Feminism and feminist theory Books
HarperCollins Señoras
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HarperCollins The World According to Joan Didion
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Miss Caroline Bingley Private Investigator
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Penguin Putnam Inc Can We All Be Feminists New Writing from Brit
Book Synopsis“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read” (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who “calls to mind a young Audre Lorde” (Kirkus) Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities – such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more – impact how we relate to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? In challenging, incisive, and fearless essays – all of which appear here for the first time – seventeen writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions, and more. A groundbreaking book that elevates underrepresented voices, Can We All Be Feminists? offers th
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Womens Suffrage Movement
Book SynopsisAn intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women''s right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women''s Suffrage Movement is a comprehensive and singular volume with a distinctive focus on incorporating race, class, and gender, and illuminating minority voices. This one-of-a-kind intersectional anthology features the writings of the most well-known suffragists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, alongside accounts of those often overlooked because of their race, from Native American women to African American suffragists like Ida B. Wells and the three Forten sisters. At a time of enormous political and social upheaval, there could be no more important book than one that recognizes a group of exemplary women--in their own words--as they paved the way for future generations. Th
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Shadow Cabinet
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Oxford University Press The Possibility of Respect
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University of Chicago Press Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded.
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University of Chicago Press Feminisms A Global History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The big, global story of the many feminisms on our planet today. . . . This is a fantastic book [that] everyone should go check out. . . . Even feminists I know who have been studying feminism for a very long time would get a lot out of this book. This really is an incredible work."-- "This Is Hell!" "Delap offers a new and wide-ranging account of the global history of feminisms, drawing on an innovative range of sources to explore the rich, diverse and radical roots of feminist movements across time and space. Addressing the powerful contributions of feminisms while also examining their limitations, exclusions and complicities, this book is a triumph of feminist historiography that shows the innumerable different ways of imagining women's freedom around the world. . . . We are taken on a journey that includes figures and events that would not have been classified as feminist at the time of their occurrence, stretching from colonial West Africa to Imperial Japan, and through an innovative use of source material ranging from political pamphlets to zines and songs. . . . In its interconnected narrative, [her book is] a powerful political argument about what feminism is (or should be). And indeed, as her title reminds us, feminism has never just been one thing. There were, and remain, innumerable different ways of imagining women's freedom around the world. Far too many to be reduced to a slogan on a t-shirt."-- "LSE Review of Books" "A brilliant work of feminist scholarship that is global in scope, rigorous in analysis, and inviting in its storytelling."--Hyaeweol Choi, author of Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea "Delap provides a concise but thorough history of the variety of feminist movements that have formed over the last century, bringing a sense of shared vision and voice to a diverse history without forcing a false unity."--Carla Jones, University of Colorado Boulder "Delap wields the concept of feminism to show how activists 'politicize the injustices of gender' across 250 years and six continents. Attentive to the blind spots and complicities of many feminist ventures, she also recognizes its affinities and resonance across generations, geographies, and genders. This brilliant book probes feminism's meanings and materializations through chapters on dreams, feelings, objects, and songs as well as ideas, looks, spaces, and actions."--Nancy A. Hewitt, author of Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds "This is an extraordinary and beautiful history of the global struggles against the injustices of gender. It brings the battles of feminists to life, not only through their ideas and campaigns, but also their dreams, songs, anger, and the material dimensions of their activism--their bloomers, badges, and veils, their refuges, workplaces, and borderlands."