminism. Troubling and important, this study is crucial reading for all who wish to understand how racism and religious bigotry informed early assertions of (European, Christian) women’s rights, and thus how the work of assembling more intersectional, inclusive feminisms can proceed". -- Laura M. Stevens * The University of Tulsa *"Theologically rich." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Intelligent Souls? contributes many new avenues for scholarly exploration...Cahill challenges us to understand how Islamophobia entered the proto-feminist rhetoric of the eighteenth century and, further, how it has remained a staple in Western feminism, all without excusing its presence in either period. She handles the most misogynistic of texts without endorsing them. She highlights factually inaccurate information that circulated in eighteenth-century writing, particularly regarding the Islamic faith, and arms her readers with sound analysis that corrects misconceptions about Quranic teachings without giving into the convenience of presentism. Cahill’s interventions in Intelligent Souls? are as much literary as they are historical, theological, and political, and she effortlessly passes between disciplines to produce rich and rewarding scholarship." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Intelligent Souls? is well written and argued and presents vignettes from hundreds of treatises and novels. Where too many plot synopses can be considered a fault in a work of literary criticism, Cahill shows how this can be done in an interesting way. At the same time, she gives readers access to obscure texts they would not otherwise read but should read if they want to understand the role of Islam in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English intellectuals’ engagement in polemics around women’s rights as human rights." * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Intelligent Souls is essential reading for anyone interested in learning how intelligence, civic personhood, and patriarchal norms were reconstituted through a bigoted fallacy about Islam… In dismantling this Eurocentric narrative, Cahill has laid the groundwork for an intersectional, anti-racist feminism in our time.” -- Humberto Garcia * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Foreign Intelligence … 1Part I: Islam and the Trinitarian Controversy Chapter 1: The Negative Ideal … 23Part II: Feminist Orientalism Chapter 2: Minding the Gap … 81 Chapter 3: The Canal of Pleasure … 146 Chapter 4: A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject … 227 Chapter 5: The “Mahometan Strain” … 262 Epilogue: Save Our Souls? … 308 Bibliography … 315

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Book SynopsisHow do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable.Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient. In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.Trade ReviewA Sentimental Education is a generous work of unfolding. From Pamela to podcasts, scholar Hannah McGregor troubles the white woman sentimentalism that informed her childhood and later transformed her approach to scholarship. A queer, shapeshifting bunny emerges from a well-loved bedtime book. A fat girl podcast episode you loved once, doesn’t really see you after all. Intimate, vulnerable, pointy and kind, this is where personal memories and embodied experiences exist in relation with the ideas and arguments of queer, BIPOC, and feminist theory. This book is a journey, a reminder that “stories don’t interpret themselves, they unfold in relation to the reader”.— Chantal Gibson, author of with/holding In a pointedly powerful yet lyrical voice, McGregor offers us a timely and valuable series of insights that will resonate for many. McGregor demonstrates an acute ability to evaluate and comment on her own reflexivity as a white feminist scholar. A Sentimental Education is a love letter for those who have long awaited a discussion on the complex relationship between care, theory, love, and loss.— Minelle Mahtani, author of Mixed Race Amnesia In A Sentimental Education Hannah McGregor extends generosity on each page. The essays in this collection are deeply insightful, citational, and conversational. They are unwavering in their critique of the myriad boundaries that oppress us, and they offer ideas for collective resistance. A Sentimental Education made me laugh, cry, and reach for my pen to write everything down. This book is necessary, luminous, and crackling with joy and kindness. What is the collective noun for a group of essays that teaches, gives care, critiques repressive systems, and offers both humor and friendship? A companionship of essays? A feminist provocation of essays? An education of essays. – Erin Wunker, author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy McGregor, host of the podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, delivers a stirring collection of essays exploring sentimentality and the use of emotion in reading and storytelling. ... With verve and insight, McGregor underscores the contradictions of contemporary narratives that seek out the harrowing details of societal marginalization while offering no solutions to its problems. ... McGregor draws on the works of feminist thinkers including Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Jia Tolentino, and her work will surely take its place among them. This radiates with intelligence. "[A Sentimental Education] is a rich and extended meditation on what a feminist education looks like, and on the complex issues of sentimentality and care in literature and in life." — Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun "Given her success as a podcaster, it’s not surprising that McGregor’s writing is powerfully conversational — not in the sense of being informal or casual, but instead in the sense that it engages very thoughtfully and thoroughly with other people’s words and ideas. McGregor is a highly collaborative thinker, and A Sentimental Education benefits from both her curiosity and her generosity." – Vanessa Warne, The Winnipeg Free Press “Words with Friends and “Getting to Know You” provide a fascinating insider’s perspective on podcasting. Along with her friend Marcelle Kosman, McGregor prepared her first podcast in 2015, an experience which drew her into the “pleasures and risks of digital life-writing.” Although these two essays are replete with the rhetorical questions we have come to expect from this author, they also exude a quiet confidence and a joy in recounting the delights, challenges and learning experiences of creating several successful podcast series." – Suzanne James, The British Columbia ReviewTable of Contents Preface Territory Acknowledgement A Sentimental Education Caring Ferociously #Relatable Words with Friends Horizons of the Podcastable Coming Back to Care Works Cited

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Book SynopsisWhy have so many remarkable men fought for women's rights, often risking their careers and ruining their health? Who were these men, what were their backgrounds, above all: what kind of relationships did they have with women? Finally, if there have been so many deviations from the male-oppressor/female-victim cliche, doesn't this stereotype need to be relativized or indeed rejected? Feminism's Founding Fathers is the first book to tell the untold story of the "traitors" to the men's cause - the pioneers and fellow-travellers of female emancipation. It challenges accepted wisdom and reveals the vital role that men have played in making Women's Lib happen.

