Feminism and feminist theory Books
Indiana University Press Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors of this compilation offer a phenomenological analysis that engages not only with previous works on feminist phenomenology, but also with works that have been challenged before by the feminist tradition, and with works that belong to other frameworks and disciplines. Anyone working on feminist theory, in general, will be greatly benefitted by exploring these works, and discussing their contributions. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsA Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. FieldingI. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses & Poses, BetwixtHypatia & Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch / Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata StawarskaIII. The Ontological Future 8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning 10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine DaigleIV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman 14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy FulferV. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia StollerIndex
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Indiana University Press Happily Ever After The Romance Story in Popular
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction." * The Journal of Popular Culture *Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike. -- Publishers WeeklyTable of Contentsi carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. CummingsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction 4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic FaithEpilogue: Lessons from Romancing the AcademicNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Refiguring the Ordinary
Book SynopsisIf social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. This book examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary.Trade ReviewIn the last decade alone, how many have perceived the "ordinary" has drastically shifted. September 11th, if it can be evoked without vulgar sentimentality, brought a fresh worldview to many around the globe, most significantly to Americans and those living in the occupied Middle East. In literary circles, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking has caused more than a few thoughtful readers to consider that what we believe is pedestrian, everyday, and commonplace may instantly vanish. Even a high school student forced to read Kafka's The Metamorphosis has realized that in an instant, life can be radically altered. "Ordinary" is simply not as we believe it to be, and exists on a spectrum of experience we often fail to consider. Gail Weiss's deeply engaging Refiguring the Ordinary comes on the heels of a remarkable decade and at a time when authenticity seems to be quite a buzzword in a world of MySpace—a space you can personalize, show off the essence of who you are—and YouTube, which begs of you to "broadcast yourself." It's easy to understand the power of your own authenticity when we've all long been told that we—as feminists, women, oppressed minorities—have a right to our own voices and stories, that we are the ones who can best speak our truth to power. But what if authenticity itself is merely existentialism gone wrong, subjective judgments that still have little bearing on reality? How are we to be the judges of our own pure interpretations? —Refiguring the Ordinary repositions the ideas of existentialism and begins at a departure from the binary of the self and other in Western philosophy, arguing that perhaps this dichotomy is a lie. Weiss relies on a wide range of philosophers, from the rather anti-feminist Heidegger to Sartre to radical thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, one of the greatest living feminist philosophers of our time. Weiss's insistence to include a variety of perspectives is both a compliment to the intelligence of her assumed audience and a demonstration of her commitment to an inclusive academic investigation into the ordinary. Of particular interest to scholars and philosopher-activists alike is her entire section, multiple chapters, dedicated to deconstructing racist, classist, sexist, and otherwise oppressive behaviors often acted out of habit, cemented over time and difficult to name and alter, especially without the help of others. While a philosophy book that will surely end up in university courses, Weiss's pronouncements about the self, the other, and how we construct reality will no doubt contribute to feminist philosophical theory in a greater way. When taken with healthy doses of history as a foundation to understanding her work, Weiss's explanation and subsequent reshaping of the ordinary becomes quite digestible and even a bit delicious. This isn't a book for everyday leisure reading, but it is certainly recommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us. -- Brittany Shoot * Feminist Review *Weiss (George Washington Univ.) insightfully bridges phenomenology and critical theory in a way that leads to a mutual enrichment of the two fields. Her study renders hallmark phenomenological terms, such as "horizon" and "world," more concrete by insisting on the need to supplement their spatial and temporal aspects with the social and political determinations of the most ordinary human behavior, including perception and habituation. Concomitantly, Weiss not only constructs intricate phenomenological descriptions of experiences—ranging from life in the city to motherhood—but also suggests that the lived reality of oppression be understood on the model of sedimentation that sets rigid parameters for and normalizes the everyday modes of perceiving and understanding this reality. A carefully elaborated notion of indeterminacy, which pertains to any horizon or perceptual ground, is at work throughout the book, joining the stricture of sedimentation in a productive tension. Although the author does not endorse a naļve perspectivalism with its prescription to multiply one's horizons and standpoints in order to break free of sedimented experiences, she argues that the inherent indeterminacy of the ordinary itself, or the possibility of disruption it harbors, constitutes human experience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. —ChoiceWeiss (George Washington Univ.) insightfully bridges phenomenology and critical theory in a way that leads to a mutual enrichment of the two fields. Her study renders hallmark phenomenological terms, such as "horizon" and "world," more concrete by insisting on the need to supplement their spatial and temporal aspects with the social and political determinations of the most ordinary human behavior, including perception and habituation. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.February 2009 * Choice *While a philosophy book that will surely end up in university courses, Weiss's pronouncements about the self, the other, and how we construct reality will no doubt contribute to feminist philosophical theory in a greater way. When taken with healthy doses of history as a foundation to understanding her work, Weiss's explanation and subsequent reshaping of the ordinary becomes quite digestible and even a bit delicious. . . . [R]ecommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us.November 6, 2008 -- Brittany Shoot * Feminist Review *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Figuring the Ground1. Context and Perspective2. Ambiguity, Absurdity, and Reversibility: Three Responses to IndeterminacyPart 2. Narrative Horizons3. Reading/Writing between the Lines4. The Body as a Narrative HorizonPart 3. (Re)Grounding the Figure5. Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty6. Imagining the HorizonPart 4. Urban Perspectives7. City Limits8. Urban FleshPart 5. Constraining Horizons9. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity10. Challenging Choices11. Mothers/Intellectuals: Alterities of a Dual IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Racism and Sexual Oppression in AngloAmerica
Book SynopsisAn impassioned history of the politics of oppressionTrade Review[This book] is a powerful fact-based philosophical epic of oppression in Anglo-America along its two central axes—racism and sexuality.Vol. 23.4 2009 -- Cynthia Willett * Emory University *. . . an important book on the study of race and sexuality studies. . . . By using definition, theory, and discussion of 'normality' and 'abnormality' as put forth by Foucault, McWhorter is able to highlight issues of sexual discrimination within the Anglo-American world. This text offers many insights into the topic of homophobia and discrimination in the US. . . . Highly recommended.September 2009 * Choice *McWhorter's expanded conception of racism is a path-breaking and far-reaching contribution to critical race theory, disability theory, queer theory, and Foucault scholarship that complicates some of the most accepted understandings of these fields and shows how these understandings have at different times, in unexpected ways, enhanced relations of subjection, domination, and control. * Hypatia *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Great Dangers1. Racism, Race, Race War: In Search of Conceptual Clarity2. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 1: The White Man Cometh3. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 2: From Black Lepers to Idiot Children4. Scientific Racism and the Threat of Sexual Predation5. Managing Evolution: Race Betterment, Race Purification, and the American Eugenics Movement6. Nordics Celebrate the Family7. (Counter) Remembering Racism: An Insurrection of Subjugated KnowledgesNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Sex and Character
Book SynopsisThe first complete English translation of Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger's notorious treatise on gender, sexuality and race.Trade ReviewThis long-awaited new translation of Austrian thinker Otto Weininger's masterwork, Sex and Character (1903), is simply splendid. Accurate, graceful, and complete—three qualities no other English translation can boast—it is light years beyond all previous translations. Why is this book a big deal, and why should one care about it? For one thing, because it encapsulates Viennese intellectual life around the turn of the 20th century insofar as it reflects the thinking of other intellectuals and artists—Freud, Kraus, and Broch, to mention three. But the more important reason is intrinsic: it raises questions about modernity, race, identity, gender, and fascism, questions that are still at the center of cultural debate. Those interested in European history and thought, cultural and literary studies, and race and gender theory will find this book indispensable. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. —M. Uebel, University of TexasNovember 2005 * Choice *Still often cited—but rarely read—as the locus classicus of the fin-de-siècle convergence of misogynistic and antisemitic discourses in the figure of the feminized Jew, O. Weininger's 1903 best-selling revised dissertation has found its first complete English translation. . . This edition affords the English-speaking reader the opportunity to better understand the claims . . . that Sex and Character is not just an encyclopedia of anti-Jewish and anti-female stereotypes, but of early twentieth century philosophic and scientific cultures as well. Recommended for scholars, graduate and advanced undergraduate students examining the underpinnings and undersides of modernity. * Religious Studies Review *[T]here are not that many great weird books. Sex and Character . . . is one of them. The appearance . . . of a definitive English translation published by Indiana University Press is a major cultural event. . .In short, Weininger's introspective exploration of the cosmic meaning of gender leads him to the depths of the anti-Semitic imagination. Which makes his book a kind of rough guide to the inner world of another Austrian figure who would later leave his mark on the world, Adolf Hitler. Twenty years ago, Gerald Steig, an Austrian writer, called Sex and Character 'the psychological-metaphysical prelude for National Socialism, including its variants.'. . * Insde higher Ed *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsA Book That Won't Go Away: Otto Weininger's Sex and Character Daniel SteuerTranslator's Note Ladislaus LöbPrefaceFirst (Preparatory) Part: Sexual DiversityIntroductionI. "Men" and "Women"II. Arrhenoplasm and ThelyplasmIII. Laws of Sexual AttractionIV. Homosexuality and PederastyV. Characterology and MorphologyVI. Emancipated WomenSecond or Main Part: The Sexual TypesI. Man and WomanII. Male and Female SexualityIII. Male and Female ConsciousnessIV. Endowment and GeniusV. Endowment and MemoryVI. Memory, Logic, EthicsVII. Logic, Ethics, and the SelfVIII. The Problem of the Self and GeniusIX. Male and Female PsychologyX. Motherhood and ProstitutionXI. Eroticism and AestheticsXII. The Nature of Woman and Her Purpose in the UniverseXIII. JudaismXIV. Woman and HumanityAppendix: Additions and ReferencesIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Music Postcolonialism and Gender
