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Book SynopsisFalling in love is a beautiful thing. The internet, naturally, has taken this beauty and turned it into something deeply, deeply strange. Featuring screenshots from real-life dating conversations, Is This Love or Dopamine? is a hilarious, piercing analysis of the weird-and-not-so-wonderful world of internet dating.@beam_me_up_softboi creator and journalist Iona David explores all the highs, horrors and heartbreaks: from the all-important first DM slide to the inevitable eventual ghosting; from f*ckboys and Tinder anthems to loaded emojis and revenge selfies. Learn what to do if someone uses teehee' in a sext (run for the hills) or has a photo of themselves holding a massive fish on their profile (run faster).A dedication to all the hours spent lying in bed/sitting on the toilet swiping until thumb cramp sets in, this book will make you laugh, then cry, then delete your dating app profile, then (obviously) re-download it again. Long live the internet!Trade Review‘Iconic’ – Matty Healy ‘One day researchers will use this book as a holy text to explain why the birth rate dropped from about 2019 onwards’ – Joel Golby ‘Any millennial or zoomer could tell you that modern dating is an absolute nightmare. From the first hello on a dating app to the bizarre post-coital interactions, most of us have dealt with the ego of softbois and f*ckbois alike. But now, we finally have someone who can really rationalise today's digital dating landscape with a wealth of data. Iona's done us all a favour by chronicling online interactions that prove our sneaking suspicion that romance might actually be dead. Her deconstruction of the softboi, internet lingo and ultimately our feelings around dating gives us the reassurance that we are not alone.’ – Swipes4Daddy (Erika Gajda) ‘After spending years running a meme account dedicated to airing examples of men doing profoundly bad flirting, most people would give up and embrace a life of quiet celibacy. Not Iona David. In Is This Love or Dopamine, David wades even deeper into the weeds of digital dating, studying the 'softbois' and 'f*ckboys' of the field while saying something wider about how we look for love in the modern world. Smart, sympathetic and wickedly funny, it’s an essential emotional support manual for those unfortunate enough to be horny and online.’ – Emma Garland

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Book SynopsisHanna Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and a founder and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate's women's section. She has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, and The New Republic, and for a number of years covered politics and religion for the Washington Post. In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and in 2010 she won one. She is the author of a previous book, God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America. Rosin lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Slate editor David Plotz, and their three children.Trade ReviewOne of the most controversial books since Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth * Stylist *Explosive * Daily Mail *Very readable, entertaining, informative . . . alarming * Management Today *Rosin's reporting is not just deep and thorough and responsible, it rises to the level of art * Financial Times *Fascinating * Sunday Times *Rosin is a gifted storyteller with a talent for ferreting out volumes of illustrative data, and she paints a compelling picture of the ways women are ascendant * Time *One of the year's most sparred over books * Times *Fascinating -- David Brooks * New York Times *A persuasive, research-grounded argument * Esquire *Provocative . . . makes us see the larger picture * Wall Street Journal *Rosin has her finger squarely on the pulse of contemporary culture . . . fresh and compelling * USA Today *

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Book SynopsisThe Turkish-language release of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History is a politically engaged translation aimed at disrupting Turkey's heteropatriarchal virginity codes. In Virgin Crossing Borders, Emek Ergun maps how she crafted her rendering of the text and draws on her experience and the book's impact to investigate the interventionist power of feminist translation. Ergun's comparative framework reveals translation's potential to facilitate cross-border flows of feminist theories, empower feminist interventions, connect feminist activists across differences and divides, and forge transnational feminist solidarities. As she considers hopeful and woeful pictures of border crossings, Ergun invites readers to revise their views of translation's role in transnational feminism and examine their own potential as ethically and politically responsible agents willing to search for new meanings. Sophisticated and compelling, Virgin Crossing Borders reveals translation's vital role in Trade Review“A beautifully written book that takes the reader on a journey, beginning with the author’s interest in the topic through her struggles to create a translation that will empower and change the lives of her readers and the way they see the world. Ergun makes a convincing case for how essential translation is for transnational feminism and provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what translations can do. This book left me feeling inspired and even hopeful--a rare experience in these troubling times.”--Kathy Davis, author of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across BordersTable of ContentsForeword AnaLouise Keating Preface: Traveling (with) Books Acknowledgments Introduction: Translation in Feminism / Feminism in Translation Comparative Geohistories of Virginity Re-visioning Virginity in the Rewriting of Virgin Remaking Feminist Subjectivity in Feminist Translation Local Politics of Feminist Translation Feminist Translation as a Praxis of Cross-Border Interconnectivity Imagined Translational Feminist Communities Conclusion: Translation in Transnational/Transnational in Translation Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCelebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago''s history, from the 1970s to today.I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, Living Dolls is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity.''This book marked a real feminist awakening for me . . . it might make you rage, but in a good, important way'' Laura Bates, ELLE ''Required reading for everyone who cares about our humaTrade ReviewThis book marked a real feminist awakening for me . . . it might make you rage, but in a good, important way * Elle *

