Feminism and feminist theory Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Benedict Reading Mead Feminism Race and
Book SynopsisNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyTrade Review"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound." - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret MeadPart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming MeadChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational DoublenessChapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and GenderChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in SamoaPart II: Erasures and InclusionsChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal FeminismChapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on RacePart III: Imperial VisionsChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as ValueChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese CultureChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of WomenPart IV: Echoes and ReverberationsChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of ParadiseChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth BenedictPart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and MeadChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal FigureChapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns RevisitedChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret MeadNotesContributorsIndexIllustrations
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Johns Hopkins University Press Globalizing Women
Book SynopsisThis book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movements and organizations in the globalized world.Trade ReviewFeminist readers will appreciate Moghadam's deep commitment to understanding global feminism from the inside out. -- Abigail E. Cameron American Sociological Review 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Acronyms and TermsChapter 1. Globalizing Women: An Introduction and OverviewChapter 2. Globalization and Its Discontents: Capitalist Development, Political Movements, and GenderChapter 3. Femal Labor, Regional Cises, and Feminist ResponsesChapter 4. The Women's Movement and Its Organizations: Discourses, Structures, ResourcesChapter 5. From Structural Adjustment to the Global Trade Agenda: DAWN, WIDE, and WEDOChapter 6. Feminists versus Fundamentalists: Women Living under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood Is Global InstituteChapter 7. The Travails of Transnational Feminist Organizing: The Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (AWMR)Chapter 8. The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy? The Challenge of Global FeminismAppendix A: A Women's Appeal, Women Living under Muslim Laws, Alert for Action / Algeria, 1992Appendix B: Women's Caucus Declaration, Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization, Seattle, Washington, 30 November-3 December 1999Appendix C: Seattle Declaration, Diverse Women for Diversity, Seattle, 1 December 1999NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Rights A Human Rights Quarterly Reader
Book SynopsisThe essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: History and PerspectivesChapter 1. Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human RightsChapter 2. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human RightsChapter 3. Human Rights: A Feminist PerspectiveChapter 4. The Gender of Jus CogensChapter 5. Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human Rights DiscoursePart II: Religion, Culture, and Women's Human RightsChapter 6. The Human Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Women: A Project for the Twenty-first CenturyChapter 7. Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary Injustice: Widows in African SocietiesChapter 8. Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights WorkPart III: Violence and Women Chapter 9. Women's Voices, Women's PainChapter 10. Women, War, and Rape: Challenges Facing the International Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaChapter 11. Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing: Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to Rape Victims in the Former YugoslaviaChapter 12. Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape DiscourseChapter 13. Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights the Protection from ViolenceChapter 14. Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of TraffickersPart IV: Economic RightsChapter 15. Measuring Women's Economic and Social Rights AchievementChapter 16. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: A Governance and Human Rights AgendaPart V: Reproductive RightsChapter 17. Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion Law ReformChapter 18. Debating Reproductive Rights in IrelandChapter 19. China to CEDAW: An Update on Population PolicyAppendix: Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against WomenList of Contributors
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Johns Hopkins University Press Feminist Bioethics