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. The intellectual origins of the area are explicated, and the current state of the subfield outlined. Specific topics covered include conflict over terminology, pedagogy, and content in the field of economics, measurement of the unmeasured economy, the role of caring labor in the economy, heteronormativity in economics, feminist approaches to economic development, multiple approaches to empiricism, modeling of intrahousehold relationships, consideration of the role of property rights in reifying gender roles, differential effects of international trade and finance by gender, and feminist approaches to public finance and social welfare.Trade Review‘This is a very refreshing supplement to most economics textbooks we deploy in our classrooms. The book provides a concise overview of ideas that have critiqued Homo economicus at an epistemological, theoretical, analytical, computational, ethical, and policy level for more than 100 years. Homo economicus rises from the pages as a sentient being who can love, give birth, care for others. She or he can interact instead of just transact, recognize that markets fail, and sacrifice for the collective good. I will certainly be featuring her in my own syllabi!’ -- Shareen Joshi, Journal of Economic Literature‘This book is a treasure trove for those embarking on “doing” feminist economics.’ -- Rajshree Bedamatta,LSE Review of Books'With this interesting and highly relevant book, Joyce Jacobsen has provided a masterful account of the issues, debates, and ideas that feminist economists have written about for decades. Jacobsen has both the research record and the career trajectory to write as a leading expert on the intersections between economics and feminism. This is no ordinary textbook; rather it is an informed and carefully-crafted digest that fills a gaping hole in the literature and will enlighten students and educators alike.' --Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. What is feminist economics? 2. Measuring the unmeasured economy 3. Intrahousehold allocation, bargaining, and relationships 4. Family structure and social policy 5. Rejecting normativity 6. Feminist labor economics 7. Caring 8. Feminist approaches to development 9. Feminist environmental and ecological economics 10. Gendered consumption and investment patterns 11. Feminist macroeconomics and economic growth 12. Feminist international trade and finance 13. Who gets what? 14. Feminist public finance and regulation 15. Feminist activism, reactivism, and social change 16. Feminist economists and the economics profession Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. The intellectual origins of the area are explicated, and the current state of the subfield outlined. Specific topics covered include conflict over terminology, pedagogy, and content in the field of economics, measurement of the unmeasured economy, the role of caring labor in the economy, heteronormativity in economics, feminist approaches to economic development, multiple approaches to empiricism, modeling of intrahousehold relationships, consideration of the role of property rights in reifying gender roles, differential effects of international trade and finance by gender, and feminist approaches to public finance and social welfare.Trade Review‘This is a very refreshing supplement to most economics textbooks we deploy in our classrooms. The book provides a concise overview of ideas that have critiqued Homo economicus at an epistemological, theoretical, analytical, computational, ethical, and policy level for more than 100 years. Homo economicus rises from the pages as a sentient being who can love, give birth, care for others. She or he can interact instead of just transact, recognize that markets fail, and sacrifice for the collective good. I will certainly be featuring her in my own syllabi!’ -- Shareen Joshi, Journal of Economic Literature‘This book is a treasure trove for those embarking on “doing” feminist economics.’ -- Rajshree Bedamatta,LSE Review of Books'With this interesting and highly relevant book, Joyce Jacobsen has provided a masterful account of the issues, debates, and ideas that feminist economists have written about for decades. Jacobsen has both the research record and the career trajectory to write as a leading expert on the intersections between economics and feminism. This is no ordinary textbook; rather it is an informed and carefully-crafted digest that fills a gaping hole in the literature and will enlighten students and educators alike.' --Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. What is feminist economics? 2. Measuring the unmeasured economy 3. Intrahousehold allocation, bargaining, and relationships 4. Family structure and social policy 5. Rejecting normativity 6. Feminist labor economics 7. Caring 8. Feminist approaches to development 9. Feminist environmental and ecological economics 10. Gendered consumption and investment patterns 11. Feminist macroeconomics and economic growth 12. Feminist international trade and finance 13. Who gets what? 14. Feminist public finance and regulation 15. Feminist activism, reactivism, and social change 16. Feminist economists and the economics profession Index

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Book SynopsisAn anthology with contributions from nineteen writers, The Goddess in America is a book that identifies the enduring experience of Goddess Spirituality through a four-part discussion focused on the Native Goddess, the Migrant Goddess, the Goddess in relation to other aspects of American culture (Feminism, Christianity, Witchcraft etc.) and the Goddess in contemporary America.

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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories.Featuring contributions from a diverse team of prominent scholars, this Research Handbook illuminates the ways in which feminist scholarship has enriched understandings of law's sometimes subordinating structures and the ways in which law can be interpreted or changed so as to promote the equality, liberty, wellbeing, and interests of women. The expert contributors offer a vast range of feminist perspectives on law, including liberal, radical, and post-modern feminism, and explore the implications of these theoretical stances for understandings of the nature of law, legal change, and the relationship between law and politics. Chapters analyse the influence of feminist legal theories on doctrinal areas of law including US constitutional and civil rights law, international law, and various areas of private law.This insightful book will be of interest to law students, legal scholars, and scholars of political and moral philosophy seeking to understand the entire body of feminist legal scholarship from the early 1970s to the present, as well as its variants, and relationships among different theoretical perspectives.Contributors include: S.F. Appleton, K.K. Baker, I. Caglar, M. Chamallas, C.-j. Chen, M.A. Fineman, M.A. Franks, C. Grant Bowman, B.A. Gur, N.D. Hunter, L.C. Ikemoto, O. Kamir, H. Keren, S.A. Law, N. Menon, N. Naffine, J.A. Nice, V.F. Nourse, N. Rimalt, D.E. Roberts, L.A. Rosenbury, J.C. Suk, D. Tuerkheimer, R. West, A.K. Wing, K.A. YurackoTrade Review‘The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence is a compelling, thought-provoking addition to academic library collections.’ -- Caitlin Hunter, International Journal of Legal Information‘The overview of feminist engagement with different areas of the law is impressive, and importantly demonstrates that even areas of law, which are written as “gender-neutral” norms, can benefit substantially from a feminist approach. Any law library would benefit from adding this Research Handbook to their catalogue.’ -- Metka Potocnik, Wolverhampton Law Journal'This Research Handbook provides a diverse array of critical, descriptive, and normative perspectives on feminist jurisprudence, with rich historical accounts of legal advances and backlashes. Centered primarily on US feminism, the volume also includes interesting chapters with a foreign or international focus. It should prove a highly valuable resource for feminist scholars and advocates in many parts of the world.' --Vicki C. Jackson, Harvard Law School, US'This landmark collection, edited by two leading feminist legal scholars, will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how feminist theory has laid the legal foundations for greater gender equity in the United States and throughout the globe.' --Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to the Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence Robin West PART I FEMINISM AND LEGAL THEORY: VARIETIES OF FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY 1. In Defense of Liberal Feminism Sylvia A. Law 2. Catharine A. MacKinnon and Equality Theory Chao-ju Chen 3. Relational Feminism and Law Robin West 4. The Limits of Equality: Vulnerability and Inevitable Inequality Martha Albertson Fineman 5. Socialist Feminist Legal Theory: A Plea Cynthia Grant Bowman 6. Critical Race Feminism Dorothy E. Roberts 7. Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory Laura A. Rosenbury 8. Feminism, Sexuality and the Law Nan D. Hunter PART II: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND CRIMINAL LAW 9. Sexual Agency and the Unfinished Work of Rape Law Reform Deborah Tuerkheimer 10. Sexual Violence and the Law in India Nivedita Menon 11. Violence Against Women and Liberal Sexism Victoria Nourse 12. ‘Some Gentle Violence’: Marital Rape Immunity as Contradiction in Criminal Law Ngaire Naffine PART III: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 13. Reproductive Rights and Justice: A Multiple Feminist Theories Account Lisa C. Ikemoto 14. Against Roe Exceptionalism: Degendering Abortion Noya Rimalt PART IV: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY, SEX DISCRIMINATION AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT 15. Sexual Harassment Law: An Evolution in Theory, Scope and Impact Kimberly A. Yuracko 16. A Dignitarian Feminist Jurisprudence with Applications to Rape, Sexual Harassment and Honor Codes Orit Kamir 17. Sex Equality, Gender Injury, Title IX and Women’s Education Katharine K. Baker PART V: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 18. The Gendered Jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment Julie A. Nice 19. Beyond ‘Free Speech for the White Man’: Feminism and the First Amendment Mary Anne Franks PART VI: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND PRIVATE LAW 20. Feminist Legal Theory and Tort Law Martha Chamallas 21. Feminism and Contract Law Hila Keren 22. How Feminism Remade American Family Law (and How It Did Not) Susan Frelich Appleton 23. Feminism and Family Leave Julie C. Suk PART VII: FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 24. International Law and Feminism Adrien K. Wing 25. The State’s Due Diligence Obligation Irem Caglar and Berna Akcali Gur Index

