Feminism and feminist theory Books
Crown A History of Women in 101 Objects
Book SynopsisDiscover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.“I adored this book!”—Olivia ColmanThis is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women.With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch’s book contains a curated and diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives. The result is an intimate and stirring alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women
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Alfred A. Knopf Notes on Surviving the Fire
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Random House USA Inc Lessons in Chemistry
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Random House USA Inc Feminism in Our Time
Book SynopsisA landmark collection of writings that define the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism, from Simone de Beauvoir to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women''s movement today—and revealing how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world.Here are the words of Doris Lessing, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Anita Hill, and many other important feminist figures. Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women''s health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is a thorough record of women''s ongoing struggle to co
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British Library Publishing The Womens Suffrage Cookery Book
Book SynopsisEnjoy hearty wholesome meals courtesy of the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage movement.
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Hachette Australia Dissolve
Book SynopsisThis story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding space for themselves against the 'very important men' in their lives. It's the story of every woman's life.
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Pluto Press Revolutionary Learning
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the Marxist and feminist theorisation in education and learning.Trade Review'A tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionise thinking around adult learning and education' -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University'Addresses the totality of capitalist social relations through a theoretical and historical lens, offering a fresh analysis of abstraction, ideology and critical consciousness' -- Kumkum Sangari, William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee'Superbly written and invites the reader into an engaging exchange on the most important theoretical development in our field today' -- John Holst, Associate Professor, Leadership, Policy and Administration, University of St ThomasTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Feminist Praxis 2. What is ‘Critical’ About Critical Educational Theory? 3. Learning and the ‘Matter’ of Consciousness in Marxist Feminism 4. Centring Marxist Feminist Theory in Adult Learning 5. Institutional Ethnography: A Marxist Feminist Analysis 6. Capitalist Imperialism as Social Relations: Implications for Praxis, Pedagogy and Resistance 7. Learning by Dispossession: Democracy Promotion and Civic Engagement in Iraq and the United States Index
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. What We Both Know
Book Synopsis2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a word. But, he cannot take the words I write on my own.Hillary Greene’s father, once a celebrated author and public figure, is now losing his memory and, with it, his ability to write. As her father’s primary caretaker, each day begins with two eggs, boiled and Charlie Rose or some other host on the iPad screen. Her father compulsively watches himself in old interviews, memorizing his own speech, trying to hang on to who he was.An aspiring author herself, Hillary impulsively agrees to ghost-write his final work—a memoir spanning his career—and release it in his name. Diving deep into her father’s past, and in turn her own, a horrifying truth begins to piece itself together.With full control over her father’s memoir, Hillary is faced with a stark choice: reveal her father as a monster or preserve his legacy as a respected literary figure. But she wonders what writing the truth will do to her and if it will damage her own prospects for a career. Whichever option she chooses, Hillary has to deal with the significant pain writing the memoir has re-surfaced—specifically, how the truth about her father adds to her grief over the death of her enigmatic sister, Pauline. For the first time in her life, Hillary holds the power.Set in the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, What We Both Know is a visceral, intimate, and complex novel about confronting the personal and professional consequences—and potentially devastating fallout—of revealing the truth about a famous man.