Book SynopsisPhilosophically grounded, methodologically sound, and theoretically rigorous, this paradigm-challenging collection ponders the most dynamic areas of feminist inquiry into bioethical thought and practice and sketches future directions for this rapidly growing field.Trade ReviewThe bite-sized accessible chapters would be useful in undergraduate or graduate courses as a source of readings, research, and presentation topics. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction to Feminist Bioethics Chapter 1. The Expanding Landscape: Recent Directions in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 2. "It Is Her Problem, Not Ours": Contributions of Feminist Bioethics to the Mainstream Chapter 3. Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics Part II. Theory in Feminist Bioethics Chapter 4. Conceptions of Autonomy and Conceptions of the Body in Bioethics Chapter 5. Trust, Method, and Moral Progress in Feminist BioethicsChapter 6. The Right to Life: Rethinking Universalism in Bioethics Part III. From Theory to Method Chapter 7. Bodies, Connectedness, and Knowledge: A Contextual Approach to Hereditary Cancer Genetics Chapter 8. Stories of Innocence and Experience: Bodily Narrative and Rape Chapter 9. Where's the Harm? Challenging Bioethical Support of Prenatal Selection for Sexual OrientationChapter 10. Toward a Methodology for Technocratic Transformation: Feminist Bioethics, Midwifery, and Women's Health in the Twenty-first Century Part IV. Understanding Difference: Making and Breaking Connections within and between the Margins Chapter 11. The Difference Difference Makes: Public Health and the Complexities of Racial and Ethnic Differences Chapter 12. Feminist Bioethics and Indigenous Research Reform in Australia: Is an Alliance across Gender, Racial, and Cultural Borders a Useful Strategy for Promoting Change? Chapter 13. China's Birth Control Program through Feminist Lenses Chapter 14. A Feminist Standpoint on Disability: Our Bodies, Ourselves Conclusion. Reassessment and Renewal Index
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St Martin's Press Killing Rage Ending Racism Owl Book
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Kensington Publishing Blood
Book Synopsis“This book is the brilliant and long needed corrective that we have waited for, since the first time we stuffed a box of pads into a three-ply paper bag and slunk out of a pharmacy. Never again.” —Samantha BeeNew York Times bestselling author of The Menopause Manifesto and the world's most famous and outspoken gynecologist” (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free advice on the topic that impacts more than 72 million Americans every month: menstruation.Most people who menstruate can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. So why is real information so hard to find? Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or preventing it. And while both are important for many people, those who menstruate deserve to know more about their bodies than just what happens in service to reproduction. At a time when charlatans, politicians, and social media are succeeding in propagating damaging misinformation with real and devastating consequences, Dr. Jen provides the antidote with science, myth busting, and no-nonsense facts.Not knowing how your body works makes it challenging to advocate for yourself. Consequently, many suffer in silence, thinking their bodies are uniquely broken, or they turn to disreputable sources. Blood is a practical, empowering guide to what’s typical, what’s concerning, and when to seek care—recounted with the expertise and frank, fearless wit that have made Dr. Jen today’s most trusted voice in gynecology.Dr. Jen answers all your period-related questions, including: Why do we menstruate? How heavy is too heavy? How much should periods hurt? And she provides essential information about topics such as:* The fascinating biology of menstruation* Menstrual migraines, PMS, and period diarrhea (yes, it’s a thing, unfortunately)*Vaccines and menstruation*Legitimate menstrual products, and the facts behind toxic shock syndrome*Painful periods and endometriosis*Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)*Debunking social media disinformation about contraceptionBlood is about much more than biology. It’s an all-in-one, revolutionary guide that will change the way we think about, talk about—and don’t talk about—our bodies and our well-being.“Requisite reading. A no-nonsense, educational, science-backed, in-depth title about menstruation and the impact it can have on one’s body. This title will empower readers to better understand their bodies and to advocate for themselves in medical situations.” —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW Filled with piercing social analysis and enlightening science, this one’s a winner.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
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Beacon Press The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Book SynopsisA bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the “seven necessary sins” that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful. All the necessary “sins” that women and girls require to erupt.Eltahawy knows that the patriarchy is alive and well, and she is fed the hell up: Sexually assaulted during hajj at the age of fifteen. Groped on the dance floor of a night club in Montreal at fifty. Countless other injustices in the years between. Illuminating her call to action are stories of activists and ordinary women around the world—from South Africa to China, Nigeria to India, Bosnia to Egypt—who are tapping into their inner fury and crossing the lines of race, class, faith, and gender that make it so hard for marginalized women to be heard. Rather than teaching women and girls to survive the poisonous system they have found themselves in, Eltahawy arms them to dismantle it.Brilliant, bold, and energetic, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a manifesto for all feminists in the fight against patriarchy.
