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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors IndexTrade Review"Sex is not just sex. As anyone who has deeply engaged the history of religions knows, human sexuality runs the gamut from the most mundane fetish or fantasy to the profundities of charismatic authority, mystical experience, discarnate erotic encounter, alien abduction, even human deification. The essayists in this new volume demonstrate this still ill-understood truth in abundance and with astonishing historical and psychological detail. They thus take us further down the road toward a genuine understanding of our real situation in this weird, weird world." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Reflexivity and Eroticism in the Study of MysticismTable of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Masculinity Class and SameSex Desire in
Book SynopsisMasculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 explores the experiences of men who desired other men outside of the capital. In doing so, it offers a unique intervention into the history of sexuality but it also offers new ways to understand masculinity, working-class culture, regionality and work in the period.Trade Review“The book offers significant depth and engagement on the issues of sexuality, class and masculinity in industrial England between 1895 and 1957 … . this is a rich, accessible and important contribution to our understanding of same-sex desire, class and masculinity in Britain.” (Jeffrey Meek, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 28 (1), March, 2017)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Policing and Prosecutions 3. Working-Class Culture 4. Work and Family 5. Sex 6. Language 7. Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Masculinity Class and Music Education Boys
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music.- Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice.- Chapter 3. Venerating Angels.- Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu.- Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering.- Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys.- Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class.- Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice Chapter 3. Venerating Angels Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity Chapter 9. Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The History of British Womens Writing 7001500
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.Trade Review'This collection is a noteworthy addition to the bibliography on women's contributions to medieval literature...McAvoy and Watt are to be commended for compiling an outstanding collaborative history of women's writings, as well as a significant history of medieval literature. It will be profitably read by anyone interested in medieval literature or women's writing. With its assessments of prior and current scholarship and its generous notes and bibliography, it offers a thorough overview of the field for graduate students, and its informative, well-written, and original essays make it recommended reading for anyone studying women's writing.' - Monica Brzezinski Potkay, The Review of English Studies 'McAvoy and Watt aim with this volume to establish a more engaging and relevant dialogue between past and present, and they succeed. The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500 is, in fact, an exciting and valuable contribution to the study of medieval literature and feminist studies.' - Make MagTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: Writing a History of Women's Writing from 700 to 1500; L.Herbert McAvoy & D.Watt PART I: PRE-TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Women and the Origins of English Literature; C.A.Lees & G.R.Overing Literary Production Before and After the Conquest; C.A.M.Clarke The French of the English and Early British Women's Literary Culture; C.Batt Women Writers in Wales; J.Cartwright Medieval Antifeminism; A.Bernau PART II: BODIES, BEHAVIOURS AND TEXTS Romance; C.Saunders Saints' Lives; S.Horner Devotional Literature; M.M.Sauer Marian Literature; S.Niebryzdowski Late Medieval Conduct Literature; M.J.Seaman PART III: LITERACIES AND LITERARY CULTURES Women and their Manuscripts; C.M.Meale Women and Reading; L.Farina Women and Networks of Literary Production; E.Robertson Anonymous Writers; L.H.McAvoy Women Translators; A.Barratt Women's Letters, 1350-1500; J.Daybell PART IV: FEMALE AUTHORITY Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc; N.B.Warren Mary of Oignies; J.N. Brown Bridget of Sweden; L.Saetveit Miles Catherine of Siena; A.C. Grisé Julian of Norwich; A.Appleford Margery Kempe; D.Watt 'A Revelation of Purgatory'; M.C.Erler Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work between
Book SynopsisMasculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures of a generation of young men in contemporary Indonesia.Table of Contents1. Men ' 's Things and Male Activities 2. Growing Up in Surabaya: Youth, Street Gangs, the City and Beyond 3. Male Sex Work in South Bali: Bodies, Violence and Entrepreneurship 4. After Sex Work: Immobility and Bonds of Dependence
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkeys Retail Sector
Book SynopsisThe headscarf issue draws a great deal of public and academic attention in Turkey, yet the debate largely unfolds within the contours of the discussions over modernization, Westernization, and the Islamic / secular divide.Trade ReviewAfter careful review of the manuscript chapters that I've received along with the other materials, I would recommend strong support for this book project. The research framed by this project offers to have wide purchase in the academic realm. It is an excellent piece of original research that is without a doubt addressing a gap in the current literature and providing a great deal of complexity beyond the current approaches to the issue of the headscarf in Turkey. Thus, it would be a great asset to future academic research on the headscarf issue in Turkey. Furthermore, because of the nature of the topic and the quality writing of the author, a book stemming from this project would likely be a desirable text for undergraduate and graduate courses with themes on Turkey, Islam and societies, women in Muslim-majority countries. There is much to be praised about the writing style of the author and the effective way that the text engages a broader audience. In the chapters given, numerous instances exist in which the author very effectively lets the women she is interviewing speak, but also frames this within poignant insight into the issues at stake. Thus, I would argue that a finished product stemming from this project would have broad academic appeal. The author is absolutely correct in arguing for the uniqueness of this study on several accounts. While I agree, also with the author, that previous studies did much to contribute to our knowledge of the headscarf and challenge previously held assumptions, their participant subjects were all typically members of a particular social class-economically speaking, they tended to be women from middle/upper-middle to upper class, and they have tended to be relegated entirely to the educated elite. This has led the discussion of the headscarf and decisions to cover or not cover to be constrained by a limited set of issues. Dr. Sayan-Cengiz provides us with a set of participant subjects-less educated, lower-middle class women-that gives us a whole new range of issues that help us not only understand this underrepresented (in the literature) group of women, but also