Gender studies: women and girls Books
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Guiding Modern Girls
Book SynopsisBy analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world’s largest voluntary organization for girls.Trade ReviewGuiding Modern Girls unveils how the early Girl Guide movement carved out spaces of intergenerational female homosociality that were neither fully empowering nor exclusively oppressive. On a larger scale, it gestures at the untapped potential buried in the history of youth organizations for charting the stony and serpentine trails that led to the emergence of a global modernity. -- Mischa Honeck, Historisches Institut, Universitat Duisburg-Essen * H-SOZ-KULT *Kristine Alexander makes a significant contribution to the intertwined histories of girlhood, imperialism, and the international Girl Guide movement. -- Kristine Moruzi * Canadian Historical Review *Alexander paints a complex image of the organization, which was the epitome of the simultaneously dynamic and traditional nature of British society in the interwar period, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Girl Guides through this thought-provoking transnational study. -- Sian Edwards, University of Winchester * Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 31, No. 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Guiding’s Beginnings: Victorian Antecedents and Early Twentieth-Century Growth2 Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere: Training for Homekeeping, Mothercraft, and Matrimony3 “We Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenship”: Preparing Girls for Political and Social Service4 Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors: Religion, Gender, and Racial-National Narratives at Girl Guide Camps5 “The Mass Ornament”: Rallies, Pageantry, Exercise, and Drill6 Imperial and International Sisterhood: Possibilities and LimitsConclusionNote; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Four Unruly Women Stories of Incarceration and
Book SynopsisFilled with stories of pain, regret, and resistance, this chilling account of how four women survived their time at Kingston Penitentiary stands as an indictment of the idea that prisons and punishment are society’s answer to crime.Trade ReviewAlthough Ted McCoy’s Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text—and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!—it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838–1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History *This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeking Unruly Women 1 Bridget’s Life Sentence2 Charlotte’s Moral Insanity3 Alias Kate4 Emily’s Maternal IdealAfterword: Seeing Unruly Women NotesBibliographyIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Four Unruly Women Stories of Incarceration and
Book SynopsisFilled with stories of pain, regret, and resistance, this chilling account of how four women survived their time at Kingston Penitentiary stands as an indictment of the idea that prisons and punishment are society’s answer to crime.Trade ReviewAlthough Ted McCoy’s Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text—and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!—it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838–1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History *This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeking Unruly Women 1 Bridget’s Life Sentence2 Charlotte’s Moral Insanity3 Alias Kate4 Emily’s Maternal IdealAfterword: Seeing Unruly Women NotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
University of British Columbia Press Our Voices Must Be Heard
Book SynopsisOur Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontarioâs suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.Table of ContentsPreface1 Women’s Rights in Indigenous and Colonial Ontario2 Origins of Feminist Thought and Action3 Early Legislative Victories and Defeats4 Waking Up to the Power5 Resisting a Revolution6 Victory amid Discord and WarEpilogueSources and Further Reading; Index
£20.89
University of British Columbia Press Doing Politics Differently
Book SynopsisDo women do politics differently? By assessing the legacies of eleven women premiers, this groundbreaking volume answers a question that has been debated around the world since women first demanded the right to vote and hold public office.Trade ReviewThis volume opens up new scholarly terrain, and it ought to lead academics to engage the many questions it raises and test some of the answers it provides. -- Cristine de Clercy, Western University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Overall, Bashevkin’s collection explores an important issue from a new perspective, challenging readers to consider our progress on equality in the political sphere as well as what merits further research and in some cases censure -- Lori Williams * Alberta Views *Table of Contents1 Exploring Women’s Leadership / Sylvia BashevkinPart 1: The Territories2 “Never in My Life Did I Do Anything Alone”: Nellie Cournoyea as Premier of the Northwest Territories / Graham White3 Pat Duncan, Yukon’s Accidental Premier / Maura Forrest4 Eva Aariak: Strong Nunavut Leader, Reluctant Politician / Sheena Kennedy DalsegPart 2: Atlantic Canada5 Striking a Balance: Catherine Callbeck as Premier of Prince Edward Island / Don Desserud and Robin Sutherland6 In the Wake of Male Charisma: Kathy Dunderdale and the Status of Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Drew Brown, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, and Amanda BittnerPart 3: Central Canada7 Pauline Marois’s Paradoxical Record as Quebec Premier / Philippe Bernier Arcand8 Activist Outsider Becomes Partisan Insider: Kathleen Wynne as Ontario Premier / Sylvia BashevkinPart 4: Western Canada9 Rita Johnston and Christy Clark as British Columbia Premiers / Tracy Summerville10 Women and Politics in Alberta under Alison Redford / Clark Banack11 Governing as if Women Mattered: Rachel Notley as Alberta Premier / Melanee ThomasPart 5: Drawing Conclusions12 Doing Politics Differently? / Sylvia BashevkinContributors; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press A Better Justice
Book SynopsisWomen are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment, they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.This book brings these criminological strands together in a concise and carefully reasoned analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Drawing on interviews with staff and documents from alternative justice agencies, Amanda Nelund finds that alternative programs neither reproduce dominant justice system norms nor provide complete alternatives. Instead, formal and informal practices reflect the tension between neoliberal and social justice approaches. A Better Justice? calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to criminal justice norms. It is in the potenti
£52.70
University of British Columbia Press Queen of the Maple Leaf
Book SynopsisQueen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.Trade Review[Queen of the Maple Leaf] is a seminal contribution to better understanding how histories of women’s bodies make for legitimate historiography of settler colonialism, truth regimes and power dynamics within Canada. -- Isabelle Leblanc * Canadian Journal of History *[Queen of the Maple Leaf ] will be of interest to all who study nation making in Canada as a process involving intersecting categories of subject positions. -- Kate Korycki, Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies, Western Univerity * University of Toronto Quarterly *Gentile’s compelling argument and sharp analysis of a diverse set of sources provide a rich examination of oft-trivialized beauty pageants. While Gentile hardly celebrates these events, she does allow room to consider women’s (uneven) agency. -- Laila Haidarali * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press The Juggling Mother
Book SynopsisThe Juggling Mother upends popular representations of the supermom, showing her to be a cultural construction and the model neoliberal worker.Trade ReviewWatson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers. -- Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, University of Toronto and Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of Contents1 Coming Undone2 The Juggling Mother3 C-Suite Moms4 You Are What You Nurse5 Avoiding Regret6 Dropping the BallNotes; Works Cited; Index
£19.79
University of British Columbia Press Women Film and Law
Book SynopsisWomen, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.Trade ReviewAn excellent analysis of the social significance of the women-in-prison genre. -- Mark Bernhardt * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Genre of One’s Own2 Reforming Prisons, Transforming Women: Ann Vickers3 The Unattainability of Reform: Caged!4 Recuperating Exploitation: Caged Heat5 Representing Incarcerated Black Women: Stranger Inside and Civil Brand6 Representation and Recalibrating the WIP Genre: Orange Is the New BlackConclusionNotes; Selected Filmography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Rare Merit
Book SynopsisRare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island.Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range and impact of their work, Rare MeriTrade Review"Fletcher’s story opens Rare Merit and skillfully articulates Skidmore’s main thesis: women’s histories are central to the medium, and women played a significant role in the development of Canadian photography." -- Siobhan Angus * Technology and Culture, vol. 64. no. 4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Daguerreans, 1841–61 2 The Livernois Studio, 1854–74 3 Notman’s Printing Room, 1860–80 4 The Maynard Studio, 1862–1912 5 The Moodie Studio, 1895–1905 6 Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872–1940 7 Commercial Studio Photographers, 1860–1940 8 Artists and Amateurs, 1890–1940 Conclusion Notes; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index
£29.45
University of British Columbia Press Fighting Feelings
Book SynopsisFighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.Trade Review"This enlightening and affirming text investigates the memories women of color have of racialized violence and how differing narratives and emotions about white supremacy should be seen and encouraged instead of dismissed. On page 6, Charania literally says it’s ‘a book about race for the rest of us.’ It will provide deep relief and brilliant insights for many." -- Ms. Magazine
£73.80
American Society of Civil Engineers Changing Our World True Stories of Women
Book SynopsisThrough real-life stories, this work celebrates the contributions of women engineers to various aspects of modern life. When placed in school libraries and counseling centers, it provides girls and their parents with an exciting exploration into what is possible. It offers young women inspiration and encouragement to pursue careers in engineering.
