Gender studies: women and girls Books
Cornell University Press Feminism and Suffrage
Book SynopsisIn the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new...Trade ReviewThe women's suffrage movement is commonly viewed in one of two ways: as completely synonymous with nineteenth-century feminism, or as a corruption, a dilution of it. DuBois shows that neither analysis is accurate but that both political paths converged into a social movement that affected American history at least as much as the black liberation and labor movements—whose support it failed to win.... DuBois has given us a work of scholarly insight written in an animated style; she is generous in her portraits of and quotes from the foremothers. For feminists today, this book is a critical reminder that alliances are best made from a position of independently acquired strength. -- Robin Morgan * Ms. Magazine *This thoughtful and highly readable analysis is a valuable contribution to both the history of feminism and the history of nineteenth-century America. * Kirkus Reviews *
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Cornell University Press Women of Okinawa
Book SynopsisSince World War II, Okinawa has been the stage where the United States and Japan act out dramatic changes in their relationship. Women from three generations, each with a different account of the ways that international affairs have transformed...Trade ReviewKeyso's book emphasizes the many positive features of Okinawan women's postwar experience without disguising the hardship and discrimination they have variously experienced. Furthermore, the way in which she has chosen her interviewees... only serves to deepen our understanding of the complex problems raised by the U.S. presence on Okinawa... In short, Keyso provides us with a fascinating perspective on Okinawan history and women's place within it. -- Fiona Webster * The Japan Times *
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Cornell University Press Visualizing the Nation Gender Representation and
Book SynopsisPopular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In...Trade ReviewLandes focuses on how revolutionary leaders used images to fashion gender and national identities for the revolutionary nation's new citizens. -- Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College * Journal of Modern History *Landes argues that visual images contain their own powerful discourse that is simply absent in regularly printed words.... This fascinating examination of political prints raises central questions for the study of gender and politics during the French Revolution. -- Gary Kates, Pomona College * American Historical Review *Women were prevented from being politically active, but Landes finds that the depiction of France as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism, bind male subjects to the emerging society, and invite women to identify with the project of nationalism. * Book News *Landes explores the ever-present paradoxes within the sad events that revolutionary French society experienced in the 18th century, capturing in the poignant images the tragic-comic reality. She traces the interconnections between pictorial and textual political arguments and concentrates on images of both women and men, in a deeply scholarly and erudite manner.... Her research is outstanding.... Highly recommended. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Bonds of Community The Lives of Farm Women in
Book SynopsisWomen held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...Trade ReviewIn Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State. * Contemporary Sociology *Osterud's work deserves careful attention from historians of women, rural life, and nineteenth-century American. * American Historical Review *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women in Public
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn immensely ambitious, complicated and pioneering study that is sure to have a major impact on historians... [The] book is a series of essays that trace the representation of gender, as well as women's actual participation in public life. Women's Review of Books Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their striving for participation in it. -- Lee Chambers-Schiller American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Ceremonial Space: Public Celebration and Private Women Chapter 2. Everyday Space: Gender and Geography of the Public Chapter 3. Political Space: Of Prostitutes and Politicians Chapter 4. The Public Sphere: Of Handkerchiefs, Brickbats, and Women's RightsEpilogueNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Torrid Zones Maternity Sexuality and Empire in
Book SynopsisThe general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the IntroductionTrade ReviewScholars of the emergent empire in the 18th century should see sexuality in terms of feminism's internal structures and its 'Othering'. Nussbaum discusses polygamy in African narratives and in England, examining Mary Wollstonecraft's work, Anna Falconbridge's narrative of her voyages to Sierra Leone, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's description of her timein Turkey. She also looks at prostitution, romance, sati, and a variety of other subjects found in travel literature, thereby providing a view of both the Englishwomen and the Other woman... Nussbaum succeeds in making the 'ideological working of empire and Englishwomen's complicity within it more legible. Choice Self-consciously exemplifies what a feminist new historicism would look like; Nussbaum's introduction and opening two chapters technically but clearly lay out a fresh approach to eighteenth-century writing about the self and to autobiography in general. -- Mitzi Myers Women's Review of Books An exemplary model of political criticism. -- Shawn Lisa Maurer Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Johns Hopkins University Press Manly Meals and Moms Home Cooking Cookbooks and
Book SynopsisMore than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.Trade ReviewHave you ever wondered why women's cooking tends to be tired and routine, while men can make culinary magic with hotdogs, omelettes, and fried potatoes? Or why juicy steaks are man-food, while dainty salads are for women? These stereotypes may sit like a rock in the belly, but the message has been reinforced over the past century in American cookbooks, says Jessamyn Neuhaus, author of Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking. She explores generations of cookery instruction and finds they didn't stop at recipes for Jell-O salad and tuna casserole. From Fannie Farmer and The Joy of Cooking to The I Hate to Cook Book, cookbooks have long told women more than how much flour to put in their devil's food cake. They have reflected and reinforced social attitudes about the distinct roles of men and women... Readers-especially veteran home cooks-are likely to find Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking worth tasting. -- Julie Finnin Day Christian Science Monitor An engaging analysis... Neuhaus provides a rich and well-researched cultural history of American gender roles through her clever use of cookbooks. -- Sarah Eppler Janda History: Reviews of New Books Neuhaus examines a huge number of both well-known and obscure cookbooks, as well as hard-to-find magazine articles and offers persuasive evidence about the culture of the period. -- Barbara Haber Women's Review of Books An excellent addition to the history of women's roles in America, as well as to the history of cookbooks. Choice 2004 The book has many strengths, including excellent research and cogent presentation... Good enough to entice more scholars to step into the kitchen. Journal of American History 2004 The entire book is well researched and documented, helping readers to see that cookbooks have supported America's dominant ideologies about gender. -- Anne L. Bower Gastronomica 2004 Even if you missed Jell-O salads or Pu-Pu platters, after reading Neuhaus buying a cookbook will never be the same. -- Eileen Boris American Historical Review 2006Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction "The Purpose of a Cookery Book"PART ONE "A Most Enchanting Occupation": Cookbooks in Early and Modern America, 1796-1941One From Family Receipts to Fannie Farmer: Cookbooks in the United States, 1796-1920 Two Recipes for a New Era: Food Trends, Consumerism, Cooks, and Cookbooks Three "Cooking Is Fun": Women's Home Cookery As Art, Science, and Necessity Four Ladylike Lunches and Manly Meals: The Gendering of Food and CookingPART TWO "You are First and Foremost Homemakers: Cookbooks and the Second World WarFive Lima Loaf and Butter Stretchers Six "Ways and Means for War Days": The Cookbook-Scrapbook Compiled by Maude Reid Seven "The Hand That Cuts the Ration Coupon May Win the War": Women's Home-Cooked PatriotismPART THREE The Cooking Mystique: Cookbooks and Gender, 1945-1963Eight The Betty Crocker Era Nine "King of the Kitchen": Food and Cookery Instruction for Men Ten The Most Important Meal: Women's Home Cooking, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks Eleven "A Necessary Bore": Contradictions in the Cooking MystiqueConclusion From Julia Child to Cooking.comNotes Essay on Sources Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Unfinished Agendas
