Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards.Trade Review"Drawing on much unedited archival material and effectively employing her detailed understanding of medieval law, Marie Kelleher shows how women and others dealing with cases involving women and women's issues necessarily worked with and through the law and the ideological and social assumptions underpinning it." * Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsA Note on Names Map Introduction: Legal Texts and Gendered Contexts Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries: Women in the Legal Landscape in the Age of Jaume II Chapter 2. The Power to Hold: Women and Property Chapter 3. Crimes of Passion: Sexual Transgression and the Legal Taxonomy of Women Chapter 4. Gender and Violence Conclusions List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisLabors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time.Trade Review"This is a very exciting book. Its chief claim, more than amply substantiated, is that women played a much more active role in the production of early modern theater than prior scholarship has asserted. Labors Lost offers a rich and nuanced picture of the many different ways in which women took part in the early modern theatrical world." * Jean E. Howard, Columbia University *"Long before they were regularly seen on stage, women were of crucial importance to the commercial theater behind the scenes. In Labors Lost, Natasha Korda argues that female labor was central to the development of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. . . . Korda evidently relishes the abundance and variety of her subject, using economic and commercial history as a lively and even lyrical approach. . . . Her subtle readings show that women's role in commercial theater was not just an issue behind the scenes, but one which was regularly dramatized by (all-male) casts on stage." * TLS *Table of ContentsNote on Spelling and Dates Prologue Chapter 1. Labors Lost Chapter 2. Dame Usury Chapter 3. Froes and Rebatos Chapter 4. Cries and Oysterwives Chapter 5. False Wares Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 1920s, no political observer would have predicted that universal suffrage would inspire the growth of a conservative women's movement to counter the power of women reformers. This book describes the birth of that movement, analyzing its enduring legacy for twentieth-century female political activists.Trade Review"Battling Miss Bolsheviki is a well-written addition to scholarship on women's social movements in the United States. . . . It should be read by anyone interested in women's politics in the twentieth century." * Women and Social Movements, International *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare Chapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat Chapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism Chapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform Chapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations Chapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism Epilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism Acronyms for Archival Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn the years following World War I, women activists in the United States and Europe saw themselves as leaders of a globalizing movement to promote women''s rights and international peace. In hopes of advancing alliances, U.S. internationalists such as Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Doris Stevens reached across the border to their colleagues in Mexico, including educator Margarita Robles de Mendoza and feminist Hermila Galindo. They established new organizations, sponsored conferences, and rallied for peaceful relations between the two countries. But diplomatic tensions and the ongoing Mexican Revolution complicated their efforts.In Pan American Women, Megan Threlkeld chronicles the clash of political ideologies between U.S. and Mexican women during an era of war and revolution. Promoting a human internationalism (in the words of Addams), U.S. women overestimated the universal acceptance of their ideas. They considered nationalism an ethos to be overcome, while thTrade Review"Pan American Women is more than a look back at a distant past. In the best tradition of historical writing, it contributes to our understanding of both the pitfalls and the possibilities of today's women's internationalism." * Women's Review of Books *"This close, meticulous, and evenhanded organizational history examines U.S. women's efforts to advance inter-American cooperation among women and to further hemispheric peace between the world wars . . . . In recent years, scholars have paid more attention to the history of U.S. feminism from 1910 to 1940, and Pan American Women is a valuable addition to this literature." * American Historical Review *"Pan American Women is the book that historians of feminism have been awaiting for a long time. Megan Threlkeld has given us a deeply researched study of interwar feminist interactions across time, nationality, politics, and organizations. She provides us with a rich portrait of activist women struggling to connect across ideologies and in the face of international political conflicts. I will be returning to this book again and again." * Ellen Carol DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles *"A remarkably perceptive study of the tensions between collaborative and imperialist sensibilities and the challenges of disentangling feminist goals from nationalist politics, even in ostensibly progressive internationalist settings." * Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *

