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Book SynopsisBringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, MexicoTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminicidio: The "Black Legend" of the Border (Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán) Part One. Interventions 1. Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras: Linking Corporate Indifference to Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Elvia R. Arriola) 2. Poor Brown Female: The Miller's Compensation for "Free" Trade (Alicia Gaspar de Alba) 3. Ghost Dance in Ciudad Juárez at the End/Beginning of the Millennium (María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) 4. Gender, Order, and Femicide: Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juárez (Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck) Part Two. ¡Ni Una Más! 5. Binational Civic Action for Accountability: Antiviolence Organizing in Ciudad Juárez/El Paso (Kathleen Staudt and Irasema Coronado) 6. The Suffering of the Other (Julia E. Monárrez-Fragoso) 7. The V-Day March in Mexico: Appropriation and Misuse of Local Women's Activism (Clara E. Rojas) 8. Femicide, Mother-Activism, and the Geography of Protest in Northern Mexico (Melissa W. Wright) Part Three. Testimonios 9. "The Morgue Was Really from the Dark Ages": Insights from a Forensic Psychologist (Candice Skrapec) 10."We'll See Who Wins" (Eva Arce) 11. "The Government Has Tried to Divide Us" (Paula Flores) 12. Las Hijas de Juárez: Not an Urban Legend (Rigo Maldonado) Afterword: Goddess Murder and Gynocide in Ciudad Juárez (Jane Caputi) Appendix A: Selected Binational Timeline of the Juárez Femicides Appendix B: The Juárez Femicides in Print, Film, and Music: A Partial List Notes on Contributors Index Reprints and Permissions

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Book SynopsisA fascinating look at seven American, Canadian, and English women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved popular success in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work is sTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette": Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair 2. "Brains are really everything": Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3. "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra": Mae West as Author 4. "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island": L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Early Hollywood 5. "The best product of this century": Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph 6. "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm 7. "Wildest hopes exceeded": E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis In Gondal’s Queen, Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford presents a cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tragedy to those who loved her. Thanks to previous publications by Ratchford, the imaginative world of Gondal is well known not only to Brontë scholars but also to general readers. Only in the present book, however, with Emily’s lovely poems restored to the setting which gave them being, can the full impact of this extraordinary literary creation be realized. The life story of Gondal’s Queen, from portentous birth to tragic death, is set in a world compounded of dark Gothic romance and Byronic extravagance; yet out of it emerges not only a real country of wild moor sheep and piercingly beautiful nights but also the porTable of Contents Introduction The Argument Dramatis Personae Geographical Background Chapter I: The Birth of a Princess Chapter II: Love Dawns Chapter III: Alexander, Lord of Elbë Chapter IV: The Lady of Aspin Castle Chapter V: Julius Again Chapter VI: Conquest Chapter VII: Revenge Chapter VIII: Crumbling of an Empire Chapter IX: The Fugitive Chapter X: Fifteen Wild Decembers Chapter XI: Fernando De Samara Chapter XII: The Death of a Queen Appendix I: Emily Brontë’s Poems Pertaining to the Republican-Royalist War in Gondal Appendix II: Emily and Anne Brontë’s Prose Notes Index of First Lines General Index

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Book SynopsisA woman's memoir rich with details of the frontier era in Texas.Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it take for a woman to succeed as a writer? In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias íntimas, ten of Latin America''s most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena García Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have shaped their writing careers.The authors interviewed are Isabel Allende, Albalucía Angel, Rosario Ferré, Margo Glantz, Sylvia Molloy, Elvira Orphée, Elena Poniatowska, Marta Traba, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ida Vitale. In intimate dialogues with each author, García Pinto draws out the formative experiences of her youth, tracing the pilgrimage that led each to a distinguished writing career.The writers also reflect on their published writings, discussing the creative process in general and the motivating force behind individual works. They candidly discuss the problems they have faced in writing and the strategies that enabTrade ReviewThese are some of the best interviews with writers I have read, not just tools to be used by the critic to glean facts or insights that can then be applied to the 'real' object, the literary text, but textured, nutty, flavorful stories, a pleasure to read for their own sake. Passages from each writer's work are woven into the text so that we move between stories about reading to our own readings of their texts and are left wanting more. * Signs *... a fine introduction to voices that—aside from Isabel Allende's—remain largely unknown here. * Washington Post Book World *These are candid, intimate, wonderfully structured interviews, whose impressive impact reveals the interviewer's considerable skill, as well as her thorough knowledge of the writings of her subjects.... Highly recommended... * Choice *Table of Contents Preface Women’s Writing in Contemporary Latin American Literature The Interviews Isabel Allende Albalucía Angel Rosario Ferré Margo Glantz Sylvia Molloy Elvira Orphée Elena Poniatowska Marta Traba Luisa Valenzuela Ida Vitale Selected Published Works Index