Book SynopsisA study of the construction of Irish national identity focusing on Irish music and the colonial relationship between Ireland and EnglandTrade Review“Leith Davis’ book . . . is, ambitiously, ‘concerned with how the discourse of music became increasingly gendered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as gender was utilized variously in the representation of both nationalist and colonialist formations.’ . . . Davis traces these knotted lines of resistance and hegemony through eight cogent and convincing essays, each one studying a particular moment in Irish musical discourse.” —British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review“Davis writes very much as a literary and cultural critic, not as a musicologist, but hers is a stimulating interdisciplinary study, illustrated with engravings and sheet music that demonstrate how the association of Ireland and orality grew out of print culture.” —Studies in English Literature"Leith Davis has written an exemplary, original, and sophisticated book that displays both a wide and deep knowledge of the discourse about Irish music from its earliest beginnings and a complete mastery of postcolonial theory as it relates to Irish studies." —Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin"This is an original, well-written book that will be of great interest to scholars in Irish studies, particularly the many working within postcolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks." —Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University
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University of Notre Dame Press The Rights of Women
Book SynopsisErika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others.In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women's rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community.Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth BTrade Review"Examining Wollstonecraft’s philosophical writings on sex, sexuality, and motherhood—as a lens through which to view the history of feminism in the United States—Bachiochi argues that between the 19th and 21st centuries, too many American women abandoned Wollstonecraftian ideals of virtue and fairness, replacing them with the self-defeating ideology (and various waves) of progressive feminism." —National Review"The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision . . . portrays women as increasingly disadvantaged by principles that became prominent in the 20th century's conception of liberty. Rather than merely liberating, [Bachiochi] argues, the industrial and sexual revolutions have disrupted longstanding dynamics that allow the sexes to pursue authentic freedom; that is, the freedom to pursue virtue in familial and social relationships." —FoxNews“Part history, part legal theory, and part political philosophy, The Rights of Women provides a compelling contribution to feminist dialogue, both applauding the gains and critiquing the missteps made during women’s quest for advancement. . . . Bachiochi offers a judicious analysis of women’s history that informs her refreshing portrait of dignitarian feminism.” —Law & Liberty"Along with the maternal accompaniment of Our Lady, the Wollstonecraft-Glendon understanding of women’s rights—a truly ennobling and liberating moral vision—reimagines feminism, and Bachiochi’s book brilliantly explains how that understanding evolved." —National Catholic Register"Bachiochi offers us a cohesive historical lens through which to adopt Wollstonecraft’s program of virtue today, even as we already see it bearing fruit in households that we admire. 'Without that intentional human development properly prioritized in the life of the home,' Bachiochi asserts, 'persons (and markets) [will] do little good outside of it.'" —The Interim"The purpose of freedom is for human flourishing, not flouting the virtues, as this excellent work so clearly demonstrates." —Catholic Medical Quarterly"Bachiochi’s work is a call to reimagine feminism. What if men and women pursued equality, not as self-destructive license, but as freedom for the sake of human excellence? " —National Catholic Register"At the heart of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is the assertion that human beings are not defined by autonomy but rather by relations of dependency and obligation." —The Catholic World Report"Bachiochi takes her readers on a thorough and scholarly examination of leading feminist thought as it developed through the past 200-plus years, through the lens of early feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. . . . Let us hope that Bachiochi’s vision is realizable, for it would certainly be the beginning of a more humane world, for both sexes." —The University Bookman"In Bachiochi’s book, we see Wollstonecraft’s legacy percolate through the 19th-century American women’s movement—in which the tension between individualism and life in common hums." —UnHerd"Erika Bachiochi, in her book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, offers a memorial to Wollstonecraft, an effort to reclaim the moral vision of this early feminist for our time. . . . I earnestly commend Bachiochi’s book to a wide audience and to feminists of every stripe." —Marginalia"Rights of Women doesn’t claim to be a conservative book, but it renews a challenge that cuts to the heart of the conservative movement." —The American Conservative"Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women is the most impressive anti-abortion book to appear in years." —First Things"Now and then a book comes along that changes the way one thinks about the world. Erika Bachiochi's The Rights of Women is one of these books." —Modern Age"Women’s (and men’s) freedom is linked to the response to the question, what are freedoms for? According to Bachiochi’s account, freedoms are rooted neither in the market, nor in power clashes or gender antagonism, but in a heritage that celebrates everyday human flourishing." —Church, Communication, and Culture"Just as Wollstonecraft challenged prevalent mistakes in thinking about the rights of women, so too Bachiochi is uprooting mainstream myths about what women’s wellbeing and success require today. The effort of students and teachers to read her work carefully will be well-rewarded." —American Journal of JurisprudenceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Moral Vision 2. Men, Marriage, Law, and Government 3. The Young Republic and the Unequal Virtues of the Agrarian Home 4. Women’s Suffrage, Rational Souls, Sexed Bodies, And the Ties that Bind 5. The Industrial Revolution and the Debate Between Abstract Rights and Concrete Duties 6. The “Feminine Mystique” and Human Work 7. Sex Role Stereotypes and the Successful Quest for Equal Citizenship Status 8. Caring for Dependency in the Logic of the Market 9. Sexual Asymmetry, American Law, and the Call for a Renewed Family Ecology 10. Reimagining Feminism Today in Search of Human Excellence