£48.80
American Society of Civil Engineers Women in Engineering Pioneers and Trailblazers
Book SynopsisIntroduces the visionary women who opened the door for female engineers. This book places the significant contributions women have made to engineering, in areas as diverse as construction management, environmental protection, and industrial efficiency, in their proper historical context.
£999.99
American Society of Civil Engineers Women in Engineering Professional Life
Book SynopsisIlluminates the professional lives of women engineers through articles, lectures, reports, and essays dating back to the 1920s. This anthology examines the state of employment opportunities for women, the gender gap, and opportunities for career advancement for women in engineering.
£32.76
John Wiley & Sons Inc Creating Womens Networks
Book SynopsisDiscover a dynamic new force in leadership development. This remarkable guide shows companies exactly how they can better retain and increase leadership talent through the establishment of women''s networks--networks that link specific female employee concerns and larger organizational goals in ways that bolster the bottom line. Based on the cutting-edge research of Catalyst--America''s foremost nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women in business--this guide explains why women''s networks are valuable. It shows how companies large and small have leveraged women''s networks to their advantage. And it provides a detailed framework readers can follow to create a network within their organization. Charged with first-person success stories, it will prove invaluable to executives and managers concerned with decreasing turnover, increasing employee satisfaction, and optimizing the leadership potential of their entire work force.Trade Review"Many successful networks learn the hard way. This book contains the secrets for growing a network and creating and managing a powerful advisory relationship with your company. And you'll avoid the pitfalls along the way. I wish I'd had this book when we started our network!" (Sue Burke,, president, Women's Forum of Kodak Employees) "Starting a networking group can be relatively easy; however, sustaining the positive momentum that such a group generates is a very complex and difficult problem. Catalyst has provided us with a wonderful resource for starting a group and meeting its longer-term challenges as well." (Mona Lau, managing director, globalization and diversity, Banker's Trust)Table of ContentsForeward by Sheila Wellington. BEGINNINGS. Do You Need A Network? The Right Roles and Goals for Your Network. On Your Mark, Get Set: Getting Organized and Started. IT'S UP AND RUNNING, NOW WHAT? Want Real Power? Build Companywide Support. You've Arrived! Putting Your Plans into Action. Stay Focused! Keeping on Track as the Network Ages. What If You Face Real Problems? How to Make Them Coquerable Challenges. Appendix A. Catalyst's Summary Findings from the Women's Workplace. Appendix B. Examples from the Women's Network.
£22.94
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women
Book SynopsisProviding essential theoretical and practical guidelines for clinicians, educators, policymakers, and public health professionals, The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women is a comprehensive resource of the most current research and knowledge from recognized experts in the field of addiction and treatment. This much needed guide offers an historical context on the issue of women and addiction, examines the myriad challenges of the female addict, and includes recommendations for choosing a course of treatment that will meet the specific needs of an individual woman addict.Trade Review"...a much-needed resource." (Psychiatric Services, January2004) "...one would hope that this book will be widely accepted andutilized for its strengths..." (Addiction, No.97, 2002) "...provides a comprehensive overview of the many facets ofsocial work practice with women who suffer from variousaddictions." (Journal of Social Work Practice in theAddictions, Summer 2003)"The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women brings to thefield the thinking of researchers and practitioners in a veryreadable, practical compendium. This book is for anyone who caresabout women with addictions." --Mary Beth Johnson, director,Addiction Technology Transfer Center, National Office "This is a wonderful book that addresses an unusually diverseset of issues, some of which are often neglected. It is not onlyuseful to clinicians, but also to educators, researchers,policymakers, and anyone responsible for treatment program design."-- Joan E. Zweben, clinical professor of psychiatry,University of California, San Francisco; executive director, EastBay Community Recovery Project and 14th Street Clinic, Oakland,CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING ADDICTED WOMEN. 1 Women s Addiction and Treatment Through a HistoricalLens(Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner and Patricia RoseAttia). 2 Women and Addiction: Expanding Theoretical Points ofView(Stephanie Brown). 3 Helping Women Recover: Creating Gender-ResponsiveTreatment(Stephanie S. Covington). PART TWO: MAJOR ADDICTIONS AMONG WOMEN. 4 Drug- and Alcohol-Abusing Women (Lynn E. O Connor, MilenaEsherick, and Cassandra Vieten). 5 The Queen of Diamonds: Women and Compulsive Gambling (Diane RaeDavis). 6 Women and Eating Disorders (Susan D. Raeburn). 7 Sexually Addictive Behavior in Women (Judith E. Rubin). 8 Women and Relationship Addiction (Carol Tosone). 9 Women and Spending Addictions (Linda Barbanel). 10 Women and Smoking (Jeannine Crouse). PART THREE: LIFE CYCLE ISSUES FOR ADDICTED WOMEN. 11 Adolescent Girls and Addiction (Rose Fajardo Latino). 12 Addiction and Recovery in Midlife (Nancy Waite-O Brien). 13 Older Women and Addictions (Renee S. Katz). PART FOUR: ADDICTIONS ISSUES FOR ETHNICALLYDIVERSE WOMEN. 14 Black Women and Addictions (Muriel Gray and Melissa B.Littlefield). 15 Latinas in Cultural Transition: Addiction, Treatment,andRecovery (Juana Mora). 16 Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Addiction (Kerrily J.Kitano and Liane J. Louie). PART FIVE: SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND SETTINGS. 17 Addiction and Women in the Workplace (Jane M. Nakken). 18 Effective Intervention and Treatment for Lesbians (LaurieDrabble and Brenda L. Underhill). 19 Addictions and Women with Major Psychiatric Disorders (Diana M.DiNitto and Catherine Crisp). 20 Homeless Addicted Women (A. Meredith Deming, Karen McGoff-Yost,and Anne L. Strozier). 21 Addictions and Women in the Criminal Justice System (Katherinevan Wormer). 22 Women Affected by Addictions (Elizabeth Zelvin). PART SIX: TREATMENT APPROACHES AND MODALITIES. 23 Group Treatment of Substance-Abusing Women (Eileen P. Beyer andKaren Carnabucci). 24 Women in Self-Help Programs (Joyce Schmid). PART SEVEN: EPILOGUE AND RESOURCES. 25 Epilogue (Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner and StephanieBrown). Resources (Nancy K. Brown and Rita Rhodes). About the Authors. Name Index. Subject Index.
