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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Centerfold Syndrome How Men Can Overcome
Book SynopsisBy documenting a men's group struggling to achieve more meaningful relationships with women, this work demonstrates how men might overcome the main elements of their destructive sexual conditioning: voyeurism, objectification, the need for validation, trophyism and the fear of intimacy.Trade Review"Brooks offers hope and concrete suggestions in generous doses. . . . The Centerfold Syndrome, though chilling sometimes in its bluntness, is a window into the psyche of the typical American male. I recommAnd it highly to clinician and lay person alike as a very informative and readable book." --The Journal of Family Psychotherapy "This book will open men's minds and hearts to a very different way to approach male-female relationships." --Ronald F. Levant, Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, co-author of Masculinity Reconstructed "A 'must read' for men, therapists who work with men, and for all who love men." --Terry A. Kupers, M.D., psychiatrist, author of Revisioning Mens' Lives: GAnder, Intimacy and Power "Never preachy, always compassionate and sensible, Dr. Brooks will prove a steady companion for any man who wants to make changes in his sexual life." --Kathy Weingarten, assistant professor of psychology, Harvard Medical School, author of The Mother's Voice: Strengthening Intimacy in FamilesTable of ContentsForeword 1. What Is the Centerfold Syndrome? 2. The Men's Group 3. Debunking Conventional Wisdom 4. The True Causes of the Centerfold Syndrome 5. Men Who Made Progress 6. Men Who've Made Little Progress 7. Overcoming the Centerfold Syndrome
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Should We Stay Together
Book SynopsisThe fact is, some couples need more time to mature, some need to work through specific issues, and some should never be together. But how do you know? What factors add up to success-or failure-in a relationship? Author Jeffry Larson knows; in fact, he knows a lot about what predicts a happy marriage. Based on Larson''s twenty-plus years of research and experience in marriage and family therapy, Should We Stay Together?debunks many time-honored myths as it provides couples with the tools they need to make better decisions and thoroughly explore every aspect of their relationship. From individual characteristics, idiosyncratic family histories, unresolved conflicts and needs, and combined strengths and weaknesses, this step-by-step scientific method for relationship evaluation-based on the highly accurate RELATE premarital assessment questionnaire-will help couples understand the specific traits that predict a satisfying-or disastrous-relationship.Trade Review"Here's your chance to learn more about the potential of your relationship. With this book, you'll learn about the things that put marriages-maybe yours-at risk and more importantly, what areas you need to focus on to build a lasting and happy relationship. With its strong basis in marital research, I highly recommAnd this book for those wanting to make a solid investment in their future together." --Scott Stanley, coauthor, Fighting for Your Marriage "This book should be made available in every high school, church, and public library." --Diane Solee, director, Coalition for Marriage, Family, and Couples Education "This book is based on the best of what is known about predicting marital satisfaction. Its style and content are unique and directly applicable to couples." --Bob Stahmann, author, Premarital and Remarital CounselingTable of ContentsForeward by Robert F. Stahmann, Ph.D. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Myths About Preparing for Marriage. 2. The Marriage Triangle: Three Factors That Predict Your Future Marital Satisfaction. 3. The Marriage Triangle, Factor 1: Your Individual and Relationship Contexts. 4. The Marriage Triangle, Factor 2: Your Individual Traits. 5. The Marriage Triangle, Factor 3: Your Couple Traits. 6. Your Own Personal Marriage Triangle - Putting the Three Factors Together. 7. Whom and When Not to Marry! 8. Other Resources for Marriage Preparation. In Conclusion. Notes. The Author.
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MB - Cornell University Press Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom A Russian Folktale
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MB - Cornell University Press Women without Men
Book SynopsisWomen without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken for granted in the New Russia.Trade ReviewA babushka is more valuable to a mother than a man, but her work goes unrecognized. Such is a major finding of Jennifer Utrata's engaging and well-researched book on single motherhood in contemporary Russia. In it, she dissects the forces, in particular the discourses, that shape Russian families today, repeatedly challenging conventional wisdom and scholarly dogma aboutthe lives of single mothers.... Overall, Utrata’s book is an exceptional discussion of many aspects of family life that clarifies a complicated environment without oversimplifying it. Her discoveries that challenge conventions of social science – particularly that the cure for single motherhood is marriage – should not be ignored. As Utrata notes in her conclusion, her research is relevant not only to the study of Russian society, but also American society, with its high rates of marriage, divorce, and single motherhood. This book is an important contribution to social science research, and also an informative and very readable overview of contemporary Russian family life that is valuable to anyone studying Russia today. -- Lisa Woodson * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *One great strength of Utrata’s book is that she speaks to populations adjacent to single mothers as well, engaging with grandmothers caring for their adult daughters’ offspring, married mothers, and fathers. This work embeds her study of single motherhood in a larger landscape of transforming gender ideologies and gender relations. It also reveals that both men and women, regardless of age or marital status, share the belief that men are undependable and that womenare almost superhumanly strong. Approaching this study from multiple perspectives not only increases the depth and texture of answers to inquiries, but elicits new questions to be asked. * Women East-West *Currently, family life in Russia is undergoing what Jennifer Utrata aptly calls a 'quiet revolution,'a shift from a two-parent to a single-parent family model. InWomen without Men,she presents a comprehensive and multidimensional portrait of this process. Overall, the text sheds light on the previously understudied topic of single motherhood in Russia, contributing not only to Russian studies but to the sociology of gender in general. It provides a useful look on how neoliberal policies affect families on the global scale, how families respond to it, and how changes in Russian family structure may help us to understand and contextualize similar developments in American families. -- Alexander Novitskaya * The Russian Review *Even as I would have welcomed more discussion of single motherhood's impact on children; of fathers’ treatment of children as a factor in mothers’ decisions to leave or stay; and the historian in me a longer temporal perspective, I very much appreciated what Utrata does accomplish. For its illuminating treatment not only of single motherhood but also of Russia’s contemporary gender order and the policies and rhetoric that have shaped it, I recommend her book enthusiastically. -- Barbara Alpern Engel * Slavic Review *In Women without MenJennifer Utrata focuses on one of the most significant implications of Russia's transition from state socialism to market capitalism the growth of single motherhood.... In her study Utrata take the readers inside the modern Russian family illuminating how recent sociopolitical transformations affect people’s private life. -- Anna Shadrina * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society *In this engaging, deceptively unassuming work, Jennifer Utrata manages to challenge several bodies of scholarship and offer a persuasive argument for rethinking many key assumptions underlying theories of family life, poverty, and gender. Although, as the subtitle indicates, the book focuses on post-Communist Russia, Utrata's ultimate goal is to broaden the way in which we view single motherhood more generally, with particularly important potential consequences for poor women of color in the United States. -- Judith Record McKinney * American Journal of Sociology *The post-Soviet Russian society is in transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. Utrata (Univ. of Puget Sound) focuses on its implications for single motherhood, family life, and gender relations. Through case studies and respondents' voices, this comparative, insightful analysis emphasizes the cultural meaning of single motherhood. This excellent book makes a major contribution to family, gender, and Russian studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Quiet Revolution1. From State Protections to Post-Socialist "Freedoms": The Changed Context of Single Motherhood2. Diminishing Material Difficulties: Single Motherhood beyond Survival Strategies3. "Where the Women Are Strong": Navigating Practical Realism4. It Takes a Babushka: Single Mothers' Youth Privilege and Grandmother Support5. Blurred Boundaries: Married Mothers and the Specter of Single Motherhood6. Marginalized Men: Settling for the Status QuoConclusion: Normalized Gender CrisisNotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Lacan Discourse and Social Change A
Book SynopsisConvinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people's lives, Mark Bracher proposes a method of cultural criticism which is based on the principles of psychoanalytic treatment and which aims to alter...Trade Review"In addition to his lucid presentation of Lacanian theory, Bracher's readings of political and literary discourses furnish a fresh perspective on familiar topics and texts. His objective of making cultural criticism socially significant raises important questions about the functions of criticism and of pedagogy. A thoroughly interesting, appealing, and original book.""The project of designing a Lacanian cultural criticism is an ongoing and crucial one, and this book will make a significant contribution to current discussion. It is distinctive in both its theoretical core and its areas of critical analysis. In addition, Bracher's critique of New Historicism is astute and timely and should be productively controversial." -- Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard
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Cornell University Press Beyond Consolation Death Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisUsing as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...Trade ReviewAn engaged and engaging study of the complex, late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century interactions between death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy. -- Sandra M. Gilbert * Victorian Studies *Melissa Zeiger's well-written book on the modern elegy engages a series of related yet distinct thematic concerns... By helping to break up the standard critical paradigm for elegy and for mourning, by finding a language to embrace poems that lie outside it, and by tracing the gender dynamics of elegy, Melissa Zeiger's Beyond Consolation opens us to varieties of grief within poetry and beyond. -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia * Modern Philology *
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Cornell University Press Suspect Relations
Book SynopsisOver the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by...Trade ReviewBeginning with a sketch of Anglican (English) ideas of race and sex in the seventeenth century and the ways that North Carolina women were perceived as disrupting society, Fischer subsequently discusses cross-cultural sex, regulation of sexuality (especially of servants), defamation suits, and violence (including rape). -- Joan R. Gundersen * Journal of Southern History *With this book, Kirsten Fischer joins scholars who have demonstrated the interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South.... Because she skillfully weaves together questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and the social order, her book should be read by scholars of all related fields. -- C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Changing Conceptions of Race1. Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority2. Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina3. The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance4. White Reputations "Blacken'd & Made Loose"5. Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of RaceEpilogueNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press A Centre of Wonders