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Beacon Press Touched Out
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Beacon Press Here She Is
Book SynopsisA fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world.Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo.Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birt
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Beacon Press Touched Out
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Kick the Latch
Book SynopsisAbout one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch–with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries–is lightning in a bottleTrade Review"I have been following Kathryn Scanlan's original voice for years. In her new venture—an unusually intimate, clear-eyed portrait of a tough and engaging woman conveyed in revelatory vignettes—every word is essential." -- Amy Hempel"Kathryn Scanlan has performed a magical act of empathic ventriloquy in Kick the Latch. This immediate, engrossing immersion in another life and world, so personally and passionately told, is compulsively readable." -- Lydia Davis"Scanlan’s inventive novel documents a woman’s hardscrabble yet jubilant life and her dedication to working with racehorses. Shaped from interview transcripts with a real-life trainer named Sonia (no last name given), Scanlan’s vignettes carry readers across the arc of Sonia’s life...but the most beautiful moments are quiet ones, in which Sonia processes the choices she and others have made, and of the consequences she faces in a field dominated by men. With this sharp and lovely tribute to a singular woman, Scanlan continues to impress. " -- Publishers Weekly"Scanlan writes about ordinary life in extraordinary ways by compacting it radically, like pressurizing carbon into diamonds. When Sonia describes the force absorbed by a single hoof in every stride of a horse’s gallop—“a thousand pounds of pressure held up by that one thin leg”—she could also be describing Scanlan’s syntax: compact phrases holding so much pressure. The work is structured by recurring themes: the violence and pleasures of intimacy, the balm and exhaustion of hard work, our bonds with animals and with our own animal natures—those surges of desire and aggression that unseat and rearrange us." -- Leslie Jamison - The New Yorker"Kick the Latch, a short, absorbing novel about a racetrack horse trainer...is informed by a series of conversations with the real Sonia, who Scanlan met through her mother, and it has a blunt, vivid idiom that renders gore and beauty with similar clarity. That idiom is informed by Sonia’s own voice: “I wanted to preserve — amplify, exaggerate — Sonia’s idiosyncratic speech,” Scanlan says. The book feels like an interview, and it’s impressive what Scanlan does within that frame, especially with animals that serve as proxies for humans in their embodiment of power, independence, and humiliation." -- Erin Schwartz - Vulture"Kathryn Scanlan’s words will mark you. Her work is sharp, deliberate, and poised—rife with subtly peculiar language. " -- Crow Jonah Norlander - Bomb Magazine"I thought I knew everything there was to know about the track, by living it, by writing it, until I read Kathryn Scanlan’s dazzling novel, Kick the Latch—which is another thing altogether and an extraordinarily accurate picture of a life based on the love of racehorses." -- Michael Klein - Book Post"Careful research and deep empathy combine in this portrait of the unforgettable horse trainer Sonia. The life story you didn't know you needed, told in a spare, matter-of-fact narration that cannot conceal the passion and tenacity of a life hard-lived and success hard-won." -- NYPL Best Books of the Year"Kathryn Scanlan makes the mundane details of everyday life hum with electricity. " -- Amber Medland - The Telegraph"Kick the Latch is a triumph, whittling Sonia’s life down to 96 sparsely worded pages that serve as a masterclass in how less can be more." -- Susie Mesure - Financial Times"Extraordinary...Sonia’s voice is unsentimental and humane, alert to absurdity and human frailty...Scanlan is nowhere, and yet everywhere, in the shaping and patterning, in the rendering of a voice so distinctive and rich and true. Zola said that art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Well, we’re doubly blessed here, in having the sensibilities of both Sonia and Scanlan. Let’s be done with this awful “ordinary lives” talk, as though there is any such thing. Sonia is extraordinary and many other people would be perceived as such too, had they Scanlan to listen and make sense, artistically, of their days." -- Wendy Erskine - The Guardian"It will live far longer in the memory than most holidays...Scanlan’s harsh, funny, beautifully sad novel is unlike any other I’ve read this year—and twice as good." -- Chris Power - Sunday Times"Wonderful...an unforgettable, tough, direct voice, brilliantly captured...I’d never imagined I’d read and love a book about a midwest horse trainer." -- David Nicholls"Brimming with life...Refuses to follow the paths we expect...Although there’s much tenderness...the overall toughness of the narration—sinewy, matter-of-fact, neither glib nor maudlin—seldom fails to jolt