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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book, Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, deserves wide readership."—Laura Nader, Los Angeles Review of Books"In the heavens of women in early anthropology, Cora Du Bois is generally eclipsed by the more famous Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, but both her work and her life deserve our attention and admiration, and Susan Seymour gives her the biography that she merits."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database"Seymour is a fine biographer and writer who makes the most of extraordinary sources to bring this intrepid woman to life in a readable book that belongs in all libraries."—R. Berleant-Schiller, CHOICE"Seymour's meticulously researched biography on Cora Du Bois skillfully weaves together threads from a myriad of often obscure, intensely personal documents, to produce a magnificent reconstruction of the life and personality of this major anthropological figure."—Carol Mukhopadhyay, Association for Feminist Anthropology"This biography of Cora Du Bois will be of interest to those concerned with the beginnings of the personality and culture school in early American anthropology; with the notable women anthropologists in this school; with the broader history of this anthropology, its central figures and its impact on theory and on fieldwork on both the west and east coasts; and with the history of science most generally of all."—Naomi Quinn, Ethos"This book gives an excellent picture of a life, a time, and a profession."—Alice E. Schlegel, American Anthropologist“This biography is a page-turner, with writing that is lively and vivid, and Cora’s own correspondence, journal entries, and poetry give the book a very ‘first-person’ feel. There’s a lot to learn here.”—Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and past president of the American Anthropological Association“Susan Seymour has produced a captivating, extremely well-written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent gay woman who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare.”—David H. Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin’s University and the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Preface Resources and Acknowledgments Prologue: Cora and Me Chapter 1. Tomgirl Chapter 2. Escape and Resolve Chapter 3. Becoming an Anthropologist Chapter 4. Culture and Personality Chapter 5. A Pioneer in Culture and Personality Research Chapter 6. World War II and the OSS Chapter 7. Disillusionment in the Cold War Era Chapter 8. Harvard, Crown of Roses or Thorns? Chapter 9. Sociocultural Change in India Chapter 10. Looking Inward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the beginning there was...the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the field of narrative theory."—Marilyn Edelstein, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature“The field of feminist narratology is growing, but none of these theory-driven books offers the kind of rich, in-depth study of one historical-geographical collocation of texts that Opening Acts does. Any teacher or student of literary theory, of the history of the novel, or of feminist and ethnic approaches to literature would find something of great interest in this book.”—Margaret Homans, professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University and author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing“The subject of narrative beginnings is important to literary criticism in several different fields: national literary traditions as well as comparative literature. . . . Romagnolo seeks to right the course of the early studies in this area by emphasizing feminist and ethnic-studies-inflected readings. Opening Acts contributes an overview of the existing literature, an assessment of what is lacking in that corpus, and an extrapolation of concepts to include often-neglected subjects in this field . . . expanding the established theoretical frame for narrative beginnings.”—Carlos Riobó, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York and author of Cuban Intersection of Literary and Urban Spaces Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. No Place for Her Individual Adventure: Motherhood, Marriage, and New Beginnings in Summer2. Waves of Beginnings: The Ebb of Heterosexual Romance in Paint It Today3. Moving in Lofty Spirals: Circularity and Narrative Beginnings in The Bluest Eye4. Circling the History of Slavery: Multilayered Beginnings in Beloved5. Swan Feathers and Coca-Cola: Authenticity and Origins in The Joy Luck Club6. Bordering Yolanda García: Recessive Origins in How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMarried or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary formsincluding the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fictionand provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick'Trade Review"A classic that is at once both an engrossing read and an erudite champion of women's rights, Married or Single? is highly recommended especially for public and college library literature and women's studies shelves."—Midwest Book Review“A modern edition of Sedgwick’s final novel is long overdue, and Deborah Gussman is its ideal editor. Gussman’s introduction will reflect and forward current scholarly concerns.”—Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic“This is a very teachable and useful book and should appeal to scholars, libraries, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.”—Martha Cutter, author of Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor’s Introduction A Note on the Text Married or Single? Notes

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the interactions and connections of black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.Trade Review“The excellent analysis of race and gender is a noteworthy strength of this book. . . . Highly readable.”—Jeffrey H. Jackson, American Historical Review“Methodologically innovative and skillfully researched, Colonial Metropolis supports the author’s contention that the grand European city itself had become colonized. In demonstrating the profoundly complex, intertwined, and shifting roles that gender and race played in this colonization, Boittin’s work recasts our understanding of the metropole and its place in the empire during this period.”—Carolyn J. Eichner, French Politics, Culture, and Society "Examining performers such as Josephine Baker, black and feminist print culture, and police records about anti-imperial activists, the author connects diverse threads regarding race, gender, and colonialism."—Choice"Jennifer Anne Boittin's Colonial Metropolis represents a bold assertion of the centrality of colonial relationships to the political and cultural history of interwar Paris."—Ian Germani, H-Urban"[Colonial Metropolis] offers insightful and original analysis of the links between the vogue nègre and anti-imperial politics, and of the important role of the city of Paris in facilitating such a nexus."—Kate Marsh, H-France Review"Colonial Metropolis should be required reading for any scholars of French empire in the twentieth century, as well as for graduate students working on twentieth century European imperialism. This book is consciously in dialogue with the richer literature on gender and race in the British Empire, so its value goes beyond specialists of France."—Jeremy Rich, ItinerarioTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Josephine Baker: Colonial Woman 2. Dancing Dissidents and Dissident Dancers: The Urban Topography of Race 3. A Black Colony? Race and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism 4. Reverse Exoticism and Masculinity: The Cultural Politics of Race Relations 5. In Black and White: Women, La Dépêche Africaine and the Print Culture of the Diaspora 6. “These Men’s Minor Transgressions:” White Frenchwomen on Colonialism and Feminism Conclusion NotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisHow can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This is a guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women. It features essays that describe a range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Searching for Cornfields – and Sugar Groves” by Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside) and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark) Section I: Theory What Native Women Were NOT1. Rayna Green (National Museum of American History), “The Pocahontas Perplex”2. David D. Smits (College of New Jersey), “The ‘Squaw Drudge’: A Prime Index of Savagism,” ExcerptWhat Native Women WERE3. Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma), “Indian Women as Cultural Mediators”4. Jennifer S. H. Brown (University of Winnipeg, Manitoba), “Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Métis Communities”Equality and Feminism5. Eleanor Leacock (Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and City University of New York), “Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution,” Excerpt6. Kathryn Shanley (University of Montana), “Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History,” Excerpt Section II: Method Biography7. Helen Tanner (Newberry Library, Chicago), “Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman”8. Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Roverside), “Leadership within the Women’s Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe”Central Theme: The Kinship of Religious Affiliation9. Carl Ekberg (Illinois State University), with Anton J. Pregaldin, “Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the Foundations of French Illinois” 0in 0pt 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.25in"10. Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), “Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade”Central Question: Did Native Women Loose Power After Colonization?11. Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina), “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears”12. Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut), “The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women”Using Gender as a Tool of Analysis: Economics13. Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “Divorced from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England”14. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), “To Live Among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832”Oral History15. Nancy Lurie, ed., Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder, Excerpts16. Michelene E. Pesantubbee (University of Iowa), “Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension Between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism”