--Hannah Dawson, King's College London "This outstanding work . . . takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance. . . . It's masterful."--Jana Byars "New Books in Gender Studies" "Delap's telling is unique amongst histories of feminism. As it tears across the globe, Feminisms reveals familiar organizations, projects, agitators, and obstacles in new garb and places them alongside ones conventionally overlooked. Start with any chapter and savor every generous, undogmatic page."--Bonnie G. Smith, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emerita of History, Rutgers University "Delap recognizes the feminists who were lost in the relaying of the history of the women's movement or who were prevented from joining it in the first place. . . . Feminisms provides insight into the concept itself and provides the opportunity to address the complexity of the feminist movement, the fragmentation within feminism attributable to its visibly western-centric perspective, and the experiences of forgotten and ignored feminists. The book adds to the discourse on social construction and highlights the significance of inclusion and the corresponding bias that results with the adoption of a single perspective. Outside of the discussion of feminism, Delap's thematic approach is a reminder that there are more voices than the ones being heard; this is a lesson in itself."-- "Journal of International Women's Studies"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Dreams Chapter 2Ideas Chapter 3Spaces Chapter 4Objects Chapter 5Looks Chapter 6Feelings Chapter 7Actions Chapter 8Songs Conclusion: Global Feminisms Acknowledgements Notes Further Reading Index
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University of Illinois Press Telling Narratives Secrets in African American
Book SynopsisUncovering powerful and threatening secrets in African American literatureTrade Review"Lewis's is the first book-length study of narrative secrets in African American literature. . . . Recommended."--Choice "A provocative unveiling of secrets in African American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1920s. Uncovering what was and is at stake in the discourse of secrecy in African American literature and culture, Lewis helps readers see its grounding in 'master-female slave moments.' The analysis of interracial and sexual secrets is enlightening and instructive."--William L. Andrews, editor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology
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University of Illinois Press Womens Movements in TwentiethCentury Taiwan
Book SynopsisThe first book in English to consider feminist movements and discourses in modern TaiwanTrade Review"An authoritative summary of a century of activism."--The China Quarterly"A well-researched and highly readable account of an important aspect of modern East Asian history.--Pacific Affairs"A welcome and needed introduction to the emergence of feminism in Taiwan."--American Historical Review"Chang has helped restore a record of how the women's movements have grown into such a hothouse of progressive thought."--Taiwan Review"Chang paints a vidid portrait of Taiwan in flux."--Women: A Cultural Review"A compelling, significant contribution to both Asian studies and women's studies, this book should be the standard treatment of women's movements in Taiwan for years. Nothing else matches Chang's comprehensiveness."--Barbara E. Reed, coauthor of Culture and Customs of Taiwan"A thoughtful and carefully researched intellectual history, and more. Chang gives us a strong narrative of the Taiwanese feminist movement and a vivid and knowing account of the path of women's activism on the ground in the day-to-day world as well as in the worlds of the mind and the written word in the present day Republic of China/Taiwan."--Murray A. Rubinstein, editor of Taiwan, A New History"With clear prose and insightful analysis, Doris T. Chang uncovers the varied historical roots of Taiwanese feminisms: Japanese-era social movements, Cold War KMT mobilization of women, and the long struggle for democracy. She also explains the contemporary diversity of the Taiwanese women's movements and the various social issues they must address. As a rare history of feminisms in a non-western context, this book is a must-read for both Taiwan studies and women's studies."--Scott Simon, author of Sweet and Sour: Life Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
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MO - University of Illinois Press Taking French Feminism to the Streets Fadela Amara dn the Rise of Ni Putes Ni Soumises