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Book SynopsisOur Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.Trade Review"Persistently witty and insightful, the book feeds and satisfies one's curiosity. Much like the poetic texts it plays against, it invites the reader to slow down, to reread, to enjoy a subtlety, to share an intimacy. This is not simply a scholarly study but a work of art about prior works of art and about the creative personalities that engendered them . . . Scholarly books come and go, and it is generally good that they do so. This book, however, may be around for a long time-as an inspiration for subsequent scholarship; an influential account of the afterlife of Dickinson; and a stimulating study of the works and lives of Jackson, Todd, Moore, Plath, and Bishop. It is a book to read and absorb, one that beautifully evokes the dramas of creativity unfolding in some of Dickinson's most notable inheritors." * Modern Language Quarterly *"Pollak beautifully analyses the changing attitude of women poets whose psychological connections to and disconnections from Dickinson take place through the practices of reading . . . Our Emily Dickinsons marks the historical and cultural place that Dickinson has occupied in the American consciousness through a skilful weaving: of biography with poetry; diary and journal entries with literary reviews; and newspaper advertisements with personal letters." * Modern Language Review *"Vivian R. Pollak provides an entirely original, subtle, and insightful reading of the gender anxieties of women poets as revealed through their responses to reading Dickinson and each other, or sometimes through their sense of Dickinson as the inevitable point of comparison. Pollak contributes a plethora of information previously unknown or not widely known about the relationships between the later poets she studies and between those women and Dickinson, and she offers astute readings of their often nuanced comments on Dickinson (and each other) in reviews, letters, diaries, or published prose. There is no other book like it!" * Cristanne Miller, University of Buffalo *"Vivian Pollak's ingenious look at Emily Dickinson's hold on the imagination of three late modernist poets (Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath) is stunning in its revelations and riveting in its analysis of how the ever-mysterious Queen of Calvary works her magic differently on each poet and on each new generation of readers. This book is brilliant. I finished it and, captivated, turned back to page one and began again." * Mary Jo Bang, Washington University in St. Louis *"Elegantly written, witty, and consistently illuminating in its readings, Vivian Pollak's book represents feminist literary criticism at its best. In luminous detail, the book reveals the ways American women poets have engaged their own gendered anxieties and fears through their intimate encounters with Emily Dickinson." * Betsy Erkkilä, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Dickinson and the Demands of Intimacy Chapter 1. Helen Hunt Jackson and Dickinson's Personal Publics Chapter 2. Mabel Loomis Todd and Dickinson's Art of Sincerity Chapter 3. "The Wholesomeness of the Life": Marianne Moore's Unartificial Dickinson Chapter 4. Moore, Plath, Hughes, and "The Literary Life" Chapter 5. Plath's Dickinson: On Not Stopping for Death Chapter 6. Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. Schools of Writing Conclusion. Dickinson and the Demands of Difference Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisKitchen Table Politics investigates the role that the grassroots activism of middle-class, mostly Catholic homemakers played in the development of conservatism in New York State-and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values."Trade Review"Taranto takes us into the daily lives, subjective experiences, and political activities of women whose import in reshaping the political history of the late twentieth century has not been appreciated. This book traces how and why, between the 1960s and 1980, these women were transformed from apolitical homemakers into activists . . . Taranto considers with empathy and insight the ways that this group of women felt about and responded to the changes in their world. Explaining how these women's subjective feelings of being disrespected became mobilized into a grassroots movement that shaped the realignment of political parties seems particularly important today." * The Journal of American History *"With Kitchen Table Politics, Stacie Taranto will change how we think about the culture wars and reorient our understanding of the Reagan era." * Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago *"Kitchen Table Politics makes significant contributions to our understanding of the rise of conservatism, the realignment of American political parties, the importance of gender politics to American political history, the nuances of grassroots activism, and the relevance of state-level politics to national politics." * Catherine E. Rymph, University of Missouri *

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Book SynopsisThis multisited ethnography provides a rich account of the costs of global neoliberal economic policy for families in the global south. With a focus on Senegalese migrants in Europe and their wives who are left behind, Hannaford illustrates how new understandings of intimacy, gender, and class are forged in a culture of migration.Trade 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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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Feminist scholars have long used conduct books to illustrate the brutally patriarchal nature of medieval marriage. Glenn Burger's Conduct Becoming strikes a new, counterintuitive note." * London Review of Books *"Attending to a diverse range of texts broadly characterized as conduct literature Glenn D. Burger constructs a layered and nuanced argument for the emergence of a new medieval subject, 'the good wife,' along with new models for married relations in the later Middle Ages . . . The full weight of Burger's argument unfolds gradually across the chapters, but it rewards its readers with its attentiveness to the many potential ways in which narratives interact with their readers, another dialogic relationship that calls for a dynamic, negotiated, and relational understanding. Burger offers such an understanding here." * The Journal of Religion *"Much has been published about conduct literature in the past twenty years, but I don't know of a book that covers a similar range of texts and makes such a large intellectual argument. This new model of the good wife focuses primarily on the married lay woman whose attitudes and activities as a member of a marriage and a household have significant roles to play in the wider society." * Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern Maine *