£84.56
John Wiley & Sons Inc Standing at the Crossroads Next Steps for High
Book SynopsisThere is an increasing need to understand how women will prioritize or integrate the many roles and possibilities now available to them. This book looks at the fundamental pressures that influence the career and personal life decisions that high-achieving women make.Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv The Authors xix Introduction: Standing at the Crossroads 1 Part One: Five Themes for High-Achieving Women 1. Acting Authentically 17 2. Making Connections 39 3. Controlling Your Destiny 72 4. Achieving Wholeness 111 5. Gaining Self-Clarity 136 Part Two: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women 6. Growing Through Life Experience 163 7. What Can Organizations Do? 189 Appendix: The Research Design 217 References 225 Index 231 About the Center for Creative Leadership 239
£21.24
Baker Publishing Group Battle Ready
Book SynopsisPopular blogger and speaker empowers women to stomp out doubt, build new thought patterns, and prepare their minds for life's unexpected battles and opportunities.
£18.99
Baker Publishing Group Mrs. Oswald Chambers
Book SynopsisOn the 100th anniversary of Oswald Chambers's death, a bestselling novelist presents an intimate portrait of his wife, "Biddy," a God-loving adventurer and the woman behind her husband's bestselling devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
£12.34
Baker Publishing Group Holding On When You Want to Let Go Clinging to
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Cornell University Press Speculum of the Other Woman
Book SynopsisA radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.Trade ReviewThe publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsTHE BLIND SPOT OF AN OLD DREAM OF SYMMETRYWoman, Science's Unknown How Can They Immediately Be So Sure?; The Anatomical Model; A Science That Still Cannot Make Up Its Mind; A Question of Method; What Is Involved in (Re) production, and How It Aids and Abets the Phallic Order; A Difference Not Taken into Account; The Labor "to Become a Woman"The Little Girl Is (Only) a Little Boy An Inferior Little Man; The Cards Turned Over; The Dream Interpreters Themselves; Penis Masturbation: A Necessarily Phallic Auto-eroticism; The Change of "Object" or the Crisis of a Devaluation; The Law of the Self-sameIs Her End in Her Beginning? An Unsuspected Love; The Desire to Have a Child by the Mother; The Father's Seduction: Law but Not Sex; The "Reasons" Why a Girl Hates Her Mother and a Boy Goes on Loving His; An Economy of Primal Desire That Cannot Be Represented; One More ChildAnother "Cause"—Castration As Might Be Expected; The Gaze, Always at Stake; Anatomy Is "Destiny"; What the Father's Discourse Covers Up; The Negative in Phallocentric Dialectic; Is Working Out the Death Drives Limited to Men Only?"Penis-Envy" Waiting in Vain; An Indirect Sublimation; "Envy" or "Desire" for the Penis?; Repression, or Inexorable Censorship?; Mimesis ImposedA Painful Way to Become a Woman And the Father, Neutral and Benevolent, Washes His Hands of the Matter; A (Female) A-Sex?; Is the Oedipus Complex Universal or Not?; Free Association on OnanismA Very Black Sexuality? Symptoms Almost Like Those of Melancholia; A Setback She Cannot Mourn; That Open Wound That Draws Everything to Itself; That Necessary Remainder: HysteriaThe Penis = the Father's Child The Primacy of Anal Erotism; Those Party to a Certain Lease; Woman Island Also Mother; Forbidden Games; The Hymen of Oedipus, Father and SonThe Deferred Action of Castration Capitalism without Complexes; The Metaphorical Veil of the Eternal Feminine; The Other Side of History; The Submission of a Slave?; A Super-ego That Rather Despises the Female SexAn Indispensable Wave of Passivity A Redistribution of Partial Instincts, Especially Sadistic-anal Instincts; "There Is Only One Libido"; Idealization, What Is One's Own; The (Re)productive Organ; Confirmation of FrigidityFemale Hom(m)osexuality The "Constitutional Factor" Is Decisive; Homosexual Choice Clearly Expounded; A Cure Fails for Lack of Transference(s); Female SamenessAn Impracticable Sexual Relationship An Ideal Love; Were It Not for Her Mother?; Or Her Mother-in-law?; Squaring the Family Circle; Generation Gap, or Being Historically out of Phase?; Woman's Enigmatic Bisexuality"Woman Is a Woman as a Result of a Certain Lack of Characteristics" An Ex-orbitant Narcissism; The Vanity of a Commodity; The Shame That Demands Vicious Conformity; Women Have Never Invented Anything but Weaving; A Very Envious Nature; Society Holds No Interest for Women; A Fault in Sublimation; "La Femme de Trente Ans"SPECULUM Any Theory of the "Subject" Has Always Been Appropriated by the "Masculine" Kore: Young Virgin, Pupil of the Eye On the Index of Plato's Works: Woman How to Conceive (of) a Girl Une Mère de Glace "... and if, taking the eye of a man recently dead... " La Mystérique Paradox A Priori The Eternal Irony of the Community Volume-FluidityPLATO'S HysteriaThe Stage Setup Turned Upside-down and Back-to-front; Special Status for the Side Opposite; A Fire in the Image of a Sun; The Forgotten Path; Paraphragm/Diaphragm; The Magic Show; A Waste of Time?; A Specular CaveThe Dialogues One Speaks, the Others Are Silent; Like Ourselves, They Submit to a Like Principle of Identity; Provided They Have a Head, Turned in the Right Direction; What Is = What They See, and Vice Versa; The A-letheia, a Necessary Denegation among Men; Even Her Voice Is Taken Away from Echo; A Double Topographic Error, Its ConsequencesThe Avoidance of (Masculine) Hysteria A Hypnotic Method; That Buries and Forbids "Madness"; A Remainder of Aphasia; The Misprison of Difference; The Unreflected Dazzle of SeductionThe "Way Out" of the Cave The "Passage"; A Difficult Delivery; Then Whence and How Does He Get Out?; A World Peopled by GhostsThe Time Needed to Focus and Adjust the Vision Impossible to Turn Back (or Over); Were It Not, Right Now, for a Sophistry Played with Doubles; A Frozen Nature; The Auto... Taken in by the A-letheia; Bastard or Legitimate Offspring?The Father's Vision: Engendering with No History of Problems A Hymen of Glass/Ice; The Unbegotten Begetter; Exorcism of the Dark Night; Astrology as Thaumaturgy: A Semblance (of a) Sun; A Question of PropertyA Form That Is Always the Same The Passage Confusing Big and Little, and Vice Versa; The Standard Itself/Himself; Better to Revolve upon Oneself-But This Is Possible Only for God-the-Father; The Mother, Happily, Does Not Remember; A Source-mirror of All That Is; The Analysis of That Projection Will Never Take (or Have Taken) PlaceCompletion of the Paideia The Failings of an Organ That Is Still Too Sensible; A Seminar in Good Working Order; An Immaculate Conception; The Deferred Action of an Ideal Jouissance; The End of ChildhoodLife in Philosophy Always the Same (He); An Autistic Completeness; Love Turned Away from Inferior Species and Genera/Gender; The Privilege of the Immortals; The Science of Desire; A Kore Dilated to the Whole Field of the Gaze and Mirroring HerselfDivine Knowledge The Back Reserved for God; The Divine Mystery; This Power Cannot Be Imitated by Mortals; How, Then, Can They Evaluate Their Potency?; Except over Someone Like Themselves?; The Father Knows the Front Side and Back Side of Everything, at Least in Theory; The Meaning of Death for a PhilosopherAn Unarticulated/Inarticulate Go-Between: The Split between Sensible and Intelligible A Failure of Relations between the Father and Mother; A One-way Passage; Compulsory Participation in the Attributes of the Type; A Misprized Incest and an Unrealizable IncestReturn to the Name of the Father The Impossible Regression toward the Mother; A Competition the Philosopher Will Decline to Enter; Two Modes of Repetition: Property and Proximity; Better to Work the Earth on the Father's Account Than to Return to It: Metaphor/Metonymy; The Threat of Castration"Woman's" Jouissance A Dead Cave Which Puts Representation Back into Play; That Marvelously Solitary Pleasure of God; A Diagonal Helps to Temper the Excessiveness of the One; The Infinite of an Ideal Which Covers the Slit (of a) Void; Losing Sight of "the Other"; The Vengeance of Children Freed from Their Chains
£97.20
MB - Cornell University Press Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Book SynopsisLike the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys...Trade ReviewThis is an exceedingly interesting and entertaining book, sparkling with wit and imagination. * The Classical Bulletin *
£42.30
Cornell University Press Rethinking Home Economics
Book SynopsisRethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994.Trade ReviewA good treatment of home economics. * Workforce Education Forum *An excellent collection of essays.... From a variety of angles, this volume illuminates the history of science and culture, education, women, and politics in the U.S. * Choice *
£97.20
MB - Cornell University Press Clara Schumann
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Cornell University Press Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian