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University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
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University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
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Pennsylvania State University Press Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt
Book SynopsisThis work provides feminist interpretations of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.Trade Review“That Hannah Arendt should have become a provocative subject for feminists is startling, so this collection can be enjoyed both for its fine quality and as a historical phenomenon, one that reveals as much about the concerns of contemporary feminism as about Hannah Arendt.”—Elizabeth Young-Bruehl,Author of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
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University of Texas Press Bridging How Gloria Anzald250as Life and Work
Book SynopsisThirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.Table of Contents Con profunda gratitud Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzaldúan Studies for the Twenty-First Century (AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López) I. The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations" 1. Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa (Lorena M. P. Gajardo) 2. A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Written from 30, Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers" (ariel robello) 3. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina (Anahí Viladrich) 4. My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera (Jessica Heredia) 5. Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir (Norma Elia Cantú) 6. Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Aída Hurtado) II. Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark" 7. Anzaldúa, Maestra (Sebastián José Colón-Otero) 8. "May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders (Claire Joysmith) 9. A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding (Karina L. Céspedes) 10. Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer (Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba) 11. Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness (Lei Zhang) 12. Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure (Gloria González-López) III. Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change 13. Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy (Michelle Kleisath) 14. Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on My Mind, in My Spirit (Betsy Eudey) 15. Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist (Glenn Jacobs) 16. Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to Attempt Community (Paola Zaccaria) 17. Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds (Shelley Fisher Fishkin) 18. Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives (AnaLouise Keating) IV. Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders 19. "To live in the borderlands means you" (Mariana Ortega) 20. A Modo de Testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U.S. Academia (EstheR Cuesta) 21. On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa's Methodology (Jorge Capetillo-Ponce) 22. For Gloria, Para Mi (Mary Catherine Loving) 23. Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands (Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura) 24. Embracing Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and Writing Studies (Andrea A. Lunsford) V. Todas Somos Nos/otras: Toward a "Politics of Openness" 25. Hurting, Believing, and Changing the World: My Faith in Gloria Anzaldúa (Suzanne Bost) 26. Feels Like "Carving Bone": (Re)Creating the Activist-Self, (Re)Articulating Transnational Journeys, while Sifting through Anzaldúan Thought (Kavitha Koshy) 27. Shifting (Kelli Zaytoun) 28. "Darkness, My Night": The Philosophical Challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa's Aesthetics of the Shadow (María DeGuzmán) 29. The Simultaneity of Self- and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa's Liberating Vision (Mohammad H. Tamdgidi) 30. For Gloria Anzaldúa . . . Who Left Us Too Soon (Gloria Steinem) 31. She Eagle: For Gloria Anzaldúa (Becky Thompson) Notes Glossary Works Cited Published Writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa Contributors' Biographies Index
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University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Molecular Feminisms
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and welcome intervention is Deboleena Roy's book, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. Thinking about the connections and potential created between molecular biology and feminism, and philosophy and science, Roy thinks with philosophy [and] situates her work, which she names molecular feminisms, in the ontological and ethical reorientations made possible by thinking matter, ethics, and knowledge-making practices together." * Hypatia Reviews Online *
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University of Washington Press Unshaved
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] thorough and revelatory treatment of an underexamined aspect of feminism and body politics." * Publishers Weekly *"Engaging, elucidating and occasionally lots of fun." * Shelf Awareness *"The reach and depth of the content and theoretical orientations of this book, written in an accessible way, provides important understanding of the social context in which people—especially women—make personal choices. It also offers an important exploration of the power relations operating within these “choices.” In exploring how power and resistance operate through body hair, showcasing those women who on their bodies or in their art offer forms of resistance, Unshaved offers an important read." * Women's Reproductive Health *