Book SynopsisImages of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender...Trade ReviewA Centre of Wonders provides early Americanists with an illuminating introduction to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. While most historians of the body concentrate on gender, essays here also engage questions of conquest, strategies of colonization, and constructions of race In an excellent and refreshingly brief introduction, Lindman and Tarter provide a crash course in the analytical paradigms grounding the history of the body.... This anthology comprises the research of outstanding, mostly young scholars working with skill and perspicuity. If those are foretastes of books to come, we may expect a rich and illuminating outcome. -- Marilyn J. Westerkamp * Journal of American History *A well-assembled collection of fascinating essays, A Centre of Wonders opens many interpretive possibilities. If we follow its example, the early American body will assume its rightfully complex and complicating role in historical narratives. -- Sharon Block * William and Mary Quarterly *Each of the volume's essays assumes that the human body was an important measure of cultural suppositions about the world and examines a different aspect of the body's meaning in early America.... The result is that often promised but rarely achieved object: an interdisciplinary project with contributions from scholars of history, art history, the history of science, and literature. And the range of topics considered is remarkable, demonstrating that concern over the body is not imposed by current scholars on the past but deeply embedded within the past. -- Joyce E. Chaplin * Common-place *All of the essays in A Centre of Wonders stimulate us to think about the human body in novel and original ways, and by so doing, to gain deeper insight into the early modern mind. -- Elizabeth Reis * Journal of the Early Republic *The American past of transcendentalism, utilitarianism, utopianism, and spiritual freedom here has its necessary counter or complement in this corporal history of early America.... While the materialism of early Americans may be less than revelatory in an age of slavery, tribal genocide and the more or less extreme proscription of women's activity, the approach is nonetheless useful to detail the interactions between, and conceptions about, bodies classified as white, black, red, male and female. * Book News *The publication of the inspired and inspiring new collection of essays, A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, marks the arrival of an important new avenue of scholarly inquiry into early America. It also introduces the work of a promising group of young scholars from diverse fields, showcasing both the continuing vitality of early American studies and the new shape of a field that has rapidly begun to embrace interdisciplinary perspectives. -- Nicole Eustace * Journal of Social History *This volume brings together a range of new work on the history of the body in colonial North America.... The book is admirably interdisciplinary in the range of its contributors... -- Mary Fissell * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
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Cornell University Press Veiled Empire Gender and Power in Stalinist
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive...Trade ReviewVeiled Empire contributes a lot to a more proper understanding of Soviet power in practice. It provides a remarkably deep insight into the inherent dynamics of Soviet power and gender relations in Uzbekistan during the first two decades of its existence. * Nationalities Papers *Veiled Empire displays a thorough familiarity with the newly opened Russian and Uzbek-language archives, theoretical sophistication, historiographic erudition, and attention to everyday life. It offers the mold-breaking analysis of cultural change in Central Asia.... It is an important book for those interested in Central Asia and Soviet imperialism, and in the clash of modernity and tradition, especially over gender. As Northrop reminds us, the veil has remained a potent point of contestation between secular states and Muslim cultures... and he provides a detailed, compelling, and thoughtful analysis of the hujum in what should become the authoritative work on the subject. * Journal of The Historical Society *Veiled Empire takes, as its central subject, an article of clothing: the head-to-toe covering worn by Uzbek women.... Douglas Northrop traces the multivalent meanings attached to this garment from various vantage points, including Bolshevik activists in both the center and the periphery, veiled and unveiled Uzbek women, Uzbek men, and the Muslim clerical establishment.... Northrop's book is among the most sophisticated contributions to a growing body of literature rooted in the non-Russian areas of the USSR. * Canadian Journal of History *Few doubt that Central Asia labors under a Soviet legacy, but precisely what that legacy is remains elusive. Northrop goes a long way toward reconstructing a key piece of it: the history of the Bolsheviks' effort to uproot the old and impose the new on the Muslim population of Uzbekistan between 1917 and 1941. * Foreign Affairs *Northrop shows how, in the Soviet case, there simply was not enough modernization for modernity. The din of factory machinery, sirens and barking loudspeakers, which Soviet artists celebrated in the 1920s, did not reach the quiet, dusty streets of Uzbekistan.... Northrop finds a colonial empire obscuring imperialist policies under the cloak of decolonization. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Embodying Uzbekistan2. Hujum, 19273. Bolshevik Blinders4. The Chust Affair5. Subaltern Voices6. With Friends Like These7. Crimes of Daily Life8. The Limits of Law9. Stalin's Central Asia?Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Gendered Domains
Book SynopsisMaking available the best papers on the public/private theme delivered at the 1987 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gendered Domains will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's studies, including historians, political scientists, feminist theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.Trade ReviewGenuinely feminist and provocative scholarship; in telling the stories of all kinds of women, more and less empowered or oppressed, the essays inspire additional critiques and questions. * Journal of American History *
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MB - Cornell University Press The Keys to Happiness Sex and the Search for
Book SynopsisThe revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances...Trade Review[Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general.... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly literature. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Front Porch to Back Seat
Book Synopsis"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there."--'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'Trade ReviewWhether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As entertaining as it is informative. Bailey documents sources from Margaret Mead to advertising's hokey hype in her comprehensive analysis of the rituals of American amore, exploring the themes of 'control, competition, consumption, the sexual economy, etiquette and gender.'. Booklist A fascinating study of an important part of our recent past. The Nation Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there. St. Louis Post-DispatchTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Calling Cards and MoneyChapter 2. The Economy of DatingChapter 3. The Worth of a DateChapter 4. Sex ControlChapter 5. The Etiquette of Masculinity and FemininityChapter 6. Scientific Truth and LoveEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Autobiographical Subject
Book SynopsisFelicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.Trade ReviewAcutely analyzes the construction of gendered character in canonical British autobiographical texts and provides provocative explorations outside the canon, particularly among first-person narratives by women. Diacritics [Nussbaum's] achievement... is profound. The theoretical framework is clear and consistent, the range of historical specificity broad and convincing, the analysis of specific texts sophisticated and compelling, the prose straightforward and free of obfuscating jargon. The Autobiographical Subject is rich and richly rewarding for scholars of the eighteenth century. It deserves to be read by everyone who thinks about autobiographical practice. -- Sidonie Smith a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Felicity Nussbaum considers the convergence of genre, gender, and class in an important reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale. The Autobiographical Subject, with its combination of provocative theory and sound scholarship, deserves a wide readership. Felicity Nussbaum's insights demand the attention of eighteenth-century scholars, feminist critics, and cultural historians, while the central questions raised by the book-how to define the 'self'? why write, why revise, and especially, why publish an autobiography?-are of interest to everyone. -- Fiona Stafford Review of English Studies An exemplary model of political criticism. Eighteenth-Century Fiction In The Autobiographical Subject Felicity Nussbaum sees autobiography as the point of convergence of a set of phenomena linking class, genre and gender in the eighteenth century; and traces the new possibilities of definition of a middle-class self, and assertion of female identity in print, within the form... The volume makes an important contribution to feminist discussion of the period. The Year's Work in English Studies In The Autobiographical Subject Felicity Nussbaum sees autobiography as the point of convergence of a set of phenomena linking class, genre and gender in the eighteenth century; and traces the new possibilities of definition of a middle-class self, and assertion of female identity in print, within the form... The volume makes an important contribution to feminist discussion of the period. The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Ideology of GeneChapter 2. The Politics of SubjectivityChapter 3. Dissenting Subjects: Bunyan's Grace AboundingChapter 4. Methodized Subjects: Johns Wesley's JournalsChapter 5. Manly Subjects: Boswell's Journals and The Life of JohnsonChapter 6. The Gender of CharacterChapter 7. "Of Woman's Seed": Women's Spiritual AutobiograohiesChapter 8. Heteroclites: The Scandalous MemoirsChapter 9. Managing Women: Thrale's "Family Book" and ThralianaNotesIndex
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Womens Experience of Modernity 18751945
Book SynopsisPeterson, University of Maryland; Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma; Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY; Alpana Sharma, Wright State University; Lynn Thiesmeyer, Keio University; Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck College, University of London; and Julian Yates, University of Delaware.Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume are outstanding in their complex representations of writers and writings readers are unlikely to know; their logical and political acuity are incisive. -- Holly A. Laird Novel 2003Table of ContentsContents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction Ann L. Ardis Part I Negotiating the LIterary MarketplaceWriting a Public Self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable Equilibrium" Talia SchafferTowards a New "Colored "Consciousness: Biracial Identity on Pauline Hopkins's Fiction Leslie W. LewisThe Authority of Experience: Jane Adams and Hull-House Francesca Sawaya"This Other Eden": Homoeroticism and the Great War in the Early Poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall Claire BuckThe Heir Apparent: Opal Whiteley and the Female as Child in America Deborah Garfield Part II Outside the MetropolisIn-Between Modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a Postcolonial Perspective Alpana SharmaNew Negro Modernity: Worldliness and Interiority in the Novels of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Carla L. PetersonOlive Schreiner, South Africa, and the Costs of Modernity Carolyn Burdett"Tropical Ovaries": Gynecological Degeneration and Lady Arabella's "Female Difficulties"in Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm Piya Pal-LapinskiTwo Talks with Khun Fa Lynn Thiesmeyer Part III The Shifting Terrian of Public Life"Stage Business"as Citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the World's Columbian Exposition James C. DavisPhenomena in Flux: The Aesthetics and Politics of Traveling in Modernity Ana Parejo VadilloThe New Woman's Appetite for "Riotous Living": Rebecca West, Modernist Feminism, and the Everyday Barbara GreenDjuna Barnes Makes a Specialty of Crime: Violence and the Visual in Her Early Journalism Katherine BiersIn Pursuit of an Erogamic Life: Marie Stopes and the Culture of Married Love Lucy BurkeShift Work: Observing Women Observing, 1937-1945 Julian YatesAfterword Rita Felski Notes on Contributors Index