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Book SynopsisThe texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women's movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of `heterotopias' in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands, France and Sweden. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. Each chapter of this book thus assesses the impact of travelling views of feminism, by considering connections made between women artists (often when travelling abroad) or their knowledge of art practices from abroad. Distinct and highly varied attitudes towards political activism (from strong engagement to a clearly pronounced distance and even hostility) are shown in each essay and, what is more, they are shown as based on radically different premises about feminism, politics and art.Trade Review'One can only hope that this book will give rise to new publications on the same subject, which take Europe into account as a space for exchange and thought, as well as other, more peripheral, geographical areas.' (Translated from French) Phoebe Clarke, Critique d’art'All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s is an ambitious and invaluable contribution to the fields of art history and gender studies that acknowledges the diverse practices of women artists and enriches our understanding of this transformative period in the history of art and feminism.'Ksenia Nouril, Women’s Art JournalReviews'The volume is characterized by its wealth of information [...] It is a knowledgeable and multifaceted contribution to the history of the women-specific and feminist art movement of the 1970s in a comparative and global perspective, and continues into the following decades.' (Translated from German.) Edith Futscher, FrauenKunstWissenschaft Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Katy Deepwell and Agata Jakubowska1 Women Artists' Collectives in France: A Multiplicity of Positionsin a Turbulent Context 19Fabienne Dumont2 Making Space for Feminism. All-Women Art Exhibitions inSweden in the 1970s 47Annika OEhrner3 Feminist Collaborative Projects in the UK in the 1970s 71Katy Deepwell4 `For Us, Art is Work': In♀Akt - International ActionCommunity of Women Artists 96Elke Krasny5 The VBKOE's Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation, or HowCan You Sing Out of Tune? 119Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger6 The International Exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX paCharlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Idea of Feminist Art Space 144Monika Kaiser7 Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Art Practice: The Schulefur kreativen Feminismus and the Stichting Vrouwen in deBeeldende Kunst 167Kathleen Wentrack8 Women's Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies 189Katia Almerini9 Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts:Why Was This Not a Feminist Exhibition? 209Marcia Oliveira10 No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland atthe Turn of the 1980s 229Agata Jakubowska11 `And - I have not taken him'. The Erfurt Women Artists' Group 248Susanne AltmannNotes on Contributors 269Index 273

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Book SynopsisThere’s never been a better time to be a woman. Thanks to those feminists who fought for liberation, young women today have freedom and opportunities their grandmothers could barely have imagined. Girls do better at school than boys and are more likely to go to university. As a result, women are taking more of the top jobs and the gender pay gap has all but disappeared. Yet rather than encouraging women to seize the new possibilities open to them, contemporary feminism tells them they are still oppressed. Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars challenges this stance, unpicking the statistics from the horror stories to explore the reality of women’s lives. It argues that today’s feminism is obsessed with trivial issues – skinny models, badly phrased jokes and misplaced compliments – and focuses on the regulation of male behaviour, rather than female empowerment, pitching men and women against each other in a never-ending gender war that benefits no-one. Feminism today does women no favours and it’s time we were all liberated from the gender wars.Trade Review"refreshing and engaging" - Times Literary Supplement"A thoughtful critique of modern feminism." - The Quarterly Review"For those of us who've been involved in fighting for women's liberation for years, it has been tragic to watch contemporary feminism become the enemy of freedom. Do not despair. Joanna Williams's wonderful book not only uses erudition, philosophy and polemics to explain how on earth this betrayal has happened but more importantly it is a bravura clarion call urging women to throw off the shackles of hapless victimhood and instead take control of their destiny. I loved every word." - Claire Fox, Director, Institute of Ideas"Women vs Feminism is a superb exposé of today's victim feminism. It tells the story of how a once valiant movement for equality and freedom devolved into a male-bashing grievance-fest. This meticulously researched book will drive the gender activists crazy--and delight those who care about truth, rules of evidence, and genuine liberation." - Christina Hoff Sommers, Author of Who Stole Feminism?The author critiques feminism, views it as demonizing men and degrading women by treating them as victims, and raises questions about the direction and purpose of feminism today. She argues that girls are doing better at school than boys, they are entering higher education in greater numbers than men, they are getting degrees in more subjects, and they have better employment prospects, while the gender pay gap has narrowed. She explores the impact of feminism on education; the experiences of women at work and problems with viewing the workplace through gender; the gender pay gap, its politicization, and problems with it; and why women are more likely to choose part-time work. She discusses the difference between women’s progress at school and work and the perception of their lives, particularly how the view of women as victims creates a focus on women as oppressed, arguing that this claim has little meaning today. She considers men’s and women’s private relationships and how feminism moved from celebrating sexual liberation to seeking to regulate sex and relationships by focusing on sexual harassment, pornography, and rape culture, removing women’s sexual agency; the consequences of problematizing and policing heterosexuality and masculinity; and the changing nature of campaigns for women’s rights from the 19th century through second-wave feminism in the 1970s, subsequent ideas about intersectionality and identity politics, and the consequences of the move toward identity politics for feminism and what it means to be a woman. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsPart One: Women’s Lives Today Chapter 1, Schooling for Success Chapter 2, Women at Work Chapter 3, The Gender Pay Gap Chapter 4, The Motherhood Penalty Part Two: Private Relationships, Public Concerns Chapter 5, Victors or Victims? Chapter 6, Sex and Relationships Chapter 7, The Trouble With Boys Part Three: Feminism Then and Now Chapter 8, Not Your Grandmother’s Feminism Chapter 9, The Personal is Political Chapter 10, Being a Woman Conclusions, Do We Still Need Feminism?