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Book SynopsisA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claimsfrom Ovid's Ars Amatoria to Seneca and Marcus Aureliusarguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations but is now under siege. Not All Dead White Men reveals that some of the most controversial and consequential debates about the legacy of the ancients are raging not in universities but online. A chilling account of trolling, misogyny, racism, and bad history proliferated online by the Alt-Right Zuckerberg makes a persuasive case for why we need a new, more critical, and less comfortable relationship between the ancient and modern worlds in this important and very timely book.Emily Wilson, translator of The OdysseyExplores how ideas about Ancient Greece and Rome are used and misused by antifeminist thinkers today.TimeZuckerberg presciently analyzes these communities'embrace of stoicism as a self-help tool to gain confidence, jobs, and girlfriends. Their adoration of men like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Ovidis founded in a limited and distorted interpretation of ancient philosophylending heft and authority to sexism and abuse.The NationTraces the applicationand misapplicationof classical authors and texts in online communities that see feminism as a threat.Bitch MediaTrade ReviewA chilling account of trolling, misogyny, racism, and bad history proliferated online by the Alt-Right, bolstered by the apparent authority of Greek and Latin Classics. Zuckerberg makes a persuasive case for why we need a new, more critical, and less comfortable relationship between the ancient and modern worlds in this important and very timely book. -- Emily Wilson, translator of The OdysseyExplores how ideas about Ancient Greece and Rome are used and misused by antifeminist thinkers today. * Time *Zuckerberg characterizes the ‘Red Pill’ online community as the corner of the internet dominated by men’s-rights activists, the alt-right, pickup artists, and the sex-eschewing communities known as Men Going Their Own Way…Virtually all these subgroups appropriate classical literature for their own purposes. * The Atlantic *Zuckerberg presciently analyzes [‘red-pill’] communities’ (and sections of Silicon Valley’s) embrace of stoicism as a self-help tool to gain confidence, jobs, and girlfriends. Their adoration of men like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Ovid, whose Ars Amatoria earned him the reputation of being history’s first pickup artist, is founded in a limited and distorted interpretation of ancient philosophy, she writes, lending heft and authority to sexism and abuse. * The Nation *The book is an achievement… An admirable foray into the difficult and often distressing terrain of far-right politics, and an important contribution to the growing collection of essays, archives and discussions centered on the place of classics in today’s thorny political landscape. * Times Literary Supplement *Traces the application—and misapplication—of classical authors and texts in online communities that see feminism as a threat. * Bitch Media *Zuckerberg argues that it is important to study why classical texts have been weaponized by [The Red Pill] and how, regardless of their ‘appropriation of antiquity,’ the ancient texts are already problematic themselves. * Los Angeles Review of Books blog *Not just an incredibly important book that teaches readers about the tactics of a far-right, antifeminist online community, the ‘manosphere,’ but also demonstrates ways in which experts can use their knowledge to deconstruct the use and abuse of history. * EuropeNow *A clear explanation of the machinations of the red pill community…Offers some sense of how individuals with an interest in progressive politics might respond to not only the abuse of ancient works, but also to the works themselves. In dissecting the far right’s misuse of these texts, Zuckerberg opens the door to a reconsideration of what is and isn’t the ‘foundation of Western Civilization.’ * Ploughshares *Aims to take back the writings of the ancients from misogynist online communities. * Publishers Weekly *This brilliant new book offers a must-read analysis of classicizing antifeminist diatribes that will enlighten or serve as a timely warning to all liberals, as well as to members of the Alt-Right and Red Pill men’s groups (if only they would read it). -- Paul Cartledge, author of Democracy: A LifeA fearless online pioneer in her role as the editor of Eidolon, Zuckerberg is perfectly placed to guide us through the radicalized virtual territory of the Alt-Right. Not only does she force us to face the worst of what Classical authors say about male superiority and sexual privilege, weaponized in the roiling echo chambers of reddit, she also compels us to reflect on why we nonetheless teach and take pleasure in Greek and Roman texts. -- Joy Connolly, author of The Life of Roman RepublicanismIf there was ever a time to dispel myths of racial and gender superiority, it is now. Donna Zuckerberg has written an important book to help us understand how the Western classical canon is weaponized to diminish the humanity of women by anti-feminist online communities. This is a must-read. -- Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of OppressionA clear-eyed look at the dangers of misogyny and racism underlying the reception of Classics. Zuckerberg strikes an admirable balance between defending the study of ancient Greek and Roman authors—those all too familiar ‘dead white men’—and rejecting the insidious assertions of patriarchy and white supremacy that the Alt-Right claims to derive from antiquity. This remarkable book never loses sight of what the Classics can mean to the next generation. -- Gregory Nagy, author of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours[Zuckerberg] is ideally placed to analyze the deeply unpleasant phenomenon of these men appropriating ancient authors—Ovid, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius—to try to bolster their vicious world view…This book is her attempt to document this appropriation of Classics by people who neither know nor care how limited their understanding is. * Spectator *Both a survey of the contemporary landscape the alt-right trawls, as well as a primer in the major Classical texts and precepts they (mis)use. * PopMatters *Required reading for classicists who want to understand how the works we study resonate in contemporary politics. -- Ellen Muehlberger * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *With the proliferation of anti-feminist rhetoric online, the extreme right is using ancient philosophy to boost its credibility. As Stoic ethics moves from lecture halls to Reddit, classicist Donna Zuckerberg exposes this misappropriation, meant to enforce the concept of male superiority. * Nature *Zuckerberg tracks the alt-right’s appropriation of the classics, from the use of classical texts among Men’s Rights Activists to the superficial use of Ovid as inspiration for pickup artists. -- Joel Christensen * Boston Review *

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Book SynopsisMichael Meyer is a critically-acclaimed author and journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and many other outlets. A Fulbright scholar, Guggenheim fellow, Berlin Prize and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center, MacDowell, and the University of Oxford's Centre for Life-Writing. He is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing.

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Book SynopsisThe Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour, while refusing to learn from them or centre their concerns. Far too often, the message is not ‘Me, Too’ but ‘Me, Not You’. Alison Phipps argues that this is not just a lack of solidarity. Privileged white women also sacrifice more marginalised people to achieve their aims, or even define them as enemies when they get in the way.Me, not you argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness that both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, while relying on state power and bureaucracy to purge ‘bad men’ from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. In their attacks on sex workers and trans people, the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement play into the hands of the resurgent far-right.Trade Review'This is a necessary and vital addition to feminist texts. Alison Phipps has done exactly what women of colour wish we saw more of during these days of #NotAllWhiteWomen. She has looked white feminism and political whiteness in the eyes and delivered a much-needed reckoning. It is exhausting to both fight political whiteness and explain to white women what that whiteness is, how it benefits them and why the status quo must end if we are all to be free. This is a book I will be carrying everywhere, eager to share, excited to have Phipps’ words fighting alongside me.'Mona Eltahawy, author of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls'Paints a cohesive and alarming picture of sexual violence activism today.'Textual Practice 'Me, not you is an essential book for this historical moment. Phipps adds to the growing consideration of “carceral feminisms” by writing an accessible text that addresses how white women can enact violence while organising to end sexual violence. I was particularly interested in the book’s theorisation of “political whiteness,” a concept that owes much to the work of Black feminist scholars and activists. Me, not you uplifts this lineage and offers more food for thought. For anyone interested in anti-violence, anti-racism, and anti-criminalisation organising, this book is required reading. I’ll be coming back to it often.'Mariame Kaba, organiser, educator and founder of Project NIATimely is a tired trope for a book recommendation, but if you wanted to capture the solidarity, backlash, and politics of feminism in 2020 Alison Phipps’ Me Not You would be an excellent place to start. Phipps is upfront with her aims for the book – this is a book about mainstream feminism aimed at white people. This is the book I will give to those who still don’t get it and keep next to me for when I forget it. The Sociological ReviewThis book is very relevant to feminism now. The carefully considered research and representation of Phipps provides a way for white feminists to understand the long history and complexity of current public debates surrounding race, gender and, at times, sexuality. LIMINA, a journal of historical and cultural studies.' Me, Not You is essential reading for white women everywhere.'the F word -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Gender in a right-moving world2 Me, not you3 Political whiteness4 The outrage economy5 White feminism as war machine6 Feminists and the far rightConclusion References