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking overview of the French civil rights movement Ni Putes Ni SoumisesTrade Review"Murray and Perpich have done valuable work introducing, compiling, and translating documents from Ni Putes Ni Soumises(NPNS), one of the most influential French feminist groups of the last decade. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Through this interesting combination of primary and secondary sources, the reader gains a fundamental understanding of NPNS goals and strategies as well as insight into the complex set of values and beliefs held by the group's founders. . . . Provides a treasure trove of material for students of social movements."--H-France Review"This timely book brings to American readers an understanding of a new French feminist movement originating with Muslim women in the ghettos of France. Through translation of primary texts by Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi, a working relationship with the organizers of the Ni Putes Ni Soumises movement, and extensive interviews with activists, the editors transform our understanding of the movement."--Margaret A. Simons, editor of Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime DiaryTable of ContentsIntroduction. Mapping the Terrain: Ni PUtes Ni Soumises in Context 1 Part I. Breaking Ground: The Special Assembly of Women of the Quartiers Women of the Quartiers: A Call to Action 23 The White Book of the Women of the Quartiers 26 The Manifesto of the Women of the Quartiers 58 The Petition: Ni Putes NI Soumises! 61 Part II. Taking a Stand: Selections from Scum of the Republic by Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi Fadela's Origins 65 Mohammed's Origins 92 Immigration 98 Integration 108 Discrimination 112 Equality 117 Laws of the Projects 122 Social Violence 134 The Future 141 Part III. Reflecting on the Path: Resistance and Controversy An Interview with Fadela Amara 147 Index 167
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University of Illinois Press Gender in Modernism
Book SynopsisGrouped into twenty-one thematic sections, this work offers theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.Trade Review“An excellent resource in its own right as well as a welcome and judiciously framed companion volume to Scott’s ground-breaking collection.”--The Review of English Studies "Gender in Modernism is an indispensable volume that belongs in university as well as personal libraries and in courses focused on literature, history, gender, Women's Studies, and more."--Clio “Compelling, thought-provoking, and invaluable resource for anyone working in modernist studies today.”--Modernism/Modernity “[Gender in Modernism] is a book any modernist will want to own, the starting point for new research projects, a guide for revising an undergraduate syllabus, a potential text for graduate seminars. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the volume and applaud both the many highly valuable contributors of the individual editors and the vision and editorial acumen of Scott.”--James Joyce Literary Supplement
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MIT Press Ltd Play like a Feminist.
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MIT Press Ltd The Photoromance A Feminist Reading of Popular
Book SynopsisA fascinating feminist reading of an often scorned medium: the storytelling, cross-platform success, and female fandom of the photoromance.Born in Italy and successfully exported to the rest of the world, photoromances had a readership of millions in the postwar years. By the early 1960s, more than ten million Italians read a photoromance each week. Despite its popularity, the photoromance—a form of graphic storytelling that uses photographs instead of drawings—was widely scorned as a medium, and its largely female audience derided as naive, pathetic, and uneducated. In this provocative book, Paola Bonifazio offers another perspective, making a case for the relevance of the photoromance for both feminism and media culture. She argues that the photoromance pioneered storytelling across platforms, elevated characters and artists into brands, and nurtured a devoted fan base. Moreover, Bonifazio shows that female readers—condescended to by intellectuals, journal
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Back Bay Books Assembly
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Voracious The Intersectional Environmentalist
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Hachette Books Shrill
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Little, Brown & Company Shit Actually The Definitive 100 Objective Guide
Book SynopsisOne of the 'Best Books of 2020' by NPR's Book Concierge**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa-WHO IS A LION-to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?!From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and
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Little Brown and Company Rabbit Moon
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William Morrow & Company Poster Girl
Book Synopsis“Poster Girl is a captivating story full of twists and turns—and no easy answers. I couldn''t put this book down. —Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten From #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth, a dystopian novel set in a surveillance state about one woman’s desperate search for a missing girl...and the dark family secrets she uncovers along the way.Sonya Kantor is paying for her parents’ sins. Once the privileged daughter of a powerful regime, Sonya is now fighting for scraps in the Aperture, an unconventional prison for members of the now-collapsed Delegation. Sonya has no hope of clemency. She was the regime’s former poster girl and the new government had to make an example of her.But when Alexander Price, the brother of her now-dead fiancé’s, appears and offers t