the reader...In its emotional impact, [Scanlan’s] artfully artless minimalism most recalls Lucia Berlin...if we’re left wanting more, we’re also left wondering what more we could possibly want from a book so stuffed with life." -- Anthony Cummins - Observer""A series of taut, electrifying vignettes...by turns exultant and brutal."" -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Scanlan is a master of the compressed anecdote and, pulled together, these finely-tuned vignettes provide raw and bracing snapshots of a life lived day to day, job to job." -- Fiona Sturges - i"Spare and powerful...precise and unromantic...Sonia’s voice is distinct, her no-nonsense attitude a product of her lifestyle. Filtered through Scanlan, who writes as though with a scalpel, every mark precise and deep, it accrues an intellectual power too." -- New Statesman"A chiseled little gem...about a horse trainer called Sonia and told in her unforgettably downbeat voice. Such poise and economy—I can’t remember a novel about work that’s impressed me so." -- Tim Winton - The Sydney Morning Herald"A tough, beautiful novel." -- Justine Jordan and David Shariatmadari - The Guardian"All the exhilarating pace and tension of a high-stakes derby...Masterfully precise...Every sentence seems to pull behind it an invisible weight of information and emotion." -- Times Literary Supplement"One of the must-reads of the year." -- Open Book, BBC Radio 4"An extraordinary story, radically compressed." -- Irish Times"A very special read." -- Marie Claire"Unusual, poetically told...a series of beautifully observed vignettes." -- Daily Mail"Inventive...Compelling." -- iD"Rings true for a reason...Poignant without becoming maudlin...Most of all, perhaps, I was moved by the portrayal of one woman’s dedication to her craft." -- Scotsman"Kathryn Scanlan’s name sits beside Lydia Davis and Mary Gaitskill in that great pantheon of writers who pack so much into so little, achieving in a handful of pages what some writers couldn’t achieve in hundreds . . . [Kick the Latch is] a vivid and idiosyncratic profile of a life that straddles fact and fiction." -- Barry Pierce - Vice"To pick up this book is to kick the latch and be rushed away: to feel the rhythm of a life told in moments, chasing an uncertain kind of win...The encounters are shared in a steady series of short vignettes, like bar-room tales settled down into a sharp-edged prose poetry...After decades of one foot in front of another, the reader is left bereft at the finish line with only thing clear. It’s a beautiful run." -- Lunate"GENIUS! Future classic, current revelation...one of the best books I’ve ever read." -- Amy Key"Kick the Latch is pure exhilaration. No one works with fineness, with exactitude, with the beating heart of fiction and of life, quite like Kathryn Scanlan." -- Amina Cain"A revelation in its unadorned, unromantic, plain power." -- Andrew McMillan"Fantastic." -- Sheena Patel"I was absolutely blown away...It’s so much more than a skilled act of ventriloquism, it is a finely wrought work of art that takes one person’s life and expands it to create something wondrous and universal. The pages I read seemed to capture all that is vital to human existence." -- Tash Aw"With this book, Kathryn Scanlan is telling us three things: life is short, it's worth paying attention, and she's one hell of a writer." -- Jon McGregor"A genre-defying wonder." -- Megan Nolan"Fantastic...Fact-based vignettes in the fictional novel form, with shades of Willy Vlautin and Denis Johnson. Either way, pure poetry. It already features like a miniature classic." -- Benjamin Myers"A joy from start to finish, and I can't think of anything else quite like it...Kick the Latch is an extraordinary act of portraiture. Tender, kind, and told with measured honesty, it gripped me entirely from the first page to the last." -- Jessie Greengrass"Utterly fresh, shimmery as a dragonfly...Ridiculously good." -- Kerri ní Dochartaigh"Kick the Latch was one of the first books I read this year and it's still a contender for my Book of the Year. A tightly controlled, moving, brutal, tender, powerhouse of a book. Kathryn Scanlan is a genius." -- Victoria Mackenzie"Lean, tense...bursting with sheer life." -- Lucy Caldwell"Superb, episodic story of horse-racing, told in vignettes of violence, poverty and community. Both niche and precise in the revelation of an ordinary life (Johnson’s Train Dreams, or Seethaler’s A Whole Life) with Lydia Davis’ distillation." -- Sinéad Gleeson"Performs the trick of turning a life, with its practicalities and speed, into art, and does so with particular charm, will, and intensity." -- Lucie Elven"Absolute perfection. Book of the year already and it’s only Jan 18th." -- Adelle Stripe"A genuine read-in-one-sitting experience, and a genuinely unforgettable one. Beautifully written, heartbreaking and joyous, this is one of the books of the year, if not the book of the year, already." -- Stuart Evers
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The University Press of Kentucky Anne Bancroft
Book SynopsisOffers new insights into the life and career of a determined actress who left an indelible mark on the film industry while remaining true to her art.
