Gender studies: women and girls Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women of Color and Philosophy
Book SynopsisPhilosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American.Trade Review"In this unique collection, Naomi Zack invites the twelve members of this select group of women of color to reflect on what they and their colleagues do, as philosophers. Their original and sometimes ground-breaking contributions critique traditional academic philosophy, apply traditional philosophical methods to topics of social relevance hitherto ignored by philosophers, and interpret traditional philosophy in ways that suggest new areas of study." Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder "This is a splendid book. It will be important to research and teaching in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and other women's studies and race courses." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "The growing recognition of the important contributions of women philosophers of color, past and present, is a sign that there may still be hope for philosophers to transcend some of their prejudices. Blackwell has offered the profession a chance by publishing this pioneering volume that I am sure will stimulate research on the work of women philosophers included and those who I am sure will appear in subsequent volumes influenced by this important work. It will be a valuable addition to any library and certainly class discussions of contemporary engagements with ideas." Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University and the University of the West Indies at Mona, JamaicaTable of ContentsThe Contributors vii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part 1 Critique 23 1 “Discredited Knowledge” in the Nonfiction of Toni Morrison 25 Joy James 2 Cultural Alterity: Cross-cultural Communications and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts 44 Ofelia Schutte 3 Exploring the Sources of western Thought 69 V. F. Cordova 4 General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics 91 Adrian M. S. Piper Part 2 Activism and Application 133 5 Interview with Angela Y. Davis 135 George Yancy 6 That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory! Or Introducing America’s Indigenous Sovereign Nations Worldviews to Informal Logic Courses 152 Anne Schulherr Waters 7 The Libertarian Role Model and the Burden of Uplifting the Race 168 Barbara Hall 8 Interracial Marriage: Folk Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy 182 Anita L. Allen Part 3 New Directions 207 9 Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations, and Claims to Philosophy 209 Yoko Arisaka 10 On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? 235 Linda Martin Alcoff 11 Cognitive Science and the Quest for a Theory of Properties 263 Dasiea Cavers-Huff 12 Descartes’ Realist Awake-Asleep Distinction and Naturalism 280 Naomi Zack Select Bibliography 303 Index 311
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Advancing Womens Careers
Book Synopsis* Takes a practical look at the impact and role of women in organizations. * Highlights the various initiatives orgainzations have implemented to support womena s careers. * Contributions come from leading scholars, researchers and human resource professionals. .Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Contributors. Acknowledgments. PART I. OVERVIEW. 1. Advancing Women in Management: Progress and Prospects (Ronald J. Burke and Debra L. Nelson). 2. Developing Women as Global Leaders: Lessons and Sense Making from an Organizational Change Effort (Joyce S. Osland, Nancy J. Adler, and Laura W. Brody). 3. A Decade o Diversity (Nuzhat Jafri and Katie Isbister). PART II. CHALLENGES. 4. The Black and Ethnic Minority Women Manager (Marilyn J. Davidson). 5. Work and Family Issues: Old and New (Suzan Lewis). 6. Sexual Harassment and Women’s Advancement: Issues, Challenges, and Directions (Myrtle P. Bell and Mary E. McLaughlin). 7. Gender Differences in Explanations for Relocating or Changing Organizations for Advancement (Phyllis Tharenou). PART III. OPPORRTUNITIES. 8. Training and Development: Creating the Right Environment to Help Women Succeed in Corporate Management (Viki Holton). 9. Career Development of Managerial Women (Ronald J. Burke). 10. Mentoring and Developmental Relationships (Terri A. Scandura and S. Gayle Baugh). 11. Exploring the Boundaries in Professional Careers: Reduced-Load Work Arrangements in Law, Medicine, and Accounting (Mary Dean Lee, Lori Engler, and Leanne Wright). 12. Developing Tomorrow’s Women Business Leaders (Susan Vinnicombe and Val Singh). 13. Flexible Work Arrangements: A Successful Strategy for the Advancement of Women at the Royal Bank Financial Group (Nora L. Spinks and Norma Tombari). PART IV. NEW DIRECTIONS. 14. Boundaryless Transitions: Global Entrepreneurial Women Challenge Career Concepts (Dorothy Perrin Moore). 15. Time in Organizations: Constraints on, and Possibilities for, Gender Equity in the Workplace (Lotte Bailyn). 16. Positive Psychology at Work: Savoring Challenge and Engagement (Bret L. Simmons). 17. Organizational Culture: A Key to the Success of Work and Family Programs (Ronald J. Burke). 18. Best Practices for Retaining and Advancing Women Professionals and Managers (Mary C. Mattis). 19. Advancing Women’s Executive Leadership (Val Hammond). Index.
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Harvard University Press The Woman in the Surgeons Body
Book SynopsisSurgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? An anthropologist enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed 33 surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years.Trade ReviewThis [is a] riveting study on women surgeons in the United States...The author studied 33 women surgeons of differing ages practising in eastern and mid-western United States. There was a wide representation of career stages and surgical subspecialties. She spent five days spread over a two week period shadowing each surgeon and also conducted structured, tape recorded interviews. She observed relationships with colleagues, patients, nurses, and trainees as well as aspects of family life. The aim of her study was to examine differences between male and female surgeons and the internal and external forces affecting these differences. Each chapter examines a key area and is vividly illustrated with extracts from the taped interviews as well as descriptions and analysis provided by the author. The frantic, fast paced, almost hysterical way of life in an American department of surgery provides an enthralling background. The author sensibly lets the interviewees speak for themselves when she wishes to make a point...I hope that this excellent book is widely read. -- Sarah Creighton * British Medical Journal *[An] exploration of the world of women surgeons, a world we are drawn into through skillful storytelling...Comfortable with the first person and drawing on 14 years of experiences as an anthropologist reflecting and writing on surgeons, Cassell provides the non-anthropological reader access to the practice of her craft...The author successfully permits our entry into the fascinating, gritty, complex world of women surgeons. The book is well organized and immensely readable. Social scientists will appreciate this exploration of women's place in a male-dominated profession. The structuralists among us will be heartened by the call to refocus our energies from women's 'choices' or coping strategies to the structure of the institution itself. -- Susan W. Hinze * Health *Dr. Cassell has conducted an ethnographic study of 33 women surgeons, following them through their workdays, meeting their families, and interviewing them and others in their lives. Her insights focus on surgery generally and the experience of women surgeons specifically...The author's narrative succeeds in raising essential questions while she recounts the lives and experiences of the women surgeons she has studied with respect, empathy, and admiration. -- Carol C. Nadelson * Psychiatric Services *I identified closely with many of the women profiled in The Woman In The Surgeon's Body. All of the feelings and emotions I have had regarding my surgical training and practice were so articulately crystalized in Cassell's accounts. It was thrilling for me to read how other women's experiences paralleled my own. This is a wonderfully researched work. -- Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D.Joan Cassell asks whether a feminine body can be embodied in a surgeon's identity and ethos, and whether there is a difference between the work worlds of male and female surgeons. She studied 33 surgeons in five North American cities, women of varying age, rank, matrimonial and parental status, and from a number of surgical specialties. The result is a lively presentation of professional, dedicated women operating in a world that is not quite sure where and if they really fit. This book should appeal to a readership beyond the anthropologists for whom it is intended. -- Frances K. Conley, M.D., Stanford University[N]ew and provocative...This book should be of interest to women who are surgeons, any woman interested in becoming a surgeon, anyone involved in advising medical students, especially women students, about careers in surgery, and anyone in charge of a surgery training program. -- Sylvia Ramos, M.D. * Journal of the American Medical Association *This anthropologist's perspective on the development of women surgeons will ring true in different degrees to all women physicians, and it will add a dimension of understanding and, one hopes, empathy from their male peers. * Psychiatric Services *In this enjoyable, fast-paced ethnography of women surgeons, Cassell emphasizes gender analysis and the anthropological concept of habitus in order to get at the social construction of the experience and the place in that experience of 'difference.' She uses her impressive interview transcripts to round out an effective portrait of women surgeons. -- Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Harvard UniversityTable of Contents* What's an Anthropologist Doing Studying Surgeons? * Bodies of Difference * Telling Stories * Women Leading * Forging the Iron Surgeon * The Gender of Care * A Greedy Institution * A Worst-Case Scenario * Surgeons in This Day and Age * Notes * References * Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Beauty and the Book Women and Fiction in
Book SynopsisThis study of Chinese women in the book trade begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th century. Building on these studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber and the significance of this novel for women.
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Harvard University Press Womens Lives Mens Laws
Book SynopsisIn the past 25 years, no one has been more instrumental than MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. This collection brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.Trade ReviewMacKinnon's first collection of essays since 1987, is absorbing and important... Perhaps more than anyone else, MacKinnon has changed the way we use the law in America today. The essays here on rape, abortion, prostitution and harassment law make clear how, and it's intellectually exciting stuff...Women's Lives, Men's Laws is a compelling vision of how our use of law shapes inequality and how we might rethink it. -- Jennifer Michael Hecht * New York Times Book Review *The book contains much that is impressive, both intellectually and rhetorically, and it is instructive both about the history of MacKinnon's battles and about the issues. -- Thomas Nagel * Times Literary Supplement *Women's Lives, Men's Laws contains the deepest and best feminist writing around, and there is nothing like it. MacKinnon is a figure of singular importance for the history of feminist thought and for its present. Before MacKinnon, there was no legally usable concept of sexual harassment. Now in any law library there are shelves of publications developing her ideas. Before her work, sexual advances in the workplace were not typically seen to involve an asymmetry of power (although they always did involve this, and women knew it). Now even the most conservative judge will use MacKinnon's framework of analysis in adjudicating cases. Before MacKinnon, again, issues of sexual equality were commonly dealt with by saying "equals to equals, unequals to unequals" - so if a difference could be shown between women and men, for example that only women get pregnant, not providing employees with pregnancy insurance did not constitute sex discrimination. After MacKinnon the concept of equality was understood in terms of a different antonym - subordination, second-class citizenship. Before MacKinnon, the law of obscenity focused on the alleged offensiveness of the sexy. Now even those who do not agree with her practical proposals agree that issues of violence, subordination, and abuse must be central in coming to grips with the problem of pornography. Finally, it is to a considerable extent due to MacKinnon's influence that sexual abuse of women is now regarded as a major human rights violation internationally. In short, as even critics of her views will readily agree, there is no single person who has done more to change the course of American law. She is among the century's most important thinkers, and I can think of none whose theoretical work has done more to improve human well being. -- Martha Nussbaum, author of Cultivating HumanityThe writings in MacKinnon's Women's Lives, Men's Laws continue to be excellent - fresh, concise and incisive. She has new things to say that will continue to enrapture and enlighten a large readership (and perhaps enrage others, many of whom perhaps never actually read her work). -- Frances Elisabeth Olsen, author of Feminist Legal TheoryAs an activist and legal scholar, MacKinnon has been a prominent force in feminism since the mid-1970s, when she pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment. Her latest volume brings together 29 essays that show how the juridical legal system empowers men at the expense of women...MacKinnon offers thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of subjects, including the ERA, abortion, Brown v. [Board of] Education, the history of sexual harassment law and the intersections of sexism with racial inequality and animal rights. * Publishers Weekly *Catharine MacKinnon brings several decades worth of writing and speaking on the role of women in law together in this collection of essays. Women's Lives, Men's Laws is a fascinating look at MacKinnon's vision of what law could be if it supported, or God forbid, promoted the rights of women in the court system. In essays on myriad topics such as the equal rights amendment (ERA), color and gender, the evolution of sexual harassment laws, Brown vs. the Board of Education , and even animal rights, MacKinnon makes the same point over and over again--that the law fails women, and change is too slow and not enough... Women's Lives, Men's Laws shows how the law can give women power if they know how to use it to their advantage, and encourages women to improve the law by getting their experiences included in the making and interpreting of laws. -- Wendy Anderson * Bookslut *Histories of American law in the late twentieth century will discuss the contributions of only two or three people who made major contributions to the law as scholars, not judges. Richard Posner is one. Catharine MacKinnon is another. Women's Lives, Men's Laws, a collection of her essays, many published before but some in hard-to-locate journals, shows why...Historians will grapple with MacKinnon's role in constructing contemporary law. Today's readers will benefit enormously from grappling with her claims about what that law is and should be--even, or perhaps particularly, the claims that for the moment seem off-the-wall. -- Mark Tushnet * American Lawyer *One mark of [MacKinnon's] status as someone taken very seriously in some very serious quarters is the fact that the current collection is simply that--not a book woven together from or built on older pieces, but a handy repository for some of MacKinnon's law journal articles, anthology contributions and speeches...Women's Lives, Men's Laws offers reminders of what she thinks sexual equality would look like and how she thinks the law might come to share in the creation of such equality despite having spread its protective arms around sexual inequality for so very long. -- Elizabeth Spelman * London Review of Books *[Women's Lives, Men's Laws'] scope makes it an absorbing overview of MacKinnon's views on women's inequality...Her perspective obviously recognizes and builds on the insights of the legal realism and critical legal studies schools, but MacKinnon makes the extraordinarily bold move to develop positive theory and practice of sex equality under the law. In this I think that she joins only a handful of contemporary theorists whose work goes beyond critique and offers a genuinely new way of talking and thinking about significant problems...MacKinnon is extraordinary in her willingness to tackle big, provocative questions about the nature of law, the requirements of justice, and limitations of legal discourse...It is rare for a collection of this type to offer genuinely new intellectual insights but Women's Lives, Men's Laws does just that. It is a significant addition to legal scholarship abut equality and an important amplification of MacKinnon's vision for women's rights. -- Rose Corrigan * Law and Politics Book Review *Women's Lives, Men's Laws is a powerful collection of more than two decades of Catharine MacKinnon's feminist legal scholarship. Perhaps MacKinnon's greatest strength in this compilation--in which she discusses a range of issues, from equality theory to sexual harassment to pornography--is her methodology. She truly builds her "theory out of women's practice, comprised of the diversity of all women's experiences." Her steadfast connection to the women upon whom and for whose benefit her theory is based can be credited for the richness and persuasiveness of her arguments. -- Jennifer Denbow * Law, Culture and the Humanities *Table of ContentsIntroduction I. EQUALITY RE-ENVISIONED Section A. Changing the World for Women 1. To Change the World for Women 2. Unthinking ERA Thinking 3. From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway? 4. Law in the Everyday Life of Women 5. Toward a New Theory of Equality 6. Law's Stories as Reality and Politics 7. "Freedom from Unreal Loyalties": On Fidelity in Constitutional Interpretation 8. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said 9. Keeping It Real: On Anti-"Essentialism" 10. Of Mice and Men: A Fragment on Animal Rights 11. The Power to Change Section B. Sexual Abuse as Sex Discrimination 12. Sexual Harassment: The First Five Years 13. Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law 14. Prostitution and Civil Rights 15. The Logic of Experience: The Development of Sexual Harassment Law 16. On Accountability for Sexual Harassment 17. Beyond Moralism: Directions in Sexual Harassment Law 18. Disputing Male Sovereignty: On United States v. Morrison 19. A Sex Equality Approach to Sexual Assault II. SEXUALITY, INEQUALITY, AND SPEECH Section A. Theory and Practice 20. Sex, Lies, and Psychotherapy 21. Liberalism and the Death of Feminism 22. Does Sexuality Have a History? 23. Speaking Truth to Power 24. Mediating Reality Section B. Pornography as Sex Discrimination 25. Civil Rights Against Pornography 26. Pornography as Defamation and Discrimination 27. From Silence to Silence: Violence Against Women in America 28. Pornography Left and Right 29. Vindication and Resistance 30. The Roar on the Other Side of Silence Notes Credits Index
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Harvard University Press France after Revolution Urban Life Gender and
Book SynopsisDavidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea that women were forced from the public realm of political discussion, Davidson demonstrates how women remained highly visible and active.Trade ReviewA compelling account of the gendering of spatial and social relations in the wake of the French Revolution. Davidson highlights the seemingly paradoxical ways in which social mixing--between men and women, 'elite' and 'popular' classes--served to at once unify and differentiate post-Revolutionary society. This book will appeal to historians of modern France, women's and gender historians, and readers interested in performance and spectacle. -- Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature, Harvard UniversityIn a lively and original study, Davidson shows how residents of Lyon, Nantes, and Paris shaped their identity and social place in the political and cultural order of the post-Revolutionary world. Her keen attention to gender and class make it clear how the real lives of women and men often contradicted political, cultural, and discursive ideals. Firmly rooted in astute archival research, France after Revolution is a major contribution to urban social and cultural history. -- Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State UniversityThis welcome and important book takes a novel approach to the little-studied topic of gender dynamics in early nineteenth-century France. Denise Davidson argues compellingly that public interactions between the sexes played a critical role in allaying the social anxiety wrought by the French Revolution. By analyzing male and female behavior in urban public spaces, she skillfully illustrates how certain gender ideals and class expectations came to underpin France's new social order. -- Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Political Festivals 1. Staging the Napoleonic State 2. Renewing Ties with the Bourbon Monarchy II. Theaters 3. Melodramatic Spectatorship on the Parisian Boulevard 4. Sex and Politics in Provincial Theaters III. Social Life 5. Building Solidarity: Cercles, Salons, and Charities 6. Drinking, Dancing, and the Moral Order Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Southern Horrors
Book SynopsisBetween 1880 and 1930, some 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world, women defended themselves and challenged male power brokers. Feimster explores the racial politics of the postbellum South, focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence.Trade ReviewFeimster's compelling, and profoundly unsettling, history of rape and lynching illuminates the gendered racial politics of sexual violence in the aftermath of Emancipation. -- Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern UniversitySouthern Horrors, a chilling tale that has been largely suppressed until now, exposes lynching as a gendered phenomenon in which southern women played a central role as actors and as victims. This is a breakthrough analysis of the role that lynching served in southern political culture. -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950Feimster traces the lives of two political incendiaries, Ida B. Wells and Rebecca Felton, who illuminate the landscape of American race and gender politics. Brilliantly analytical, strikingly well-narrated, this monumental book masters theme and story to reveal heretofore hidden histories of the women who both played and transformed the politics of rape and lynching in the New South. -- Timothy B. Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True StoryThoughtful and engaging, Crystal Feimster's Southern Horrors forces us to rethink women's history and the history of the American South. Accessible to students and general readers, this powerful story is told with originality and sophistication. -- Suzanne Lebsock, author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on TrialSouthern Horrors, an impressive achievement, expands and deepens our understanding of the sexual and racial politics of the American South. Through the public careers of two women and a cast of thousands, Crystal Feimster compels us to grapple with the full dimensions of an American tragedy and the movements for change it set in motion. -- Leon F. Litwack, author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowFascinating...Feimster's account challenges us to think again about race and sexual politics...[A] rich and detailed account...The work of Rebecca Felton and Ida Wells engaged with the implications of a form (although not a unique one) of sexual politics, and Feimster's account should be rightly acclaimed as testament to these projects. -- Mary Evans * Times Higher Education *Historian Crystal N. Feimster provides an opportunity to better understand the lack of sympathy between black and white suffragists and how lynching spurred both to the political activism that eventually won women the vote...This account leaves us with a sense of what made the fights for racial equality and women's suffrage so complicated and contentious. We're left, too, with an appreciation of the gumption both Wells and Felton showed entering a political fray resistant to their participation and unable to conceive of changes that seem so obviously necessary in hindsight. -- Margaret Wheeler Johnson * Double X *An interesting, though somewhat disheartening, tale of the times, this book is destined for a special place in the classrooms and libraries of those concerned with sexual and racial politics. It is a readable study for those simply interested in the historical account, and is made so by multiple narratives of affected citizens, passages from diaries and newspapers, as well as the lives of the two main scholars. -- Allena Tapia * San Francisco Book Review *Table of Contents* Introduction: In Black and White *1. The Horrors of War *2. The Violent Transition from Freedom to Segregation *3. Southern White Women and the Anti-rape Movement *4. Organizing in Defense of Black Womanhood *5. New Southern Women and the Triumph of White Supremacy *6. The Lynching of Black and White Women *7. Equal Rights for Southern Women *8. The Gender and Racial Politics of the Anti-lynching Movement * Appendix: List of Female Victims of Lynching
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Harvard University, Asia Center Courtesans Concubines and the Cult of Female
Book SynopsisCourtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. By taking womenand men's relationships with womenseriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
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Harvard University Press Cultures of Charity
Book SynopsisRenaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.Trade ReviewThis sweeping exploration of early modern poor relief shows how Bologna became a model for other cities in meeting the challenge of female poverty across the life cycle. By putting gender squarely at the center of analysis, Terpstra brilliantly illuminates how widespread concerns for poor women and girls sparked innovative networks of care aimed at both charity and discipline. -- Sharon Strocchia, Emory UniversityTerpstra's intimate and human study of Bologna's attempts to deal with the life cycle of poverty—especially that of women—provides a virtual comparative history of the troubled relationship between rich and poor in early modern Europe. This is the new social and cultural history at its best—rich with significant findings, livened with everyday human details, and sensitively evoked by a master historian. -- Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami
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Harvard University, Asia Center Fictions Family
Book SynopsisEllen Widmer examines the writings of a literary family whose works embodied shifting attitudes toward women in late Qing China. She illuminates the diachronic bridge between the late Qing and the preceding period, the synchronic interplay of genres during the family's lifetimes, and the interaction of Shanghai publishing with other regions.
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Harvard University Press The Highest Glass Ceiling
Book SynopsisBest-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the Presidency. The arduous, dramatic quests of Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) illuminate today’s political landscape, shedding light on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for the Oval Office.Trade ReviewFitzpatrick’s history is an urgent, crucial contribution… A book unlikely to calm any nerves, but which will at least put our gendered anxieties in historical perspective… Fitzpatrick’s smartly timed book should remind us not to let whatever history we make just pass us by. -- Rebecca Traister * New York Times Book Review *Fitzpatrick tells the compelling stories of three women who preceded [Hillary] Clinton’s quest [to become president]… Fitzpatrick is a worthy biographer, offering a rich, amply footnoted story of these quick-witted and resilient women. In a world where women were expected to demur, they lived large—and paid the price. One finishes the book believing that they wouldn’t have had it any other way. -- Connie Schultz * Washington Post *Terrific. -- Jill Lepore * New Yorker *Ellen Fitzpatrick breaks the second-highest glass ceiling: writing a history of political women that reads like a murder mystery while managing to elevate the office of president despite recent electoral buffoonery. It’s a neat trick that kept me turning pages to find out what happened next. Like the politicos whose audacity, gusto and brainpower she admires, Fitzpatrick is that entertaining… Those eager to curl up with a good read on a Saturday afternoon will find the hours passing quickly. They might also become eager to cheer for a female president—at last. -- Elizabeth Cobbs * Times Higher Education *Fitzpatrick’s engaging The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency implicitly questions the assumption that any rational woman could seriously believe that the White House was hers for the asking, by telling the entertaining, if ultimately depressing, stories of some women in the past who have failed. -- Sarah Churchwell * New Statesman *Why has it taken so long for a woman to be taken seriously when she runs for President of the United States? There are stories to be told about that and Presidential historian Ellen Fitzpatrick does so superbly in The Highest Glass Ceiling. Her account of the women who did, in fact, go for the top job makes for great reading as well as a much-needed filling of important gaps in American political history. This is a terrific book that is chock full of small tidbits that add up to important surprises for anyone who thinks they already know everything about presidential politics. -- Jim Lehrer, former Executive Editor, PBS NewsHourEllen Fitzpatrick’s wise and winning The Highest Glass Ceiling is destined to become the Profiles in Courage of the 2016 Presidential election, situating this year’s presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic field of bold female contenders, with special focus on the three who previously came closest—Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, and Shirley Chisholm. What enabled these women to ‘step out of context and into history,’ as a Los Angeles Times reporter wrote of Smith, to ‘shake it up, make it change,’ as Chisholm aimed to do? Fitzpatrick’s compelling portraits supply not just the how and when, but also the why, teaching valuable lessons that everyone who cares about American Presidential politics will be grateful to learn. -- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American LifeWomen’s quest for the U.S. presidency has been long and arduous—and Ellen Fitzpatrick, a superb scholar and writer, is the perfect author for this fascinating and overdue history. This book is a triumph, and an inspiration. -- Theda Skocpol, Harvard UniversityFitzpatrick offers a rich story of quick-witted and resilient women who preceded Hillary Clinton’s quest. * Washington Post *[A] richly textured history of women’s pursuit of the presidency…Fitzpatrick has done a tremendous job of relaying this fascinating history. -- Cherisse Jomes-Branch * H-Net Reviews *
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Harvard University Press The Hello Girls
