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University of British Columbia Press Assembling Unity
Book SynopsisEstablished narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But the concept of unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives and frameworks in the foreground, Assembling Unity explores the relationship between global political ideologies and pan-Indigenous politics in British Columbia through the history of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC). Sarah Nickel demonstrates that while unity has been an enduring goal for BC Indigenous peoples, its expression was heavily negotiated between UBCIC members, grassroots constituents, and Indigenous women's organizations. Nickel draws on oral interviews, newspaper articles, government documents, and UBCIC records to expose the uniquely gendered nature of political work, as well as the economic and emotional sacrifices that activists make. This incisive work unsettles dominant Western and patriarchal political iTrade Review"Assembling Unity offers a great deal to scholars interested not only in the Canadian context but more broadly in Indigenous politics and Indigenous feminisms. Nickel’s conceptual framework stands as a model to inspire other scholars who seek to use insights from Indigenous studies in order to reframe old debates and frameworks." -- Paige Raibmon * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *Assembling Unity is an important book. Sarah Nickel’s timely study of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s 2020 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and was recently announced the winner of this year’s CHA Indigenous History Book Prize. Both accolades are much deserved. -- Chelsea Horton * Ormsby Review *A rich examination of the work Indigenous political leaders and grassroots organizers did to negotiate unity as part of a longer history of political activism in the context of continued settler colonialism. -- Lianne C. Leddy * Herizons, Fall 2019 *Table of ContentsBeginningsPart 1: Pan-Indigenous Unity1 Unity: “United we stand, divided we perish”2 Authority: “Ordinary Indians” and “the private club”3 Money: “A blessing and a golden noose”Part 2: A Philosophical Revolution and Competing Nationalisms4 Refusal: “Empty words and empty promises”5 Protest: Direct Action through “Militant May”6 Sovereignty: “If you really believe that you have the right, take it!”ReflectionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press No Legal Way Out R v Ryan Domestic Abuse and the
Book SynopsisNo Legal Way Out tells the story of one woman who felt trapped in an abusive relationship – and in a system that gave her no way to escape.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this well-written, well-referenced, and accessible book as a must-read for the legal profession. No Legal Way Out should be part of the curriculum for law, women's studies, sociology, and other academic programs that deal with domestic abuse. -- Bobbie A. Walker, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Domestic Abuse and Femicide2 Nicole Doucet, Her Story, and Her Trial3 Decisions of the Courts4 Policing the Police?5 Trial by MediaConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press No Legal Way Out
Book SynopsisNo Legal Way Out tells the story of one woman who felt trapped in an abusive relationship and in a system that gave her no way to escape.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this well-written, well-referenced, and accessible book as a must-read for the legal profession. No Legal Way Out should be part of the curriculum for law, women's studies, sociology, and other academic programs that deal with domestic abuse. -- Bobbie A. Walker, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Domestic Abuse and Femicide2 Nicole Doucet, Her Story, and Her Trial3 Decisions of the Courts4 Policing the Police?5 Trial by MediaConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press Inside Killjoys Kastle
Book SynopsisExploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.Table of ContentsLesbian Rule: Welcome to the Hell House / Cait McKinney and Allyson MitchellRISING FROM THE DEAD: INCEPTION1 Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy’s Kastle’s Haunted Block Party / Heather LoveLesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur 2 Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara AhmedKilljoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles’s Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz THE KASTLE: EXECUTION3 Inside Job: Learning, Collaboration, and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy’s Kastle / Helena Reckitt Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays Valerie Solanas Script 4 Playing Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy’s Kastle / Moynan King Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide Script The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahashi Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson 5 Processing Killjoy’s Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann CvetkovichTHE CRYPT: ARCHIVING AND REFLECTIONFacebook Statements: “We Learn More Every Time We Do This”6 Reflections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana TompkinsR.I.P. Little Frida’s / Chris E. Vargas 7 Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble8 The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine GrantLeave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins Index
£28.80
University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The Juggling Mother
Book SynopsisThe Juggling Mother upends popular representations of the supermom, showing her to be a cultural construction and the model neoliberal worker.Trade ReviewWatson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers. -- Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, University of Toronto and Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of Contents1 Coming Undone2 The Juggling Mother3 C-Suite Moms4 You Are What You Nurse5 Avoiding Regret6 Dropping the BallNotes; Works Cited; Index
£19.79
University of British Columbia Press Frontiers of Feminism
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University of British Columbia Press Frontiers of Feminism
Book SynopsisFrontiers of Feminism shines new light on the recent history of feminist movements, using the examples of Italy and Québec to bring an international perspective to major themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.Trade ReviewJacinthe Michaud, a professor at York University, writes a history of feminism in Quebec and Italy that captures women’s exuberant hopes in a turbulent decade—in all their messy complexity. -- Elaine Coburn * Herizons *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Contrasting the Québec and Italian Feminist Movements2 Feminist Synergies with the Left3 Wages for Housework: Caught between Refusal to Work and Feminism 4 Double Activism and Feminist Separatism5 The Illusion of Unity and Homogeneity: Emergence of a Fragmented Political Subject6 Angel Makers or Troublemakers? Abortion, Self-Help Politics, and the Management of Feminist Clinics7 Feminist Approaches to Organizing8 Capturing Feminist Transgressions through Cultural Productions9 Who Should Write our History?10 This History Has No End and Offers No ConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Demanding Equality
