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Cambridge University Press Inessa Armand Revolutionary and Feminist
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Cambridge University Press Olympe de Gouges
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Cambridge University Press Mary Wollstonecraft
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Cambridge University Press Simone de Beauvoir
Book SynopsisTracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her final decade, during which she was recognised as having inspired the emerging strands of late twentieth-century feminism, Beauvoir is shown to have been among the most influential philosophical voices of the mid twentieth century. Countering the recent trend to read her in isolation from Sartre, she is shown to have both adopted, adapted, and influenced his philosophy, most importantly through encouraging him to engage with Hegel and to consider our relations with others. The Second Sex is read in the light of her existentialist humanism and ultimately faulted for having succumbed too uncritically to the masculine myth that it is men who are solely responsible for society''s intellectual and cultural history.Table of Contents1. Beauvoir before Sartre; 2. Sartre and the discovery of Hegel; 3. The Second Sex; 4. Autobiography and politics; 5. Beauvoir's impact.
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Cambridge University Press Pythagorean Women
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Cambridge University Press Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Feminist Judgments
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Cambridge University Press Nísia Floresta
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Cambridge University Press Frances Power Cobbe
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Cambridge University Press Good Soldiers Dont Rape
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Cambridge University Press Emma Rices Feminist Acts of Love
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Cambridge University Press Victoria Welby
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Cambridge University Press After the Exodus
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Cambridge University Press Feminismos en América Latina
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Cambridge University Press Adaptations in the Life and Work of Director Tian Qinxin
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Cambridge University Press Different and Unequal
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Cambridge University Press International Law and World Order
This book articulates a new approach to international law combining the insights of Marxism, socialist feminism and postcolonial theory. It offers a critique of the principal contemporary perspectives to international law, and analyzes a range of world order issues that include imperialism, the states system, and democracy.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisFeminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.Trade Review'Written with a consistently lucid and engaging tone, it accomplishes a dual goal in providing a compelling introduction for students of the discipline and putting forward a range of fresh intellectual insights.' Christine Lees, The Times Literary Supplement'In fact, there could be no stronger testament to the continued relevance and importance of feminist literary criticism than this fresh and up-to-date examination of women's writing, gender and politics from the Middle Ages to the present.' Lisa Regan, Feminist Theory'[The text] is designed to serve an introductory function, but goes beyond acquainting readers with the major strands and debates of feminist literary criticism. … Indeed, this work can serve as a reference and provide points for further debate to more advanced students and scholars.' Bonnie Kime Scott, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Gill Plain and Susan Sellers; Part I. Pioneers and Protofeminism: Introduction Gill Plain; 1. Medieval feminist criticism Carolyn Dinshaw; 2. Feminist criticism in the Renaissance and seventeenth century Helen Wilcox; 3. Mary Wollstonecraft and her legacy Susan Manly; 4. The feminist criticism of Virginia Woolf Jane Goldman; 5. Simone de Beauvoir and the demystification of woman Elizabeth Fallaize; Part II. Creating a Feminist Literary Criticism: Introduction Gill Plain and Susan Sellers; 6. Literary representations of women Mary Eagleton; 7. A history of women's writing Helen Carr; 8. Autobiography and personal criticism Linda Anderson; 9. Black feminist criticism Arlene Keizer; 10. Lesbian feminist criticism Caroline Gonda; 11. Men in feminism Calvin Thomas; Part III. Poststructuralism and Beyond: Introduction Gill Plain and Susan Sellers; 12. Feminist criticism and poststructuralism Claire Colebrook; 13. Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis Madelon Sprengnether; 14. French feminist criticism and writing the body Judith Still; 15. Postcolonial feminist criticism Chris Weedon; 16. Feminist criticism and queer theory Heather Love; 17. Feminist criticism and technologies of the body Stacy Gillis; Postscript: flaming feminism? Susan Gubar; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press International Law and World Order
Book SynopsisThis book articulates a new approach to international law combining the insights of Marxism, socialist feminism and postcolonial theory. It offers a critique of the principal contemporary perspectives to international law, and analyzes a range of world order issues that include imperialism, the states system, and democracy.Trade Review'Chimni offers many useful and refreshing insights, both on substantive international law and on the authors he takes to task, and he is nothing if not a fair critic.' Jan Klabbers, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The classical realist approach to international law: the world of Hans Morgenthau; 3. The policy-oriented or new haven approach to international law: the contributions of Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell; 4. Richard Falk and the Grotian quest: toward transdisciplinary jurisprudence; 5. New approaches to international law: the critical scholarship of David Kennedy and Martti Koskenneimi; 6. Feminist approaches to international law: the work of Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin; 7. Toward an integrated Marxist approach to international law (IMAIL).