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Book SynopsisGendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of women''s experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, while features like learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical structure for the readings.Trade ReviewGendered Voices, Feminist Visions is the best textbook for Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies on the market. My students really come to feel invested in the material, so much so that many of them take up activist work. Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions plays a big role in this transformation because the concepts and the readings are carefully constructed to engage students and show them the importance of what they're studying. It brings insightful discussions and primary texts together to foster insightful and productive conversations among students and instructors. * Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus *I love Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions. It is by far the best text I've used for the Introduction to Gender Studies class. It's a really great all-around textbook * well-written and well-organizedabout as close to perfect as you can get.Robin Ryle, Hanover College *Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions is simply one of the best readers for use in an introductory course. My favorite feature of this text is how it attempts to connect the production of knowledge within the classroom to life outside of the classroom. The many 'Learning Activities' and 'Ideas for Activism' found in each chapter allow students to begin recognizing that what they study in the course has actual relevance and application to their own lives, their personal histories, and to their larger communities. * Jan Wilson, University of Tulsa *Table of ContentsGendered Voices, Feminist Visions (*new to this edition) Preface Acknowledgements About the Authors Chapter 1: Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices The Origins of WGS Women's Rights Activism in the United States WGS Today WGS and Feminism Feminism and its Myths 1. Adrienne Rich, "Claiming an Education" 2. Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Consciousness" 3. *Combahee River Collective Statement 4. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "A Day Without Feminism" 5. Kia M. Q. Hall, "A Transnational Black Feminist Framework" 6. *Valentine M. Moghadam, "Transnational Feminist Networks and Contemporary Crises" 7. Graciela Mochkofsky, "Who Are You Calling Latinx?" 8. Marge Piercy, "My Heroines" Chapter 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality Discourse, Power, and Knowledge Institutions 9. Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward a New Vision" 10. Vivian M. May, "Intersectionality" 11. Audre Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" 12. Gina Crosley-Corcoran, " Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" 13. Evin Taylor, "Cisgender Privilege" 14. Ellie Mamber, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says" 15. *Andrew Pulrang, "On Disability" 16. Jim Ferris "Poems with Disabilities" Chapter 3: Learning Gender Gender, Culture, and Biology Masculinity Femininity Gender Fluidity Gender Ranking 17. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes, Revisited" 18. Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gende" 19. *Lisa M. Diamond, "Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents" 20. *Lise Eliot, "You don't have a male or female brain" 21. *Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, "Becoming a Maya Woman" 22. Nellie Wong, "When I Was Growing Up" 23. *Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" Chapter 4: Inscribing Gender on the Body The Social Construction of the Body The "Beauty" Ideal Eating Disorders Negotiating "Beauty" Ideals 24. *Viren Swamia, et al, "The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey" 25. Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate" 26. *Charlotte Lieberman, "My Eating Disorder Made Me Feel Like a Feminist Fraud" 27. *Marika Tiggemann Flinders, "The effect of viewing celebrity Instagram images with disclaimer and body positive captions on women's body image" 28. Susie Orbach, "Fat is Still a Feminist Issue" 29. *Jackson Bird, "Getting' jacked" Chapter 5: Media and Culture Digital Technologies Television and Streaming Services Movies Contemporary Music and Music Videos Print Media Literature and the Arts 30. Virginia Woolf, "Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister" 31. Emily Dickinson, "The Wife" 32. Audre Lorde, "Poetry is Not a Luxury" 33. *Paul Onanuga, "How young, queer Nigerians use Twitter to shape identity and fight homophobia" 34. *Melanie Kennedy, "TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis" 35. *Stephanie X. Hu, "Toxic Royalty: Feminism and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Disney Princess Films" 36. *Jyni Verma, "What is Pop Feminism?: Unpacking the Layers of 'Girl Power' Feminism" Chapter 6: Sex, Power, and Intimacy The Social Construction of Sexuality The Politics of Sexuality Romantic Intimacy 37. Linda Kay Klein, Pure 38. Ellen Bass, "Gate C22" 39. *Sunita Manian, "An intersectional inquiry into youth sexuality in two Indian states" 40. Carl Collison, "Queer Muslim Women are Making Salaam with Who They Are" 41. *Brandon Ambrosino, "The Invention of 'Heterosexuality'" 42. *Michael Waters, "Finding Asexuality in the Archives" 43. *Simon, Copland, "Born this way? Society, sexuality and the search for the 'gay gene'" 44. Kimberly Springer, "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality" Chapter 7: Health and Reproductive Justice Health and Wellness Health Equity Androcentrism and Medicalization Stereotyping Corporate Responsibility Reproductive Justice Sterilization Practices Parenting Options and Contraceptive Technologies Abortion in the United States The Chipping Away of Roe v Wade 45. *Renee Fabian, "Why Mental Health Is A Feminist Issue" 46. *Kristina Hinz, et al, "Unholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justice" 47. Sarah Combellick-Bidney, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights" 48. Aisha Wagner, "Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race-Our Patients Depend on It" 49. *Whitney Wood and Joanna Bourke, "Conceptualising Gender and Pain in Modern History" 50. Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto,"On Being Transnational and Transgender" 51. *Jennifer Gerson, "How Indigenous Women Repealed New Mexico's Longstanding Abortion Ban" Chapter 8: Family Systems, Family Lives Definitions of Family Family Diversity Institutional Connections Gender, Power, and Family Relationships Family Work Parenting Household Labor 52. Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love" 53. *Katherine Goldstein, "Where are the Mothers" 54. *C. Nicole Mason, "A Black, Queer Single Mother on Why I Am Proud to Use the Term Single Mother by Choice" 55. *How to Make Your Marriage Gayer 56. *Emma John, "Why are increasing numbers of women choosing to be single?" 57. 8.6 Folah Oludayo and Susan Shaw, "Family Violence is Fueling the Trafficking of Yorùbá Girls in Nigeria" 58. Mohja Kahf, "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears" Chapter 9: Paid Employment Trends and Legalities The Dual Labor Market and the Changing Economy Labor Force Participation Differences in Earned Income 59. Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter, "A Brief History of Working Women" 60. *Corinne Schwarz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton, "Aligned Across Difference" 61. *Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahid, "Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap?" 62. *Christopher Carpenter and Gilbert Gonzales, "Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor" 63. *Madison Pauly, "Massage Parlor Workers Say Policing Isn't the Answer to the Violence They Face" 64. Leah Fessler, "Workplace Harassment in the Age of Remote Work" Chapter 10: Resisting Gender Violence Gender Violence in the US and Worldwide Child Molestation and Incest Teen Violence Stalking Sexual Assault and Rape Intimate Partner Physical Violence 65. Mariah Lockwood, "She Said" 66. *Emilie Linder, "Gender Aspects of Human Trafficking" 67. *Homa Khaleeli, "#SayHerName" 68. *Chelsea Spencer, et al, "Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities" 69. *Lisa Monchalina, Olga Marquesb, Charles Reasons, Prince Arorad, "Homicide and Indigenous peoples in North America" 70. *Mikki Kendall, Gun Violence 71. Grace Caroline Bridges, "Lisa's Ritual, Age 10" Chapter 11: State, Law, and Social Policy Government and Representation Gender and Citizenship Gender and Electoral Politics Public Policy The Criminal Justice System The Military 72. Susan B. Anthony, "Constitutional Argument" 73. *Kaden Paulson-Smith, "Political Violence Targeting LGBT+ Communities in Africa" 74. *Jim Daley, "Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests" 75. Margot Wallstrom, "Speech on Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy" (75) 76. *Brenda Della Casa, "What It Feels Like to be on Welfare" 77. *Susan M. Shaw, "The Women of the Insurrection" Chapter 12: Religion and Spirituality Religion as Oppressive Religion as Empowering Gender and God-Language Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions Interconnections between Religion and Other Social Institutions Creating New Spiritual Traditions 78. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Introduction to The Woman's Bible" 79. *Ansel Elkins, "Autobiography of Eve" 80. 12.3 Karen McCarthy Brown, "Fundamentalism and the Control of Women" 81. *Brittney Cooper, "Grown-Woman Theology" 82. *Maryam Khan & Nick J. Mulé, "LBTQ Muslim Women Living Out Intersectional Lives in North America" 83. *Salomé Grouard, "Buddhist Nuns and Their Crusade for Recognition in Southeast Asia" 84. *Mara H. Benjamin, "Tracing the Contours of Half a Century of Jewish Feminist Theology" 85. *Kelly Brown Douglas, "How Evangelicals Became White" Chapter 13: Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures The Promise of Feminist Education Activism Future Visions 86. Byron Hurt, "Feminist Men" 87. Maizi, "I Went to Jail for Handing out Feminist Stickers in China" 88. *Kalki Subramanian, "I'm on a mission to empower India's transgender community, one painted palm at a time" 89. Teresa Velasquez, "Mestiza Women's Anti-Mining Activism in Andean Ecuador" 90. Lucas Platero and Esther Ortega-Arjonilla, "Building Coalitions" 91. Laurie Penny, "Most Women You Know are Angry" 92. Loretta J. Ross, "Speaking Up Without Tearing Down" 93. Yvette Alex-Assensoh, "What's Love Got to Do with It?" 94. *Kristal Brent Zook, "How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy" 95. Jenny Joseph, "Warning"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[The writing] is a real strength. . . . Mann teaches well in the book. She offers an impressive, wide-ranging overview of the history of feminist theory."--Deirdre M. Condit, Virginia Commonwealth "Mann does an excellent job of mapping the thematic development of the theories shaping U.S. feminism. The author's ability to 'connect the dots' is impressive and instructive."--Hawley Fogg-Davis, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; USING THIS TEXT TO NAVIGATE FEMINIST THOUGHT; CHAPTER 1: DOING FEMINIST THEORY; INTRODUCTION: DECONSTRUCTING THE "F-WORD": WHAT IS FEMINISM?; BOXED INSERTS; BOX 1.1 WHAT IS FEMINISM?; BOX 1.3 THE UNFORGIVEABLE TRANSGRESSION OF BEING CASTER SEMENYA; BOX 1.4 POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY; SECTION I: MODERN FEMINIST THOUGHT; CHAPTER 2: LIBERAL FEMINISMS; INTRODUCTION; BOX 2.1 THE ADAMS' LETTERS; BOX 2.2 THE MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEPING MOVEMENT; CHAPTER 3: RADICAL FEMINISMS; INTRODUCTION; BOX 3.2 "REDSTOCKINGS MANIFESTO"; CHAPTER 4: MARXIST, SOCIALIST & ANARCHIST FEMINISMS; INTRODUCTION; MARXIST, SOCIALIST & ANARCHIST FEMINISMS IN EARLY MODERNITY; WOMEN'S WORK IN THE HOME; LOVE, MARRIAGE & SEXUAL PRACTICES; PRECURSORS TO ECOFEMINISM IN EARLY MODERNITY; EXISTENTIAL SOCIALIST FEMINISM; WOMEN'S WORK IN LATE MODERNITY; NEW DIRECTIONS IN FEMINIST THOUGHT INSPIRED BY THE OLD & NEW LEFT; QUEER ANTI-CAPITALISM; SOCIALIST FEMINIST STANDPOINT APPROACHES; BOXED INSERTS; BOX 4.2 LENIN ON "SEX-LOVE"; BOX 4.3 A COMPARISON OF FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICIES IN THE U.S. & SCANDINAVIA; BOX 4.4. "TO MY WHITE WORKING-CLASS SISTERS"; CHAPTER 5: INTERSECTIONALITY THEORIES; INTRODUCTION; PRECURSORS TO INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSES IN EARLY MODERNITY; SECTION II: FEMINIST THOUGHT AFTER TAKING THE POSTMODERN TURN; CHAPTER 6: POSTMODERNISM, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, QUEER & TRANSGENDER THEORIES; INTRODUCTION; HISTORICALLY GROUNDING POSTMODERNISM & POSTSTRUCTURALISM; MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS OF FEMINIST POSTMODERNISMS & POSTSTRUCTURALISMS; EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS; QUEER ECOFEMINISMS; CHAPTER 7: THIRD WAVE FEMINISMS; INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION: THE "UNHAPPY MARRIAGE" OF THE MODERN & POSTMODERN; SECTION III: THEORY APPLICATIONS; BRIDGING THE LOCAL & THE GLOBAL: FEMINIST DISCOURSES ON COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM & GLOBALIZATION; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPTUALIZING IMPERIALISM & COLONIALISM; CHAPTER 8: FEMINISM & IMPERIALISM IN EARLY MODERNITY; INTRODUCTION; ROSA LUXEMBURG ON IMPERIALISM; BOXED INSERTS; CHAPTER 9: FEMINISM & IMPERIALISM IN LATE MODERNITY; INTRODUCTION; MODERNIZATION THEORY & DEPENDENCY THEORY; SOCIALIST FEMINIST WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORIES; RADICAL FEMINIST GLOBAL ANALYSES; GLOBAL FEMINIST ANALYSES INSPIRED BY LUXEMBURG'S WORK; CHAPTER 10: FEMINISM & IMPERIALISM IN POSTMODERNITY; INTRODUCTION; POSTCOLONIAL & TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS; CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK?; THE CULTURAL LOGICS OF TRANSNATIONALITY; BOXED INSERTS; CONCLUSION: PARADIGM SHIFTS IN FEMINIST THOUGHT; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES; CREDITS/PERMISSIONS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1990. A common complaint of philosophers, and men in general, has been that women are illogical. On the other hand, rationality, defined as the ability to follow logical argument, is often claimed to be a defining characteristic of man. Andrea Nye undermines assumptions such as: logic is unitary, logic is independent of concrete human relations, logic transcends historical circumstances as well as gender. In a series of studies of the logics of historical figures Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Abelard, Ockham, and Frege she traces the changing interrelationships between logical innovation and oppressive speech strategies, showing that logic is not transcendent truth but abstract forms of language spoken by men, whether Greek ruling citizens, imperial administrators, church officials, or scientists. She relates logical techniques, such as logical division, syllogisms, and truth functions, to ways in which those with power speak to and about those subject Table of ContentsPrologue. Introduction: Reading Logic Part 1: Classical Logic 1. The Desire of Logic: Parmenides’s Passion 2. Weaving the Seine of Logos: Plato and the Sophist 3. Aristotle’s Syllogisms 4. Logos Spermatikos: The Logic of Empire Part 2: Medieval Logic 5. An Arsenal of Reasons: Abelard’s Dialectic 6. The Antinomies of Power: Ockham’s Razor Part 3: Reading Frege 7. Breaking the Power of the Word 8. The Marriage of Mathematics and Language 9. Frege’s Thoughts 10. A Thought like a Hammer: The Logic of Totalitarianism. Conclusion: Words of Power and the Power of Words