Book SynopsisIn 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed, mocked, and ultimately celebrated them. The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans' benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. What an eye-opener! Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of these forgotten heroines and weaves them into a fascinating narrative with energy and zest.Cokie Roberts, author of Capital DamesThis engaging history crackles with admiration for the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the First World War, becoming the country's first female soldiers.New YorkerUtterly delightful Cobbs very adroitly weaves the story of the Signal Corps into that larger story of American women fighting for the right to vote, but it's the warm, fascinating job she does bringing her castto life that gives this book its memorable charisma This terrific book pays them a long-warranted tribute.Christian Science MonitorCobbs is particularly good at spotlighting how closely the service of military women like the Hello Girls was tied to the success of the suffrage movement.NPRTrade ReviewThis engaging history crackles with admiration for the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the First World War, becoming the country’s first female soldiers. Operating switchboards in France, they juggled constantly shifting lists of codes and connections, worked fast amid artillery blasts, and mastered the ‘genteel diplomacy’ needed to communicate with officials in French as well as English. Their technical skill was matched by what one woman called the ‘great, unquenchable, patriotic desire to do my bit.’ Cobbs intercuts front-line activities with political battles on the home front: the women returned from victory to an America that did not yet grant them the right to vote. * New Yorker *Utterly delightful… It’s a little-known side-story of the war, but it’s not a little story: In Cobbs’s skillful handling, it becomes a big, multilayered tale of courage and long-delayed justice… Cobbs very adroitly weaves the story of the Signal Corps into that larger story of American women fighting for the right to vote, but it’s the warm, fascinating job she does bringing her cast of The Hello Girls to life that gives this book its memorable charisma… [These women] fought for years to gain the recognition they deserved as the forerunners of all women serving in the U.S. armed forces. This terrific book pays them a long-warranted tribute. -- Steve Donoghue * Christian Science Monitor *In the crisply written The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, Elizabeth Cobbs details exactly what was asked of these women during the war, and reveals, with an authoritative, dispassionate, this-was-some-self-evident-nonsense lucidity, the dismaying extent to which their country failed them when it was over… Smartly, she also walks us through the sundry and simultaneous technical demands of switchboard operating, noting that women could connect five calls in the time it took a man to complete one. Cobbs is particularly good at spotlighting how closely the service of military women like the Hello Girls was tied to the success of the suffrage movement. -- Glen Weldon * NPR Books *Elizabeth Cobbs draws on a range of official documents, as well as letters and diaries, to tell the fascinating story of the forgotten women telephone operators who were a critical part of the war effort… The Hello Girls makes vividly visible a group of women who, until now, have been unjustly hidden. -- June Purvis * Times Higher Education *Cobbs shines a spotlight on the unique contributions of a group of remarkable American women, in the spirit of Hidden Figures (2016), in a book that belongs in every American-history collection. -- Carolyn Mulac * Booklist *In an informative history of women’s military work, Cobbs focuses on more than 200 telephone operators who supported combat soldiers in Europe soon after the United States entered the war in 1917… A fresh, well-researched contribution to military and gender history. * Kirkus Reviews *Cobbs shines a new light on the history of suffrage and women’s rights in the United States, using as a lens the servicewomen enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I…Cobbs weaves the trials and triumphs of America’s first female soldiers (although they wouldn’t win the right to claim that distinction until 1979) with the fight for women’s rights and the rising waves of feminism. -- Chad E. Statler * Library Journal (starred review) *What an eye-opener! The Hello Girls tells the lost story of the women who braved the war in Europe to provide essential communications between U.S. commanders and fighters in the field. Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of these forgotten heroines and weaves them into a fascinating narrative with energy and zest. -- Cokie Roberts, author of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848–1868Writing with panache and acumen, Cobbs tells the colorful story of the women who served in the Army's Signal Corps in World War I, while opening fresh perspectives on communications technology, the nature of modern warfare, the nation's treatment of veterans, and the never-ending struggle of women for their full rights as citizens. The Hello Girls turns a good tale into a great tool for understanding some of history's grandest themes. -- David M. Kennedy, author of Over Here: The First World War and American SocietyThis splendidly written book reveals the bravery and grit of the nation's first women soldiers. During World War I, they were deployed to France, only to be denied recognition as veterans upon return. Their remarkable stories come alive in Cobbs's wonderfully absorbing narrative as does the world of contradictions in which they lived and served. -- Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency
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Harvard University Press Abortion in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisJohn Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives, he explores the meanings of a practice that was officially banned yet widely practiced and generally tolerated, demonstrating that Italy was hardly a haven for Catholic anti-abortion absolutism.Trade ReviewChristopoulos has meticulously pieced together a secret history not only from prescriptive sources but from the public records of trials, giving us for the first time a sense of the way early modern women and men experienced abortion…[His] accomplished account emphasizes the ambiguities and ambivalences that surrounded pregnancy and its termination in early modern Italy. -- Erin Maglaque * London Review of Books *A major contribution—subtle, erudite, and wide-ranging. Christopoulos's sophisticated handling of the complexities and ambiguities surrounding the termination of pregnancy in early modern Italy makes this book not merely for scholars interested in abortion but also for anyone who studies the workings of early modern society more generally. Abortion in Early Modern Italy demonstrates the abilities of a first-rate historian. -- Mary Lindemann, University of MiamiWhile most studies of the early history of abortion adopt the perspective of medical, ecclesiastical, and secular authorities, this important book gives equal attention to the motivations and experiences of the women and men involved in procuring, facilitating, or testifying regarding abortions. Through exhaustive archival research, Christopoulos has managed to excavate the voices not only of the pregnant women themselves, but also of their accusers, their partners, rapists, and seducers, their families, their healers, and other members of the community. -- Katharine Park, Harvard UniversityIn this beautifully researched book, punctuated by vivid microhistories, John Christopoulos offers a complex and nuanced perspective on the meaning of abortion in early modern Italy. He puts a human face on the decisions made by men and especially women, by church and state, and by judges, lawyers, and medical experts, allowing us to see how this quintessential Catholic society grappled with the status of the unborn and reproductive rights. Christopoulos thoughtfully reminds us that the past is full of surprises, sometimes where we least expect them. -- Paula Findlen, Stanford UniversityA brilliant, field-shaping book based on extraordinary archival research and great analytical insight. John Christopoulos not only remakes our understanding of struggles over reproduction in early modern Italy and Europe, but also provides an important intervention in the long and broad transnational history of abortion. In centering abortion, this beautifully written book also illuminates in new ways our understanding of a wide range of early modern themes from church and state to science and local communities. -- Julie Hardwick, author of Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789Anyone tempted to make facile arguments about abortion politics, on either side of the aisle, needs to read John Christopoulos’s new book…Abortion in Early Modern Italy is a lucid, thorough, perceptive history, told with clarity and compassion. It should be on the reading list of everyone who cares about pregnant women and the politics and realities of abortion, past and present. -- Lara Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *A rich and innovative history of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy…Through vivid microhistories accompanying each chapter, he gives voice for the first time to women from across the social spectrum who sought and procured abortions, men who forced it on them, healers who participated in its practice, as well as relatives, neighbors, and ecclesiastical authorities who offered aid or turned a blind eye…A sensitive and provocative historical analysis of a deeply complex topic. -- Elizabeth W. Mellyn * Isis *[A] poignant study of women’s history…A valuable contribution to the growing literature on generation, pregnancy and its termination in early modern Italy, and on women’s social circumstances in general. -- Joanne M. Ferraro * Social History of Medicine *Christopoulos richly reconstructs the contexts in which early modern women and men made the difficult and dangerous choice to end a pregnancy…A comprehensive and highly readable addition to the existing literature on early modern reproduction, healthcare, law, and religion…This book will be of great value to a wide range of scholars. -- Jennifer Kosmin * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Building on a rich historiography of early modern microhistory, case studies of alleged abortions are interspersed throughout the book and provide opportunities to reflect on some of the complicated experiences of individuals…[A] valuable study. -- Julia Rombough * Early Modern Women *Outstanding…Drawing from extensive research in archival and printed sources, Christopoulos tells a riveting story of a practice that caused significant moral and legal alarm but remained difficult for authorities to control or limit…Abortion in Early Modern Italy is engagingly written, thoughtfully crafted, and compelling. It brings a crucial historical perspective to our current contentious debates about abortion. -- Alisha Rankin * Renaissance Quarterly *This fascinating study analyses a provocative topic (both then and now) from a multitude of different angles to understand the meanings and interpretations of abortion in the historical past. [Christopoulos'] extensive archival research results in a very rich study of reproductive rights in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy. -- Megan Moran * Medieval History Journal *A fascinating topic…[Christopoulos] argues that there was more than one meaning to abortion, as well as more than one way to attempt to achieve one. -- Thomas Kuehn * Journal of Modern History *It is a jarring experience to read this historical study of abortion in early modern Italy after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States. The parallels between then and now crystallize a long history of patriarchy…This book brings a fresh, sensitive eye to a long-standing concern. -- Cynthia Klestinec * Renaissance and Reformation *Using a multiplicity of sources ranging from religion to pharmacopoeia, from literature to jurisprudence…this excellent and informative study takes us into the Italian reality of the time, showing us how men and women tried to survive in a complex society that disadvantaged many women and allowed many men to forcefully and violently control, to their advantage, the female body. -- Elena Brizio * H-Net Reviews *
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Harvard University Press Survival as Victory
Book SynopsisSurvival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to life the gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.Trade ReviewBased on more than 150 memoirs and testimonies, Oksana Kis’s Survival as Victory provides a subtle and nuanced portrait of Ukrainian women prisoners in the Gulag. Kis is not afraid to tackle all of the aspects of life in the camps, from pregnancy and motherhood to rape and torture, showing how women brought traditionally ‘female’ habits and customs from home into the camps, effectively creating a counterculture to the brutal regime. Survival as Victory is a must-read for students of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Ukraine, as well as for anyone interested in moving stories of real women’s lives. -- Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A HistoryRelying on by far the richest collection of memoirs and creative artifacts of Ukrainian women imprisoned in Stalin’s Gulag between 1939 and 1956, Survival as Victory portrays a generation of politically active women punished for loyalty to their nation and opposition to Soviet Communism. Oksana Kis focuses on the women’s agency and analyzes the practices and beliefs that allowed them to maintain their identity and humanity despite brutal conditions. An important corrective to historiography on Ukraine, this book for the first time showcases overlooked female experience of Soviet repression and contribution to the national struggle. -- Katherine R. Jolluck, Senior Lecturer in Modern East European History, Stanford University, and author of Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War IICrisp, factual, original, and eminently readable—this gem of a book on a painfully overlooked topic captures the resilience of Ukrainian women prisoners in the vast Soviet Gulag system. -- Martha Bochachevsky-Chomiak, author of Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884–1939Kis’s book adds to the growing body of literature on the questions of gender and women’s experiences in the Gulag forced labour camps…Shows how in the face of hard labour, hunger, poor living conditions, rape, sexual violence and loss, prisoners have maintained hope, and how their survival became their way of defiance of the Soviet state…A valuable contribution to the field. -- Olga Khrushcheva * Women's History Review *A particular strength of Kis’s study is that it presents the multiplicity of Ukrainian women’s voices and occasionally draws on the perspectives of Polish, German, Russian, and Russian speaking Jewish female Gulag survivors…Survival as Victory makes a significant contribution to the emerging scholarship on women’s Gulag experience and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers. -- Oksana Husieva * Canadian Slavonic Papers *
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Harvard University Press Fearless Women