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Sexual Revolution in Early America Gender
Book SynopsisToday's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.Trade ReviewAccording to this meticulously researched study, the Puritan roots of America's sexual mores are deep and surprisingly complex... Godbeer utilizes an impressive array of sources, from private writings, print, and ephemeral materials to court depositions, didactic literature, and official documents for his original research. The result is a valuable contribution to American social history. Library Journal Colonial history will never quite be the same. Sexual Revolution in Early America is the most thorough compendium of sexual incidents, attitudes, laws, and literature in British America before 1800... This work will be the central reference point for our understanding of sexuality in early America for many years to come. The book has much to offer both the casual and the thoughtful reader. -- Evan Haefeli Washington Times Godbeer offers a fresh view of the 'moral and cultural architecture' of early America and the American Revolution through his analysis of sexual mores and behavior... Godbeer's readings are important to readings of early American captivity narratives... [and] has clear implications for feminist literary scholars and queer theorists who focus on questions of agency and transgression. -- Lisa M. Logan Early American Literature Important... Godbeer pays meticulous attention to the details of cultural meaning and practice... The book's regional and chronological range is impressive... and the author's facility with such a wide variety of sources touching on typically private and thus seemingly inaccessible matters might serve as a model for scholars. -- Elizabeth Reis New England Quarterly Richard Godbeer challenges our traditional stereotypes of colonial America by recovering a remarkable volume of sexual discussion and debate, prosecution and evasion... In both their sexual excesses and anxieties, Godbeer's colonists seem surprisingly modern and accessible. -- Alan Taylor New Republic Richard Godbeer's book on sexuality in colonial British America has been eagerly awaited by those of us who had heard or read parts of this project in conference papers or articles. Those presentations had been filled with fresh insight and careful research. His full study has lived up to its promise. His careful, nuanced study is by far the best discussion of colonial sexuality available to scholars. While not slighting discussions of theory, Godbeer has avoided opaque jargon and balanced the theory with vignettes that bring the period and its people to life. -- Joan R. Gundersen H-Women, H-Net Reviews The first comprehensive history of sexuality in early America. It is based on daunting archival scholarship, particularly in legal records, and attention to the details of social life, but is written with such verve and humanity that many of the personages the author considers here come alive off the page. Many of the sexual dramas Godbeer relates will seem familiar to the modern reader: adulterous lovers, the sexual experimentation of youth, the shame of vice revealed for all to see. But early American society was far more densely leavened with the yeast of Puritanism and moral surveillance than America of the 21st century, so that the contrasts with contemporary sexuality emerge in striking fashion. -- Robert A. Nye Journal of the American Medical Association An astute, wide-ranging analysis... This is an excellent piece of scholarship. Based on extensive research in all sorts of printed sources and private documents, and covering much of the territory of British North America, it will likely remain the most detailed treatment of the subject for years to come. -- Douglas A. Sweeney Religious Studies Review Readers under the misapprehension that the sexual revolution was one of the many new movements that changed the US in the 1960s should run to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of Godbeer's Sexual Revolution in Early America. Taking his cue from the numerous historians who have researched and written on the new social history of early America, Godbeer mined innumerable primary and secondary sources to create an accurate portrayal of sex in Colonial America... An excellent narrative of life in early America. Choice Godbeer's holistic approach to early American sexual attitudes makes this study fresh. His knowledge of Puritan sexual mores informs his lovely reading of the sensuality of Puritan spirituality and illuminates Puritan sexual subjectivity. -- Kathleen Brown American Historical Review Sexual Revolution in Early America does bring our focus back to the most basic aspect of human behavior, and it does so in the proper and revealing context of social relations. It also adds a new dimension to the strain of early American historiography that emphasizes the persistence of English folk beliefs. -- Daniel R. Mandell Journal of American History 2003 Drawing on and synthesizing an impressive array of scholarly and archival sources, Godbeer reconstructs an early American sexual geography that is best characterized, not by a topography of liberation and repression, but by divisions along three overlapping axes of power... The payoff in Sexual Revolution in Early America lies in the details. -- Bruce Burgett William and Mary Quarterly 2004 This is a landmark study of early modern sexual attitudes and behavior; it is eloquently written; and it is an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on early American sexuality... Once again he [Godbeer] proves to be a master at distinguishing between the thoughts and desires of social eleites and the urges and behavior of ordinary folk. -- Debra Meyers Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2002 Richard Godbeer has crafted a well-woven narrative on the ever popular and riveting subject of human sexuality... Sexual Revolution in Early America will stand as a foundational text for the history of sexuality in early American studies. -- Janet Moore Lindman Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Godbeer's is the first serious assessment of the role of sex in Puritan thought and behavior. -- Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books 2002
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Johns Hopkins University Press Womens Rights
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 Against Obscenity
Book SynopsisIt cautions against framing debates over sexual material narrowly in terms of harm to children while highlighting the dangers of surrendering discourse about sexuality to the commercial realm.Trade ReviewWhat constitutes obscenity is a contentious issue, and Wheeler makes it clear that historically, it has been dangerous ground for feminists... Her analysis is convincing. Choice 2005 Wheeler's account of the anti-obscenity campaign illuminates the importance of gender to that history; she seamlessly explores the movement as it shifted from the local to the national level; and she meticulously recounts the day-to-day struggles women faced. Along the way, she draws on an impressive list of archival sources to reconstruct women's involvement in the campaign, provides a detailed account of the victories and hardships women experienced as they attempted to shape the... anti-obscenity movement, and offers a thoughtful and well-argued addition to a growing number of studies about women activists and how their concerns for mothers and children shaped public policy. American Historical Review 2005 Tells the complicated and compelling story of women's meteoric rise to prominence in competing branches of the anti-obscenity movement prior to and immediately following passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and their arguably more rapid exit from the scene during the late 1920s and early 1930s... A superbly written book. -- Heather Lee Miller Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 2005 A welcome addition to the growing historiography of obscenity and censorship. In its solid research, Wheeler's book is [also] an important addition to the historiography of grassroots struggles over free speech and other rights in twentieth-century America. Journal of American History In this important book, Leigh Ann Wheeler examines a little-discussed corner of popular culture, women's campaigns to regulate 'obscenity' in the late 1800[s] and early 1900s. Those interested in issues of obscenity and the development of the concept of free speech in the United States will find Wheeler's work compelling. -- Lisa K. Boehm Journal of Popular Culture Wheeler has uncovered a fascinating chapter in the story of women's perennial attempts to protect children and vulnerable young women from the dangers of commercial vice. Her study considers several of these dangers, such as prostitution and burlesque shows, but focuses above all on the new medium of film. -- Cynthia Eagle Russett H-Net Book Review/H-SHGAPE Deftly illuminates the 'possibilities in our past' while addressing the complex struggles of women and citizens in more recent times. -- Hiroshi Kitamura American Quarterly 2006 The study gives a very good sense of the anti-obscenity reform activity and concern in the period under study. -- Encarna Trinidad Journal of American Studies 2006 This is a very good book about an important topic. -- Rebecca J. Mead Journal of Social History 2007 Wheeler's impressively researched study is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of anti-obscenity reform and women's activism in general. -- Christine Erickson American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Crossing the Great Divide: Women, Politics, and Anti-obscenity Reform Chapter 1. " "Protect the Innocent!": Men, Women, and Anti-obscenity Reform, 1873 - 1911 Chapter 2. Dressing Elsie: Women's Theater Reform, 1912 - 1919 Chapter 3. "Censorship Does Not Protect": Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1919 - 1922 Chapter 4. "Woman vs. Woman": The Leading Ladies of Motion Picture Reform, 1923 - 1930 Chapter 5. "We Don't Want Our Boys and Girls in a Place of That Kind": Women's Burlesque Reform, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 6. "Thinking as a Woman and of Women": Sex Education, Obscenity's Antidote, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 7. "Sinful Girls Lead": Crises in Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1932 - 1934 Chapter 8. "'Catholic Action' is Blazing a Spectacular Trail!": The Collapse of Women's Anti-obscenity Leadership, 1934 - 1935 Conclusion: Anti-obscenity Reform and Women's History List of Abbreviations Notes Notes on Sources Index
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain
Book SynopsisIn illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.Trade ReviewCompelling and interesting... Like a latter-day Isaac D'Israeli, Looser explores many byways of 18th- and early-19th century authorship and publication. Accordingly, specialists in those periods will find here a trove of useful, thought-provoking historical anecdote. Choice 2009 So meticulously researched and her prose so pleasantly lucid and unassuming... Looser crafts a convincing argument for the reexamination of women writers like Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, paying closer attention to their later lives and works. -- Jeanine M. Casler Papers on Language and Literature 2009 Engaging and clearly written, Looser's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of what it meant to be an elderly female writer in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries while also identifying important considerations of fact and methodology often overlooked without the perspective of age studies. -- Kay Heath Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 2009 The book's lively introduction offers plenty of promise. Looser conveys considerable enthusiasm about her subject and the impressive archival research she conducted for Women Writers and Old Age. Throughout the six chapters, Looser maintains a lucid and engaging style that many contemporary scholars might well emulate. -- Marilyn Roberts Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 2009 Devoney Looser is one of the best at bringing together biographical evidence, sophisticated theory, and literary sensibility. -- Paula R. Backscheider Studies in English Literature 2009 Devoney Looser has written an extremely important book that sensitively explores ageism and the literary marketplace just when the Mothers of the Novel were writing their final chapters. -- Laurie Kaplan JASNA News 2009 Elegant and original study... Looser not only offers a fresh perspective on individual reputations but raises intriguing questions about the procession of 'generations' in literary history. -- Elizabeth Eger Times Literary Supplement 2009 One of the strengths of Women Writers and Old Age is Looser's uncompromising willingness to acknowledge how difficult it was for older women writers to triumph over the cultural forces ranged against them. -- Roxanne Eberle Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2010 This is a thought-provoking... contribution not only to old age and gender studies but also to the literary history of the long 18th century. -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2010 Wide-ranging and scrupulous book explores a neglected and fascinating subject. -- Caroline Gonda Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2010 Although Looser's assumptions may not be shared by every reader, the book is so well informed and ends with such a vast bibliography that everyone stands to learn by it. -- Marialuisa Bignami Modern Language Review 2010 Women Writers in Old Age, 1750-1850, provides a valuable contribution to the nascent field of study. -- Patricia Murphy Nineteenth-Century Literature 2009 With Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850... Devoney Looser is one of the best at bringing together biographical evidence, sophisticated theory, and literary sensibility. -- Paula R. Backscheider Studies in English Literature 2009 A groundbreaking study of the late careers of women writers. Year's Work in English Studies 2010 A well-written, imaginative, carefully researched, and fascinating study. -- Lisa Vargo Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Women Writers and Old Age, 1750-18501. Past the Period of Choosing to Write a "Love-tale"? Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's Late Fiction2. Catharine Macaulay's Waning Laurels3. What Is Old in Jane Austen?4. Hester Lynch Piozzi, Antiquity of Bath5. "One generation passeth away, and another cometh": Anna Letitia Barbauld's Late Literary Work6. Jane Porter and the Old Woman Writer's Quest for Financial IndependenceConclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days"NotesBibliographyIndex
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Dressing Modern Frenchwomen
Book SynopsisDressing Modern Frenchwomen draws from thousands of magazine covers, advertisements, fashion columns, and features to uncover and untangle the fascinating relationships among the fashion industry, the development of modern marketing techniques, and the evolution of the modern woman as active, mobile, and liberated.Trade ReviewA history no college-level fashion collection should be without. Midwest Book Review 2008 Scholarly and deeply empirical, the book's detail is wonderful. -- Caroline Evans American Historical Review This is... a very valuable book. Its insights into interwar culture and business practices will be useful for all historians of the period. -- Denise Davidson Journal of Modern History 2010 This is a solid addition to scholarly knowledge on multiple topics. Stewart clearly demonstrates the importance of her subject and has mined her sources to good effect. -- John S. Hill Canadian Journal of History 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Gender, Genius & Publicity1. Couturiers/Couturières2. Hybrid Modern3. PublicityPart II: Business & the Workplace4. Business5. The WorkplacePart III: Democratizing Fashion6. Copying and Copyrighting7. Shopping and SewingPart IV: Modern Women8. The Politics of Modern Fashion9. The Gender of the Modern10. The Modern Woman?EpilogueNotesIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Unfinished Agendas
Book SynopsisShaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of KansasTrade ReviewThis excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education. Choice 2009 Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo's 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe... This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important-and complex-topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce. -- Melissa McDaniels Academe 2009 Masterfully handled... This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing. -- S.L. Sutherland Times Higher Education 2008 Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women... it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction. -- Linda Serra Hagedorn Journal of College Student Retention 2009 Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book. -- Judy Haiven CAUT Bulletin 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Feminist Agenda: A Work in ProgressChapter 2. Women Faculty and the Dance of Identities: Constructing Self and Privilege within CommunityChapter 3. Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research UniversitiesChapter 4. The Differential Effects of Academic Capitalism on Women in the AcademyChapter 5. Developing Women Scientists: Baccalaureate Origins of Recent Mathematics and Science DoctoratesChapter 6. Faculty Productivity and the Gender QuestionChapter 7. Women and the College PresidencyChapter 8. Women on Governing Boards: Why Gender MattersChapter 9. Female Faculty in the Community College: Approaching Equity in a Low-Status SectorChapter 10. Women of Color in Academe: Experiences of the Often InvisibleChapter 11. Choice and Discourse in Faculty Careers: Feminist Perspectives on Work and FamilyEpilogueContributors Index
£22.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
Book SynopsisIlluminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement.Trade ReviewThis lively collection of essays will no doubt be enlightening to the current generation of medical students, historians, and scholars. -- Barbara F. Atkinson Journal of Clinical Investigation Readers will find much to admire in this book. The individual essays, while diverse, are uniformly well written, well-researched, and impressively documented... Highly recommended. Choice The book would certainly be helpful for medical historians, of course, but also for any person-woman or man-interested in the past, present, and future role of women in medicine. Readers are rewarded with impressive scholarship and exhaustive, essay-specific bibliographies. JAMA Stellar edited collection... Read this book and assign it for class: it succeeds in leaving us informed,inspired, and amazed... It is provocative, deconstructs binaries, shows the personal tolls and struggles faced by these physicians and their use of science, nutrition, professional authority, and maternity (among others) as means to challenge male medical authority and culturally constructed gendered norms. -- Susan E. Cayleff Bulletin of the History of Medicine This important volume delineates the state of the field in many aspects of the history of women physicians in the United States and points the way to the next steps in research. -- Kimberly Jensen Social History of Medicine This collection of essays on the history of American women physicians from the nineteenth century to the present provides the latest, state-of-the-art scholarship on the subject... Invaluable. -- Laura Ettinger American Historical Review A valuable addition to the history of women's struggle for fulfilling careers in medicine. -- H. Hughes Evans Journal of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Women Physicians and Medicine in the United States, 1849 to the PresentPart I: Performing Gender, Being a Woman PhysicianChapter 1. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Women's Health Research Chapter 2. Maternity and the Female Body in the Writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829–1902Chapter 3. Female Patient Agency and the 1892 Trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in Late Nineteenth-Century BrooklynChapter 4. A Chinese Woman Doctor in Progressive Era ChicagoChapter 5. Professionalism versus Sexuality in the Career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, 1904–1998Part II: Challenging the Culture of ProfessionalismChapter 6. The Legacy of Masculine Codes of Honor and the Admission of Women to the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 7. Women Physicians and the Twentieth-Century Women's Health Movement in the United StatesChapter 8. Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, OurselvesChapter 9. Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970–1990Part III: Expanding the BoundariesChapter 10. Women Physicians and Medical Sects in Nineteenth-Century ChicagoChapter 11. Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the Discourse of Motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 12. Women Physicians and a New Agenda for College Health, 1920–1970Conclusion: Opportunities and Obstacles for Women Physicians in the Twenty-First CenturyList of ContributorsIndex
£49.95
Johns Hopkins University Press perverseromanticism
Book SynopsisAt the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.Trade ReviewAn impressive display of Sha's masterful grasp of a wide range of scholarly literature, and a provocative thesis that will be of interest to academics in all three fields. -- Katie Gray H-Net Reviews 2009 Sha brings to these topics a keen intelligence buttressed by up-to-the-minute scholarship... He dazzles by the quantity and breadth of his reading and embodies the best interdisciplinary approaches so many scholars tout but rarely incorporate. -- George Rousseau Social History of Medicine 2010 His theoretical insights come together with acute readings and strong historical research. Times Literary Supplement 2010 Richard C. Sha's fine study takes Byron's theme of 'perversion' in a different direction from the ethical, demonstrating how Romantic medical writing about the perverse influenced literary Romanticism... Fascinating book. Byron Journal 2010 Stunningly brilliant and original... a distinguished work that is well worth reading. -- Geraldine Friedman Review of English Studies 2010 Strong scholarship. -- Myron D. Yeager ANQ 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Romantic Science and the Perversification of Sexual Pleasure2. Historicizing Perversion: Perversity, Perversion, and the Rise of Function in the Biological Sciences3. One Sex or Two? Nervous Bodies, Romantic Puberty, and the Natural Origins of Perverse Desires4. The Perverse Aesthetics of Romanticism: Purposiveness with Purpose5. Fiery Joys Perverted to Ten Commands : William Blake, the Perverse Turn, and Sexual Liberation6. Byron, Epic Puberty, and Polymorphous PerversityNotesWorks CitedIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Hedonizing Technologies
Book SynopsisThe book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Is a Hedonizing Technology?2. Leisure and Necessity3. Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries4. The Hedonizing Marketplace5. Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize?AppendixesA. Biases of Collecting and ConnoisseurshipB. Methodological NotesNotesGlossaryIndex
£45.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Wielding the Pen Writings on Authorship by
Book SynopsisThis anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."Trade Review"A important addition to our library of nineteenth-century American women's writing, illuminating in their own voices their literary ambitions, frustrations, and triumphs." - Karen L. Kilcup, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"
£30.60
Johns Hopkins University Press British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisIt fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.Trade ReviewThis book promises to be popular as both textbook and reference. Choice 2010
£64.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence
Book SynopsisThe book is a valuable text for students and scholars in early modern European history, religion, women's studies, and economic history.Trade ReviewThe author skillfully analyzes extensive archival and printed sources. Choice 2010 With this book Sharon Strocchia performs a service both to convent studies and to historians of Renaissance Florence by bringing these two fields together... Convents, long a hazy presence on the rich scholarly map of Renaissance Florence, now have their political and economic contours there clearly charted. -- P. Renee Baernstein Renaissance Quarterly 2010 An enjoyable, well-written account by a gifted historian clearly knowledgeable about her subject. -- Laura Swan Magistra 2010 Strocchia makes a significant contribution to the developing body of work on women's religious life in the Renaissance... providing a plethora of research avenues for the interested scholar and an interesting glimpse of Renaissance life for the general reader. -- Sally Mayall Brasher American Historical Review 2010 A convincing and wide-ranging analysis of a crucial facet of Renaissance Florence. -- Brian Maxson Canadian Journal of History 2010Table of ContentsList of Tables, Graphs, and FiguresPreface1. The Growth of Florentine ConventsConvents in CrisisThe Midcentury ResurgenceThe Rush to the Convent2. Nuns, Neighbors, and KinsmenFrom Neighborhood Enclaves to Citywide InstitutionsProperty and the Topography of PowerDefenders of the Parish3. The Renaissance Convent EconomyThe Structure of Convent FinanceThe Paradox of ''Private'' WealthBalancing the BudgetThe Medici and the Monte4. Invisible Hands: Renaissance Nuns at WorkEconomic Strategies and OpportunitiesThe Century of Silk: Nuns and Textile ProductionThree Case Studies in Textile WorkBooks and Educational Activities5. Contesting the Boundaries of EnclosureThe Practice of Open Reclusion, 1300–1450Privatization, Enclosure, and Reform, 1430–1500The Florentine ''Night Officers''Ecclesiastical Reform Initiatives, 1500–1540ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£42.75
Johns Hopkins University Press The Unchosen Me Race Gender and Identity among
Book SynopsisThe Unchosen Me is a rich examination of the underrepresented student experience, offering a new approach to studying identity, race, and gender in higher education.Trade ReviewGroundbreaking research on a controversial topic and written by a courageous author... It's a unique addition to the existing literature on identity development. -- Sybil L. Holloway NACADA 2010 This book has a valuable, unique approach to understanding issues facing black women in university environments... Winkle-Wagner has brought sister circles out in the open in a way that could spur dialogue between black and white women that could lead to cross-racial sisterhood that has been lacking on college campuses. I hope to see black and white women walking around campus with copies of The Unchosen Me. -- Will Tyson American Journal of Sociology 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The "Problem" of Race and Gender2. The Unchosen Me: The Intersection of Opportunity, Privilege, and Choice3. Research across the Color Line: Empowerment, Mutual Learning, and Difficult Decisions4. Walking in Enemy Territory: Being Black on Campus5. Academic Performances: Between the Spotlight and Invisibility6. "Too White" or "Too Ghetto"? The Racial Tug-of-war for Black Women7. Learning to Be a "Good Woman": Interpreting Womanhood through Race8. The Unchosen Me and the Interactions That Create Race and GenderAppendixesA. Participants in the StudyB. Data Analysis and ValidationC. Examples of Data AnalysisD. Sister Circle ProtocolsNotesReferencesIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Writing for Immortality
Book SynopsisAlthough these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.Trade ReviewScholars interested in examining the contributions of 19th-century women writers to American literature will appreciate the fresh perspective offered here. Choice 2005 Radically expands the literary world of nineteenth-century American women, considering them in conversation with European women writers as well as male writers in Europe and America. -- Renee Bergland American Literature 2005 Boyd's close textual work gives the reader a valuable introduction to the work and lives of these four authors. -- Martha Saxton Journal of American History 2005 Boyd successfully reconstructs the era through an examination of the historical evidence, ranging from letters, diaries, reviews, essays, and literary social events, and close readings of the fiction of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson to demonstrate that these pioneering artists took an active role in contemporary discussions on the nature of genius and art. -- Felicia L. Carr Legacy: Journal of American Women Writers 2005 A comprehensively researched and impressively detailed study. -- Annamaria Formichella Elsden Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 2005 A highly satisfying analysis of the contexts within which women's literary ambitions shifted and the sensibilities of the male literary elite were forcefully challenged. -- Mary Rigsby Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2005 Boyd offers a multi-layered thesis in this important book. -- Claire Brock Journal of American Studies 2006 Well written and appealingly produced, it is a thoughtful contribution to the field of late-nineteenth-century American literature and to the women, men, and above all institutions that produced it. -- Susan K. Harris American Literary Realism 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Ambitions1. Solving the ''old riddle of the Sphinx'': Discovering the Self as Artist2. ''Prov[ing] Avis in the Wrong'': The Lives of Women Artists3. ''The crown and the thorn of gifted life'': Imagining the Woman Artist4. ''Recognition is the thing'': Seeking the Status of ArtistConclusion: The Question of ImmortalityChronologyNotesBibliography EssayIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press For Business and Pleasure RedLight Districts and
Book SynopsisHer study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.Trade ReviewKeire's innovative and wide-ranging history makes For Business and Pleasure a welcome contribution to the field. -- Annemarie Kooistra Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010 Keire's focus on the business of vice makes an important contribution. -- Jennifer Fronc American Historical Review 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: It's a Wonderful Life: Red-Light Districts and Anti-Vice Reform1. Segregating Vice, 1890–19092. The Sporting World, 1890–19173. Race, Riots, and Red-Light Districts, 1906–19104. The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare, 1907–19175. The War on Vice, 1910–19196. The Syndicate: Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime, 1919–1933Conclusion: Progressivism, Prohibition, and Policy OptionsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£45.90
Johns Hopkins University Press Democracy and the Rise of Womens Movements in
Book SynopsisIn demonstrating how women's activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women's social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking chronicle... Highly recommended for both public and college library collections. Midwest Book Review 2008 Fallon's work presents an insightful distillation of a large and important set of events and issues. I am impressed with the stages she proposes as critical turning points in the evolution of the women's movement in Sub-Saharan Africa and specific evidence she provides to describe those periods and their transitions. Contemporary Sociology All scholars of social movements and comparative politics, and in particular by specialists in African studies and gender and politics, should read Fallon's book. It is a model of the power of a well-grounded case study that pushes scholarship toward broader implications. International Studies Review Fallon makes an important contribution to understanding democratization and the experiences of sub-Saharan African women's movements. This work will undoubtedly spur discussion among scholars of women and democratization, and future comparative studies of women's mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa will build on this solid foundation. -- Julie Kaye Canadian Journal of Sociology 2009 Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa deepens our understanding of the African women's activism that coincided with democratization across the continent in the 1990s and 2000s. -- Gretchen Bauer African Studies Review 2009 An important contribution to the literature [that] should be included in college and university libraries. Choice 2009 An engaging and thought-provoking read and a welcome contribution to our thinking about women's emerging political roles and opportunities. -- Andrea Brown Journal of Modern African Studies 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms1. Reclaiming Power2. Queenmothers, Colonization, and the Struggle for Legitimacy3. Democracy in Perspective4. The Iron Fist5. Capturing Democracy6. Big Men, Small Girls, and the Politics of Power7. Women on the MoveAppendix A: MethodsAppendix B: Survey DataNotesReferencesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Southern Sons Becoming Men in the New Nation
Book SynopsisRevealing the complex interplay of nationalism and regionalism in the lives of southern men, Glover brings new insight to the question of what led the South toward sectionalism and civil war.Trade ReviewA compelling examination. -- Giselle Roberts Civil War Book Review 2007 Makes important contributions to historians' understandings of gender, family, and sectionalism. -- Anya Jabour Journal of American History 2007 Insightful study... Recommended. Choice 2008 We read about young men who exhibited a lifelong negotiation with authority, with society's expectations, with one another, and eventually with the North... Well-written, meticulously researched. -- Evan A. Kontarinis Journal of the Early Republic 2007 Glover convincingly revises the long-held thesis that honor is the best paradigm for investigating young Southern men's identities in the early national period. -- Jennifer L. Gross H-NC, H-Net Reviews 2007 Glover successfully demonstrates that becoming a man in the early national South was a complicated process that demanded much of the boys who sought to be considered men. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Glover carefully charts the empowerment which elite southern boys received over a lifetime of successfully navigating these social waters. -- R. Matthew Poteat Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 2008 Glover's new study of southern elite manhood in the new nation is an important contribution to southern history as well as to gender history. -- Thomas A. Foster William and Mary Quarterly 2009 Southern Sons is an impressive work, certain to influence-and perhaps even reshape-Southern social and cultural history for years to come, as well as the history of American masculinities. -- Steve Tripp Historian 2009 Glover's analysis is insightful and rests on exhaustive research in reliable sources. -- Matthew Mason Southern Quarterly 2009 An important book for anyone interested in gender, family history, or education in antebellum America. It is also a refreshing way to frame the origins of the American Civil War. -- Michael DeGruccio H-CivWar 2008 Southern Sons provides insight into the day-to-day lives of young southern elites and offers a detailed examination of the process by which southern boys became southern men in the Early Republic. -- Ehren K. Foley Journal of Social History 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Sons1. The First Duties of a Southern Boy2. Raising ''Self Willed'' SonsPart II: Gentlemen and Scholars3. The Educational Aspirations of Southern Families4. Creating Southern Schools for Southern Sons5. The (Mis)Behaviors of Southern Collegians6. The Southern Code of Gentlemanly Conduct7. Acting the Part of a GentlemanPart III: Patriarchs8. Supervising Suitors9. Winning a Wife10. Professions and the ''Circle about Every Man''11. Slaveholding and the Destiny of the Republic's Southern SonsEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£22.50
University of Toronto Press Getting By in Hard Times Gendered Labour at Home
Book SynopsisDescribes the experiences of daily life for predominantly white, working class women and men during the period of "economic restructuring" begun in the 1980s.
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University of Toronto Press Gendered States
Book SynopsisIn the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program from 1945 to 1997, Ann Porter demonstrates how gender was central both to the construction of the post-war welfare state, as well as to its subsequent crisis and restructuring. Drawing on a wide range of sources (including archival material, UI administrative tribunal decisions, and documents from the government, labour and women''s groups) she examines the implications of restructuring for women''s equality, as well as how women''s groups, labour and the state interacted in efforts to shape the policy agenda.Porter argues that, while the post-war welfare state model was based on a family with a single male breadwinner, the new model is one
£65.45
University of Toronto Press Getting by in Hard Times
Book SynopsisDescribes the experiences of daily life for predominantly white, working class women and men during the period of economic restructuring begun in the 1980s.