Book SynopsisShaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of KansasTrade ReviewThis excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education. Choice 2009 Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo's 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe... This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important-and complex-topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce. -- Melissa McDaniels Academe 2009 Masterfully handled... This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing. -- S.L. Sutherland Times Higher Education 2008 Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women... it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction. -- Linda Serra Hagedorn Journal of College Student Retention 2009 Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book. -- Judy Haiven CAUT Bulletin 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Feminist Agenda: A Work in ProgressChapter 2. Women Faculty and the Dance of Identities: Constructing Self and Privilege within CommunityChapter 3. Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research UniversitiesChapter 4. The Differential Effects of Academic Capitalism on Women in the AcademyChapter 5. Developing Women Scientists: Baccalaureate Origins of Recent Mathematics and Science DoctoratesChapter 6. Faculty Productivity and the Gender QuestionChapter 7. Women and the College PresidencyChapter 8. Women on Governing Boards: Why Gender MattersChapter 9. Female Faculty in the Community College: Approaching Equity in a Low-Status SectorChapter 10. Women of Color in Academe: Experiences of the Often InvisibleChapter 11. Choice and Discourse in Faculty Careers: Feminist Perspectives on Work and FamilyEpilogueContributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Democracy and the Rise of Womens Movements in
Book SynopsisIn demonstrating how women's activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women's social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking chronicle... Highly recommended for both public and college library collections. Midwest Book Review 2008 Fallon's work presents an insightful distillation of a large and important set of events and issues. I am impressed with the stages she proposes as critical turning points in the evolution of the women's movement in Sub-Saharan Africa and specific evidence she provides to describe those periods and their transitions. Contemporary Sociology All scholars of social movements and comparative politics, and in particular by specialists in African studies and gender and politics, should read Fallon's book. It is a model of the power of a well-grounded case study that pushes scholarship toward broader implications. International Studies Review Fallon makes an important contribution to understanding democratization and the experiences of sub-Saharan African women's movements. This work will undoubtedly spur discussion among scholars of women and democratization, and future comparative studies of women's mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa will build on this solid foundation. -- Julie Kaye Canadian Journal of Sociology 2009 Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa deepens our understanding of the African women's activism that coincided with democratization across the continent in the 1990s and 2000s. -- Gretchen Bauer African Studies Review 2009 An important contribution to the literature [that] should be included in college and university libraries. Choice 2009 An engaging and thought-provoking read and a welcome contribution to our thinking about women's emerging political roles and opportunities. -- Andrea Brown Journal of Modern African Studies 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms1. Reclaiming Power2. Queenmothers, Colonization, and the Struggle for Legitimacy3. Democracy in Perspective4. The Iron Fist5. Capturing Democracy6. Big Men, Small Girls, and the Politics of Power7. Women on the MoveAppendix A: MethodsAppendix B: Survey DataNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Fleeing the House of Horrors Women Who Have Left
Book SynopsisThirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women.Trade Review'This [book] will have a significant contribution to the research on intimate violence experienced by women ... Her analysis is heart wrenching yet honest, brutal yet vital to our understanding of those women ... This work is long overdue.' -- Cheryl Gosselin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bishop's University
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University of Toronto Press Visual Habits
Book SynopsisThe 1950s and 60s were times of extraordinary social and political change across North America that re-drew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experimented with their role in the church, removing their habits, rejecting the cloister, and fighting for social justice. The media quickly took to their cause and dubbed them 'the new nuns,' modern exemplars of liberated but sexually contained womanhood.With Visual Habits, Rebecca Sullivan brings this unexamined history of nuns to the fore, revisiting the intersection of three distinct movements - the Second Vatican Council, the second wave of feminism, and the sexual revolution - to explore the pivotal role nuns played in revamping cultural expectations of femininity and feminism.From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major preTrade ReviewVisual Habitsprovides a persuasive argument of how postwar worries concerning women were calmed by fantasizing about spunky women wearing veils. At the same time, it reminds us of the importance of imagining alternatives to the heterosexual family romance that is far from being the natural order of things. -- Colleen McDannell Bookforum - Oct/Nov 2005 Vol. 12 Issue 3 Visual Habits is a must-read in a culture that has forgotten the influence of professed religious in both women's history and pop culture...women religious, vocations directors and those with an interest in the films and folk music of the post-war era will enjoy grappling with this thought-provoking work. -- Dorothy Cummings The Catholic Register
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University of Toronto Press In the Days of Our Grandmothers
Book SynopsisIn the Days of our Grandmothers is essential reading for students and anyone interested in Aboriginal history in Canada.
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University of Toronto Press Remnants of Nation
Book SynopsisTreating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada.
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University of Toronto Press The Clear Spirit
Book SynopsisThe Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the various activities in which women have engaged. Each was to have significance in the development of Canadian society. It was also the wish of the C.F.U.W. that the essays should be based on original research and be written in a lively and readable style by women authors who are contributors to literary activities in Canada today.The book begins with the early pioneers of Canada in their several areas of settlement: Madame de la Tour, Mère Marie de l'Incarnation, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. It includes Pauline Johnson, Laure Conan, L.M. Montgomery, Emily Carr, and Mazo de la Roche who over the years helped to establish women as professional contributors to literature and
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University of Toronto Press The Stairway
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University of Toronto Press Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution
Book SynopsisThe French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris – to the revolution's aftermath.Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity.Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic lega
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University of Toronto Press Discounted Labour
Book SynopsisThe years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women''s persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias analyse how and why women became confined to low-wage jobs, why their work was deemed less valuable than men''s work, why many women lacked training, job experience, and union membership, and under what circumstances women resisted their subordination.Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women''s place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners buTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Part I: Image versus Reality * Industrial Capitalism and Women's Work * White Collars * In Times of Crisis Part II: Confronting the Disjuncture * Social Reform and Regulation * Resistance and Its Limits Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of Toronto Press Gendering the Nation
Book SynopsisSince Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance), and Micheline Lanctôt (Deux actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse
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University of Toronto Press Punishment in Disguise Penal Governance and
Book SynopsisA look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Rethinking Womens Collaborativ
Book SynopsisYork explores collaborative writing from women in Britain, the United States, Italy and France, illuminating the tensions in the collaborative process that grow out of important cultural, racial, and sexual differences between the authors.