Book SynopsisElizabeth Cobbs traces the American quest for gender equality back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. These are stories of American women, famous and obscure, who struggled in public and private to secure new rights, defend their freedom, and gain control over their own lives.Trade ReviewIn the skillful hands of Elizabeth Cobbs, intrepid women of diverse backgrounds come alive on the page as they struggle to defend their own honor, care for their families, and fight for equality, autonomy, and dignity in a nation that has long denied them. Fearless Women is a gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most. -- Tiya Miles, author of All That She CarriedFeminism has given Americans a common language, Elizabeth Cobbs argues in this brilliant and inspiring book, making her case through sixteen paired biographies of diverse, carefully selected female subjects, both well-known (Mary Church Terrell, Frances Perkins, Phyllis Schlafly) and unknown (Abigail Bailey, Ann Marie Riebe, Yvonne Swan). A remarkable and gripping achievement. -- Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty’s DaughtersWhat a great read! In unfailingly crackling prose, Cobbs freshly retells some familiar stories and colorfully excavates many new ones. Rich, consistently compelling, and often moving in detail, Fearless Women brilliantly illuminates women’s long struggle for equality in America, while making a robust case for the centrality of that struggle in the master narrative of American history. A magnificent achievement. -- David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom from FearThe well-researched stories Cobbs tells are at once harrowing and exhilarating…Cobbs’s subjects [are] women who, having taken the worst their country had to offer, gave in return their energy and determination to drive its most progressive agendas. -- Christine Bold * Times Literary Supplement *Fearless Women is so well-written, so well researched, and so engaging that you will find it of real value even as it tells some stories you thought you already knew…We should all welcome the hope that it bestows. -- Roberta Silman * Arts Fuse *An excellent and well-researched deep dive into the lives of women who insisted that they be considered an integral part of the American experience…This is an exciting and compelling read. * New York Journal of Books *Cobbs’s history reclaims feminism as a national social movement that has been pronounced un-American, exclusionary, and on the radical fringe…The breadth of this history is impressive and the depth of the research in terms of plumbing both published and manuscript sources for details about these women’s lives and the campaigns they waged, commands our scholarly attention and praise. -- Karen Garner * H-Diplo *Cobbs’s novelistic skills shine as she dramatizes policy debates and draws on personal memoirs and other sources to bring each woman to life…Feminists will savor the depth and intimacy of this optimistic survey. * Publishers Weekly *The right to compete, learn, lobby, vote, earn equal pay, obtain equal legal protection, and be assured of physical safety are among the issues the author examines through the lives of her brave protagonists. A fresh, well-researched perspective on women’s history. * Kirkus Reviews *Unflinching…Delivering a timeless message of equality, Fearless Women is wide-ranging in its biographical surveys of the women who shaped the US’s struggle for women’s rights since her founding. * Foreword Reviews *Who are the feminist patriots and where did they come from? Covering US history since 1776, this book tackles women’s drive for equality, or at least access, to sixteen different ‘rights’ starting with education and ending with physical safety. * Senior Women Web *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Uncertain Powers
Book SynopsisUncertain Powers presents a nuanced study of female leadership in medieval Japan. Sachiko Kawai explores the important political and economic roles of 12th- and 13th-century Japanese royal women who, confronted with social factors and gender disparities, transformed authority into power by means of cooperation, persuasion, compromise and coercion.Trade Review[Kawai] skillfully shows that female royal power and authority had to be constantly negotiated and reinforced through personal involvement and strategic use of various material resources. This is an important correction to much existing scholarship, and Kawai carefully builds her case throughout the book, where deep dives into a wealth of details and close readings of primary sources are always brought back into conversation with her overall arguments, which makes Uncertain Powers an enjoyable read. -- Morten Oxenboell * Journal of Japanese Studies *
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Harvard University Press About Abortion
Book SynopsisNew medical technologies, women's willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women's decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.Trade ReviewCarol Sanger understands that abortion is never an isolated event, but one that reflects the complicated realities around it. There is a great mind at work here, but one with a woman's body, an understanding heart, and a hope that every child will be born loved and wanted. -- Gloria SteinemThis remarkable book goes beyond abortion law and abortion politics to illuminate abortion as a lived experience, and a common one at that—a perspective far too often missing from a debate with no end in sight. An essential and timely warning to all of what happens when a constitutional right is narrowed down to invisibility. -- Linda Greenhouse, author of Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court JourneySanger takes readers on an insightful, original, and eye-opening guided tour of the practices and ‘culture’ of abortion. Even as pro-life legislators enact laws that nominally aim to provide women with information, she shows that women already know what abortion is. They know because, as Sanger persuasively argues, abortion implicates everything we deem important—life, death, sex, family, freedom, equality, and more. -- Michael C. Dorf, coauthor of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal RightsClear and persuasive. -- Margaret Talbot * New Yorker *The abortion book I didn’t realize I was waiting for…Sanger (no relation to Margaret Sanger) digs into the roots of privacy around this personal decision and how it became more of a forced secrecy for so many…Sanger lays out the self-feeding loop of abortion silence—a fear of others finding out rather than a choice not to disclose. She examines post-Roe laws and court cases that have had direct or indirect implications for abortion restrictions to make her case that normalizing abortion could end this compulsory silence. The good news? It’s in our very capable hands…[Sanger] provides new tools and frameworks for forging ahead while knowing we are already on the right path. -- Katie Klabusich * Rewire *Sanger makes a compelling case for how a private matter—choosing to have an abortion—has been so politicized and stigmatized that it has been transformed into something that women feel they must keep secret, lest they set themselves up for public shaming. -- Jordan Smith * The Intercept *Excellent…[Sanger] supports abortion rights, but [she] also presents the opposition to abortion fairly…Her observations are nearly always insightful and often nicely trenchant…Sanger is at her best and most original in discussing the secrecy surrounding abortions, which she sees as the biggest obstacle to public acceptance. Her argument is that even though abortion is legal, women who have an abortion tend to behave as though it weren’t. They keep it a secret even from their friends in a way that goes beyond privacy, and suggests fear of recrimination. -- Marcia Angell * New York Review of Books *[Sanger] deconstructs the contemporary way abortion is debated, offering direction and suggestions for a new way to discuss it in the 21st century by removing the stigma silence produces. Sanger covers topics that include fetal imaging, parental consent, men and abortion, and assumptions about women who seek abortions. This is perhaps the best book ever written on the multiple facets surrounding abortion politics, law, and regulation. -- D. Schultz * Choice *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Courtesans Concubines and the Cult of Female
Book SynopsisCourtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. By taking women—and men’s relationships with women—seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
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Harvard University Press From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men
Book SynopsisYoon Sun Yang argues that the first literary iterations of the Korean individual were female figures in late nineteenth century domestic novels. This study disrupts the canonical account of a non-gendered, linear progress toward modern Korean selfhood and examines translation’s impact on Korea’s construction of modern gender roles.Trade ReviewFrom Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men is a brilliant account of the uneven emergence of the modern subject in Korean literary fiction, immersing us in the historical circumstances of colonialism, censorship, and the transition to modernity that shaped authors and readers alike in early colonial Korea. Taking a neglected but crucial corpus of novels known as New Fiction that flourished after the Protectorate Treaty in 1905, the book argues that the same circumstances that made the political novel impossible created a genre of domestic fiction where the traumas of transition to a modern society were thrashed out. By returning us to these complex and ambivalent literary figures who served as the unacknowledged earliest iterations of the modern individual, Yoon Sun Yang’s book makes a compelling case for the importance of this genre in understanding early colonial Korea. Written in beautiful, measured prose, this book apprises us of the costs of longing for individuality, modernity, and civilization. A work of comparative literature at its finest. -- Ruth Barraclough, Australian National UniversityYang’s important study challenges hegemonic, male-centered historical narratives of intellectual and literary modernity that are both Korean and universal. The book vouches strongly for the embodied nature of the individual subject, which is never transcendent but is always marked by gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. Emerging from Yang’s clear, precise, and always insightful prose are thus many of the suppressed Others of Enlightenment rationality—insane women, queer couples, sensitive men, female ghosts, and more. An admirable example of feminist literary scholarship, this book will become a must read for scholars and students of Korean and East Asian literature, comparative literature, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. -- Sunyoung Park, University of Southern CaliforniaYoon Sun Yang’s From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men is revisionary scholarship of the best and highest order that will also reach beyond the growing field of Korean literary studies to attract scholars of other national literatures. -- Janet Poole, University of Toronto
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Princeton University Press The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental
Book SynopsisFor generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women''s sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women''s power. Marianne Noble argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. She begins by exploring the cultural forces that came together to create this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of true womanhood. She goes on to demonstrate how sentimental literature takes advantage of the expressive power in the convergence of these two discourses to imagine women''s romantic desire. Therefore, in sentimental literature, images of eroticized domination are not antithetical to female pleasure but rather can be constitutive of it. The book, however, does not simply celebrate that fact. In readings of Warner'Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 "This book does an admirable job of assessing the cultural and libidinal values attached to sentimental fiction and its prevalent tropology of erotic domination in 19th century writing by women."--Virginia Quarterly Review "[A] complex, nuanced volume ...Though the author abundantly documents the oppressive aspects of fantasies of masochistic desire, she also traces the kinds of power and pleasure produced in works that eroticize female attraction to pain and submission to male domination."--Choice "Noble's flexible and dazzling close reading of Stowe, Warner, and Dickinson are artful, and she usefully demonstrates that exploring the variations of individualistic psychological response is key to understanding the work of sentimental discourse."--Rebecca Wanzo, American LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism 3 One Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood 26 Two Sentimental Masochism 61 Tbe Parallel Structures of Sentimentalism and Masochism 62 "The Lineaments of the Divine Master" 85 Three "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics, of Domination in The Wide, Wide World 94 The Making of a Masochist 96 Horsewhipping and the Exploration of Desire 113 Four The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin 126 The Epistemology of Wounds 128 A Raging, Burning Storm of Feeling 136 Five The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism 147 The Power of Sentimental Masochism 157 The Erotics of Sentimental Masochism 164 The Presence of Sentimental Masochism 174 Conclusion The Possibility of Masochism 190 Notes 199 Works Cited 235 Index 251
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Princeton University Press Women Artists in Expressionism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is well researched, providing an absorbing picture of some neglected figures and revealing the interminable discord between sexes."---Christian Kile, Sehepunkte
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Princeton University Press Twice upon a Time
Book SynopsisFairy tales, often said to be timeless and fundamentally oral, have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the Anglo-American fairy tale and its place in this variegated history.Trade Review"In this elegant study the scholar Elizabeth Wanning Harries gives their due to the counteuses--the 17th century French ladies ... who entertained their salons with witty, sophisticated fantasies about imaginary princes and princesses... Harries suggests, with culture today fragmented into myriad products and market niches, fairy tales may be our only universal point of reference, the only cultural language we speak in common."--Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe "To read Harries's study is to have that all too rare experience of recognizing that this book needed to be written and is full of truths."--Choice "This is a highly readable work which engages with important questions in feminist literary criticism and fairy-tale research and offers a valuable and well-argued rereading of the history of the fairy tale."--Karen Seago, Marvels and TalesTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION: Once, Not Long Ago 3 CHAPTER ONE: Fairy Tales about Fairy Tales: Notes on Canon Formation 19 CHAPTER TWO: Voices in Print: Oralities in the Fairy Tale 46 CHAPTER THREE: The Invention of the Fairy Tale in Britain 73 INTERLUDE: Once Again 99 CHAPTER FOUR: New Frames for Old Tales 104 CHAPTER FIVE: The Art of Transliteration 135 CONCLUSION: Twice-Told Tales 160 NOTES 165 BIBLIOGRAPHY 193 INDEX 211
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Princeton University Press Dickinsons Misery
Book SynopsisPoses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards Winner of the 2005 Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association "Beautifully written, witty, incisive, learned, savvy, generous, and generative, Dickinson's Misery has no contemporary peer, synthesizing as it does knowledge of a vast range of relevant philosophy, poetic theory, and poetry as Jackson's inquiry opens up territories none other has thought to explore."--Martha Nell Smith, American Literature "Jackson seeks to engage with the reader in exploring various theories of the lyric, and to find a way into a range of lyric genres (songs, notes, letters, elegies, valentines, verse) in order to consider them as alternatives to a singular idea of the lyric. The book is beautifully illustrated with a range of Dickinson material which allows the reader to appreciate the images of her writing as an essential element in 'reading' the past."--The Year's Work in English Studies (2007)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Beforehand 1 Chapter One: Dickinson Undone 16 Bird-tracks 16 "When what they sung for ..." 26 Lyric Context 31 Hybrid Poems 38 Dickinson Unbound 45 The Archive 53 Chapter Two: Lyric Reading 68 "My Cricket" 68 Lyric Alienation 92 Lyric Theory 100 Against (Lyric) Theory 109 Chapter Three: Dickinson's Figure of Address 118 "The only poets" 118 Lyric Media 126 "The man who makes sheets of paper" 133 "You-there-I-here" 142 "The most pathetic thing I do" 158 Chapter Four: "Faith in Anatomy" 166 Achilles' Head 166 The Interpretant 179 "No Bird-yet rode in Ether--" 185 The Queen's Place 196 Chapter Five: Dickinson's Misery 204 "Misery, how fair" 204 "The Literature of Misery" 212 "This Chasm" 219 "And bore her safe away" 228 Conclusion 235 Notes 241 Selected Works Cited 275 Index 293
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Princeton University Press Why Gender Matters in Economics