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Book SynopsisCompiling state-of-the-art research from 58 leading international scholars, this dynamic Handbook explores the evolution of feminist analytical and organising principles and their introduction into governance institutions in national, regional and global settings.Beginning with an introduction to key theoretical concepts and an international timeline of feminist governance, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist organisational principles and practice. Chapters cover a variety of timely issues, from quotas, gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming to institutional design, international norm transmission and the emergence of feminist foreign policy. Regional innovations in feminist governance across the EU, Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific are further examined. The Handbook ultimately reflects and builds upon the body of feminist scholarship that has long been part of the development of feminist governance, as well as highlighting potential avenues for future research.This wide-ranging Handbook will be an essential reference text for students and scholars of gender studies, politics and international relations. Its analysis of what has been achieved by feminist governance across diverse institutional contexts will also assist the work of feminist activists and gender equality practitioners both inside and outside government.Trade Review‘This novel Handbook brings together many of the leading feminist scholars working on governance at the national, regional and international levels. It ranges widely over the central theoretical and methodological approaches including intersectionality and feminist institutionalism, as well as empirically exploring key feminist issues in many major governance institutions.’ -- Georgina Waylen, University of Manchester, UK‘This Handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars to explore the origins, varieties, and impact of institutionalizing feminist values and governance into regional, national, and international policy-making bodies. Sawer, Banaszak, True, and Kantola have crafted a comprehensive survey, focused on the period from the 1970s forward, that covers a range of both geographic and issue areas. The volume also offers lessons in best practices in applying a feminist lens to governance and policy, making it a resource for practitioners as well as researchers and educators.’ -- Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Feminist Governance 1 Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola Timeline of feminist governance 14 Renee O’Shanassy PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 Feminist organisational principles 25 Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Fernando Tormos-Aponte and S. Laurel Weldon 3 Understanding feminist governance through feminist institutionalism: an overview 38 Lisa Guido, Lindsay Walsh and Lee Ann Banaszak 4 Feminist governance and the state 51 Johanna Kantola 5 Do feminist insiders matter? Progress in conceptualization and comparative theory-building 63 Amy G. Mazur and Dorothy E. McBride 6 Feminist perspectives on multilevel governance 76 Meryl Kenny and Tània Verge 7 Seeking intersectionality in feminist governance 88 Erica Townsend-Bell 8 Studying feminist governance: methods and approaches to the field 100 Shan-Jan Sarah Liu PART II EVOLVING INSTITUTIONS 9 Weaving a feminist power tapestry: feminist governance in practice 113 Caroline Lambert, Jessica Horn, Srilatha Batliwala, Michelle Deshong, Tanja Kovac and Naomi Woyengu 10 National women’s machineries: Trojan horses or hostages? 126 Anne Marie Goetz 11 Gender-responsive budgeting 138 Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp 12 Specialised parliamentary bodies 150 Marian Sawer 13 Promoting gender equality in elected office 161 Mona Lena Krook and Pippa Norris 14 Gender-sensitive parliaments: feminising formal political institutions 174 Sarah Childs and Sonia Palmieri 15 Tools of the trade: feminist governance in the field 189 Sonia Palmieri and Julie Ballington PART III INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 16 The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy 203 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True 17 Feminist governance in global health 216 Sara E. Davies and Clare Wenham 18 Feminist peacebuilding governance 227 Maria Martin de Almagro 19 Feminist peace and security governance and the UN Security Council 238 Victoria Scheyer and Marina Kumskova 20 Feminist interventions in trade governance 250 Erin Hannah, Adrienne Roberts and Silke Trommer 21 Feminist governance and climate change 262 Maria Tanyag 22 Transnational feminism and global governance 274 Valentine M. Moghadam 23 UN Women: a case of feminist global governance? 286 Andrea Den Boer and Kirsten Haack PART IV THE EUROPEAN UNION AND FEMINIST GOVERNANCE 24 The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: a contradictory forerunner 299 Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo 25 EU gender equality policy and the progressive dismantling of feminist governance 311 Sophie Jacquot 26 Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender equality policy 323 Anna Elomäki 27 Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors 335 Petra Ahrens 28 Intersectional feminist activism in Europe: invisibility, inclusivity and affirmation 347 Serena D’Agostino 29 Feminist governance in the field of violence against women: the case of the Istanbul Convention 359 Andrea Krizsán and Conny Roggeband PART V OTHER REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEMINIST GOVERNANCE 30 Building gender norms into regional governance and the limits of institutionalising feminism 371 Toni Haastrup 31 Feminist institutions and implications for gender equality in East Asia 384 Jiso Yoon 32 Feminist governance in Asia: areas of contestation and cooperation 396 Rashila Ramli and Sharifah Syahirah 33 Latin American perspectives on feminist governance: between mainstreaming and sidestreaming challenges 408 Gisela Zaremberg 34 Feminist governance in North America: manifestations, manipulations and mirages 421 Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Tammy Findlay 35 Feminist regional governance in the Pacific Islands 434 Kerryn Baker and Renee O’Shanassy Index 446

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies focuses on the interlinkages between feminist theories, methodologies and research methods. This groundbreaking Handbook analyses classic feminist theoretical texts and their methodological implications as well as topical approaches to management and organization studies, including postcolonial feminism, critical race theory and new feminist materialisms. The book discusses what kind of methodological and methods-related concerns different theoretical approaches call forth and highlights them through empirical examples. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field of management and organization studies, the book examines knowledge production through different theoretical perspectives, including standpoint feminism, feminist post-structuralism, postcolonial feminism and queer analysis. Providing a critical and analytical lens through which to view traditional research practices, it offers insight into how to tackle ethical and practical issues related to feminist research. This book is a vital resource for graduate and postgraduate students in management and organization as well as gender and management. It also provides feminist scholars with a comprehensive overview of the contemporary debates in the field. The book is a key resource for any student and scholar engaged in qualitative methodologies and research methods in management, and organization studies and social sciences in general.Trade Review‘In this foray through Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies, Katila, Meriläinen and Bell have managed to astutely show the plurality, richness and political urgency of employing feminist methods that challenge the nature and process of knowledge production. The book is populated with many of my favourite writers and feminists who deftly show the complexity and possibility in feminist research. Stretching these horizons is essential for broadening and deepening our understanding of organizations and creating better worlds that benefit us all. It certainly succeeds in its aim to provide inspiration and support to scholars interested in feminist methodologies and is a must-read for those working in this space.’ -- Sheena Vachhani, University of Bristol, UK‘Given the rise of feminist thinking and research in the field of management and organization studies, this volume is an essential, timely resource for understanding the intricate relationships among feminist theories, epistemologies, and methodologies. The chapters illuminate the theoretical pluralities, responsibilities, ethics, and situatedness of producing feminist knowledge within a context of persistent global gender equalities shaped by race, class, sexuality, location, and other forms of marginalization.’ -- Stella M. Nkomo, University of Pretoria, South Africa‘Superbly organized and crafted, this volume offers a clear feminist research and activism path for organization and management scholars to follow, appreciating the past, engaging with the present, and opening possibilities for desirable futures. Written in gratitude, these lines thus celebrate the extraordinary critical intervention editors and authors accomplished by making such a work possible.’ -- Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies 1 Saija Katila, Susan Meriläinen and Emma Bell PART I FEMINIST THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES 2 Rethinking knowledge production through standpoint, decolonisation and intersectionality: thinking with Sandra Harding 25 Rebecca W.B. Lund 3 ‘Adventures through alterity’: Judith Butler and methodology 39 Melissa Tyler 4 Posthuman feminism and feminist new materialism: towards an ethico-onto-epistemology in research practices 55 Michela Cozza and Silvia Gherardi 5 Ethics and feminist research 72 Natasha S. Mauthner 6 Locating our research within feminist philosophies and epistemologies 91 Nancy Harding PART II FEMINIST CRITIQUE AND METHODOLOGICAL RESPONSES 7 Feminist action research 107 Inge Bleijenbergh 8 Social reproduction theory as lens and method: multiplying struggles for equality beyond the workplace 123 Patrizia Zanoni 9 Studying precarious lives: feminist research and the politics of location, solidarity and vulnerability 140 Devi Vijay 10 Feminist poststructural analysis 157 Kathleen Riach 11 Queer analysis 174 Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea and Steff Worst 12 Reflections for doing anti-racist research 189 Helena Liu 13 Transnational feminist methodologies: women’s rights and the construction of boundaries 204 Banu Ozkazanc-Pan 14 Decolonising feminist methodologies: an epistemological politics of the raced and feminised flesh 220 Sara C. Motta PART III DATA AND KNOWING SUBJECTS 15 Writing through the body: a matter of attention, humility and touch 240 Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi and Noortje van Amsterdam 16 Slow reading of heavy data 255 Matilda Dahl and Jenny Helin 17 Queering speaking and listening in academia 267 Anu Valtonen 18 The Huronia Survivors Speakers Bureau: enacting a cripped feminist solidarity with intellectually disabled institutional survivors 283 Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter and Siobhán Saravanamuttu 19 Decolonial feminist solidarity/ies 297 Ybiskay González, Sara C. Motta and Tiina Seppälä 20 Rethinking evaluation of research from feminist perspectives 315 Mirka Koro, Marina Basu and Charlton Long PART IV DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH 21 Doing feminist ethnography collectively 328 Juliette Cermeno, Justine Loizeau and Léa Dorion 22 Feminist ethics in research 343 Alison Pullen, Celina McEwen and Carl Rhodes 23 Reconsidering algorithmic management: feminist research tools for challenging computational thinking 358 Laura Candidatu and Koen Leurs 24 Feminist analyses of popular culture 373 Barbara Czarniawska 25 Using archival methods in feminist organization studies 389 Magdalena Oldziejewska 26 Men and feminist research: what research? What feminism? 405 Scott Taylor and Janne Tienari 27 In the lion’s den: doing feminist research in academia 419 Yvonne Benschop and Marieke van den Brink 28 A feminist praxis to disrupt the white male supremacy of business management curricula 435 Sadhvi Dar and Joshua Kalemba Index 451