£32.40
University of Nebraska Press The Heart in the Glass Jar Love Letters Bodies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally well suited to graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Mexican history as well as specialized history and/or theory courses on love, courtship, gender relations, and the written word.”—Robert M. Buffington, The Historian“Surprising, intriguing, and sophisticated. . . . This is masterful scholarship with an undercurrent of playfulness.”—William H. Beezley, coeditor of The Oxford History of Mexico“This is a deeply learned book, the mature work of a widely read, accomplished, and innovative historian.”—Ann S. Blum, author of Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943 Table of ContentsHeading (Acknowledgments)Introduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar Section 1: The Letter of the LawSection 2: The Lettered Countryside Section 3: The Body of the Letter PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.59
Ohio University Press Expecting Teryk
Book SynopsisThe period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.Trade Review“Expecting Teryk is a rich and sumptuous work that speaks to the deeper realities and represents a unique viewpoint of experiences shared by all individuals who choose the path to parenthood.” * Disability, Pregnancy, and Parenthood *
£25.19
Stanford University Press Breaking the Codes Female Criminality in
Book SynopsisBreaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siècle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.Trade Review"Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice." -- Social HistoryTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5
£20.89
Stanford University Press Selling the City
Book SynopsisBetween 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning.Trade Review"[An] engrossing study of the historic role women have played in shaping California cities..."California History"Thoroughly researched, this book will be of considerable interest to a broad range of scholars....All in all, this book is valuable both for its substantial accomplishments and for the questions it raises." -- American Historical Review"Lee Simpson...does the field of California urban history a great service by investigating the role of women in turn-of-the-century civic boosterism and city planning." -- H-Net Reviews"...Selling the City offers important insights into women's involvement in urban growth and development in the long Progressive era." -- The Public Historian
£55.80
Stanford University Press The Constitution as Social Design
Book SynopsisThis book is about gender and civic membership in American constitutional politics from the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment through Second Wave Feminism.Trade Review"[A] powerful response to the nagging question of why it has taken—or is still taking—so long for women to gain civic equality" -- Political Science Quarterly"In this original and exciting new book, Gretchen Ritter provides the first thorough gender-centered account of the way the United States Constitution was formulated and has evolved. The book is cleverly organized in terms of themes through which the post-Nineteenth Amendment Constitution has defined gender and the citizenship status of women in the United States. The Constitution as Social Design is a major work of scholarship and constitutional interpretation. It will become required reading for all scholars working in law and politics, gender studies, and American political development." -- Desmond King"Ritter successfully argues that seeing the constitution as social design rather than merely a charter for rights allows us to reinterpret the meaning of citizenship. This book is a significant contribution to gender studies, constitutional history, and U.S. political development." -- Julie NovkovTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Chapter 1 The Constitution as Social Design 1 @toc1:Part I: The Impact of the Nineteenth Amendment @toc2:Chapter 2 Voting 000 Chapter 3 Marriage 000 Chapter 4 Jury Service 000 @toc1:Part II: War and Civic Membership in the 1940s @toc2:Chapter 5 Labor 000 Chapter 6 War Service 000 @toc1:Part III: Second Wave Feminism @toc2:Chapter 7 Equality 000 Chapter 8 Privacy 000 Chapter 9 The Politics of Presence 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
£26.99
Stanford University Press Tough Choices
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first detailed study of why the number of unmarried Japanese mothers has hardly changed since 1955, despite the prevalence of certain factors in Japan (more later marriages, higher divorce rate, and so on) that have brought about significant increases in lone mothers in even the most conservative western industrialized countries.Trade Review"In recent years Japan has seen dramatic demographic changes, but extramarital childbirth remains taboo. Hertog convincingly demonstrates the remarkable staying power of the norm of the two-parent family, as conveyed in the poignant words of women who, for myriad reasons, gave birth out of wedlock." -- Glenda S. Roberts * Waseda University *"I found Hertog's book to be an excellent study of unwed mothers' perspectives and social conditions. It contributes to a growing body of studies that explore changing Japanese families, and demonstrates how ethnography can enhance understanding of family formation and life choices." -- Lynne Nakano * Asian Anthropology *"Tough Choices carefully avoids any kind of reductionism . . . [Hertog] carefully and skillfully unpacks the critical differences between being responsible for one's own actions and being responsible for one's own reproduction and children, and how much conceptions and perceptions of responsibility lead to particular feelings of insecurity and guilt as well as aspirations and expectations." -- Nana O. Gagne * Social Science Japan Journal *"Ekaterina Hertog's Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan is a thoughtfully structures, clearly state book that offers insight to scholars and policy makers who are interested in family formation in Japan, its low rate of illegitimate births, and its lowest-low fertility . . . Tough Choices can be recommended for, among other things, providing a rare and graphic description of Japanese women's decisions on marriage and birth." -- Hideki Nakazato * American Journal of Sociology *"Considering illegitimate children and their mothers as a minority group in Japan provides a most interesting frame in which to portray the choices of women who endure the stigma of single motherhood. Their poignant, emotionally raw stories fill the gaps of understanding usually left empty in renderings of culture and social 'pathologies.'" -- Merry White * Boston University *"Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan is a poignant observation of the contemporary configuration of the Japanese family institution from the perspective of the women at its margins . . . The book makes an important contribution to the many historical, sociological, and anthropological explorations of the Japanese family and gender system and of the contemporary Japanese politics of reproduction . . . This fresh and compelling look from the margins of the Japanese family is testimony to the persistent dominance in Japanese society of the model of childbearing within marriage." -- Journal of Japanese Studies"Hertog's work offers a detailed analysis of her own extensive qualitative study over three years, comprising in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 68 diverse women already or about to become unmarried mothers. The book comprehensively and engagingly addresses what the author identifies as a puzzling dearth of scholarly interest in unwed motherhood in Japan . . . The work deftly combines a statistical and theoretical discussion of the situation in Japan as compared with other countries with apt examples from Hertog's own extensive fieldwork interviews. The voices of her informants enliven her arguments throughout the richly interesting narrative." -- Leonie Stickland * Japanese Studies *"This book provides a thoughtful analysis of a phenomenon that has long been used as evidence of Japan's extreme difference. Although Japan's extra-marital birthrate is much lower then other industrialized nations, Hertog convincingly attributes it to social norms about maternity, families, and gendered roles, rather than legal or financial motivations . . . Readers with interest in contemporary Japan, family and gender studies, and public health will surely find it a welcomed addition to the literature." -- Allison Alexy * Contemporary Sociology *
£52.20
Stanford University Press Intimate Labors
Book SynopsisThis book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.Trade Review"Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parrenas's Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care is an excellent read and resource for those of us in the field of labor studies. . . I highly recommend this book to anyone engaged in organizing and educating care workers. It is well written, is thought provoking, and challenges us to understand the definition of intimate labor and how it functions in a neoliberal marketplace. In an economy increasingly dependent on intimate labor, this is a must-read volume of essays."—Emily E. LaBarbera Twarog, Labor Studies Journal"The selection of articles, and in particular the combination of paid and unpaid forms of intimate labour, will make a useful contribution to global labour studies. The book is a gateway to understanding how intimacy and labour organize themselves in both formal and informal social structures. In addition, it illustrates the ways in which intimacy has become linked with issues of ethnicity, sexuality, race, class, and other power relations in the context of globalization as well as continued socio-political and economic transformations."—Marina de Regt, International Review of Social History"This collection represents a stellar interdisciplinary contribution to research on work shaped by personal and emotional interaction. The essays included embody the best quality of the work they explore—a thoughtful and discerning sensitivity to human need."—Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts"In this exciting new volume, Boris and Parreñas bring together a collection of cutting-edge research on the many surprising ways we daily—mix, split, stir—money with intimate life. Sex workers who sell the girlfriend experience. Sperm and egg donors who give a gift and do it for money. Clients who struggle against the concept of a servant, a nanny, a housekeeper, but also need one. Each encounter with the market raises subtle yet important issues for social theory and everyday life. Were all living it; this book helps us understand it."—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Managed Heart and The Commercialization of Intimate Life"This volume's ingenious focus on intimate labor encompasses a fascinating range of activities, from egg donation to end-of-life care, from child care to sex work. Intimate Labors makes an extremely valuable contribution to feminist theorizing on care work and reproductive labor by providing fresh insights on the lives of intimate laborers, as well as on the impact of race, gender, and sexuality in the context of globalization."—Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty
£21.59
Stanford University Press Working the Night Shift
Book SynopsisThis book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers.Trade Review"[T]hose who seek an understanding of the world of women in the call center industry will find this book fascinating. Readers will find rich descriptions of the experiences of a number of Indian female workers . . . [T]he book reveals the struggles of women caught in the crossfire of tradition and modernity and for whom technology is a double-edged sword."— Regina M. Hechanova, Information Technologies & International Development"Unlike many studies of working women in India then, it goes beyond their roles in the household as mothers and wives. It extends more broadly to consider issues of movement and space—riding on buses, getting apartments, etc. It is also about how other groups—those in the society at large—view and construct the image of these women . . . No doubt this will become a primer for anyone interested in gender, work, call centers, family, and more, in South Asia."—Winifred R. Poster, Anthropological Quarterly"Overall, the book is well-written and easy to read. The case studies are detailed, interesting, and provide the reader a complex understanding of the varied ways in which the call center industry affects its female employees' lives. In the main, it provides a good foundation for students who want to study the effects of globalization on individuals and communities."—Sandya Hewamanne, Journal of Anthropological Research"Patel's book offers a fascinating look into the complex manifestations of gender inequality within emerging markets such as India . . . Overall, Patel provides a captivating inquiry into the complex reality of high-wage labor and its implications for women's autonomy."—SaunJuhi Verma, American Journal of Sociology"In a text which is refreshingly clearly written, free of too much gratuitous information, and which bears all the hallmarks of appropriate ethics and reflection on positionality, Patel has roundly succeeded in her task of sketching out a good deal of the social and economic anatomy of contemporary call centre work in urban India . . . Its accessible, personalised style will undoubtedly appeal to students in gender, geography, anthropology, and sociology, keen to flesh out the human face of feminised employment. Working the Night Shift also provides an excellent basis for debate and new lines of enquiry among researchers of evolving labour markets in developing nations in academic, policy and activist circles."—Sylvia Chant, Gender, Place and Culture"It will be difficult for anyone who has not recently conducted research in India to appreciate the massive social changes which the outsourcing revolution has brought to that society. Reena Patel's excellent ethnography, Working the Night Shift does, however, succeed in conveying to readers a sense of what is involved when new customer service industries originating in the West explode on the local scene . . . [T]he book provides a much needed gender dimension to research on global call centres."—Bob Russell, Canadian Journal of Sociology"Through the personal stories of a variety of women—from a single mother working to afford her rent to a middle-class daughter earning spending money—Patel creates an intimate portrait of a liberating but frequently dangerous profession, one which 'brings with it new challenges and new opportunities for women workers.' This well-written book will certainly give readers something to think about the next time they call to reserve a plane ticket or pay a bill."—Foreign Service Journal"Call centers have become the flash point for debates about globalization. However, the social impacts of call centers within India are immense and largely uncharted. Patel makes an important contribution towards understanding this phenomenon through a rigorous focus on gender. Her lively prose makes this book accessible to all audiences but will be especially appealing to students of sociology, geography, women's studies, and anthropology."—Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles"In this timely, beautifully written, and path-breaking ethnographic exploration, Patel brings to life the often unnoticed human beings who answer our phone calls on the other side of the world, making visible the dreams, lives, and desires of the women behind the anonymity of the call centers. In clear and accessible prose, she interweaves insightful analysis with the real life stories of these key players of economic globalization. Working the Night Shift should become indispensable reading; it is a book for everyone, for right now."—Cecilia Menjivar, Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University"This is a fascinating book. Combining an acute geographical imagination with careful attention to detail, Patel makes a significant contribution to debates about the complex and contradictory consequences of women's growing labour market participation. This is a key text for all social scientists interested in global change and new divisions of labour."—Linda McDowell, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford"Patel provides a rare glimpse into the lives of Indian women, as global call centers dislodge restrictions on mobility and transport them into night and public worlds. Amidst renewed surveillance by the media and community, how these women navigate new freedoms of transportation, housing, and socializing is a fascinating story."—Winifred Poster, Lecturer in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Washington University"Feminist scholars, sociologists, women's studies and book groups, anyone interested in global women's issues will find this well-written book with its surprising and engaging content an excellent read for the revelations and glimpses of an Indian work place it supplies."—Patricia Leslie, Examiner.com"Some of the most intriguing insights of this study come from the moments when Patel speaks with women in the context of their families and homes. Here, she reveals what may be the in the long run the most important facet of women working in the call center industry—how they creatively negotiate new demands placed on the middle classes to produce the wealth and forms of connection spread upward mobility to other family members and future generations . . . [T]he finest passages of the text occur precisely when Patel is able to flesh out the sense of newness and routine that call center workers experience during and after their night shifts."—Sareeta Amrute, India Review"[Working the Night Shift] is engaging and well written. Its compelling narratives demonstrate the complexity of professional experiences and the ways in which working women align global work commitments with reconrmed gender roles and family duties. The study gives deep insight into the simultaneous feeling of freedom and experience of exploitation that women endure in their professional lives. It can be used fruitfully as teaching material, especially for undergraduate students."—Ursula Rao, American Anthropologist"Patel contributes to a growing literature that challenges the notion that increased income always translates into empowerment for women . . . Patel provides an insightful and well-researched study of how the call center industry has enhanced women's mobility in various ways by challenging some of the socially prescribed notions about women's place."—Ranjeeta Basu, Signs
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Stanford University Press Making Their Place
Book SynopsisOffering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance.Trade Review"Making Their Place is a welcome contribution to the literature of activism, movements, and (feminist) political change. Those interested in feminist organizing will enjoy it and learn from it, as will anyone who wants to explore the dynamics of post-socialist Europe. Her book is a well-argued example of how to think about history, culture and local political contexts in tandem. As more and more studies of social movements rightly draw our attention to the global opportunities for and challenges to grassroots organizing, Guenther reminds us to consider questions of place along with questions of scale." -- Benita Roth * Contemporary Sociology *"Guenther's book presents a remarkable contribution to scholarly understanding of the women's movement in Eastern Germany. She manages to combine a multitude of perspectives, observations on the developments in eastern Germany as a result of very specific traditions and regional dynamics, and thoughtful comparisons with positions in western Germany, Scandinavia, and the U.S. The study excels in its neutrality towards ideology, thereby delivering some relief from the trench warfare of the 1990s between the 'stepsisters' of the East and the West. Guenther, therefore, may be seen as a representative of a new generation of feminist researchers who will seek to determine the direction of feminist discourse from a greater historical distance." -- Ingrid Miethe * German Politics and Society *"Guenther's book is an important addition to our understanding of feminism in both Germany and Europe as a whole. Too many accounts of the post-socialist transition note the extraordinary rise of feminist movements in many Eastern European countries in 1989, but then assume that these efforts soon ended in defeat. Guenther shows that feminism, though no longer conspicuous at the national level, is still a vital force in many cities and communities. By emphasizing the relationship between international, national, local, and regional identities, Guenther provides a useful critique of conventional accounts of feminism, which is still presented mainly in national contexts." -- Ann Taylor Allen * Women's History Review *"Making Their Place is not only well researched but also beautifully written . . . While Guenther is clearly a masterful sociologist, she apparently has the patience of a good historian. The book is based on rich data from many years of fieldwork, including a multisite ethnographic study with observations and extensive interviewing, as well as archival research and document analysis . . . It is a must-read for scholars of gender politics, women's movements, German feminism and postsocialist studies." -- Kathrin Zippel * Gender & Society *"The book makes a significant contribution to the on-the-ground understanding of how feminist movements and practices are shaped by the legacies of socialist women's organizing before 1989. The book is elegant and concise, perfect for teaching undergraduate classes about local politics in East Europe and political transformations after socialism . . . Overall, the book is a much-needed contribution to current feminist debates, and is perfectly suitable for courses in women's studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and East European Studies." -- Kristen Ghodsee * Women's Studies International Forum *"Overall, this book with its detailed case studies will prove extremely valuable to scholars of the ongoing [German Democratic Republic] studies, as well as to generalists in contemporary German studies. Its well-written prose makes this book very accessible; and the excellent concluding chapter could be included in any undergraduate course on contemporary German society." -- Beret L. Norman * German Studies Review *"If you are interested in how and why social movements evolve in times of political and cultural upheaval, you must read Making Their Place. In a beautifully written and innovatively theorized book, Guenther demonstrates how feminist organizations in two East German cities, Rostock and Erfurt, diverged following the fall of state socialism in 1989. Guenther examines the ways in which differences in place influence the emergence, opportunities, and outcomes of two local feminist organizations. Guenther introduces a new theory to social movements by combining political, cultural and spatial perspectives. This research contributes not only to understanding feminist movements and social change in Europe, but also to overarching conversations about connections between social movements, context, politics and culture." -- Alison Dahl Crossley * University of California, Santa Barbara, Mobilization *"Making Their Place is a fascinating and insightful tale of two feminist movements after the fall of state socialism in Eastern Germany. It is one of the first and only comparative studies that dispels the myth of the East European antipathy toward feminism, revealing instead the complex factors that shape and give meaning to local feminist struggle. Through an impressive mixture of interview, observational, and archival material, Guenther exposes how larger political, cultural, and social structures give rise to local conditions that can enhance and undermine the emergence of feminist organizing. This book is a must read for those interested in social movement theory and history, social change in contemporary Europe, and the politics of gender after socialism." -- Lynne Haney * New York University *"What happens when social movements institutionalize? By following the very different paths taken as feminists in two different cities of the former East Germany, Guenther's elegant ethnography shows that what happens next depends on what came before in each very specific place. History and geography combine to make each path dramatically different, and yet each feminist movement struggles with questions that will be familiar to women worldwide. By explaining why place matters so much, Guenther makes a significant contribution to studies of social movements and political change." -- Myra Marx Ferree * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"Blending cultural and political geography's attention to the characteristics and legacies of place with sociology's concern for the opportunities and constraints facing activists seeking change, Making Their Place provides a masterful analysis of local feminist movements in the former East Germany. This engaging comparative study of the local politics, political cultures, and socialist legacies of Erfurt and Rostock offers an innovative spatial analysis of the gendered process of post-socialist transformation. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of German as well as European unification and illuminates how space and place shape movement trajectories and intersect with national and transnational policies to produce distinctive local political outcomes." -- Ronald Aminzade * University of Minnesota *"A highlight of [Making Their Place] is its language and rhetorical clarity. . . . This book is a major achievement in the continuing analysis of East and West German feminism. It will challenge and enrich social movement debates with its insistence on place-bound mobilization." -- Sabine Lang * American Journal of Sociology *"Guenther's detailed comparative work affirms that the socialist past matters, but it matters variously, even in places with a seemingly similar history. . . . Making Their Place certainly satisfies as an insightful and well-written comparative study of how the differential development of 'place character' shapes potentials for and forms of feminist organizing and is variously shaped by these efforts in turn." -- Sarah D. Phillips * American Ethnologist *
£21.59
Stanford University Press Timepass
Book SynopsisTimepass is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face.Trade Review"Craig Jeffrey engages the classic questions on the relation between time, modernity, and discipline yet turns conventional wisdom on its head in this inspiring, witty, and deeply thoughtful book. Combining meticulous field research with a theoretical analysis of the highest order, he opens new pathways for understanding the intersection of neoliberal economy, democratic politics, and the sociality of masculinity in India. The book is a must read for those interested in contemporary India and in critical political theory." -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor * Johns Hopkins University *"In this gracefully written book, Craig Jeffrey draws on fine ethnography to explore the little understood world of Indian youth, for long largely neglected by scholars, illuminating what it means to be a young man with aspirations and limited opportunities in today's India. A tour de force." -- John Harriss, Professor and Director of International Studies * Simon Fraser University *"Craig Jeffrey's lucid and insightful ethnography of young men of Meerut both challenges and helps refine our understanding of power and privilege in India by shifting the focus away from the metropolitan centers usually studied. He successfully demonstrates how the label 'Indian middle class' could only ever refer to a growing but fractured social formation. A timely and significant book." -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies * The University of Chicago *
£74.70
Stanford University Press Timepass
Book SynopsisTimepass is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face.Trade Review"Craig Jeffrey engages the classic questions on the relation between time, modernity, and discipline yet turns conventional wisdom on its head in this inspiring, witty, and deeply thoughtful book. Combining meticulous field research with a theoretical analysis of the highest order, he opens new pathways for understanding the intersection of neoliberal economy, democratic politics, and the sociality of masculinity in India. The book is a must read for those interested in contemporary India and in critical political theory." -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor * Johns Hopkins University *"In this gracefully written book, Craig Jeffrey draws on fine ethnography to explore the little understood world of Indian youth, for long largely neglected by scholars, illuminating what it means to be a young man with aspirations and limited opportunities in today's India. A tour de force." -- John Harriss, Professor and Director of International Studies * Simon Fraser University *"Craig Jeffrey's lucid and insightful ethnography of young men of Meerut both challenges and helps refine our understanding of power and privilege in India by shifting the focus away from the metropolitan centers usually studied. He successfully demonstrates how the label 'Indian middle class' could only ever refer to a growing but fractured social formation. A timely and significant book." -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies * The University of Chicago *
£17.99
Stanford University Press When Half Is Whole