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.Trade Review"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada... Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." -- Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Labour / Le Travail *Sangster’s precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for ‘equality, autonomy, and dignity’ in all of their rich complexity. -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *"Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis." -- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. * University of Toronto Quarterly *[Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism3 Feminism, Democracy, and Suffrage4 Reform Feminism and Women’s Right to Work5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War6 Feminism and the Party Question7 Feminism, War, and Peace8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate9 Liberating Feminisms10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and BeyondNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Demanding Equality
Book SynopsisIn a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.Trade Review"There are few, if any, historians better placed than Joan Sangster to write a history of a century of feminism in Canada... Demanding Equality is a book that is at once capacious in its scope and accessibly written." -- Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Labour / Le Travail *Sangster’s precisely written yet wideranging book is a tour de force that chronicles the struggles for ‘equality, autonomy, and dignity’ in all of their rich complexity. -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *"Demanding Equality is a formidable book, wide in scope, commendably readable, expansive in content, and convincing in analysis." -- Rebecca Priegert Coulter, Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario. * University of Toronto Quarterly *[Demanding Equality] is an impressively balanced account that will undoubtedly become required reading for gender and women's history classes across the country. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * JACANZ, Vol. 1, Issue 2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Spreading the Word of Women's Emancipation2 The Origins of Socialist and Labour Feminism3 Feminism, Democracy, and Suffrage4 Reform Feminism and Women’s Right to Work5 Agrarian, Labour, and Socialist Feminism after the First World War6 Feminism and the Party Question7 Feminism, War, and Peace8 Feminism in a Cold War Climate9 Liberating Feminisms10 Feminist Organizing in the 1970s and 1980s11 Afterword: Feminist Challenges of the 1990s and BeyondNotes; Index
£26.99
MB - Cornell University Press What Can She Know Feminist Theory and the
Book SynopsisIn this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically...Trade ReviewThis book merits serious discussion and deserves a wide readership among philosophers of all persuasions. * The Philosophical Review *Wrtitten for philosophers, this work is remarkably lucid and readable, and is accessible to students and faculty in women's studies and philosophy. * Choice *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Whose Science Whose Knowledge
Book SynopsisSandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...Trade ReviewWhose Science, Whose Knowledge? represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science. -- Shulamit Reinharz * Gender & Society *Harding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism. -- Steven Yearley * British Journal of Sociology *This is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?—that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences—has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice. -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research * Science *
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MB - Cornell University Press Shakespeares Foreign Worlds
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Cornell University Press Signifying Woman Culture and Chaos in Rousseau
Book SynopsisWoman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply...Trade ReviewSignifying Woman is in many respects a benchmark in feminist political theory. What Zerilli sets out to do (and successfully does) is to argue that a feminist critical practice of reading texts in political theory is insufficient if confined to efforts to 'get woman' right. -- Kimberly F. Curtis, Duke University * Women and Politics *
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Cornell University Press Retrieving Experience
Book SynopsisIn Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they...Trade ReviewOverall Retrieving Experience makes an outstanding political contribution to post-postmodern understandings of the subject that move significantly beyond the current impasse of the Enlightenment/postmodern nexus. Kruks retelling of a tale... offers insights that should well invigorate international mainstream discussions of the subject as well as feminist political engagements into the new millennium. -- Mary Walsh, University of Canberra * Australian Feminist Studies *
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Cornell University Press Social Justice Feminists in the United States and
Book SynopsisWomen reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor...Trade ReviewThis collection presents and analyzes documents of the transnational dialogue between German and American women social justice reformers between 1885 and 1933. Speeches, correspondence, publications, and reports of women's conferences make up the wide array of documents that illustrate an intense and transatlantic exchange of ideas and friendships. As the editors write in the informative and in-depth introduction, this book contributes to comparative historical inquiry. -- Jennifer Anne Davy * Journal of Women's History *This selection... contains sufficient documentation of the difficulties and problems feminists went through to make the volume a useful contribution to the comparative history of women's activism and social welfare in Germany and the USA as well as to the ongoing internalization of feminist history. -- Richard J. Evans, University of Cambridge * German History *Well-framed and carefully researched.... Social Justice Feminists affords college readers the opportunity to hear the voices of women as world citizens and agents of social change, individuals for whom the democratic ideal remained a struggle rather than an assurance. * Transformations *
£36.10
MB - Cornell University Press A Politics of Impossible Difference The Later Work of Luce Irigaray
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Rights
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
£29.92
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
£56.95
University of Toronto Press Money in Their Own Name The Feminist Voice in
Book SynopsisIn her analysis, McKeen underscores this persistent familialism that has been written and rewritten into Canadian social policy thereby denying women's autonomy as independent claims-makers on the state.