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Book Synopsis Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston's Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in the larger culture, Livingston weaves together strands of memory with richly imagined vignettes to explore becoming a woman in late 1980s and early 1990s America. Along the way, the award-winning memoirist brings us face-to-face with herself as an inner-city girltrying to imagine a horizon beyond poverty, fearful of her fertility and the limiting arc of teenage pregnancy. Livingston looks at the lives of those she's known: friends who've gotten themselves into trouble and disappeared never to be heard from again, girls who tell their school counselor small lies out of necessity and pain, and a mother whose fruitfulness seems, at times, biblical. Livingston interacts with fiTrade Review “Livingston writes with a fierce strength and intelligence that not only makes for compelling reading but an absolutely unforgettable voice.”—Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden “Queen of the Fall harvests the rich fruits of memory to explore the virtues and vulnerabilities of childhood, of the feminine body, and of lives filled with longing and aspiration. In this simply beautiful collection, Sonja Livingston serves up gorgeous prose and unswerving honesty to map the awakening of an essayist’s heart.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire “Much more than a touching portrayal of an American Roman Catholic girlhood of the 1980s. . . . This is a book that sheds light.”—Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk “Deft, evocative, mysterious, heartfelt, swirling, lyrical, with lines that pop off the page and essays that shimmer in your head for days after you finish reading them—or thought you did.”—Brian Doyle, author of Mink River Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Memory of Trees I. Land of the Lost Our Lady of the Lakes The Lady with the Alligator Purse World without End Mythology Capias The Last American Virgin Peace Our Lady of the Carpeted Stairs II. A Party, in May What the Body Wants Our Lady of the Roses Sybil III. Flight One for Sorrow Brick House Klotilde’s Cake Mock Orange The Lonely Hunters Something Like Joy Coda: This River A Thousand Thanks Source Acknowledgments Notes

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Book SynopsisOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others.Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. She then illuminates the pervasive impact of colonialism and patriarchal thought on Native women's traditional tribal roles and on their participation in academia. Mihesuah considers how relations between Indigenous women and men across North America continue to be altered by Christianity and Euro-American ideologies. Sexism and violence against Indigenous women has escalated; economic disparities and intratribal factionalism and culturalism threaten connections among women and with men; and many women suffer from psychological Trade Review"Particularly insightful, thought-provoking, [and] well-researched."-Rodney Frey, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Rodney Frey Journal of American Ethnic History "Well worth reading to learn how a perceptive insider views the current state of Native affairs."-Lillian Ackerman, Montana, The Magazine of Western History -- Lillian Ackerman Montana, The Magazine of Western History "As many of these issues relate to decolonization, the legacy of colonialism, and feminism, the essays speak to a larger audience than just American Indian women or people involved with American Indian Studies. Thos whose work spans both activism and scholarship are likely to find something of interest between these covers. The book may also help those who have little experience with activist-scholarship such as Milhesuah's work come to a better understanding of what she and others like her are trying to do."-Stacy Schlegel, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History -- Stacy Schlegel Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "A powerful book about the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America... These essays should be required reading in every research seminar... And they clearly establish Milhesuah as a leading indigenous intellectual."-Theda Perdue, Great Plains Quarterly -- Theda Perdue Great Plains Quarterly "Her observations on research and writing about Native women are valuable reminders to other scholars in the field... scholars whose research deals with Native women will find Mihesuah's Indigenous American Women a worthy resource."-Patrice Hollrah, Western American Literature -- Patrice Hollrah Western American Literature "Native and non-Native feminist scholars will find much to debate in this collection, which accomplishes its primary purposes-contributing to a growing body of scholarly literature by Indigenous women, confronting difficult topics frankly and directly, demonstrating ethical research, and providing catalysts for much-needed converstaions about the complex nature of feminisms and activist agendas."-Amanda J. Cobb (Chickasaw), New Mexico Historical Review -- Amanda J. Cobb New Mexico Historical Review

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Book SynopsisExamines the unique experiences of the Central American indigenous immigrants who are often overlooked in media coverage of Latino and Latina migration to the Great Plains. The Mayans Among Us poignantly explores how Mayan women in rural Nebraska meatpacking plants weave together their three distinct identities: Mayan, Central American, and American.Trade Review"[The Mayans Among Us] is an essential read to understand modern Mayan women and issues they face. All students and experts of Latin America and Mayan civilization must read it."—Washington Book Review“This book makes for a fascinating read. Sittig and González help us understand the points of view of an almost invisible population. The stories of the Mayans, huge and heartbreaking stories, increase our moral imaginations. I wish this were required reading for all our politicians and policy makers. I recommend it to all who yearn to understand the America we live in today.”—Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community “Ann L. Sittig and Martha Florinda González offer an instructive and significant depiction of the changes of work, religion, place, and life in small-town Nebraska.”—Elaine Carey, associate professor of history at St. John’s University and author of Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Guatemala: Life before Emigration2. Guatemalan Civil War and Postwar Rebuilding3. The Journey to El Norte4. Religious Practice and Community Life in Nebraska5. Mayans and Meatpacking in NebraskaConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines both the intended and the unintended consequences of “imperial feminism” and British colonial interventions in “undesirable” cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, prostitution, and “illicit” adoption, as well as the hesitation to impose punishments for the slave dealing of females.Trade Review"Cammaert's book is well-written and, most importantly, sheds light on the so-called undesirable practices, revealing more than policy-oriented studies alone. . . . This book gives a voice to a localized group of Africans in Northeastern Ghana and focuses on specific issues the inhabitants had to deal with during the colonial and early post-colonial periods. This is an important contribution to the studies related to female genital mutilation, nudity, human trafficking, and prostitution."—Aliou Ly, African Studies Review“What a powerful project! . . . This volume reframes and complicates the arguments and practices in new and significant ways. . . . [This is] a unique and welcome contribution to the literature.”—Beth Blue Swadener, coeditor of Children’s Rights and Education: International Perspectives “As a cultural anthropologist, I find [Cammaert’s] work especially useful for providing a deeper (in time) understanding of how African culture and gender socialization has been reshaped over the decades.”—Angela R. Bratton, associate professor of anthropology at Georgia Regents University and the author of An Anthropological Study of Factors Affecting the Construction of Sexuality in GhanaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on “Customs Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa,” ca. 19302. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in Northern Ghana3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930–19334. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late-Colonial Bawku, 1941–19485. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the Nkrumah Era, 1958–19666. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After Nkrumah, 1965–1972Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male GazeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States.Trade Review“This book will be attractive to courses in sociology, women and gender studies, Caribbean studies, and migration studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. . . . The author’s conception of ‘embodied cultural citizenship’ and the way in which she demonstrates how this works are quite convincing.”—Winnifred Brown-Glaude, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of New Jersey and author of Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The “Thick Black Woman”: Racialized Body Politics and the Marginalization of Black Women 2. Constructing Diasporic Identity: Black Caribbean Women’s Self-Representation and Cultural Citizenship 3. Unrequited Romance: Black Caribbean Beauty Ideals and Discontent in the United States 4. Transgressive Discourses: Negotiating the Thin Hegemony and Negative Physical Capital 5. Embodying Diaspora: Centering Thick Bodies in Black Women’s Diasporic Experiences Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deco Body, Deco City delivers a new lexicon that will undoubtedly become standard in modern Mexican historiography."—Elena Jackson Albarrán, Hispanic American Historical Review"Deco Body, Deco City is a much needed addition to the existing literature on modern Mexican history."—Washington BookReview"Deco Body provocatively combines the aesthetic, urban planning, and architecture and suggests new avenues of research that promise to productively expand the field of Mexican cultural history."—Laura Isabel Serna, Pacific Historical Review"Sluis's study is one of the most original studies of women in Mexican culture since the publication of Jean Franco's Plotting Women in 1989. But while Franco—and other scholars after her, such as Vicky Unruh—have focused on women writers and artists, Sluis turns her eye to a group of women who have for the most part gone unnoticed by cultural historians: popular actresses, vaudeville girls, prostitutes, working-class women, and other female subjects who inhabited the lower tiers of urban culture between 1920 and 1950."—Rubén Gallo, Latin American Research Review“Ageeth Sluis has opened the history of the Mexican Revolution to the gendered gaze of urbanization, art, theater, and modernity. . . . A fascinating study.”—Donna Guy, emerita professor of history at Ohio State University and author of Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina “Deco Body, Deco City offers cutting-edge analysis and a sweeping look at subjects never before studied in twentieth-century Mexican history: markets, opera performers, urban parks, and how women navigated a revolutionary regime.”—James Garza, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City “This is a great book. It enriches our understanding of the postrevolutionary decade and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history in the way that only the best cultural historians of Mexico can.”—Victor Macías-González, professor of history and women’s gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin–La CrosseTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: City, Modernity, Spectacle1. Performance: A City of Spectacles2. Bataclanismo: From Divas to Deco Bodies3. Camposcape: Naturalizing Nudity4. Promis-cuidad: Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity5. Planning the Deco City: Urban Reform6. Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez7. Palacio de Bellas ArtesConclusion: Deco Bodies, Camposcape, and RecurrenceNotesBibliographyIndex