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University of Toronto Press Fleeing the House of Horrors Women Who Have Left
Book SynopsisThirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women.Trade Review'This [book] will have a significant contribution to the research on intimate violence experienced by women ... Her analysis is heart wrenching yet honest, brutal yet vital to our understanding of those women ... This work is long overdue.' -- Cheryl Gosselin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bishop's University
£29.70
University of Toronto Press The Girl from Gods Country
Book SynopsisIn The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood's silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in motion pictures. Born and raised in British Columbia, Shipman became a contract actress for Vitagraph Studios, starring in God's Country and the Woman (1915) and Back to God's Country (1919), among other films. These action-packed adventure melodramas, in which the heroine is called upon to rescue her husband and defeat the villain, were immensely successful. Later, Shipman started up her own production company to make films centred on her screen persona, 'the girl from God’s country.' By the mid 1920s, however, the formation of the large Hollywood studios and vertical integration closed down the independents, Shipman among them. Nevertheless, she continued writing until her death in 1970.Through
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University of Toronto Press Who Cares
Book SynopsisBy focusing on childcare and systematically comparing national experiences in Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, and the European Union, Who Cares? provides detailed information on recent social policies and a clear perspective on welfare state redesign. Many countries have now designed childcare policies to reconcile family and work. Some encourage parents to provide their own childcare by granting parental leave; others encourage parents to stay at work by supporting childcare services. Using the case of childcare policy, the contributors to this volume examine how public policy choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific understandings of the gendered division of labour.The authors of the country studies analyse specific childcare strategies and place them within the larger context of state approaches to women's roles. They argue that an examination of the direction and the form of social spending, in this period when such spending is under at
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Toronto Press Womens Writing in Canada
Book SynopsisThis study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.Trade Review"Patricia Demers, an established scholar of early modern literature and gender, has turned more recently to an extensive examination of gender and national literature with Women’s Writing in Canada, an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century and contemporary writing in Canada, with some nods to pre-1950s women in the field." -- Stephen Cain, York University * The Canadian Historical Review *"With impressive critical acuity and obvious enthusiasm, Patricia Demers has a range of Canadian female artists in print, film, and music, each contributing to the national story. Non-Canadians interested in the cultural field will be richly informed." -- Patricia Keeney, York University * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imag(in)ing the National Terrain from the Mid-twentieth Century to the Sesquicentennial Approaching National Literature Women in the Linked Roles of Reading and Writing The Commissions: From Massey to Truth and Reconciliation From Total Refusal and the Quiet Revolution to Cultural Accommodation New Images of Movement and Diversity Fiction Prospects at Mid-Century Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family Revolutionary Talents and Experiments Flowering Careers in the Sixties Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, Race, and Ethnicity Extensions in 2017 Film Original Screenplays Adaptations of Women’s Writing in Canada Documentaries Poetry Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" P.K. Page: Onlooker and Participant Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and loss" Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide out in the open" Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" Music Folk Singers Reclaiming Traditions Punk, Pop, and Country Adult Contemporary Styling Drama Ringwood: Canadian Drama’s Foremother Joudry, Hendry, and Simons: Examining Emotions Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing History and Power Politics Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" Ritter, Glass, Clark, and Lill: Enacting Vulnerabilities Thompson and MacDonald: Performing Marginalization and Shape-Shifting Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documemories" MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring Impasses Writing for Children Fiction about Children and Young Adults Other Times and Space of Fantasy Illustrated Narratives Non-fiction Memoirists and Autobiographers Commentators on Our World Advisors and Observers Conclusion Timeline Notes Works Cited Credits Index
£54.40
MY - University of Toronto Press Doing Time on the Outside
Book SynopsisDoing Time on the Outside fills a gap in the research by focusing on the experiences of women on conditional release, and attempting to understand how some criminalized women avoid going back into custody given the many challenges they face.