Turkish urban society in general. What is also particularly valuable in this author's research is both the level of neutrality toward the topic by the author and the particular contexts of the women provide angles to the issue that complicate the more common dichotomies within which previous research has been framed-i.e. that wearing the headscarf means this or that, or that these women are active autonomous subjects or the passive objects upon whose bodies certain agents propel their social agendas. Her research effectively challenges us to conclude that, in many cases, none of these categories might be relevant. For all of these reasons I would strongly recommend moving forward with this project with a view toward publication. With this in mind, I do have suggestions for ways in which this project could be revised/developed to hone further the excellent elements of the study already present. First of all, the planned structure of the work seems to still be too beholden to its previous dissertation structure (in fact, in the existing chapters, the author might want to do a find/replace for the word 'dissertation,' which is still lurking in the text at various spots. I only had access to chapter one and the chapter summaries for 2 and 3, but I would strongly recommend restructuring these more efficiently for the purpose of the book project. Currently, chapter 1 starts out well, but gets bogged down with too many objectives that have to be repeated anyway in future chapters. The introduction to the introduction could be a bit more captivating-why not start with an intriguing anecdote that captures or draws the reader in to the relevance of what you are doing before it gets bogged down with telling us what the book will do. Chapter one should present the problem/context and then the ultimate research question, point out the relevance of this research in terms of the gap that it fills in the headscarf-in-Turkey debate, explain methods used and how interviewees and focus groups were gathered and conducted, and a chapter outline. In the current chapter one, the author tries to both address the literature and the gap in Turkey while also addressing theory relevant to her research. I would leave the discussion and analysis of theory entirely to chapter 2. I think it is going to be overwhelming and redundant otherwise. The chapter on theory needs to provide the readers with the theoretical tools that will be used to analyze what is presented in further chapters, and the author will strengthen what she is doing to the extent that she communicates those linkages, particularly when analyzing in subsequent chapters. In chapter 4, 5, and 6, it appeared that theory was being introduced to help address/frame highlighted elements from the interviews, but if the theory chapter is constructed effectively, such diversions into theory in the following chapter should not be necessary-you would only need to link back. If it's not possible to have a coherent discussion of theory linking the research then I would leave the theory chapter out entirely and deal with the theory uniquely as it comes up. Having a theory chapter at the beginning that isn't really used in the analysis and replacing it with new elements of theory in those chapters is not advisable. Chapter 3-I would recommend-should be a political economy of the retail market in Turkey. This could be a historical overview of the retail market, for example, along with perhaps an ethnographic-style glimpse into retail life in general at major international chains, local retail shops, and tesettur shops. The author has given us glimpses into this life in general a bit in chapter 4, but I think she can separate the general portrait from the specifics related to the women and headscarves in Chapter 4. I think it would be nice to have such a background context. This portrait of the retail world in Turkey should be separate from her explanation of method, which is why I suggested putting the latter in chapter one. As for Chapters 4, 5, and 6, these chapters are strong, but they occasionally have sections where the author's enthusiasm to illustrate what she is communicating through her research appears to lose some steam. In short, she could utilize examples from her research more-particularly in chapters 5 and 6. For example, the section that begins on page 17 of chapter 5 reads like a race to get to the end of the chapter rather than highlight the phenomenon she is bringing up in that section. It would be interesting to include any comments by participants that show some awareness that this sort of marking is occurring. If the women in the interviews and focus groups didn't discuss that at all, the silence is also interesting-i.e. scholars are framing and debating this issue in terms that appear to be totally irrelevant to the life and realm of these participants. I would make this link one way or the other. In the section beginning on page 13 of the same chapter (5), was the idea of veiling for perfection and those expectations within themselves or in specific cevreler not discussed? The author is currently using other literature to discuss this and not her research subjects. I'd like to hear what they had to say related to this. Is this aspect/assumption of veiling perceived by them or not? I like the general structure of chapter 5, but I would also encourage the author to not let her readers lose sight of the retail context of the participant subjects. Chapter 6 implies a relationship with the retail/employment context, but this is also not as strong as it could/should be. Another way of trying to capture the tendencies of the existing literature that this work is speaking to (as highlighted in chapter 5) is that while they disagree on the issue of agency-skeptics see them as objects of male Islamist super-agents, and perfecters and identity markers see them as active subjects-they all force the headscarf into the assumption that, in one way or another, it is worn intentionally for cultural change (hence, the culturalization of the headscarf). I think the author was trying to indicate this throughout the chapter, but this precise assessment was never exactly communicated. Only parts of it at different points, but I think it is a poignant point that she is making that should be highlighted.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. The Culturalization of the Headscarf3. The World of Retail Sales4. Demarcation Lines in Retail Employment and the Exclusion of the Headscarf5. Great Expectations: The Meanings Loaded on the Headscarf 6. The Desire to Be Unmarked: Distancing from the Essentialized Meanings of the Headscarf7. ConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Palgrave Macmillan Gender Class and Power An Analysis of Pay
Book Synopsis1. Introduction,- 2. Theories of Discrimination.- 3. The Development of the Printing Industry: Workers' and Employers' Organisation.- 4. Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Union Solidarity in the Struggle for Control of the Labour Process.- 5. Gender or Skill: The Continuation of Segregated Work.- 6. Challenging Inequality: Employers and Unions.- 7. Wage Leadership: The Continuation of Unequal Pay.- 8. Conclusions.Table of Contents1. Introduction,2. Theories of Discrimination.3. The Development of the Printing Industry: Workers' and Employers' Organisation.4. Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Union Solidarity in the Struggle for Control of the Labour Process.5. Gender or Skill: The Continuation of Segregated Work.6. Challenging Inequality: Employers and Unions.7. Wage Leadership: The Continuation of Unequal Pay.8. Conclusions.