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Cambridge University Press Feminism and the Servant Problem
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household ''drudgery'' meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first ever history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working-class.Trade Review'Exploitation is not about whether employers are nice or nasty, says Laura Schwartz. In this book it's about the labour relationship between women - feminist, suffragist and other - and their servants. A scintillating contribution to the new labour history of Britain in which voices from the women workers historians have most neglected, speak loud and clear.' Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick'A wonderful, lucid account of the relationship between domestic service and women's suffrage in early twentieth-century Britain. Schwartz highlights the contradictions within the movement, and sensitively draws attention to long lasting structural inequalities. Using richly woven archival material, Schwartz offers a brilliant intervention and model on how one can write a feminist history of class-based struggle that highlights the voices and perspectives of domestic workers. A must-read.' Sumita Mukherjee, University of Bristol'Laura Schwartz has given us a rich account of the social and everyday history of paid for domestic labour in early twentieth century Britain. Feminism and the Servant Problem is an exciting new breed of history that spans the social, cultural, intellectual, emotional, and political. Written with panache, this history offers a fascinating new angle on suffrage feminism.' Lucy Delap, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge'This is not simply another history of the suffrage campaign, though it does much to enrich our understanding of everyday politics in the women's movement, and particularly cross-class relationships within it. Rather, it is an exceptionally lucid contribution to histories of work and feminism which is unusually effective at bringing emotional texture to intellectual debates and using individual critiques to illuminate structural inequalities. Energetic and exceptionally clear and accessible prose will make it invaluable to students as well as more advanced scholars. It is an outstanding achievement.' Lyndsey Jenkins, Women's History Review'… [a] meticulous, fascinating study …' Zoe Fairbairns, Book Oxygen (www.bookoxygen.com)'… offers the first full-length study of the relationship between middle-class feminists in England and their servants … Schwartz's work ably explores suffrage in a wider political context.' R. J. Bates, Choice'This is a landmark study of domestic service, work and feminist politics which will surely engage readers across the academy and beyond, and should be adopted on reading lists at all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.' Zoe Thomas, Social History'… Feminism and the Servant Problem is an important contribution to the history of work and feminism. By integrating servants' voices into the history of the suffrage movement, Schwartz has produced a new account of servants' politics and shown how first-wave feminism thought to transform the home and the domestic labour happening within it.' Fanny Louvier, Labour History Review'A strength of this book lies in Schwartz's ability to combine her feminist commitment to the present with a sharp historical focus … Schwartz's confident, energetic book is a fundamental text for those wishing to understand how early feminists grappled with the burden of reproductive labour. Many of their questions remained unresolved today.' Grace Whorrall-Campbell, Family & Community HistoryTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Whose problem was the 'servant problem'?; 1. The 'servant problem' and the suffrage home; 2. Servants in the suffrage movement; 3. The housework problem; 4. Domestic labour and the feminist work ethic; 5. The domestic workers' union of Great Britain and Ireland; 6. Servants and co-operative housekeeping; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The New Feminist Literary Studies
The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , ''Frontiers'', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, ''Fields'', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, ''Forms'', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorisi
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HarperCollins Publishers Nobody Asked For This
Book Synopsis Bringing together the collected works of bestselling poet Charly Cox for the very first time with new and exclusive material. Trade Review‘Honest, relatable, and thought provoking.’ Stylist magazine ‘Funny and heartfelt and brilliant.’ Sunday Times STYLE ‘Relatable and funny.’ ELLE ‘Encapsulates what it is to be a young woman.’ Pandora Sykes ‘Divine.’ Cecelia Ahern
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Female Eunuch
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Girls Sex
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Feminist Fight Club
Book SynopsisNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY:Chicago Tribune, Refinery 29, Forbes, Bust, CEO ReadsPart manual, part manifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born. Hard-hitting and entertaining, Femi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unwanted Advances
Book SynopsisA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress. A committed feminist, Kipnis was surprised to find herself the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. Next she was brought up on Title IX complaints for creating a hostile environment. Defying confidentiality strictures, she wrote a whistleblowing essay about the ensuing seventy-two-day investigation, which propelled her to the center of national debates over free speech, safe spaces, and the vast federal overreach of Title IX.In the process
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness A
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This collection captures, in writing, the same array of emotions that Christine brings to the stage and screen with her acting. Funny with heart. Tears with a hint of hope. A fantastic mosaic that, when cobbled together, offers a stirring range of humanity.” — Alan Zweibel, original SNL writer and Thurber Prize winning author of The Other Shulman “Christine Lahti’s autobiographical essays are a beautiful, painful, funny, fiercely honest walk through the streets of her life. Gorgeous landscape, dangerous potholes and all. The whole unedited she-bang. It’s Oz with the curtain pulled back. At once soul-baring, hilarious, moving and smart. I’m a fan.” — Kathy Najimy, actress and comedienne “Lahti launches into the literary world with the same dynamism that has enlivened her acting roles. With brazen honesty, she recounts the many surprising, heartbreaking, and identity-building events that have punctuated her life. True Stories of an Unreliable Eyewitness oozes modesty, humor, and complete levelheadedness.” — Kirkus Reviews “Christine Lahti has lived a full, ferocious life and her stories will break, beat and blister your heart.” — Amber Tamblyn, author, actress, and director “Engrossing, hilarious, tragic—this amazing book of essays by a wonderful actor whom we now know is also a great American storyteller, takes us from the Midwest to Hollywood to the moment of women’s rebellion we are currently in. Couldn’t put it down!” — Michael Moore, Academy Award winning filmmaker and bestselling author “An intimate, conversational collection. Lahti writes with ease and authenticity... her timely chronicle of aging wisely, gracefully, and with self-respect will resonate with many readers” — Publishers Weekly “Lahti’s style is irreverent, bawdy, and laugh-out-loud funny, but she doesn’t shirk from painful subjects, including family mental illness. Lahti is one of those rare celebrities who not only has a fascinating life but who can also tell a relatable story with humility and humor.” — Booklist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dont Call Me Princess