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Park Row The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
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Park Row Books The Marriage Vendetta
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Johns Hopkins University Press Divine Feminine
Book SynopsisMany of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today.Trade ReviewThis triumphantly successful book,... subtle, persuasive, and frequently witty, will be of real value to all those interested in women's history and the history or religion alike. -- William Whyte English Historical Review [Dixon's] insightful, meticulously researched book is a model of the scholarly investigation of alternative spiritual movements. -- Elaine Showalter Times Literary Supplement Dixon has written a fascinating history of the theosophical movement in England, situating it in its political and, significantly, sexual contexts... her book is a timely period piece because the 'West' and 'East' are both currently engaged in seismic shifts of consciousness that are calling into question traditional notions of sexuality, spirituality, hierarchy, and institutional organization. Choice An impressive first book, meticulously researched and carefully written. -- Catherine Hall Historical Journal Dixon successfully brings together for the first time an analysis that demonstrates the way in which Theosophy crossed and brought together many strands of upper-middle class and high-brow culture in England. If not for this reason alone, the book is worth reading for the in-depth and fascinating story it tells of a shifting slice of British culture. -- Etta M. Madden Utopian Studies An elegant and closely argued work. -- George Fetherling Vancouver Sun Dixon writes clearly and elegantly and has carved her subject into coherent and attractively presented chapters. The central chapters are packed with subtle and interesting insights into how feminism, religious culture, and theosophical and spiritualist thought interacted in the intellectual turbulence of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The discussion of the links btween religion and racial ideas is a fascinating addition to a much-neglected subject. -- Susan Mumm Journal of Contemporary Religion Dixon has written a provocative and timely book. She asks important questions about the relationship of politics and spirituality, and offers sensitively nuanced answers that draw upon the past but contain meaning for the present. -- Patricia S. Kruppa Albion 2003 Dixon's attention to the role of spirituality in modern life, and her insistence that the spiritual is always constituted in relation to a specific historical moment, offers new and exciting ways of thinking not only about late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain but also about the relationship of politics and religion in our own times. -- Laura E. Nym Mayhall Journal of Modern History 2003 In revealing the long-neglected intersection of spiritualism and feminist politics, Dixon's book will prompt a more general reconsideration of the relations of religious and political transformation in the period. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 An exemplary historical account of spirituality as a cultural formation... It develops with great subtlety recent accounts of English feminism, examining the role of class and racial privilege in feminist interventions in progressive politics and the imperial project. -- Sandra Stanley Holton Victorian Studies 2003 Dixon has opened up a great new avenue of investigation in her excellent book by challenging the secularist bias of analysis of the feminist movement. -- Samuel Wagar Canadian Woman Studies 2003 Startling and original... An important contribution of the book is to show how the constantly shifting construction of gender and sexuality among theosophists was related to notions of race and class. -- June Hadden Hobbs NWSA Journal Joy Dixon's meticulous and brilliant study of the relationship between the feminist movement and esoteric (alternative) spirituality in England stands as a model for how such work ought be undertaken in the future. -- Randi R. Warne Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal A stimulating and original study. Clearly written and well researched. -- Caroline Roberts University of Toronto Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsContents: I Domesticating the Occult 1 The Undomesticated Occult 2 The Mahatmas in Clubland: Manliness and Scientific Spirituality 3 "A Deficiency of the Male Element": Gendering Spiritual Experience 4 "Buggery and Humbuggery": Sex, Magic, and Occult Authority II Political Alchemies 5 Occult Body Politics 6 The Divine Hermaphrodite and the Female Messiah: Feminism and Spirituality in the 1890s 7 A New Age for Women: Suffrage and the Sacred 8 Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood Conclusion
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Benedict Reading Mead Feminism Race and
Book SynopsisNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyTrade Review"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound." - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret MeadPart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming MeadChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational DoublenessChapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and GenderChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in SamoaPart II: Erasures and InclusionsChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal FeminismChapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on RacePart III: Imperial VisionsChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as ValueChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese CultureChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of WomenPart IV: Echoes and ReverberationsChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of ParadiseChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth BenedictPart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and MeadChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal FigureChapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns RevisitedChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret MeadNotesContributorsIndexIllustrations