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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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Book SynopsisThe only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis, which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic stories dealing with her.Trade Review“This is a valuable piece of original research, one which makes a considerable contribution to an understanding of the obscure origins of the role women play in the Genesis narratives.” * author of The Jewish Mind and The Arab Mind *“First we had Merlin Stone’s When God Was a Woman and now we have Savina Teubal’s Sarah the Priestess. Teubal re-examines our Biblical foremothers in light of the cultural context from which they came, the ancient Mesopotamian art work, tablets, codification and legends. In her fresh, far-reaching, controversial and playful study, Teubal has altered our vision, explained mysterious references, and has produced an enormously important work.” * author of Her Mothers and A Weave of Women *“This is one of the most original and stimulating studies of patriarchal religion and traditions that has been presented to the scholarly and general public in our time. The central idea is so startling that most readers are likely to dismiss it as sheer speculation. However, the book requires the most careful and serious reading and will repay those who invest the time and effort manyfold.” * director, Studies in Religion, University of Michigan *

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Book SynopsisKlondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared to act on the American dream.Trade Review“‘Profiles in courage’ may be an overworked phrase, but it fits this story exactly. Melanie Mayer has assembled a group of remarkable women and she uses many of their own words in chronicling their experiences in the last great trek of the nineteenth century. The book is not only enlightening about the various trails to the Klondike—the Chilkoot, the White Pass, the Edmonton, and the Stikin-Teslin—but it is great armchair adventure as well.”

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Book SynopsisThe period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.Trade Review“Expecting Teryk is a rich and sumptuous work that speaks to the deeper realities and represents a unique viewpoint of experiences shared by all individuals who choose the path to parenthood.” * Disability, Pregnancy, and Parenthood *

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Book SynopsisDawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York.Trade Review“Palermo understands Powell’s mixture of wit and pain, knows the books by heart, has the scholarship down pat, and has written it up in an intelligent and lyrical manner. A smart, affectionate, and never blinkered study of one of America’s great authors.”“The Message of the City is a solid, thoughtful piece of work. Palermo’s familiarity with Dawn Powell’s own writings and with the secondary literature on her life is comprehensive, and she’s integrated her analyses of fact and fiction with exceptional skill. Anyone who reads the book will come away with a clear understanding of why Powell’s New York novels are of continuing interest, both as works of satire and as sharp-eyed fictionalized portraits of her life and times.”“Palermo’s The Message of the City will give Powell fans fresh insights into the woman, her life, and her work. The book will stimulate renewed interest in Powell and garner new fans for the all to often overlooked writer and humorist.”“The novels that she published during this period (1929–1948) represent one of the most extraordinary outpourings of sustained literary artistry that the United States can boast. Powell’s New York-based novels turned a scalpel eye on book publishing, radio, and the press…. Powell was a master of literary psychology, of inwardness, of thought. Her novels depict introspection at a level of insight and imagination comparable to that of Dostoyevsky or Henry James.” * The New Yorker *“[Powell] wrote with the kind of highly attuned, neurotic, slashing wit that others in the business love—she struck out at her craft, her contemporaries, and her own ambitions, and she aimed for the heart.” * New Yorker *

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Book SynopsisThe seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles’s singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee.Trade Review“We’re just beginning to understand Miles’s creative output. The publication of her short stories, seen again in print for the first time in a hundred years, marks an important contribution to scholarship on rural Appalachian fiction and her role in women’s fiction of the era. Grace Toney Edwards is the leading authority today on Miles’s writings, and is the one to interpret and bring these stories forward.”

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Book SynopsisBefore Madonna and her many imitators, there was Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur. Jarczok reveals how Nin crafted her personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs, and how she occupied a singular space in 20th-century culture, as a literary figure, a voice of female sexual liberation, and a celebrity.Trade Review“Jarczok brings Nin scholarship well into the twenty-first century, where it deserves to be.”“[Insightfully explores] questions of [Nin's] self-invention and reception.” * Public Books *“Anita Jarczok is an adept guide for the reconsideration of Nin, neither diminishing nor overinflating her subject.…Taking up the perception of Nin as ‘a devious manipulator, a liar, and a master of self-promotion,’ Jarczok examines the ways in which Nin cultivated her image…However, Jarczok also asks: why shouldn’t Nin have been ambitious?” * Times Higher Education *“[The book] is particularly well executed when it comes to parsing Nin’s reviews, her self-construction via her diaries and public appearances. Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin serves as a good reference guide to Nin’s career and reception history and it goes a long way toward explaining the checkered nature of both.” * Contemporary Women‘s Writing *

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Book SynopsisBefore Madonna and her many imitators, there was Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur. Jarczok reveals how Nin crafted her personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs, and how she occupied a singular space in 20th-century culture, as a literary figure, a voice of female sexual liberation, and a celebrity.Trade Review“Jarczok brings Nin scholarship well into the twenty-first century, where it deserves to be.”“[Insightfully explores] questions of [Nin's] self-invention and reception.” * Public Books *“Anita Jarczok is an adept guide for the reconsideration of Nin, neither diminishing nor overinflating her subject.…Taking up the perception of Nin as ‘a devious manipulator, a liar, and a master of self-promotion,’ Jarczok examines the ways in which Nin cultivated her image…However, Jarczok also asks: why shouldn’t Nin have been ambitious?” * Times Higher Education *“[The book] is particularly well executed when it comes to parsing Nin’s reviews, her self-construction via her diaries and public appearances. Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin serves as a good reference guide to Nin’s career and reception history and it goes a long way toward explaining the checkered nature of both.” * Contemporary Women‘s Writing *

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Book SynopsisHere, the author examines the impact of colonialism and the cash economy on the Nandi, a semi-pastoral and patrilineal people of western Kenya, emphasizing changes in women's and men's economic roles and their respective relations to property and to each other.Trade Review'Interesting case studies of African women ... They combine to make a book which offers a variety of readable material, generally free from specialist vocabulary and polemical tone. It can be recommended to anyone curious about the lives of African women.' Shirley Ardener, The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Nandi society, then and now 3. General ethnography of gender roles 4. Marriage 5. Colonialism, neocolonialism, and economic change 6. Production of the family estate 7. Rights in the family estate 8. Sexual stratification and socioeconomic change Appendix Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent to which this promise has been kept.Trade Review'Margery Wolf is an anthropologist well practiced in observing, documenting,and analyzing the Chinese family, community, and society from the female perspective ... This book both sensitively records and astutely analyzes the details of women's activities, their relationships, attitudes, and aspirations, as presented and interpreted by women in China themselves.' Elizabeth Croll, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsContents ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN

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Book SynopsisThis intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations.Trade Review"All the relevant explication, notes, maps and illustrations a researcher of modern Japanese social history could desire. . . . [The book] offers insights into the daily lives of 20th-century Japanese women and helps dispel the mythology." -- Library Journal"This truly remarkable diary . . . [is] a valuable text for a wide range of classes in anthropology, history, and women's studies." -- Margery Wolf * University of Iowa *Table of ContentsCONTENTS

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Book SynopsisIn a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5

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Book SynopsisScholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.Trade Review“It would be difficult to overestimate the value of this landmark work for the study of writings by, for, and about women in late imperial China in particular, and for the period's cultural history in general. All the papers are pathbreaking, and the discussions of such important topics as the woman writer, race and ethnicity, class, courtesans, gentrywomen, the feminine voice, and subjectivity will stimulate further exploration.”—Shuen-fu Lin, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContributors Introduction Ellen Widmer Part I. Writing the Courtesan: 1. Ambiguous images of courtesan culture in late imperial China Paul S. Ropp 2. The late Ming courtesan: invention of a cultural ideal Wai-yee Li 3. The written word and the bound foot: a history of the courtesan's aura Dorothy Ko 4. Desire and writing in the late Ming play Parrot Island Katherine Carlitz 5. Women in Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Yasushi Oki Part II: Norms and Selves 6. Ming and Qing anthologies of women's poetry and their selection strategies Kang-i Sun Chang 7. Changing the subject: gender and self-inscription in authors' preafaces and Shi poetry Maureen Robertson Part III. Poems in Context: 8. Writing her way out of trouble: Li Yuying in history and fiction Ann Waltner 9. Embodying the disembodied: prepresentaions of ghosts and the feminine Judith T. Zeitlin 10. De/constructing a feminine ideal in the eighteenth century: random records of West-Green and the story of Shuangqing Grace S. Fong Part IV. 'Hong lou meng': 11. Womens writing before and within the Hong lou meng Huan Saussy 12. Beyong stereotypes: the twelve beauties in Qing court art and the Dream of the Red Chamber Wu Hung 13. Ming Loyalism and the women's voice in fiction after Hong lou meng Ellen Widmer Postface: Chinese women in a comparative perspective: a response Nancy Armstrong Reference matter Notes Works cited Character list Index.