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Book SynopsisDo witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised? If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female? There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse. With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Seduced by Satan; Cynthia Jones Chapter 2. Murders most Foul; Kristin Bone Chapter 3. Male gaze and Female Monstrosity; Almudena Nido Chapter 4. The Monstrous Girl; Miranda Corcoran Chapter 5. Punk mood, Junk Food; Gina Gwenffrewi Chapter 6. Digital Coercive Control Morag; Claire Kennedy Chapter 7. Women, Torture and the Abuse of Power; Theresa Porter and Helen Gavin Chapter 8. Good blokes and Bad Mothers; Laura Button

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Book SynopsisThe texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women’s movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of ‘heterotopias’ in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands, France and Sweden. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. Each chapter of this book thus assesses the impact of travelling views of feminism, by considering connections made between women artists (often when travelling abroad) or their knowledge of art practices from abroad. Distinct and highly varied attitudes towards political activism (from strong engagement to a clearly pronounced distance and even hostility) are shown in each essay and, what is more, they are shown as based on radically different premises about feminism, politics and art. Contributors: Fabienne Dumont, Annika Öhrner, Katy Deepwell, Elke Krasny, Nina Hoechtl, Julia Wieger, Monika Kaiser, Kathleen Wentrack, Katia Almerini, Márcia Oliveira, Agata Jakubowska, and Susanne Altmann.Trade Review'One can only hope that this book will give rise to new publications on the same subject, which take Europe into account as a space for exchange and thought, as well as other, more peripheral, geographical areas.' (Translated from French) Phoebe Clarke, Critique d’art'All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s is an ambitious and invaluable contribution to the fields of art history and gender studies that acknowledges the diverse practices of women artists and enriches our understanding of this transformative period in the history of art and feminism.'Ksenia Nouril, Women’s Art JournalReviews'The volume is characterized by its wealth of information [...] It is a knowledgeable and multifaceted contribution to the history of the women-specific and feminist art movement of the 1970s in a comparative and global perspective, and continues into the following decades.' (Translated from German.) Edith Futscher, FrauenKunstWissenschaft Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Katy Deepwell and Agata Jakubowska1 Women Artists’ Collectives in France: A Multiplicity of Positionsin a Turbulent Context 19Fabienne Dumont2 Making Space for Feminism. All-Women Art Exhibitions inSweden in the 1970s 47Annika Öhrner3 Feminist Collaborative Projects in the UK in the 1970s 71Katy Deepwell4 ‘For Us, Art is Work’: In♀Akt – International ActionCommunity of Women Artists 96Elke Krasny5 The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation, or HowCan You Sing Out of Tune? 119Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger6 The International Exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX påCharlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Idea of Feminist Art Space 144Monika Kaiser7 Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Art Practice: The Schulefür kreativen Feminismus and the Stichting Vrouwen in deBeeldende Kunst 167Kathleen Wentrack8 Women’s Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies 189Katia Almerini9 Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts:Why Was This Not a Feminist Exhibition? 209Márcia Oliveira10 No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland atthe Turn of the 1980s 229Agata Jakubowska11 ‘And – I have not taken him’. The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group 248Susanne AltmannNotes on Contributors 269Index 273

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Book SynopsisLiminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine social and political change in diverse forms. In Queering the Enlightenment: kinship and gender in the literature of eighteenth-century France, Tracy Rutler uncovers how numerous canonical authors of the 1730s and 40s were imagining radically different ways of organizing the masses during the early years of Louis XV’s reign. Through studies of the literature of Antoine François Prévost, Claude Crébillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family’s rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors. The utopian impulses guiding the fiction studied in this book distinguish these authors as some of the most brilliant political theorists of the day. Enlightenment, for these authors, means reorienting one’s relation to power by reorganizing their most intimate relations. Using a practice of reading queerly, Rutler shows how these works illuminate the unparalleled potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and help us imagine what might eventually take its place.Trade Review‘Combining psychoanalysis and structuralism with political theory, Rutler offers a different way to read canonical eighteenth-century texts by focusing on narrative substitutions for heteronormative familial relations. The interpretations of the texts are not necessarily new ones, but the journey to get to them is… [Queering the Enlightenment] is a fascinating and valuable contribution to the field.’ Antoinette Sol, L’Esprit Créateur‘One of the many merits of this excellent study is Rutler’s demonstration that fiction thinks politically: these texts, even when not explicitly political, create a world in which sexuality, kinship, and desire play out in non-normative ways, permitting writers and their readers to test out and vicariously experience important political problems beyond the confines of a patriarchal framework… Rutler’s exciting and innovative study speaks to enduring and contemporary concerns, and will undoubtedly be read, enjoyed, and discussed by students and scholars alike.’ Thomas Wynn, French Studies