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Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, the contributors to this volume offer the first extensive study of the private and public roles of mothers in the Classical worTrade ReviewA recent collection of essays on motherhood and mothering in antiquity, Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, reminds us that questions about what it means to be a mother were also present in ancient Greek and Roman societies, despite some significant differences. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Public and Private Faces of Mothering and Motherhood in Classical Antiquity (Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell) 2. Maternity and Miasma: Dress and the Transition from Parthenos to Gunē (Mireille M. Lee) 3. Motherhood as Teleia: Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine (Angela Taraskiewicz) 4. Collaboration and Conflict: Discourses of Maternity in Hippocratic Gynecology and Embryology (Yurie Hong) 5. Citizen-Mothers on the Tragic Stage (Angeliki Tzanetou) 6. Working Girls: Mother–Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes (Anise K. Strong) 7. Tenderness or Taboo: Images of Breast-Feeding Mothers in Greek and Latin Literature (Patricia Salzman-Mitchell) 8. Mater Patriae: Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood (Prudence Jones) 9. Mater Amoris: Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome (Genevieve Liveley) 10. Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro: Mothers in Flavian Epic (Antony Augoustakis) 11. Imperial Mothers and Monuments in Rome (Margaret L. Woodhull) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women’s writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide.Trade ReviewAmerican Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism overall is a significant and distinctive contribution to the existing discourse...the survey of manifold topics is precisely what creates the primary strength of the book; it makes the book an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the complexity of the discourse surrounding and produced by American Muslim women. * Journal of American Academy of Religion *Table of Contents Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction A Woman-Led Friday Prayer: March 18, 2005 Women Leading Prayers: Tracing the Debate Gender Justice and Qur'anic Exegesis History, Women's Rights, and Islamic Law Authority, Tradition, Community Space, Leadership, Voice Media, Representation(s), Politics Memoirs, Narratives, and Marketing Covers and Other Matters: Concluding Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of America’s leading interpreters of the Chicana experience dismantles the discourses that “frame” women who rebel against patriarchal strictures as “bad women” and offers empowering models of struggle, resistance, and rebirth.Trade Review"With a convincing methodology and well-presented material, the book undoubtedly is a valuable contribution that increases the visibility of the variety of feminisms beyond the predominance of Western points of view. It is an innovative book and it is definitely recommended to students of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies." * Critical Reviews on Latin American Research *Table of ContentsPreface: Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa, in Gratitude for Your Tongues of FireAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Activist Scholarship and the Historical Vortex of the “Bad Woman”1. The Politics of Location of La Décima Musa: Prelude to an InterviewInterview with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz2. Malinche’s Revenge3. There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Homeland Myths and Embodied Aesthetics4. Coyolxauhqui and Las "Maqui-Locas”: Re-Membering the Sacrificed Daughters of Ciudad Juárez5. Mapping the Labyrinth: The Anti–Detective Novel and the Mysterious Missing Brother6. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Inquisition Continues7. The Sor Juana ChroniclesEpilogue: To Your Shadow-Beast: In MemoriamNotesBibliographyReprint PermissionsIndex