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Girls Guide to Joining the Resistance
Book SynopsisFrom the Executive Editor of the Women’s vertical of Huffpost, this gifty guide to activism is the perfect present for young feminists and long-time observers looking to enter the fray.Trade Review“Emma Gray’s smart guide came at the perfect time. Told through a series of interviews, first-person anecdots, calls to action, and how to’s, this is an important, inspiring book, but it’s also really f**king fun to read.” — Jennifer Romolini, Chief Content Officer at Shondaland.com
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dont Call Me Princess
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Fck It Diet
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Horse Girls
Book Synopsis“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love''s complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for GirlsA compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media—Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion.Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan.By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.
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HarperCollins The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
Book Synopsis“A haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters. Zeldis offers a fascinating look into historic New York City and New Orleans, and her skill as a storyteller is matched by her compassion for her characters. What a beautiful read.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace“By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Kitty Zeldis’s The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, set against the backdrop of the not-always-so-roaring Twenties, is an only-in-America story of reinvention, rising above tragedy, and finding family.”—Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author of Band of SistersFor fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from Kitty Zeldis, the author of Not Our Kind, about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they ho
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Murder Most Royal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Chouette
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Chouette
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONClaire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying. —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.”When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter’s needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette’s behaviors grow violent and strange, Tiny’s loving commitment to her daughter is unwavering. When she discovers that her husband is on a
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
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HarperCollins Dying of Politeness
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc All the Queens Men
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Poster Girl
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cloud Girls
Book SynopsisA PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK! “Shocking—and shockingly good. It is thought-provoking, anger-provoking, guilt-provoking, and—most importantly—it is a brilliantly written novel.”—Roddy Doyle Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship in this award-winning, emotional gut punch of a novel from the author of Bright Burning Things.Sassy, streetwise Sammy is a teenage girl who is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her into the hands of adults who don''t have her best interests in mind. Failed by them at every turn, Sammy acts out, seeking attention from boys, then men, when what she wants most is protection.Meanwhile, in a small village in Eastern Europe, preternaturally beautiful and naïve Nico is about to turn thirteen and as her family falls upon desperate times, her father is approached to marry her off. Her family knows that the nice life this stranger seems to be offering Nico is too good to be true, but they and Nico hope for the best as she’s shuttled across the border into Ireland, where she and Sammy find one another in their new home, a suburban brothel.As Nico and Sammy journey into this dark underbelly and out the other side, their friendship—and the unexpected acts of kindness they give and receive—form a potent bond.Heartbreaking and breathtakingly beautiful, Cloud Girls exposes the failings of polite society and the cruelty that exists beneath its surface, yet reminds us that goodness and love can flourish in the darkest times.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Murder Most Royal
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HarperCollins I Want to Burn This Place Down
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Escape to Florence
Book SynopsisMoving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy.Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town’s resistance network during World War II. Risking torture and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan hills. Her parents have no idea, consumed instead by love and fear for their beloved son, Achille, a courier and unofficial mechanic for a communist partisan brigade. Then, after 1945, Stella seemingly vanishes from the records. Her name and story are overshadowed by the tragic death of her brother—until a young writer arrives in Tuscany in the spring of 2019, uncovering long-buried secrets. Fleeing an emotionally abusive marriage and a lonely life on an isolated estate, Tori MacNair has come to Florence, the bea
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Poster Girl
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Noncompliant Mom Mamá Desobediente
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc In Search of Our Mothers Gardens
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker.Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury. Throughout, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of black women—insights that are vital to understanding our lives and society today.“When I graduated from college, my father gave me Alice Walker’
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HarperCollins The Handmaids Tale
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