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux DEAR DICKHEAD
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Random House USA Inc When Women Were Dragons
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Random House Canada Careering
Book SynopsisHilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs.careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. moving in a way that feels out of control Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills. Harri might just be Imogen's fairy godmother. She's moving from the glossy pages of Panache magazine to launch a fierce feminist site, The Know. And she thinks Imogen's most outrageous sexual content will help generate the clicks she needs. But Imogen's fairy-tale ending soon sours as she finds herself putting more and more of herself into writing for a company that doesn't care if she sinks or swi
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WW Norton & Co In Our Prime
Book Synopsis“[A] galvanizing manifesto.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceTrade Review"A clarion call for older women to ‘rip off the invisibility cloak’ and reinvent the world they live in so it stops cheating them." -- Leslie Bennetts - New York Times Book Review"A masterful takedown of gendered ageism." -- Molly Sprayregen - Associated Press"A feminist intervention… to reclaim women’s aging as a social movement and harness their voices, experience, and wisdom toward social change." -- Andi Zeisler - Bitch magazine"Read this book, ladies, and let’s get very, very busy." -- Katha Pollitt, author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights"A skilled and stirring call… to confront the ‘double helix of ageism and sexism.’" -- Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism"In Our Prime is a highly evocative—and necessary—work that exposes the invasive roots of ageism in today’s world. A call-to-action for wise women of all ages, it demands that no woman be viewed as an irrelevant ‘has-been.’ With unassailable documentation, Douglas invites women into an honest, stark review of historical and current issues that affect every female’s optimal well-being. Douglas illuminates the need for today’s women to intensify their engagement in creating standards that rise above sexism and ageism." -- Carla Marie Manly, PhD, author of Aging Joyfully"Susan Douglas’s fierce, funny, engaging book sent me off to Google Maggie Kuhn, the over-fifty warrior who challenged negative ideas about older women at the dawn of Second Wave feminism. Douglas thinks older women are due to rise up again—arm in arm with sisters across the generational divide—and I am ready to storm the barricades with them. I was alarmed by Douglas’s startling-yet-nonhyperbolic depictions of gendered ageism—as well as real threats to Medicare and Social Security. In Our Prime is not just for older women—or exclusively for women. In droll, lively, exhaustively documented prose, it exposes the threat that market fundamentalism poses to people across the economic spectrum." -- M. G. Lord, author of The Accidental Feminist and Forever Barbie"Susan J. Douglas’s hilarious and deeply intelligent book chronicles how older women are rejecting sexist ageism. Required reading for those of us who are fifty or older—and everyone who (with any luck) someday will be. An informative and sharp call to arms, In Our Prime just may help bring the revolution we all need." -- Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire
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Hogarth Directions to Myself
Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.”“An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George SaundersThat night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide?The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions
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The University of Michigan Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisFor more than two decades, feminist theatre troupes, playwrights, comedians, and performance artists have challenged convention, raised consciousness, and provoked controversy. Acting Out is the first collection of essays to critically examine the impact that these performers have had on Anglo-American culture.
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The University of Michigan Press A Problem like Maria
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The University of Michigan Press Seven Stories of Threatening Speech
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is an erudite work by a scholar of enormous talent, who advances a thesis that is richly insightful and deeply provocative. —Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University
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The University of Michigan Press Bluestocking Feminism and BritishGerman Cultural
Book SynopsisExamines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously Electors of Hanover. Alessa Johns investigates how, in the period of the American and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinct discourses of liberty even though they were non-revolutionary countries.
