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John Wiley & Sons The Reign of Cleopatra
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Calamity Jane The Woman and the Legend
Book SynopsisForget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now. This is the definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane.Trade ReviewThe definitive biography of Martha Jane Canary."" - L.A. Times
£23.36
University of Oklahoma Press Pioneer Mother Monuments
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. The images they depict enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. This book is the first delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments.Trade ReviewTouching on themes ranging from settler colonialism to heritage tourism, Cynthia Culver Prescott's engaging study relates these monuments to the core beliefs they embodied, such as manifest destiny and American exceptionalism, and explains how gendered narratives of white motherhood helped build and reproduce modern American views of the ideal family."" - Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America|""In Pioneer Mother Monuments, Cynthia Culver Prescott uncovers a long history of debates, silences, and responses to pioneer commemoration, reflecting shifting desires and anxieties prevalent in American culture and mirroring broader historical and art historical trends."" - Alison Fields, author of Picher, Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma""An innovative and groundbreaking study, Pioneer Mother Monuments weaves race, gender, and public memory together and challenges readers to rethink the place of pioneer monuments in our communal landscape. Prescott makes a compelling case for understanding these monuments as visible elements of the nation's settler colonial history."" - Abigail Markwyn, author of Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
£30.56
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Cacicas The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish
Book SynopsisThe term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques. But the term's meaning was adapted natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within.
£35.06
John Wiley & Sons In League Against King Alcohol Native American
Book SynopsisDrawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress.
£19.76
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Girl Who Dared to Defy Jane Street and the
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for ‘girls,’ as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts.
£18.00
LSU Press Telling Memories Among Southern Women Domestic
Book SynopsisPresents a revealing collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex, sometimes enigmatic bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the twentieth century to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s.
£17.05
Louisiana State University Press A New Orleans Author in Mark Twains Court
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Louisiana State University Press No Straight Path
Book SynopsisTells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. These first-person accounts illuminate the experiences women of the post-World War II generation encountered when they chose to enter this male-dominated professional world.
£31.46
LSU Press The Fabric of Civil War Society
Book SynopsisMilitary uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the material culture of America’s bloodiest conflict, offering a deeper understanding of the war and its commemoration.Trade Review“With an inventive use of sources and a strikingly original analysis, Shae Smith Cox shows that uniforms, flags, and insignia did more than express individual or group identity in the Civil War era. They provided the means to connect people to broader political ideas and social organizations, with sometimes surprising results. By centering material objects and their power in people's lives, Cox discloses new elements of this oft-covered period in U.S. history.” - Laura F. Edwards, author of Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
£36.51
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR Playing Cleopatra
Book SynopsisQuestions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture. Holly Grout uses the theater - specifically, Parisian stage performances of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra by Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker - to explore these cultural and political debates.
£36.51
The University of North Carolina Press The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
Book SynopsisAlthough millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. This collection includes papers of an African American woman held in slavery.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Land Before Her Fantasy and Experience of
Book SynopsisTo discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated.
£32.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Womens History and Ancient History
Book SynopsisExplores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships.
£35.66
The University of North Carolina Press Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarch
Book SynopsisThe origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Women of the Republic Intellect and Ideology in
Book SynopsisDrawn from the direct testimony provided by women in their letters, diaries, and legal records, this text describes women's participation in the American Revolution, evaluates changes in their education in the late 18th century and analyzes their status in law and society.
£32.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism Ordinary
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the involvement of ordinary women - black and white - in the antislavery movement. Drawing on letters, diaries and institutional records, Jeffrey uses the words of real women to illuminate the meaning of abolition in their lives, and the rewards and challenges of the commitment.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Devices and Desires Gender Technology and
Book SynopsisNurses have used a variety of tools, instruments and machines to appraise, treat and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from 1870 to the present, this text shows that technology has helped shape dilemmas in nursing and advance the profession's development.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Winning Womens Votes Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Shattering the Glass The Remarkable History of
Book SynopsisLooking at a century of struggle, liberation and gutsy play, this title chronicles women's basketball in the US. Offering portraits of heroes and contemporary stars, it provides a perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights.Trade Review"Shattering the Glass is an indispensable resource for the sport played more than any other by women all over the world." - Bust "You needn't be a hoops junkie to enjoy this engaging chronicle; the story of women's basketball reflects that of all female athletic endeavors over the past 100-some years - full of physical joy, political struggle and ultimate glory." - Ms."