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Book SynopsisTrade 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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Book SynopsisOver the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others'' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women''s literature characterized by highly recognizable codes. Drawing on a literary geography of national types, women writers across Western Europe read, translated, wrote, and rewrote stories about exceptional young women, literary heroines who transcend the gendered destiny of their distinctive cultural and national contexts. These transcultural heroines struggle against the cultural constraints determining the sexualized fates of local girls.In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women''s writing as a distinct, transnational category inTrade Review"[I]t certainly should be read, and because the coverage is remarkable, the book can be profitably read in parts. But to read the whole book has additional rewards, as Cheek interweaves familiar texts with a great many others that few of us have read to illuminate how networks of women writers in the long eighteenth century involved each other in literary projects of female identity. This book opens so many roads of discovery that we will profit from it for a long time. " * Modern Language Quaterly *"This is a bold, risk-taking book. It is both theoretically engaged and admirable in scope and aims. In it, Pamela L. Cheek attempts a transnational history of women’s writing in the long eighteenth century. She asks an important question: Where does 'women’s writing' fit within the category of 'world literature'?...Heroines and Local Girls will remain an important touchstone for us all in the coming years, as we continue to explore writers across borders and write our literary histories anew." * Early Modern Women *"With her heroines and local girls, Pamela L. Cheek draws attention to two ways in which women could be textually related to the literary field in the long eighteenth century: by defining an aristocratic and cosmopolitan concept of gender identity oneself or, on the other hand, by being determined through a local experience of gender practice. This double definition actually enables Cheek to unfold a new map of literary history, making it possible for today's readers to see ‘women's literature’ at work as a vital critical category, but inviting us all along, also, to articulate its meaning for the women writers themselves in their own century. Cheek's argument is very compelling and makes us look at a number of well-known texts with fresh eyes. Her comparative reading of Charlotte Lennox with Françoise de Graffigny and that of Frances Burney with Mme de Staël are particularly stunning." * Women’s Writing *"[Cheek’s study] has an important part to play in one of the perennial questions posed in women’s studies: Where does something that many readers identify as ‘women’s writing’ fit within European or world literature?...Cheek deftly traverses an astonishing range of materials across different languages. Her ability to speak to the importance of translation without converting it into an easy alignment of one national dictionary with another marks her book with a combination of accessibility and accuracy. Heroines and Local Girls will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in women’s writing in the long eighteenth century and how literary texts cross national boundaries." * Journal of British Studies *"Pamela L. Cheek makes an extraordinarily important contribution not just to our understanding of women's writing but also to our thinking about the international circulation and reception of literary texts. Few scholars have anything like Cheek's range, and her ability to speak of the importance of translation without converting it into an easy alignment of one national dictionary with another marks her book with a combination of availability and precision. Heroines and Local Girls is indispensable reading for anyone interested in women's writing and how literature crosses national boundaries." * Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Networks of Women Writers Circa 1785-87 Chapter 2. Two Quarrels Chapter 3. Ravishing and Romance Language Chapter 4. The Repertoire of the School for Girls Chapter 5. Heroines and Local Girls Chapter 6. Heroines in the World Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Putzi’sstudy is a remarkable intervention in the study of nineteenth-century US women writers—known and unknown, recovered and yet unrecovered—because it challenges the very concept of a nineteenth-century woman writer...Putzi’s model ofrelational poetics opens up compelling possibilities for the recovery of nineteenth-centurywomenwriters,aswellasnewwaysofunderstandinghow nineteenth-century US literature was read and created." -- Elissa Zellinger * American Literary History *"Putzi gives us an inspiring book, designed to persuade scholars of both traditional and critical literary analysis to join her in reading with respect and pleasure this body of antebellum American women’s poetry...Putzi’s work adds to helpful analyses of women’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, especially studies of poetry’s contemporary rhetoric by Jane Donawerth, Winifred Bryan Horner, and Lynee Lewis Gaillet." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Fair Copy expertly engages the composition, publication, and circulation of women’s printed poetry to produce a far-reaching theory and methodology of relational poetics as radical recovery. Moving with graceful nimbleness between this overarching framework and a precision born of copious archival work, Putzi offers a compelling narrative of women’s engagement with print and its various networks and relations—a story unknown in part because studies of nineteenth-century women’s authorship have primarily focused on prose and in part because of a scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality." * Early American Literature *"Jennifer Putzi offers five case studies of women poets' 'relational poetics' under conditions of authorship that depend on intersecting categories of race, class, and gender. She maps the significance of unremarkable or indistinguishable practices by unknown and in some way irrecoverable women poets in order to show that the very lack of distinction or originality, the impossibility of identifying a signature style, marks the poems as accomplishments that depend on the contexts of production, circulation, and reception." * Eliza Richards, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The American Hemans: Lydia Sigourney's Relational Poetics Chapter 2. "The Songs Which All Can Sing": Imitation and Working Women's Poetry in the Lowell Offering Chapter 3. "My Country": Communal Authorship and Citizenship in Sarah Louisa Forten's Liberator Poems Chapter 4. "What Is Poetry?": Class, Collaboration, and the Making of Wales, and Other Poems Chapter 5. "Some Queer Freak of Taste": Relational Poetics and Literary Proprietorship in the "Rock Me to Sleep" Controversy Conclusion. Recovering the Unremarkable Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on unpublished documents from the 18th century, written by more than 250 women, the author creates a picture of the real lives of women in the period. She then examines the work of seven novelists in relation to this portrait.