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Random House USA Inc Gender and Our Brains How New Neuroscience
Book SynopsisA breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains?Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individ
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Random House USA Inc Bright Precious Thing
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women’s movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the Me Too era. In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west Texas girlhood through her emergence as a young daredevil, then as a feminist—a journey that reflected seismic shifts in the culture itself. Caldwell’s travels took her to California and Mexico and dark country roads, and the dangers she encountered were rivaled only by the personal demons she faced. Bright Precious Thing is the captivating story of a woman’s odyssey, her search for adventure giving way to something more profound: the evolution of a writer and a woman, a struggle to embrace one’s life as a precious thing. Told against a contrasting backdrop of the present day, including the author’s friendship with a young nei
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Act Like a Lady Questionable Advice Ridiculous
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that's not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first-century lady.If you're tired of being bombarded with the curated perfection on social media and you're starving for something raw, honest, and a little bit messy, welcome to the LadyGang. Keltie, Becca, and Jac are here to clear away the bullshit and give you the confidence to live your best lady life. Unabashedly sincere, clever, and full of questionable advice, Act Like a Lady explores the complexities surrounding topics like body image, breakups, navigating a career, and adult friendships through their own embarrassing experiences. The LadyGang has your back with essays like Maybe She's Born with It, Maybe It's Photoshop and If You're Happy and You Know It, Thank Your
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Penguin Putnam Inc Checkout 19
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Penguin Putnam Inc Best of Friends
Book Synopsis“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller “A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking point Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Witch and the Tsar
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Crown A History of Women in 101 Objects
Book SynopsisDiscover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.“I adored this book!”—Olivia ColmanThis is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women.With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch’s book contains a curated and diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives. The result is an intimate and stirring alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women
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Alfred A. Knopf Notes on Surviving the Fire
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Random House USA Inc Lessons in Chemistry
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Random House USA Inc Feminism in Our Time
Book SynopsisA landmark collection of writings that define the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism, from Simone de Beauvoir to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women''s movement today—and revealing how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world.Here are the words of Doris Lessing, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Anita Hill, and many other important feminist figures. Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women''s health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is a thorough record of women''s ongoing struggle to co
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Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Candice Lin A Hard White Body
Book SynopsisThis publication showcases A Hard White Body, an evolving project by Candice Lin presented at B tonsalon--Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris; at Portikus, Frankfurt/Main; and at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. A Hard White Body weaves together material and nonhuman histories alongside the life and work of three historical figures: American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987); French explorer and global traveler Jeanne Baret (1740-1807); and artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Lin uses porcelain, a material whose history includes nineteenth-century imperial and scientific uses, to highlight fantasies surrounding whiteness and purity, only to subject her porcelain assemblages to pungent organic materials. She thus stages processes of contamination between organic and inorganic materials, creating an unstable sculptural ecosystem. In addition to an essay by curator Lotte Arndt that discusses the various iterations of Lin's project, th
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British Library Publishing The Womens Suffrage Cookery Book
Book SynopsisEnjoy hearty wholesome meals courtesy of the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage movement.
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Hachette Australia Dissolve
Book SynopsisThis story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding space for themselves against the 'very important men' in their lives. It's the story of every woman's life.
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Pluto Press Revolutionary Learning
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the Marxist and feminist theorisation in education and learning.Trade Review'A tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionise thinking around adult learning and education' -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University'Addresses the totality of capitalist social relations through a theoretical and historical lens, offering a fresh analysis of abstraction, ideology and critical consciousness' -- Kumkum Sangari, William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee'Superbly written and invites the reader into an engaging exchange on the most important theoretical development in our field today' -- John Holst, Associate Professor, Leadership, Policy and Administration, University of St ThomasTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Feminist Praxis 2. What is ‘Critical’ About Critical Educational Theory? 3. Learning and the ‘Matter’ of Consciousness in Marxist Feminism 4. Centring Marxist Feminist Theory in Adult Learning 5. Institutional Ethnography: A Marxist Feminist Analysis 6. Capitalist Imperialism as Social Relations: Implications for Praxis, Pedagogy and Resistance 7. Learning by Dispossession: Democracy Promotion and Civic Engagement in Iraq and the United States Index
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. What We Both Know
Book Synopsis2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a word. But, he cannot take the words I write on my own.Hillary Greene’s father, once a celebrated author and public figure, is now losing his memory and, with it, his ability to write. As her father’s primary caretaker, each day begins with two eggs, boiled and Charlie Rose or some other host on the iPad screen. Her father compulsively watches himself in old interviews, memorizing his own speech, trying to hang on to who he was.An aspiring author herself, Hillary impulsively agrees to ghost-write his final work—a memoir spanning his career—and release it in his name. Diving deep into her father’s past, and in turn her own, a horrifying truth begins to piece itself together.With full control over her father’s memoir, Hillary is faced with a stark choice: reveal her father as a monster or preserve his legacy as a respected literary figure. But she wonders what writing the truth will do to her and if it will damage her own prospects for a career. Whichever option she chooses, Hillary has to deal with the significant pain writing the memoir has re-surfaced—specifically, how the truth about her father adds to her grief over the death of her enigmatic sister, Pauline. For the first time in her life, Hillary holds the power.Set in the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, What We Both Know is a visceral, intimate, and complex novel about confronting the personal and professional consequences—and potentially devastating fallout—of revealing the truth about a famous man.