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University of Toronto Press Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume II
Book SynopsisTogether with its first volume, Documenting First Wave Feminisms reveals a more nuanced picture, attentive to nationalism and transnationalism, of the first wave than has previously been understood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction: Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume Introduction I Imperial/National Feminisms * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, from "For a Reference" (c1860) * Lucy Waterbury, The Universal Sisterhood (189_) * Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) * Henriette Forget, "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) * E. Pauline Johnson - Tekahioucoaka, "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) * Lally Bernard, "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) * Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) * Bessie Bullen-Perry, from From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) * Gertrude Richardson, "My Canadian Letter" (1915) * Women's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) * Constance Boulton, "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) * Anonymous, "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, "Imperial or National?" (1918) * British Commonwealth League, "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women Within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) * Florence Custance, "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) * Cairine Wilson, "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940) II Internationalism * Introduction * Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives, "The Affectionate Address of Thousands of the Women of Canada to Their Sisters, The Women of the United States of America" (1853) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "A Bazaar In Toronto For Frederick Douglass' Paper, etc." (1854) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, "Lectures" (1855) * Margaret Munn, "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188_) * Letitia Youmans, The Women's Christian Temperance Union Comes to Canada - 1874 (1893) * Robertine Barry, "When Will We See [Women in University?]" (1895) * Harriet Boomer, Commentary at the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) * Anonymous "The Indian Committee" (1913) * Una Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination: The YWCA" (1915) * Kate A. Foster, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) * Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) * Canadian Working Women's Delegation, "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) * Anna Mokry, Excerpt of Reminiscences (c.1910s-1930s) * Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) *"Goodwill" [Illustration] (1937) * Dorothy Heneker, "What Women's Organizations Are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) * Cairine Wilson, "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938) III Suffrage * Introduction * Hantsport Women's Christian Temperance Union, "Petition for Enfranchisement of Women" (1878) * Mary McDonnell, "A Century of Progress for Women "(1893) * Emily Cummings, Further Discussion on A Century of Progress (1893) * Margaret Benedictsson, "Women's Rights, " and "Women's Equal Rights" (1898) * Flora MacDonald Denison, Report on Attendance at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Conference (1906) * Lena Mortimer, "One Woman's Way of Thinking" (1911) * Sonya Leathes, What Equal Suffrage Has Accomplished (1911 or 1912) * Victoria Political Equality League, "The Study Club" (1912) * Florence Trenholme Cole, "Concerning Suffrage" (1913) * Marion Francis Beynon, "Foreign Woman's Franchise" (1916) * Nellie McClung, "Mrs. McClung's Reply" (1917) * Jus Suffragii Editorial, International Response to Women Gaining Federal Franchise (1917) * Constance Hamilton, Letter to the Editor of Jus Suffragii (1918) * Harriet Prenter, "The Failure of the Suffrage Movement to Bring Freedom to Woman" (1928) * Idola Saint-Jean, Radio Address on Granting Women the Vote in Quebec (1931) IV Citizenship * Introduction * Nahnebahwequa - Catherine Sutton, Speech to the Aborigines' Protection Society of London (1860) *(Mrs. Dr.) Annie Parker, "Women in Nation Building" (1890) * Methodist Women's Missionary Society, Work Among Chinese Women (1892-1893) * Chinese Empire Ladies' Reform Association, Victoria [Illustration] (1903) * Emily Murphy aka Janey Canuck, from Open Trails (1912) * Georgina Binnie-Clark, from Wheat and Women (1914) * Marion Francis Beynon, "The Foreigner" (1914) * Lily B. Levetus, "The Local Council of Jewish Women" (1915) * Mrs. Donald Shaw, "Congress of Coloured Women" (1920) * Anonymous, "The Pays Des Iroquois - The Six Nations of Grand River" (1923) * Sarah Robertson Matheson, "An Appeal to 'Women of the World'" (1925) * Letter From Emily General to Rica Flemyng Gyll, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society (1925) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Petition to the Governor General of Canada Regarding Women as Persons (1927) * Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby, Request to Appeal Supreme Court of Canada Decision to British Privy Council (1928) * Agnes MacPhail, Speech in the House of Commons on the Naturalization of Married Women (1927) *"Ship of State" [Illustration] (1928) * Therese Casgrain, "Woman's Place in a Democracy" (1941) V Moral Reform, Sexuality and Birth Control * Introduction * Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax, Sixth Annual Report (1880) * Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs. H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton, Women's Missionary Society (1881) * Lady Julia Drummond, Age of Consent (1896) * Jessie C. Smith, WCTU Superintendent, "Social Purity" (1898) * Dora Foster (Kerr), from Sex Radicalism (1905) * Anonymous, "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) * Beatrice Brigden, "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1917) * Una Saunders, from The Work of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada (1918) * Florence Rowe, "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) * Helen MacMurchy, "What Are We Going to Tell the Young People?" (1934) * Winnifred Kydd, President NCWC, Statement on Birth Control (l934) VI Women's Work and Economic Status * Introduction * Jessie McVicar, "Organization our Only Hope" and "Organization for Girls" (1883) * Jean Thomson Scott, from The conditions of female labour in Ontario 1892 (1892) * National Council of Women of Canada, Debate Over Protective Legislation (1895) * Amelia Paget, "Report on Mrs. Paget's Trip to Indian Reserves in Saskatchewan" (1912) * Helena Gutteridge, "Women Organize an Employment League" (1913) * Civic Committee of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, The Work of Women and Girls in the Department Stores in Winnipeg (1914) * Anonymous, "Orientals in Hotels Displace White Labor" (1915) *Eva Circe-Cote, "Equal Pay-Equal Work" (1917) * Kathleen Derry, Treatment of Women Emigrants (1920) * Irene Parlby, "Married Women's Economic Status" (1925) * Annie Buller, "The Need for Mass Work Among Women" (1935) * Canadian Federation of University Women, "Report of Committee on the Legal and Economic Status of University Women" (1936) VII Peace * Introduction * Margaret McKay, "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace and Arbitration" (1896) * Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union, Resolution on the Boer War (1899) * National Council of Women of Canada, "Resolution as to the Standing Committee to Make Arrangements for the Campaign Contingent to the Transvaal" (1899) * M. Gomar White, "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) * Flora Macdonald Denison, War and Women (1914) * Letter to Jane Adams Regarding Canadian Participation in Women's Peace Conference (1915) * Julia Grace Wales, Untitled Paper on Her Involvement in Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) * Gertrude Richardson, "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) * Rose Henderson, from Woman and War (192_) * Hilda Laird, "League of Nations" (1932) * Laura Jamieson, "Reply to Questionnaire re Techniques of Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) *"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle..." [Illustration] (1937)
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University of Toronto Press Womens Writing in Canada