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Explaining why contemporary problematic phenomena require a more expansive understanding than what is allowed in conventional organizational studies scholarship, this forward-looking Research Agenda brings insights from recent feminist new materialisms and critical posthumanist theorizing into the field of organization studies.Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have assembled herein an international and transdisciplinary community of scholars, whose research in fertile transnational spaces demonstrates the differences this novel scholarship could make in the domain of organization studies. The book serves as a tool and means for questioning fundamental metatheoretical premises and knowledge production practices, focusing particularly on those which, unwittingly, may be contributing to issues of concern across the globe. Chapters further articulate which premises and practices may help in decentering the ‘common sense’ nature of the field, facilitating engagement with affirmative possibilities for a world that is straying further from conventions. Coining the phrase ‘thinking-saying-doing-otherwise’ as an ontological shift and a call to action, the book ultimately highlights the importance of transdisciplinary, transnational research collectivities for accomplishing necessary changes.Providing novel critical approaches by intersecting feminist new materialisms with organization studies, this dynamic Research Agenda will prove invaluable to early and more established scholars interested in future-oriented organization and management research and practices in business studies and the sociology of organizations.Trade Review‘Deeply thoughtful, thoroughly researched and with great salience – this collection promises to be the go-to resource for Organization Studies as it enters the more-than-humanistic domains of our time. A time of societal challenges in the face of technological advancements, climate change and political upheaval demands a feminist new materialist research agenda for understanding affect, technoembodiment and thinking-doing organizations otherwise. Congratulations to the editors!’ -- Cecilia Åsberg, Linköping University, Sweden‘Feminisms are indispensable to new materialisms, though the field of management studies prefers to forget it. This volume flies in the face of that erasure with an eclectic mix of essays that disrupt what management research and education are becoming. The result is both deeply unsettling and hopeful—an urgent call to know and do otherwise with our ailing world.’ -- Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder, US‘The way that we organize both reflects and produces new forms of thought and being. Faced with a species-threatening crisis, we must rethink what it means to be human, both together and apart. “Man” must be overcome, and this book begins to show us how. It’s an important addition to the radical’s library.’ -- Martin Parker, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Organization Studies, feminisms and new materialisms: on thinking-saying-doing otherwise 1 Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich 2 Feminism under erasure in new feminist materialism as a case of symbolic manspreading 33 Michela Cozza and Silvia Gherardi 3 Natural light as affective force in organizing practices 55 Saija Katila, Ari Kuismin, and Anu Valtonen 4 Embodied bordering: crossing over, protecting, and neighboring 73 Pauliina Jääskeläinen, Pikka-Maaria Laine, Susan Meriläinen, and Joonas Vola 5 Imagining wearable technology (WT) otherwise 95 Janet Sayers 6 Erasure on-demand: a diffractive reading of algorithmic management 119 Alice Wickström, Ari Kuismin and Saija Katila 7 Exploring Earthly relations through curiography 141 Anu Valtonen and Tarja Salmela 8 Walking with the ruins 161 Alison Pullen 9 What to do about “The Human” in organization studies? Thinking/saying/doing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereafters 177 Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich, Michela Cozza, Silvia Gherardi, Saija Katila, Ari Kuismin, Pauliina Jääskeläinen, Pikka-Maaria Laine, Susan Meriläinen, Joonas Vola, Janet Sayers, Alice Wickström, Anu Valtonen, Tarja Salmela, and Alison Pullen Index

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Book Synopsis‘Rough sex’ has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent years following several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex ‘gone wrong’, leading to widespread calls for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the ‘rough sex defence.’ Situated in a global context in which violence against women is one of the leading preventable contributors to death and illness for women aged 18–44 worldwide, this timely collection examines the rough sex defence and responds to some of the wider debates around sex and the law. Drawing on a range of empirical and theoretical standpoints, chapters delve into a range of topics including the female experience of ‘unwanted’ slapping, choking and spitting during sex, the BDSM community, the impacts of pornography, the normalization and sexualization of violence against women, early depictions of BDSM involving the eroticization of non-consensual relations, problematic perceptions of BDSM as inherently violent, and more. Bows and Herring expertly collate a wide-reaching mix of perspectives to contribute to a powerful feminist investigation of this critical issue. It is a compelling read for scholars interested in the intersection of sex, the law, and the criminal justice system.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring Chapter 1. Consensual Aggression and Violence During Sex (‘rough sex’) in the General Population – A Scoping (Literature) Review; Bernard Gallagher, Nadia Wager, Victoria Gall, Barbara Gilroy, Lara Flynn Hudspith, Manisha Singh, Joseph Sykes, and Vicky Whitaker Chapter 2. Coercive Control and Rough Sex; Jonathan Herring Chapter 3. Defining rough sex via mainstream pornography; Samantha Keene Chapter 4. BDSM and the legal imaginary; Alexandra Fanghanel Chapter 5. The Legality of Love-bites; Amanda Spalding Chapter 6. Effectively Recognising and Punishing Sexual Coercion: Proposals for Reform; Susan Leahy Chapter 7. A Critique of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’ in Australian Rape Law; Rachael Burgin and Jonathan Crowe Chapter 8. Understanding women’s experiences of non-consensual violence in sex; Lucy Snow Chapter 9. The rough sex defence in the UK; Fiona Mackenzie Chapter 10. Reacting to Rough Sex: The Unexpected Toll of Section 71 Domestic Abuse Act 2021; Emily Bradley Chapter 11. On Sadism: Placing the Rough Sex Defence Within a History of Sadistic Conceptualisation; Ray Harris