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume II
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Nebraska Press Feminist Utopias
Book SynopsisThe resurgence of the feminist movement since the late 1960s has produced a very different kind of utopian literature. This work explores a body of work that reflects the hopes, fears, and desires of women who have glimpsed the possibilities of a bright new world freed from stifling patriarchal structures.
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University of Nebraska Press Intersectionality
Book SynopsisA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five yeTrade Review“This is, perhaps, Carastathis’s greatest insight: she urges us to think about intersectionality as a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept’ whose work remains to be done. In this account, intersectionality refers to our desire to keep dreaming of a more just social world.”—Jennifer C. Nash, American Quarterly "Intersectionality follows a clear theoretical arc and stages multiple interventions throughout, making it a resource for one well versed in the field or encountering it for the first time."—Desiree Valentine, Critical Philosophy of Race"Anna Carastathis confronts an enduring obstacle to taking up intersectionality's potential: she illustrates how an ongoing, monist fragmentation of identities, communities, politics, and perceptions buttresses power hierarchies and reinforces exclusion by design."—Vivian M. May, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy“Better theory is what Carastathis wants, and that implies for her a more fundamental critique of naturalized and essentialized groups and a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept that disaggregates false unities, undermines false universalisms, and unsettles false entitlements.’”—Myra Marx Ferree, Contemporary Sociology"Carastathis’s citational practices and the subsequent conversations she generates are a vital intervention in this current moment in academia. For both novices and experts in black feminist theories, this book is a crucial review of the literature for all academics at any stage of their career, especially those scholars naming their work as 'intersectional.'"—R. Aliah Ajamoughli, Journal of Folklore Research“Anna Carastathis’s careful and sustained engagement with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work is uniquely illuminating and helpful.”—Zenzele Isoke, author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of ResistanceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing 2. Basements and Intersections 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality 5. Identities as Coalitions 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism Conclusion References Index
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Stanford University Press Maternal Pasts Feminist Futures Nostalgia Ethics
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference.Table of ContentsIntroduction: maternal pasts Part I. Nostalgia: The Lost Mother: 1. Blanchot's mother 2. Lips in the mirror: Irigaray's specular mother Part II. Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other: 3. Imperialsit nostalgia: Kristeva's maternal Chora 4. Luce et veritas: toward an ethics of performance Part III. Toward Another Model: 5. From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossards's urban fictions Afterword: feminist futures Notes Bibliography Index.
£20.89
Stanford University Press Womens Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century, a time of cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. This volume provides a context to the movement by including countries from all regions of Europe.Trade Review"...This volume...is an excellent introduction to early women's movements."—Choice"This is a welcome addition to the field, and one that scholars will find particularly useful in their efforts to move their understanding beyond the well-known examples of British, French, or German feminism."—American Historical Review" . . . [T]his book makes significant contributions to the project of understanding the history of the socio-political movements to improve women's condition in Europe as well as making a persuasive argument for the centrality of this history in the portrait of the Continent in the nineteenth-century."—H-France Review"[T]he anthology as a whole is a worthy contribution both to women's history in general and to the European history of late nineteenth-century feminism in particular. It fills a big gap in our knowledge and should be purchased by every college library and by any scholar in the field."—Journal of Modern History
£25.19
Stanford University Press Our Bodies Ourselves and the Work of Writing
Book SynopsisThis book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored Our Bodies, Ourselves.Trade Review"At once a rhetorical and sociological study of the best-selling women's health guide, Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book makes recent history available to a broad readership at a time when the struggles of 1960s and 1970s activists are falling out of living memory." -- Laura Otis" Our Bodies, Ourselves, and the Work of Writing is a fascinating and insightful read for anyone who wants to best understand the value of this important text." * The Midwest Review. *"Here is a unique approach to a familiar book, the first study to focus on the language, writing, and literary techniques of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Wells evokes a sense of the emotional investment that women had in seeing change in the status quo and offers insights into the women's health movements of which even the participants may have been unaware." -- Sue Rosser
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Stanford University Press After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism
Book SynopsisIt is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decades, the feminist movement brought about significant progress on workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual assault. Yet, the proverbial million-dollar question remains: why is there still so much to be done? With this book, Lynn S. Chancer takes stock of the American feminist movement and engages with a new burst of feminist activism. She articulates four common causesadvancing political and economic equality, allowing intimate and sexual freedom, ending violence against women, and expanding the cultural representation of womenconsidering each in turn to assess what has been gained (or not). It is around these shared concerns, Chancer argues, that we can continue to build a vibrant and expansive feminist movement. After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism takes the long view of the successes and shortcomingsTrade Review"In this sweeping, unflinching account, After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism tackles the paradox of American feminism. Interrogating feminism's own thorny contradictions and challenges, Lynn Chancer offers women a bold and inspiring plan for claiming equality with men—once and for all." -- Lisa Wade * author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus *"After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism is an engaging, well written, and accessible map of our feminist past, present, and future. This book should be required reading for everyone interested in gender justice and committed to the full human rights of all women and men." -- France Winddance Twine * coeditor of Feminisms and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice *"With her characteristic brilliance, Lynn Chancer charts the hard-won victories and persistent obstacles that have marked women's changing status since the rise of second wave feminism. After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism is a tour-de-force diagnosis of contemporary feminism's conundrums and a blueprint for feminists of all stripes to come together to achieve equality." -- Kathleen Gerson * author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family *"Lynn Chancer offers us an alternative to 'leaning in,' one responsive to the needs of diverse groups of women and rooted in intersectional activism. Her insights are a welcome and revitalizing intervention, outlining a bold and practical way forward and a hopeful path toward 'big tent' feminism." -- Kerwin Kaye * Wesleyan University *"Lynn Chancer, a lifelong feminist scholar, has the perspective necessary to help us understand where feminism is now, where it came from, and where it could go. Whether you're a newly-minted feminist or an old hand, this book is a fresh read on feminism's promise for full liberation as well as the roadblocks that could stop the revolution in its tracks." -- Laurie Essig * author of Love, Inc. Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter *"After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism makes a compelling case for how feminists can find common ground from an intersectional perspective to organize for social justice. Impressive and timely, this is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in gender, social movements, and contemporary culture." -- Isabel Pinedo, Hunter College * CUNY *"Lynn Chancer's advice for completing the feminist revolution is sage, practical, and eminently useful. Feminists young and old will be reinvigorated by this call to battle." -- Judith Lorber * author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change *"Lynn Chancer illuminates the commonalities that connect feminists from across the movement. Anyone who has been marginalized because of any aspect of their being—including gender, sexuality, race, class, education, and beyond—will find solace and hope in this book." -- Beverly-Xaviera Watkins * NYU College of Global Public Health *"Throughout this well documented and cogent book, Chancer puts her finger squarely on the inextricable links between the political and personal in tackling these major issues of American feminism." -- Joan Pennel * Affilia *"[This] book provides a well-written to-do list for the next feminist generation. In her standout chapter, 'Debating the 'F' Word,' Chancer provides a concise history of America's complicated relationship with feminism....Chancer's historical storytelling is exceptional here. It is both compelling and accessible." -- Trisha L. Crawshaw * Gender & Society *"[Chancer's] attempt to think through how feminism's sometimes-unproductive divisiveness is connected to structural forces around gender is brave and insightful....[Her] creative strategic suggestions should spark conversation and thought." -- Nancy Whittier * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Taking Stock chapter abstractThis chapter provides an overview of the book and introduces the argument that commonalities and differences are both needed for a revitalized feminist movement. A review of progress and pitfalls, including ongoing ambivalence about the word feminism, is offered. Four shared causes are suggested: inequalities in the workplace and at schools, personal freedoms and reproductive justice, ending violence against women, and the problem of sexist imagery. These are linked with "partial successes" aimed at reframing these social problems. For instance, achieving gender parities in the political and economic realms, where the United States still lags, will likely require availability of high-quality and affordable daycare for all women. Likewise, stereotypes may not be overcome until women have equal power and control of the culture industries. Finally, the chapter provides brief previews of the volume. 2Debating the "F" Word chapter abstractAiming at identifying a set of reasons for ambivalence still felt by many women (and men) toward the word feminist, this chapter begins by exploring early antifeminist reactions that sought to stigmatize feminists as judgmental and "anti-male." The author argues that judgments also sometimes divided feminists themselves, from the second wave onward. Moreover, problems involving women who pursued careers and those who worked at home may have unwittingly become separated as "mass issues" as the American feminist movement unfolded. Other reasons cited for ambivalence include insufficient attention to race and class differences among women, and the structurally divisive character of gender itself, which often goes unrecognized. The chapter underscores the importance of taking feminist standpoints on social issues rather than judging individuals; such standpoints can inform policy positions so that all women's needs and experiences are constructively encompassed. 