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University of Washington Press Unshaved
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] thorough and revelatory treatment of an underexamined aspect of feminism and body politics." * Publishers Weekly *"Engaging, elucidating and occasionally lots of fun." * Shelf Awareness *"The reach and depth of the content and theoretical orientations of this book, written in an accessible way, provides important understanding of the social context in which people—especially women—make personal choices. It also offers an important exploration of the power relations operating within these “choices.” In exploring how power and resistance operate through body hair, showcasing those women who on their bodies or in their art offer forms of resistance, Unshaved offers an important read." * Women's Reproductive Health *
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University of Washington Press Bits of Life
Book SynopsisSince World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a distinction between the two. This title deals with the fusion of biological and technological power and the entanglements of biocultures.Trade Review"..[Mark[s] the profound theoretical shifts that accompany new configurations of life and the material in a posthuman age. . . . [Provides] succinct and rich overviews of where feminist studies, especially feminist technoscience studies, stands today." * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Bits of Life: An Introduction / Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke PART 1. HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES 1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion / Nina Lykke 2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience / Maureen McNeil 3. "There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!" Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen PART 2. RECONFIGURED BODIES 4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference / Celia Roberts 5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics / Amade M'Charek and Grietje Keller 6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke 7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary / Jackie Stacey PART 3. REMEDIATED BODIES 8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine / Jose van Dijck 9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries / Anneke Smelik 10. What if Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age / Jenny Sunden PART 4. PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE 11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrodinger's Cat / Karen Barad 12. The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe / Rosi Braidotti Bibliography Contributors Index
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MV - University of Washington Press Power Interrupted
Trade Review"In the ardently thought-provoking and often stirring Power Interrupted, Falcón, a sociologist and assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, sets out to reveal how feminist activists of color ‘advocate for a more comprehensive approach to understanding racism at the UN level’ by offering a candid and, at times, caustic critique of Western feminism as practiced within the UN." * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction | The Challenging Road to the Durban Conference 1. Race, Gender, and Geopolitics in the Establishment of the UN 2. UN Citizenship and Constellations of Human Rights 3. A Genealogy of World Conferences against Racism and the Progression of Intersectionality 4. Making the Intersectional Connections 5. Intersectionality as the New Universalism Appendix | Copy of the E-mail and Non-Paper Sent by the US Government to US NGOs during the Preparatory Period of the 2001 WCAR Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Power Interrupted
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the ardently thought-provoking and often stirring Power Interrupted, Falcón, a sociologist and assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, sets out to reveal how feminist activists of color ‘advocate for a more comprehensive approach to understanding racism at the UN level’ by offering a candid and, at times, caustic critique of Western feminism as practiced within the UN." * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction | The Challenging Road to the Durban Conference 1. Race, Gender, and Geopolitics in the Establishment of the UN 2. UN Citizenship and Constellations of Human Rights 3. A Genealogy of World Conferences against Racism and the Progression of Intersectionality 4. Making the Intersectional Connections 5. Intersectionality as the New Universalism Appendix | Copy of the E-mail and Non-Paper Sent by the US Government to US NGOs during the Preparatory Period of the 2001 WCAR Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Figuring the Population Bomb
Book SynopsisTrade Review"McCann’s work is a masterly reading of sources, theory, and history. She employs a range of disciplinary tools and methods, thinking not only as a historian but also as a demographer, feminist theorist, and textual and cultural analyst." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Matters of Vital Importance: Demography and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Population Imaginary 2. Rereading Malthus: Population and Masculine Modernity 3. Narratives of Exclusion, Mechanisms of Inclusion: Demographic Boundary Work 4. Remaking Malthusian Couplings for the Contraceptive Age 5. Demographic Transitions and Modern Masculinities 6. “Second Sight” and “Fictitious Accuracy to the Numbers” Conclusion: Demographic Convictions and Sound Knowledge Notes References Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Chaucers Sexual Poetics
Book SynopsisA feminist study of Chaucer's poetry, this book shows how Chaucer correlates amatory acts with literary acts. The author suggests that gendered relations such as courtship, marriage and betrayal are central to an understanding of Chaucer's poetics.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dolor y Alegria Women and Social Change in Urban
Book SynopsisIn ""Dolor y Alegria"", 15 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers in the Mexican City of Cuernavaca speak about the dramatic effects that urbanisation and rapid social change have had on their lives. Sarah LeVine combines these autobiographical vignettes with ethnographical material.