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Book SynopsisFrench feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year for the women’s movement in France. Through a critical review of the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from the perspective of both preceding and subsequent ‘waves’ of feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures have come into play. Edited and written by an international group of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a vital moment in women’s cultural history, and a new analysis of the relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist politics and culture.Trade Review‘This collection is exceptionally well curated. Each of the chapters has been very carefully written and edited, and together this is fascinating, informative, critical and scholarly.'Gill Allwood, Nottingham Trent University“This volume is a lively and accessible mix of history, culture and politics, which nonetheless does not shy away from the complexities of feminism both in the contemporary sphere: the controversy over the burkini ban and the #metoo campaign, and historically: between essentialists and materialists of the second wave, for example, or between radical and what might be considered more moderate feminists.”Helena Chadderton, University of Hull‘This collection of essays offers a remarkably diverse and intelligent exploration of the many faces of the feminist movement in France, and of the challenges women faced and still face today. It will be a very useful read for students, researchers, and teachers and for all feminists.' Dominique Carlini Versini, Modern Language Review 'This is an important book. Even before one begins to read the individual essays, the volume’s usefulness is apparent: e.g., the glossary includes acronyms of various feminist organizations; the timeline extends from 1944, when French women got the right to vote, to the 2018 debate in Le Monde on sexual harassment and violence; and both the up-to-date bibliography and impeccably edited index extend to more than 20 pages. This well-documented, jargon-free volume will be valuable for those interested in feminism or contemporary French culture.'A. M. Rea, emerita, Occidental College, CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContentsList of illustrationsTimelineGlossaryIntroduction: Making WavesMARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONGPART 1. THEN: SECOND WAVE FEMINISM IN FRANCE1. Before Les Femmes s’entêtent: the Bermuda Triangle of French feminism?SI N REYNOLDS2. 1975: The Year of womenDIANA HOLMES AND IMOGEN LONG3. From Muse to Insoumuse: Delphine Seyrig, vidéasteGRACE ANPART 2. THEN AND NOW: FEMINISM AND PUBLIC ARENAS4. Work-family reconciliation policy in France: challenging or reinforcing the gender division of domestic and care work since the 1970s?JAN WINDEBANK5. Feminist publishing in France 1975 - 2000: a quest for legitimacyFANNY MAZZONE6. Parole(s) de femmes: from Le Torchon brûle to Les Nouvelles NewsMAGGIE ALLISON7. Utopian Gaiety: French lesbian activism and the politics of pleasure (1974-2016)TAMARA CHAPLIN8. ‘La femme du soldat inconnu’: Feminism and French lieux de mémoireALISON S. FELL9. A Mediterranean Bazaar : The Bazar du Genre exhibition at the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseille, 2013BRONWYN WINTERPART 3. NOW: REAPPRAISALS AND NEW AGENDAS10. Time to laugh or to cry? ‘Le Rire de la Méduse’ after 40 yearsMAIREAD HANRAHAN11. ‘Les hommes et les femmes, c’est vraiment pas pareil’ (‘Men and women just aren’t the same’): Nancy Huston’s Passions d’Annie LeclercDIANA HOLMES12. Across the waves: Benoîte Groult, Catel Muller and bande dessinéeIMOGEN LONG13. Voix blanche? Annie Ernaux, French feminisms and the challenge of intersectionalityLYN THOMAS14. Third Wave collective manifestos: What do feminists still want?MICHÈLE SCHAALConclusionMARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONGBibliographyNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisPerforming an in-depth exploration of the gendered nature of marketing theory and practice, this timely book unpacks the many ideological assumptions embedded in marketing thought and action.Drawing on past and present scholarship at the intersection between marketing and feminism, Pauline Maclaran and Andreas Chatzidakis highlight the gendered silences in the history of marketing. By referencing core bodies of feminist theory and engaging with interdisciplinary perspectives on feminism and marketing, they illustrate a comprehensive understanding of the subtleties at work in the gendering of marketing. Structured around five key areas, the book examines the history of marketing thought, communications, product design and branding, marketing’s free externalities, and the marketing organisation. Identifying the biases, misconceptions and prejudices perpetuated by gendered marketing, it concludes by questioning if and how marketing can be de-gendered, in order to empower and transform consumers.Tracking the evolution of feminist thought and its critique of market-related structures and activities, this book will prove invaluable to students and scholars of marketing, media studies, sociology and gender studies. With insights into industry practices, it will also prove a vital reference guide to practitioners and policymakers working in advertising, marketing and the media who are concerned with gender and feminism.Trade Review‘Gendered Marketing, by Maclaran and Chatzidakis, offers a compelling and clear synthesis of contemporary feminist and gender theories and their uses in debates in this field of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. By providing the conceptual tools for re-writing the texts of this field that so often render gender and its consequences surreptitiously invisible, Gendered Marketing demonstrates how gender and feminism continue to challenge and matter.’ -- Lydia Martens, Keele University, UK‘With remarkable elegance and precision, Pauline Maclaran and Andreas Chatzidakis explore and overturn the traditional male-centred nature of marketing and consumer scholarship. Astutely deploying a range of feminist and other critical insights, Gendered Marketing enables us to think through diverse solidarities to envision altogether more creative, progressive and egalitarian marketing and consuming practices. Not to be missed in any progressive pedagogy!’ -- Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London, UK‘Maclaran and Chatzidakis offer a palette of feminist theories and marketing applications, covering a range of topics from history to ad representations, products and services to technoporn, ecology to macho organization culture. Equal parts critique and pragmatic intervention, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners to better understand and traverse today’s gender minefield. The authors explain why things change, yet remain the same, and how marketers and consumers can and must do better.’ -- Lisa Peñaloza, KEDGE Business School, France‘Gendered Marketing is a must-read for those interested in the intersection of gender(s) and marketing. It offers rich and historically contextualized insights on both practice and research related to gendered marketing. And it offers a productive reflection on whether, and how, marketing might eventually be “de-gendered”. Its messages are timely, and relevant for scholars, activists and practitioners alike.’ -- Eileen Fischer, Professor of Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: an overview of gendered marketing 2. Breaking the silences: women in the history of marketing thought and practice 3. Marketing communications: selling or smashing stereotypes? 4. Gendering products and services: from design to brand 5. Marketing’s free externalities: the well-being of human and non-human others 6. Who cares for the marketing organisation? 7. Can marketing be de-gendered? References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics is the first comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It includes 99 entries by 88 authors.This authoritative volume includes timely entries addressing key concepts in feminist economics as well as feminist economic critiques and reconstructions of major economic theories and policy debates. The material is presented in an accessible manner and will be of interest to scholars and teachers from across the social sciences.The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics will become an indispensable resource for scholars and teachers interested in exploring this emerging and evolving field of inquiry.Trade Review'The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics provides an overview of feminist economic concepts on which is is difficult to find information in a succinct format. The minimal use of technical language makes the book accessible to a broad audience of individuals from a variety of disciplines. This book can be considered a mini-encyclopedia on feminist economics that individuals can use as their first step into topics of interest. . . Peterson and Lewis should be applauded on their addition to this ever-advancing school of economic thought.'

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Book SynopsisA consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world. The training and use of memory was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the time, but to date, very little thought has been given to the complex and disparate ways in which the theory and practices of memoryinteracted with the inherently unstable concepts of time and gender at the time. The essays in this volume, drawing on approaches from applied poststructural and queer theory among others, reassess those ideologies, meanings and responses generated by the workings of memory within and over "time". Ultimately, they argue for the inherent instability of the traditional gender-time-memory matrix (within which men are configured as the recorders of "history"and women as the repositories of a more inchoate familial and communal knowledge), showing the Middle Ages as a locus for a far more fluid conceptualization of time and memory than has previously been considered. Elizabeth Cox is Lecturer in Old English at Swansea University; Roberta Magnani is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University; Liz Herbert McAvoy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University. Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Daisy Black, Elizabeth Cox, Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Ayoush Lazikani, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Pamela E. Morgan, William Rogers, Patricia Skinner, Victoria Turner.Trade ReviewA valuable, carefully curated, and thought-provoking volume, that reconsiders gender, time, and memory in medieval culture in innovative ways. * PARERGON *The articles in this volume often refer to each other, and this creates a sense of lively conversation between the contributors. The resulting collection is a stimulating dialogue that engages a number of theoretical approaches in exploring the fluidity of gender, time, and memory. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In principio: The Queer Matrix of Gender, Time and Memory in the Middle Ages - Liz Herbert McAvoy The Pitfalls of Linear Time: Using the Medieval Female Life-Cycle as an Organizing Strategy - Patricia Skinner Medieval Expiration Dating? Queer Time and Spatial Dislocation in Aucassin et Nicolette - Victoria Turner Remembering Birth in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England - Fiona Harris-Stoertz 'Ides gnornode/geomrode giddum': Remembering the Role of a friðusibb in the Retelling of the Fight at Finnsburg in Beowulf - Elizabeth Cox Remembrance and Time in the Wooing Group - Ayoush Lazikani Gendered Strategies of Time and Memory in the Writing of Julian of Norwich and the Recluse of Winchester - Liz Herbert McAvoy Gendered Discourses of Time and Memory in the Cult and Hagiography of William of Norwich - Anne E. Bailey Re-membering Saintly Relocations: The Rewriting of St Congar's Life within the Gendered Context of Romance Narratives - Pamela E. Morgan A Man out of Time: Joseph, Time and Space in the N-Town Marian Plays - Daisy Black Dismembering Gender and Age: Replication, Rebirth, and Remembering in The Phoenix - William Rogers