3Achieving Political, Economic, and Educational Equalities chapter abstractIn the public realms of politics, the economy, and education, women have made great progress but have not yet achieved equal participation (or gender parity) with men. By some statistical measures, American women's political participation lags behind many other countries and has plateaued or worsened. While women now make approximately eighty cents to the dollar of male earnings, reflecting steady gains, complete parity has not been reached here either. Nor have women become equal participants in all academic disciplines, such as the sciences. This chapter suggests that part of the problem in the United States is that contrary to early feminists' intentions, universally affordable and high-quality daycare has not yet been achieved for women across class, racial/ethnic, and other differences. Without this achievement, the author argues, parity will be hard to attain for all women; she calls for renewed feminist attention to this issue. 4Liberating Sexual Choices chapter abstractIntimate freedoms—involving reproductive rights and justice, as well as LGBTQ sexual freedoms—still elude achievement for all women, even though important battles involving legalization (of abortion rights in 1973, and of gay marriage in 2015) have been won since the second wave. Yet by several political and ideological criteria, pro-choice advocates are on the defensive as abortion's availability has contracted relative to earlier decades. The LGBTQ movement has recently been able to use rights and equality discourses effectively, though ongoing biases and setbacks have recently occurred also. The author argues that both of these feminist issues—reproductive and sexual freedoms—have been affected by challenges to the constitutional separation of church and state. She suggests that the two movements are best fought for separately and together to maximize collective feminist efficacy on these issues of personal choice. 5Ending Violence against Women—and Men chapter abstractAs with overall violence in the United States, violence against women diminished in recent decades. However, gender skewing continues as violence is committed disproportionately by men. Feminist approaches to violence against women have been criticized for inadequate insensitivity to intersectional concerns. This chapter suggests that feminists ask why violence against women continues in the first place; the author argues that changing "ordinary" sexist assumptions is needed, as these may exist on the same continuum as "extraordinary" sexist acts and violence. Kindred with C. J. Pascoe's concept, the idea of "compulsory masculinity" is used to denote pressures on young men to act in sexist and heterosexist ways to avoid stigmatization. The chapter advocates renewed attention to both intersectional differences and common sexist ideas as experienced by young men and women at school, in families, and within other social institutions. 6Changing Sexist Imagery chapter abstractHuge transformations have occurred in how gender is portrayed in popular culture, from television to films, music, advertising, and news. However, when examining not only changes in gendered contents but forms—that is, whether women hold equal power and control in these industries—the situation is less sanguine. Evidence suggests a tremendous disparity between progress in altering gendered cultural contents and progress in diminishing the male-dominated character of the culture industries overall. What the author calls "looksism," or sexist biases on the basis of looks, is also an ongoing problem for women. Awareness is shifting as feminists in Hollywood, partly inspired by the Me Too movement, call for equal power. This chapter documents the need for "taking back" these male-dominated industries, suggesting that without such change, the gender revolution in culture will remain incomplete. 7Taking Back a Revolution chapter abstractThe concluding chapter returns to the book's chief arguments for the simultaneous consideration of commonalities and differences, and for bringing together common issues reframed so as to take both dimensions into account. It also returns to the language of the feminist "third wave" to indicate that other renewals of feminism(s) have occurred. But argued here is that the present situation is especially urgent for renewing feminist commitments, some of which may be newly threatened; the author contends that unnecessary divisiveness can be particularly consequential. Most important, the chapter argues for awareness of feminist concerns about taking both emotions and rationality into consideration when approaching the major remaining tasks outlined throughout the volume.
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John Wiley & Sons Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement
Book SynopsisIn late 19th-century America, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land or adventure, leaving their wives to handle family, farm and business affairs on their own. Based on the experiences of over 50 women, this text examines the lives of these "women in waiting".
£18.86
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Mary Hallock Foote
Book SynopsisDevoted wife and mother. Novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote published novels, short story collections, stories and essays, and innumerable illustrations. Darlis Miller examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman.
£17.06
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Book SynopsisThe first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis Miller traces one woman’s quest for professional recognition in the face of social constraints.