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WW Norton & Co In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
Book SynopsisLively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a masterful critic and master teacher (Walton Myumba, Boston Globe)
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Feminist Perspectives in Therapy Empowering
Book SynopsisFeminist Perspectives in Therapy: Empowering Diverse Womenaddresses core issues in feminist psychological practice along withstrategies and techniques for understanding the development andexperiences of women throughout their lives. Two leading feministpsychologists provide a model that integrates feminist andmulticultural theory and practice, incorporating both internal andexternal sources of women''s psychological distress andwell-being. This Second Edition is filled with valuable information on thelatest developments in research and major issues faced bytherapists treating women, along with clinical case studies thatprovide practical examples of how to put theory intopractice. Topics covered include: * Promoting physical and psychological health * Confronting interpersonal abuse and violence * Balancing career and family * Integrating multicultural and diversity issues * Negotiating relationships Complete with self-assessment activitiesTable of ContentsPrologue. PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF FEMINIST THERAPY. Foundations of Feminist Counseling and Therapy. Socialization for Womanhood: Developing Personal and SocialIdentities. Empowerment Feminist Therapy. Feminist Transformation of Counseling Theories. A Feminist Approach to Assessment. PART II: LIFE SPAN ISSUES IN COUNSELING WOMEN. Dealing with Depression. Choosing a Career Path. Surviving Sexual Assault. Confronting Abuse. PART III: BECOMING A FEMINIST THERAPIST. Reconsidering Research. Exploring Ethics and Practice Issues. Implementing a Feminist-Diversity Model of Training. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Seven Stories of Threatening Speech
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The University of Michigan Press Bluestocking Feminism and BritishGerman Cultural
Book SynopsisExamines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously Electors of Hanover. Alessa Johns investigates how, in the period of the American and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinct discourses of liberty even though they were non-revolutionary countries.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The New Woman International
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe New Woman International reveals the complicated web of intentions, receptions, and conditions of women around the world as formulated by emergent reproductive technology." — Brooklyn Rail"This book is particularly relevant in this current era, in which it is more important than ever for us to be adept at analyzing messages in visual media. This is a necessary and potent text for anyone interested in visual culture and feminism." — International Center for Photography"The New Woman International delivers an exciting, fresh, and diverse examination of the imagery, consumer culture, metropolitan life, and technology that gave rise to startlingly innovative feminine symbols that changed gender norms." — Afterimage"For readers interested in feminist modernism and popular culture, the editors have assembled truly stellar examples of new methodologies in book history, periodical studies, global modernisms, film studies and multimedia studies." — The Latchkey Journal of New Woman Studies"The New Woman International has accomplished an enviable level of coherence, organization, and balance. It covers a broad geographic and historical range while maintaining a tight thematic and theoretical focus; it encompasses diverse scholarly approaches and manages to bring them into a coherent and meaningful conversation with each other; and finally, it succeeds in producing a true interdisciplinary polyphony, without losing sight of the unifying subject of study: the role of the New Woman in the technology-based visual arts of film and photography. It is not difficult to imagine that all of the contributions to this volume, including the excellent introductory essay, could become required reading for students in a variety of disciplines: the visual arts, German studies, and women’s studies." — German Studies Review"In addition to its significance to scholars, the interdisciplinary nature of this collection recommends it as an excellent reader for courses covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography, mass media, and, above all, feminist history." — Woman's Art Journal "[The New Woman International] shows why visual autonomy was so important to women’s political and domestic emancipation, and it contributes to the recent project to draw out transnational linkages between these syndicated modern feminine types with much detail, diversity, and applied creative analysis." — Modernism/modernity
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The University of Michigan Press Stately Bodies
Book SynopsisExplores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Liberating Economics Second Edition
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The University of Michigan Press Gendered Vulnerability
Book SynopsisExamines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections - a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term gendered vulnerability.Trade ReviewDrawing on an incredible array of evidence, Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt provide impressive new evidence that female legislators are better at their jobs than their male counterparts and important new theoretical reasoning that explains why this difference emerges. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of American politics, particularly those interested in how biases affect incentives and behavior."" - Justin Grimmer, Stanford University
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University of California Press Listen to the Herons Words
Book SynopsisIn many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Transcription and Transliteration Note on Kinship Terms Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India (AGG and GGR) 1. Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India (GGR) 2. Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs (AGG) 3· On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin (GGR) 4· On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality (GGR) 5· Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case (AGG) 6. Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story (AGG) 7· Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions (GGR with AGG) Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Feminism on the Border