Book SynopsisGender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic lookTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "Providing an accessible textbook-style survey of this emerging field, Mukesh Eswaran's Why Gender Matters in Economics plugs a gaping hole in the discipline. Drawing on insights not only from feminism but also from evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, politics and Marxism, Eswaran seeks to answer questions of interest to us all."--Victoria Bateman, Times Higher Education "[Why Gender Matters in Economics] provides a practical understanding of how economic reasoning informs discussions around such topics as the balance of power in households, labor markets, wealth, credit markets, fertility and health care, marriage, suffrage, and empowerment... This book is a comprehensive and discerning work that should provide readers with the context and understanding to more effectively comprehend the substantive economic role of gender."--Choice "A rich trove of information about what are commonly though of as 'women's issues' in economics."--Julie A. Nelson, Journal of Economic Literature
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Princeton University Press Women at the Beginning Origin Myths from the
Book SynopsisExploring the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women, this book describes the marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. It probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths, and actual women in ancient and medieval societies.Trade Review"[T]his is a clever and delightful monograph."--Elisabeth Van Houts, Early Medieval EuropeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 7 CHAPTER TWO: Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians 26 CHAPTER THREE: A Tale of Two Judiths 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender 60 EPILOGUE: Women at the End 76 Notes 79 Suggestions for Further Reading 99 Index 101
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Princeton University Press An Enchanted Modern
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and pious.Trade Review"Lara Deeb successfully argues that Islamism is not static or monolithic, and that Islam and modernity are entirely compatible."--Nancy E. Gallagher, Digest of Middle East Studies "Lara Deeb's expansive and eloquent ethnography focuses on the community of Lebanese Shi'i who identify with Hizbullah. It is an excellent analysis of the way that women, in particular, live and define a modern, 'authenticated' Islam in the neighborhoods of al-Dahiyya... Both theoretically and ethnographically, Deeb offers nuanced and thorough analyses, all the while being attentive to overlapping, contradictory, and shifting viewpoints."--Anne Bennett, Middle East Journal "In a well-organized manner, Lara Deeb conveys a multiplicity of ideas that challenge the existing stereotypes of Hizbullah and the Lebanese Shi'i... I would recommend this book for a variety of classes, ranging from undergrads to doctoral candidates, as well as for anyone interested in political and religious issues in Lebanon and the Middle East."--Bridget Blomfield, American Journal of Islamic Social Scientists "An American anthropologist of Lebanese descent and raised Christian, Lara Deeb ... provides a novel interpretation of modern Shi'ism. Her book is written in an academically and scholarly fashion, yet her writing style is easy to understand. In a well-organized manner, she conveys a multiplicity of ideas that challenge the existing stereotypes of Hizbullah and the Lebanese Shi'i. Since she is not Shi'i, she does not express a religious agenda but instead wholeheartedly represents a group of people who have been widely misunderstood in the West. I would recommend this book for a variety of classes, ranging from undergrads to doctoral candidates, as well as for anyone interested in political and religious issues in Lebanon and the Middle East."--Bridget Blomfield, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences "Deeb provides insights into the complex understandings of the religious and the secular that inform individual and collective expressions of piety among Shia Muslims."--Amina Jamal, Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Language xi Part One: Encounters, Approaches, Spaces, Moments Introduction: Pious and/as/is Modern 3 Chapter One: Al-Dahiyya: Sight, Sound, Season 42 Chapter Two: From Marginalization to Institutionalization 67 Part Two: Living an Enchanted Modern Chapter Three: The Visibility of Religion in Daily Life 99 Chapter Four: Ashura: Authentication and Sacrifice 129 Chapter Five: Community Commitment 165 Chapter Six: Public Piety as Women's Jihad 204 Chapter Seven: The Pious Modern Ideal and Its Gaps 220 Glossary 233 References 235 Index 251
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Princeton University Press Women in the Middle East
Book SynopsisWritten by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, this book presents a concise and comprehensive history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. It shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women.Trade Review"This remarkable book enriches the field of Middle Eastern studies... To read these interviews from almost two decades ago is to be struck by how much the world and Middle Eastern studies have changed since. For the new prominence of scholarship about women, no little credit is due Nikki Keddie."--Haleh Esfandiari, Wilson Quarterly "All readers will enjoy the superb photographs, most of which were taken by the author during the 1970s...Graduate students will benefit from reading Keddie's nuanced understanding of the field's development from her perspective in 1978 and nearly a quarter of a century later."--M.L. Russell, Choice "This collection of papers is a useful reminder both of the evolving scholarship dealing with women in the Middle East, and of the significant contributions that Keddie has made to that scholarship. It is an important addition to the library of anyone interested in this subject."--John O. Voll, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 BOOK ONE: Women in the Middle East: A History 7 Introduction: Issues in Studying Middle Eastern Women's History 9 I. Regional Background and the Beginnings of Islam 13 II. From the Pious Caliphs through the Dynastic Caliphates 26 III. From the Turkish and Mongol Invasions to 1798 48 IV. Change in the Long Nineteenth Century 1798-1914 60 V. 1914-45: Nationalism and Women's Movements 75 VI. 1945-Today: New States and Trends, Women's Activism, and the Rise of Islamism 102 Conclusion 166 Notes to Book One 171 Bibliography of Books 193 BOOK TWO: Approaches to the Study of Middle Eastern Women 201 Part 1. Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender 203 Part 2. Scholarship, Relativism, and Universalism 225 Part 3. Women in the Limelight: Recent Books on Middle Eastern Women's History since 1800 251 Part 4. Problems in the Study of Middle Eastern Women 279 Part 5. Sexuality and Shi?i Social Protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh]) 297 BOOK THREE: Autobiographical Recollections 325 Part 1. Autobiographical Interview 327 Part 2. Supplement to the Interview 347 Bibliography of Works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995 355 Index 357
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Womens Rights in Iran
Book SynopsisAfter the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. This title explores how Iranian women understand their rights. It reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality.Trade Review"The book is a valuable contribution to the studies of state-society interaction in the Islamic Republic of Iran."--G. Tezcur, Choice "The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran is most appropriate for academic law libraries. It could, perhaps, prove a useful addition to a law firm library as well, particularly for a firm that serves a substantial clientele from an Iranian or Islamic background. The text is written at quite a high level, which prevents me from recommending it for all but the most scholarly types who also have a specific interest in the subject matter."--Kama Siegel, Law Library Journal "For ... its much needed accessibility, attention to nuance, and analytic precision, The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran is a valuable contribution to a complex and conflicted field of inquiry."--Abbas Barzegar, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences "[A] unique and effective first book... Osanloo's voice is fresh and provides a deeper insight into the question of women's rights."--Paola Rivetti, Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies "Osanloo's book is a timely discussion that not only critiques the limitations of the Islamic Republic's stance on women's rights, but also queries the Western gaze and political agenda often viewing the non-Christian as the alien Other. It provides a fresh perspective on the ways in which contemporary urban women in Iran construct and articulate a discourse of 'rights' relevant to their lives."--Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Feminist Review "The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran is essential reading for human rights scholars, advocates (and sceptics alike), and practitioners who are grappling to find pathways beyond the stale and polarised discourses concerning human rights in Iran."--Sevda Clark, Nordic Journal of Human RightsTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION: Human Rights and Cultural Practice 1 CHAPTER ONE: A Genealogy of "Women's Rights" in Iran 20 CHAPTER TWO: Producing States: Women's Participation and the Dialogics of Rights 42 CHAPTER THREE: Qur'anic Meetings: "Doing the Cultural Work" 75 CHAPTER FOUR: Courting Rights: Rights Talk in Islamico-Civil Family Court 108 CHAPTER FIVE: Practice and Effect: Writing/Righting the Law 138 CHAPTER SIX: Human Rights: The Politics and Prose of Discursive Sites 166 CONCLUSION: "Women's Rights" as Exhibition at the Brink of War 200 APPENDIX: The Iranian Marriage Contract 209 Notes 211 Glossary 227 Bibliography 231 Index 251
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Princeton University Press At Home in the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Convincing, compelling, and--perhaps most importantly--concise. Spending just few pages at a time on each novel, Nord and DiBattista's readings are close but not confining, and compact enough to illuminate the overall narrative without dragging it down. Readers acquainted with the writers discussed, who range chronologically from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to Nadine Gordimer and Marilynne Robinson, will eagerly await their favorite books' four pages of fame. The book's style makes it accessible to less seasoned readers expanding their literary knowledge."--Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful and lively romp... While it is a tall order to compress 200 years into the same number of pages, the authors succeed admirably. Their introduction to the characters, plotlines and insights of this creative and quirky group is like a smorgasbord of appetisers reminding hungry readers just how tasty these cuisines are... At Home in the World performs an extraordinary service. It shows that women deserve to be read as commentators on the world of affairs."--Elizabeth Cobbs, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION The Peripatetics 1 1 Adventure 12 2 Emancipation 43 3 Pioneers 78 4 War 110 5 Politics 162 6 Multinationals 197 CONCLUSION Promised Lands 247 Notes 253 Suggestions for Further Reading 265 Index 271
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Princeton University Press Imagining Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisAnswers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers.Trade Review"DiBatistta (Fast-Talking Dames) pieces together a portrait of Virginia Woolf as experienced by readers... For general fans of literary criticism or of Woolf's writing in particular, DiBattista's experiment will offer an intriguing perspective on Woolf's relationship to her art and her audience."--Publishers Weekly "Like Anne Fernald's Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader, DiBattista's study extends understanding not only of Woolf's craft and intellectual life but also of reading practices in general."--Choice "What interests Maria DiBattista is not who Woolf actually was--the flesh and blood woman--but the multiple personalities that emanate from her books. Reading a writer familiar to us is, in many ways, no different from seeing people we know, she says. In both cases, the person we think we know is a composite of the various facets of them we have glimpsed."--Fiona Capp, The Age "[W]hen people ask me about biographies about Woolf, I will recommend this one. Certainly, it cannot replace the more traditional biographies DiBattista acknowledges in her introduction, but it is an important supplement to them. My own understanding of the traditional biographies is more nuanced, a result of reading DiBattista's book."--Molly Youngkin, English Literature in Transition "[T]his short book is full of insights... I recommend it to you; it is a pleasure to read."--Stuart N. Clarke, Virginia Woolf Bulletin "[T]he more vivid impressions generated by DiBattista's study: namely, the reader's sensation of having been shown 'Virginia's Room' in a new light, as well as the realization that Woolf's 'room of one's own' is now a multitude of rooms, imaginative spaces where her readers have the freedom to hang looking-glasses in whatever odd corners they may choose."--Rosemary Joyce, Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix THE DEMON OF READING Chapter 1. The Figment of the Author 3 Chapter 2. Personalities 14 WOOLF'S PERSONALITIES Chapter 3. The Sibyl of the Drawing Room 41 Chapter 4. The Author 64 Chapter 5. The Critic 92 Chapter 6. The World Writer 119 Chapter 7. The Adventurer 140 EPILOGUE Chapter 8. Anon Once More 169 Notes 173 Index 191
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Princeton University Press The Amazons