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Palgrave Macmillan Performance Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times Contemporary Performance InterActions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Empathy A Therapy of ContactIn
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors focus on the importance of relationship in psychotherapy. Relationships between people form the basis of our daily lives. We require this contact with others, the sense of respect and value it produces, the relational needs it fulfills. As we face the inevitable traumas of life, large and small, our ability to make full contact with others is often disrupted. As this reduction in contact increases, relational needs go unfulfilled, producing psychological dysfunction. Beyond Empathy offers therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to maintain genuine, contactful relationships and thus, better psychological health.The authors describe an integrative psychotherapy approach that they have developed and now teach at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City. It draws from Rogers'' client-centered therapy, Berne''s transactional analysis, Perls'' Gestalt therapy, Kohut''s self psychology, and the work of Table of ContentsRelational Needs. (Inquiry). Attunement. Involvement. Relational Needs. Through the Keyhole. Greta: Mother Come Home. Sarah: Therapy with a Regressed Client. Exploring the Function of Defenses. Therapy with the Introjected Other (Part I). Therapy with the Introjected Other (Part II). Integrative Psychotherapy with Couples. The Keyhole Revisited.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Feminist Strategies in International Governance
Book SynopsisThe struggle for women's rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the voices of academics and practitioners to reflect in particular on the effectiveness of human rights strategies and gender mainstreaming. It covers three international issue areas in which feminists currently seek change: women's human rights and violence against women; the participation of women in peace-making and their protection during conflict; and the gendered effects of development, economic and financial governance.The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in internTrade Review"Feminist Strategies in International Governance is likely to become a fixture in graduate IR gender courses, and future editions might include more coverage of the track record of UN Women as it develops and reflections on its successes and failures in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of global gender norms and standards as they relate to the arguments found in the collection. The book as it stands provides an excellent example of engaged IR scholarship and will hopefully help improve the quality of feminist strategy, shape the agenda of powerful institutions like the UN and World Bank, and contribute to these institutions ability to nurture innovative feminist policies."- Eric M. Blanchard, Columbia University, e-International Relations 2014Table of Contents1. Introduction: Feminist Strategies in International Governance: Past Insights, New Visions and Future Prospects Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl and Susanne Zwingel Part I: Feminist Strategies 2. Civil Society Strategies: The Weight of Outsider Interventions Mariama Williams 3. Feminist Strategies within International Organizations Carolyn Hannan 4. Gender Mainstreaming Laura Parisi & Jacqui True 5. International Law - A Travel Guide for Gender Justice? Hilary Charlesworth 6. Gender Expertise Elisabeth Prügl Part II: How do Gender Norms Travel? 7. Translating International Women’s Rights: CEDAW in Context Susanne Zwingel 8. Vernacularization in Action: Combining Global and Local Ideas about Women’s Rights in Peru Peggy Levitt 9. Translating International Norms: Filters to Combating Violence Against Women in Lebanon Rita Sabat Part III: Feminist Strategies in Security Governance 10. Gender Mainstreaming of UN Peace Operations Claudia von Braunmühl 11. Changing Discourses, Changing Practices? Gender Mainstreaming and Security Jutta Joachim and Schneiker 12. Women's Rights in Post-War States: International Peacebuilding Operations and Feminist Policy Change Anne Jenichen Part IV: Economic Governance and Governmentality 13. Governing the Economy for Gender Equality? Challenges of Regulation Shahra Razavi 14. Economic Governance and the Regulation of Intimacy in Gender and Development Planning: Lessons from the World Bank's Latin American Programming Kate Bedford 15. Crisis and Economic Knowledge Gülay Caglar 16. Gender and the Technocratic Network Governance in Finance Brigitte Young 17. Global Feminist Movements Ilse Lenz
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Taylor & Francis Learning Liberation Womens Response to Mens Education Routledge Library Editions Education and Gender
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Female Crime The Construction of Women in
Book SynopsisFemale Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the ways in which male-centred norms dominated much analysis, and how crude stereotypes of women were a common attribute to the armoury of criminological research.Although feminists and other researchers are directing increasing attention to criminology, this was one of the first attempts to deploy feminist analyses developed within other disciplines to examine critically the range of modern criminological theories on women. Its findings demonstrate the importance of a program to create a new feminist criminology which recognises the female offender as a reasoning, purposeful subject. This title will be of interest to students of criminology. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Reasonable Man 2. The Frustrated Offender 3. Learning Crime 4. Masculinity Theory 5. Conformity as Control 6. Crime and Stigma 7. The Women’s Liberation Thesis 8. Re-writing the Human Sciences: The Impact of Feminism 9. A Feminist Agenda for Criminology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecological and Social Healing
Book SynopsisThis book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latina, Jewish and Multiracial backgrounds. The contributors express a myriad of ways that the relationship between the ecological and social have brought new understanding to their experiences and work in the world. Moreover by working with these edges of awareness, they are identifying new forms of teaching, leading, healing and positive change. Ecological and Social Healing is rooted in these ideas and speaks to an edge awareness or consciousness. In essence this speaks to the power of integrating multiple and often conflicting views and the transformations that result. As women working across the boundaries of the ecological and social, we have powerful experieTrade ReviewJeanine Canty brings us one of those rare and priceless books that free us from conventional reality and, in so doing, illumine our own gifts for personal and collective healing. Like a clarion call to affirm the authority of our often-marginalized experience, Canty's powerful essay, along with the women's voices she has assembled here, thrill me with the challenge to see and act in new ways. The intellectual excitement as well as the emotional grounding that I find in this collection charge my life with a sense of truth and adventure.-- Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to LifeEcological and Social Healing is a transformative collection of women’s voices whose pain, passion, and resilience are a representation of millions of women whose stories are powerful interventions that interrupt a master narrative and shape what it means to live in a diverse, inclusive, and ecological world. Their stories offer hope for ecological and social healing beginning with self, transformed into social praxis. A must read to further understand ourselves in a complex relationship with our natural and social environments. --Suzanne Benally, executive director, Cultural SurvivalEcological and Social Healing is one of the most inspiring and beautifully conceived compendium of texts by formidable women writers and scholars on the most salient and urgent issues of our troubled Anthropocene. It is a clarion call, an imperative, a spiritual crossroads for understanding and appreciating our interconnectedness and indebtedness to one another and the "more-than-human". From explications of the profound spiritual traditions of Navajo and Filipino cultures, to talk of restructuring our global economy and so much more, this compelling book teems with antidotes to living in a dark, paralyzed,wounded time. Let us gather and absorb the gnosis here and act on it. Many kudos to editor Jeanine M. Canty for moving our century forward. -- Anne Waldman, poetWe often speak of books "breaking" new ground. Ecological and Social Healing heals it. It asks us all to reconnect areas of life that have been falsely divided to (re)discover the wisdom necessary to bear witness to the pain of the societal disconnect that has led to the degradation of our collective habitat. Only from that place of honoring can true healing begin. It is more than just reclaiming the feminine and the indigenous. It is reclaiming the whole. -- Rev. angel Kyodo williams, SenseiTable of ContentsDedication AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionJeanine M. Canty (Editor)Section I WorldviewDekaaz One: VowRachel BagbyChapter I This is What Happens WhenMei Mei EvansChapter II Sustainability and the SoulSusan GriffinChapter III Seeing Clearly through Cracked LensesJeanine M. CantyChapter IV Intersection of an Indigenous World View and Applied NeurophysiologyAnita L. SanchezSection II PlaceDekaaz TwoRachel BagbyChapter V Finding Hope at the Margins: A Journey of Environmental JusticeAna I. BaptistaChapter VI Intricate Yet Nourishing: Multiracial Women, Ecology, and Social Well-beingNina S. RobertsChapter VII Linking Ancestral Seeds and Waters to the Indigenous Places We InhabitMelissa K. Nelson and Nícola WagenbergChapter VIII Beauty Out of the Shadows: The Indigenous Turn in a Filipina NarrativeLeny Mendoza StrobelSection III HealingDekaaz ThreeRachel BagbyChapter IX Navajo Youth: Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Traditional ReciprocityMolly Bigknife AntonioChapter X A Yinyang, EcocriticalFabulation on Doctor WhoJu-Pong LinChapter XI Piercing the Shell of Privilege: How My Commitments to Environmental and Gender Justice Moved from My Head to My HeartNina SimonsChapter XII Our Differentiated Unity: An Evolutionary Perspective on Healing the Wounds of Slavery and the PlanetBelvie RooksIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ModestWitnessSecondMillennium.
Book SynopsisOne of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay The Cyborg Manifesto, she received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science.Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Trade Review"If Modest_Witness was a revelation twenty years ago when it was first published, it is essential reading now. We need this book to understand all that has become even more urgent, even more confounding and even more important. It is also a book that reveals how essential is the feminist engagement with science, one that encompasses questions of race and the history of colonialism for scholarship that remains ground-breaking and path-making." -Inderpal Grewal, Yale University"Brava all over again! A true classic---requisite for beginners, deeply provocative at third reading. Leading with humor and politics, Haraway marks a transformation of our planet and sustains her project of revisioning its futures. A brilliant new introduction situates Modest_Witness and clarifies Haraway’s incisive and sorely needed conceptual universe." -Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco, USA"From one of our most visionary contemporary thinkers, here is your guide to the New World Order of Technoscience. In this timely re-issue of Haraway’s intensely interesting, incisive, and inspiring exploration of what happens to life and living when technology becomes the beating heart of science, we learn how to ask the urgent questions. As genes and chips implode modernity’s defining distinctions—between nature and culture, science and society, technology and politics—what will guide and ground our ability to collectively think and live together? When a rodent can be both intellectual property and a model for breast cancer, who lives and dies and how, and what kin shall we keep? Who is the ‘we’—the collective—that will live these lives, and die these deaths? Haraway’s is a plea for a less-literal minded and more imaginative understanding of what is at stake in these powerful world making practices of modern biology. The task is critical. In a time when the bits and bytes of our bodies—our blood, tissue and DNA—are the site of massive worldly transformations, Haraway powerfully argues for the urgency of a civic biology, a biology which capacitates us to ask the formative questions."--Jenny Reardon, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNothing Comes Without Its World: Donna J. Haraway in conversation with Thryza Nicols GoodevePart OneSyntactics: The Grammar of Feminism and TechnosciencePart TwoSemantics: Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™1 Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium2 FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse™Mice into Wormholes: A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts3 A Family ReunionPart ThreePragmatics: Technoscience in Hypertext4 Gene: Maps and Portraits of Life Itself5 Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order6 Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture7 Facts, Witnesses, and ConsequencesStudy GuideNotesReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern Couples
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Taylor & Francis Gender Crime and Criminal Justice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
Book SynopsisIn this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice. Since the second edition was published, there have been many major changes. This book addresses how shifts in advanced capitalism have produced new understandings of children, and a new (and more punitive) range of institutional responses to children. It engages with the paradoxes of childhood in an era when young adults are increasingly economically dependent on their families, and in a political context of heightened insecurity. The new edition includes an updated review of developments in psychological theory (in attachment, evolutionary psychology, theory of mind, cultural-historical approaches), as well as updating and reflecting upon the changed focus on fathers and fatheriTrade Review"This continues to be an excellent and comprehensive source book for developmental psychology whilst at the same time putting the whole enterprise thoroughly "on trial". It constitutes a genuinely "critical psychology", and has made an invaluable contribution to debates about childhood, parenting and the development of children over the years. I think it will continue to be an invaluable book well into the future." – Dr Lisa Baraitser, Birkbeck, University of London, UK "This book is a much needed contribution to the discipline of critical psychology. It acts as a vital eye-opener to both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students, as well those engaged in other disciplines which draw upon developmental frameworks as to the pathologising ways of dominant developmental discourses." – Dr Jenny Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, UK "As always, the content of Dr Burman’s work is exemplary. Ever since the first edition of the book came out, this has been a great work to refer to, when one looks at constructing alternating discourses of childhood. It is also one of the few books that truly recognizes the importance of colonial discourses." – Dr Radhika Viruru, Texas A&M University, USTable of ContentsDedication; Preface to third edition; Introduction; 1. Origins; Part One: Constructing the Subject; 2. Researching Infancy 3. Attributing Sociality 4. Discourses of the Child 5. Models of Childhood Migrating across zones of political practive; Part Two: Social Development and the structure of caring; 6. Familiar Assumptions 7. Bonds of love or losing attachment 8. Involving fathers, new masculinities and whether gender bending subverts of maintains the developmental imperative; Part Three: Developing Communication; 9. Language Talk 10. Discourses of caregiving talk 11. Language and power in developmental research; Part Four: Cognitive Development: The Making of Rationality and its others; 12. Piaget, Vygotsky and their methods, models and histories in the making of the developmental psychological project 13. Child-centred education and Beyond 14. Morality and the goals of development; references; index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Men and Language