£19.90
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Edith The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick
Book SynopsisChicago's quirky patron saint. This thrilling story of a daughter of America's foremost industrialist, John D. Rockefeller, is complete with sex, money, mental illness, and opera divas–and a woman who strove for the independence to make her own choices.Trade Review“Edith Rockefeller was the most intelligent, creative, and misunderstood of John D.’s children. In this well-researched and nuanced biography, Ross recounts how Edith’s determination, boldness, and sheer will defied her patriarchal family. Her belief in a socially responsible life led to significant contributions in medicine, philosophy, psychology, and the civic life of Chicago. The arc of her life reveals startling shifts certain to surprise and engage the reader.”—Clarice Stasz, author, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy “Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick is a revealing and captivating account that illuminates the significance and the originality of my great-grandmother. Fascinating!”—A descendant of Edith Rockefeller McCormick“Andrea Friederici Ross has brought fresh light to the story of the powerful Rockefeller family through the life of John D.’s daughter Edith. Raised in a strict Baptist household where her mother, Laura Spelman, carried on John’s prescription of severe thriftiness despite enormous wealth, Edith liberated herself through marriage to another wealthy heir, Harold McCormick. Extravagant in the extreme and often in debt, the power couple lived a peripatetic life marked alternatively by great joy and tragedy, excessive spending and generous philanthropy. Ross masterfully weaves in the family’s struggles with mental illness and their pursuit of treatment through the new field of psychoanalysis and old-fashioned quackery. Edith takes us into the world of early twentieth-century industrial capitalists and a new generation of modern women seeking to reshape America and claim their place. A captivating read!”—Kate Clifford Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy DaughterTable of Contents Preface Growing Up Rockefeller 1872-1888 The Prince of McCormick Reaper 1888-1895 Trickle Down Edith 1896-1899 The Show Must Go On 1900-1904 Dangers 1905-1910 Grand Causes 1909-1911 Trying to Stay Sane 1911-1913 A New Father Figure 1913-1914 In for the Long Haul 1915-1916 Psychological Club 1916-1917 A Family in Tatters 1917-1920 Trying to Find a Way Home 1919-1921 On Her Own 1921-1922 A Year in the Life 1922-1923 Partnership 1921-1925 Elder Stateswoman 1925-1928 Full Steam Ahead, Blindly 1926-1928 Disaster 1928-1932 Death 1932 Aftermath 1932 Legacy Acknowledgments Abbreviation Notes Sources Index
£999.99
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Wit Virtue and Emotion British Womens
Book SynopsisOver a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Revolution in Mood: Emblems, Embodiment, and Ephemera 2. On the Stage: Dramatized Women’s Rhetoric 3. In Sociable Venues: Clubs, Salons, and Debating Societies 4. On the Page: Written Rhetoric and Arguments About Education Reflection on Findings Appendix A: Eighteenth-century Terminology for Sex and Gender Identity Appendix B: Table of Precedency Among Ladies Bibliography Notes Index
£30.56
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Mary Lincoln Demystified Frequently Asked
Book SynopsisAfter portraying Mary Todd Lincoln in hundreds of performances and giving lectures over a more than thirty-year career, Donna D. McCreary has fielded every imaginable inquiry about the First Lady. Gathered here, readers will find answers to the most frequently asked questions to come from live audiences.Trade Review “The remarkable amount of biographical and interpretive coverage in this volume is a tribute to the author’s persistence and ability. Donna D. McCreary has cleared away whole swaths of error in fact or opinion left by previous writers and passers-by about Mary Lincoln. If the author had merely touched upon her great knowledge of Mary’s wardrobe, family, photographs, travels, views on slavery or suffrage, or friends, this book would still be invaluable; yet she has addressed in depth two dozen more topics than those. At last, Mary Lincoln is given her due.” —James M. Cornelius, coauthor of Under Lincoln’s Hat: 100 Objects, That Tell the Story of His Life and Legacy “Dismissing Mary Lincoln as a villain does no justice to her, to Abraham Lincoln, or to history. She was not a caricature. She was a complicated, intelligent, passionate, flawed human being. To demystify her is to know her better and, in turn, to know Abraham Lincoln better; and McCreary seeks to do just that by illustrating Mary Lincoln’s humanity.”—Stacy Pratt McDermott, author of Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman “McCreary offers many interesting—and uncommon—details about our famous first lady, and includes some downright unique information. It has been years since I’ve read any new or detailed information about the Todd family and Mary’s dynamic within it; and McCreary’s chapter on Mary’s experiences and opinions regarding slavery and African Americans is something that has been sorely needed in the canon for a long time.”—Jason Emerson, author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln and Mary Lincoln for the Ages “It’s doubtful that anyone, not even Abraham, ever believed they had fully demystified Mary Lincoln, but in laying the most important questions before us and offering accessible and well-informed answers, Donna McCreary has done the next best thing.”—Gerald Prokopowicz, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association “McCreary’s insatiable curiosity, encyclopedic knowledge, lucid prose, and inventive QA format allow her to include the multitude of details that cannot all be included in a traditional narrative.”—The National Book Review “McCreary’s book contains information not found elsewhere… and a uniquely thorough timeline. While sympathetic to the woman she portrayed for two decades, McCreary examines both sides of controversial issues and presents the facts with her trademark style and flair. This book will be a fine reference for quite a long time.”—Illinois State Historical Society Awards Selection CommitteeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Mary Grows Up in the Bluegrass: TheLexington Years, 1818 to 1835 2. Wife, Mother,andFriend:The Springfield Years, 1835 to February 1861 3.Assailedfrom All Sides:The White House Years, 1860 to 1865 4. The Darkest Night of All:Lincoln’s Assassination, April 15, 1865 5. Widowhood and Exile, 1865 to 1882 6. The Issue of Sanity 7. Family Relationships 8.Mary, The Issue of Slavery, and African Americans 9. Personality and Personal Habits 10. Beyond the Grave Appendix I – Her Family Appendix II – Her Friends Appendix III –Timeline Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£21.71
Northwestern University Press The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in
Book SynopsisInvestigates the implications for Christian theology of Jung's special insights into the feminine. Ann Belford Ulanov gathers together in one volume what Jung and Jungians have discovered about the feminine in order to explore what Jungian thought and methods may illuminate about the place of the feminine in Christian theology.