Book SynopsisThis study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.Trade Review"Patricia Demers, an established scholar of early modern literature and gender, has turned more recently to an extensive examination of gender and national literature with Women’s Writing in Canada, an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century and contemporary writing in Canada, with some nods to pre-1950s women in the field." -- Stephen Cain, York University * The Canadian Historical Review *"With impressive critical acuity and obvious enthusiasm, Patricia Demers has a range of Canadian female artists in print, film, and music, each contributing to the national story. Non-Canadians interested in the cultural field will be richly informed." -- Patricia Keeney, York University * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imag(in)ing the National Terrain from the Mid-twentieth Century to the Sesquicentennial Approaching National Literature Women in the Linked Roles of Reading and Writing The Commissions: From Massey to Truth and Reconciliation From Total Refusal and the Quiet Revolution to Cultural Accommodation New Images of Movement and Diversity Fiction Prospects at Mid-Century Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family Revolutionary Talents and Experiments Flowering Careers in the Sixties Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, Race, and Ethnicity Extensions in 2017 Film Original Screenplays Adaptations of Women’s Writing in Canada Documentaries Poetry Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" P.K. Page: Onlooker and Participant Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and loss" Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide out in the open" Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" Music Folk Singers Reclaiming Traditions Punk, Pop, and Country Adult Contemporary Styling Drama Ringwood: Canadian Drama’s Foremother Joudry, Hendry, and Simons: Examining Emotions Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing History and Power Politics Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" Ritter, Glass, Clark, and Lill: Enacting Vulnerabilities Thompson and MacDonald: Performing Marginalization and Shape-Shifting Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documemories" MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring Impasses Writing for Children Fiction about Children and Young Adults Other Times and Space of Fantasy Illustrated Narratives Non-fiction Memoirists and Autobiographers Commentators on Our World Advisors and Observers Conclusion Timeline Notes Works Cited Credits Index
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Louise Pound
Book SynopsisLouise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association. Readers of varied interests will find her story compelling.Trade Review"This well-written biography details all aspects of Pound's life as scholar, athlete, and advocate for women's sports."—J. C. Tucker, CHOICE"Cochran's straightforward biography is a pleasure to read."—William M. Clements, Journal of Folklore Research"Cochran's well-researched and well-written book places Louise Pound securely in her time and place and reveals much about the plight of women in higher education in a not-so-distant past. . . . It is an invaluable work on the history of women in the professions in the early twentieth century."—Shirley Anne Leckie, Journal of American History"Robert Cochran serves his subject well in this biography of Louise Pound."—Catriona Parratt, Annals of IowaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. "I have always been satisfied with Nebraska"2. "The iridescent glamor of life beginning"3. "A genuine Nebraska cyclone"4. "She's an athlete; she's a scholar"5. "Incapable of orderly thought"6. "There is always zest"7. "First woman again" NotesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Observations on the Real Rights of Women and
Book SynopsisFollowing in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primarily to persuade. Unlike those forebears, however, she did not begin her career as a published writer until well into middle age. The works collected here include previously unpublished poetry, drama, memoirs, sermons, and essays on American identity, education, and history.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextPart 1. Finding a Voice, 18121814Fast SermonThanksgiving SermonAn Humble Address to the Reason and Wisdom of the American NationAntiquarian Researches, Pleasant and EasyPart 2. Becoming an Advocate, 18151819A Series of Letters on Free MasonryThe School of Reform, or Seaman's Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good HopeObservations on the Real Rights of Women, with Their Appropriate Duties, Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common SenseThe Midnight BeauPart 3. Taking Stock, 18201829Selections from "Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, Being an Account of the Original Proprietors of That Town, the Manners and Customs of Its People"NotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Southern Ute Women
Book SynopsisShows how Ute women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways that gave their lives meaning and bolstered personal autonomy.Trade Review“[Southern Ute Women] makes a useful contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Native American women.”—Sara H. Hill, American Historical Review“Historians of American Indians have devoted insufficient attention to the distinctive experiences of Native American women, although in recent years a number of scholars have made strides in reversing that trend. With Southern Ute Women, Katherine Osburn helps redress this gap in the historiography. . . . A thoughtful, incisive, and well-written monograph that does much to further our understanding of the dynamic lives of Native American women in the allotment era.”— Steve Amerman, Western Historical Quarterly“A well-researched, clearly written account that adds to our understanding of the power dynamic between a dominating federal government and a subordinate, but not completely coerced, reservation population.”— Sherry L. Smith, Agricultural HistoryTable of ContentsMapsTablesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER ONE - The People of the Shining MountainsCHAPTER TWO - Women and Public LeadershipCHAPTER THREE - Women and EconomicsCHAPTER FOUR - HomemakingCHAPTER FIVE - Sex and MarriageConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press From Colony to Nation
Book SynopsisThe first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism.Trade Review"Macpherson succeeds brilliantly... [Her] book is the first significantly new contribution to Belizean historiography in decades. Much as Bolland, Ashdown, and Shoman overturned an earlier model of official history, Macpherson has both built upon and revised interpretations received from them. Belizean women emerge in her account as central political actors in their own right, often taking up mobilizations abandoned by male workers or sustaining popular movements when male leadership was timid, compliant, or divided... One informant, in recounting her youthful confrontation with a British governor declared, "I was never a coward woman." Macpherson's history accords such steadfast determination a central role in Belize's emergence as an independent nation, and does so with meticulous research and profound empathy for her subjects."-American Historical Review American Historical Review "Macpherson brings an innovative, unapologetically revisionist perspective to her project, offering the first work to theorize the political subjectivities of women in Belize and thereby significantly raising the theoretical stakes of the historiography of Central America's understudied Caribbean coast."-Michael Stone, Hispanic American Historical Review -- Michael Stone Hispanic American Historical Review "Macpherson provides a voice to the women of Belize engaged in the twentieth-century struggle for independence, an underappreciated political struggle still underway a quarter century after the establishment of the nation-state of Belize."-Michael J. Pisani, Latin Americanist -- Michael J. Pisani Latin Americanist "With her grounded research and deep interest in the subject, Anne Macpherson provides detailed insight into the political life of actors and actresses of the Belizean national movement."-Dorothee Marie-Louise Dopfer, Iberoamericana -- Dorothee Marie-Louise Dopfer IberoamericanaTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: “Never a Coward Woman”1. The Making of a Riot: Women, Wages, and War on the Home Front, 1912-19192. A Fragile Peace: Colonial Reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross Nurses, 1920-19303. Hurricane from Below: Popular Protests, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women’s League, 1931-19414. Modernizing Colonialism: Development, Discipline, and Domestication, 1935-19545. A New Paterfamilias: The Creation and Control of Popular Nationalism, 1949-19616. Negotiating Nationalist Patriarchy: Party Politics, Radical Masculinity, and the Birth of Belizean Feminism, 1961–1982Conclusion: Gender and History in the Making of Modern BelizeNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