£32.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Womans WorldWomans Empire The Womans Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective 18801930
Book SynopsisFrances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world - not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures.
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Surrender Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love
Book SynopsisIn an ethnographic study spanning the last years of collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute's life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making.
£31.46
Southern Illinois University Press Institutional Sexual Abuse in the MeToo Era
Book SynopsisIn this timely and important collection, contributors show #MeToo is not only a support network of victims' voices and testimonies but also a revolutionary interrogation of policies, power imbalances, and ethical failures that resulted in decades-long cover-ups and institutions structured to ensure continued abuse.Trade ReviewInstitutional Sexual Abuse in the #MeToo Era demonstrates the pervasiveness of sexual violence. It challenges the reader to grow beyond a focus on the impacts of sexual violence at the individual level and, instead, to become critical of the societal and institutional ineptitude that have sacrificed the well-being of generations who hold marginalized identities." —Jennifer Brockman, director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education CenterTable of Contents Introduction: Examining Institutional Sexual Abuse during the #MeToo Era — Jason D. Spraitz & Kendra N. Bowen Section I. Institutions of Higher Learning Chapter 1. “All I Wanted was an Education”: Sexual Abuse in Higher Education and the Impact of #MeToo — Mia Gilliam & Shelly Clevenger Chapter 2. Finding the Strength to Speak Out, Waiting to be Heard: #MeToo on College Campuses — Nicole Bedera Section II. Religious and Political Institutions Chapter 3. “Pestminister” Politics: Local and International Dimensions of the #MeToo Movement — Amina Zarrugh Chapter 4. Sexual Abuse in Religious Institutions — Jason D. Spraitz & Kendra N. Bowen Section III. Custodial Institutions Chapter 5. #MeToo in the U.S. Foster Care System — ReneÈ Lamphere Chapter 6. Examining Sexual Violence and Harassment in the U.S. Corrections System through #MeToo — ReneÈ Lamphere & Matthew Hassett Section IV. Media and Cultural Institutions Chapter 7. Lights, Camera, Abuse: Exploring #MeToo in Hollywood — Ashley Wellman Chapter 8. Sexual Abuse in Sport: Hegemonic Masculinity and Institutional Failures — Pamela J. Forman, Anne M. Nurse, & Amelia D. Montie Chapter 9. Between Subject and Object: How Mass Media Industries Have Enabled Sexual Misconduct and Harassment—and How They Also Exposed Them — Jacqueline Lambiase, Tracy Everbach, & Carolyn Bronstein Chapter 10: #MeToo and Social Media — Tania G. Levey Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? — Kendra N. Bowen & Jason D. Spraitz About the Contributors
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Wit Virtue and Emotion British Womens
Book SynopsisOver a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Revolution in Mood: Emblems, Embodiment, and Ephemera 2. On the Stage: Dramatized Women’s Rhetoric 3. In Sociable Venues: Clubs, Salons, and Debating Societies 4. On the Page: Written Rhetoric and Arguments About Education Reflection on Findings Appendix A: Eighteenth-century Terminology for Sex and Gender Identity Appendix B: Table of Precedency Among Ladies Bibliography Notes Index
£30.56
Southern Illinois University Press The Mary Lincoln Enigma
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£20.89
Northwestern University Press Feminist Experiences Foucauldian and
Book SynopsisDevelops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyse, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes.