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Rutgers University Press Junctures in Womens Leadership The Arts
Book SynopsisIn this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women''s Leadership: The Arts have made their mark by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts. The contributors explore several important themes, such as the role of feminist leadership in changing cultural values regarding inclusivity and gender parity, as well as the feminization of the arts and the power of the arts as cultural institutions. Amongst the women discussed are Bertha Honoré Palmer, Louise Noun, Samella Lewis, Julia Miles, Miriam Colón, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Martha Wilson, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kim Berman, Gilane Tawadros, Joanna Smith, andTrade Review“There will never be too many books teaching Women’s Herstory. Brodsky and Olin’s case studies describe the outrageous and humiliating strangleholds all women have endured and continue to face. Brodsky and Olin champion us to reach our goals.” -- Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD * Founder, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum *“New histories need to be written. Preserving stories that complicate and enrich mainstream narratives is vitally important, and the inspired and inspiring contributions groundbreaking women have made to our cultural world deserve to be celebrated. In addition to leading this charge themselves in their own remarkable careers, with the publication of Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin have given us the gift of expanding the canon through these remarkable case studies in creative leadership in the arts.” -- Catherine Morris * Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum *“Here's a round of applause for Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, founders of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (now the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, the first feminist art center on a university campus) and heartfelt thanks for Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts, their rich insights into generations of women leaders in the arts on the global stage. As arts leaders in their own right and as historians of the rich tradition to which they belong, Brodsky and Olin document feminist cultural history as, just as importantly, they continue to make it. We are doubly in their debt.” -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, author of The History of White *"Quick to See and Quick to Lead: Women and Power in the Arts" by Stuart Mitchner * Town Topics *" Recommended." * Choice *"This much-needed volume, with its primary focus on visual arts professionals, brings attention to a group of women whose biographies have not been joined before....[Brodsky and Olin's] sound scholarship is essential to advancing the understanding about the contributions of these women as well as the general contributions of women in the arts. No similar books offer case studies on women leaders across different professions with this focus. Hopefully, more such accessible tomes will follow." * Woman's art Journal *"Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints," by Ilene Dube * Hyperallergic *Table of Contents1 Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918) Philanthropist, president of the Board of Lady Managers, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 2 Louise Noun (1908 – 2002) Philanthropist, art collector, scholar 3 Samella Lewis (1924-) Artist, art historian, arts administrator 4 Julia Miles (1930-) Theater director and producer; founder, Women’s Project Theater 5 Miriam Colón (1936-2017) Broadway and Hollywood film actress; founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 6 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940-) Artist and activist 7 Bernice Steinbaum (1941-) Gallerist and advocate for diversity 8 Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943-2008) Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art 9 Martha Wilson (1947-) Artist, activist, archivist; founder, Franklin Furnace Archive 10 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-) Choreographer; founder of the dance company, Urban Bush Women 11 Kim Berman (1960-) Artist, activist; founder, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, South Africa 12 Gilane Tawadros (1965-) Arts administrator; founding director, Institute for International Visual Arts (InIVA), United Kingdom 13 Veomanee Douangdala (1976-) and Joanne Smith (1976-) Social and cultural entrepreneurs, Laos
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University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
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Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education company) The Dictionary of Feminist Theory Second Edition
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Ohio State University Press The Religion of Empire Political Theology in
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The University of Alabama Press Ruth Bader Ginsburgs Legacy of Dissent