£23.96
Northwestern University Press Stein Reader
Book SynopsisThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many key works that are virtually unknown or unavailable.
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Northwestern University Press Beyond the Public Sphere
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of films, María Pía Lara dissects cinematic images of women's struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation.Trade ReviewMaría Pía Lara's magnificent book brings an urgent new perspective into old debates about the public sphere: by exploring the potential of the current cinematic imagination, she discloses powerful new tools for feminist critique. A must-read." - Chiara Bottici, author of A Philosophy of Political Myth"Beyond the Public Sphere offers a highly original conceptualization of the feminist cinematic imaginary as a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to the forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism. By foregrounding issues of gender subordination and sexual violence, Lara's book shows brilliantly how critical theory of the Frankfurt School tradition can speak to the political paradoxes and challenges of the #MeToo era." - Amy Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory"Fighting domination and promoting emancipation is not only a matter of norms and arguments but also of powerful images, creative metaphors and the bold imagination of different lives and other spaces. Reconstructing and recovering an important but often neglected thematic strand in Critical Social Theory and Feminist Philosophy, MarÍa PÍa Lara powerfully advances and exemplifies a view of political and social struggles that highlights the decisive role of images and the imagination." - Martin Saar, author of The Immanence of Power: Political Theory After/According to SpinozaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The New Topography of Space 1. The Feminist Imaginary Through the Cinematic Imagination 2. Three Models of Imagination: As Faculty, as Context, and as Imaginal 3. A Genealogy of the Concept/Image of Rape: A Critical Reconstruction of the Patriarchal Social Imaginary 4. Anachronisms and Representations as Tools for a Critical Feminist Social Imaginary 5. The Lost Promise of Feminist Agency in Modern Political Theories Conclusion: The New Road to Visibilities: Overcoming Secrets, Invisibility, and Exclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press Feelin
Book SynopsisFeeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: internal and complex, entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and joy, and manifesting artistic production itself as the meaning of the work.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Feel Me Chapter 1. A Black Study in Grief : Salish Sea Chapter 2. Lucille Clifton’s Atheology of Joy! Chapter 3. Ecstatic Vocal Practice Chapter 4.Shame and the Visual Field of Black Motherhood Chapter 5. Toward a Methodology of Anger The End: Everything in the Ocean Notes Bibliography
£29.71
University of Pennsylvania Press African Feminism
Book SynopsisAfrican feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with bread, butter, and power issues.Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.Trade Review"This book is the best thing I've seen on the question-not only of 'feminism' in its African articulation but also, more generally, on the question of how feminism emerges and what it means to those who espouse it." * Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Feminist Anthropology
Book SynopsisFeminist Anthropology probes critical issues in the study of gender, sex, and sexuality. While feminist anthropology is often perceived as fragmented, this vital new work establishes common ground and situates feminist inquiries within the larger context of social theory and anthropological practice.Table of ContentsForeword. Taking stock—the transformation of feminist theorizing in anthropology Introduction. Feminist anthropology: perspectives on our past, present, and future 1. The future of gender or the end of a brilliant career? 2. Feminist theories of embodiment and anthropological imagination: making bodies matter 3. Gender, genes, and the evolution of human birth 4. Marriage, matrifocality, and "missing" men 5. Archaeologists, feminists, and queers: sexual politics in the construction of the past 6. In the midst of the moving waters: material, metaphor, and feminist archaeology 7. Materiality and social change in the practice of feminist anthropology. 8. Feminist perspectives and the teaching of archaeology: implications from the inadvertent ethnography of the classroom 9. Toward a (more) feminist pedagogy in biological anthropology: ethnographic reflections and classroom strategies 10. The professional is political Afterword: on waves
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University of Pennsylvania Press Marriage and Violence
Book SynopsisMarriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But whator whomust be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? Dolan reveals the contradiction that lies at the very heart of modern marriage. We have inherited from early modern England a model of marriage, she contends, so flawed that its logical consequence is conflict.Trade Review"A sophisticated, erudite discussion of the tensions between egalitarian and hierarchical principles in the Anglo-American ideal of marriage. Dolan provocatively argues that these tensions illustrate important continuities between seventeenth- and twenty-first-century marital models and have created recurring dilemmas in our theory and practice of marriage." * Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage *"Why does marriage so often lead to violence? In her timely and important new book, Frances Dolan identifies the culprit: an 'economy of scarcity' that modern marriage inherits from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Powerfully argued and wonderfully well documented, Marriage and Violence provides a rare example of how historical scholarship can illuminate the present." * Richard Helgerson *"Marriage and Violence is an original, timely, and compelling study of the impact of early modern English discourses about marriage on contemporary understandings of marital violence. Arguing that when marriage explodes into violence we can see the past haunting the present, Dolan both presents a radically new history of marriage and provides us with some new conceptual tools for rethinking present marital ideologies." * Valerie Traub, University of Michigan *"In this brilliant analysis of the contradictory but persistent model of marriage that continues to haunt modern versions of the institution . . . Dolan supports her wide-ranging and provocative