Book SynopsisAmazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman generalTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Sarasvati Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology, Association for the Study of Women & Mythology 2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category Selected for The New York Times Book Review's "The Year in Reading" 2016 Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize One of Foreign Affairs' Best Military, Scientific, and Technological Books of 2015 Selected for American Scientist's Science Book Gift Guide 2014 "In her quest to separate reality from mythology, Mayor left few stones unturned, even examining the graves of women with war wounds and mummified tattoos. She skillfully presents her findings with wit and conviction in this superbly illustrated book"--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affiars "Fluidly written and exhaustively researched, this fascinating book lit up my mind and my sense of humanity, not just with women in it, but under it, above it, flinging out constellations and atoms; carving out grand canyons hand-in-hand with men and beasts and glaciers, too."--Neko Case, singer-songwriter, New York Times Book Review "The Amazons is elegantly written, nicely illustrated and will no doubt excite a lot of attention."--Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement "Mayor specializes in connecting artifacts--paintings, sculptures, coins, bones, weapons, clothing, fossils--with the more diffuse evidence found in literature, lore and legend ... in order to illuminate the lives of the ancient warrior women... Impressive investigative work ... fascinating."--James Romm, London Review of Books "[A] fascinatingly detailed account."--Emily Wilson, Wall Street Journal "Mayor (The Poison King) looks at ancient writings and archeological evidence to argue that yes, 'Amazons' were based on real nomadic women, though much different from the way ancient Greeks or contemporary audiences imagine them... Mayor speculates on the origin of such misconceptions in ancient writings and art, smartly suggesting that, though Amazons are usually depicted heroically in Greek art and mythology, the male-centric Greeks perhaps struggled to understand a society based on equality between the sexes... Her expertise shines throughout."--Publishers Weekly "An encyclopedic study of the barbarian warrior women of Western Asia, revealing how new archaeological discoveries uphold the long-held myths and legends. The famed female archers on horseback from the lands the ancient Greeks called Scythia appeared throughout Greek and Roman legend. Mayor tailors her scholarly work to lay readers, providing a fascinating exploration into the factual identity underpinning the fanciful legends surrounding these wondrous Amazons... Mayor clears away much of the man-hating myths around these redoubtable warriors. Thanks to Mayor's scholarship, these fearsome fighters are attaining their historical respectability."--Kirkus Reviews "A must-read for anyone interested in either Amazonian myth or history."--Fred Poling, Library Journal "No one before has ever marshalled the full sweep of evidence as Mayor does here... The result is a book as erudite as it riveting, one that is surely destined to serve as the definitive work on the subject."--Tom Holland, Literary Review "There are myriad myths surrounding the Amazons, but which are based on truth? ... This is the question which Adrienne Mayor seeks to answer in her hugely informative and entertaining Encyclopaedia Amazonica."--Natalie Haynes, Independent "[A] lively and engaging exploration ... vivid, compelling and detailed ... a rich compendium."--Lloyd Llewellyn Jones, Times Higher Education "A beautiful book... The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor is required reading."--Anna Meldolesi, Corriere della Sera "Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic."--Peter Konieczny, History of the Ancient World blog "Mayor writes elegant, jargon free, frequently witty prose."--Barry Baldwin, Fortean Times "If Adrienne Mayor had merely applied her rigorous scholarship and poetic charm to documenting the shifting image of Amazons in classical, medieval and post-Renaissance European culture, she would have written an important contribution to ancient history. But she has achieved much more. By painstaking research ... she has broken down the often impenetrable walls dividing western cultural history from its eastern equivalents... Mayor opens up new horizons in world storytelling and feminist iconography... There may not be Amazon dolls in today's toyshops, but a good substitute would be to read this wonderful book with your children and show them its pictures."--Edith Hall, New Statesman "For anyone who thinks Amazons were as mythical as centaurs or sphinxes, this pleasurable book proves that misconception is wondrously wrong... Mayor's beautifully illustrated book, truly encyclopedic on all things Amazonian, reclaims the historic image of these dauntless figures in the heroic frame they deserve."--Fran Willing, Bust.com "Mayor's book is popular history at its best. Much of her archaeological evidence is new -- such as her descriptions of 'Scythian' female graves with horses and weapons. She chooses wonderful illustrations which makes the book enjoyable and easy to read."--Zenobia blog "Clearly, with this clever, systematic and engaging work by Mayor, Amazons got their classic book. And it is a riveting read, too."--Ephraim Nissan, Fabula "Mayor's fascinatingly readable book convincingly argues that many of their characteristics may have derived from real nomadic womenwarriors of antiquity... It represents a remarkable scholarly breakthrough: no one will ever be able to discuss the Amazon myths again without taking into account the historical evidence she provides."--Tassos A. Kaplanis, Journal of Historical Geography "Adrienne Mayor has written an ambitious 'Encyclopedia Amazonica' as she calls her book, a kind of compendium of information about the Amazons... Her charming and seamless style can certainly provoke a reader's interest in the still distant and unknown terra incognita of the Black Sea and Caucasus regions and their nomadic life."--Eleni Boliaki, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "I can't ... begin to say how great it is to have a book like this, because it's exactly the kind of book I like. Not one that just dismisses old stories as being too tall or made up, but really gives them the benefit of the doubt and tries to correlate and reconcile them with hard evidence. This is brilliantly achieved in Amazons... This in many ways is an exhaustive study, every facet that could be thought of has been included, and very little left out."--Adventures in Historyland "Mayor writes well, and not without dry humour, and although hardly given to the sensational, the sheer depth and breadth of her research and discoveries carry you along. You won't devour this in a sitting, just as you wouldn't eat a whole gooey gateau at once, but each slice of book is appetising enough to keep you coming back for more."--Lynn Picknett, Magonia Review of BooksTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: Atalanta, the Greek Amazon 1 Part 1 Who Were the Amazons? 1 Ancient Puzzles and Modern Myths 17 2 Scythia, Amazon Homeland 34 3 Sarmatians, a Love Story 52 Part 2 Historical Women Warriors and Classical Traditions 4 Bones: Archaeology of Amazons 63 5 Breasts: One or Two? 84 6 Skin: Tattooed Amazons 95 7 Naked Amazons 117 8 Sex and Love 129 9 Drugs, Dance, and Music 142 10 The Amazon Way 155 11 Horses, Dogs, and Eagles 170 12 Who Invented Trousers? 191 13 Armed and Dangerous: Weapons and Warfare 209 14 Amazon Languages and Names 234 Part 3 Amazons in Greek and Roman Myth, Legend, and History 15 Hippolyte and Heracles 249 16 Antiope and Theseus 259 17 Battle for Athens 271 18 Penthesilea and Achilles at Troy 287 19 Amazons at Sea 305 20 Thalestris and Alexander the Great 319 21 Hypsicratea, King Mithradates, and Pompey's Amazons 339 Part 4 Beyond the Greek World 22 Caucasia, Crossroads of Eurasia 357 23 Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia 377 24 Amazonistan: Central Asia 395 25 China 411 Appendix: Names of Amazons and Warrior Women in Ancient Literature and Art from the Mediterranean to China 431 Notes 439 Bibliography 485 Index 503
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Princeton University Press Margaret Mead
Book SynopsisExplains how and why Margaret Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this title explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine.Trade Review"Lutkehaus provides a fair and fascinating account of her multifaceted subject, making this as intriguing and thought-provoking a biography as one could wish for."--Guy Cook, Times Higher Education "Lutkehaus effectively and perceptively examines Mead's impact (both subtle and overt) on anthropology and American popular culture from the 1928 publication of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, to the present day. With its fresh approach, this work is a valuable addition to the body of literature on Mead. Highly recommended for anthropology and popular culture collections in academic and large public libraries."--Elizabeth Salt, Library Journal "[Nancy C. Lutkehaus has] written an illuminating book--more a sociohistorical portrait than a birth-to-death biography--that examines how Margaret Mead became an American icon."--Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History "In 1972, college student Lutkehaus worked a year for Margaret Mead. Experiencing the variety of Mead's roles as a mature anthropologist herself, she decided to analyze that best-known U.S. anthropologist. Her book presents Mead as American icon, modern woman, anthropologist, woman scientist, celebrity, and posthumous public anthropologist."--A.B. Kehoe, Choice "For those interested in the history of science, the nature of celebrity and fame, and the roles of women in anthropology, Lutkehaus's volume is a welcome and important addition to our understanding of the place of professions and noteworthy professionals in American society and culture."--Nancy J. Parezo, American Historical Review "Lutkehaus's engagingly written study of the iconic status of Margaret Mead in America is indispensable for thinking about the relationship between public intellectual academics and broader cultural trends."--Neil Mclaughlin, Contexts "This book is perfectly focused, richly researched, filled with incidents and evidence and insightful interviews, and written as a story that certainly held this reader. It is a treasure, full of history and insights... I think Mead would have liked this solidly researched and convincingly interpreted book, and I think she deserved it. I think she would think that she chose well when she chose Lutkehaus as her assistant half a century ago."--Dorothy K. Billings, Current Anthropology "In this wonderfully illustrated book, Lutkehaus ... carries off the narrative and the analysis of Mead's 'iconicity' with learning, clarity, and panache."--Howard Brick, Museum Anthropology Review "This meticulously researched book makes a significant contribution to the history of twentieth century American liberal thought and public opinion... The book is a great read, entertaining as well as informative. It makes skilful and pointed use of photographs, advertisements, illustrations and cartoons to amplify its subject."--Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea, Pacific Affairs "For readers interested in scientists as public intellectuals, celebrities, popularizers, social activists, and academic superstars, Lutkehaus's book offers an important refinement of a discussion begun in Rae Goodell's The Visible Scientists."--Virginia Yans, ISISTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Mead as American Icon 1 Chapter 1. Mead as Modern Woman 25 Chapter 2. Images of the Mature Mead 58 Chapter 3. Mead as Anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" 83 Chapter 4. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Study Cannibals" 113 Chapter 5. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls" 133 Chapter 6. Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist 151 Chapter 7. Mead as Scientist 165 Chapter 8. Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity 205 Chapter 9. The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist 238 Abbreviations of Archival Sources 265 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index 361
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Princeton University Press Questioning the Veil Open Letters to Muslim
Book SynopsisAcross much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? This title examines the inconsistent and inadequate reasons given for the veil.Trade Review"Long or short, sternly pinned or silkily draped, the Islamic veil is the most contentious religious symbol today, in the West as much as in the Muslim world... [Lazreg] feels passionately that Muslim women should not wear the veil, as both her mother and grandmother obediently did... [A] useful and timely counterpoint."--Economist "Marnia Lazreg's discussion of the infamous piece of cloth, however, is different from most other treatises on the issue. It is personal and passionate... As such, it is a highly relevant intervention into the debate on the veil."--Julia Droeber, Times Higher Education "Sociologist Lazreg, an authority on Algeria, has issued a call for frank and unmediated conversation among Muslim women. In a series of four letters that assert the major points of contention--modesty, sexual harassment, cultural identity, conviction, and piety--she lays bare the issues, apologetics, and real lives of veiled Muslim women in an unprecedented fashion... A provocative text that demands a response."--Choice "Questioning the Veil is an excellent examination of an extremely controversial and divisive piece of clothing, written with unimpeachable authority, and a valuable source of information for anyone seeking to achieve an informed perspective on the subject."--Rabbi Dr Charles H Middleburgh, Charles Middleburgh blog "Read as the author declares it to be, not a scholarly treatise, but a very personal inquiry, Marnia Lazreg's book is a rich and committed contribution to the current debate on the veil."--Irina Vainovski-Mihai, Insight Turkey "[Lazreg's] analysis will no doubt frustrate Muslim women who say they choose to wear the veil, but her argument is well worth reading by anyone... This should be required reading in any course discussing gender and Islam."--Daniel Martin Varisco, Contemporary Islam "[Lazreg's] strong, but sensitive, prose rescues the veil debate from theological disputation and overly footnoted treatises."--Daniel Martin Varisco, Contemporary Islam "[I]t is good that such a book exists. Every woman should read it and reflect on it honestly before making up her mind about veiling."--Fanny Le Reste, Suomen AntropologiTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Letter One: Modesty 15 Letter Two: Sexual Harassment 41 Letter Three: Cultural Identity 53 Letter Four: Conviction and Piety 67 Letter Five: Why Women Should Not Wear the Veil 97 Notes 133 References 147 Index 153
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Princeton University Press Our Bodies Whose Property
Book SynopsisAn argument against treating our bodies as commoditiesNo one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, Our Bodies, Whose Property? challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. Anne Phillips explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic.What, she asks, is wrong with thinking of oneself as the Trade Review"[B]oth those who are aware of what is happening around these issues and those who have not reflected on recent developments around markets, bodies and properties would do well to read Phillips' timely, intelligent overview of the challenges of early 21st-century global body politics... [A] rich feast of considered reflections on some of the most pressing issues of our times."--Maureen McNeil, Times Higher Education "Ultimately, although she may not have intended it to be overtly so, Phillips' book reads as a beautiful piece of Marxist work, and it is in this way specifically that her work is incredibly valuable in the face of the increasing commodification and marketization of practically every aspect of our existence... Her book is ... valuable not just from a feminist perspective concerned with women's equality in the face of corporeal exploitation, but to those interested in issues of political, economic, and social justice as well."--Linda Roland Danil, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books "Phillips examines the public policy ramifications of using property rights language about the body and its parts... This is a valuable and balanced survey of the various positions on issues that evolving social views and medical technology are making important, if not vital."--Choice "There is much to admire in this book... The way in which she presses relevant empirical evidence into the service of her normative commitments is impressive. Her thoughtful discussion of the infinitely complex and emotionally laden ways in which we relate to our bodies, and of the impact which our decisions regarding our bodies have on others, challenges both those who subscribe to the view that the individual alone should decide what to do with their body, and how to do it, and those who favor the side of controlling bodies--particularly, it has to be said, women's bodies--for society's ends."--Cecile Fabre, Times Literary Supplement "This is a skilful and thoughtful engagement with a 'real' ethical/policy issue and from which the author is not too shy to draw 'real' policy conclusions."--Chris Pierson, Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Chapter One What's So Special about the Body? 18 Chapter Two Property Models of Rape 42 Chapter Three Bodies for Rent? The Case of Commercial Surrogacy 65 Chapter Four Spare Parts and Desperate Need 97 Chapter Five The Individualism of Property Claims 134 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index 191
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Princeton University Press Unrivalled Influence