Book SynopsisWomen, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field.Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book introduces the idea of gender as a social construct, and covers key topics such as conversational practice, same sex talk, conversational dominance, and children's acquisition of gender-differentiated language, discussing the social and linguistic consequences of these patterns of talk.Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, this book contains a brand new preface which situates this text in the modern day study of language and gender, covering the postmodern shift in the understanding of gender and language, and assessing the book's impTrade ReviewPraise for Jennifer Coates and Women, Men and Language:"This new reissue is a significant contribution to the study of gender, offering comprehensive coverage on the complexity of the links between language and gender, and the continuing link between gender and inequality".Isabelle Lemée, Lakehead University, Canada"Those who, like me, have used this book in their language and gender courses, will warmly welcome this third edition, which brings both the material surveyed and the perspectives covered into the 21st century. Jennifer Coates' lucid and engaging style continues to make this a very attractive text."Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand"Women, Men and Language has served readers since its first publication as an accessible and balanced guide to the literature on gender differences in language. This revised third edition extends the book's scope to reflect recent developments in theory and research, while retaining the clarity of earlier versions. Informative, wide-ranging and always readable, the updated text provides 21st century students and their teachers with an invaluable overview of an increasingly complex field."Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford, UK "Coates' work has had a major influence on the study of language and gender, and one could easily argue that her book,Women, Men and Language, basically created the field."Scott F. Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsPrefacePART ONE: INTRODUCTORY1 Language and gender2 The historical background (I) – Folklinguistics and the early grammarians3 The historical background (II) – Anthropologists and dialectologistsPART TWO: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE4 Quantitative studies5 Social networks6 Gender differences in conversational practice7 Conversational dominance in mixed talk8 Same-sex talkPART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES9 Children and gender-differentiated language10 The role of gender differences in linguistic change11 The social consequences of gender differences in languagePART FOUR: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE12 New developments in language and gender researchBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press Women and Society in the Roman World
Book SynopsisOffers a lively view into a wide range of activities, occupations and social and family roles of women in the cities of the Roman West on the basis of translated inscriptions. Makes this material accessible for students, scholars and anyone interested in the history of women and gender.Trade Review'Hemelrijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has produced a remarkably informative and useful work … what makes the book particularly valuable to scholars as well as students is the separate downloadable PDF (available on the publisher's website) of the original Greek and Latin texts of all the inscriptions, edited in accordance with modern epigraphical conventions. Anyone interested in the ancient world will learn much from this excellent work … Highly recommended.' M. J. Johnson, Choice Magazine'There is a great deal of pleasure and a wealth of information to be derived from Women and Society in the Roman World … Hemelrijk's carefully curated and annotated collection of inscriptions fill a longstanding lacuna. Her sourcebook places front and centre the integral role of epigraphy as a rich reservoir of socio-historical and cultural detail about women extending beyond the strictly delimited stratum of elite and imperial households into all sectors of the ancient – and, in this case, Roman – world.' Peter Keegan, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family Life; 2. Legal Status, Citizenship and Ethnicity; 3. Occupations; 4. Social Relations, Travel and Migration; 5. Religion; 6. Public Life; 7. Imperial Women
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Palgrave Macmillan Gender and Power in Sierra Leone
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women''s history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women''s political leadership.Trade Review'Using interviews, observation, archival sources, and photos, Day carefully constructs an historical study of female chieftaincies in the southern and eastern provinces of Sierra Leone. Strong ethnographic and historical background sets the stage for understanding the resilience of women paramount chiefs in Mende society. Excellent case studies of individual women paramount chiefs appear throughout. Recommended.' - CHOICE 'Professor Day has demonstrated convincingly in this book that far from being political aberrations or colonial creations, female chiefs in Sierra Leone have many historical antecedents and that they emerged from indigenous principles embedded in lineage dynamics, cultural associations, and gendered roles. The lives, challenges, and triumphs of prominent female leaders in colonial and postcolonial Sierra Leone are recounted eloquently and critically but also with empathy and sensitivity to local cultural nuances. The work offers a refreshingly female- and African-centered perspective of understanding power and authority in an African setting. This illuminating and richly textured interdisciplinary analysis of an alternate model of power and authority in West Africa should interest students and scholars of African History, Feminism, and Cultural Anthropology.' Ismail Rashid, associate professor of History, Vassar College 'Lynda Day's engagingly written, provocative work combines sharp analysis of the fluidity of constructed gender with a solidly grounded historical account of the gendered strategies of Mende women chiefs from the pre-colonial period through the civil war and post-war reconstruction. Day reclaims the literature celebrating African queens and transforms it into a subtle analysis of gendered political and social power, revealing the 'traditional' authority of women chiefs not as a fixed form no longer appropriate for contemporary gender politics, but as a mode of political leadership that can be adapted to changing historical circumstances and opportunities, potentially creating new forms of complementary not oppositional gendered political authority.' Judith Van Allen, research fellow, Institute for African Development, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsGender and Power: The Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone Men's and Women's Cultural Associations: The Construction of Gender and Gendered Authority Women of Authority Before the Colonial Era Women Chiefs During the Nineteenth Century Wars of Trade, Expansion, and State-Building Women Leaders and the Mediation of Colonial Rule Women Chiefs and the Nation State The Sierra Leone Civil War and the Challenges for Women's Customary Authority
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Palgrave Macmillan Language Gender and Community in Late TwentiethCentury Fiction