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Johns Hopkins University Press Globalizing Women
Book SynopsisThis book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movements and organizations in the globalized world.Trade ReviewFeminist readers will appreciate Moghadam's deep commitment to understanding global feminism from the inside out. -- Abigail E. Cameron American Sociological Review 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Acronyms and TermsChapter 1. Globalizing Women: An Introduction and OverviewChapter 2. Globalization and Its Discontents: Capitalist Development, Political Movements, and GenderChapter 3. Femal Labor, Regional Cises, and Feminist ResponsesChapter 4. The Women's Movement and Its Organizations: Discourses, Structures, ResourcesChapter 5. From Structural Adjustment to the Global Trade Agenda: DAWN, WIDE, and WEDOChapter 6. Feminists versus Fundamentalists: Women Living under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood Is Global InstituteChapter 7. The Travails of Transnational Feminist Organizing: The Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (AWMR)Chapter 8. The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy? The Challenge of Global FeminismAppendix A: A Women's Appeal, Women Living under Muslim Laws, Alert for Action / Algeria, 1992Appendix B: Women's Caucus Declaration, Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization, Seattle, Washington, 30 November-3 December 1999Appendix C: Seattle Declaration, Diverse Women for Diversity, Seattle, 1 December 1999NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Rights A Human Rights Quarterly Reader
Book SynopsisThe essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: History and PerspectivesChapter 1. Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human RightsChapter 2. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human RightsChapter 3. Human Rights: A Feminist PerspectiveChapter 4. The Gender of Jus CogensChapter 5. Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human Rights DiscoursePart II: Religion, Culture, and Women's Human RightsChapter 6. The Human Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Women: A Project for the Twenty-first CenturyChapter 7. Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary Injustice: Widows in African SocietiesChapter 8. Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights WorkPart III: Violence and Women Chapter 9. Women's Voices, Women's PainChapter 10. Women, War, and Rape: Challenges Facing the International Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaChapter 11. Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing: Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to Rape Victims in the Former YugoslaviaChapter 12. Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape DiscourseChapter 13. Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights the Protection from ViolenceChapter 14. Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of TraffickersPart IV: Economic RightsChapter 15. Measuring Women's Economic and Social Rights AchievementChapter 16. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: A Governance and Human Rights AgendaPart V: Reproductive RightsChapter 17. Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion Law ReformChapter 18. Debating Reproductive Rights in IrelandChapter 19. China to CEDAW: An Update on Population PolicyAppendix: Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against WomenList of Contributors
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Johns Hopkins University Press Feminist Bioethics
Book SynopsisPhilosophically grounded, methodologically sound, and theoretically rigorous, this paradigm-challenging collection ponders the most dynamic areas of feminist inquiry into bioethical thought and practice and sketches future directions for this rapidly growing field.Trade ReviewThe bite-sized accessible chapters would be useful in undergraduate or graduate courses as a source of readings, research, and presentation topics. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction to Feminist Bioethics Chapter 1. The Expanding Landscape: Recent Directions in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 2. "It Is Her Problem, Not Ours": Contributions of Feminist Bioethics to the Mainstream Chapter 3. Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics Part II. Theory in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 4. Conceptions of Autonomy and Conceptions of the Body in Bioethics Chapter 5. Trust, Method, and Moral Progress in Feminist BioethicsChapter 6. The Right to Life: Rethinking Universalism in Bioethics Part III. From Theory to Method Chapter 7. Bodies, Connectedness, and Knowledge: A Contextual Approach to Hereditary Cancer Genetics Chapter 8. Stories of Innocence and Experience: Bodily Narrative and Rape Chapter 9. Where's the Harm? Challenging Bioethical Support of Prenatal Selection for Sexual OrientationChapter 10. Toward a Methodology for Technocratic Transformation: Feminist Bioethics, Midwifery, and Women's Health in the Twenty-first Century Part IV. Understanding Difference: Making and Breaking Connections within and between the Margins Chapter 11. The Difference Difference Makes: Public Health and the Complexities of Racial and Ethnic Differences Chapter 12. Feminist Bioethics and Indigenous Research Reform in Australia: Is an Alliance across Gender, Racial, and Cultural Borders a Useful Strategy for Promoting Change? Chapter 13. China's Birth Control Program through Feminist Lenses Chapter 14. A Feminist Standpoint on Disability: Our Bodies, Ourselves Conclusion. Reassessment and Renewal Index
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St Martin's Press Killing Rage Ending Racism Owl Book
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Kensington Publishing Blood