Book SynopsisExplores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.Trade ReviewJudith Herrin, Winner of the 2016 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences "Herrin has followed her publisher's excellent advice that she preface each piece with a generous account of when and how it came to be written. This means that, together with her general introductions for the two volumes, the reader has an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of Byzantine studies from the 1960s onward as well as for the personal development of Herrin herself as a Byzantine historian. The two volumes are a kind of intellectual autobiography. I know of nothing quite like them in the time-honored tradition of collecting a scholar's papers. We can see clearly, step by step, how Herrin became the historian she is today as well as the environment that supported her, and through her, the field to which she has dedicated her life."--G.W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books "[A] welcome corrective to long-standing cartoon-like images of Byzantine women as over-sexed in public and over-pious in private."--Christopher Kelly, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAbbreviations ix Introduction xiii 1.Women in Byzantium 1 2.In Search of Byzantine Women: Three Avenues of Approach 12 3.Women and the Faith in Icons in Early Christianity 38 4.Mothers and Daughters in the Medieval Greek World 80 5."Femina Byzantina": The Council in Trullo on Women 115 6.Public and Private Forms of Religious Commitment among Byzantine Women 133 7.The Imperial Feminine in Byzantium 161 8.Political Power and Christian Faith in Byzantium: The Case of Irene (Regent 780-90, Emperor 797-802) 194 9.Moving Bones: Evidence of Political Burials from Medieval Constantinople 208 10.The Many Empresses of the Byzantine Court (and All Their Attendants) 219 11.Theophano: Considerations on the Education of a Byzantine Princess 238 12.Toleration and Repression in the Byzantine Family: Gender Problems 261 13.The Icon Corner in Medieval Byzantium 281 14.Marriage: A Fundamental Element of Imperial Statecraft 302 Index 321
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Princeton University Press The Silent Sex Gender Deliberation and
Book SynopsisDo women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the groupTrade ReviewCo-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology "This book examines the extent of the contributions by men and women to public discussions about subjects of common concern. Karpowitz and Mendelberg find evidence of a significant difference in contributions--with men contributing more--and show how gender composition and rules dramatically affect what a group ultimately decides."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Problem 8 Chapter 2: The Sources of the Gender Gap in Political Participation 33 Chapter 3: Why Women Don't Speak 51 Chapter 4: The Deliberative Justice Experiment 97 Chapter 5: Speech as a Form of Participation: Floor Time and Perceived Influence 114 Chapter 6: What Makes Women the "Silent Sex" When Their Status Is Low? 143 Chapter 7: Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice? 167 Chapter 8: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction 200 Chapter 9: When Women Speak, Groups Listen--Sometimes: How and When Women's Voice Shapes the Group's Generosity 239 Chapter 10: Gender Inequality in School Boards 273 Conclusion 305 Appendixes 359 References 409 Index 445
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Princeton University Press Sex and Secularism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017""Sex and Secularism offers a series of bracing and illuminating reflections on a whole culture of oppression that ought to have been exposed much earlier."---Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"Sex and Secularism must be praised for drawing attention to the history of secularism and gender inequality. Scott’s message is no doubt timely in light of the powerful effect of the #MeToo campaign, which should give anyone pause before boasting about the superior treatment of women in the secular west."---Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Guardian"Scott’s ardent and principled opposition to the prejudice and hostility expressed towards Islam – more specifically towards Islamic countries, societies and practices – by 'secularists' in Europe (principally France) and the United States is timely and necessary."---Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Times Literary Supplement"In Sex and Secularism, Scott broadens her scope geographically and temporally. Here the subject is women’s relationship to secularism in modern western nation-states. This is a big and complex subject for a compact volume, but Scott is especially well-positioned to tackle it. . . . A challenging, timely, and important book. . . . Readers of Sex and Secularism will be forced to rethink their assumptions about the role of women and their bodies in contemporary political debates."---Susan B. Whitney, Literary Review of Canada"Sex and Secularism is a challenging, timely, and important book. . . . Her aim, she continues, was to 'open--not to definitively close--a conversation about the place of gender equality in the discourse of secularism.' That she has definitively done, as few other scholars could."---Susan Whitney, Literary Review of Canada"In her new book, the eminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott[’s] . . . aim is to sketch a speculative history of the relationship between sex and secularism: to uncover how ideas about the proper place of religion and the proper place of women have influenced each other and to show how both have been placed in the service of Western imperialism. . . . Scott does not contend that religious societies are more egalitarian than secular ones, but she wants to draw attention to the long history of conflict whitewashed by the assertion that feminism and secularism are naturally aligned."---Namara Smith, Bookforum"Scott's theoretical, historical narrative in Sex and Secularism takes its place in a wider conversation in which critical thinkers working in many genres-including film, music, and fiction-ponder gender, race, religion, and sexual difference in a way that refuses essentialism while taking seriously the political effects of these categories on people living in worlds of ongoing inequality and violence. Secularism is not the savior, nor is it the demon in this narrative; it is, like all political ideals, including feminism, a promise that variably incites and excludes."---Pamela E. Klassen, Public Books"Wide-ranging, sophisticated and up-to-date. . . . Anyone from a good senior school student to an expert can expect to learn a great deal from Scott's narrative and notes."---Chris Forbes, Ancient History Resources for Teachers"Joan W. Scott has written an important and timely book."---Sarah B. Farris, H-Diplo Roundtable Review"In many ways, the true success of Sex and Secularism should be pointing out the obvious. A secular society does not mean an equal society. . . . By expertly countering this assertion with a carefully crafted argument throughout the pages of this work, Scott has successfully revealed the continued hypocrisy of Western democracies."---Meltem Ince-Yenilmez, Journal of Global Analysis"Joan Scott argues in this finely crafted, well-argued, wide-ranging, and timely book, secularism has never been a set of abstract truths, but has rather been a historically produced, discursive operation of power based on sexual difference."---Laura L. Frader, H-France Review"Some academic books are so rich and complex that they leave a lasting impression and feed the mind long after the reader has finished them. [Sex and Secularism] is one of those rare books."---Marta Trzebiatowska, Journal of Religion in Europe"Sex & Secularism is a passionate argument against Islamophobia and its rationalization in arguments that only secular societies foster gender equality and sexual liberalization."---Edward Andrew, European Legacy
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Princeton University Press Righteous Transgressions Womens Activism on the
Book SynopsisHow do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlerTrade Review"Interested observers could learn much from the rare, up-close look at hugely influential political movements."--Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz "Ben Shitrit demonstrates a deep understanding of the movements under study and uncovers a wealth of primary and secondary research on the topic... [Righteous Transgressions] is an excellent study of women involved in conservative religious movements."--Choice "A well-written, insightful, and important contribution to the intersecting fields of gender, religion, and politics. It should be read by all concerned with the study of women and extremism, especially those interested in violent conflict and authoritarian ideology."--Anissa Helie, Journal of Church and StateTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Language xi 1. Introduction: Frames of Exception and Righteous Transgressions 1 2. Contextualizing the Movements 32 3. Complementarian Activism: Domestic and Social Work, Da'wa, and Teshuva 80 4. Women's Protest: Exceptional Times and Exceptional Measures 128 5. Women's Formal Representation: Overlapping Frames 181 6. Conclusion 225 Notes 241 References 259 Index 275
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Princeton University Press Righteous Transgressions Womens Activism on the
Book SynopsisHow do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlerTrade Review"Interested observers could learn much from the rare, up-close look at hugely influential political movements."--Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz "Ben Shitrit demonstrates a deep understanding of the movements under study and uncovers a wealth of primary and secondary research on the topic... [Righteous Transgressions] is an excellent study of women involved in conservative religious movements."--Choice "A well-written, insightful, and important contribution to the intersecting fields of gender, religion, and politics. It should be read by all concerned with the study of women and extremism, especially those interested in violent conflict and authoritarian ideology."--Anissa Helie, Journal of Church and StateTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Language xi 1. Introduction: Frames of Exception and Righteous Transgressions 1 2. Contextualizing the Movements 32 3. Complementarian Activism: Domestic and Social Work, Da'wa, and Teshuva 80 4. Women's Protest: Exceptional Times and Exceptional Measures 128 5. Women's Formal Representation: Overlapping Frames 181 6. Conclusion 225 Notes 241 References 259 Index 275
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Princeton University Press Unrivalled Influence
Book SynopsisUnrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. DrawTrade ReviewJudith Herrin, Winner of the 2016 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences "Herrin has followed her publisher's excellent advice that she preface each piece with a generous account of when and how it came to be written. This means that, together with her general introductions for the two volumes, the reader has an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of Byzantine studies from the 1960s onward as well as for the personal development of Herrin herself as a Byzantine historian. The two volumes are a kind of intellectual autobiography. I know of nothing quite like them in the time-honored tradition of collecting a scholar's papers. We can see clearly, step by step, how Herrin became the historian she is today as well as the environment that supported her, and through her, the field to which she has dedicated her life."--G.W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books "[A] welcome corrective to long-standing cartoon-like images of Byzantine women as over-sexed in public and over-pious in private."--Christopher Kelly, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAbbreviations ix Introduction xiii 1.Women in Byzantium 1 2.In Search of Byzantine Women: Three Avenues of Approach 12 3.Women and the Faith in Icons in Early Christianity 38 4.Mothers and Daughters in the Medieval Greek World 80 5."Femina Byzantina": The Council in Trullo on Women 115 6.Public and Private Forms of Religious Commitment among Byzantine Women 133 7.The Imperial Feminine in Byzantium 161 8.Political Power and Christian Faith in Byzantium: The Case of Irene (Regent 780-90, Emperor 797-802) 194 9.Moving Bones: Evidence of Political Burials from Medieval Constantinople 208 10.The Many Empresses of the Byzantine Court (and All Their Attendants) 219 11.Theophano: Considerations on the Education of a Byzantine Princess 238 12.Toleration and Repression in the Byzantine Family: Gender Problems 261 13.The Icon Corner in Medieval Byzantium 281 14.Marriage: A Fundamental Element of Imperial Statecraft 302 Index 321
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Princeton University Press Lydia Ginzburgs Prose Reality in Search of
Book SynopsisThe Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the dTrade Review"Particularly welcome is the queer studies dimension of the volume... Those coming to Ginzburg's work for the first time will particularly appreciate the informative biography of the author at the beginning of the book"--Choice "Any student of the twentieth century and its traumas, let alone Soviet literary history, should find Van Buskirk's book of extreme interest and value."--Marat Grinberg, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note about Spelling, Transliteration, and Archival References ix Introduction 1 1 Writing the Self after the Crisis of Individualism: Distancing and Moral Evaluation 26 2 The Poetics of Desk-Drawer Notebooks 69 3 Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person 109 4 Passing Characters 161 5 Transformations of Experience: Around and Behind Notes of a Blockade Person 196 Conclusion: Sustaining a Human Image 222 Notes 231 Bibliography 323 Index 343
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Princeton University Press A Place at the Altar Priestesses in Republican
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Winner of the 2017 CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South "DiLuzio addresses a topic both well-known and understudied. Numerous scholars have investigated the role of women in Roman religion, but have focused almost exclusively on the vestal virgins. DiLuzio, however, offers the first detailed treatment of all attested female priesthoods in the Roman Republic. Her book is the most comprehensive treatment of the topic and a valuable contribution to the study of Roman religion."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 The Flamen and Flaminica Dialis 17 2 Priestly Couples 52 3 Salian Virgins, Sacerdotes, and Ministrae 79 4 The Vestal Virgins 119 5 The Costume of the Vestal Virgins 154 6 The Ritual Activities of the Vestal Virgins 185 7 The Vestal Virgins in Roman Politics 223 Conclusion 240 Bibliography 245 Index 273
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Princeton University Press The Political Poetess Victorian Femininity Race
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics 1 Section 1 Racializing the Poetess: Haunting "Separate Spheres" 1 Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess 29 2 "Not Another 'Poetess' ": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide 54 Section 2 Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism 3 Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas 83 4 Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliche 116 Section 3 Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits 5 Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics 153 6 Harper's Hearts: "Home Is Never Natural or Safe" 180 Notes 213 Works Cited 283 Acknowledgments 313 Index 319
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Princeton University Press Women at the Beginning
Trade Review"[T]his is a clever and delightful monograph."--Elisabeth Van Houts, Early Medieval EuropeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 7 CHAPTER TWO: Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians 26 CHAPTER THREE: A Tale of Two Judiths 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender 60 EPILOGUE: Women at the End 76 Notes 79 Suggestions for Further Reading 99 Index 101
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Princeton University Press Kierkegaards Muse