£66.75
Northwestern University Press The Virginal Mother in German Culture From Sophie
Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother.Trade ReviewThe Virginal Mother in German Culture is a very compelling, well-organized, and detailed analysis of the contradictory and developing tensions between eighteenth to twentieth century fascinations with virginity and the idealization of maternal nature in Germany. It is a unique and field-transforming study."" - Susan Gustafson, author of Goethe's Families of the HeartTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of the Virginal Mother: Sophie von La Roche’s The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim 2. The Ideal Virgin and Failed Mother: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and Faust I 3. The Popular Virginal Mother: E. Marlitt’s The Old Maid’s Secret and The Second Wife 4. The “Real” Virginal Mother: Caregiving and Motherhood in the Autobiographies of Hedwig Dohm, Adelheid Popp, and Ottilie Baader 5. The Virginal Mother of Orphans and the Vamp Anti-Mother: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£89.10
Northwestern University Press Other Worlds Here Honoring Native Womens Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements Critical Insurgencies
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£84.15
University of Pennsylvania Press Womens Folklore Womens Culture
Book SynopsisThe essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore scholarship. All of the authors also explore the relationship between make and female views and worlds. The book begins with the private world of women, performances within the intimacy of family and fields; it then studies women's folklore in the public arena; finally, the book looks at the interrelationships between public and private arenas and between male and female activities. By turning our attention to previously ignored women's realms, these essays provide a new perspective from which to view human culture as a whole and make Women's Folklore, Women's Culture a significant addition to folklore scholarshipTrade Review"The studies herein elevate the humble, examine the small domestic detail, set forth the praiseworthy in the everyday, seek joy in the ordinary, capture the comfort in the community of women and their collaboratieve atempts to define their worlds." * Journal of American Folklore *"Almost anyone concerned with women's studies of folklore will find something of interest in this collection of essays. From the dynamics of narration among women in a variety of settings to an ethnographic analysis of a quilting bee and examination of gender differences in joke telling, the essays are uniformly provocative and groundbreaking." * Library Journal *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Infertility and Patriarchy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extremely impressive book. It not only contributes to our theoretical understanding of the interaction of class, patriarchy, culture, and reproduction but it has important policy implications for improving the lives of infertile Egyptian women. As research on gender in the Middle East proliferates, this work is a symbol of the wisdom of disaggregating our understanding of 'women.'" * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"By exploring the consequences of childlessness, Inhorn offers important insights for demographers and others interested in understanding the desire for and meaning of children." * Studies in Family Planning *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press From Margins to Mainstream
Book SynopsisStudies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, the author runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Ms. Mentors Impeccable Advice for Women in
Book SynopsisIn question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a meek young woman become a tiger of an authority figure in the classroom-and get stupendous teaching evaluations? How does one cope with sexual harassment, grandiosity, and bizarre behavior from entrenched colleagues?Ms. Mentor's readers will find answers to the secret queries they were afraid to ask anyone else. They'll discover what it really takes to get tenure; what to wear to academic occasions; when to snicker, when to hide, what to eat, and when to sue. They'll find out how to get firmly planted in the rich red earth of tenure. They'll learn why lunch is the most important meal of the day.Trade Review"Never has there been such a forthright collection of wisdom and wit." * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *"Toth . . . is the first and foremost agony aunt of American feminist academics. . . . Her very funny and pithy book deals with graduate school, the job hunt, the conference scene, the first year on the job, the 'perils and pleasures' of teaching, 'slouching towards tenure,' and 'muddles and puzzles,' including what to wear to an interview, which discipline has the sexiest men, collegiality, sexual harassment, networking, social faux pas, and why bozos get tenure. A staunch feminist, Ms Mentor knows how to smile and deliver a witty retort instead of a lecture on sexism. Undazzled by the trappings of academic success, she regularly reminds her correspondents that they can find happy and successful careers elsewhere. But she has also come to terms with the realities of working in a profession. . . . Ms Mentor is a more liberating and energizing voice than the subdued, self-questioning wisdom of the autobiographical." * Elaine Showalter, Times Literary Supplement *"A genuine contribution to understanding how the professions of academe function (or don't) and how to negotiate successfully a career path in research and teaching." * Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona *"Everyone who's ever been in academe knows that it's a jungle out there, not a grove; Toth's book is a machete sharp enough to hack a path through the undergrowth." * New Orleans Times-Picayune *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Graduate School: The Rite of Passage The Job Hunt The Conference Scence First Year on the Job The Perils and Pleasures of Teaching When Cultures Collide Muddles and Puzzles Slouching Toward Tenure Post-Tenure Emerita: The Golden Years Final Words Bibliography: Women in Academia and Other Readings Sampled by Ms. Mentor Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Revolutionary Backlash Women and Politics in the