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Book SynopsisNearly forty years after the passage of the Sex Discrimination and the Equal Pay Acts in the UK, and after similar legislative and judicial interventions in other jurisdictions around the world, women and men are still â by and large â following traditionally gendered educational and work careers. Everywhere, women, on average, earn less than men. (In Japan, for example, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women calculated that the wage difference between men and women was 29.4 per cent.) Women also remain significantly under-represented in the top jobs â including those fields of employment traditionally dominated by women. So, are women and men basically different kinds of people? Are they âprogrammedâ with different natural skills and abilities, things that we might call âmasculinityâ and femininityâ? And can these differences explain the continuing gender inequalities in our societies, or should we look for alternative explanations? If âgenderâ is thought of as âthe social significance of sexâ, can the work of psychologists â alongside thinking from related disciplines â make sense of the apparently stubborn differences, divisions, and inequalities that continue to separate men and women in the twenty-first century?This new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Psychology series addresses these and other urgent questions by bringing together the best foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on gender and psychology. And as serious academic and practical thinking continues to develop, the collection also enables users to navigate the rapidly growing, and ever more complex, corpus of literature.With a full index, and thoughtful introductions newly written by the editor, Gender and Psychology will be valued by scholars, students, and professionals in the field as a vital and enduring resource.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field. Over the course of the book, these contributors provide critical analyses of the gender dimensions of a wide range of timely and challenging topics, from sustainable development and climate change politics, to queer ecology and interspecies ethics in the so-called Anthropocene. Presenting a comprehensive overview of the development of the field from early political critiques of the male domination of women and nature in the 1980s to the sophisticated intersectional and inclusive analyses of the present, the volume is divided into four parts: Part I: Foundations Part II: Approaches Part III: Politics, policy and practice Part IV: Futures. Comprising chapters written by forty contributors with different perspectives and working in a wide range of research contexts around the world, this Handbook will serve as a vital resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in environmental studies, gender studies, human geography, and the environmental humanities and social sciences more broadly. Trade Review"This impressive collection breaks new theoretical, political and policy ground in the exploration of gender and environment. In challenging us to look beyond conventional narratives, the authors chart new feminist ways forward in this critical time of climate change and right-wing ascendancy. The keys to the future found here unlock our imaginations, allowing us to envision and start building a more just, peaceful and sustainable world." – Betsy Hartmann, Professor Emerita of Development Studies and Senior Policy Analyst, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA"More than 30 years of exploring gender and environment interfaces have brought us many different insights and interpretations. This inspirational handbook offers a wide and in-depth overview of feminist analyses and approaches on environment. It will help scholars, students, activists and policymakers to comprehend related politics, policies and practices and build a just and sustainable future." – Irene Dankelman, Radboud University/IRDANA Advice, Netherlands"This remarkable, insightful, and comprehensive Handbook analyses the history, problems, and frameworks that characterize the complex relationships between gender and environment. An impressive assemblage of feminist writers from around the world provide powerful insights into the meanings of connections between women, gender, and nature as they have emerged in recent decades. Anyone interested in the history, politics, and real life examples surrounding ecofeminism will want to read this book." – Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA"This book goes well beyond categorical framings of gender and environment as ‘women and nature’ to embrace trans-disciplinary, postcolonial and intersectional analyses of heteronormativity, masculinism, racism, transgender and speciesism in the environment-gender nexus. In emphasising how gender is done and undone, it provides strategies of resistance to environmentally destructive practices and it offers critical hope to enable us to reimagine our relationship with the planet." – Bob Pease, Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia"This is the book I’ve been waiting for. Its focus on gender and environment brings together a hugely impressive range of scholars to explore how gender inequalities and environmental crises are intertwined. The argument that masculinities are associated with exploitative environmental practices is an essential part of developing the policies we need to avoid environmental disaster. Given current political developments it could not be more timely and is certain to become essential reading for scholars and activists alike." – Nickie Charles, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK"Sherilyn MacGregor’s Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment is more than a reference work, it’s a great read. It encompasses the full gamut of gender and environment scholarship over more than three decades. The articles range from meditative and reflective to incendiary and revolutionary, each conveying key insights from engagement with a mix of social movements, activists, and theorists committed to social and ecological justice. MacGregor’s introduction is a peerless summary of the issues and debates, and Giovanna Di Chiro’s concluding chapter on the white (M)anthropocene is a stunner!" – Dianne Rocheleau, Professor of Geography, Clark University, USA."The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment is a thoughtful and expansive work that critically analyses key concepts and frameworks of this transdisciplinary field as well as the history and unfolding debates that have characterized the complex relationships between gender and environment. It is an essential and academically rigorous resource for scholars working on gender and environment issues and it fills a significant gap by providing an excellent reference text for those seeking a broad, yet thorough, introduction to this area of study." - Andreea Raluca Torre, Gender, Technology and Development Journal, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok, Thailand Table of ContentsGender and environment: an introduction PART I: FoundationsChapter 1. Rachel Carson was right – then and now Chapter 2. The Death of Nature: foundations of ecofeminist thought Chapter 3. The dilemma of dualism Chapter 4. Gender and environment from ‘women, environment and development’ to feminist political ecology Chapter 5. Ecofeminist political economy: a green and feminist agenda Chapter 6. Naturecultures and feminist materialism Chapter 7. Posthumanism, ecofeminism, and inter-species relations PART II: Approaches Chapter 8. Gender, livelihoods, and sustainability: anthropological research Chapter 9. Gender’s critical edge: feminist political ecology, postcolonial intersectionality, and the coupling of race and gender Chapter 10. Gender and environmental justice Chapter 11. Gender differences in environmental concern: sociological explanations Chapter 12. Social ecology: a transdisciplinary approach to gender and environment research Chapter 13. Gender and environmental (in)security: from climate conflict to ecosystem instabilityChapter 14. Gender, environmental governmentality, and the discourses of sustainable developmentChapter 15. Feminism and biopolitics: a cyborg account Chapter 16. Exploring industrial, eco-modern, and ecological masculinities Chapter 17. Transgender environments Chapter 18. A fruitless endeavour: confronting the heteronormativity of environmentalism PART III: Politics, policy and practice Chapter 19. Gender and environmental policy Chapter 20. Gender politics in Green parties Chapter 21. Good green jobs for whom? a feminist critique of the green economy Chapter 22. Gender dimensions of sustainable consumptionChapter 23. Sexual stewardship: environment, development, and the gendered politics of population Chapter 24. Gender equality, sustainable agricultural development, and food security Chapter 25. Whose debt for whose nature? gender and nature in neoliberalism’s war against subsistence Chapter 26. Gender and climate change politics Chapter 27. Changing the climate of participation: the gender constituency in the global climate change regime Chapter 28. Planning for climate change: REDD+SES as gender-responsive environmental action PART IV: FuturesChapter 29. Pragmatic utopias: intentional gender-democratic and sustainable communities Chapter 30. Feminist futures and ‘other worlds’: ecologies of critical spatial practice Chapter 31. Orca intimacies and environmental slow death: earthling ethics for a claustrophobic world Chapter 32. The end of gender or deep green trans-misogyny? Chapter 33. Welcome to the white (m)Anthropocene? a feminist-environmentalist critique