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Book SynopsisRosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.Trade Review... Castellanos has not been accorded the recognition she deserves as this century's foremost Latin American feminist thinker. [This book] seeks to remedy that. * Review: Latin American Literature and Art *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs Contexts Poetry: Silences and Otherness Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos The Appropriation of Signs: Intertexts and Subtexts Fiction: Under a Man’s Hand Essays: Writing Her Self The Eternal Feminine: Destroying the Myths Notes Works Cited Rosario Castellanos: A Basic Bibliography of Her Writing A Select Bibliography of Rosario Castellanos Criticism Poetry, translated by Maureen Ahern Silence Near an Ancient Stone To a Tiny Mayan Badger The Other Monologue of a Foreign Woman Routine Presence Passage Consciousness Metamorphosis of the Sorceress Chess Brief Chronicle Malinche Memorandum on Tlatelolco Self-Portrait Speaking of Gabriel Home Economics Learning about Things Postscript You Are Not Poetry Re: Mutilations Meditation on the Brink Kinsey Report Looking at the Mona Lisa Nobodying Nazareth Short Fiction The Eagle, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Three Knots in the Net, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Fleeting Friendships, translated by Lesley Salas The Widower Román, translated by Ruth Peacock Cooking Lesson, translated by Maureen Ahern Essays Incident at Yalentay, translated by Maureen Ahern Once Again Sor Juana, translated by Maureen Ahern An Attempt at Self-Criticism, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Discrimination in the United States and in Chiapas, translated by Maureen Ahern A Man of Destiny, translated by Maureen Ahern Woman and Her Image, translated by Maureen Ahern The Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman, translated by Maureen Ahern Language as an Instrument of Domination, translated by Maureen Ahern If Not Poetry, Then What?Translated by Maureen Ahern Self-Sacrifice Is a Mad Virtue, translated by Laura Carp Solomon The Liberation of Love, translated by Laura Carp Solomon Herlinda Leaves, translated by Maureen Ahern TheaterThe Eternal Feminine, translated by Diane E. Marting and Betty Tyree Osiek Notes Notes on the Editor and the Translators Index Permissions