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Book SynopsisA Pernicious Sort of Woman provides examination of the writings of canon lawyers in the late Middle Ages as they come to terms with women who were not, strictly speaking, religious, but who were thought of as such. It studies the ways that jurists categorized these women and clarifies the ambivalent canons relating to their lives in the community.

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Book SynopsisSet in the frontier of Michigan int he 1830s, A New Home is the first realistic portrayal of western village life in the United States. Based on Caroline Kirkland's own experiences - and written from a woman's perspective - it narrates with a keen eye and wit the absorbing story of the establishment of the village of Montacute, Michigan.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the beginnings of American realism, anyone fascinated by authentic portrayals of nineteenth-century frontier life, and anyone curious about women's unique experiences on the frontier will want to discover A New Home. -- Annette Kolody * author of The Lady of the Land and The Land Before Her *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Notes to Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Texts and AnnotationsA New Home, Who'll Follow? "Literary Women" Explanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most salient feature of the stories collected here is their presentation of the multiplicity of voices of Caribbean women: Parable II, No Dust is Allowed in This House, of Nuns and Punishment, Reminds us of the accomplishments of Caribbean women and promise of their writing.Trade ReviewUnique... a wonderful collection that will receive much attention. -- Barbara Christian * University of California, Berkeley *The panorama of insights and visions is vast... the context of women's writings is a broadening link, connecting these writers with their counterparts in other cultures around the world. -- Gregory RabassaProvides wonderful insights into writing by women from the Caribbean. -- J. Michael Dash * The University of West Indies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments Tetiyette and the Devil / Anonymous Little Cog-burt / Phyllis Shand Allfrey Cotton Candy / Dora Alonso See Me in Me Benz An T'ing: Like the Lady Who Lived on That Isle Remote / Hazel D. Campbell They Called Her Aurora (A Passion for Donna Summer) / Aida Cartagena Portalatin Columba / Michelle Cliff A Pottage of Lentils / Marie-Therese Colimon-Hall Three Women in Manhattan / Maryse Conde Hair / Hilma Contreras Piano-Bar / Liliane Devieux Barred: Trinidad 1987 / Ramabai Espinet The Poisoned Story / Rosario Ferre Cocuyo Flower / Magali Garcia Ramis How to Gather the Shadows of the Flowers / Angela Hernandez Opera Station. Six in the Evening. For Months... / Jeanne Hyvrard Girl / Jamaica Kincaid No Dust Is Allowed in This House / Olga Nolla Widow's Walk / Opal Palmer Adisa Parable II / Velma Pollard Red Flower / Paulette Poujol-Oriol The Day They Burned the Books / Jean Rhys Lola or the Song of Spring / Astrid Roemer Brights Thursdays / Olive Senior ADJ, Inc. / Ana Lydia Vega Of Nuns and Punishments / Bea Vianen Passport to Paradise / Myriam Warner-Vieyra Of Natural Causes / Mirta Yanez Selected Bibliography / Olga Torres-Seda

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the century, short stories by - and often about - ”New Women” flooded the pages English and American magazines. This daring new fiction shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as “literary degenerates” or “erotomaniacs”. This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction'An Egyptian Cigarette' 'Theodora: A Fragment' 'Suggestion' 'A Cross Line' 'She-Notes' 'By Accident' 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' 'A White Night' 'The Fifth Edition' 'Miss Grief' 'Lady Tal' 'The Undefinable: A Fantasia' 'The Muse's Tragedy' 'Emancipation: A Life Fable' 'Three Dreams in a Desert' 'Life's Gifts' 'The Valley of Childish Things' Biographical Notes