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Book SynopsisScholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.Trade Review“It would be difficult to overestimate the value of this landmark work for the study of writings by, for, and about women in late imperial China in particular, and for the period's cultural history in general. All the papers are pathbreaking, and the discussions of such important topics as the woman writer, race and ethnicity, class, courtesans, gentrywomen, the feminine voice, and subjectivity will stimulate further exploration.”—Shuen-fu Lin, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContributors; Introduction Ellen Widmer; Part I. Writing the Courtesan: 1. Ambiguous images of courtesan culture in late imperial China Paul S. Ropp; 2. The late Ming courtesan: invention of a cultural ideal Wai-yee Li; 3. T he written word and the bound foot: a history of the courtesan's aura Dorothy Ko; 4. Desire and writing in the late Ming play Parrot Island Katherine Carlitz; 5. Women in Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Yasushi Oki; Part II: Norms and Selves; 6. Ming and Qing anthologies of women's poetry and their selection strategies Kang-i Sun Chang; 7. Changing the subject: gender and self-inscription in authors' preafaces and Shi poetry Maureen Robertson; Part III. Poems in Context: 8. Writing her way out of trouble: Li Yuying in history and fiction Ann Waltner; 9. Embodying the disembodied: prepresentaions of ghosts and the feminine Judith T. Zeitlin; 10. De/constructing a feminine ideal in the eighteenth century: random records of West-Green and the story of Shuangqing Grace S. Fong; Part IV. 'Hong lou meng': 11. Womens writing before and within the Hong lou meng Huan Saussy; 12. Beyong stereotypes: the twelve beauties in Qing court art and the Dream of the Red Chamber Wu Hung; 13. Ming Loyalism and the women's voice in fiction after Hong lou meng Ellen Widmer; Postface: Chinese women in a comparative perspective: a response Nancy Armstrong; Reference matter; Notes; Works cited; Character list; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao's death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991.Trade Review"A fascinating portrait. . . . Wildly successful in his global search for new sources . . . Terrill has produced the most complete biography that in all likelihood will ever be published on the fatally flawed yet fascinating Madame Mao."—Philadelphia Inquirer"A magnificent display of investigative reporting, research, and reconstruction. . . . It throws much light on the madness of China's Cultural Revolution. . . . Remarkable pictures of life in Mao's 'inner court' during his declining years."—New York NewsdayTable of Contents1. Prologue: 'I was Mao's dog' 2. Growing up, reaching out (1914-33 3. Onstage in Shanghai (1933-1937) 4. Mao's housewife in Yanan (1938-49) 5. Letdown (1950s) 6. Recovery and revenge: politics as theater (1960s) 7. Bid to be empress (1970s) 8. 'Shut up, Jiang Qing' Postscript Abbreviations in notes References notes Index.