Book SynopsisThe Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women''s rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women''s rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women''s historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women''s status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson.Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women''s rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women''s allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of thTrade Review"'Pathbreaking' is an appellation reserved for few books; 'field-changing' is an even rarer designation. Nonetheless Rosemarie Zagarri's Revolutionary Backlash deserves both. She transforms the field of women's history and the standard political narrative that still dominates United States history." * William & Mary Quarterly *"Widely researched, gracefully written, and nicely illustrated. . . . A welcome corrective to both the usual women's history (without politics) and traditional political history (without women)." * North Carolina Historical Review *"This book makes a significant contribution to the literature of American women's history by defining a period that has received too little attention. The writing is gorgeous. The research is first-rate." * Edith B. Gelles, author of Abigail Adams: A Writing Life *"An engaging book that successfully marries political practice and political theory with gender ideology. It is also a persuasive book. . . . What makes [Zagarri's] study compelling is the pervasive presence of women; we hear their voices as they communicate privately in letters and as they argue publicly for rights. Visual evidences let us see them at political gatherings." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Rights of Woman Chapter 2. Female Politicians Chapter 3. Patriotism and Partisanship Chapter 4. Women and the "War of Politics" Chapter 5. A Democracy—For Whom? Epilogue: Memory and Forgetting Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
Book SynopsisFocusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.Trade Review"[Drinker's] diary, which spans the years 1758 to 1807, is the most substantial woman's diary that survives from eighteenth-century America; and it ranks with the diaries of Samuel Sewall, William Byrd, Landon Carter, John Adams, and William Bentley in its richness as a source for understanding the social and cultural history of the period it covers." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface: A Woman for All Seasons Acknowledgments Introduction Editorial Note List of Short Titles and Abbreviations Family Tree 1. Youth and Courtship, 1758-1761 2. Wife and Mother, 1762-1775 3. Middle Age in Years of Crisis, 1776-1793 4. Grandmother and Grand Mother, 1794-1807 Biographical Directory Index of Names Subject Index
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Reading Women
Book SynopsisIn 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women''s reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women''s writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power.Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with loTrade Review"Destined to become a landmark study and a fixture in the bibliographies of feminist and textual scholars, literary and social historians, students of the English Renaissance and the American Republic alike." * William Sherman, University of York *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Reading Women . . . generously offers important new historical, textual, and theoretical ways of accessing, describing, and interpreting early modern women's reading." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction —Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly PART I. PLEASURES AND PROHIBITIONS Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes —Mary Ellen Lamb Engendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England —Sasha Roberts Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading and Self-Imagining —Mary Kelley PART II. PRACTICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENT 'you sow, Ile read': Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers —Bianca F.-C. Calabresi The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America —Caroline Winterer Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment —Catherine E. Kelly PART III. TRANSLATION AND AUTHORSHIP 'Who Painted the Lion?' Women and Novelle —Ian Frederick Moulton The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible —Janice Knight 'With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God': Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle —Margaret Ferguson Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book —Susan M. Stabile Reading Outside the Frame —Robert A. Gross Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Womens Human Rights The International and Comparative Law Casebook Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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University of Pennsylvania Press Women of Fes Ambiguities of Urban Life in
Book SynopsisBased on extensive fieldwork, Women of Fes shows how Moroccan women create their own forms of identity through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-a-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity.Trade Review"An outstanding contribution of Muslim world anthropology and gender studies; a careful ethnographic work attuned to large-scale forces and their capillary saturation of daily social arrangements and innovations. It very skillfully draws on canonical studies of Morocco (e.g., Abdellah Hammoudi on patriarchy, André Adam on class, Hildred Geertz on kinship, and Fatima Mernissi on gender) to fully contextualize her own luminous ethnography." * American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences *"No one reading this book will doubt that the author has lived up to her aim of making available nuanced portraits of a variety of Muslim women, sensitively and multivocally conveyed, in a domain of literature still dominated by stereotypes of "the oppressed Muslim woman." * American Ethnologist *"Newcomb's insightful and engaging book contributes to an important, but neglected area of scholarship, ethnography of the urban middle class. It demonstrates that Fassi middle-class women, like members of the middle class elsewhere, are actively reconstituting space, identity and community, as they embrace the tension between the order an chaos of modernity, while maintaining strands of continuity between a dissipating past and an imagined future. It constitutes an important resource for students and scholars of anthropology, gender studies and Middle East studies." * Journal of Islamic Studies *"An engaging and very well written study of women and gender change in contemporary Morocco. Employing the narratives of Fassi women, the reader is led into a nuanced world where women consciously try to embrace, and thereby create, their own forms of modernity." * Deborah Kapchan, New York University *Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration Chapter One: Introduction: Women of Fes and the Territories of Ideology Chapter Two: Rumors: Constructing Fes Chapter