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Book SynopsisAre secular aims, politics, and sensibilities impossible, undesirable and impracticable for Muslims and Islamic states? Should Muslim women be exempted from feminist attempts at liberation from patriarchy and its various expressions under Islamic laws and customs? Considerable literature on the entanglements of Islam and secularism has been produced in the post-9/11 decade and a large proportion of it deals with the Woman Question. Many commentators critique the secular and Western feminism, and the racialising backlash that accompanied the occupation of Muslim countries during the War on Terror military campaign launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Implicit in many of these critical works is the suggestion that it is Western secular feminism that is the motivating driver and permanent collaborator -- along with other feminists, secularists and human rights activists in Muslim countries -- that sustains the Wests actual and metaphorical war on Islam and Muslims. The book addresses this post-9/11 critical trope and its implications for womens movements in Muslim contexts. The relevance of secular feminist activism is illustrated with reference to some of the nation-wide, working-class womens movements that have surged throughout Pakistan under religious militancy: polio vaccinators, health workers, politicians, peasants and artists have been directly targeted, even assassinated, for their service and commitment to liberal ideals. Afiya Zia contends that Muslim womens piety is no threat against the dominant political patriarchy, but their secular autonomy promises transformative changes for the population at large, and thereby effectively challenges Muslim male dominance. This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding the limits of Muslim womens piety and the potential in their pursuit for secular autonomy and liberal freedoms.Trade ReviewThis sophisticated, sharp analysis of womens activism in Pakistan, brings home the crucial relevance of secular womens movement and working-class womens activism, under religious militancy. An essential read for those interested in better understanding the many dimensions of the sensitive subject, womens political actions in Muslim contexts. - Haideh Moghissi, York University, Toronto, author of the award-winning Feminism and Islamic FundamentalismThrough a critical feminist theorization of the relationship between Islam and feminism in Pakistan, Afiya Zia takes on the provocative questions of Are secular politics, aims and sensibilities impossible, undesirable and impracticable for Muslims and Islamic states? Should Muslim women be exempted from feminist attempts at liberation from patriarchy and its various expressions, which include Islamic laws and customs as they are practiced in the present time? Her compelling response to these questions incites us brilliantly to read the religious challenges facing feminist studies and womens movements beyond Pakistan. This book is a layered analysis of the retreat of secular and liberal feminist spaces while it also critiques the limits of liberal secularism. - Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto, co-author of Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and KnowledgeEvery once in a while there comes a book that is guaranteed to make its readers sit up and take note of the power of its argument, the clarity of its expression and the sheer audacity of its claims. This is that book. Indispensable for any understanding of the pernicious effects of an Islamically informed faith-based politics on women in Pakistan, it puts paid to the idea that such politics could ever serve as the engine of feminine agency. This is a rare and much-needed corrective against the present sweep of insidious currents hostile to the promise of a secular future for Pakistan and its women. - Farzana Shaikh, author of Making Sense of PakistanIn this book Afiya Zia brings into play all her skills in incisive analysis and her ability to go to the heart of the matter without fear or reservations, for which she has built a solid reputation over the many years of advocacy of womens rights. Faith and Feminism in Pakistan should not fail to shorten the journey to salvation of not only Pakistans Muslim women but also of women in all Muslim majority countries. - I. A. Rehman, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Nuremberg International Human Rights AwardThis is a superb and much overdue study of the history of feminism in Pakistan and its involvement in the question of Islam in state and society. Afiya Zia brings a keen analytic eye to the task, without sentimentalizing any of the actors or ideas concerned. But her own lifelong involvement in the feminist movement in the country adds a richness of texture to her discussion. This is a brave new contribution to the extensive discussion of Islam and gender across the disciplines, insisting that we view the womens rights movement as a legitimate part of contemporary Muslim societies. It will make waves in the academic world and in politics, and rightly so. - Aamir R. Mufti is Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles and author of Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard University Press)Pakistani women have been at the forefront of struggles for democracy and secular human rights. From her vantage point as member of the women's movement, Afiya has documented the multiple challenges that we have faced as women activists during the "War on Terror". Those who want to understand the tensions between faith and feminism in Pakistan should read her account in this book. - Asma Jahangir, Lawyer, co-founder and chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion; recipient of the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Right Livelihood Award; Ramon Magsaysay Award

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Book SynopsisMapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid personal accounts of their experiences as women writing during a pivotal period in the history of Ireland. With a foreword by Martina Devlin, and an introduction by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the anthology includes essays by Cherry Smyth, Mary Morrissy, Lia Mills, Moya Cannon, Aine Ní Ghlinn, Catherine Dunne, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mary O’Donnell, Mary O’Malley, Ruth Carr, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Ivy Bannister, Sophia Hillan, Medbh McGuckian, Mary Dorcey, Celia de Fréine, Máiríde Woods, Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, and Phyl Herbert.

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of British Feminism traces the history of the womens movement from the achievement of suffrage in 1918 to the revival of feminism in the late 1960s. Offering new insights into a neglected period of womens history, Olive Banks seeks to place the womens movement in its wider context while exploring the nature of anti-feminism, as well as feminism, over half a century of turbulent history.Centring on the campaigns fought by different sections of the women’s movement between 1918 and 1970, the book examines in turn autonomous feminist groups, women in the labour movement, and female MPs. The co-operation and conflict between these three groups is explored in detail. The second part examines the campaigns these groups fought, including attempts to secure equal pay, and analyses the reasons for their successes and failures. The unwillingness of the main political parties to sympathize with the goals of the women’s movement is carefully assessed. Providing an authoritative overview of a previously neglected period, The Politics of British Feminism, 1918-1970 will be welcomed by students and teachers of women’s history, as well as interested historians, sociologists and political scientists.Trade Review’It provides a useful overview of a period in the women’s movement which is increasingly attracting interest.’- David Doughan, Fawcett Library Newsletter -- ’This is a very useful guide to the current state of research on British Feminism from 1918 to 1970.’- Harold L. Smith, AlbionTable of ContentsThe feminists; women in the Labour movement and feminism; women in parliament; the ideological context; the political context; the economic context.

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