MQ - University of Nebraska Press Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern
Book SynopsisAn examination of queens in history, extrapolating their connections to each other, the perceptions of them by their constituents, and the fallacies of their historical reputations.Trade Review“There’s a little bit for everyone here, especially for those interested in Elizabeth I, whose acts of mercy, travels, international relations, and representations in various guises are all covered, among other topics. . . . Those interested in any of the queens here will find this a rewarding book.”—Susan Higginbotham, Historical Novels Review "These excellent essays are a joy to read. Together they question assumptions about pre-modern culture and offer new and interesting interpretations of queenship."—Retha Warnicke, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: It's Good to Be QueenRobert Bucholz and Carole Levin 1. "Greater by Marriage": The Matrimonial Career of the Empress MatildaCharles Beem2. Widow Princess or Neglected Queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English Public Opinion, 1533–1536Timothy G. Elston3. "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie": Queens' Mercy during the Reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth ISarah Duncan4. Princess Elizabeth Travels across Her Kingdom: In Life, in Text, and on StageCarole Levin5. Marriage à la Mode, 1559: Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the Changing Practice of Dynastic MarriageJohn Watkins6. Queen Solomon: An International Elizabeth I in 1569Linda S. Shenk7. The Virgin and the Widow: The Political Finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' MediciElaine Kruse8. Crafting Queens: Early Modern Readings of EstherMichele Osherow9. "Shine like an Angel with thy starry crown": Queen Elizabeth the AngelicAnna Riehl10. Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra: An Act of TranslationRichardine Woodall11. "She is the man, and Raignes": Popular Representations of Henrietta Maria during the English Civil WarsMichelle A. White12. Sex and the Single Queen: The Erotic Lives of Elizabeth Tudor in Seventeenth-century EnglandMarjorie Swann13. The "Stomach of a Queen," or Size Matters: Gender, Body Image, and the Historical Reputation of Queen AnneRobert Bucholz14. Two PoemsAmber Harris Leichner Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press Empowerment of North American Indian Girls
Book SynopsisOffers overview of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls, featuring a look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review""Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies.""—Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Empowerment of North American Indian Girls
Book SynopsisProvides an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Psychologist Carol A. Markstrom reviews indigenous, historical, and anthropological literatures and conveys the results of her fieldwork to provide descriptive accounts of North American Indian coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review"Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies."-Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Boots and Saddles or Life in Dakota with General
Book SynopsisThe honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. Her entreaties to be allowed to travel along set the pattern of her future life. This is the story of Elizabeth B. Custer (1842-1933), told in her own words. She was not only a housewife on the Plains; she was whatever the occasion demanded.Trade Review“This is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the sage, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870s.”—Montana: The Magazine of Western HistoryTable of ContentsI. Change of StationII. A BlizzardIII. Western HospitalityIV. Cavalry on the MarchV. Camping among the SiouxVI. A Visit to the Village of "Two Bears"VII. Adventures during the Last Days of the MarchVIII. Separation and ReunionIX. Our New Home at Fort LincolnX. Incidents of Every-day LifeXI. The Burning of Our Quarters.--Carrying the MailXII. Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic LifeXIII. A "Strong Heart" Dance!XIV. Garrison LifeXV. General Custer's Literary WorkXVI. Indian DepredationsXVII. A Day of Anxiety and TerrorXVIII. Improvements at the Post, and GardeningXIX. General Custer's LibraryXX. The Summer of the Black Hills ExpeditionXXI. Domestic TrialsXXII. Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-FaceXXIII. Garrison AmusementsXXIV. An Indian CouncilXXV. Breaking Up of the MissouriXXVI. Curious Characters and Excursionists among UsXXVII. Religious Services.--Leave of AbsenceXXVIII. A Winter's Journey across the PlainsXXIX. Our Life's Last ChapterAppendix: With Extracts of General Custer's Letters
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University of Nebraska Press First Laugh
Book SynopsisConcerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the centre of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distil experience has drawn readTrade Review“[First Laugh] is a great contribution to the field of ‘new journalism’ and literary nonfiction. The essays are grounded in concrete experience as well as a lifetime of research. The style is exquisite, the prose of a skilled poet: spare, concise, and clear.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 “These essays come to us from the American Southwest, a terrain of rock, sand, and here and there a tree whose roots have found water. Margaret Randall is herself a weather-beaten survivor of revolutionary upsurge in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. She looks out across the American desert from a place that is close to the heart of reality.”—Staughton Lynd, coauthor of Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together"Randall is a sincere, poetic, and compelling narrator, and her latest collection offers something for everyone."—Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsA Few Words about These EssaysThe American PeoplePumping GasFlying BackwardsBigger, Better, BestRace and Racism: The 2008 ElectionThe Cell RemembersRolling EyesRemembering MotherFirst LaughPircing the WallsOñate's Right FootCan Poetry Matter?Words for El Corno EmplumadoThe Living Silence of a Place like Kiet SeelBetrayalCrystal's GiftThe Place Where Color SoundsMy Losses
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University of Nebraska Press Epistolophilia Writing the Life of Ona Simaite
Book SynopsisA giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem's honoured Righteous Among the Nations) and yet so little known.Trade Review"A remarkable work of research, translation, and recovery that tells the story of an unlikely, long-overlooked heroine."—Ned Stuckey-French, Fourth Genre"Epistolophilia is not a typical biography, and Šimaitė was not a typical World War II hero. For readers looking for an unconventional account of the World War II and post-war eras, as well as those interested in women's life writing, Epistolophilia is a nuanced and compelling work."—ForeWord Reviews"Sukys draws liberally from thousands of pages of correspondence and numerous diaries to create a portrait of a deeply thoughtful woman trying to make sense of history and her own life by putting it all to paper. Also of Lithuanian descent, Sukys's own meditations on the power of letters and writing make this a powerful testament to the confluence of history and individual lives and passions."—Publishers Weekly"Sukys is to be commended for providing us with this testament and story of a little known hero, who might otherwise have been overlooked."—Abe Novick, Baltimore Jewish Times"A startling paradox that while Simaite died at 76 before completing her memoirs, Sukys is able to capture Simaite's story while successfully writing an unexpected memoir of her own."—Meredith Wood Bahuriak, PLOP! Review"Sukys is to be commended for providing us with this testament and story of a little known hero. . . . The writing is done with care and precision bringing to life a woman who we might have otherwise overlooked."—Jerusalem Post "A mosaic of Šimaitė’s life, Epistolophilia enables readers to create a three-dimensional person with the little information available."