Book Synopsis“This book is the brilliant and long needed corrective that we have waited for, since the first time we stuffed a box of pads into a three-ply paper bag and slunk out of a pharmacy. Never again.” —Samantha BeeNew York Times bestselling author of The Menopause Manifesto and the world's most famous and outspoken gynecologist” (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free advice on the topic that impacts more than 72 million Americans every month: menstruation.Most people who menstruate can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. So why is real information so hard to find? Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or preventing it. And while both are important for many people, those who menstruate deserve to know more about their bodies than just what happens in service to reproduction. At a time when charlatans, politicians, and social media are succeeding in propagating damaging misinformation with real and devastating consequences, Dr. Jen provides the antidote with science, myth busting, and no-nonsense facts.Not knowing how your body works makes it challenging to advocate for yourself. Consequently, many suffer in silence, thinking their bodies are uniquely broken, or they turn to disreputable sources. Blood is a practical, empowering guide to what’s typical, what’s concerning, and when to seek care—recounted with the expertise and frank, fearless wit that have made Dr. Jen today’s most trusted voice in gynecology.Dr. Jen answers all your period-related questions, including: Why do we menstruate? How heavy is too heavy? How much should periods hurt? And she provides essential information about topics such as:* The fascinating biology of menstruation* Menstrual migraines, PMS, and period diarrhea (yes, it’s a thing, unfortunately)*Vaccines and menstruation*Legitimate menstrual products, and the facts behind toxic shock syndrome*Painful periods and endometriosis*Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)*Debunking social media disinformation about contraceptionBlood is about much more than biology. It’s an all-in-one, revolutionary guide that will change the way we think about, talk about—and don’t talk about—our bodies and our well-being.“Requisite reading. A no-nonsense, educational, science-backed, in-depth title about menstruation and the impact it can have on one’s body. This title will empower readers to better understand their bodies and to advocate for themselves in medical situations.” —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW Filled with piercing social analysis and enlightening science, this one’s a winner.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
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Beacon Press Touched Out
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Beacon Press Here She Is
Book SynopsisA fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world.Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo.Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birt
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Beacon Press Touched Out
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Kick the Latch
Book SynopsisAbout one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch–with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries–is lightning in a bottleTrade Review"I have been following Kathryn Scanlan's original voice for years. In her new venture—an unusually intimate, clear-eyed portrait of a tough and engaging woman conveyed in revelatory vignettes—every word is essential." -- Amy Hempel"Kathryn Scanlan has performed a magical act of empathic ventriloquy in Kick the Latch. This immediate, engrossing immersion in another life and world, so personally and passionately told, is compulsively readable." -- Lydia Davis"Scanlan’s inventive novel documents a woman’s hardscrabble yet jubilant life and her dedication to working with racehorses. Shaped from interview transcripts with a real-life trainer named Sonia (no last name given), Scanlan’s vignettes carry readers across the arc of Sonia’s life...but the most beautiful moments are quiet ones, in which Sonia processes the choices she and others have made, and of the consequences she faces in a field dominated by men. With this sharp and lovely tribute to a singular woman, Scanlan continues to impress. " -- Publishers Weekly"Scanlan writes about ordinary life in extraordinary ways by compacting it radically, like pressurizing carbon into diamonds. When Sonia describes the force absorbed by a single hoof in every stride of a horse’s gallop—“a thousand pounds of pressure held up by that one thin leg”—she could also be describing Scanlan’s syntax: compact phrases holding so much pressure. The work is structured by recurring themes: the violence and pleasures of intimacy, the balm and exhaustion of hard work, our bonds with animals and with our own animal natures—those surges of desire and aggression that unseat and rearrange us." -- Leslie Jamison - The New Yorker"Kick the Latch, a short, absorbing novel about a racetrack horse trainer...is informed by a series of conversations with the real Sonia, who Scanlan met through her mother, and it has a blunt, vivid idiom that renders gore and beauty with similar clarity. That idiom is informed by Sonia’s own voice: “I wanted to preserve — amplify, exaggerate — Sonia’s idiosyncratic speech,” Scanlan says. The book feels like an interview, and it’s impressive what Scanlan does within that frame, especially with animals that serve as proxies for humans in their embodiment of power, independence, and humiliation." -- Erin Schwartz - Vulture"Kathryn Scanlan’s words will mark you. Her work is sharp, deliberate, and poised—rife with subtly peculiar language. " -- Crow Jonah Norlander - Bomb Magazine"I thought I knew everything there was to know about the track, by living it, by writing it, until I read Kathryn Scanlan’s dazzling novel, Kick the Latch—which is another thing altogether and an extraordinarily accurate picture of a life based on the love of racehorses." -- Michael Klein - Book Post"Careful research and deep empathy combine in this portrait of the unforgettable horse trainer Sonia. The life story you didn't know you needed, told in a spare, matter-of-fact narration that cannot conceal the passion and tenacity of a life hard-lived and success hard-won." -- NYPL Best Books of the Year"Kathryn Scanlan makes the mundane details of everyday life hum with electricity. " -- Amber Medland - The Telegraph"Kick the Latch is a triumph, whittling Sonia’s life down to 96 sparsely worded pages that serve as a masterclass in how less can be more." -- Susie Mesure - Financial Times"Extraordinary...Sonia’s voice is unsentimental and humane, alert to absurdity and human frailty...Scanlan is