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Book SynopsisIn readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book. Goldberg introduces readers to a field of study that scarcely existed twenty years ago, surveys its scholarship and many of the major texts, says what he thinks still needs to be done, and ventures to do it himself. This is a fine study by a distinguished author at the top of his form.' David Riggs, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. The Legend of Good Women: Introduction 1. Canonizing Aemelia Lanyer 2. Aphra Behn's female pen Part II. Translating Women: Introduction 3. Margaret Roper's daughterly devotions: unnatural translations 4. The countess of Pembroke's literal translation Part III. Writing as a Woman: Introduction 5. Mary Shelton's hand Graphina's mark Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states.Trade Review"The most comprehensive analysis of European feminism to date." -- The Historian"[European Feminisms] marks a milestone in recent scholarship in women's history and particularly the history of feminism. The originality of the book lies not only in its reinterpretation of the history of feminism but also in its inclusion of countries usually considered to be on the periphery of European history." -- The Historian"European Feminisms provides the best-documented and most synthetic survey of the European-wide [feminist] effort to date." -- Journal of Women's History“...in the tremendous breadth of its coverage, this book is a tour de force; there is none that compares.”—Journal of Modern History"Karen Offen's long-awaited book provides an ambitious and substantially fascinating comparative narrative of themes in the history of European feminism. . . . This is a thoroughly reasearched, bibliographically impeccable, and interpretatively feisty history." -- Europe: Early Modern and Modern"[European Feminisms] will become an indispensable research tool for students and scholars. . . . By its range and research this represents a remarkable scholarly work and integrates the history of feminism convincingly into mainstream history. European Feminisms provides a record of feminims' struggles as being fundamentally political and is itself a work of politics as well as of history." -- Women's History Review"European Feminisms is a book that could be used in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Women's Studies and gender studies, history, philosophy, and literature. Offen writes clearly, cogently, and persuasively . . . .For contemporary feminists, European Feminisms offers invaluable lessons from the past for the future." -- NWSA Journal"Offen's history of European feminisms since 1700 is a fascinating tale of the complex relationship between political, state and feminist pragmatics. It will contribute to debates about what counts as a certain gain for feminism." -- Canadian Journal of Political Science"This is an important work both for its recovery of little-studied aspects of European feminisms and for the reinterpretation of their main strands. The author's ability to situate feminisms squarely in the political and intellectual history of Europe, as well as in various chronological, geographical, and ideological contexts, is particularly impressive." -- Mary Lynn Stewart * Simon Fraser University *"[European Feminisms] is clear, sensible, and forceful, and it never lapses into jargon or anachronism. It offers a rich account of the aspirations, illusions, disillusions, flounderings, achievements, and advances of a compelling cause." * Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter *Table of ContentsPreface Chronology: a framework for the study of European feminisms Prologue: history, memory, and empowerment 1. Thinking about feminism in European history Part I. The Eighteenth Century: 2. Reclaiming the enlightenment for feminism 3. Challenging masculine aristocracy: feminism and the French Revolution Part II. The Nineteenth Century: 4. Rearticulating feminist claims, 1820-1848 5. Birthing the 'Women question', 1848-1870 6. Internationalizing feminism, 1870-1890 7. Feminist challenges and antifeminist responses, 1890-1914 8. Nationalizing feminisms and feminizing nationalisms, 1890-1914 Part III. The Twentieth Century: 9. Feminism under fire: World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Great Backlash, 1914-1930s 10. Feminist dilemmas in postwar national political cultures: England, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Germany 11. More feminisms in national settings: Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden 12. Globalizing and politicizing European feminist international activity, 1919-1945 Epilogue: Reinventing the wheel? Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states.Trade Review"The most comprehensive analysis of European feminism to date." -- The Historian"[European Feminisms] marks a milestone in recent scholarship in women's history and particularly the history of feminism. The originality of the book lies not only in its reinterpretation of the history of feminism but also in its inclusion of countries usually considered to be on the periphery of European history." -- The Historian"European Feminisms provides the best-documented and most synthetic survey of the European-wide [feminist] effort to date." -- Journal of Women's History“...in the tremendous breadth of its coverage, this book is a tour de force; there is none that compares.”—Journal of Modern History"Karen Offen's long-awaited book provides an ambitious and substantially fascinating comparative narrative of themes in the history of European feminism. . . . This is a thoroughly reasearched, bibliographically impeccable, and interpretatively feisty history." -- Europe: Early Modern and Modern"[European Feminisms] will become an indispensable research tool for students and scholars. . . . By its range and research this represents a remarkable scholarly work and integrates the history of feminism convincingly into mainstream history. European Feminisms provides a record of feminims' struggles as being fundamentally political and is itself a work of politics as well as of history." -- Women's History Review"European Feminisms is a book that could be used in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in Women's Studies and gender studies, history, philosophy, and literature. Offen writes clearly, cogently, and persuasively . . . .For contemporary feminists, European Feminisms offers invaluable lessons from the past for the future." -- NWSA Journal"Offen's history of European feminisms since 1700 is a fascinating tale of the complex relationship between political, state and feminist pragmatics. It will contribute to debates about what counts as a certain gain for feminism." -- Canadian Journal of Political Science"This is an important work both for its recovery of little-studied aspects of European feminisms and for the reinterpretation of their main strands. The author's ability to situate feminisms squarely in the political and intellectual history of Europe, as well as in various chronological, geographical, and ideological contexts, is particularly impressive." -- Mary Lynn Stewart * Simon Fraser University *"[European Feminisms] is clear, sensible, and forceful, and it never lapses into jargon or anachronism. It offers a rich account of the aspirations, illusions, disillusions, flounderings, achievements, and advances of a compelling cause." * Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter *Table of ContentsPreface Chronology: a framework for the study of European feminisms Prologue: history, memory, and empowerment 1. Thinking about feminism in European history Part I. The Eighteenth Century: 2. Reclaiming the enlightenment for feminism 3. Challenging masculine aristocracy: feminism and the French Revolution Part II. The Nineteenth Century: 4. Rearticulating feminist claims, 1820-1848 5. Birthing the 'Women question', 1848-1870 6. Internationalizing feminism, 1870-1890 7. Feminist challenges and antifeminist responses, 1890-1914 8. Nationalizing feminisms and feminizing nationalisms, 1890-1914 Part III. The Twentieth Century: 9. Feminism under fire: World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Great Backlash, 1914-1930s 10. Feminist dilemmas in postwar national political cultures: England, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Germany 11. More feminisms in national settings: Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden 12. Globalizing and politicizing European feminist international activity, 1919-1945 Epilogue: Reinventing the wheel? Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"—Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)—that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology.Trade Review"This work makes an important contribution to studies of the 'gender of modernism' and the relation between modernism and fascism, as well as of the individual authors examined. Carlston's ability to present a sweeping panorama of the preoccupations, theories, fears, and phantasms of both the find de siecle and the fascist period is remarkable, and she is and astute analyst of cultural symptoms and the ideological implications of rhetorical strategies as these are deployed in political argument as well as in literary texts." -- Barbara Spackman"Carlston's brilliant and unnerving book places three writers in the context of European fascism between the world wars." -- Women's Review of Books"Carlsotn's study of fascist ideology is both cautionary and compelling, a valuable contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of our century." -- Woolf Studies AnnualTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease.Trade Review"Virtuallly Virgins is a detailed, intimate ethnography of the cancers that afflict the social environment and the social body--real and metaphoric....Because this book is written in accessible language with careful and respectful works and a sense of unapologetic caring and competence, anthropologists should read, use it in classes, and recommend it."---American EthnologistTable of Contents1. Introduction: Culture, Gender, and Ethnography 2. The Ilha: Life in a Brazilian Shantytown 14 3. "A Woman Has to Stay in the House": Gender and Sexuality in the Ilha 27 4. Sexuality and Risk: Biomedical Constructions of Brasileira Sexuality 40 5. Sexuality as Survival: Favelada Constructions of Women's Sexuality 55 6. Expedient Boundaries: Security and Agency in the Ilha 76 7. Rearranging Risk: Local Understandings of the Pap Smear 89 8. "I've Eaten so Many Good Men SinceYou Left": Liberdade, Resistance, and Ambivalence in the Ilha 97 9. "You Get it if You Go out Looking for a Man": Cervical Cancer and Stigma 118 10. Living with Inflammation, Dying from Cancer, and Curing an Incurable Disease 135 11. Some Survivors 156 Appendix One: Methodology 160 Appendix Two: Economic Data for the Sample of Women with Cancer 163 Appendix Three: Impact of Screening Services on Cervical Cancer Morbidity and Mortality 165 Appendix Four: Nonbiomedical Forms of Healing. 169 Notes 177 Works Cited 193 Index 205

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Book SynopsisWhat accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century.Trade Review"It is thoroughly researched, well written, and compelling." -- Western Historical Quarterly"This highly original work is important for the way that it examines succeeding generations of women in a single location, and draws parallels and connections from one generation and type of work to another. In addition, it is an important source of information and analysis for both the geographic region it explores and for the industries it analyzes."—Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University"For too many working women the promise of Silicon Valley has proven to be an illusion. Despite the rhetoric of the 'new' economy, gender-based wage discrimination and other 'old' inequities still persist. By exploding the myths surrounding the high-tech industry, Glenna Matthews sends a powerful message that while some women are lucky enough to be living their 'California Dream' the vast majority struggle just to earn a living."—Amy B. Dean, Executive Officer, South Bay AFL-CIO"Matthews has added an indispensable contribution to the growing list of books about California's Silicon Valley. Her historical analysis of the area's development provides valuable context for understanding the valley's more recent social, economic, and demographic changes. And, by casting a focus on women in local society, Matthews has added a dimension mostly ignored by other authors. This is a must read for anyone interested in the origins and recent history of Silicon Valley."—Al Camarillo, Stanford University"Matthew's comparison and contrast of the fruit industry and high-tech worlds over the twentieth century in the Silicon Valley makes a significant contribution to history in the feminist labour and economic history traditions." -- Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire"There have been other books about Silicon Valley, but none with this multihistorical focus and concentration on the work of women." -- History: Reviews of New BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction i 1. The Fruited Valley 13 2. The Fruit Industry Workforce at High Tide: A Wave of Militancy Hits the Valley 48 3. War and Cold War Shape the Valley: The Birth of a Metropolis and the Death of Union Democracy 81 4. Toward Silicon Valley 112 5. New Immigrants and Silicon Valley: Struggles, Successes, and Transformations 147 6. The Valley as "Feminist Capital of the Nation" I83 7. The Global Economy on the Home Front: A Tale oF Two Valleys 226

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of global human rights norms on the development of women's, children's, and minority rights in Japan since the early 1990s.Trade Review"This is an admirably constructed book. It is clear, concise, and forceful, with good evidence and examples that illustrate observations and arguments. It is also a book that challenges many of the conventional paradigms of the study of Japanese politics." -- Perspectives on Politics"Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan heightens our understanding of how the international human rights movement has affected women's and children's issues in Japan." -- Journal of Japanese Studies"Chan-Tiberghien provides us with new insights into the workings of the Japanese state in the age of globalisation." -- Asian Studies Review"The author speaks with the authority of her extensive documentation, personal participation in symposia, seminars, workshops, and other human rights activities, and interviews with Japanese participants." -- CHOICE"[T]he major contribution of this book is its answer to a big question: How do some domestic groups, which are historically marginalized and have little power to mobilize large amounts of money or votes, gain political influence? The book's finding indicates that the key to understanding the rising influence of certain domestic groups is their connection to the global epistemic community."" -- Yumiko Mikanagi * Social Science Japan Journal *Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1 Redefining Gender and Race in Japan: An Introduction 000 2 Constructing Japanese State Identity and Interests 000 3 Global Norms Concerning Women's, Children's, and Minority Rights 000 4 Policy, Institutional, and Legal Changes Concerning Women's and Children's Human Rights in Japan 000 5 Grassroots Mobilization: The Pill, Sexual Harassment, Military Sexual Slavery, Domestic Violence, and Child Prostitution 000 6 Human Rights Education in Japan 000 7 Japanese Nongovernmental Mobilization at the World Conference against Racism 000 8 Domestic Mobilization of Global Human Rights Norms: Issue Reframing, Advocacy Education, and Leverage Politics 000 9 Conclusions: Reconstructing Japanese Political Culture in the Age of Globalization 000 Appendixes 000 Notes 000 Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women's rights Japan, Children's rights Japan, Human rights advocacy Japan