Book SynopsisDrawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.Trade Review'Hurst's greatest contribution is the bridging of linguistic and literary perspectives in the study of language, gender and community. She effectively uses both approaches and renders a unique analysis that benefits not only readers interested in linguistics and literature but also those curious about new ways of studying gender and language. This makes the book interesting, useful and accessible to undergraduate, graduate and other scholarly communities interested in gender, language and literature.' Gender and LanguageTable of ContentsFinding One's Place by Finding One's Voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy Language and Gender in the Academic Communities of Ann Beattie's Another You and John Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration Balancing Self and Other through Speech and Silence in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses Love, Destruction, and Wounded Hearts in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Contours of the Future in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque Twenty-First Century Reflections on American Voices and American Identities
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Palgrave Macmillan Migration Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking
Book SynopsisProviding a new perspective on migration and sex work in Europe, this book is based on interviews with migrant women in the sex sector. It brings together issues of migration, labour and political subjectivity in order to refocus scholarly and policy agenda away from sex slavery and organized crime, towards agency and citizenship.Trade Review"scholarship such as Andrijasevic's...is a much needed challenge to the relations of ruling" - Feminist Review 'This book offers a new and highly revealing approach to trafficking...' -Journal of Refugee StudiesTable of Contents(Instead of a) Foreword Migration and Sex Work in Europe The Cross-Border Migration The Sex Trade Multiple Scripts: Mothers, Whores and Victims Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and European Citizenship
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Palgrave Macmillan Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge
Book SynopsisThis book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers.Trade Review'In this very fine book, Nicola Healey raises and resolves a number of issues that will be of great interest to students of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth, and to Romantic scholars more generally. The close readings, which are consistently excellent, take issue with a number of critics, from Derwent Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey through to twentieth- and twenty-first-century commentators. Healey thoroughly understands the various factors that limited these critics' perceptions at the times they were writing, and she anatomises the wrongness of some literary-critical habits that have gone on for too long. This book builds beautifully on the work of other scholars, and many ideas are handled genially and skilfully. Healey maintains cohesion with the growing multiplicity of the insights throughout the book, providing a vital new perspective on collaboration including all the tensions this entails. Arguably, however, the main achievement of this book is in its sensitivity to Hartley's and Dorothy's finest writings.' - Andrew Keanie, Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Author's Note Introduction: Hartley Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the Poetics of Relationship 'Fragments from the universal': Hartley Coleridge's Poetics of Relationship The Coleridge Family: Influence, Identity, and Representation 'Who is the Poet?': Hartley Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and 'The Use of a Poet' Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals: Writing the Self, Writing Relationship Sibling Conversations: The Wordsworthian Construction of Authorship 'My hidden life': Dorothy, William, and Poetic Identity Postscript: 'The common life which is the real life': Family Authorship and Identity Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan GenderTechnology Relations
Book SynopsisThrough empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing.Trade Review'Corneliussen examines why expansive gender equity in Norway seems to influence every major segment of society - except computing technology. Her discourse analysis explores reasons for stability in gender-ICT relations, and suggests pressure points for change.' - Thomas J. Misa, University of Minnesota, USA 'Corneliussen's book is a challenging intervention into the debate over gender and technology. Through a diffractive reading of the research, Corneliussen tells an alternative story about gender and technology, demonstrating that their relations are not stable and fixed but hold potential for change.' - Susan Hekman, University of Texas at Arlington, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation Changing Images of Computers and its Users since 1980 Discursive Developments Within Computer Education Variations in Gender-ICT Relations Among Male and Female Computer Students Stories About Individual Change and Transformation Layered Meanings and Differences Within Is there an Elsewhere? References Endnotes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Mary Wollstonecrafts Social and Aesthetic Philosophy
Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft''s Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading to position her in relation to other eighteenth century writers this book demonstrates how she is directly engaged in re-thinking key concepts in moral aesthetic and social philosophy, particularly where women are concerned. Bahar insists that Wollstonecraft''s political claims cannot be separated from her desire to develop more convincing aesthetic representations of women.Trade Review'Saba Bahar develops an original argument that...compellingly demonstrates the importance of Wollstonecraft's literary output within the broader rubric of her political theory. As such, it marks a serious advance in our understanding of Wollstonecraft, and should be read by historians of political thought interested in the emergence of modern feminism.' - Daniel O'Neill, University of Florida, History of Political ThoughtTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 'An Eve to Please Me:' Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'Public Woman' The Old Abelard: Or, HéloIse Among the Immodest Philosopher Making Novel Creatures Wants of Women Conclusion Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan Androgyny in Modern Literature
Book SynopsisAndrogyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present.Trade Review'...an insightful and stimulating read.' - Women: A Cultural ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Classical to Medical Despised and Rejected Virginia Woolf The Second Wave Myra Breckinridge and The Passion of New Eve Alchemy and the Chymical Wedding Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Gender Ethics and Information Technology
Book SynopsisThis book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating.Trade Review'This book is highly recommended for those involved in computer ethics, both academics and practitioners, and also those involved with the social studies of science and technology more generally. However, it also deserves a much wider audience of those concerned with the continuing ubiquity of gendered inequalities.' - David Sanford Horner, Information, Communication& SocietyTable of ContentsGender and Information and Communication Technologies - It's Not for Girls Feminist Political and Legal Theory: The Public/Private Dichotomy Feminist Ethics: Ethics in a Different Voice The Rise of Computer Ethics: From Professionalism to Legislative Failures Gender and Computer Ethics: Contemporary Approaches and Contemporary Problems Internet Dating: Cyberstalking and Internet Pornography: Gender and the Gaze Hacking into Hacking: Gender and the Hacker Phenomenon Someone to Watch Over Me: Gender, Technologies and Privacy Epilogue: Feminist Cyberethics? Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Expert Modernists Matricide and Modern Culture