nowhere, and yet everywhere, in the shaping and patterning, in the rendering of a voice so distinctive and rich and true. Zola said that art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Well, we’re doubly blessed here, in having the sensibilities of both Sonia and Scanlan. Let’s be done with this awful “ordinary lives” talk, as though there is any such thing. Sonia is extraordinary and many other people would be perceived as such too, had they Scanlan to listen and make sense, artistically, of their days." -- Wendy Erskine - The Guardian"It will live far longer in the memory than most holidays...Scanlan’s harsh, funny, beautifully sad novel is unlike any other I’ve read this year—and twice as good." -- Chris Power - Sunday Times"Wonderful...an unforgettable, tough, direct voice, brilliantly captured...I’d never imagined I’d read and love a book about a midwest horse trainer." -- David Nicholls"Brimming with life...Refuses to follow the paths we expect...Although there’s much tenderness...the overall toughness of the narration—sinewy, matter-of-fact, neither glib nor maudlin—seldom fails to jolt the reader...In its emotional impact, [Scanlan’s] artfully artless minimalism most recalls Lucia Berlin...if we’re left wanting more, we’re also left wondering what more we could possibly want from a book so stuffed with life." -- Anthony Cummins - Observer""A series of taut, electrifying vignettes...by turns exultant and brutal."" -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Scanlan is a master of the compressed anecdote and, pulled together, these finely-tuned vignettes provide raw and bracing snapshots of a life lived day to day, job to job." -- Fiona Sturges - i"Spare and powerful...precise and unromantic...Sonia’s voice is distinct, her no-nonsense attitude a product of her lifestyle. Filtered through Scanlan, who writes as though with a scalpel, every mark precise and deep, it accrues an intellectual power too." -- New Statesman"A chiseled little gem...about a horse trainer called Sonia and told in her unforgettably downbeat voice. Such poise and economy—I can’t remember a novel about work that’s impressed me so." -- Tim Winton - The Sydney Morning Herald"A tough, beautiful novel." -- Justine Jordan and David Shariatmadari - The Guardian"All the exhilarating pace and tension of a high-stakes derby...Masterfully precise...Every sentence seems to pull behind it an invisible weight of information and emotion." -- Times Literary Supplement"One of the must-reads of the year." -- Open Book, BBC Radio 4"An extraordinary story, radically compressed." -- Irish Times"A very special read." -- Marie Claire"Unusual, poetically told...a series of beautifully observed vignettes." -- Daily Mail"Inventive...Compelling." -- iD"Rings true for a reason...Poignant without becoming maudlin...Most of all, perhaps, I was moved by the portrayal of one woman’s dedication to her craft." -- Scotsman"Kathryn Scanlan’s name sits beside Lydia Davis and Mary Gaitskill in that great pantheon of writers who pack so much into so little, achieving in a handful of pages what some writers couldn’t achieve in hundreds . . . [Kick the Latch is] a vivid and idiosyncratic profile of a life that straddles fact and fiction." -- Barry Pierce - Vice"To pick up this book is to kick the latch and be rushed away: to feel the rhythm of a life told in moments, chasing an uncertain kind of win...The encounters are shared in a steady series of short vignettes, like bar-room tales settled down into a sharp-edged prose poetry...After decades of one foot in front of another, the reader is left bereft at the finish line with only thing clear. It’s a beautiful run." -- Lunate"GENIUS! Future classic, current revelation...one of the best books I’ve ever read." -- Amy Key"Kick the Latch is pure exhilaration. No one works with fineness, with exactitude, with the beating heart of fiction and of life, quite like Kathryn Scanlan." -- Amina Cain"A revelation in its unadorned, unromantic, plain power." -- Andrew McMillan"Fantastic." -- Sheena Patel"I was absolutely blown away...It’s so much more than a skilled act of ventriloquism, it is a finely wrought work of art that takes one person’s life and expands it to create something wondrous and universal. The pages I read seemed to capture all that is vital to human existence." -- Tash Aw"With this book, Kathryn Scanlan is telling us three things: life is short, it's worth paying attention, and she's one hell of a writer." -- Jon McGregor"A genre-defying wonder." -- Megan Nolan"Fantastic...Fact-based vignettes in the fictional novel form, with shades of Willy Vlautin and Denis Johnson. Either way, pure poetry. It already features like a miniature classic." -- Benjamin Myers"A joy from start to finish, and I can't think of anything else quite like it...Kick the Latch is an extraordinary act of portraiture. Tender, kind, and told with measured honesty, it gripped me entirely from the first page to the last." -- Jessie Greengrass"Utterly fresh, shimmery as a dragonfly...Ridiculously good." -- Kerri ní Dochartaigh"Kick the Latch was one of the first books I read this year and it's still a contender for my Book of the Year. A tightly controlled, moving, brutal, tender, powerhouse of a book. Kathryn Scanlan is a genius." -- Victoria Mackenzie"Lean, tense...bursting with sheer life." -- Lucy Caldwell"Superb, episodic story of horse-racing, told in vignettes of violence, poverty and community. Both niche and precise in the revelation of an ordinary life (Johnson’s Train Dreams, or Seethaler’s A Whole Life) with Lydia Davis’ distillation." -- Sinéad Gleeson"Performs the trick of turning a life, with its practicalities and speed, into art, and does so with particular charm, will, and intensity." -- Lucie Elven"Absolute perfection. Book of the year already and it’s only Jan 18th." -- Adelle Stripe"A genuine read-in-one-sitting experience, and a genuinely unforgettable one. Beautifully written, heartbreaking and joyous, this is one of the books of the year, if not the book of the year, already." -- Stuart Evers
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The University Press of Kentucky Anne Bancroft
Book SynopsisOffers new insights into the life and career of a determined actress who left an indelible mark on the film industry while remaining true to her art.