Three: Mudawana Reform and the Persistence of Patriarchy Chapter Four: Solidarity with Distinctions: The Limits of Intervention at a Fassi Nongovernmental Organization Chapter Five: Kinship: Seeking Sanctuary in the City Chapter Six: Occupying the Public: New Forms of Gendered Urban Space Chapter Seven: Singing to So Many Audiences Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Community, Chaos, and Continuity Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Equality on Trial Gender and Rights in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Turk explains how sex equality at work came to be defined as women's access to the same jobs as men, with no acknowledgment of differences due to motherhood or consideration of the unpaid labor necessary to care for a family. . . . Turk's innovative and deeply researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women's labor and social policy." * American Historical Review *"A truly original, deeply researched, eye-opening new account of the last half century of U.S. history that puts the struggle over gender and economic justice at its center." * Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University *"Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, Equality on Trial transforms how we think of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's inclusion of sex." * Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara *"An extraordinary and extraordinarily important piece of scholarly work. Katherine Turk's Equality on Trial is a stunning achievement: deeply researched, powerfully argued, brilliantly elaborated, attentive to detail, nuance, complexity and contradiction, and never losing sight of the individual lives and livelihood at stake." * Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Notions of Sex Equality Chapter 1. Defining Sex Discrimination Chapter 2. Class and Class Action Chapter 3. Feminism and Workplace Fairness Chapter 4. Reevaluating Women's Work Chapter 5. Sex Equality and the Service Sector Chapter 6. A Man's World, but Only for Some Chapter 7. Opting Out or Buying In Conclusion. Illusions of Sex Equality List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Womens Human
Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of U.S. relations with the Muslim world since 1979Americans'' concerns about women''s human rights in Muslim countries were triggered by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and have evolved within the context of long-standing Western stereotypes about Muslims, as well as transnational feminism and the global human rights movement. As these frameworks simultaneously competed against and reinforced one another, U.S. public conversations about Muslim women intensified, culminating in feminist campaigns and U.S. policies that aimed to defend women''s rights in Islamic countries—such was the case with the Clinton administration''s decision not to recognize the Taliban regime after they seized control of Afghanistan in 1996.U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women''s Human Rights provides a fresh interpretation of U.S. relations with the Muslim world and, more broadly, U.S. foreign relations history and the history of human rights. Kelly J. ShTrade Review"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights represents a welcome addition to an important historiography . . . Shannon breaks new ground, not only because she covers the late twentieth century-when women wielded real policymaking power-but also because she analyzes discourse, activism, and policymaking in a single frame." * Diplomatic History *"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights is a timely addition to the corpus of texts on US foreign policy, human rights, and US relations with Muslim states. In the current political climate of fading human rights commitments and the rhetoric that emboldens anti-Muslim practices, the book offers a powerful reminder of the role of human rights in the US national identity and lessons that can be used for charting its way forward." * H-Diplo *"This book is excellent: cautious but cogent in its arguments, comprehensive in its research, and balanced, but not bland, in its conclusions. Kelly Shannon demonstrates that issues of women and gender have infiltrated U.S. policymaking circles concerned with the Muslim Middle East since 1979, and, while she is not the first to suggest this, she is emphatically the first to trace these issues systematically through recent history and to elucidate them so fully." * Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University *"This important and persuasively argued book challenges much recent literature on the United States and the Middle East to reveal how women's rights emerged as an important lens for imagining the Islamic world. While some policymakers have cynically sought to justify intervening in the Middle East in the name of women, Shannon shows how activists both at home and abroad sought to reshape conceptions of U.S. National Security to place women at the center, sometimes challenging U.S. empire in the process." * Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution Chapter 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979 Chapter 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam Chapter 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi "Gender Apartheid" Chapter 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s Chapter 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration Chapter 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11 Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Marriage Without Borders
Book SynopsisIn popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré (a migrant''s wife) may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better financial future.Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book examinTrade Review"In its totality, this book is a finely constructed examination of transnational Senegalese marriages . . . The author seamlessly transitions from discussions on socially constructed myths of wealthy migrants to in-depth analyses of surveillance from abroad and the tensions that arise within the domestic sphere. The scope of the book is impressive, as it covers a diverse set of complex issues like gender, class, kinship, economic standing, and cultural understandings of prestige and power, all under the conceptual framework of 'transnational marriages . . . ' This book is an excellent piece of scholarship," * African Studies Quarterly *"In Marriage without Borders, Dinah Hannaford takes us into the intimate, complex domain of transnational Senegalese marriages: the expectations, accomplishments, caring, complicity, compromises, disappointments, waiting, suspicions, and conflicts that result from spouses' separation across continents . . . Hannaford