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the significant strengths of this work is its accessibility . . . This timely work will serve to promote a better understanding of how human beings and cultures can transcend the boundaries and limitations placed upon them." -- Gywnn Gacosta * Asian Affairs> *"Exploring the complex issue of identity among mixed-race Asians has been [Murphy-Shigematus's] life work. With subtleness and great empathy he guides us through what he calls 'the borderlands' where transnational and multiethnic identities are formed . . . For the exploding numbers of mixed race Americans, When Half is Whole offers up a wide range of role models, characters who defy societal expectations and forge hybrid identities that empower rather than diminish them." -- Nancy Matsumoto * Discover Nikkei *"Murphy-Shigematsu's background and relationships have allowed him to write a book that is, on one level, a rigorous study of race that spans two continents, but that reads like a memoir. Even as it tackles complex cultural, historical, and psychological issues, it never becomes dry or academic, because it grounds its points firmly in the stories of people's lives. And while the writing is clear, engaging, and deeply personal, it is also incredibly objective and even-handed." -- Ben Hamamoto * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Murphy-Shigematsu explores our exponentially growing Hapa demographic with personal insight and fearless self-examination. Both rigorous and graceful, this book is smart, readable, and very needed." -- Kip Fulbeck * author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa *"What a moving and thought-provoking book! Brilliantly nuanced, searingly honest, and beautifully written, When Half Is Whole raises profound, often uncomfortable questions about race, identity, and the search for human connection. I couldn't put it down." -- Amy Chua * Yale Law School Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall *"When Half Is Whole is a beautiful book, a near-perfect bridge of genres, scholarly in its insights and the knowledge base from which it proceeds, but rich in stories and the voices of mixed-race, complicatedly Asian individuals. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu tells their stories in prose that is like cool water running down hill. I read the book in one sitting. I will surely read it again when I need its wisdom, or when I just want to enjoy the company of Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's unique voice." -- Paul Spickard, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Part memoir, part oral history, and part ethnography, this volume transcends distinctions among literary and social science genres much as its subjects' lives transcend racial, sexual, and national boundaries. This is a deeply moving and groundbreaking work." -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director, Center for Race and Gender, University of California * Berkeley *"When Half Is Whole is a fascinating, constantly-surprising guided journey through the varied, complex worlds of multiethnic Asian Americans. Murphy-Shigematsu writes with a subtle, engaging style that sometimes verges on poetry." -- Carlos E. Cortés * author of Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time *"In this engaging and powerful book, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu skillfully uses his own experience as a biracial individual as a springboard to construct incisive and penetrating narratives that describe how biracial Asian Americans compose their lives and deal creatively with the pains and promises of living within and across borders and boundaries. This is a significant, timely, and needed book that will become an essential reference in the field of race and ethnic studies." -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington * Seattle *"A fascinating and moving portrait of how individuals reflect upon, navigate, and reconcile multiple, and at times contradictory, social identities based on notions of race, ethnicity, and nationality. The individuals profiled here resist existing categories and boundaries by fashioning their own unique hybrid identities—ones that give meaning and purpose to their lives." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"Murphy-Shigematsu's sensitive, revealing inquiry into the multiethnic experience of Asian-Americans succeeds both as a comprehensive ethnic studies volume and an enlightening memoir of pushing back against categorizing humans with singular, rather than multiple identities." -- Publishers Weekly
£70.55
Stanford University Press When Half Is Whole Multiethnic Asian American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the significant strengths of this work is its accessibility . . . This timely work will serve to promote a better understanding of how human beings and cultures can transcend the boundaries and limitations placed upon them." -- Gywnn Gacosta * Asian Affairs> *"Exploring the complex issue of identity among mixed-race Asians has been [Murphy-Shigematus's] life work. With subtleness and great empathy he guides us through what he calls 'the borderlands' where transnational and multiethnic identities are formed . . . For the exploding numbers of mixed race Americans, When Half is Whole offers up a wide range of role models, characters who defy societal expectations and forge hybrid identities that empower rather than diminish them." -- Nancy Matsumoto * Discover Nikkei *"Murphy-Shigematsu's background and relationships have allowed him to write a book that is, on one level, a rigorous study of race that spans two continents, but that reads like a memoir. Even as it tackles complex cultural, historical, and psychological issues, it never becomes dry or academic, because it grounds its points firmly in the stories of people's lives. And while the writing is clear, engaging, and deeply personal, it is also incredibly objective and even-handed." -- Ben Hamamoto * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Murphy-Shigematsu explores our exponentially growing Hapa demographic with personal insight and fearless self-examination. Both rigorous and graceful, this book is smart, readable, and very needed." -- Kip Fulbeck * author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa *"What a moving and thought-provoking book! Brilliantly nuanced, searingly honest, and beautifully written, When Half Is Whole raises profound, often uncomfortable questions about race, identity, and the search for human connection. I couldn't put it down." -- Amy Chua * Yale Law School Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall *"When Half Is Whole is a beautiful book, a near-perfect bridge of genres, scholarly in its insights and the knowledge base from which it proceeds, but rich in stories and the voices of mixed-race, complicatedly Asian individuals. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu tells their stories in prose that is like cool water running down hill. I read the book in one sitting. I will surely read it again when I need its wisdom, or when I just want to enjoy the company of Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's unique voice." -- Paul Spickard, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Part memoir, part oral history, and part ethnography, this volume transcends distinctions among literary and social science genres much as its subjects' lives transcend racial, sexual, and national boundaries. This is a deeply moving and groundbreaking work." -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director, Center for Race and Gender, University of California * Berkeley *"When Half Is Whole is a fascinating, constantly-surprising guided journey through the varied, complex worlds of multiethnic Asian Americans. Murphy-Shigematsu writes with a subtle, engaging style that sometimes verges on poetry." -- Carlos E. Cortés * author of Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time *"In this engaging and powerful book, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu skillfully uses his own experience as a biracial individual as a springboard to construct incisive and penetrating narratives that describe how biracial Asian Americans compose their lives and deal creatively with the pains and promises of living within and across borders and boundaries. This is a significant, timely, and needed book that will become an essential reference in the field of race and ethnic studies." -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington * Seattle *"A fascinating and moving portrait of how individuals reflect upon, navigate, and reconcile multiple, and at times contradictory, social identities based on notions of race, ethnicity, and nationality. The individuals profiled here resist existing categories and boundaries by fashioning their own unique hybrid identities—ones that give meaning and purpose to their lives." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"Murphy-Shigematsu's sensitive, revealing inquiry into the multiethnic experience of Asian-Americans succeeds both as a comprehensive ethnic studies volume and an enlightening memoir of pushing back against categorizing humans with singular, rather than multiple identities." -- Publishers Weekly
£17.99
Stanford University Press Making Tea Making Japan
Book SynopsisThe tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here she offers the first comprehensive analysis of the practice that includes new material on its historical changes, a detailed excavation of its institutional organization, and a careful examination of what she terms nation-work-the labor that connects the national meanings of a cultural practice and the actual experience and enactment of it. She concludes by placing tea ceremony in comparative perspective, drawiTrade Review"Surak's Making Tea, Making Japan is one of the most astute studies of the ceremony to appear in decades. Beyond tea aficionados, Surak's book should be read by scholars and students of culture and nationalism because Surak's main contribution is showing how these two fields of embodied culture and nationalism are so deeply intermeshed in the practice of tea."—Eric C. Rath, Journal of Japanese Studies"The author gives a wealth of detail on the tea ceremony itself . . . Tea captures the essence of Japanese-ness as well as the virtue of the East Asian mentality. Surak writes in a compelling way about how Japanese intellectuals used tea to emblemize Japan's role as the last repository of East Asian culture, which was at risk of falling prey to the 'White Disaster' . . . [Making Tea, Making the State] offers a useful account of how tea culture permeates Japanese history and contemporary society."—Danielle Kane, American Journal of Sociology"Kristin Surak's elegantly written analysis of the tea ceremony is an excellent addition to the literature on cultural nationalism . . . [T]his book is a meticulous study of tea. Surak resists the temptation of falling into clichés and offers a vibrant analysis of the practice through historical reconstruction, institutional analysis, ethnographic inquiry, and phenomenological description . . . Surak's study is theoretically innovative and essential for sociologists and anthropologists."—Stephanie Assmann, Social History"A regrettable schizophrenia characterizes the study of nationalism, with macro and micro analysts rarely engaging rival views. Hence, Kristin Surak's book is a theoretical breakthrough, showing the changing functions and social bearers of a single ritual over a long and troubled historical record. Elegantly written and extraordinarily argued."—John A. Hall, James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology, McGill University"Kristin Surak's fine study unpacks the social and historical context of tea and its ceremonial preparation as a highly illustrative case in point of nationalized cultural production and representation. Deftly crossing disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, sociology, and history, Making Tea, Making Japan is a well-crafted and interpretively provocative book that anyone with an interest in Japanese society and the theoretical dynamics of nationalism will find fascinating . . . [B]eautifully written and lucidly argued, the book offers much of value for scholars and students of modern Japan and the cultural manifestations of national identity there and in other parts of the world."—Erik Esselstrom, Histoire sociale / Social History"If you were ever curious about just what makes the tea ceremony such a Japanese thing, then Kristin Surak's book, Making Tea, Making Japan, should answer your questions from all possible angles. . . Surak's passion and love for the topic emanate from the pages. . . This is not a simple guidebook to enchant novices and teach them the basic steps to get started in the Japanese ritual of 'tea'. Surak's comprehensive research will take those interested deep into the practice's background and allow them to see the tea ceremony as a window into the soul of Japanese national identity. "—Metropolis"The book uses historical analysis to show how tea became an important measure of national competence, and ethnographic analysis to show how the processes of differentiation occur. All this is achieved in elegant prose that is a joy to read."—Chris Perkins, H-Net"Surak's greatest strength is her awareness of the factors that inform the tea ceremony's central place in Japanese society, from commercial structures allowing the seamless delivery of the objects and architecture of tea anywhere on the globe, to the casual use of history—not always accurate—deployed in a Sunday lesson. . . Surak's book offers a scholarly story of choreography and commercialization and will find its way into future dissertations and onto the shelves of school libraries."—Dana Buntrock, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review"Making tea for a guest in Japan is a highly encultured act, demanding much more than a pour of hot water over powdered tea. Kristin Surak has plumbed the depths of the practice and demonstrated the enduring meanings of tea for Japanese performers of the craft."—Merry White, Boston University"Kristin Surak's richly contextualized study shows in vivid detail how and why tea came to be, and remains, such a strong carrier of nation in Japan, at once performance and product. Sociologists in particular will not want to miss the fine ethnographic investigation of the tea ceremony in contemporary Japan."—Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University"Surak's careful ethnography and clear theoretical analysis demonstrate the historical role of the tea ceremony in constructing and defining the nation, but she also shows how it is an important part of the slightly different work of maintaining and explicating Japanese-ness. Through careful ethnographic details she shows how the tea ceremony is embodied in ways both gendered and historically contingent; how it is used to distinguish Japanese from other Asians, Asia from the West, 'good' Japanese from others who are less good; and how it is carried not only in performative bodies but in places/spaces. This often fascinating and lively study of chanoyu draws the reader through these various, and intertwined, processes over Japan's recent historical past, unpacking a rich trove of material artefacts, rituals, and texts."—Sarah Corse, University of Virginia"Kristin Surak's excellent work, Making Tea, Making Japan, provides an eye-opening survey of the history and practice of chanoyu that reveals the tea world's institutional frameworks and patterns of authority, physical and material aspects of its training and practice, and its representation to general audiences."— Nancy Stalker, Monumenta Nipponica
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