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Book SynopsisWritten in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of technology not only includes women's contributions but begins the long-overdue task of redefining technology and significant technology and to value these contributions correctly. Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers--from prehistory (or origin) forward, profiling hundreds of women, both famous and obscure. The author does not ignore theory. She contributes a paradigm for male takeovers of technologies originated by women.Trade ReviewAn indispensable reference tool. * Choice *A clearly written volume which the non-academic can easily and enjoyably read. * New Moon Parenting *Invaluable. There is nothing else with as much information between two covers on the market. -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan * President, Society for the History of Technology *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Daughters of Ceres, Songi, and Corn Mother: Women Inventors and Innovators in Agriculture and Related Technology 2. Daughters of Isis, Gula, Hygieia, and Brigit: Women Inventors in Health and Medicine 3. Daughters of Hera, Eileithyia, Prokris, and Teteu Innan: Women Inventors and Innovators in Sex, Fertility, and Anti-Fertility Technology 4. Daughters of Athena, Semiramis, Margaret Knight, and Wei-Feng Ying: Women Inventors of Tools and Machines 5. Daughters of the Enchantress of Numbers and Grandma COBOL: Women Inventors and Innovators in Computers and Related Technology Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others.Trade ReviewA book of extraordinary impact. Illustrated with striking portrait photos, it is the product of interviews with scores of women who fought and won in the Sandinista Liberation Front. . . . The women speak for themselves. And they speak with compelling power. . . . Every story in this book is different, every woman memorable. . . . [This] is a book to remind us all of what the best in us can be. * Calgary Herald *Table of ContentsOne: From AMPRONAC 1 Two: The Commanders 40 Three: Amada Pineda 80 Four: Daisy Zamora 94 Five: Nora Astorga 116 Six: The Women in Olive Green 129 Seven: Sister Martha Women of Hope 150 Eight: Gladys Baez 163 Nine: Mothers and Daughters 184 Ten: Profound Changes 204

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Book SynopsisThis work is a collection of texts which document the lives and accomplishments of two of America's significant social and political reformers. This first volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitment to political change leading up to the ratification of the 14th Ammendment.

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Book SynopsisThe second volume in the six-volume series documenting the accomplishments of the two most famous American suffragists. Featured in Ken Burns's new documentary Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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Book SynopsisThrough their letters, speeches, articles and diaries, this volume recounts the national careers of Stanton and Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights and the launch of their campaign for a 16th amendment in the Centennial Year of 1876.Trade Review"A captivating and enchanting book, beautifully edited, full of rich, brilliantly chosen selections." -- Christine Stansell * Princeton University *"When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880 to 1887 is the fourth of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.At the opening of the fourth volume, suffragists hoped to speed passage of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution through the creation of Select Committees on Woman Suffrage in Congress. Congress did not vote on the amendment until January 1887. Then, in a matter of a week, suffragists were dealt two major blows: the Senate defeated the amendment and the Senate and House reached agreement on the Edmunds-Tucker Act, disenfranchising all women in the Territory of Utah. As evidenced in this volume's selection of letters, articles, speeches, and diary entries, these were years of frustration. Suffragists not only lost federal and state campaigns for partial and full voting rights, but also endured an invigorated opposition. In spite of these challenges, Stanton and Anthony continued to pursue their life's work. In 1880 both women retired from lecturing to devote attention to their monumental History of Woman Suffrage. They also opened a new transatlantic dialogue about woman's rights during a trip to Europe in 1883." -- Anne Firor Scott * author of Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History *"In this rich and important collection, Ann Gordon applies a scholar's integrity, a woman's sensitivity, and a personal curiosity to the works that define these cherished foremothers. Thanks to her extraordinary work, we now have a full and accessible record for future readers and writers of our history." -- Lynn Sherr * ABC News correspondent and author of Failure Is Impossible *"This volume, masterfully edited by Ann D. Gordon, lays bare some of the most dramaticùand most painfulùyears in the struggle for woman rights. It also brings to vivid life two of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. No one seriously interested in our common history should be without it." -- Geoffrey C. Ward * author of Not For Ourselves Alone *"This is one of the great historical projects of our generation. Long after current narratives, biographies, and monographs have faded into the realm of the 'old-fashioned,' the forthright voices of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will still ring clear. Ann Gordon and the insightful editors guide us through the politics and society in which these remarkable leaders flourished. These volumes are a compelling read, and indispensable to an understanding of modern democracy." -- Linda K. Kerber * author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies *"I would encourage everyone interested in nineteenth-century politics to buy these books. The materials selected for inclusion-letters, diary entries, speeches, articles-provide a window on the debates that were crucial to the formation of American political culture before, during, and after the Civil War. Presented chronologically, introduced with editorial headings, and superbly annotated, each document stands on its own, and together they tell many stories." -- Melanie S. Gustafson * New York History *