Book SynopsisModernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cultural class the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois household.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Modern Hordes: Women, Modernism, and the Cult of Experts Retailing the Female Intellectual Sacred Cows: Modernism, Woolf, and her Fictive Seraphs Queer Couplings: Forster's Hellenic Pastoralism and Modern Masculinity Putting Rouge on the Corpse: Cosmopolitan Joyce and Modern Culture Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work
Book SynopsisPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Situating Identities Researching Identities Placing Identities Spaces of Identity Everyday Times Lifetimes Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work References IndexTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Situating Identities Researching Identities Placing Identities Spaces of Identity Everyday Times Lifetimes Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work References Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Developing Ecofeminist Theory
Book SynopsisAn original exploration of how the relationship between society and ''nature'' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst others and the turn to post structuralism and postmodernism within the social sciences. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms of social domination and contributes to important debates with sociology, social theory, feminist theory and environmentalism.Trade Review'...a work of scholarly devotion with a breathtaking breadth and depth of reading.' - Mary Mellor, International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction Social Difference and Ecologism Complex Systems: 'Nature', 'Society' and 'Human' Domination Different Feminisms Ecofeminism and the Question of Difference Embodiment, Material Relations and Symbolic Regimes Domination in a Lifeworld of Complexity Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan British Women Writers and Race 17881818
Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique sociological examination of British raciology, focusing on women''s literary works of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and drawing from a range of academic disciplines, particularly literature, history and cultural studies. Wright traces the emergence of British modernity through the writings of a select group of women writers (including Jane Austen, Hannah More, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth) of diverse political and philosophical affiliations, and fills a gap in scholarship on feminist accounts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women''s writing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraphs Introduction PART 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, RACE AND ENLIGHTENED FEMINISM Race and the Late Eighteenth Century Feminism and the Late Eighteenth Century Literature and Social Theory PART 2: POLITICS OF POPULATION: EMPIRE, SLAVERY AND RACE Empire and Slavery Jane Austen and Empire Poverty, Welfare and Crime Racialized Compassion Sex, Race and Civilization PART 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND BRITISH RACIOLOGY Political Imagination and the French Revolution Patriotism Nationalism and War Raciology of Belonging Representation Othering Slavery and Civilization PART 4: MORAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Nature, God and Women Rationality and Human Nature Enlightenment, Romanticism and Racial Subjectivities Romantic Genealogy of Culture Islam Enlightenment and the Raciology of Civilization Christianity and Slavery Catholicism and the Other Education and Patriarchal Relations Women and Science Science and Race Notes and References Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Women Partisanship and the Congress
Book SynopsisAs women increasingly play a role and gain even greater prominence in congressional politics, they need to navigate the at times conflicting demands of loyalty to party culture, responsiveness to party leadership, political goals, and the need to get re-elected.Trade Review"During the past thirty years political scientists have sought to explain the behavior of members of Congress by assuming that members are rational actors guided by a set of shared motivations - to gain election and reelection, to advance policy goals, and to further career ambitions. Such explanations have tended to downplay the importance of variables such as gender or political party. Jocelyn Jones Evans now offers the most thorough study to date of the role of gender and party in shaping the behavior of members of Congress. Drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative evidence, she argues that both gender and party affect member behavior. Furthermore, she offers an explanation of how these variables relate to explain the differing experiences of female Republicans and female Democrats. Her findings will command the attention of congressional scholars and chart a direction for future research." - Ronald M. Peters, Jr., University of Oklahoma "Considering the extreme partisanship now characteristic of the House of Representatives and the increasing number of women in the chamber, it's about time that someone examined how party shapes women's House careers. Jocelyn Jones Evans does that. Her party culture framework is likely to prove controversial but should only increase interest in her study." - Barbara Sinclair, UCLATable of ContentsIt's My Party...Examining Women as Partisans in the U.S. Congress The Electoral Connection: Women's Formal Participation Within the Institution The Organizational Connection: An Analysis of Women's Participation Within the Party Organizations The Matrix: Partisan Context and Political Goals as Parameters for Women's Political Behaviour
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse
Book SynopsisLatin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom.Trade Review"Paper Dolls and Spider Women proposes superbly uncanny readings of some of the most important Latin American texts written in the second half of the 20th century. With admirable energy and deceptive ease, Pat O'Connor sets out to queer these texts, illuminating his readings through well-articulated reflections on psychoanalysis, gender theory, and literary history. He has a gift for discovering unexpected relations among these "narratives of the perverse," for engaging in provocative and fruitful digression, and for establishing off-beat genealogies that, on closer look, appear irrefutable. This is a stunning book, intelligently articulated and beautifully written." -Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities, New York University "Patrick O'Connor's literary history of the perverse repositions Latin American literature of the latter half of the 20th century, most particularly that of the boom, vis-à -vis its treatment of queer desires. The emblematic figure of the spider woman inspires his readings of homosexuality, fetishism, sadism, masochism, transvestitism and other perversions in the works of many of the greatest writers of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Delightfully original, this book is highly recommended to scholars and fans of Latin American literature and queer studies alike." - Robert McKee Irwin, Tulane University "Employing a sensitive understanding - and a critique - of Freudian theory and its derivatives, O'Connor shows us how representations of male deviance - homosexuality, voyeurism, fetishism, sadism, and transvestism - have shaped the trajectory of the Latin American literary canon. At the same time, Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse foregrounds the role of the queer theorist, whose task it is to interpret and to challenge the categories by which we define what is normal or aberrant. Ultimately, O'Connor makes a case for a particular erotics of reading: one that is itself representative of the perverse in its finding pleasure in alternative cultural forms." - Carlos J. Alonso, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania "Stunning, witty, and elegantly written. O'Connor examines recent Latin American literature and comes up with a timely re-reading of major works. A superb work of scholarship, the book seduces the reader with a sophisticated web of perversions seldom critically examined in Latin American fiction." - Jose Quiroga, Emory University "Sophisticated and original...[O'Connor] shows that, even when some of the authors on whom he focuses have been widely studied in the Latin American and North American academies, their most disturbing aspects have tended to be erased in order to make them fit in a certain representation of what is supposed to be characteristic of Latin American literature." - Reinaldo Laddaga, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsEnter the Spider Woman Lezama Lima's Open Secrets Felisberto's Paper Dolls Fashionable and Unfashionable Perversions on the Latin American Rive Gauche Triple Cross-Dressing in the Boom Conclusions and Epilogue