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Book SynopsisThis volume, which includes essays by women scientists, reseachers, journalists, and administrators, investigates how gender analysis can spark creativity in science and engineering.Trade Review"Gendered innovations stands out in providing examples from an impressive range of disciplines, including genetics, archaeology, forest ecology, geography, stem cell research, astronomy, and mechanical engineering. The volume also captures a variety of ways that gender analysis has contributed to these fields. . . Gendered Innovations provides a comprehensive account of a variety of ways in which scientific understanding has been enhanced by gender analysis. The readings advance debates about gender and science for a multidisciplinary audience of historians and science, feminist scholars, and scientists." -- Kristen Intemann * ISIS *"This volume, edited by Schiebinger, highlights and analyzes changes in science and technology brought about by 'efforts to remove gender bias in these fields' .... This collection of essays and analysis is appropriate and useful for undergraduate and graduate students is science, science policy, and women's studies." -- C. A. Klevickis * Choice. *"Stories on the under-representation of women in science and engineering abound in the media, as do speculations why an imbalance persists. This book moves the discussion in new directions, assessing what policies have worked to integrate women into research and what insights their participation has generated. The contributors draw examples from a wide range of fields—from archeology to astronomy, geography to genetics, stem cell research to car design—that show the fruits of success in understanding gender and point to frontiers for further change." —Angela N.H. Creager, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:1 Introduction: Getting More Women in to Science: Knowledge Issues 1 @tocca:Londa Schiebinger @toc2:2 When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics 000 @tocca:Sarah S. Richardson @toc2:3 One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archeology 000 @tocca:Margaret W. Conkey @toc2:4 Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story 000 @tocca:Lori D. Hager @toc2:5 Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments @tocca:Louise Fortmann, Heidi Ballard, and Louise Sperling @toc2:6 Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research @tocca:Mei-Po Kwan @toc2:7 Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science @tocca:Charis Thompson @toc2:8 If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Cars took Women Customers into Consideration and Made World Headlines with the YCC Concept Car @tocca:Tatiana Butovitsch Temm @toc2:9 Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy @tocca:C. Megan Urry @toc2:10 "A Very Scholarly Intervention": Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering @tocca:Danielle LaVaque-Manty and Abigail Stewart @toc2:11 Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science @tocca:Sue V. Rosser @toc2:12 Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering 000 @tocca:France A. Cordova @toc4:Bibliography 000 Contributors 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis volume, which includes essays by women scientists, reseachers, journalists, and administrators, investigates how gender analysis can spark creativity in science and engineering.Trade Review"Gendered innovations stands out in providing examples from an impressive range of disciplines, including genetics, archaeology, forest ecology, geography, stem cell research, astronomy, and mechanical engineering. The volume also captures a variety of ways that gender analysis has contributed to these fields. . . Gendered Innovations provides a comprehensive account of a variety of ways in which scientific understanding has been enhanced by gender analysis. The readings advance debates about gender and science for a multidisciplinary audience of historians and science, feminist scholars, and scientists." -- Kristen Intemann * ISIS *"This volume, edited by Schiebinger, highlights and analyzes changes in science and technology brought about by 'efforts to remove gender bias in these fields' .... This collection of essays and analysis is appropriate and useful for undergraduate and graduate students is science, science policy, and women's studies." -- C. A. Klevickis * Choice. *"Stories on the under-representation of women in science and engineering abound in the media, as do speculations why an imbalance persists. This book moves the discussion in new directions, assessing what policies have worked to integrate women into research and what insights their participation has generated. The contributors draw examples from a wide range of fields—from archeology to astronomy, geography to genetics, stem cell research to car design—that show the fruits of success in understanding gender and point to frontiers for further change." —Angela N.H. Creager, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:1 Introduction: Getting More Women in to Science: Knowledge Issues 1 @tocca:Londa Schiebinger @toc2:2 When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics 000 @tocca:Sarah S. Richardson @toc2:3 One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archeology 000 @tocca:Margaret W. Conkey @toc2:4 Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story 000 @tocca:Lori D. Hager @toc2:5 Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments @tocca:Louise Fortmann, Heidi Ballard, and Louise Sperling @toc2:6 Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research @tocca:Mei-Po Kwan @toc2:7 Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science @tocca:Charis Thompson @toc2:8 If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Cars took Women Customers into Consideration and Made World Headlines with the YCC Concept Car @tocca:Tatiana Butovitsch Temm @toc2:9 Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy @tocca:C. Megan Urry @toc2:10 "A Very Scholarly Intervention": Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering @tocca:Danielle LaVaque-Manty and Abigail Stewart @toc2:11 Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science @tocca:Sue V. Rosser @toc2:12 Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering 000 @tocca:France A. Cordova @toc4:Bibliography 000 Contributors 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis work reveals how the first international movement to combat the traffic in women struggled to achieve its goal of protecting women due to conflicts among reformers and the presumed necessity of women's sexual labor for nation-state and empire-building.Trade Review"Overall, the book constitutes a major contribution to the literature on humanitarian antitrafficking movements. It pays particular attention to the way global movements have their effects in local contexts. As Limoncelli demonstrates, the adoption and implementation of measures to curb trafficking depended on specic histories, including the state's own history with prostitution and immigration, its religious and ethnic composition, and its colonial history, as well as the status of indigenous antitrafficking and antivice groups." -- Gretchen Soderlund"Limoncelli provides a necessary and enlightening history for understanding the present world of women's sex work and for thinking about the role transnational non-governmental organizations play in making policy in conjunction with both states and the United Nations. No one interested in the fraught struggles over sex work and trafficking can afford to ignore this history." -- Leila J. Rupp, University of California * Santa Barbara *"This is the first book to provide a rich analysis of the history of trafficking and is therefore a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, gender studies, and history. Limoncelli's multicountry analysis in the metropole and its colonial territories is impressive. As one of the first books to provide us with a historical backdrop to the contemporary debates occurring between scholars of sex work and sex trafficking, the book is extremely timely." -- Kimberly Kay Hoang * Gender & Society *"The Politics of Trafficking is a timely contribution to the global debate surrounding the complex origins of both trafficking and anti-trafficking politics. Stephanie Limoncelli's book is a must-read for understanding the historical nexus of states, immigration, and the control over sexual labor." -- David Kyle, University of California * Davis *"Limoncelli provides a historical explanation of how female victimhood became the predominant framework for understanding the problem of trafficking. The tension between seeing prostitution as an issue of women's subjugation or as an employment opportunity . . . is one that antitrafficking advocates have been trying to resolve for over a century." -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas"This fascinating study of trafficking in women, primarily in Europe, addresses the dimensions of gender, sexuality, nationalism, power of states, and international social movements. Sociologist Limoncelli provides an extremely thorough (and fascinating) discussion of the general history of trafficking for prostitution and supplements that with studies of Dutch, French, and Italian cases... Highly recommended." -- P. LeClerc * St. Lawrence University, Choice *"So many sex trafficking debates remain unresolved today. Should foreign women in prostitution be automatically deported to their country of origin? Should fraud and duplicity be added to outright coercive force among the criteria used by authorities when determining whether a woman has been trafficked? Are young girls in more need of protective action than women? This remarkable work reveals how integral the study of gendered colonization is to the investigation of the emergence of international and transnational political organizing." -- Cynthia Enloe * Clark University, author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire *

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Book SynopsisThis book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored Our Bodies, Ourselves.Trade Review"At once a rhetorical and sociological study of the best-selling women's health guide, Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book makes recent history available to a broad readership at a time when the struggles of 1960s and 1970s activists are falling out of living memory." -- Laura Otis" Our Bodies, Ourselves, and the Work of Writing is a fascinating and insightful read for anyone who wants to best understand the value of this important text." * The Midwest Review. *"Here is a unique approach to a familiar book, the first study to focus on the language, writing, and literary techniques of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Wells evokes a sense of the emotional investment that women had in seeing change in the status quo and offers insights into the women's health movements of which even the participants may have been unaware." -- Sue Rosser