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Book SynopsisIn this study of Haitian women's literature, the author explores their history, traditions, stories and tales. The authors' unwillingness to subordinate to narratives of national autonomy, issues of race, class, colour, caste and sexuality are central to the fiction.Trade Review"A riveting, insightful personal narrative, a confessional that is very thoroughly researched. It will open windows on the rich, complex culture of Haiti, both historical and contemporary." -- Moira Ferguson * James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Literature, University of Nebraska *"A very insightful and brilliantly executed reading of novels by Haitian women." -- Selwyn Cudjoe * Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas, Wellesley College *"A major new work in Caribbean studies." -- Gay Wilentz * East Carolina University *"A riveting, insightful personal narrative, a confessional that is very thoroughly researched. It will open windows on the rich, complex culture of Haiti, both historical and contemporary." -- Moira Ferguson * James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Literature, University of Nebraska *"A very insightful and brilliantly executed reading of novels by Haitian women." -- Selwyn Cudjoe * Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas, Wellesley College *"A major new work in Caribbean studies." -- Gay Wilentz * East Carolina University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: paròl gin piè zèl Nou là!: Haitian feminism as the crossroads politics of theory and action Ayiti c̦é tè glissé: The U.S. occupation of Haiti and the emergence of Haitian women's literary voices Si-m di ou, oua konn pasé-m: Ghislaine Charlier and Jan J. Dominique frame the unmasterable, memoried past Léspoua fè viv: female identity and the politics of textual sexuality in Nadine Magloire's "Le mal de vivre" and Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, eyes, memory" Malè pa gin klaksonn: the politics of culturelacune in the works of Marie Chauvet and Anne-christine d'Adesky Conclusion: jou va, jou vien-m'pa di passć̦a

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Book SynopsisThis work probes the differences between the biographies of men and women, stereotypes about women's lives and roles, and what is private and public. It looks at issues of authorial stance, and the problems of writing biography for achieving women - who were also wives.Table of ContentsBiography: the old and the new Telling women's lives The trap of the stereotype Relinquishing stereotypes The biographer's problem: women as wives A woman's self: wives and writers The power of naming Listening to women's stories Writing about mothers Taking control of story: women's voices Families of women The best of them Popular biography Revisionist biographies of women

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity. It focuses on political issues and on questions of the body.Trade Review"Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity." -- Bonnie Kime Scott * author of Selected Letters of Rebecca West *"Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity." -- Bonnie Kime Scott * author of Selected Letters of Rebecca West *Table of ContentsLocational feminism: gender, cultural geographies, and geopolitical literacy / Susan Stanford Friedman Only contradictions on offer: anglophone feminism at the millennium / Lynne Segal Last past the post: theory, futurity, feminism / Elaine K. Chang Re(con)figuring space, time, and matter / Karen Barad Who's to navigate and who's to steer? A consideration of the role of theory in feminist struggle / Cheryl Johnson-Odim Women's human rights: the challenges of global feminism and diversity / Charlotte Bunch Rethinking globalization: gender and the nation in India / Leela Fernandes Constructing cooperation: feminist activism and NAFTA / Debra J. Liebowitz The many faces of activism / Cynthia Saltzman Feminism and the politics of the Hindu goddess / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan The praxis of food work in Poland / Anne C. Bellows Stuff / Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante Sons and m(others): framing the maternal body and the politics of reproduction in a south Indian context / Radha S. Hegde Trauma, aging, and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan

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Book SynopsisCommercial weight loss organizations have come under attack from feminist scholars for perpetuating the values that cause women to obsess about their weight. This book asks how these values are transmitted and how the women who join such organizations actually think about their bodies.

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Book SynopsisExplores how the mechanisms of modernism, German cinema and feminist film theory have evolved, and discusses the directions in which they are headed. The book aims to locate the debate over the place of cinema within modernity in a complex matrix of contending sensibilities, voices and impulses.Trade ReviewIn this vibrant collection of essays, Patrice Petro draws on her capacious understanding of feminist theory and German film theory to articulate what is, was, and should be at stake in our interpretive practices. Whether analyzing the disorienting photomontages of Hannah H÷ch, the disturbing portraits of Otto Dix, or the charged performance of Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus, Petro remains firmly in command of historical contexts, theoretical implications, and ideological consequences. -- Maria Tatar * author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany *Patrice PetroÆs Aftershocks of the New is unified by a focus on the connection between feminist film criticism and historical research. It also invokes a history of the film studies discipline (including television) as she rehearses and comments upon some of the major debates in the field over the past two decades. -- Lucy Fischer * director of the film studies program, University of Pittsburgh *Table of ContentsIntroduction The "place" of television in film studies Feminism and film history German film theory and Anglo-American film studies After shock, between boredom and history Historical ennui, feminist boredom World weariness, Weimar women, and visual culture Nazi cinema at the intersection of the classical and the popular The Hottentot and the Blonde Venus Film feminism and nostalgia for the seventies