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University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
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Beaufort Books 46 Days
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Beaufort Books Called Again
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Beaufort Books Buried Memories A Vulnerable Girl and Her Story
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKatie Beers will be part of a round table of "women [who] are all survivors of their own infamous abductions, assaults and attacks and for the first time, are coming together with Elizabeth to help provide valuable insight to Jayme's story." https://www.aenetworks.com/article/lifetime-greenlights-special-smart-justice-the-jayme-closs-case-with-missing-persons-advocate-elizabeth-smart-to-premiere-april-27
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Quest Books,U.S. Fault Lines The Sixties the Culture War and the
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Random House Australia Yassmins Story
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi The Last Layer of the Ocean Kayaking through
Book SynopsisThe year Mary is 38, the suicide of a stranger in a nearby reservoir compels her to make a change. She decides to strike out for Alaska and take a chance on love and home. Divided into sections detailing the main kayaking strokes, this memoir shows how each can be a metaphor for the lives we all pass through and the tools we need to stay afloat.
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Orbis Books (USA) Troubling in My Soul Womanist Perspectives on
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Orbis Books (USA) Daughters of Anowa African Women Patriarchy
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Academy Chicago Publishers Too Late for the Festival
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Demeter Press Moms Gone Mad Motherhood and Madness Oppression
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Random House Canada Morgan Is My Name
Book Synopsis“A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale.” —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Sophie Keetch’s prose is as mesmerizing as the ocean’s tides, illuminating Morgan’s life with a deft and attentive hand.” —Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals and Ruthless VowsA powerful feminist retelling of the early life of Morgan le Fay, the famed villainess of Arthurian legend, this dazzling debut is the story of a woman both mortal and magical, formidable and misunderstood, told in her own words.Young Morgan of Cornwall lives a happy life in Tintagel Castle until King Uther Pendragon, with the help of the sorcerer Merlin, murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage. Furious, brilliant, and vengeful, M
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Celadon Books Elsewhere
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Flatiron Books Emotional Labor
Book SynopsisAn urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman's words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.? Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair PlayFrom Journalist Rose Hackman, a deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every dayand a profound call to action.A stranger insists you smile more, even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grating commute. A mother is expected to oversee every last detail of domestic life. A nurse works on the front line, worried about her own health, but has to put on a brave face for her patients. A young professional is denied promotion for being deemed abrasive instead of placating her boss. Nearly every day, we find ourselves forced to edit our emotions to accommodate and elevate the emotions of others. Too many of us are asked to perform this exhausting, draining work at no ext
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OM Book Service Looseleaf for Women Across Cultures
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WW Norton & Co We Need New Stories The Myths that Subvert
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice.Trade Review"An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger"Malik invites readers to analyze the media environment and political and cultural landscape of the early 21st century, with a keen, critical eye. … This volume is worth reading and rereading. ... Readers seeking a high-level analysis of political discourse will most appreciate Malik’s work." -- Sarah Schroeder - Library Journal (starred review)"A persuasive debunking of political and cultural myths that impede social justice in the U.S. and U.K. …This is a lucid reminder that the fight for equality is a battle of ideas." -- Publishers Weekly"Malik presents fierce opinions and cogent observations that deliver a deeply intelligent and powerfully provocative work that calls into question long-held beliefs of both the left and the right." -- Booklist
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to be a Failure and Still Live Well