draws a vivid picture of the intricacies of the social, economic, moral, religious, caring, and sexual aspects of transnational marriage . . . [A]n engaging, illustrative, and instructive book." * International Migration Review *"Deeply researched and engagingly written, Marriage Without Borders traces how new forms of transnational kinship emerge as increasing numbers of Senegalese men migrate abroad in order to sustain their relatives who remain back home. Equally attentive to the 'women who wait' and the men who go abroad, Dinah Hannaford offers a moving portrait of what happens to conjugality when couples live separated by vast distances. Her book makes clear that we've turned a corner in studies of transnational family life, one where it is no longer possible to celebrate the interconnectedness made possible by new communications technologies without also taking into account the terrible human cost of this new way of achieving social reproduction in the contemporary world." * Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago *"Marriage Without Borders is a richly evocative account of the multiple costs of mobility under conditions of neoliberal inequality. Although focused on Senegal and Senegalese abroad, it tells a story relevant to all for whom migration has become a necessity." * Sara L. Friedman, author of Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty *"Marriage Without Borders engages a very important topic and Dinah Hannaford successfully communicates the problems faced by young male migrants who seek to establish their place in the world and the challenges endured by the wives they leave behind in Senegal." * Wendy Wilson-Fall, Lafayette College *
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Old Norse Images of Women Anniversary Collection
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£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Sacred Fictions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I would recommend this volume to those interested in the study of female sacred biography. It is a solid study of broad and heterogeneous textual traditions; it proposes interesting readings of female vitae, and illustrates the richness of these documents." * Catholic Historical Review *"One of the best works on hagiography to apear in the last decade." * Church History *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Closet Stages
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University of Pennsylvania Press Against Amnesia
Book SynopsisAddresses the postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. This work examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing.Trade Review"Nuanced and insightful readings of some of the most often read and discussed works by contemporary ethnic American writers. . . . In combination with her theoretical positioning, they make an outstanding book." * Hertha Wong, University of California, Berkeley *
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Modern Women Modern Work
Book SynopsisFocuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves.Trade Review"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism Chapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana Chapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston Afterword Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Lives of the Anchoresses
Book SynopsisIn cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women who chose to forsake the world but did not avoid it.Unlike nuns, anchoresses maintained their ties to society and belonged to no formal religious order. From their solitary anchorholds in very public places, they acted as teachers and counselors and, in some cases, theological innovators for parishioners who would speak to them from the street, through small openings in the walls of their cells. Available at all hours, the anchoresses were ready to care for the community''s faithful whenever needed.Through careful biographical studies of five emblematic anchoresses, Mulder-Bakker reveals the details of these influential religious women. The life of Trade Review"We are blessed here with a study of rare insight and perception into the functioning of lay religious devotion in northwestern Europe and its interaction with institutionalized and learned clerical religion." * Speculum *Table of Contents1. Bees Without a King 2. The Mother of Guibert of Nogent: The Age of Discretion 3. Yvette of Huy: The Metamorphoses of a Woman 4. Juliana of Cornillon: Church Reform and the Corpus Christi Feast 5. Eve of St. Martin: The Faithful of Liège and the Church 6. Lame Margaret of Magdeburg and Her Lessons 7. Living Saints 8. Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Engendering the Fall
Book SynopsisEngendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.Trade Review"This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and history, and the first book to bring interpretations of the Fall story by Milton and his female contemporaries, from the Jacobean period to the end of the century, into a sustained dialogue." * David Norbrook, University of Oxford *"Engendering the Fall enriches our view of Milton, of women writers, and of the literature of gender and statecraft." * TLS *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Creating Human Rights How Noncitizens Made Sex
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of a novel women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to traditional conceptions of human rights. It illuminates keys to the movement's success, including, paradoxically, noncitizen politics, and uncovers critical implications for theories of human rights change.Trade Review"The least likely case study is a noble tradition in comparative politics, while the study of norm change is a cuttingedge concern in international relations. Lisa S. Alfredson's well-crafted account of the introduction of gender-based asylum in Canada combines the best of these worlds, along with interesting observations on immigration policy, social movements, and the gendered nature of human rights." * Perspectives on Politics *"Alfredson explores a remarkable case study that illustrates an underestimated route for the genesis of human rights vital to women." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Sex Persecution Campaigns 2. Human Rights, Social Movement, and Asylum Seeking 3. Global Challenges and Opportunities for Sex-Based Asylum Seeking 4. Moving In: Asylum Seekers' National Rights, Resources, and Opportunities 5. "Use My Name": Noncitizen Identity, Decisions, and Mobilization 6. Universalizing National Rights: Political Confrontation and Cultural Framing 7. Making Sex Persecution Matter Appendix: Comprehensive and Novel Aspects of Gender Related Claims Notes Bibliography Index
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