Book SynopsisRuth Bader Ginsburg's lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from equal protection to reproductive rights. This volume offers a rhetorical analysis of her feminist jurisprudence.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the rhetorical studies literature; the cultural and political value of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is considerable and there is a definite need for a careful, sustained analysis of her judicial rhetoric. Gibson provides just such an analysis, and her work is a powerful contribution to the ongoing conversations about the relationships between law, rhetoric and the broader political culture."" - Trevor Parry-Giles, author of The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process and coauthor of The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism
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University of Alabama Press The World through the Dime Store Door A Memoir
Book SynopsisA coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II.Trade Review“Balancing the personal with the cultural, Henderson does a fine job of evoking farm, mining, and small-town life of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s while charting the education and emotional growth of a girl who is hungry for knowledge and eager to experience the wider world. I found Henderson’s story to be an engaging, well-told, and pleasing coming-of-age memoir.” —Jennifer Horne, poet laureate of Alabama and author of Tell the World You’re a Wildflower: Stories and the poetry collections Bottle Tree,Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light.Table of ContentsContentsA Note to ReadersPrologueIIIIIIIVVEpilogue
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Beaufort Books 46 Days
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Beaufort Books Called Again
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Beaufort Books Buried Memories A Vulnerable Girl and Her Story
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKatie Beers will be part of a round table of "women [who] are all survivors of their own infamous abductions, assaults and attacks and for the first time, are coming together with Elizabeth to help provide valuable insight to Jayme's story." https://www.aenetworks.com/article/lifetime-greenlights-special-smart-justice-the-jayme-closs-case-with-missing-persons-advocate-elizabeth-smart-to-premiere-april-27
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University of Missouri Press LifeAltering
Book SynopsisExamines different aspects of abortion from the perspectives of those who have terminated pregnancies, illustrating how court cases, state legislation, and religious beliefs can shape the lives and reproductive choices of ordinary people.Trade Review“Angie Leventis Lourgos interweaves the stories of women who sought abortions with the political, moral, and religious contexts of their decisions. Throughout the fifteen chapters, Lourgos explores issues including medication abortions, the realities of traveling across state lines for procedure access, religious trauma, and the heartbreaking decision to terminate wanted pregnancies. Throughout all of the chapters, Lourgos keeps these women’s humanity at the forefront, even as she engages with those who would condemn them for their actions.”—Evan Elizabeth Hart, Missouri Western State University"Smart reporting. Clear writing. Insight. Compassion. Angie Leventis Lourgos brings all those qualities to this wide variety of stories about women who have sought abortions. Her accounts of these women—and the systems that shape their options and feelings—will endure as an important record of a pivotal moment in American history."—Mary Schmich, Pulitzer Prize winner, former columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and author of Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now: The Best of Mary Schmich
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Quest Books,U.S. Fault Lines The Sixties the Culture War and the
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Random House Australia Yassmins Story
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Michigan State University Press The Female Face in Patriarchy Oppression as
Book SynopsisUsing the Church as a model for society in general, this book demonstrates how women, through centuries of conditioning, have become both victims and perpetrators of their own oppression and how their cooperation with, and submission to, patriarchal dominance has been both conscious and unconscious.
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John Wiley & Sons Workingclass Women in the Academy
Book SynopsisThe voices of 20 women from working-class backgrounds are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation - as both student and teacher - and each has thought long and deeply about her experiences from an explicitly feminist perspective.
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi The Last Layer of the Ocean Kayaking through
Book SynopsisThe year Mary is 38, the suicide of a stranger in a nearby reservoir compels her to make a change. She decides to strike out for Alaska and take a chance on love and home. Divided into sections detailing the main kayaking strokes, this memoir shows how each can be a metaphor for the lives we all pass through and the tools we need to stay afloat.
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi The Only Woman in the Room The Norma Paulus
Book SynopsisEngaging and opinionated, charming and forceful, Norma Paulus was widely covered in statewide and national newspapers and television during her eventful, sometimes controversial political career. The Only Woman in the Room documents her life and work in a lively, anecdotal history that will appeal to historians, political scientists, newshounds, and ordinary citizens alike.