Book SynopsisGarver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women, examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages.Trade ReviewWomen and Aristocratic Culture makes a major contribution to our understanding of early medieval and aristocratic experience. Garver is consistently able to take even unsurprising findings and well-known points and parlay them into strong planks of support for her overall thesis. -- Felica Lifshitz * Medieval Prosopography *English-speaking scholars have contributed considerably to research on Carolingian women since Suzanne Fonay Wemple's pioneering Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister 500–900, but they have produced few monographs. Valerie Garver's new book is a welcome exception, aiming to show women as 'active participants in shaping and perpetuating the behaviors, beliefs, and practices’ of Carolingian culture. * Early Medieval Europe *"Garver provides an excellent synthesis of current scholarship about aristocratic Carolingian women. Although she acknowledges the paucity of sources directly addressing women's rolesshe does a commendable job of examining the existing literature and delineating the place of women in Carolingian society. This creates a useful contribution to both women’s history and social history in the Carolingian period." —Margaret J. McCarthy * Medium Aevum *Garver's mastery of a variety of early medieval sources allows her to draw novel conclusions about the roles of aristocratic women as active participants in and shapers of Carolingian elite culture.... Women and Aristocratic Culture reveals a great deal. -- Courtney L. Luckhardt * H-France Review *Severe source constraints confront all historians of ninth-century women. The Carolingian world is relatively rich in sources but not in material overtly concerned with women. Yet Garver has read widely. For Garver, the Carolingian reforming revaluation of the aristocratic female household role was a turning point in Western views of women. That is one of many challenges to historians of earlier and later periods left by this brave book, which opens new and interesting perspectives. * American Historical Review *
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MB - Cornell University Press Breaking the Ties That Bound
Book SynopsisRussia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived marriage crisis had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentationin particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigationsto explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in impeTrade ReviewBarbara Alpern Engel provides a captivating and well-researched book in this newest addition to her already impressive bibliography. She uses her remarkable knowledge to analyze an archival source specific to the turn of the nineteenth century. In doing so, she details rich, new glimpses into the lives of both women and men, of all social estates, specifically their perceptions of gender roles within one of the most sacred of Russian institutions—marriage.... This should be a staple for all students and scholars of Russian social and legal history. -- Katie Lynn * Slavic and East European Journal *Engel examines how Russians of various classes and estates understood marital obligations and the behavior and conditions that were egregious enough to justify loosening the ties. In the process, she examines perceptions of gender roles, how these varied by estate and class, and how attitudes shifted at the end of the nineteenth century.... The cases are fascinating and provide rare insights into Russian domestic life.... Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Its Discontents 1 The Ties That Bound 2 Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric 3 Money Matters 4 Disciplining Laboring Husbands 5 Earning My Own Crust of Bread 6 Cultivating Domesticity 7 The Right to Love 8 The Best Interests of the Child Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife Appendix A. Archival Sources Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Mere Equals
Book SynopsisIn Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon's archival research into the private documents of middling and well-to-do Americans in northern states illuminates educated women's experiences with particular life stages and relationship arcs: friendship, family, courtship, marriage, and motherhood. In their personal and social relationships, educated women attempted to live as the mere equals of men. Their often frustrated efforts reveal how early national Americans grappled with the competing issues of women's intellectual equality and sexual difference.In the new nation, a pioneering society, pushing westward and unmooring itself from established institutions, often enlisted women's labor outside the home and in areas that we would deem public. Yet, Trade ReviewBy drawing upon some forty different collections of family papers, diaries, and other documents held at libraries, historical societies, and other repositories from Massachusetts to North Carolina, McMahon has artfully pieced together the intimate textual traces of the lives lived by less-well-known women. In doing so, she productively limns the nuanced roles that both Cupid and Minerva played for American women in this crucial period of history. -- Jane Greer * The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *In this engaging, thought-provoking book Lucia McMahon explores early national woman's education, highlighting how Americans simultaneously held notions of intellectual equality alongside belief in persistent, rigid sexual difference. They did so through their paradoxical belief that women were 'mere equals' and women's intellectual and social equality were allowed but political citizenship and participation were not. * Journal of American History *"McMahon follows the enhanced joys and unsettling challenges that learning brought to women's lives. Each chapter is built around a particularly rich body of personal materials that reveals the thoughts and actions of a pair of correspondents.... McMahon has provided an exceptionally developed picture of women’s agency during this time of socialculturaland political development. Hers is historical research and textual analysis at its bestpersuasively argued and elegantly written." —Marilyn J. Westerkamp * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Between Cupid and Minerva1. "More like a Pleasure than a Study": Women's Educational Experiences2. "Various Subjects That Passed between Two Young Ladies of America": Reconstructing Female Friendship3. "The Social Family Circle": Family Matters4. "The Union of Reason and Love": Courtship Ideals and Practices5. "The Sweet Tranquility of Domestic Endearment": Companionate Marriage6. "So Material a Change": Revisiting Republican MotherhoodConclusion: Education, Equality, or DifferenceList of Archives Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Suffrage Reconstructed
Book SynopsisThe Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as male. In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment''s authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction.Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment''s language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men''s right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women''s rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for Trade ReviewMuch of the work analyzing the Reconstruction constitutional amendments and their connection to women's rights has focused on the Fifteenth Amendment's restriction of suffrage to men. Hobart and William Smith College associate professor of history Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed expands the discussion to a detailed analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment's deliberate inclusion of the word male. While examining the expansion of voting rights, Free provides fresh insight into the dispute over who was considered worthy of full inclusion in American political life. She explains in detail how the debates led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to ally themselves with the racist language and political philosophy of the Democratic Party. Free has made a valuable contribution to the discussion of women's rights and the history of suffrage in the United States. * The North Carolina Historical Review *The author depicts work by suffragists to turn voters against the (Fifteenth) amendment by using the racist language and stereotyping of the day, denigrating the very former slaves they had fought so hard to free. In doing so, they attempted to achieve voting rights for themselves by denying the same right to others. Free's book is an informative and sometimes shocking study of a little-known Reconstruction drama. * Choice *This book invites historians of the rise of American democracy to engage in dialogue with historians of woman suffrage. It is an invitation to be heeded. * Journal of American History *A decisive study of the evolution of American suffrage rights in the ante- and immediate post-bellum era(s), Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed makes significant contributions to the field of American intellectual history.... A wide audience of scholars, particularly African American and women's and gender historians would benefit from reading this text, as well as scholars interested in the political history of New York State. * New York History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: We, the People1. The White Man's Government2. Manhood and Citizenship3. The Family Politic4. The Rights of Men5. That Word "Male"6. White Women’s RightsConclusion: By Reason of RaceAcknowledgments Notes Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Constructive Feminism Womens Spaces and Womens