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A measured, perceptive portrait of Regine Olsen, Kierkegaard's jilted fiancee, reanimating her not as the philosopher's immortalized muse but as a living, breathing person."--Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsTranslator's Acknowledgment ix Preface xi Tuning In 1 Part 1 1855 The Painful Departure 13 "You my heart's sovereign mistress" 16 The Virgin Islands 24 Governor J. F. Schlegel and His Wife 29 The Attack on the Church 34 "The flies are to such a degree impertinent out here" 37 Patient No. 2067 41 1856 His Last Will and Testament 51 "My Regine! ... Your K." 55 "She nodded twice. I shook my head." 70 Repetition and the Repetition 71 Regine Frederikke Olsen's Death 80 Cane Garden's Blessings 82 "Food for worms and that's the end of it" 88 "... for you know how little fuss there is with Fritz and me" 91 Henrik Lund and "Uncle Soren" 95 Regine's First Letter to Henrik Lund 102 The Sealed Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel 107 The Secret Place in Regine's Heart 114 The Plague's Paradise 118 The First Love 126 "... it's exactly a matter I'd like to take up a little: blind love!" 128 "But I am constantly afraid of her passion" 130 "... so she eggs the merman on" 132 "... an unsettled point between us"-Regine's Second Letter to Henrik Lund 135 "One unnamed whose name will sometime be named" 138 "Then I return to you ..." 143 1857 "The Seducer's Diary" 146 Tropical Yuletide 153 The White Gold-A Dark Chapter 154 "We have had a Negro-uprising on St. Croix!" 158 Regine and "the Blacks" 163 Birch and His Brother 168 "Meet her without being observed" 172 "... I am an exceptional lover" 176 Either/Or 178 "The priest people in Hellevad" 181 "The day is bad, but the night is worse" 183 "... then I stand there so untouched by it all" 186 1001 Nights 188 1858 "You imagined it was Cornelia" 194 "What does this silence mean?" 195 "... I shall the second time with God's help become more cruel" 201 "... my besetting sin, making eternities!" 204 "God preserve me from their Christianity" 208 "... as though I were 16 again and not 36" 212 "What an enormous loss, that Mrs. Heiberg has left the theater!" 215 Fritz and His Tormentors 217 "-and when I grew dizzy through gazing down into her infinite devotion" 220 1859 "They played mostly dance music" 224 The French Officer-A Little Weakness 227 The Collectively Unutterable and Some Stolen Reflections 229 Birthdays-and Other Fatalities 234 Part 2 1860-1896 "... I am not looking forward to coming to Copenhagen" 241 Homecoming and the Time That Followed 242 Regine's Copenhagen and Environs 246 "... a word or two about the dear Fritz" 250 "I cannot be quit of this relationship" 252 "so close to me that it was almost a collision" 256 "... my heart is deeply grieved over my poor native land" 259 Regine's Boarding House 262 The Schlegels' "Place on the Corner" 263 "Alas, I am indeed somewhat spectral" 267 Regine's Myth and Brandes's Biography 271 Fireburn: Fritz's Reencounter with the West Indies 276 Exit to Eternity 279 Part 3 1897-1904 "Then comes a dream from my youth's spring ..." 285 The Right to Regine's Love Story 287 "... he is the riddle, the great riddle" 290 " 'our own dear, little Regine' " 293 Postscript and Acknowledgments 297 Notes 299 Illustration Credits 309 Name Index 311
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Princeton University Press Keep the Damned Women Out The Struggle for
Book SynopsisAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma maTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American Publishers "A painstakingly detailed account of how coeducation came to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, is an invaluable antidote to the amnesia that has come to envelop the subject. More than that, it is an important work of cultural history. It seems a truism to observe that so profound a change could not have occurred in a vacuum, and Malkiel takes full account of the social and political revolutions that were convulsing the country in the 1960s. But she digs deeper to show how, as the nation neared its end, the leaders of Yale and Princeton realized that the missions these institutions had long assigned themselves of producing the nation's leaders would soon be unsustainable in the absence of coeducation."--Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books "Malkiel presents an absorbing, richly textured landscape of the experience of thousands of women who found themselves in elite universities."--Rachel Holmes, Times Literary Supplement "In an age when student activists at campuses across the country are focused on microaggressions and safe spaces, it's a bit surreal to read Nancy Weiss Malkiel's history of gender desegregation at elite American and British colleges. Fifty years ago, same-sex schooling in higher education had ended for many public colleges and universities in the United States and Britain, but it remained the norm at most elite universities... How and why, between 1969 and 1974, these prestigious institutions decided to go coed--or not--is the fascinating story Ms. Malkiel tells. And although her narrow focus is gender admission practices, there are clues ... about the obstacles that continue to prevent the harmony between the many diverse groups of students on campus today."--Lenore Tiefer, Wall Street Journal "One of the most thorough accounts ever written of the determination of highly educated and powerful men to keep women away from the places that endorse exclusive forms of power... A superb, richly documented study."--Mary Evans, Times Higher Education "Fascinating... This hefty book offers a compelling study of institutional change that came not because it was demanded, and not because the motives of its agents were pure. More simply, it was about damned time. "--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "A carefully researched and compelling narrative... This highly recommended history presents a major cultural change in which coeducation both reflected and stimulated a transformation in women's social and professional status in America."--Library Journal, starred "Lest we forget, a professor of history emerita at Princeton and past dean of its college delivers an authoritative history of the coeducation of elite institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom between 1969 and 1974. Invaluable history, beginning with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and enlivened with such vivid illustrations as Jim Berry's 1967 cartoon of two clubmen conferring from their wing chairs: 'Confused--of course, I'm confused! I have a son at Vassar and a daughter at Yale!'"---Harvard Magazine "In the late 1960s, several prestigious universities in the United States-- including Princeton--decided to admit women for the first time. The reasons it happened at this particular moment are surprising and largely unexplored. In her new book, "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation, professor emerita of history and former Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel illuminates the forces that prompted a small group of powerful men to implement this pivotal change."--Amelia Thompson-Deveaux, Princeton Alumni Weekly "It may be hard for today's undergraduates at elite colleges and universities to imagine that many of their institutions--as recently as the 1960s and 1970s--would not admit female students. These days when coeducation is in the news, it is typically a women's college deciding to admit men. But the reality is that coeducation at elite institutions that were once all male did not happen overnight--and didn't happen without considerable backlash from alumni and others. Nancy Weiss Malkiel tells the story in "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation."--Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed "'Keep the Damned Women Out'... Or in some cases, the damned men."--Smith Alumni Quarterly "There are things you take for granted, until you learn how recently they came about or how tortuous their path. That's how I felt while reading Malkiel's history of how several elite U.S. universities--in particular, Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth--finally offered full undergraduate education for women starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s."--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "From enraged male alumni to topless female protesters, this book captures the tumultuous five-year period when several elite universities in the US and UK first enrolled women as undergraduates."--Jill Wrenn, Financial Times "[A] rich and compelling story"--Maggie Doherty, Chronicle Review "A magisterial history about the admission of women to the most prestigious and sheltered of men's colleges in the United States and Great Britain ... [Malkiel] is a lucid, excellent scholar."--Kate Stimpson, Public BooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Setting the Stage: The Turbulent 1960s 3 Part I The Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton 2 Harvard-Radcliffe:"To Be Accepted by the Old and Beloved University" 31 3 Yale: "Girls Are People, Just Like You and Me" 54 4 Princeton: "Coeducation Is Inevitable" 81 5 Princeton: "A Penetrating Analysis of Far-Reaching Significance" 110 6 Yale: "Treat Yale as You Would a Good Woman" 136 7 Princeton: "The Admission of Women Will Make Princeton a Better University" 166 8 Harvard-Radcliffe: Negotiating the "Non-Merger Merger" 195 9 Princeton: "I Felt I Was in a Foreign Country" 214 10 Harvard-Radcliffe: Playing in the "Big Yard" with the Boys 245 11 Yale: Yale Is "Not Yet Coeducational" 268 12 Princeton: "We're All Coeds Now" 288 Part II The Seven Sisters: Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley 13 Vassar: "Separate Education for Women Has No Future" 309 14 Vassar: "Vassar for Men?" 328 15 Smith: "A Looming Problem Which Is Going to Have to Be Faced" 351 16 Smith: "Recommitting to Its Original, Pioneering Purpose" 371 17 Wellesley: "Should Wellesley Jump on the Bandwagon?" 390 18 Wellesley: "Having the Courage to Remain a Women's College" 412 Part III Revisiting the Ivies: Dartmouth 19 Dartmouth: "For God's Sake, for Everyone's Sake, Keep the Damned Women Out" 441 20 Dartmouth: "Our Cohogs" 464 Part IV The United Kingdom: Cambridge and Oxford 21 Cambridge: "Like Dropping a Hydrogen Bomb in the Middle of the University" 491 22 Cambridge: "A Tragic Break with Centuries of Tradition" 517 23 Oxford: "Our Crenellations Crumble, We Cannot Keep Them Out" 540 24 Oxford: As Revolutionary as "the Abolition of Celibacy among the Dons" 570 Part V Taking Stock 25 Epilogue 595 Manuscript Collections and Oral History Transcripts: Abbreviations 611 Interviews 622 Index 623
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Princeton University Press Keep the Damned Women Out
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American Publishers""One of Times Higher Education’s Books of the Year 2017 (chosen by John Bowers)""An important work of cultural history. . . . Malkiel writes with an insider's knowledge of her own institution and from a historian's meticulous reconstruction of what happened at the others."---Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books"Malkiel presents an absorbing, richly textured landscape of the experience of thousands of women who found themselves in elite universities that were bastions run by men for men who felt anything on a scale of muddled incomprehension to active aggression at the notion of gender equality."---Rachel Holmes, Times Literary Supplement"In an age when student activists at campuses across the country are focused on microaggressions and safe spaces, it's a bit surreal to read Nancy Weiss Malkiel's history of gender desegregation at elite American and British colleges. Fifty years ago, same-sex schooling in higher education had ended for many public colleges and universities in the United States and Britain, but it remained the norm at most elite universities. . . . How and why, between 1969 and 1974, these prestigious institutions decided to go coed--or not--is the fascinating story Ms. Malkiel tells. And although her narrow focus is gender admission practices, there are clues . . . about the obstacles that continue to prevent the harmony between the many diverse groups of students on campus today."---Lenore Tiefer, Wall Street Journal"One of the most thorough accounts ever written of the determination of highly educated and powerful men to keep women away from the places that endorse exclusive forms of power. . . . A superb, richly documented study."---Mary Evans, Times Higher Education"As well as examining the interplay of interests, egos and bureaucratic structures, Malkiel also shows that sexual politics gave a heightened charge to proceedings. For many people, the character – even the soul – of these institutions seemed to be at stake."---Helen McCarthy, London Review of Books"Fascinating. . . . [This] book offers a compelling study of institutional change that came not because it was demanded, and not because the motives of its agents were pure. More simply, it was about damned time."---Carlos Lozada, Washington Post"A carefully researched and compelling narrative. . . . This highly recommended history presents a major cultural change in which coeducation both reflected and stimulated a transformation in women's social and professional status in America." * Library Journal *"Lest we forget, a professor of history emerita at Princeton and past dean of its college delivers an authoritative history of the coeducation of elite institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom between 1969 and 1974. Invaluable history, beginning with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and enlivened with such vivid illustrations as Jim Berry's 1967 cartoon of two clubmen conferring from their wing chairs: 'Confused--of course, I'm confused! I have a son at Vassar and a daughter at Yale!'" * -Harvard Magazine *"In the late 1960s, several prestigious universities in the United States-- including Princeton--decided to admit women for the first time. The reasons it happened at this particular moment are surprising and largely unexplored. In her new book, "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation, professor emerita of history and former Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel illuminates the forces that prompted a small group of powerful men to implement this pivotal change."---Amelia Thompson-Deveaux, Princeton Alumni Weekly"It may be hard for today's undergraduates at elite colleges and universities to imagine that many of their institutions--as recently as the 1960s and 1970s--would not admit female students. These days when coeducation is in the news, it is typically a women's college deciding to admit men. But the reality is that coeducation at elite institutions that were once all male did not happen overnight--and didn't happen without considerable backlash from alumni and others. Nancy Weiss Malkiel tells the story in "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation."---Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed"'Keep the Damned Women Out'. . . . Or in some cases, the damned men." * Smith Alumni Quarterly *"This book captures the tumultuous five-year period when several elite universities in the US and UK first enrolled women as undergraduates. . . . [A] lively account."---Jill Wrenn, Financial Times"[A] rich and compelling story"---Maggie Doherty, Chronicle Review"A magisterial history about the admission of women to the most prestigious and sheltered of men's colleges in the United States and Great Britain . . . [Malkiel] is a lucid, excellent scholar."---Kate Stimpson, Public Books"Malkiel pursued a prodigious and impressive amount of research to produce this volume. . . . This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of how administrative personnel and structures interacted with trustee, alumni, faculty, and student constituents at American universities."---Mary Ann Dzuback, History of Education Quarterly"A magisterial study of the 1960s move towards coeducation on both sides of the Atlantic."---John Bowers, Times Higher Education"A passionate investigation of the process of integrating women into Ivy League education. . . . The book will be indispensable to those who in the future pursue research on higher education or on these specific institutions. It is an epic book on an epic topic that is well worth studying."---Christine D. Myers, Historical Studies in Education
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Princeton University Press Accidental Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
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