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Park Row The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
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Park Row Books The Marriage Vendetta
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Johns Hopkins University Press Divine Feminine
Book SynopsisMany of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today.Trade ReviewThis triumphantly successful book,... subtle, persuasive, and frequently witty, will be of real value to all those interested in women's history and the history or religion alike. -- William Whyte English Historical Review [Dixon's] insightful, meticulously researched book is a model of the scholarly investigation of alternative spiritual movements. -- Elaine Showalter Times Literary Supplement Dixon has written a fascinating history of the theosophical movement in England, situating it in its political and, significantly, sexual contexts... her book is a timely period piece because the 'West' and 'East' are both currently engaged in seismic shifts of consciousness that are calling into question traditional notions of sexuality, spirituality, hierarchy, and institutional organization. Choice An impressive first book, meticulously researched and carefully written. -- Catherine Hall Historical Journal Dixon successfully brings together for the first time an analysis that demonstrates the way in which Theosophy crossed and brought together many strands of upper-middle class and high-brow culture in England. If not for this reason alone, the book is worth reading for the in-depth and fascinating story it tells of a shifting slice of British culture. -- Etta M. Madden Utopian Studies An elegant and closely argued work. -- George Fetherling Vancouver Sun Dixon writes clearly and elegantly and has carved her subject into coherent and attractively presented chapters. The central chapters are packed with subtle and interesting insights into how feminism, religious culture, and theosophical and spiritualist thought interacted in the intellectual turbulence of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The discussion of the links btween religion and racial ideas is a fascinating addition to a much-neglected subject. -- Susan Mumm Journal of Contemporary Religion Dixon has written a provocative and timely book. She asks important questions about the relationship of politics and spirituality, and offers sensitively nuanced answers that draw upon the past but contain meaning for the present. -- Patricia S. Kruppa Albion 2003 Dixon's attention to the role of spirituality in modern life, and her insistence that the spiritual is always constituted in relation to a specific historical moment, offers new and exciting ways of thinking not only about late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain but also about the relationship of politics and religion in our own times. -- Laura E. Nym Mayhall Journal of Modern History 2003 In revealing the long-neglected intersection of spiritualism and feminist politics, Dixon's book will prompt a more general reconsideration of the relations of religious and political transformation in the period. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 An exemplary historical account of spirituality as a cultural formation... It develops with great subtlety recent accounts of English feminism, examining the role of class and racial privilege in feminist interventions in progressive politics and the imperial project. -- Sandra Stanley Holton Victorian Studies 2003 Dixon has opened up a great new avenue of investigation in her excellent book by challenging the secularist bias of analysis of the feminist movement. -- Samuel Wagar Canadian Woman Studies 2003 Startling and original... An important contribution of the book is to show how the constantly shifting construction of gender and sexuality among theosophists was related to notions of race and class. -- June Hadden Hobbs NWSA Journal Joy Dixon's meticulous and brilliant study of the relationship between the feminist movement and esoteric (alternative) spirituality in England stands as a model for how such work ought be undertaken in the future. -- Randi R. Warne Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal A stimulating and original study. Clearly written and well researched. -- Caroline Roberts University of Toronto Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsContents: I Domesticating the Occult 1 The Undomesticated Occult 2 The Mahatmas in Clubland: Manliness and Scientific Spirituality 3 "A Deficiency of the Male Element": Gendering Spiritual Experience 4 "Buggery and Humbuggery": Sex, Magic, and Occult Authority II Political Alchemies 5 Occult Body Politics 6 The Divine Hermaphrodite and the Female Messiah: Feminism and Spirituality in the 1890s 7 A New Age for Women: Suffrage and the Sacred 8 Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood Conclusion
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