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume attempt to fill the gap in critical consideration of women writers of the Beat Generation and evaluate their lives and literary output, helping the reader appreciate their unique, diverse voices during a dynamic moment of profound cultural change.Trade ReviewGirls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history. -- Jennie Skerl * author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles *Table of ContentsForeword / Ann Charters Acknowledgments and Permissions Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation / Ronna C. Johnson / Nancy M. Grace The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition / Kristin Prevallet Diane di Prima: ``Nothing Is Lost; It Shines In Our Eyes'' / Anthony Libby ``And Then She Went'': Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance / Ronna C. Johnson What I See in Now I Became Hettie Jones / Barrett Watten Who Writes? Reading Elise Cowen's Poetry / Tony Trigilio Snapshots, Sand Paintings, and Celluloid: Formal Considerations in the Life Writing of Women Writers from the Beat Generation / Nancy M. Grace To Deal with Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger's Early Epic Poetics / Linda Russo Revelations of Companionate Love; or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega's Poems to Fernando / Maria Damon From Revolution to Creation: Beat Desire and Body Poetics in Anne Waldman's Poetry / Peter Puchek Many Drummers, a Single Dance? / Tim Hunt Selected Bibliography Works Cited and Consulted About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, J. California Cooper’s Family, and Lorene Cary’s The Price of a Child.Trade Review"In this provocative, indeed indispensable, study, Mitchell uses Harriet Jacobs's emancipatory narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as her urtext in examining five novels by women: Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. California Cooper's Family (1991), and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child (1995). . . . All academic collections." * Choice *"Angelyn Mitchell's extraordinary study is rich in detail and analysis, confidently mediating our ways of remembering the narratives of slavery as well as the ways of women—as writer and as characterùbearing courageous witness. The Freedom to Remember is scholarship at its very best and will surely be one of the essential books in critical and cultural studies." -- Karla Holloway * William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Duke University *"A work of evocative interpretation and socially healing criticism, The Freedom to Remember reveals the liberating thematics of contemporary black women's contribution to the much-acclaimed neoslave narrative." -- William L. Andrews * author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography *"Building upon the work of Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor Traylor, and Sherley Anne Williams, Angelyn Mitchell is the first to elaborate the need for a shift in terminology used to discuss slave narratives and contemporary novels of slavery. If the only contribution of The Freedom to Remember is to popularize a change from slave narrative to emancipatory narrative and from neo-slave narrative to liberatory narrative, Angelyn Mitchell will have accomplished a great deal." -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday *"In this provocative, indeed indispensable, study, Mitchell uses Harriet Jacobs's emancipatory narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as her urtext in examining five novels by women: Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. California Cooper's Family (1991), and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child (1995). . . . All academic collections." * Choice *"Angelyn Mitchell's extraordinary study is rich in detail and analysis, confidently mediating our ways of remembering the narratives of slavery as well as the ways of women—as writer and as characterùbearing courageous witness. The Freedom to Remember is scholarship at its very best and will surely be one of the essential books in critical and cultural studies." -- Karla Holloway * William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Duke University *"A work of evocative interpretation and socially healing criticism, The Freedom to Remember reveals the liberating thematics of contemporary black women's contribution to the much-acclaimed neoslave narrative." -- William L. Andrews * author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography *"Building upon the work of Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor Traylor, and Sherley Anne Williams, Angelyn Mitchell is the first to elaborate the need for a shift in terminology used to discuss slave narratives and contemporary novels of slavery. If the only contribution of The Freedom to Remember is to popularize a change from slave narrative to emancipatory narrative and from neo-slave narrative to liberatory narrative, Angelyn Mitchell will have accomplished a great deal." -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday *Table of ContentsHarriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself: the ur-narrative of black womanhood Not enough of the past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred History, agency, and subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose The metaphysics of black female identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved J. California Cooper's family: of (absent?) mothers, (motherless?) daughters, and (interracial?) relations The economies of bondage and freedom in Lorene Cary's The price of a child