Book SynopsisBeverley Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include: Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The Limits of Success, co-edited with Michele Paule (2019); Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R Clack (3rd edition 2019); Freud on the Couch (2013); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, co-edited with Pamela Sue Anderson (2004); Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality (2002); and Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999). From 2012-16 she was City Councillor for St Clements Ward in Oxford, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum. She is a member of the Methodist Church's Faith and Order Committee, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Trade ReviewNothing succeeds like success? Perhaps not. How to be a Failure and Still Live Well is a powerful rejection of the language of ‘success' that dominates contemporary neo-liberal culture. Blending philosophy and personal experience Beverley Clack gives a moving defense of the necessity of loss and failure in building relationships, identity and a meaningful life. This splendid book gives us a picture of the kind of fuller existence we can aspire to as individuals who choose our own response to tragedy and as members of a community that does not rely on false optimism or selfish calculation to bind itself together. * Joshua Foa Dienstag, Professor of Political Science & Law, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *Thought-provoking and compelling, Bev Clack takes us into the heart of failure and loss, with personal depth and engaging philosophical and theological insights. Clack raises profoundly important questions and offers no easy answers - but helps the reader to engage more deeply with life, aided by failure and loss. * Alistair Ross, Associate Professor of Psychotherapy, Oxford University, UK *With characteristic wisdom, insight, humanity and wit, Clack shows us how dwelling with our failures can make genuine flourishing possible. This is philosophy at its best – philosophy that contributes to the shared human endeavour of living a good life, engaging deftly with psychology, politics, theology, feminist theory, literature and art. * Anastasia Scrutton, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, University of Leeds, UK *The threat of failure is ever-present, but hardly ever openly examined. This thoughtful, honest and often moving book examines why so many of us are haunted by failure. Its erudite and detailed diagnosis of the reasons for widespread feelings of failure across modern societies makes for both fascinating and inspiring reading. * Anneliese Dodds, MP, House of Commons, UK *With characteristic wisdom, insight, humanity and wit, Clack shows us how dwelling with our failures can make genuine flourishing possible. This is philosophy at its best – philosophy that contributes to the shared human endeavour of living a good life, engaging deftly with psychology, politics, theology, feminist theory, literature and art. * Dr Anastasia Scrutton, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Failure: And How to Live Well Chapter 1: Success, Failure, and the 21st Century Good Life Chapter 2: Women, Failure, and the Fear of Loss Chapter 3: Death and Sickness, Loss and Failure Chapter 4: Factoring Out Failure, Factoring Out Humanity: Bureaucracy, Metrics, and the Loss of Spontaneity Chapter 5: From Homo Economicus to Homo Religiosus: Remaking the Human Chapter 6: Accepting Failure, Embracing Loss Conclusion: Being a Failure and Living Well Bibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Anti-Electra: The Radical Totem of the Girl
Book SynopsisA close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art.Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.Trade Review"Anti-Electra constitutes an occasionally uncanny and always fascinating work, which advocates a constellational, schizogamous relationality. This intellectually engaging and witty book will be of interest to art historians, scholars with interests in media studies, and those who are open to be challenged by an exciting feminist revaluation of ancient myths and their relation to the present."—IdentitiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the English Language EditionIntroduction1. Electra as Female “Oedipus”Positive Unrelatedness and ExogamyConstitutive Strangeness or Primary ExoticismSchizogamyXenological AnamnesisTotemistic “Objectification”2. Radical Totemism and AutomatismTheogenesis and the Twilight of MachinesTotem and XenocracyAnimal Mummy and the Apparatus-FunctionAnthropomorphization of the DeityApparatus or Weak Totem3. Totemism and Sculpture: Preliminaries to a Theory of SchizosomaMetabolism and Therapeutic SchizosomaPre-oedipality as a “Plastic Phase”Excursus: Plasma, Forming, SculptureThe Statue Delivering OraclesThe Two-Body DoctrineThe One and the ManySocial Sculpture4. The Labyrinth: General Theory of SchizosomaPasiphae’s CowThe Satellite5. The Four Pre-oedipal ObjectsFailing Equalization and the Emergence of the ComplexElectrificationAppendixIndex
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Graydon House Books Women of Good Fortune
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Seal Press (CA) Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over
Book Synopsis'Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can “solve.” Common medical practices and procedures violate human rights and the law, yet take place daily. Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America’s four million annual births. Drawing on extensive reporting, expert interviews, an original survey of 1,300 mothers, and her own personal experiences, Yarrow documents how modern maternal health care is insidiously, purposefully designed to take power from women to the detriment of their physical and mental health—not just during labor, but for years after. She then shows a better way, exploring solutions both cutting-edge and ancient to—finally—return power and control to birthing people. Full of urgent insights and heartfelt emotion, Birth Control is an explosive call to action.