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes.Trade Review. . . original and provocative . . . Martha Nell Smith convincingly answers those who continue to ask why Dickinson did not publish more while she was alive. The author also offers a revisionist interpretation of the relationship between the poet and her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert Dickinson, whose role in both the poetic process and subsequent publication of Dickinson’s work she contends is much more significant than critics to date believe. * Belles Lettres *Table of Contents Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources Acknowledgments Introduction 1. To Fill a Gap: Erasures, Disguises, Definitions 2. Rowing in Eden: Reading Dickinson Reading 3. All Men Say “What” to Me: Sexual Identity and Problems of Literary Creativity 4. With the Exception of Shakespeare: Reconstructing Dickinson’s Relationship with Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson 5. To Be Susan Is Imagination: Dickinson’s Poetry Workshop 6. Fame is a Fickle Food: “Sister Sue” as Producer of Poems Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century.Trade ReviewShari Benstock... weaves together, with great skill, the histories of an extraordinary group of talented women--publishers like Sylvia Beach, Caresse Crosby, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, novelists Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Edith Wharton. She examines in some depth the writing produced by poets, journalists and novelists, thus combining literary criticism and social history in a seamless running narrative.... A valuable and intriguing book. -- Doris Grumbach * National Public Radio *Benstock has made visible the women of the Left Bank (1900-40) and in doing so has forced a redefinition of what literary modernism was, who was important in it, and how it is to be defined.... Modernism as we will understand it for a long time to come will be defined by Benstock's book... * Choice *Women of the Left Bank is perhaps the most exciting book I’ve held in my hands all fall. It details and describes the lives (and relationships) of a community of women in Paris (1900-1940) that strongly parallels the feminist writing, publishing, thought-shaking community of our own times... * Feminist Bookstore News *... presents the women who left their enduring mark on the cultural milieu of a nation. Through their writings, including unpublished and newly available documentary sources of the period, Djuna Barnes, Nancy Cunard, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and others are revealed as significant in the development of modernism, imagism and other avant-garde movements in which they were overshadowed or ignored by their male counterparts.... Benstock tracks the sexually liberated lifestyles and the creative originality of these women with a wealth of documentation. * Publishers Weekly *Superbly crafted, at once painstaking and daring, this book will make it impossible to consider Modernism henceforth apart from the important and problematic work of such American women as Gertrude Stein, H.D., Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes, as well as the various contributions of Sylvia Beach, Natalie Barney, and others.... The book is an inspiration, setting a standard for literary history and feminist criticism that will be difficult to surpass. * American Literature *Table of Contents Preface Part I. Discoveries 1. Women of the Left Bank 2. Secret Passages: The Faubourg St. Germain 3. Simultaneous Existences: Four Lives in St. Germain 4. From the Left Bank to the Upper East Side: Janet Flanner's Letter from Paris Part II. Settlements 5. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: Rue de Fleurus 6. Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier: Rue de l'Odéon 7. Djuna Barnes: Rue St.-Romain 8. Natalie Barney: Rue Jacob Part III. Crossroads 9. H. D. and Bryher: En passant 10. At the Sign of the Printing Press: The Role of Small Presses and Little Magazines 11. Paris Transfer: The 1930s 12. The City They Left Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisA study of women's writings that offer counter-readings of familiar Western narratives.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Acts of Disobedience Part One. Engaging Mythologies 1. In the Beginning: Revisiting the Garden 2. Twice Upon a Time Part Two. Reaching past the "New Eden" 3. Resisting American Mythologies: Individualism and Sentiment Part Three. Telling Tales 4. One's Own Story 5. Of Hester and Offred Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and welcome intervention is Deboleena Roy's book, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. Thinking about the connections and potential created between molecular biology and feminism, and philosophy and science, Roy thinks with philosophy [and] situates her work, which she names molecular feminisms, in the ontological and ethical reorientations made possible by thinking matter, ethics, and knowledge-making practices together." * Hypatia Reviews Online *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The significant impact of this book is that it has not only sharpened gender sensitivity but also heightened awareness of the immensely complex challenges of diversity management in India as a whole. . . . It will be a reference point for much future research." -- Vineeth Mathoor * South Asia Research *"Gupta adds to overall Dalit and global feminist scholarship a rich and dense analysis of texts and contexts to unpack the 'biopolitics of caste.' It is an engaging example of interdisciplinary work focused on close readings of print and popular culture representations from colonial India, including present-day representations, that construct, contest, revise, and influence narratives of gender and caste." -- Veena Deo * Journal of Asian Studies *"Charu Gupta has made her contribution in the field of historical research at the intersection of gender and caste in India widely acclaimed. . . .This book serves as a timely reminder for gender scholars working on colonial India that gendering is experienced by all bodies, and hence the time has come to question the central subjectivity of women in most works." -- Arpita Chakraborty, Dublin City University, Ireland * Religion and Gender *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gendering Dalits 1. Dirty “Other” Vamp: (Mis)Representing Dalit Women 2. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy, and Subservience 3. Dalit Viranganas: (En)Gendering the Dalit Reinvention of 1857 4. Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities 5. Intimate and Embodied Desires: Religious Conversions and Dalit Women 6. Goddesses and Women’s Songs: Negotiating Dalit Popular Religion and Culture 7. Caste, Indentured Women, and the Hindi Public Sphere Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPrevious studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (16441911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not bTrade Review"It’s a comprehensive and convincing look at footbinding as a whole that will serve as an invaluable resource for further research on the practice, especially in Taiwan." * Taipei Times *"In his meticulously researched and elegantly argued book Footbinding as Fashion, John Shepherd has made a major contribution by introducing a new body of evidence, the 1905 and 1915 censuses conducted by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Shepherd provides insight in his book as he draws from historical records from diverse areas and times in China and Taiwan to illuminate the practice...It is now difficult to getfirsthand data about the practice from footbound women. Shepherd, however, has produced a highly detailed, historical account of footbinding in China." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"[A]n excellent book and contributes greatly to the literature on footbinding. It is comprehensive in its scope and innovative in its methodology and style of analysis. Above all, it is creative and convincing in its approaches and conclusions and in contributing to theoretical understandings of this custom." * Asian Ethnology *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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Book SynopsisThe hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (18841934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. His graphic works include leftist and antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, wrenching portrayals of Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and fashionable images of beautiful womenreferred to as Yumeji-style beautiesin books and magazines that targeted a new demographic of young female consumers. Yumeji also played a key role in the reinvention of the woodblock medium. As his art and designs proliferated in Japan's mass media, Yumeji became a recognizable brand. In the first full-length English-language study of Yumeji's work, Nozomi Naoi examines the artist's role in shaping modern Japanese identity. Addressing his output from the start of his career in 1905 to the 1920s, when his productivity peaked, Yumeji Modern introduces for the first time in English translation a substantial body of Yumeji's texts, inTrade Review"Naoi’s book is both an outstanding and accessible art history book." * New Books in East Asian Studies (NBN) *"Impeccably researched, with copious notes and an invaluable bibliography, this book is required reading for those interested in Japanese art and culture." * Choice *"Naoi’s book should establish Yumeji in the English-reading world as one of the most salient creators and personalities of his time... That this most elusive of figures nevertheless remains so in many ways suggests that Yumeji needs several more studies at least. Nozomi Naoi has achieved the laudable goal of launching this endeavorfor scholars writing in English." * Monumenta Nipponica *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fashionable Century is not only deft in its writing and visual analysis, but this well-written book is itself a beautiful object." * New Books in East Asian Studies (NBN) *"[R]eaders with passion about China and women’s fashions in the late Qing dynasty will get a lot out of this book. The book’s contribution to the discussions about the changes in China’s society, economy, and culture during the nineteenth century is vital and goes far beyond classic scholar literature." * Journal of Dress History *"[M]eticulously researched, carefully argued, and beautifully illustrated." * Journal of Chinese History *"An important contribution to the study of art and society in the late Qing...