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Orbis Books (USA) Troubling in My Soul Womanist Perspectives on
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Orbis Books (USA) Daughters of Anowa African Women Patriarchy
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Academy Chicago Publishers Too Late for the Festival
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Demeter Press Moms Gone Mad Motherhood and Madness Oppression
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Random House Canada Morgan Is My Name
Book Synopsis“A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale.” —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Sophie Keetch’s prose is as mesmerizing as the ocean’s tides, illuminating Morgan’s life with a deft and attentive hand.” —Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals and Ruthless VowsA powerful feminist retelling of the early life of Morgan le Fay, the famed villainess of Arthurian legend, this dazzling debut is the story of a woman both mortal and magical, formidable and misunderstood, told in her own words.Young Morgan of Cornwall lives a happy life in Tintagel Castle until King Uther Pendragon, with the help of the sorcerer Merlin, murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage. Furious, brilliant, and vengeful, M
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St Martin's Press The Hour of Land
Book SynopsisLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land
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Celadon Books Elsewhere
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St. Martin's Griffin Carefree Black Girls
Book SynopsisOne of Kirkus Review''s Best Books About Being Black in AmericaPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay's pivotal work will engage all readers, especially fans of Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism. Kirkus (Starred)An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black womenfrom Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B.In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online. In this collection of essays, Carefree Black Girls, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture--writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars--whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay ce
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Relinquished
Book SynopsisEssential reading. NPR Books We LoveDares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is. ?Washington PostImpressively reported[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans' reduced access to abortion. ?San Francisco ChronicleA powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about o
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Flatiron Books Emotional Labor
Book SynopsisAn urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman's words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.? Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair PlayFrom Journalist Rose Hackman, a deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every dayand a profound call to action.A stranger insists you smile more, even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grating commute. A mother is expected to oversee every last detail of domestic life. A nurse works on the front line, worried about her own health, but has to put on a brave face for her patients. A young professional is denied promotion for being deemed abrasive instead of placating her boss. Nearly every day, we find ourselves forced to edit our emotions to accommodate and elevate the emotions of others. Too many of us are asked to perform this exhausting, draining work at no ext
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St Martin's Press The Trouble with You
Book SynopsisRich in colorful characters, Feldman''s riveting tale is one of resilience, determination, and hope. BooklistIn an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each...Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a nice girlthe kind that marries a doctorand her aunt Rose who has a rebellious past of her own, Fanny struggles to raise her young daughter and forge a new life by sheer will and pluck. When she gets a job as a secretary to the queen of radio s
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St Martin's Press The Trouble with You
Book SynopsisRich in colorful characters, Feldman''s riveting tale is one of resilience, determination, and hope. BooklistIn an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each...Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a nice girlthe kind that marries a doctorand her aunt Rose who has a rebellious past of her own, Fanny struggles to raise her young daughter and forge a new life by sheer will and pluck. When she gets a job as a secretary to the queen of radio s
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OM Book Service Looseleaf for Women Across Cultures
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WW Norton & Co We Need New Stories The Myths that Subvert
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice.Trade Review"An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger"Malik invites readers to analyze the media environment and political and cultural landscape of the early 21st century, with a keen, critical eye. … This volume is worth reading and rereading. ... Readers seeking a high-level analysis of political discourse will most appreciate Malik’s work." -- Sarah Schroeder - Library Journal (starred review)"A persuasive debunking of political and cultural myths that impede social justice in the U.S. and U.K. …This is a lucid reminder that the fight for equality is a battle of ideas." -- Publishers Weekly"Malik presents fierce opinions and cogent observations that deliver a deeply intelligent and powerfully provocative work that calls into question long-held beliefs of both the left and the right." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co Big Girl A Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut novel, Big Girl, this body carries the weight of an entire neighborhood.... Big Girl triumphs as a love letter to the Black girls who are forced to enter womanhood too early — and to a version of Harlem that no longer exists. In this novel, gentrification means a violent thinning of the true beauty of Black and immigrant cultures and tightknit communities that have been nearly erased in service of commercialism and whiteness." -- Cleyvis Natera - New York Times Book Review"Big Girl... is as bighearted and as celebratory as a work can be. Set in Harlem’s “indominable largesse” in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this is a book of big appetites, big feelings, big questions (“What else might a woman turn out to be?”), Biggie Smalls, big desires. Sullivan writes joyfully about bodies, the city, youth, culture, music, extended family, and food, describing them all with vivid, carnal detail. Against this backdrop, she unflinchingly examines what we do to Black girls and women: how even our best intentions squeeze them into small shapes." -- Annie Liontas - BOMB Magazine"Sullivan (the collection Blue Talk and Love) charms in her stunning debut novel about a Black girl’s coming-of-age.... All of Sullivan’s characters—even the cruel ones—brim with humanity, and the author shines when conveying the details of Malaya’s comforts, such as Biggie Smalls lyrics, the portraits she paints in her room, the colors she braids into her hair, and the sweet-smelling dulce de coco candies she eats with a classmate with whom she shares a close and sexually charged friendship. This is a treasure." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"[A] young girl learns—and redefines—what it means to take up space . . . Sullivan writes with tenderness and uses the language of poetry to communicate her protagonist’s inner life . . . A lyrical and important coming-of-age novel." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to be a Failure and Still Live Well