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Gentlemen Callers
Book SynopsisFrom the early Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and one-act Auto-da-Fé , through The Two-Character Play and Something Cloudy, Something Clear , Paller's book investigates how Williams's earliest critics marginalized or ignored his gay characters and why, beginning in the 1970s, many gay liberationists reviled them.Trade Review'Like a great actor inhabiting one of Tennessee Williams' characters, Michael Paller brings intelligence, nuance and considerable artistry to the complex figure of the man himself. He shatters the mythology surrounding Williams - that he was an innately tragic, self-loathing homosexual - and bravely recontextualizes him not only as an incomparable artist, but as a ground-breaking social pioneer. His book is a welcome re-evaluation of one of our most revered and misunderstood American originals.' - Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author of I Am My Own Wife 'Tennessee Williams was America's most original dramatic talent. He was also gay. The significance of this fact is explored by Michael Paller in a book full of striking insights into the man, the plays, and the theatre of which he was a part. What emerges from this study is a familiar figure seen in a new complexity. What also emerges is an America whose oppressive laws and casual cruelties toward those who shared his sexuality in part created the pressures that created the context, if not always the subject, of his art.' - Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Arthur Miller Centre 'Gentlemen Callers and Michael Paller look at the writing of Tennessee Williams through a gay perspective that is insightful and blessedly free from many of the distortions and exaggerations that previous studies have indulged in. It will be of interest to theatre goers and practitioners alike.' - Michael Kahn, Artistic Director, The Shakespeare Theatre 'Michael Paller's Gentleman Callers offers an innovative, perceptive, and very readable examination of the works Tennessee Williams produced in his long and productive career...Paller reveals the extent to which misguided 'political correctness' among some recent critics has prevented a judicious reading of the works. This sensitive and informed analysis is destined to become a major addition to Williams scholarship, offering insights to both long-time Williams fans and scholars and to those unfamiliar with his work.' - Kenneth Holditch, author of Tennessee Williams and the South and founding editor of The Tennessee Williams Journal '...an insightful debunking of the conventional wisdom characterizing the theatre icon as a tragic figure, a self-hating homosexual inherently incapable of true happiness. Instead, in Paller's thoughtful and convincing re-evaluation of both the playwright and his plays, William's emerges a ground-breaking figure on both personal and professional grounds, an ironically happy ending for an envelope-pusher who freed the stage from that very same convention.' - ELLE MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Signs are Interior Blue as My First Lover's Eyes The Time and World That I Live In Something Kept on Ice A True Story of Our Time Almost Wilfully Out of Contact with the World Before My Clean Heart Has Grown Dirty Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man 18791906
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the National Police Gazette, the racy New York City tabloid that gained an audience among men and boys of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"A fine addition to the growing literature on gender and popular culture. By celebrating the titillating boundary crossing of men and women behaving badly, the Gazette served to define the boundaries of acceptability in fin de siècle America. Reel makes that celebration, and those boundaries, more than mere abstractions or cultural tropes." - Michael Kimmel, SUNY-Stony Brook, and author of Manhood in America "The late 19th and early 20th centuries have been described as the beginning of a cult of masculinity, but relatively little has been written on how men actually learned new codes of sexuality, competitive sports, and what it meant to be a man, at least in the ideal sense. Guy Reel tells here the compelling story of the weekly paper that taught generations of men to sexually objectify women and worship muscular and/or competitive men, no matter what sport they won at (oyster eating contests?). It is exceptionally well-written, and an eye opening look at the roots of how today's men came to their beliefs and values. The National Police Gazette played an important role in the sniggers at the saloons and barber shops of America, with its celebration of aggressive crime, cheesecake, and barefist boxing, and Reel lays out its key place in the development of an American hegemonic masculinity." - Martin D. Schwartz, Professor of Sociology and Research Scholar at Ohio UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables * List of Figures * Introduction * Lives of the Felons * An Illustrated Journal of Sporting and Sensational Events * This Wicked World * Masculinities and the Manly Arts * Fox and Sullivan: The Brawl That Started It All? * The Girl on the Police Gazette * Patron of Sport * Epilogue * Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
Book SynopsisThis study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni MorrisonTrade Review'This is a solid study of 'the complexities of interracial friendship' among black and white women in a variety of American literary texts. Reames presents a sobering argument about the lasting legacies of racial antagonism as well as the ways in which a range of American women writers work to critique and reimagine ideas and practices of racial difference.' - Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University 'In this important new work, Reames presents cogent analysis of relationships between African American and white women, both in and through American literature.By examining an impressiverange of texts, Reames demonstrates how the tensions between black women and white women cannot begin tobesolved until white women work to become more aware of their whiteness.By interrogating literary depictions of relationships between black and white women, she exploreshow thoughtful readers - especially white feminists - can learn to raise their consciousnesses as they read works by and about black women and thus seek to prevent a reinscription of racist hegemony.While engaging her predecessors, Reames's original perspectives provide a needed addition to scholarship on race and gender dynamics in American literature.' - Kristine Yohe, Associate Professor of English, Northern Kentucky UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 'Sisters in Sin' : William Faulkners's Requiem for a Nun 'The Image of you, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime' : Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women 'The Very House of Difference' : Audre Lorde's Autobiographies 'Just This Side of Colored' : Ellen Foster and Night Talk 'Girl from a Whole Other Race' : Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif,' Beloved, and Paradise Conclusion
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