[B]ut because Silberstein [is] breaking new methodological ground, [this] work should be of interest beyond the bounds of China studies. It is to be hoped that readers interested in fashion history in other parts of the world will read and learn from this book and its innovative approach." * Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS) *"An indispensable resource for Qing fashion and material culture." * NAN NÜ *"Pioneering... Take[s] the reader deep into some little-known areas of late Qing society." * Etudes Chinoises *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nisei Radicals is an important addition to Asian American history texts and creates likable heroes out of Yasutake and Yamada." * International Examiner *"All in all, Nisei Radicals is not only a book well worth reading as a joint biography of two remarkable Nikkei, but I hope will act as a springboard for larger discussions of social justice." * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Nisei Radicals offers a model for historical biography…The lives [Fujino] portrays offer a model of how to make activism sustainable, most notably, by staying in community and partnering with like-minded others to fight for justice." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Close reading and interpretation of the language of the tale is one of The Empress in the Pepper Chamber's greatest accomplishments, which allow Milburn to carry out the most definitive proof yet of the dating of Zhao Feiyan waizhuan...The fine distinctions Milburn makes in her examination of language and objects of material culture are examples of topnotch scholarship." * Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China *"In this slim volume, Olivia Milburn introduces an important "alternative history" of one of the most fascinating women in Chinese history...The Empress in the Pepper Chamber is a tremendous contribution to the field." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Close reading and interpretation of the language of the tale is one of The Empress in the Pepper Chamber's greatest accomplishments, which allow Milburn to carry out the most definitive proof yet of the dating of Zhao Feiyan waizhuan...The fine distinctions Milburn makes in her examination of language and objects of material culture are examples of topnotch scholarship." * Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China *"In this slim volume, Olivia Milburn introduces an important "alternative history" of one of the most fascinating women in Chinese history...The Empress in the Pepper Chamber is a tremendous contribution to the field." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With memories and stories at the forefront, the book is a magisterial contribution to the discipline of anthropology." * North American Congress on Latin America *"For those designing undergraduate and graduate courses in Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies and seeking readings that present innovative methodological and epistemological contributions, Hilda Lloréns’ Making Livable Worlds is highly recommended. The work invites spirited and engaging classroom discussions that promote expanded thinking in written work. Beyond the classroom, Lloréns’s methodology and nuanced treatment of too often simplified contested concepts make all-important contributions to these fields of study. Her serious attention to the daily work and interventions of Black and Afro-Puerto Rican women to make livable worlds in the here and now and for coming generations addresses gaping holes in environmental justice-minded Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies" * Latinx Project, New York University *"The primary strength of Lloréns’s book rests in the intimacy that she brings to excavating the troubling environmental injustices Black Puerto Rican women have to live under even as they struggle against marginalization...Making Livable Worlds is a timely and necessary examination of the growing crisis in environmental justice and other cultural issues such as gender, race, and the effects of colonialism." * Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Powerful and beautifully written, Making Livable Worlds opens an ecofeminist archive that invites researchers to extend this kind of study to other islands. It also provides inspiration on how to undertake this task with such methods as autoethnography, which will hopefully become more ingrained in the toolbox of young Caribbeanist scholars. One of the most important attributes of this work is that we hear through Lloréns myriad voices presented not as heroines or victims but as women making the best out of their imposed dispossession." * H-Environment *"Lloréns’ ambitious book skillfully weaves her personal and her family history with the histories of other Black Puerto Rican women in the coastal southeast part of Puerto Rico." * Latino Studies *"Scholars of social reproduction and the solidarity economy will find Lloréns’s case study useful for understanding how alternative economic logics develop and flourish under adversity." * H-Caribbean *"[P]rovides valuable insight on how capitalism, slavery, matriarchal dispossession, ecological crises, and colonization relate to Afro-Puerto Rican women’s lives, and models liberatory responses to these oppressive circumstances, empowering the reader to engage in further action toward similar goals of collective liberation." * Feminist Pedagogy *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a must read for anyone who would like to understand how gendered norms impact choices made by individual women and how the personal is necessarily political and social at the same time. As the book is well written and easy to read, it can serve not just other scholars but can also be adopted to universities as teaching material for undergraduate courses on gender and South East Asian studies. Phinney’s book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on women in Vietnam as it manages to be free from essentialistic interpretations of Vietnamese women while acknowledging the frameworks that have contributed to gendered sexual norms." * South East Asia Research *"Single Mothers and the State's Embrace makes a significant contribution to our understanding of kinship and gender in postwar Vietnam. Phinney's longitudinal perspective beautifully illuminates how individuals make choices within social contexts; society comes to identify those choices as categories of action and being; government renders the categories legible through discourse and policy; and the resulting interpellation shapes individuals’ subjectivity and future action." * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *"This well-crafted and soundly argued study is a must-read for scholars interested in Vietnamese women’s reactions to social norms and state policies." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a must read for anyone who would like to understand how gendered norms impact choices made by individual women and how the personal is necessarily political and social at the same time. As the book is well written and easy to read, it can serve not just other scholars but can also be adopted to universities as teaching material for undergraduate courses on gender and South East Asian studies. Phinney’s book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on women in Vietnam as it manages to be free from essentialistic interpretations of Vietnamese women while acknowledging the frameworks that have contributed to gendered sexual norms." * South East Asia Research *"Single Mothers and the State's Embrace makes a significant contribution to our understanding of kinship and gender in postwar Vietnam. Phinney's longitudinal perspective beautifully illuminates how individuals make choices within social contexts; society comes to identify those choices as categories of action and being; government renders the categories legible through discourse and policy; and the resulting interpellation shapes individuals’ subjectivity and future action." * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *"This well-crafted and soundly argued study is a must-read for scholars interested in Vietnamese women’s reactions to social norms and state policies." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Paradoxes of Assimilation 2. Seductive Secularization 3. America, Freedom, and Assimilation 4. The Sexual Politics of Jewish Identity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUsing the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis.Trade Review"Missing the Breast is a valuable contribution not only to German Studies but also to gender and media studies. Although his analysis also stretches back to Greek myth and looks forward to Philip Roth's The Breast . . . Richter consistently ties these varied topics to the discourse of the breast in Enlightenment Germany. He ultimately convinces the reader of the literary and semantic importance of the breast in the patriarchal order." * German Studies Review *"Sinuously pleasurable prose. . . . Richter's argument is plausible, thought-provoking, and intellectually stimulating. Missing the Breast will cause scholars to rethink gender and literature not only in the eighteenth-century central European tradition, but also in the West in general." * Monatshefte *"Richter convincingly brings insights from previous chapters to illuminate the dynamics and issues in these contemporary texts. Richter's writing is accessible and all quotations are in English..Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Men With Breasts, Women Without 1. Breasts on a Platter and the Bosom of Jesus: The Parameters of Fantasy 2. Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and the Breast 3. Ut in pene: The Medical and Moral Discourses of the Breast 4. Wieland's Busted Tropes 5. Sophie von La Roche and the Communities of the Breast 6. Revealing the Phallus, Concealing the Breast: The Revolutionary Fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber 7. The Breast in Ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the Language of the Breast 8. Being the Breast, Being Without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena Metzger Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of Women Painters of WashingtonTrade Review"A fitting tribute to an important local arts organization. Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWith charm, humor, and deep understanding, this book tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II.Trade Review"Sone reminds us that the anti-Japanese sentiment and threat of war [was] looming over them . . . but it doesn’t stop the family members from going forward with their lives – showing the kind of strength we all wish we had." -- Samantha Pak * Northwest Asian Weekly *"Rare is the book with staying power like that of Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter. . . . The book also owes its appeal to the immediacy of its narrative, to its incisive, unsentimental portraits of family and friends, and finally, to the author’s own abundant humanity." -- Greg Lewis * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *

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Trade Review"A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother’s narrative. . . She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China." -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs *"This book offers invaluable insights into the social history of rural China from a peasant perspective. Indeed, it reflects China’s history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and does so in a much more nuanced way than other Chinese memoirs available on the Western book market." * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China *"Chen Huiqin’s memoir, Daughter of Good Fortune, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century." * Twentieth-Century China *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments by Shehong Chen Introduction by Delia Davin 1. Ancestral Home 2. War and Revolution 3. Benefiting from the New Marriage Law 4. Rushing into Collective Life 5. The Great Leap Forward 6. “No Time for Meals All Year Round” 7. Years of Ordeal 8. Reaching Beyond Peasant Life 9. Changes in the Family 10. Farewell to Collective Life 11. Rural Customs and Urban Life 12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy 13. Crossing Borders and Leaving the Ancestral Village 14. Between the Living and the Dead 15. All Our Children Are “Plump Seeds” 16. Return to Ancestral Land Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What makes Starbuck's biography such a gem is that it conveys Wolf's unique and quirky personality. We come to love her fighting spirit, her humor, and her commitment. . . . Wolf enjoyed her life immensely. And, thanks to Starbuck, so did I." -- Stuart J. McElderry * Open Spaces *"Here is an autobiographical model for downhearted naturalists who may need an infusion of hope and stamina to continue to work for a clean environment." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part 1 / Reading for Adventures: 1898-1914 Part 2 / Fighting for Survival: 1914-1931 Part 3 / Communist: 1931-1948 Part 4 / Fighting Back: 1949-1976 Part 5 / Environmentalist: 1964-2000 Part 6 / One Neighborhood: 1984-2000 Epilogue Appendixes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A faithful and meticulous transcription of her mother’s narrative. . . She has done a great service not only to Chen Huiqin, but also to readers who would like to understand the transformation of village life currently underway in China." -- Richard King * Pacific Affairs *"This book offers invaluable insights into the social history of rural China from a peasant perspective. Indeed, it reflects China’s history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and does so in a much more nuanced way than other Chinese memoirs available on the Western book market." * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China *"Chen Huiqin’s memoir, Daughter of Good Fortune, provides a rare glimpse of life in rural China during the twentieth century." * Twentieth-Century China *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments by Shehong Chen Introduction by Delia Davin 1. Ancestral Home 2. War and Revolution 3. Benefiting from the New Marriage Law 4. Rushing into Collective Life 5. The Great Leap Forward 6. “No Time for Meals All Year Round” 7. Years of Ordeal 8. Reaching Beyond Peasant Life 9. Changes in the Family 10. Farewell to Collective Life 11. Rural Customs and Urban Life 12. A House-Purchasing Frenzy 13. Crossing Borders and Leaving the Ancestral Village 14. Between the Living and the Dead 15. All Our Children Are “Plump Seeds” 16. Return to Ancestral Land Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisUsing feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the ""female voice"" in the ""Heroides"", Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters. She points out that in Ovid's verse epistles all the women represent themselves in a strikingly similar and disjointed fashion.Trade ReviewOpens up whole new vistas of interpretation within Heroides scholarship. - Micaela W. Janan, Duke University