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Basic Books X + Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking
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Ronsdale Press Your Body Was Made For This
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Chicago Review Press No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over
Book SynopsisAs a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore’s special commission to assist postapartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations that a multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans mining vanadium—a vital strategic mineral—the agency stonewalled. Coleman-Adebayo blew the whistle.How could she know that the liberal agency would use every racist and sexist trick in their playbook in retaliation? The EPA endangered her family and sacrificed more lives in the vanadium mines of South Africa—but her fight against this injustice also brought about an upwelling of support from others in the federal bureaucracy who were fed up with its crushing repression.Upon prevailing in court, Coleman-Adebayo organized a grassroots struggle to bring protection to all federal employees facing discrimination and retribution from the government. The No FEAR Coalition that she organized waged a two-year-long battle with Congress over the need to protect whistleblowers—culminating in the passage of the first civil rights and whistleblower law of the 21st century. This book is her harrowing and inspiring story.Trade Review"Intensely gripping. . . . Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's story refuses to leave the reader's memory. She is a cool force of nature whose example teaches how to stand down fear and victoriously stand up for what is right. More will be right when others join her." --Ralph Nader"A remarkable book: absolute must reading for anyone who cares about civil rights, whistleblowers, and justice." --Stephen M. Kohn, executive director, National Whistleblowers Center"A taut legal thriller...Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's memoir No Fear had me hooked from the first lines." -- Essence"Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's account of cowardice and betrayal at the EPA demonstrates that heroines like herself are indeed necessary. . . . The same agency that facilitated the poisoning of miners and their families in South Africa allows its own citizens to sicken and die for the sake of corporate profits. Do not ask for whom the whistle blows--it blows for all of us." --Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report"Dr. Coleman-Adebayo presents the public a trenchant critique of how the US government too often not only turns a blind eye, but also enables the worst kinds of human rights practices by its multinational corporations abroad. Her unique insider position and her principled commitment were what made her dangerous to the federal bureaucracy. Thankfully, she did not give up. This book is a must-read if you're concerned with government accountability and want a rare inside look at the toll willful government negligence can take on individuals, families, and communities." --Danielle Brian, president, Project on Government Oversight (POGO)"Marsha's insider's account, told with startling clarity, is a call to action. Her courageous accomplishments, especially with the No FEAR legislation and Coalition, have helped to fortify and protect those who take up that call." --Dr. Willard R. Johnson, MIT professor emeritus of political science"Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should." --Dal LaMagna, author of Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right"This is an inspiring and worthwhile trek through one woman's brave battle against a system favoring the powerful." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Chicago Review Press Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and
Book SynopsisCompletely updated and revised for the twenty-first century, Mothers on Trial remains the bible for all women facing a custody battle, as well as the lawyers, psychologists, and others who support them. This landmark book was the first to break the false stereotype about mothers getting preferential treatment over fathers when it comes to custody. In this new edition, Chesler shows that, with few exceptions, the news has only gotten worse: when both the father and the mother want custody, the father usually gets it. The highly praised Mothers on Trial is essential reading for anyone concerned personally or professionally with custody rights and the well-being of our children.Trade Review"Heavily documenting her book with legal precedent, expert input, and studies, Chesler makes her case with all of her zeal intact. Fresh, [and] timely content" -- Library Journal in its STARRED review of the revised, 2nd edition of Mothers on Trial"An unblinking look at gender bias in child-custody battles."-- Kirkus Reviews on the revised, 2nd edition of Mothers on Trial"Sure to inspire anger, understanding and action." -- Gloria Steinem on the 1st edition of "Mothers on Trial""Extremely subversive. . . . It should and will enrage, entice, incite and liberate." -- Kate Millett on the 1st edition of Mothers on Trial"A stunning and exhaustive indictment of the treatment of mothers by the modern justice system. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal on the 1st edition of Mothers on Trial"No brief review can do justice to the scope or style of her current book, a rich fabric of woven of compelling data from her interviews with warring parents, evocations of myth and poetry, and the transcribed voices of mothers on trial." -- Psychology Today on the 1st edition of Mothers on Trial"An essential work." -- Erica Jong on the 1st edition of Mothers on Trial
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Paragon House Publishers Philosophy and Feminist Criticism: An
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Bold Type Books Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the
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