—Mélanie Grondin, Montreal Review of Books “An intelligent, humane, and noble book that rescues from obscurity an intelligent, humane, and noble woman. It stands as a testament to the power of reading, writing, compassion, and extraordinary courage.”—David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World“With this searching, nuanced biography, Julija Šukys introduces the English-speaking world to a genuine heroine of the Holocaust, while at the same time raising vital questions about the role of trauma, poverty, and ill health on women’s literary production.”—Susan Olding, author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays“This is an important new take on the legacy of the Holocaust. Eloquent and elegantly written, it reads like a Sebald text but with a voice profoundly its own.”—Laura Levitt, professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Place Names Part One1. The Woman in the Park 2. Vilnius 3. Correspondence 4. Ona Šimaite's Letters to Marijona Cilvinaite, 19571958 5. Caregiving and Letters Part Two6. A Childhood Tale 7. Russian Letters 8. Everyday Writings Part Three9. Ghetto 10. Mowszowicz 11. Letters to Kazys Jakubenas, 19411943 12. Destruction of the Ghetto Part Four13. Kazys 14. Kazys's Death 15. Alfonsas's Theory Part Five16. Catholicism, Sex, and Sin 17. Mothering Part Six18. Ludelange 19. Freedom 20. Toulouse 21. Letters to New York 22. La Courtine Part Seven23. The Ghetto Library 24. Librarians 25. Writing a Woman's Life Part Eight26. Aldute 27. Family Letters 28. Soviet Schizophrenia 29. Death in Vilnius 30. Paris 1968 31. Single and Crazy Part Nine32. Cormeilles 33. October Works Cited
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University of Nebraska Press Modernism and Mildred Walker
Book SynopsisOffers a western interpretation of Modernism as a critical tool and proposes a variety of readings and interpretations designed to emphasize the relationship between cultural production in the West and modernism. This book encourages readers to reappraise Walker's work and to undertake further studies of their own.Trade Review"Admirably accessible, this volume and Walker's novels should be in collections supporting study of American literature."—J. J. Wydeven, CHOICETable of ContentsNote to ReadersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Mildred WalkerChapter 2: A Working Definition of ModernismChapter 3: The Aesthetics of Postmodern ModernismChapter 4: The Economics of ModernismChapter 5: Mildred Walker's WarsChapter 6: The Mothers of ModernismChapter 7: American Modernists and the Language of MovementWorks CitedBibliography of Mildred Walker
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University of Nebraska Press Westerns A Womens History
Book SynopsisAt every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation, yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s Historydebunks this myth once and for all by recovering women writers of popular westerns active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Trade Review"Westerns does far more than add women and stir; it is a tremendous gift to scholarship, restoring women's contributions to American literary history and laying a more accurate and inclusive foundation for future work."—Jennifer S. Tuttle, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"Compelling. . . . A valuable read for all those interested in the intersections of gender and culture in early twentieth century America."—Michigan Historical Review"Westerns: A Women's History is a readable excursion into female authors, their experiences, and their perspectives, within an important genre. In unmasking and then undoing female erasure from the beginnings of the American Western novel, Lamont makes important points and deftly defends them. Her book is enjoyable and significant."—Thomas E. Simmons, Journal of American Culture"Westerns: A Women’s History introduces a whole new set of woman authors and texts to be included in the study and teaching of Western American literature as well as a new and compelling origin narrative of the Western literary genre."—Randi Tanglen, English: Journal of the English Association"In recovering legacies among western women writers, Lamont herself achieves major stature as a feminist scholar of the West."—Cathryn Halverson, Western American Literature"Westerns is recommended reading not only for fans of classic Westerns and of feminist literary recovery, but indeed for all readers interested in the history of the American West and the origins of contemporary feminisms."—Emma Morgan-Thorp, Canadian Literature"For more than a century, the mythic western cowboy has been consistently hypermasculine. Victoria Lamont's Westerns: A Women's History prods the boundaries of this image while debunking the myth that literary westerns were consistently written by men."—Cynthia Culver Prescott, South Dakota History"Lamont's work rests upon an impressive amount of archival work in little-known ephemera. . . . [Westerns] introduces a new group of works that may be taught on courses focused on the West or inserted into other contexts and critical discussions, causing us to reorganize, question, and revise our existing frameworks."—Nicole Tonkovich, Legacy"Westerns: A Women's History resurrects the work of well-known western women authors during an era when their stories of strong female characters in the frontier West enjoyed popular readership."—Renee M. Laegreid, Western Historical Quarterly"Westerns: A Women’s History proves to be an immense pleasure: an essential, revelatory rewriting of the early history of the western novel."—Scott Simmon, Pacific Historical Review“Lamont’s authoritatively written, engrossing book has much to reveal about the wider history of American feminist discourse in general, bound up in the western genre.”—Gerri Kimber, Times Literary Supplement “Lamont’s discoveries can be quite startling. . . . [Her] project tackles many contemporary academic issues, from gender fluidity and sexual violence to colonialist iterations of Native narrative to class-based social justice. None of these topics is imposed upon the texts: they emerge organically from Lamont’s close reading of context and narrative. . . . [An] important contribution to the literary history of the West.”—Jennifer L. Jenkins, The Journal of Arizona History “Lamont has done some wonderful research recovering the complex an important role that women writers played in the beginning of the western.”—Maria O’Connell, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling3. Women's Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women6. The Masculinization of the WesternConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press A Law Unto Herself
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Renfroe introduces readers to one of Davis's lesser-known texts, inviting new directions in Davis scholarship, and by reading the text through a legal lens, she adds a new dimension to our understanding of Davis's work and the breadth of her knowledge regarding the legal issues of her day."—Robin L. Cadwallader, Resources for American Literary StudyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditor's IntroductionA Note on the TextA Law Unto HerselfNotes
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University of Nebraska Press Bright Epoch
Book SynopsisTells the story of female students' early mixed-gender encounters at four institutions: Iowa Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College, and Utah State Agricultural College. This work illuminates the diversity of other courses of study available to female students, including the sciences, literature, and law.Trade Review"Bright Epoch is an engaging work that puts to rest the idea that coeducational land grant education somehow stifled, rather than empowered, western women. . . . Well worth reading."—Pamela Riney-Kehrberg , Kansas History"Bright Epoch is overall an important, well-conceived and well-developed study of women's coeducation experiences at several early land grant colleges. . . . This is a must read for historians of women, education, rural life, and the Midwest and West."—Ginette Aley, Nebraska History"The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of women's higher education. This examination of western land-grant institutions sheds light on a heretofore underrepresented area of scholarship."—Lisa R. Lindell, South Dakota History"Radke-Moss has mined the universities' special collections to provide both written descriptions and illustrative photographs. . . . Ultimately, her well-told story should encourage others to unearth similar experiences buried in untapped college archives."