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Book SynopsisThis work contextualizes, and follows the migration of women's rhetorical accomplishments systematically. To locate these women, it follows the migration of the Western intellectual tradition from its inception and its ultimate appropriation by Christianity into the Church and politics.

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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.

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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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Book SynopsisThe Black Arts Movement (1965-76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned about the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines how the Black Arts Movement provided a forum for black women playwrights to express feminist attitudes from within black nationalist discourses.Trade ReviewThis is a well-written and highly original study. There currently isn't another book that covers in such detail the work of these playwrights, and it should therefore make a major contribution to the field of African American theater history."" - Sandra Adell, author of Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature, and editor of Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete PlaysTable of Contents PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE “Set Your Blackness Free”: Barbara Ann Teer’s Art and Activism CHAPTER TWO "We Black Women": Martie Evans-Charles and the Spirits of Black Womanhood CHAPTER THREE “Armed Prophet”: Sonia Sanchez and the Weapon of Words CHAPTER FOUR “Bring Your Wounded Hearts”: J.e. Franklin and the Art of Liberation EPILOGUE Let the Search Continue APPENDIXES A. Chronology of Barbara Ann Teer B. Chronology of Martie Evans-Charles C. Chronology of Sonia Sanchez D. Chronology of J.e. Franklin NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