Book SynopsisFeaturing contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. It analysis the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers - Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena Maria Viramontes and a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS I Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana 2 Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to Global Solidarity 3 Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands I La Frontera 4 Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's Border Narratives 5 "I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire": Geopolitical Feminisms NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Provocations A Transnational Reader in the
Book SynopsisEmphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this title heralds an approach to studying feminist history.Trade Review"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-DiploTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index
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University of California Press Smart Girls
Book SynopsisAre girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting girls' academic success. This title investigates how academically successful girls deal with stress, the "supergirl" drive for perfection, race and class issues, and the sexism that is still present in schools.Trade Review"A compelling look into the complex topic of female academic success." Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword by Anita Harris Acknowledgments 1. Are Girls Taking Over the World? 2. Driven to Perfection 3. Fitting In or Fabulously Smart? 4. Sexism and the Smart Girl 5. A Deeper Look at Class and "Race": Belongings and Exclusions 6. Cool to Be Smart: Microresistances and Hopeful Glimpses Appendix: Study Participants Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Interpreting the Internet Feminist and Queer
Book SynopsisEvery user knows the importance of the @ symbol in internet communication. This book provides the exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet to support their counter publics.Trade Review"A grounded and well thought-out book. It is essential reading to anyone new to feminist counterpublics in Latin America, and I suspect to many feminist activists who may want to contextualise the work they do online." Gender & ITTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Interpreting the Internet: A Feminist Sociomaterial Approach 1. Conceiving Latin American Feminist Counterpublics 2. The Creation of "a Modern Weaving Machine": Bringing Feminist Counterpublics Online 3. Weaving the "Invisible Web": Counterpublic Organizations Interpret the Internet 4. La Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina: Constructing a Counterpublic 5. From Privacy to Lesbian Visibility: Latin American Lesbian Feminist Internet Practices Conclusion. Making the Internet Make Sense Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Women in Place
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing.Women in Placeoffers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women's rights in contemporary Iran. AuthorNazaninShahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men's soccer matches.The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends.Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries,Women in Placechallenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women's rights.Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women's bodies and movements within the boundaries of the proper but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.
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University of California Press The Feminist War on Crime
Book SynopsisMany feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tendto make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of lastnot firstresort.Trade Review“This interesting, densely written, challenging book illustrates the phenomenon of unintended consequences. . . . Following from Gruber's main point that now is the time to recognize that incarceration is not a solution, the state should concentrate on increasing the resources available to women affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Gruber offers an exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system." * PEN America *"The Feminist War on Crime is a timely call for feminists to reckon with the harms of the criminal institutions they helped to build. Ultimately, Gruber is asking for a new wave of feminism that prioritizes material gains for all women over expressive protection for the elite few. . . . The key lesson from Gruber’s book is that instead of punishing our way into good governance, feminists should define new modes for accountability and devote energy toward the provision of resources that actually improve the lives of women. As Gruber argues, now is the time for millennial feminists to move away from punishment." * Harvard Law Review *"The Feminist War on Crime is at the same time provocative, educational, and necessary for our moment where people are beginning to question the utility of imprisonment as a panacea for social ills without denying the fact that those ills demand our attention and effort." * Law & Society Review *"Deeply researched and forcefully argued. Gruber outlines the long-term corrosiveness of carceral anti-violence policies and compels readers to take anti-violence and anti-incarceration as inseparable political commitments." * Feminist Formations *"Gruber brings to light the ties between feminist movements and mass incarceration in this deeply researched, timely analysis." * Library Journal *"The Feminist War on Crime is cutting, provocative, and crucial reading for critical scholars, intersectional feminist thinkers, and anyone who seeks to pursue justice without further retrenching unjust systems." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Opening Battle: Fighting Patriarchy with Purity 2 • The Enemy: From “the Man” to Bad Men 3 • The Battle Plan: Arrest Is Best 4 • The Weapon: Ideal Victims 5 • The New Front: Date Rape 6 • From the Sexual Cold War to the New Sex Panic 7 • Endless War? Conclusion Notes Index
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University of California Press A Wider Type of Freedom
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the center of universal liberation. In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as a philosophy based on a contempt for life, a totalizing social theory that could only be confronted with an equally massive response, by restructuring the whole of American society.A Wider Type of Freedom provides a survey of the truly transformative visions of racial justice in the United States, an often-hidden history that has produced conceptions of freedom and interdependence never envisioned in the nation's dominant political framework. A Wider Type of Freedom brings together stories of the social movements, intellectuals, artists, and cultural formations that have centered racial justice and the abolition of white supremacy as the foundation for a universal liberation. Daniel Martinez HoSang taps into moments acrossTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface: "Restructuring the Whole of American Society" Introduction: "A New Humanity" 1. The Body: "A World Where All Human Life Is Valued" 2. Democracy and Governance: "My Rise Does Not Involve Your Fall" 3. Internationalism: "Sing No More of War" 4. Labor: "To Enjoy and Create the Values of Humanity" Conclusion: "A New Recipe" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Rethinking Womens Roles