Book SynopsisIn Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.Trade ReviewA valuable addition to the literature on women and the environment that has dwindled with the waning of second-wave feminism. As I read the book, I realized how much more work remains to be done, albeit as part of the third wave. * Journal of Urban Affairs *This book is a valuable addition to introductory planning classes....reading about the challenges and obstructionist actions faced by women as they built safe spaces was a very visceral experience. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spatial Consequences of the Second Wave 1. Feminist Practice: Social Movements and Urban Space 2. Women's Centers: Nurturing Autonomy 3. Feminist Bookstores: Building Identity 4. Feminist Health Clinics: Promoting Reproductive Rights 5. Domestic Violence Shelters: Protecting Bodily Integrity 6. After the Second Wave: Necessary Spaces
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Cornell University Press Claiming the Pen
Book SynopsisIn 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy''s plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women''s lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world, thus far understood to be a masculine province, even as they inhabited the limited, provincial social circles of the plantation South.Catherine Kerrison uncovers a new realm of female education in which conduct-of-life adviceboth the dry pedantry of sermons and the risqué plots of novelsformed the core reading program. Women, she finds, learned to think and write by reading prescriptive literature, not Greek and Latin classics, in impromptu home classrooms, rather than colleges and universities, Trade ReviewCatherine Kerrison's wonderful new book challenges scholars on a host of points. She asks us to think about how the history of the book, print culture, and reading can inform a broader intellectual history. She prods us to broaden our understanding of intellectual history to include the prescriptive literature, letters, journals, and commonplace books that formed the minds of eighteenth-century women. And she poses these questions on a ground unfamiliar and even alien to American historians: the intellectual history of women in the early South. -- Beth Barton Schweiger * The Book: Newsletter of the American Antiquarian Society *Kerrison skillfully weaves the stories of women—some famous, some obscure—into a compelling and sophisticated study. In so doing, she connects the intellectual and cultural history of the southern colonies to the better-known historiography of the Old House and raises new questions about gender, race, and the origins of a distinctive southern regional identity. * William and Mary Quarterly *Kerrison succeeds in uncovering the rich texture of women's evolving intellectual interests, concerns, and challenges throughout the eighteenth century and into the first decades of the nineteenth century.... Kerrison reconstructs southern women's intellectual lives by using a wide variety of sources more often associated with social history—wills, probate records, account books, newspapers, letters, and journals. Drawing upon these sources, Kerrison argues that although southern women faced more constraints in their intellectual development than their northern contemporaries, they nonetheless were able to construct their own intellectual identities and assert certain kinds of intellectual authority. -- Rosemarie Zagarri * North Carolina Historical Review *Table of Contents1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South3. Religion, Voice, and Authority4. Reading Novels in the South5. Reading, Race, and WritingConclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and AuthorityPostscriptAbbreviations Notes Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Ovids Art and the Wife of Bath
Book SynopsisOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the...Trade Review"Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath is one of the most exciting books I've read in my thirty-year career as a medievalist. The depth and range of Marilynn Desmond's scholarship is extremely impressive. Desmond makes the theoretical framework she is using clear, compelling, and accessible. This book should appeal to a very wide readership from classicists to medievalists to feminist scholars, for whom it will provide an exciting and sophisticated alternative to flat and reductive ideas about medieval misogyny and courtly love." -- Sherron E. Knopp, Williams College
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Cornell University Press FrontPage Girls
Book SynopsisThe first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters...Trade ReviewAmbitious and provocative.... For historians, Lutes's well-written, acutely observed book provides a theoretically sophisticated provocation to further study. -- Patricia A. Schechter * American Historical Review *In the sensational press of a century or more ago, women did not rise by quietly doing their chores. The way to get ahead was to make oneself the story, often by assuming an undercover role and emerging to report the dangers, bodily and otherwise, that one had faced.... Jean Marie Lutes, once a reporter herself, finds scholarly diversion in reconsidering the roles sex and body played in the work of the stunt girls and the sob sisters. She also contemplates such fictional journalists as Henry James's Henrietta Stackpole, who became James's symbol of the evils of the popular press. * Columbia Journalism Review *Lutes puts her academic expertise and knowledge of the newspaper profession—she's a former staff writer for the Miami Herald—to superb use in this fascinating, clearly enunciated examination of the historical and cultural role of the American woman journalist during the decades bridging the 19th and 20th centuries.... Lutes reclaims the female reporter's pioneering and transformative position, first historically (e.g., Nellie Bly's exposing social ills; Ida B. Wells's fight against lynching), then as conjured in fiction by Henry James and such former newspaper women as Willa Cather and Edna Ferber.... Especially in consideration of today's body-conscious media culture—whether in front of, behind, or via hidden camera—Lutes's work is a revelation. * Library Journal *Lutes supports her arguments with... evidence from journalism archives as well as from pamphlets, popular novels, and other ephemera.... Her carefully considered close readings and rhetorical analyses that distinguish this project. Writing in clear, journalistic prose herself, Lutes identifies a particularly female literary tradition among these varied writers.... She focuses on the American fascination with and disdain for the female journalist, and, finally, the attempts of the journalist-turned-author to reconcile the performativity and sentimentality of female authorship with a modernist aesthetic.... Exploring a diverse array of authors across a fifty-year period, Lutes organizes her work around a unifying thesis that makes this book an important contribution to the fields of journalism, history, literary studies, and popular culture. -- Verna Kale * Journal of Popular Culture *This study's major contributions lie in its sharp refocusing of the nexus of journalism and literature in order to illuminate the contributions of women in both fields.... While Front-Page Girls is partly a recovery project, bringing to scholarly attention forgotten literary texts and episodes in media history, it is also a much-needed supplement to the longstanding discussion on the intersections of fiction and journalism. * American Literature *As Jean Marie Lutes uncovers stories of girl stunt reporters, the first African American newswomen, and sob sisters—writers who specialized in wringing tears from the reader—it becomes very clear that it would be hard for a young journalist today to have an experience like these women... thankfully. The history begins with tales of the girl student reporters who would feign madness to report from the inside of a New York City asylum or spend days in cigarette factories following young girls forced to work under sweatshop conditions. * Bust *
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Cornell University Press Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Book SynopsisLike the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys...Trade ReviewThis is an exceedingly interesting and entertaining book, sparkling with wit and imagination. * The Classical Bulletin *
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Cornell University Press Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers
Book SynopsisDuring the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in...Trade ReviewThe book is an unsettling close-up of girls' and young women's everyday lives during and after the war. Coulter describes abduction, rape and all-pervasive violence in much greater detail than most anthropologists have dared to. She also scrutinizes the challenges that women face during demobilization, and the difficulties of reintegration and reconciliation.... Its disturbingly detailed ethnographic gaze on violence, its focus on the choiceless decisions that women (and many men) faced during the war, and on the ills of post-war reconciliation and reintegration, make it a highly recommendable book for any anthropologist who wants to learn about everyday reality in a war-torn society. -- Toomas Gross * Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Decade of War—Centuries of Uncertainty 2. Gendered Lives in Rural Sierra Leone 3. Abduction and Everyday Rebel Life 4. From Rape Victims to Female Fighters 5. Reconciliation or Revenge 6. Surviving the Postwar Economy 7. Coming Home—Domesticating the Bush Conclusion Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Failure to Protect
Book SynopsisMost crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim—acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric...Trade ReviewJanus makes a persuasive case that by throwing vast resources at a few offenders while hiding the true scope of sexual violence, sexual predator laws do more harm than good. Not only is the public not much safer than it was before civil commitment became widespread, he writes, but we've unleashed a political monster. * Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages *Nowhere in Failure to Protect does the author minimize the damage done by criminals.... The problem, Janus says, is that extreme offenders have been incorrectly cast as the archetypal sex criminal. The result has been laws that reflect and reinforce a distorted view of sexual violence, remove resources from more effective policies, and are the signs of a constitutionally questionable 'preventive state.' Janus argues that sexual predator laws reflect a conservative backlash against hard lessons learned from the feminist movement about the systematic nature of sexual violence in society. and the fact that most sexual offenses are committed by a member of the victim's family or social circle. He identifies misconceptions about recidivism and questions 'actuarial' approaches that assign a static risk rating to an individual and ignore changes from treatment, aging, or altered circumstances. * Chronicle of Higher Education *
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Cornell University Press Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian
Book SynopsisGarver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women, examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages.Trade ReviewWomen and Aristocratic Culture makes a major contribution to our understanding of early medieval and aristocratic experience. Garver is consistently able to take even unsurprising findings and well-known points and parlay them into strong planks of support for her overall thesis. -- Felica Lifshitz * Medieval Prosopography *English-speaking scholars have contributed considerably to research on Carolingian women since Suzanne Fonay Wemple's pioneering Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister 500–900, but they have produced few monographs. Valerie Garver's new book is a welcome exception, aiming to show women as 'active participants in shaping and perpetuating the behaviors, beliefs, and practices’ of Carolingian culture. * Early Medieval Europe *"Garver provides an excellent synthesis of current scholarship about aristocratic Carolingian women. Although she acknowledges the paucity of sources directly addressing women's rolesshe does a commendable job of examining the existing literature and delineating the place of women in Carolingian society. This creates a useful contribution to both women’s history and social history in the Carolingian period." —Margaret J. McCarthy * Medium Aevum *Garver's mastery of a variety of early medieval sources allows her to draw novel conclusions about the roles of aristocratic women as active participants in and shapers of Carolingian elite culture.... Women and Aristocratic Culture reveals a great deal. -- Courtney L. Luckhardt * H-France Review *Severe source constraints confront all historians of ninth-century women. The Carolingian world is relatively rich in sources but not in material overtly concerned with women. Yet Garver has read widely. For Garver, the Carolingian reforming revaluation of the aristocratic female household role was a turning point in Western views of women. That is one of many challenges to historians of earlier and later periods left by this brave book, which opens new and interesting perspectives. * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press Putting the Barn Before the House
Book SynopsisPutting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor.Trade ReviewBuilding on her 1991 book Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York, Grey Osterud returns to the Nanticoke Valley of south-central New York State, this time with a focus on the early 20th century.. Personal narratives, interviews with two dozen women over many years, are at the core, and are the greatest strength, of the book.. Osterud makes a compelling case that gender flexibility and integration, reciprocity, mutual aid, social equality and collective action were the core values of the rural way of life in the Nanticoke Valley for generations. -- Sarah Carter * Social History *In 1993, historian Hal S. Barron called Grey Osterud's Bonds of Community 'the most thorough and sophisticated reconstruction of the relationships between rural men and women that we have for the nineteenth century.' In Putting the Barn before the House, which Osterud describes as the sequel to Bonds of Community, she carries the story of Nanticoke Valley farmers into the twentieth century. Using the same exhaustive research and careful analysis, Osterud demonstrates that in Nanticoke Valley, farm families maintained flexible gender roles and strong mutual-aid networks, as well as a 'culture of mutuality,' well into the twentieth century. Men and women agreed that 'putting the barn before the house' was a vital strategy to enable the family to persist on the land and convey it to the next generation. Osterud's gracefully written book is a masterful contribution to rural and agricultural history. Putting the Barn before the House is an exemplary work for historians in any speciality that explores rural and urban social and labor history. * Journal of American Studies *In this delightful sequel to Bonds of Community, Grey Osterud carries her analysis of family-based agriculture in south-central New York's Nanticoke Valley into the first half of the twentieth century. Osterud masterfully plumbs interviews she conducted with twenty-four women born before 1917, drawing on feminist theory and oral history theory for interpretative insights. Her interviews suggest that concepts of separate spheres and autonomy were foreign to the understandings and experiences of rural women in the earlyt twentieth century. * American Historical Review *Overall, Putting the Barn before the House succeeds marvelously in accomplishing what it sets out to do, both argumentatively and methodologically.... To be sure, during the past fifteen or twenty years, many studies have carried a brief for oral history research, but few have done so as persuasively as Osterud's. Nor have many studies done a better job of harmonizing information gleaned from oral histories with source material found in more traditional archives.... Osterud has provided readers with a very compelling, meticulously well-researched study that should be of interest of scholars working in a number of different fields. -- Colin R. Johnson * Enterprise and Society *Thoroughly researched and skillfully organized, the well-crafted narrative provides readers with both a sense of place and a sense of history. * Choice *In this fascinating book Grey Osterud delves into the lives of two dozen women from the Nanticoke Valley in New York to explore women's role in farming and community over time.... Her current book is rich with insight into the patterns of change over time. For those committed to understanding the lives of farm women, this book should not be missed. -- Carrie A. Meyer * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Nanticoke Valley in the Early Twentieth CenturyPart I: Gender, Power, and Labor 1. Putting the Barn Before the House 2. Women's Place on the LandPart II: Farming and Wage-Earning 3. "Buying a Farm on a Small Capital" 4. The Transformation of Agriculture and the Rural EconomyPart III: The Division of Labor and Relations Of Power 5. Sharing and Dividing Farm Work 6. Intergenerational and Marital Partnerships 7. Wage-Earning and Farming Families 8. Negotiating Working RelationshipsPart IV: Organizing the Rural Community 9. Forming Cooperatives and Taking Collective Action 10. Home Economics and Farm Family EconomiesConclusion: Gender, Mutuality, and Community in RetrospectNotes Index