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China.Trade Review"Eileen Otis has written a sensitive, penetrating, genuinely enjoyable book—a rare accomplishment for a scholarly study and testimony to her cross-cultural sensibilities. It details the backstage ploys and intricate relationships among management, ordinary workers and sex workers at two Chinese five-star hotels. The themes cut across several fields—gender studies, labor studies, anthropology, and China studies. There is something for everyone." -- Anita Chan, University of Technology * Sydney *"Most studies of globalization start at the top and move down, tracing the reconfigurations of local communities through economic integration. Eileen Otis's startling study starts at the bottom, in the corporeal, embodied work of hotel service workers, physically enacting the cultural signs of global understanding. Otis puts a human—and gendered—face on the other side of the global business traveler, and her contrast with local hotel workers both deepens our understanding of labor as it broadens our sense of globalization's emotional and embodied reach. This is the best kind of sociology: mindful of the big picture, but exquisitely sensitive to nuance and local variation." -- Michael Kimmel"It is rare to read such an engaging book that captivates whilst making a challenge to our current understandings of work in its global manifestations. Using ethnographic case studies from Chinese service work this book performs two different types of spatial analysis: one between global and local spaces and one between the micro dynamics of interactive work to the structural logics of labour practices. By detailing how Chinese women live the transnational, regional, and local imperatives to perform femininity, Otis questions previous analysis of emotional, sense, and bodily labour. I'm sure this book will become, just like the classic Hochschild's Managed Heart, the new way to think about service performance." -- Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths College * University of London *"The volume provides a much welcome contribution to the literature on Islam and gender in Africa, and will be of interest to graduate students and scholars alike." -- Michelle Johnson * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"[Otis] provides refreshing, meticulous, theorized explanations of the naturalization of class distinctions via gender and sexuality in a growing, globalized, leisure economy." -- C. A. Jackson"Markets and Bodies is a beautifully observed, sometimes funny and sometimes frightening, account of service work, showing how inequalities of class and gender are being freshly created in the cauldron of Chinese capitalism. Uncomfortable realities of globalization are laid bare and new ideas about markets, embodiment, and consumption are proposed in this thought-provoking book." -- Raewyn Connell * University of Sydney *

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Book SynopsisThis book joins young Saudi women in their daily lives-in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mall-to show how these women are transforming the country from within and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles.Trade Review"By incorporating interviews with young Saudi women, this book takes its readers to places that visitors to Saudi Arabia usually cannot go and provides perspective on Saudi life that is not generally available. I recommend the book highly. Undergraduates as well as graduate students would find the book useful. It may also attract educated readers with an interest in Saudi Arabia and the status of women there."—Mary Ann Fay, American Historical Review"[I]n this book, the French sociologist Amélie Le Renard undertakes an excellent analysis of young urban women in Saudi society . . . She does so by employing postcolonial analysis in conducting ethnographic fieldwork on Saudi women in the capital city of Riyadh. As such, Le Renard's book is a most welcome addition to the slowly growing literature on critical sociological analyses of non-Western women."—Fatma Müge Göçek, Social Forces"Amélie Le Renard's groundbreaking ethnography provides a richly layered look into the diversity of young Saudi women's lives in Riyadh. the book overturns ideas about Saudi society as closed or backward by highlighting how the production of homosocial spaces and the limitations placed on Saudi women's mobility are entirely modern conventions tied to rapid urbanization, oil wealth, and the presence of a large foreign resident population."—Neha Vora, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies"This splendid ethnography shatters many of the myths surrounding Saudi women. Amelie Le Renard brilliantly shows that women in Saudi Arabia don't need to be saved from their culture or religion and have invented creative ways to talk back to power."—Pascal Menoret, New York University Abu Dhabi"Le Renard's engagement with the way young urban Saudi women transform Saudi femininities by inventing new lifestyles is a skillful, well-balanced first-hand account of a social setting to which only a few non-Saudi researchers are able to gain access. This highly comprehensible, well-reasoned book bears valuable insights for scholars interested in women and gender in Middle Eastern Islamic contexts..."—Odile Kommer, Social Anthropology

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Book SynopsisIn 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson''s lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of women''s studies, one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was Mary Shelley and Her Circle, published here for the first time. Shelley was thus the subject for Johnson''s beginning in feminist criticism and also for her end. It is surprising to recall that when Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley''s novels were in print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous husband''s. Inspired by groundbreaking feminist scholarship of the seventies, Johnson came to pen yet more essaTrade Review"[R]eading Johnson's A Life with Mary Shelley is no less compelling for the very reason that it so strikingly reveals what this 19th-century woman novelist meant over time to a scholar and teacher deeply committed to bringing a whole range of critical differences (gender and race being chief among them) into our scholarship and our classrooms . . . [A] work of tremendous economy, wit, and insight . . . Johnson has always been stylistically precise and pithy, lucid, and lively. Her final book is simply more of a good thing: feminist deconstruction pared down to its essentials and written for an ever-widening, and appreciative, audience . . . In the end this animated book brings to life the very thing Mary Shelley could herself hardly have imagined: the critical difference a supportive circle of women writers can make . . . This collaborative publication featuring the last words of a ferociously gifted literary scholar may well be, in the decades to come, the Yale School we remember, and miss, the most."—Diana Fuss, Los Angeles Review of Books"Johnson's real gift was to tackle the 'dead white males' of the canon and reread them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called 'muteness envy' in canonical poetry . . . [Johnson's] essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about 'how to read'."—Lesley McDowell, Times Literary Supplement"This animated book brings to life the very thing Mary Shelley could herself hardly have imagined: the critical difference a supportive circle of women writers can make."—Diana Fuss, Los Angeles Review of Books"One of this collection's many strengths is Johnson's talent for producing highly astute, informed and even (perhaps) revolutionary writing that is both entertaining and accessible . . . [I]t is the collected writing of a superb, generous, and talented writer and academic, on the subject closest to her heart—to which she returned over and again—and which is so fascinating that our own culture can't let it go. This is an academic book, but it isn't inaccessible: anyone whose imagination has been hooked from those first chapters when we meet the ailing Victor Frankenstein on the arctic wastes will find something worth engaging with. However you feel about this book, in the end it's worth reading, primarily because it does something exquisitely rare in academic literature, which is that it both feels as though you've somehow come to eavesdrop on somebody else's very interesting conversation, and also that it opens the discussion to the reader. Johnson's gift—the most precious of gifts—which is the talent of a teacher who invites her audience to actively, critically, and passionately participate in the conversation she has started, is apparent in every page of these works."—Nina Gibb, Bookslut"Of singular importance as a set of contributions to theoretical debates, and filled with humanity, this book plays a major role in the transmission of Barbara Johnson's work. Johnson was brilliantly insightful, outspoken, witty, and endowed with an incredibly strong intelligence. These qualities are present at every turn of A Life with Mary Shelley, including the essays that frame her early and late writings."—Evelyne Ender, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY"The publication, for the first time in this volume, of Barbara Johnson's last book Mary Shelley and Her Circle (2009) will be of interest to feminist theorists and literary critics alike Completed only a few weeks before Johnson's death, Mary Shelley and Her Circle is, perhaps one should say above all, a measure of the value of intellectual labor: Johnson's concise, yet pithy and unfailingly rewarding style is here refined in the relentless temporality of terminal illness."— Corina Stan, Contemporary Women's Writing