claims with scholarship that is impressively comprehensive and meticulously detailed. . . . A book of value not only to historians but also to twenty-first-century individuals interested in rethinking the institution of marriage and the gender dynamics within it." * Citation for Honorable Mention in the 2009 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award competition *"Frances Dolan's marvellously polemical book explores the conceptual underpinnings of marriage. . . . Her bracing attack on the structure of marriage is intended to provoke debate in order to find new ways of thinking about the marital relationship. It will surely do that and, in a world which sees the persistence of marital violence every day in its most brutal form, such questioning is to be applauded." * English Historical Review *"Well researched and based on a rigorous, prolonged comparison between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature and late twentieth-century American evangelical books of marital counsel. . . . The book is a splendid read." * Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. One Flesh, Two Heads: Debating the Biblical Blueprint for Marriage in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries. Chapter Two. Battered Women, Petty Traitors, and the Legacy of Coverture Chapter Three. Fighting for the Breeches, Sharing the Rod: Spouses, Servants, and the Struggle for Equality Chapter Four. How a Maiden Keeps Her Head: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the Perils of Marriage Afterword Notes Index Acknowledgments
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Star Crossed
Book SynopsisExplores the often-overlooked psychological health of astronauts, examining how they are cared for and what changes have been made in recent years to support space travellers on long-term missions. Moore's story is a riveting journey inside the high-pressure world of one of America's most elite agencies and the life of one beleaguered astronaut.Trade Review"Moore...explains in her gripping debut how Nowak, a decorated astronaut and mother of three, could risk everything for love.... This is must reading for true crime fans." —Publishers Weekly“In 2007, former astronaut Lisa Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to confront U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the woman who broke up the ongoing affair between Nowak and another NASA astronaut, William Oefelein. She was arrested for assault after pepper-spraying Shipman, but the police had reason to believe murder may have been her intent. The details of Nowak’s crime are saved until the second half of the book. The first half focuses on her space flight in 2006, her colleagues’ thoughts about her, and her subsequent failure to qualify for a trip to the moon. Journalist Moore, who originally covered Nowak’s criminal trial for Florida Today, makes a compelling case that Nowak was suffering a breakdown at the time of the crime; not in spite of being an astronaut, but rather directly related to her career. The sections exploring the mental and emotional demands made of astronauts, and NASA’s declining mental-health screening and counseling protocols will fascinate readers. While the very detailed information about moon missions may distract some true-crime fans, this is an engaging character study of a woman who seemed to have everything and lost it all.”—Booklist
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University Press of Florida Mary McLeod Bethune the PanAfricanist
Book SynopsisExamines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organisations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora.
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University Press of Florida Mary McLeod Bethune the PanAfricanist
Book SynopsisExamines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organisations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora.
£56.95
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Janet Reno
Book SynopsisIn this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938-2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconventional life of a woman who grew up in a rural South Florida homestead and rose to occupy one of the top positions in the United States government.Trade ReviewThe warm biography of a consequential attorney general—atrailblazer whose singular experiences helped her to navigate some of thecountry's thorniest legal challenges."—Foreword Reviews
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University Press of Florida GritTempered
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Rutgers University Press Mothers and Children Feminist Analyes and
Book SynopsisThis feminist analysis of mothers, mothering and motherhood combines an evaluation of empirical and theoretical work with firsthand personal accounts by mothers or caregivers.Trade ReviewCombining sociological feminist analysis with personal narratives, Chase attempts to anchor the historical and social contexts of motherhood in the real world. . . . The book does work, however, mostly because the authors chose to discuss important issues surrounding motherhood and because the structure of analysis and narrative is excellent. * Choice *In combining theoretical and empirical investigation with the actual personal narratives of caregivers and mothers, this feminist work offers not only an original view of motherhood, but also looks at how issues of race, sexuality, feminism, poverty, and reproductive health affect womenÆs lives. * Sociological Abstracts *Chase and Rogers confront these confusing and conflicting beliefs about motherhood from an explicitly feminist perspective. They clearly delineate their theoretical framework, making many of their assumptions explicit in the introduction. . . . An illuminating book, providing a much-needed perspective on the concept of motherhood. The chapters and lively and easy to read, and Rogers and Chase make most of their theoretical assumptions transparent allowing the reader to evaluate the presented material for herself. * Contemporary Sociology *A skillful balance of feminist scholarship and first-person accounts, Mothers and Children richly conveys the many challenges and pleasures of feminist motherhood. Clear, insightful, and moving, the book is ideal for classroom use. -- Linda L. Layne * author of Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Anthropological Analysis of Pregnancy and *Mothers and Children brings theory and experience together to show the complexity of feminist thinking about motherhood. It is a wonderful contribution to the literature on feminism and motherhood. -- Lauri Umansky * author of Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties *
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