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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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Book SynopsisCovering topics such as: foetal rights, in vitro fertilization, prenatal diagnosis, and surrogacy, this text argues that a social policy for dealing with mothers and motherhood is needed, and that such a policy should be consistent with feminist policy and feminist theory.Trade ReviewRereading Recreating Motherhood should be high up on the agenda of everyone interested in women's health. * Women & Health *Written with force, grace and great humanity. Barbara Katz Rothman's disciplined, informed, passionately careful thinking on gender and genetics makes Recreating Motherhood a sound, wise guide both to the politics of motherhood and to private moral decision-making. This is an invaluable book. * Ursula K. Le Guin *This wonderful and classic feminist text has been beautifully revised for the new millennium. Rothman's incisive analysis of the culture of motherhood is a must read for scholars, activists, policy makers, students, parents, parents-to-beùfor anyone interested in procreative and family issues. I rarely say so about sociological writing: you won't be able to put it down! -- Wendy Simonds * author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic *A lively, sensible work, connecting different aspects of women's reproductive freedom, exploring the various assaults against those freedoms, and positing feminist alternatives in a hopeful and practical manner. -- Robin Morgan * author of Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches *Who counts as a parent? The egg donor? The sperm donor? The contractor? The surrogate mother? When can human beings in the activity of reproduction be required to ætreat' their fetuses according to legal standards? And who should set those standards? Recreating Motherhood offers a coherent feminist approach to these issues . . . A learned, tolerant, yet forceful analysis. -- New York Times Book Review * which also selected Recreating Motherhood as one of its 1989 "Notable Books" and *Powerful and heartfelt book . . . eloquent in defending the dignity of motherhood and in showing how it has become devalued. * Los Angeles Times *Brilliant, compassionate, and feminist analysis of surrogacy that finally puts the volatile subject into perspective. * Chicago Tribune *A fine exploration of the issues that the new technologies present. More than that, it provides a humane, coherent, and feminist way of viewing all our concerns about birth, adoption, infertility, and abortion. . . . Rothman is clear without being too polemical or angry, and she is always focused on the human experience of nursing, caring, and kinship. * Ms. *This is a powerful, compassionate analysis . . . Rothman brilliant interweaves personal narrative with documentary evidence to create an important, perhaps vital book. * Booklist *Readers may quarrel with some of the author's convictions but they will agree with her argument that it's past time for women to restore motherhood to its proper status. * Publishers Weekly *A thoughtful, well-written analysis of contemporary issues for a wide audience. * Library Journal *A significant addition to the growing literature on the sociology of gender and technology. * Choice *This book should be read to update attitudes on motherhood. It is forcefully written with convincing honesty. * West Coast Review of Books *A perceptive analysis of how technology, capitalism, and patriarchy function in society to undermine the dignity of women, especially of mothers. * Commonweal *Engrossing and clearly written. . . . should be required reading for all students of women's studies. * Journal of Nurse-Midwifery *A riveting and well written book. It is must reading for people concerned with how all these advances are affecting human relations and the future role of motherhood. * Women's Studies International Forum *Once in a long while a book comes along that I've been waiting for, even though I hadn't known it. Barbara K. Rothman's Recreating Motherhood is such a book. Here, at last, is a discussion of today's troublesome reproductive issues that is scholarly, theoretically exciting, but also compassionate. . . . Rothman's cultural analysis helps me understand why women are in conflict, and why feminists are divided against one another over these matters. . . . a very important book. * New Directions for Women *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments to the 2000 Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition Part I Introduction On Family Mothering in America Three Ideologies Motherhood under Patriarchy The Seeds of Women The Genetic Tie Patriarchal Ideology and New Procreative Technology Motherhood in a Technological Society The Mechanical Mother Technological Society and Liberal Philosophy Motherhood under Capitalism The Owned Body A Child of One's Own Part II Introduction An Alternative Vision Pregnancy as a Relationship The Physical Relationship The Social Relationship Redefining Abortion The History of Abortion Constructing the Fetus The Medicalization of Abortion Reconstructing Abortion The Give and Take of Adoption Solving Problems with Problems Orphans Real and Imaginary Infertility Infertility as Disability Medicalizing Motherhood Fetal Power Midwifery as Feminist Praxis Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Baby Doe: The Relationship Continues In Defense of Mothers: A Rebuttal Child Care The Managerial Mother Motherworker Mid-revolutionary Mores Fatherhood What the Problem Is Not The Capacity to Nurture Fathering as a Relationship On ``Surrogacy'' A Question of Policy A Question of Values Reflections on a Decade The Best Money Can Buy A Note on the Intersection of Infertility and Genetic Research Selling Choice in Procreation Gender, Race, and Class: Situating Procreative Choice Beyond Choice Converging Streams Recreating Motherhood: Toward Feminist Social Policy New Technologies in Old Bottles Constructing Feminist Social Policy Regarding Motherhood A Last Word to the New Edition Notes Index

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Book SynopsisProvides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. The collection engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous character and her other life-giving work.

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Book SynopsisThe life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience.

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Book SynopsisEmblematic of the tensions that white southern women of the era experienced between independent creative expression and traditional familial and community expectations.Trade Review“Sara Mayfield leaves the reader unsure what is fact and what is fiction, and our experience ultimately mirrors hers in provocative ways. She peeks at us alluringly through Horne's lucid prose—as an author, an inventor, and maybe even as a government agent.”—Kathryn McKee, author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post–Civil War South "Montgomery, Alabama, in the early Twentieth Century was an enigma where powerful white men defended the final redoubt of male privilege and the South's romantic past while a generation of women chiseled away the foundation on which male hegemony rested. Sara Mayfield, Tallulah Bankhead, Sara Haardt (Mencken), and Zelda Sayre ((Fitzgerald) lived near each other growing up in Montgomery, graduated to notable careers in theater or as writers who defied conservative social conventions and charted their own lives. Odyssey of a Wandering Mind is an excellent starting place in pursuit of what it meant to strong-minded Alabama women a century ago to be a woman. And the dangers to which that independence exposed them."—Wayne Flynt, author of Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives "With Odyssey of a Wandering Mind, Jennifer Horne brings out of obscurity an Alabama talent often regarded as a supporting player to her more famous friends, Sara Haardt Mencken and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Sara Mayfield was so much more than a biographer of the Southern belles of her generation who chafed against being known merely as “the wife of” their literary-lion husbands. By turns a novelist, playwright, journalist, and an inventor, Mayfield was first and foremost a survivor who led a remarkable life throughout a near century of culture upheaval. Horne does a phenomenal job of humanizing a figure who for decades battled her demons to find her greatest success in her mid-sixties, long after Haardt and Sayre has passed prematurely." —Kirk Curnutt, co-editor with Sara A. Kosiba of The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise"Jennifer Horne has written a masterful portrait of the multi-talented, troubled Sara Mayfield, a Southern aristocrat who never quite fit her milieu and yet thrived in the 1930s and ‘40s as a playwright, journalist, inventor, and traveler. After surviving seventeen years of involuntary commitment to Bryce Hospital, Mayfield wrote and published two biographies and a novel to national acclaim, restoring her intellectual and financial independence as a mature woman. Horne’s writing provides a lighted house of insight not only into Mayfield’s battle with the constraints of female agency in mid-20th century America, but also with the hidden patterns, the reversals, resentments, and epiphanies that so often determine a writer’s direction. Odyssey of a Wandering Mind is a penetrating narrative written with a storyteller’s eye."—Patricia Foster is author of Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of articles exploring the role of journalism in creating, maintaining, and developing the analysis and membership of the first wave of American feminism. Drawing on theories of social movements from the discipline of communications, this volume, expertly edited by Martha Solomon, begins with the relationship between the suffrage movement and newspapers.... Seven useful case studies follow. Historians will benefit from this volume's meticulous documentation of a plethora of publications and its discussion of their rhetorical strategies. - Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society; ""A work of great historical interest... well-edited and well-annotated.