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By studying the work of helping others find work, Mary Gatta shifts our attention to the link between government policy and the experiences of unemployed workers seeking work . . . Gatta has pointed to one approach by studying work beyond the employment relation. We would do well to follow her example with other approaches."—Mark Zbaracki, IRL Review"Gatta's research makes a significant contribution to the literature on the workforce development system as little is known about the One-Stop Career Centers and even less is known about women's experiences at the One-Stop Career Centers. In addition, Gatta's work is unique in its methodology. Whereas many existing studies are quantitative and outcomes-focused, Gatta uses participant observation and focus groups. In doing so, she is able to explore how women are experiencing the workforce development system rather than just how many women were served or obtained employment."—Skye Allmang, Social Service Review"Mary Gatta adds to the literature by focusing on the felt experiences of women at One Stop Career Centers. With qualitative data, Gatta explores the experiences of customers and front line workers at a New Jersey Center . . . With its lens on gender, this book is an important addition to workforce development literature."—Joyce Bialik, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"All I Want Is a Job! offers a valuable look inside our nation's main workforce development program. It should be required reading for anyone interested in low-wage work, labor markets, social welfare policy, and economic development."–Stephanie Luce, Gender & Society"In this short and very readable narrative, Gatta takes a different and unique approach. Posing as a client at a One-Stop Career Center, she experiences firsthand the trials and tribulations of job seekers. The author interviews the workers in these centers, discovering the difficulties of trying to implement policies set by others and the anxiety and stress in meeting the needs of the unemployed . . . The author concludes that there are no quick fixes, but at the margin there are key shifts to improve the system, which would serve the employed and unemployed alike and contribute to economic recovery and future prosperity . . . Recommended."—J. F. O'Connell, CHOICE"All I Want is a Job! is an engaging and timely book. It addresses the very pressing issue of the services provided to jobless workers, while also doing an excellent job of placing its findings in historical context."—Ofer Sharone, MIT Sloan School of Management"This is a special book that gives the reader a real sense of the world of One-Stop Career Centers. Delivering an insider's glimpse into their operation, Gatta's research will spark a serious discussion about the need to change our current system so that it actually meets the needs of those seeking employment."—Henry Plotkin, Former Executive Director of the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission"Mary manages to discuss the problems that unemployed women face in finding work, not only from a practical point of view, but also from a personal standpoint. This book illustrates her rare talent for looking at individual concerns alongside bureaucracy with an eye toward reform. While giving us an intimate look inside the public work force system, she constructively suggests ways to improve government initiatives. All I Want Is a Job! is at once an eye opener and a beacon."—Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey Congressman"Mary Gatta has written a forceful, lucid, and critical guide for women to secure a living wage. Understanding the bewildering hell that is the public workforce system, Mary knowingly helps us to navigate it in order to produce the practical result we all seek: employment. This book is a 'must read' for those who care about lifting women out of poverty!"—Jim McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey

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Book SynopsisIn 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson''s lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of women''s studies, one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was Mary Shelley and Her Circle, published here for the first time. Shelley was thus the subject for Johnson''s beginning in feminist criticism and also for her end. It is surprising to recall that when Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley''s novels were in print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous husband''s. Inspired by groundbreaking feminist scholarship of the seventies, Johnson came to pen yet more essaTrade Review"[R]eading Johnson's A Life with Mary Shelley is no less compelling for the very reason that it so strikingly reveals what this 19th-century woman novelist meant over time to a scholar and teacher deeply committed to bringing a whole range of critical differences (gender and race being chief among them) into our scholarship and our classrooms . . . [A] work of tremendous economy, wit, and insight . . . Johnson has always been stylistically precise and pithy, lucid, and lively. Her final book is simply more of a good thing: feminist deconstruction pared down to its essentials and written for an ever-widening, and appreciative, audience . . . In the end this animated book brings to life the very thing Mary Shelley could herself hardly have imagined: the critical difference a supportive circle of women writers can make . . . This collaborative publication featuring the last words of a ferociously gifted literary scholar may well be, in the decades to come, the Yale School we remember, and miss, the most."—Diana Fuss, Los Angeles Review of Books"Johnson's real gift was to tackle the 'dead white males' of the canon and reread them, looking for the women, ever alert to what she called 'muteness envy' in canonical poetry . . . [Johnson's] essays stress critical and creative vitality in the midst of death, and are still life-giving today, still radical, angry and passionate, yet always disciplined. Johnson asks acute questions, inserts the personal into her academic essays, and gives us new ideas about 'how to read'."—Lesley McDowell, Times Literary Supplement"This animated book brings to life the very thing Mary Shelley could herself hardly have imagined: the critical difference a supportive circle of women writers can make."—Diana Fuss, Los Angeles Review of Books"One of this collection's many strengths is Johnson's talent for producing highly astute, informed and even (perhaps) revolutionary writing that is both entertaining and accessible . . . [I]t is the collected writing of a superb, generous, and talented writer and academic, on the subject closest to her heart—to which she returned over and again—and which is so fascinating that our own culture can't let it go. This is an academic book, but it isn't inaccessible: anyone whose imagination has been hooked from those first chapters when we meet the ailing Victor Frankenstein on the arctic wastes will find something worth engaging with. However you feel about this book, in the end it's worth reading, primarily because it does something exquisitely rare in academic literature, which is that it both feels as though you've somehow come to eavesdrop on somebody else's very interesting conversation, and also that it opens the discussion to the reader. Johnson's gift—the most precious of gifts—which is the talent of a teacher who invites her audience to actively, critically, and passionately participate in the conversation she has started, is apparent in every page of these works."—Nina Gibb, Bookslut"Of singular importance as a set of contributions to theoretical debates, and filled with humanity, this book plays a major role in the transmission of Barbara Johnson's work. Johnson was brilliantly insightful, outspoken, witty, and endowed with an incredibly strong intelligence. These qualities are present at every turn of A Life with Mary Shelley, including the essays that frame her early and late writings."—Evelyne Ender, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY"The publication, for the first time in this volume, of Barbara Johnson's last book Mary Shelley and Her Circle (2009) will be of interest to feminist theorists and literary critics alike Completed only a few weeks before Johnson's death, Mary Shelley and Her Circle is, perhaps one should say above all, a measure of the value of intellectual labor: Johnson's concise, yet pithy and unfailingly rewarding style is here refined in the relentless temporality of terminal illness."— Corina Stan, Contemporary Women's Writing

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Immigrant environmental justice movements are at the leading edge of social change in global cities, and yet they are frequently overlooked. Nadia Kim delivers a major intervention for reassessing the impacts of these movements, extending our vision with a keen ethnographic eye, a compelling narrative, and robust theoretical analyses."—David Naguib Pello, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?"An urgent, much-needed account of the activism of Filipin@ and Latin@ immigrant activists in Los Angeles. Spotlighting gendered resistance and community citizenmaking, Kim effectively recasts environmental justice to mean commitment to care for both physical and emotional lives."—Yen Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego"An innovative and close-up look at the ways in which Latin@ and Filipin@ activists mobilize bodies, emotions, and gendered caregiving in their struggle for environmental justice."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California"The author poignantly conveys how aware these women are that pollution in their community is assaulting their bodies and emotions and leading to death. One of the book's major strengths is the respectful and culturally sensitive manner in which Kim employs mixed methods and intersectional approaches to detail how the women-led act of embodied citizenship—emotional support of one's neighbors against the assault of 'bioneglect'—constitutes a key resistance strategy....Highly recommended."—I. Coronado, CHOICE"I found the focus on embodiment and the expansion of Foucauldian thought to bioneglect to be the most compelling parts of this book. In addition, I was struck by Kim's honesty when she reported contradictions in the field."—Sanchita Dasgupta, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Kim's book is an essential read and eminently teachable. It will be a new classic in environmental justice, grounded in the original home discipline of the field and drawing from key works of sociologists like Robert Bullard, Beverly Wright, and David Pellow."—Julie Sze, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Fighting for Breath in the Other LA 1. Neoliberal Embodied Assault 2. Emotions as Power 3. Every Body Matters 4. "Our Community Has Boundaries": Race and Class Matter 5. Citizenship as Gendered Caring 6. politics Without the Politics 7. The Kids Will Save Us Afterword: Toward Bioneglect

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Book SynopsisThe stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths.

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Book SynopsisA collection of 29 essays that presents women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West. It locates women in a framework that connects gender, race and class. Among the women covered are Spanish-Mexican settlers and Chinese, Basque, Japanese and Koreans.

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