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University of California Press Anticolonial Eruptions Racial Hubris and the
Book SynopsisThis incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance. Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial revolts and slave rebellions have often been described by those in power as eruptionsvolcanic shocks to a system that does not, cannot, see them coming. In Anticolonial Eruptions, Geo Maher diagnoses a paradoxical weakness built right into the foundations of white supremacist power, a colonial blind spot that grows as domination seems more complete. Anticolonial Eruptions argues that the colonizer's weakness is rooted in dehumanization. When the oppressed and excluded rise up in explosive rebellion, with the very human demands for life and liberation, the powerful are ill-prepared. This colonial blind spot is, ironically, self-imposed: the more oppressive and expansive the colonial power, the lesser-than-human the colonized are believed to be, the greater the opportunity for resistance. Maher calls this paradox the cunning of decolonization, an unwitting reversal of the balance of power between the oppressor and the oppressed. Where colonial power asserts itself as unshakable, total, and perpetual, a blind spot provides strategic cover for revolutionary possibility; where race or gender make the colonized invisible, they organize, unseen. Anticolonial Eruptions shows that this fundamental weakness of colonialism is not a bug, but a permanent feature of the system, providing grounds for optimism in a contemporary moment roiled by global struggles for liberation.Trade Review "Anticolonial Eruptions offers a critical repository of popular power—from the enslaved and the indentured to smugglers, organizers, workers, tricksters, anticolonials, and abolitionists—whose disruptive and eruptive actions shocked the white supremacist, colonial, slavocratic status quo and precipitated movements that reconfigured social relations." * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Overview Volcanoes 1. The Cunning of Decolonization 2. The Colonial Blindspot 3. The Second Sight of the Colonized 4. The Decolonial Ambush Moles Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Lights Camera Feminism
Book SynopsisCelebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human traffickinga subject of feminist concernand they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation 2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016 3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability Notes References Index
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University of California Press Lights Camera Feminism
Book SynopsisCelebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human traffickinga subject of feminist concernand they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation 2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016 3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability Notes References Index
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University of California Press My Girls
Book SynopsisReveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give. Friendships among young people in poor, urban communitiesoften framed as risky sources of peer pressure and conflictoffer crucial support and self-esteem. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, find stability, embrace adulthood, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating studyone of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldworkblends firsthandTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction I · Friends and Forms of Care 1 Broke: Getting By 2 Bored: Time Management 3 Emotional Support and Breakdown 4 Bodies, Boyfriends, and Sex II · Friendships under Threat 5 Technologies of Trauma 6 Dealing with Difference III · After Graduation 7 Struggle and Support at College Conclusion A Note on Research and Writing Final Reflections: Ten Years Later Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press My Girls
Book SynopsisReveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give. Friendships among young people in poor, urban communitiesoften framed as risky sources of peer pressure and conflictoffer crucial support and self-esteem. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, find stability, embrace adulthood, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating studyone of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldworkblends firsthandTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction I · Friends and Forms of Care 1 Broke: Getting By 2 Bored: Time Management 3 Emotional Support and Breakdown 4 Bodies, Boyfriends, and Sex II · Friendships under Threat 5 Technologies of Trauma 6 Dealing with Difference III · After Graduation 7 Struggle and Support at College Conclusion A Note on Research and Writing Final Reflections: Ten Years Later Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Imperfect Victims Criminalized Survivors and the
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Imperfect Victims
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Vera Brittain
Book SynopsisThis is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .Trade Review"Gorham has written an important life of Vera Brittain that scholars and students of the period will not want to miss." American Historical Review, June 1997 "By far the most substantial product of academic interest in Brittain to have appeared to date." Times Literary Supplement "Sensitive and compelling biography." The Toronto Star "Gorham is to be commended for producing a balanced book, and for making extensive and intelligent use of feminist criticism. Gorham has been blessed with extensive source materials and has used them well in a fine, provocative, inspiriting biography." The Women's Review of Books, July 1996Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: Macclesfield and Buxton:. 2. Origin, 1893-1911. 3. 'Provincial Young Ladyhood', 1911-1914. Part II: 'History's Greatest Disaster': Love and Work in the Great War:. 4. Somerville, 1914-1915. 5. Love in Wartime. 6. War Work. Part III: 'Lady into Woman': Friendship, Work and Marriage in the 1920s:. 7. Friendship and Feminism. 8. Feminism and Internationalism. 9. Semi-detached Marriage. Part IV: 'Having Crossed the Rubicon': The 1930s and After:. 10. The Writing of Testament of Youth. 11. 'Having crossed the Rubicon.'. 12. Conclusion.
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