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Book SynopsisExplores the implications of sex-for-pay from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. The essays in this volume reflect the difficulty of answering the question of whether temple prostitution existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.Trade ReviewDemonstrates, quite splendidly, how the study of prostitution in the ancient world provides crucial insight into the nature of ancient life, its mores, social practices, and political ideologies and discourses. - Ellen Greene, author of The Erotics of Domination ""This volume engages provocatively with previous studies on the topic of prostitution in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. The readable style and lively English translations will make this book accessible not only to students and specialists but also to the broader reading public."" - Judith P. Hallett, coeditor of Roman Sexualities

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Book SynopsisSince the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.Trade ReviewLanguage is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead

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Book SynopsisShows how gossip and the responses to it form an ongoing dialogue through which the moral reputations of trading women and businessmen, and cultural ideas about moral value and gender, are constructed and rethought. This work reveals a different perspective on the globalization of the market economy and its meaning and impact on the local level.Trade ReviewExplores important political and economic implications of gossip and markets. It will be very valuable to those interested in African gender and economies. - Gracia Clark, Indiana University, Bloomington

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Book SynopsisSuitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.

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Book SynopsisUsing the Agwagune community in southeastern Nigeria as a case study, David Uru Iyam asserts that women are not stereotypically submissive, oppressed, or passive. Though women are often misrepresented in studies that fail to ask about their agency, Iyam highlights the overlooked contributions of women that uphold and change entire social systems.

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Book SynopsisA practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.

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