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Cornell University Press Hidden Hunger
Book SynopsisFor decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the hidden hunger of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This hidden hunger was presented as a scientific problem to be solved by experts and scientifically engineered smart foods rather than through local knowledge, which was deemed unscientific and, hence, irrelevant. In Hidden Hunger, Aya Hirata Kimura explores this recent emphasis on micronutrients and smart foods within the international development community and, in particular, how the voices of women were silenced despite their expertise in food purchasing and preparation. Kimura grounds her analysis in case studies of attempts to enriTrade Review"Drawing upon theoretical foundations in feminist food studies, agrofood studies, and science and technology studies, Kimura constructs a nuanced critique of the discourses and practices that constitute the focus on micronutrient deficiencies as the primary problem of hunger and malnutrition in the developing world. She raises crucial questions about how casting the problem of hidden hunger as a technical matter requiring expert intervention has simultaneously brought attention to women as innocent victims of nutritional ignorance, shamed them for not providing proper nourishment for their children, and silenced their ability to contribute their perspectives despite their intimate knowledge of the experiences of malnutrition and the daily challenges of feeding their families." —Jessica Loyer,Graduate Journal of Food StudiesTable of Contents1. Uncovering Hidden Hunger2. Charismatic Nutrients3. Solving Hidden Hunger with Fortified Food4. Bound by the Global and National: Indonesia's Changing Food Policies5. Building a Healthy Indonesia with Flour, MSG, and Instant Noodles6. Smart Baby Food: Participating in the Market from the Cradle7. Creating Needs for Golden Rice8. ConclusionNotes References Index
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Cornell University Press Breaking the Ties That Bound
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on marital relations, domesticity, and intimate life in imperial Russia.Trade ReviewBarbara Alpern Engel provides a captivating and well-researched book in this newest addition to her already impressive bibliography. She uses her remarkable knowledge to analyze an archival source specific to the turn of the nineteenth century. In doing so, she details rich, new glimpses into the lives of both women and men, of all social estates, specifically their perceptions of gender roles within one of the most sacred of Russian institutions—marriage.... This should be a staple for all students and scholars of Russian social and legal history. -- Katie Lynn * Slavic and East European Journal *Engel examines how Russians of various classes and estates understood marital obligations and the behavior and conditions that were egregious enough to justify loosening the ties. In the process, she examines perceptions of gender roles, how these varied by estate and class, and how attitudes shifted at the end of the nineteenth century.... The cases are fascinating and provide rare insights into Russian domestic life.... Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Its Discontents 1 The Ties That Bound 2 Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric 3 Money Matters 4 Disciplining Laboring Husbands 5 Earning My Own Crust of Bread 6 Cultivating Domesticity 7 The Right to Love 8 The Best Interests of the Child Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife Appendix A. Archival Sources Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Women without Men
Book SynopsisWomen without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken for granted in the New Russia.Trade ReviewA babushka is more valuable to a mother than a man, but her work goes unrecognized. Such is a major finding of Jennifer Utrata's engaging and well-researched book on single motherhood in contemporary Russia. In it, she dissects the forces, in particular the discourses, that shape Russian families today, repeatedly challenging conventional wisdom and scholarly dogma aboutthe lives of single mothers.... Overall, Utrata’s book is an exceptional discussion of many aspects of family life that clarifies a complicated environment without oversimplifying it. Her discoveries that challenge conventions of social science – particularly that the cure for single motherhood is marriage – should not be ignored. As Utrata notes in her conclusion, her research is relevant not only to the study of Russian society, but also American society, with its high rates of marriage, divorce, and single motherhood. This book is an important contribution to social science research, and also an informative and very readable overview of contemporary Russian family life that is valuable to anyone studying Russia today. -- Lisa Woodson * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *One great strength of Utrata’s book is that she speaks to populations adjacent to single mothers as well, engaging with grandmothers caring for their adult daughters’ offspring, married mothers, and fathers. This work embeds her study of single motherhood in a larger landscape of transforming gender ideologies and gender relations. It also reveals that both men and women, regardless of age or marital status, share the belief that men are undependable and that womenare almost superhumanly strong. Approaching this study from multiple perspectives not only increases the depth and texture of answers to inquiries, but elicits new questions to be asked. * Women East-West *Currently, family life in Russia is undergoing what Jennifer Utrata aptly calls a 'quiet revolution,'a shift from a two-parent to a single-parent family model. InWomen without Men,she presents a comprehensive and multidimensional portrait of this process. Overall, the text sheds light on the previously understudied topic of single motherhood in Russia, contributing not only to Russian studies but to the sociology of gender in general. It provides a useful look on how neoliberal policies affect families on the global scale, how families respond to it, and how changes in Russian family structure may help us to understand and contextualize similar developments in American families. -- Alexander Novitskaya * The Russian Review *Even as I would have welcomed more discussion of single motherhood's impact on children; of fathers’ treatment of children as a factor in mothers’ decisions to leave or stay; and the historian in me a longer temporal perspective, I very much appreciated what Utrata does accomplish. For its illuminating treatment not only of single motherhood but also of Russia’s contemporary gender order and the policies and rhetoric that have shaped it, I recommend her book enthusiastically. -- Barbara Alpern Engel * Slavic Review *In Women without MenJennifer Utrata focuses on one of the most significant implications of Russia's transition from state socialism to market capitalism the growth of single motherhood.... In her study Utrata take the readers inside the modern Russian family illuminating how recent sociopolitical transformations affect people’s private life. -- Anna Shadrina * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society *In this engaging, deceptively unassuming work, Jennifer Utrata manages to challenge several bodies of scholarship and offer a persuasive argument for rethinking many key assumptions underlying theories of family life, poverty, and gender. Although, as the subtitle indicates, the book focuses on post-Communist Russia, Utrata's ultimate goal is to broaden the way in which we view single motherhood more generally, with particularly important potential consequences for poor women of color in the United States. -- Judith Record McKinney * American Journal of Sociology *The post-Soviet Russian society is in transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. Utrata (Univ. of Puget Sound) focuses on its implications for single motherhood, family life, and gender relations. Through case studies and respondents' voices, this comparative, insightful analysis emphasizes the cultural meaning of single motherhood. This excellent book makes a major contribution to family, gender, and Russian studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Quiet Revolution1. From State Protections to Post-Socialist "Freedoms": The Changed Context of Single Motherhood2. Diminishing Material Difficulties: Single Motherhood beyond Survival Strategies3. "Where the Women Are Strong": Navigating Practical Realism4. It Takes a Babushka: Single Mothers' Youth Privilege and Grandmother Support5. Blurred Boundaries: Married Mothers and the Specter of Single Motherhood6. Marginalized Men: Settling for the Status QuoConclusion: Normalized Gender CrisisNotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Transforming Womens Work