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Book SynopsisPresents a study of women's writing and poetics, and representations of women artists in the 20th century. This book probes the work of HD, William Carlos Williams, and Marcel Duchamp, among others, and includes DuPlessis's essay For the Etruscans.Trade ReviewWith the dazzling, sometimes breathtaking The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has produced one of the boldest, most enlightening, innovative, challenging, and knowledgeable works of feminist theory to grace the last couple of decades. - Martha Nell Smith, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature ""The supreme quality of The Pink Guitar is how insightfully and thoroughly DuPlessis understands the ways that gender relations are embedded within signifying practices - and how a feminist writing practice must disrupt these practices on multiple levels.... The Pink Guitar establishes a powerful feminist writing practice not because of DuPlessis's refusal of authority, transcendence, and singularity, but because of the ways she redeploys these."" - Jeanne Heuving, Contemporary Literature ""This is one of the most pleasurable works of criticism I have read in years. These essays fuse disparate voices, colloquial, theoretical, autobiographical. They intercut DuPlessis's own words with those of other writers and poets. They draw together aspects of being usually sundered in criticism, without imposing systems or closure."" - Helen Carr, New Formations ""Critics on both sides of the Atlantic have, for years, imagined a feminine language. Here DuPlessis comes very close to inventing one.... She [creates] not only a style of writing but also a practice of reading that is uniquely her own."" - Cecilia Farr, American Literature

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Book SynopsisThis historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation. What do you see when you look at an ink blot? The Rorschach ink blot test is one of the most famous psychological tests and it has a surprisingly queer history. In mapping this history, this book explores how this test, once used to detect and diagnose homosexuality', was later used by some psychologists and activists to fight for gay liberation. In this book the author uses the test in yet another way, as a lens through which we can reveal a queer feminist history of Psychology. By looking closely at the lives and work of some women psychologists and activists it becomes clear that their work was influenced by their own, often queer, lives. By tracing the lives and actions of women who used, were tested with, or influenced by, the Rorschach, a new kind of understanding of gay and lesbian history in Britain is revealed.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Queer Signs on the RorschachChapter 3: Queer Approaches to Depathologisation Chapter 4: Queer Signs in the Projective PsychologistsChapter 5: Queer Research and Lesbian LiberationChapter 6: Queer Activism and Academia Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin's iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern package to match Dworkin's visionary perspective and style.Andrea Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women in 1983-a crucial and deeply illuminating analysis of the right's position on abortion, homosexuality, antisemitism, female poverty, and antifeminism. Forty years later, the book feels more vibrant, clear-eyed, and visionary than ever, especially as these issues get relitigated in both legal and public forums. In addition to her revelatory and nuanced portraits of figures like Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly, and an examination of the roots of a distinctly woman-led brand of American conservatism, Right-Wing Women will give readers the thrill of rediscovering the force and elegance of Dworkin's arguments and her skill as one of our most adept and prophetic feminist thinkers.

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Book SynopsisHow have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women''s (and men''s) voting behavior, and traces how women''s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as ''the woman voter''; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.Trade Review'Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder have provided a remarkable and fitting tribute to mark the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States. Their unprecedented, comprehensive, analytic overview of women's voting behavior is an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and citizens interested in understanding the important and changing roles women voters have played in our elections over time.' Susan Carroll, Rutgers University, New Jersey'Wolbrecht and Corder offer an examination of the consequences of Women's Suffrage that fundamentally changes how we think about this question. The hallmarks of their approach to scholarship - deep and thoughtful embedding in existing literature on voting and vote choice, constant and careful engagement with context, continual and detailed and precise attention to what data of what quality were available for previous analyses - give this book the powerful counterfactuals that drive their fascinating analyzes.' Nancy Burns, University of Michigan'A Century of Votes for Women will be the touchstone for understanding the political history of US women and the vote for years to come. Accessible and highly readable, the book is informed by political and social history and employs the best social science data available to explore the factors that explain US women's voting behavior across five time periods, chronicling the post-suffrage transformations of women into voters. Incorporating meaningful critiques of essentialism, gender norms, and assumptions about women, the authors decenter men's voting behavior as a universal standard and analyze conventional explanations for women's voting behavior that do not stand the test of time but that nonetheless persist.' Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio'A sturdy scholarly contribution to women's studies and political analysis.' Kirkus Reviews'When the Nineteenth Amendment became law, everyone, including its ardent supporters, wondered how such monumental change would play out. A Century of Votes for Women probes the historical record to give a thoughtful and interesting answer.''… a timely framework to evaluate the political roles that women will continue to play in 2020 and beyond.' Kristi Anderson, Ms. MagazineTable of Contents1. Women at the polls; 2. Women without the vote; 3. Explaining women voters; 4. Enter the women voters; 5. Feminine mystique and the American voter; 6. Feminism resurgent; 7. The discovery of the gender gap; 8. Women voters in the new millennium; 9. A century of votes for women.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a feminist? What can feminism say about ourselves, the work we do, and our ways of living together?This book draws on the work of Fraser, Butler, and Braidotti to examine how societal and organizational processes shape and are shaped by our perception of work, value, and identity. Disrupting the long-established mindbody dualism, the book reveals its impact on our understanding of value, raising critical questions about how different forms of feminism influence work practices and recognition. With a foreword by Luigi Maria Sicca and an afterword by Melissa Tyler, this is a unique and insightful analysis that sparks critical reflection, offering a foundation for corporeal ethics to drive meaningful change in organizations and society.

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

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