Book SynopsisBeverley Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include: Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The Limits of Success, co-edited with Michele Paule (2019); Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R Clack (3rd edition 2019); Freud on the Couch (2013); Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, co-edited with Pamela Sue Anderson (2004); Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality (2002); and Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition (1999). From 2012-16 she was City Councillor for St Clements Ward in Oxford, and from 2016-2018 she was a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum. She is a member of the Methodist Church's Faith and Order Committee, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Trade ReviewNothing succeeds like success? Perhaps not. How to be a Failure and Still Live Well is a powerful rejection of the language of ‘success' that dominates contemporary neo-liberal culture. Blending philosophy and personal experience Beverley Clack gives a moving defense of the necessity of loss and failure in building relationships, identity and a meaningful life. This splendid book gives us a picture of the kind of fuller existence we can aspire to as individuals who choose our own response to tragedy and as members of a community that does not rely on false optimism or selfish calculation to bind itself together. * Joshua Foa Dienstag, Professor of Political Science & Law, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *Thought-provoking and compelling, Bev Clack takes us into the heart of failure and loss, with personal depth and engaging philosophical and theological insights. Clack raises profoundly important questions and offers no easy answers - but helps the reader to engage more deeply with life, aided by failure and loss. * Alistair Ross, Associate Professor of Psychotherapy, Oxford University, UK *With characteristic wisdom, insight, humanity and wit, Clack shows us how dwelling with our failures can make genuine flourishing possible. This is philosophy at its best – philosophy that contributes to the shared human endeavour of living a good life, engaging deftly with psychology, politics, theology, feminist theory, literature and art. * Anastasia Scrutton, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, University of Leeds, UK *The threat of failure is ever-present, but hardly ever openly examined. This thoughtful, honest and often moving book examines why so many of us are haunted by failure. Its erudite and detailed diagnosis of the reasons for widespread feelings of failure across modern societies makes for both fascinating and inspiring reading. * Anneliese Dodds, MP, House of Commons, UK *With characteristic wisdom, insight, humanity and wit, Clack shows us how dwelling with our failures can make genuine flourishing possible. This is philosophy at its best – philosophy that contributes to the shared human endeavour of living a good life, engaging deftly with psychology, politics, theology, feminist theory, literature and art. * Dr Anastasia Scrutton, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Failure: And How to Live Well Chapter 1: Success, Failure, and the 21st Century Good Life Chapter 2: Women, Failure, and the Fear of Loss Chapter 3: Death and Sickness, Loss and Failure Chapter 4: Factoring Out Failure, Factoring Out Humanity: Bureaucracy, Metrics, and the Loss of Spontaneity Chapter 5: From Homo Economicus to Homo Religiosus: Remaking the Human Chapter 6: Accepting Failure, Embracing Loss Conclusion: Being a Failure and Living Well Bibliography
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Union Square & Co. A Poisoners Tale
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Moan
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Feminasty The Complicated Womans Guide to
Book Synopsis From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay. Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn''t been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundred million hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They''re the white noise of oppression that we''ve accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants to keep it that way. Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In Feminasty -- ti
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University of Minnesota Press Anti-Electra: The Radical Totem of the Girl
Book SynopsisA close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art.Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.Trade Review"Anti-Electra constitutes an occasionally uncanny and always fascinating work, which advocates a constellational, schizogamous relationality. This intellectually engaging and witty book will be of interest to art historians, scholars with interests in media studies, and those who are open to be challenged by an exciting feminist revaluation of ancient myths and their relation to the present."—IdentitiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the English Language EditionIntroduction1. Electra as Female “Oedipus”Positive Unrelatedness and ExogamyConstitutive Strangeness or Primary ExoticismSchizogamyXenological AnamnesisTotemistic “Objectification”2. Radical Totemism and AutomatismTheogenesis and the Twilight of MachinesTotem and XenocracyAnimal Mummy and the Apparatus-FunctionAnthropomorphization of the DeityApparatus or Weak Totem3. Totemism and Sculpture: Preliminaries to a Theory of SchizosomaMetabolism and Therapeutic SchizosomaPre-oedipality as a “Plastic Phase”Excursus: Plasma, Forming, SculptureThe Statue Delivering OraclesThe Two-Body DoctrineThe One and the ManySocial Sculpture4. The Labyrinth: General Theory of SchizosomaPasiphae’s CowThe Satellite5. The Four Pre-oedipal ObjectsFailing Equalization and the Emergence of the ComplexElectrificationAppendixIndex
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