Book SynopsisDublin provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, testing the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment.Trade ReviewIn his impressively researched book, Thomas Dublin examines the transformation of women's work in New England, the first American region to be reshaped by the Industrial Revolution.... A valuable addition to the scholar's shelf. The data provide the single most detailed description of women and work a century ago. * New York Times Book Review *No historian has done more to illuminate the achievements of female labor in the early textile mills than Thomas Dublin.... In this latest book, he provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, giving us the chance to test the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment. He mines a breathtaking array of sources, including business records, census data, deeds, wills, diaries, and personal correspondence, to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding women's work in New England from the 1820s to 1900.... Dublin's ingenious detective work in matching families in archival sources enables him to make important points. * Women's Review of Books *
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Cornell University Press Ends of Empire Women and Ideology in Early
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis important book, wide ranging, carefully researched, closely argued, and immaculately presented, demands and deserves rigorous intellectual engagement. * The Yearbook of English Studies *A provocative and committed piece of criticism. * Modern Philology *Table of Contents1. The Feminization of Ideology: An Introduction 2. The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves 3. Staging Sexuality: Violence and Pleasure in the Domestic She-Tragedy 4. Capitalizing on Women: Dress, Aesthetics, and Alexander Pope 5. Amazons and Africans: Daniel Defoe 6. Imperial Disclosures: Jonathan Swift
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Cornell University Press Rethinking Home Economics
Book SynopsisUntil recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collaboration among home economists, family and consumer science professionals, and women''s historians. What knits the essays together is a willingness to revisit the subject of home economics with neither indictment nor apology. The volume includes significant new work that places home economics in the twentieth century within the context of the development of women''s professions.Rethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. The essays in this volume show the range of activities pursued under the rubric of home economics, from dietetics and parenting, teaching and cooperative extension work, to test kitchen and product development. ExploratiTrade ReviewA good treatment of home economics. * Workforce Education Forum *An excellent collection of essays.... From a variety of angles, this volume illuminates the history of science and culture, education, women, and politics in the U.S. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Libertys Daughters
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty''s Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.Trade Review'[An] excellent book…[Norton's] first concern… is to trace the decline of patriarchy; the growth of free choice of a spouse; the rise of marital equality…the greater equality in educational attainments; the more intense concern of parents for the proper education of children; the greater permissiveness in child-rearing; and the increased cooperation between spouses in birth control…[Her] fascinating documentation, drawn from a vast range of manuscript sources, establishes the facts beyond any reasonable doubt…Norton suggests that the change resulted from… two factors. The first was the practical experience of women during the long years of revolutionary upheaval…The second…was the impact of egalitarian and republican ideology." ~Lawrence Stone, New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPART I: THE CONSTANT PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 1. The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns 2. The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends 3. Fair Flowers, If Rightly Cultivated 4. In What Would You Shew Your Activity? 5. As Independent as Circumstances Will AdmitPART II: THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 6. We Commenced Perfect Statesmen 7. Necessity Taught Us 195 8. A Reverence of Self 9. Vindicating the Equality of Female IntellectConclusion: A New Era of Female History Abbreviations Appearing in the Sources and References Glossary of Major Families and Sources Essay on Sources Chapter References Index
£16.14
Cornell University Press Women in Old Norse Society
Book SynopsisJenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norwaytheir work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society places particular emphasis on changing sexual mores and the impact of Christianity as imposed by the clergy and Norwegian kings. It also demonstrates the vital role women played in economic production.Trade ReviewA thoroughly rewarding book.... The section on economics and production of wadmal and shaggy overcoats deserves close attention as the best treatment in English of an important topic hitherto neglected. * English Historical Review *Although a number of scholars have begun in recent years to approach Old Norse literature from a feminist perspective, Jenny Jochens has been the only historian in the United States to use gender analysis to study the society represented in that literature.... Jochens brings to bear on the Icelandic material a very broad range of knowledge: not only the Old Norse sources in all their complexity but also the body of scholarship in women's history and feminist theory.... This book can be read with profit by all medievalists and is essential reading for anyone interested in Old Norse society. * Speculum *Jenny Jochens has been one of the most prolific scholars working on the perennially interesting theme of the role played by women and scholars in Old Icelandic history and literature. Jochens presents a wealth of fascinating detail, never before collected to this extent... offering a full picture of the lives of medieval Icelandic women. * Saga-Book *Jochens's study is a model of interdisciplinary techniques and research; she carefully describes her sources—largely laws and sagas of various types—and their limitations, and then draws from them information, such as the etymology of key words ('wife,' 'husband'), possible only for a linguistic scholar of her caliber. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One. Gudny Bodvarsdottir and Gudrun Gjukadottir: Nordic-Germanic ContinuityChapter Two. MarriageThe Pagan-Christian ConflictPagan MarriageChristian MarriageTwo MarriagesDivorce and WidowhoodChapter Three. ReproductionConception: Theory and KnowledgeHeterosexual LovemakingSexual InitiativePregnancy and BirthPaternityInfanticideBaptismReproduction and Royal SuccessionChapter Four. LeisureWork before LeisureGenderIdleness and SleepSports and GamesStorytellingDrinking and Word GamesEmotional DistressPoliticsChapter Five. WorkGender Division of LaborOutdoor WorkIndoor WorkChapter Six. The Economics of HomespunGeneral UseCoatsCloth as Medium of ExchangeExport of Cloth and CoatsMeasurementsForeign ClothConclusionAppendix: SourcesSagas of IcelandersKings'SagasContemporary SagasLawsChristianity, Historicity, Oral Tradition, and Poststructural DoubtAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£28.49
Cornell University Press Chaste Passions
Book SynopsisVirgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among the most venerated. The legends of virgin martyrs, retold in various ways through the...Trade ReviewEven though medieval martyr legends seem to be bizarre, grotesque even, at time pornographic, sadistic, and also fanatical, modern scholarship has realized the considerable value of this literary genre for the history of mentality, popular religion, woman's history, and the history of popular culture....Winstead's 'Chaste Passions' will be a pleasant addition to many reading lists. -- Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona * Mediaevistik *These saints' stories are anything but saintly. The tales Winstead translates... are instead gory, horrific accounts of hell's fury, religious devotion, and endless purity. Modern readers may expect these old religious stories to seem lame by today's standards. Not so. The stories remain moving, shocking and entertaining even hundreds of years after they were written... Winstead couples informative essays with translations of intriguing stories to give readers keen insight into the virgin martyr legends, a view once reserved only for scholars. -- Marjory Raymer * ForeWord Magazine *I must again emphasise how impressive, overall, this collection truly is, and how Winstead's translations will open up possible classroom discussions.... This is a fine anthology, and an important, and—it must be said—fun addtion to any bookshelf. -- Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary * Arthuriana *
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