—J. H. O'Donnell III , CHOICE"This long-overdue study of coeducational land-grant colleges fills an important niche in several areas of social and regional history. As a result, Bright Epoch provides a solid foundation onto which historians of both women and the West can build further analyses."—Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Great Plains Quarterly"Bright Epoch is an excellent history because it tells of a past that reminds readers that universities should not be just domestic skill shops but rather places of debate, discourse, and great educational opportunities for all students."—Brian S. Collier, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of Contents List of IllustrationsList of Tables and GraphsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making a Welcome for Women Students: The Discourse of Coeducational Inclusion by Administrators and Students2. The Place of Women Students: Reading the Language and Practices of Gender Separation3. The Early Practice of Coeducation: Literary Societies as Laboratories for Separation and Inclusion4. Women Students' Sociality: Building Relationships with Men and Women5. Women's Course Work: Farm Wives, Finished Ladies, or Functioning Scientists?6. Under the Gaze: Women's Physical Activity and Sport at Land-Grant Colleges7. "The American Eagle in Bloomers": "Student-Soldieresses" and Women's Military Activity8. Challenging Political Separation: Women's Rights Activism at Land-Grant Colleges and UniversitiesConclusion: Bright Epoch: When the Fair Daughters Joined the RanksNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Working Women Entrepreneurs and the Mexican Re
Book SynopsisAnalyses the interrelationships between Córdoba’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s.Trade Review"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."—Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review"Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the Córdoba district of Veracruz."—Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in Córdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Weeds
Book SynopsisIn Thomas Jefferson’s day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since they married in 1957. Against that landscape of loss, Funda explores her family’s three-generation farming experience in southern Idaho, where her Czech immigrant family spent their lives turning a patch of sagebrush into crop land.The story of Funda’s family unfolds within the larger context of our country’s rich immigrant history, western culture, and farming as a science and an art. Situated at the crossroads of American farming, Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament offers a clear view of the nature, the cost, and the transformation of the American West. Part cultural history, part memoir, anTrade Review"I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed Weeds. Such a truthful book. Your book made me admire Evelyn Funda, yearn to become a farmer, wish to live out West, and love the real America all at once! "—Alexander Theroux"A moving look back at a lost way of life."—Leigh Newman, New York Times Sunday Book Review"The result of Funda's lyrical merging of metaphor and landscape ecology is an unforgettable portrait of the hybrid landscape where her farm family lived and loved in a temporary community of hopes and weeds. . . . It is a remarkable book that any child of the West should read, no matter how old and sage."—Max Geier, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"This book stands among the best works in the genre, and it should attract the attention of those interested in narrative scholarship, agriculture, and theories of place."Tyler Nickl, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"Funda ranges over subjects as diverse as seed hybridization, ex-urbanites, early-20th-century Idaho, storytelling, postwar exile and mutable family mythologies. The resounding theme is her search for home."—Kirkus"Part cultural history, part memoir, and part elegy, Weeds reminds us that in losing our attachment to the land we also lose some of our humanity and something at the very heart of our identity as a nation."—Tom Williams, Utah Public RadioTable of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface: "In Dirt We Trust"DodderLoosestrifeWild OatsSageCheatgrass"The True Point of Beginning"NotesAcknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Travels with Frances Densmore
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Looking at and listening to Densmore's research again is a new starting point for how we understand anthropology, ethnography, indigenous societies, and the gender and other dimensions of our own society."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review DatabaseBy providing this rich account of Densmore's life, times, and thought, the volume contributes more than just a biography of a single scholar. A thoughtful meditation on how intertwined lives are made, remembered, and forgotten, it deserves to be read by anyone interested in the history of anthropology or museum studies."—Alex Golub, Museum Anthropology Review“Frances Densmore’s archive of Native American music, photographs, and material culture is indispensable to scholars. Yet she remains an elusive figure. Travels with Frances Densmore takes us into her world. It is a moving, engrossing record of a woman’s self-professionalization and devotion to science at the turn of the twentieth century.”—Sally Cole, professor of anthropology at Concordia University and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Traveling with Frances Densmore Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonPart 1. Frances Densmore’s Life and Work1. She Always Said, “I Heard an Indian Drum” Michelle Wick Patterson2. Becoming Two White Buffalo Woman Michelle Wick Patterson3. By Train, by Boat, by Model T Joan M. Jensen4. Getting the Depression Blues Joan M. Jensen5. Cut, Paste, Delete, Preserve Michelle Wick Patterson6. Gone but Not Quite Forgotten Joan M. JensenPart 2. Conversations7. Miss Densmore Meets the Ojibwes: Frances Densmore’s Ethnomusicology Studies among the Grand Portage Ojibwes in 1905 Nancy L. Woolworth8. Songs of Healing: Music Therapy of Native America, a Medical Ethnomusicology Study Stephanie Thorne9. Familiar Faces: Densmore’s Minnesota Photographs Bruce White10. Collection with a Mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Artifacts Carolyn Gilman11. An Archival Dilemma: The Densmore Cylinder Recording Speeds Judith Gray12. Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Music Thomas J. Vennum Jr.Conclusion: A Picture Is Worth Deconstructing Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonNote on Sources: How to Continue Traveling with Densmore Index
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University of Nebraska Press Words Like Daggers Violent Female Speech in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly “Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth ITable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Make a Beautiful Way
Book SynopsisSeeks the recovery of women's traditions in the analysis of Native American history, society and culture.Trade Review“[Make a Beautiful Way] goes beyond women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women’s traditions provides essays which examine Indian lifestyles and history through women’s lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues.”—BookwatchTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. Does Euro-Think Become Us? Paula Gunn Allen2. Decolonizing Native Women Lee Maracle3. Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy Kay Givens McGowan4. Slow Runners Barbara Alice MannBibliographyContributors' BiographiesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press When Montana and I Were Young
Book SynopsisMargaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker. Bell was seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. This memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada.Trade ReviewWinner of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies 2002 Handcart Award "Young Margaret (Peggy) displayed a dignity and resourcefulness that rank her among even fictitious literary heroines. Indeed, her very survival was amazing... Both riveting and important, her book is a valuable addition to frontier narratives." Booklist "Bell practiced self-reliance and stoicism from an early age, and her memoir never lapses into self-pity. This powerful account belongs on the shelf of every student of pioneer history or women's history." Publishers Weekly "An unforgettable story that gives meaning to the term 'true survivor.'" ForeWord Magazine
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