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Book SynopsisKevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Becomes... Chapter 1 - The Other Dancer as Self: Notes on Girlfriend Selfhood Chapter 2 - Self(full)ness and the Politics of Community Chapter 3 - Liminality and Selfhood: Toward Being Enough Chapter 4 - An Indisputable Memory of Blackness Chapter 5 - The Practice of a Memory Body Chapter 6 - Toward a Language Aesthetic Chapter 7 - My Own, Language Conclusion... What is Undone Notes Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis'Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.Trade ReviewMcLean's work is significant because it addresses a major flaw in the majority of star studies--the lack of knowledge regarding how movie stars were created by the Hollywood studio system. She achieves an understanding of movie stars as economic constructs, of the relationship of their real selves to their images, and of how a star's original meaning and reception by fans sometimes differ from what we assume today....Being Rita Hayworth is a model of good scholarship. * Film Quarterly *[T]he plethora of stimulating ideas in Being Rita Hayworth should jolt star, labor, and film scholarship to reassess contemporary, too easily accepted truths and lead to dynamic debates and exciting exchanges. Fresh perspectives rejuvenate, and that's a gift to scholarship. * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *This book is praiseworthy in all aspects of the subject....This is an excellent book well worth reading because of the cogent discussion of ubiquitous processes of commodification, advertising, and their influence on modes of subjectivity. * Visual Anthropology *Exploring the creation of this popular movie star's persona, Being Rita Hayworth takes an especial interest in her appeal to other women of the day who were struggling to navigate the demands of family and work outside the home. An excellent read for anyone with an especial interest in not only Hayworth's career, but the ripple effect her star persona had on the hearts and minds of a female generation. * The Midwest Book Review *This book reexamines Rita Hayworth's star image and her proficiency as a dancer in order to challenge received wisdom about the objectification of female stars in classical Hollywood cinema. This is a superior piece of scholarship and an outstanding contribution to star studies. -- Ina Rae Hark * University of South Carolina *McLean's argument is complex, coherent, and eminently readable. Through meticulous research, she productively opens up the notion of star as worker. -- Mary R. Desjardins * Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Rita Hayworth? Part One. Stardom Off the Screen Part Two. Film Stars, Film Texts, Film Studies Afterword: Replacing the Love Goddess Notes Cansino/Hayworth Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and black women writers of the period, whose poems chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation.Trade ReviewThis is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and their impact on the poets who succeeded them. Clarke has the advantage of being an "insider" who witnessed part of the era she's analyzing. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall * Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk *Table of Contents'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca" Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness Black feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn

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Book Synopsis18th-century natural historians created a peculiar but durable vision of nature, embodying the sexual and racial tensions of that era. Plants were found to reproduce sexually, and great apes were just becoming known. This text uncovers the ways in which assumptions about sex, and race have shaped scientific explanations of nature.Trade Review"[Nature’s Body] is so wonderfully humorous and is done with such careful attention to detail, the reader cannot help but see the profound implications of the history of science for modern science. Indispensable for all anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and practitioners of science." -- Emily Martin * author of The Woman in the Body *"Schiebinger lays bare the cultural narratives that mix so easily with science. They are at the same time hilarious and eerie, silly and profoundly disturbing. Schiebinger is brilliant in showing how tales of gender and race are told in other guises." -- Thomas Laqueur, * author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud *Table of ContentsThe private lives of plants Why mammals are called mammals The gendered ape The anatomy of difference Theories of gender and race Who should do science?

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses questions on the subject of women's studies. Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, 'Women's Studies for the Future' ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field.Trade ReviewThis valuable collection contributes an important discussion of contemporary epistemological and political debates within women's studies. It provides insight on the institutional 'next steps' that will advance the field and answers many of the academy's questions regarding the role and scope of our mandate. - Susan Van Dyne, professor and chair of the Women's Studies Program, Smith College

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Book SynopsisOffers a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centred stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labour leaders, youth organisers, artists, and environmentalists.Trade Review"A much-needed work: this bilingual history describing feminism's role in Chicana women's lives, from pre-columbian Mexico to now." * Ms. Magazine *"This history passionately shows that through unity and perseverance womencan make the world a better place for Chicanas/os and, indeed, for peoplefrom a diversity of backgrounds." -- Professor Alma M. Garcia * author of Narratives of Mexican American Women *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Story of La Chicana Begins A New Invader Comes Chicanas at Work Under U.S. Rule La Revolución Mexicana Let's Go To the U.S. The Great Depression, Repatriation, Strike! World War II The Movement is Born Life of a Farmworker Woman Our Own Party No a la Guerra en Vietnam Work = Struggle VIVA LA MUJER! Mujeres who love women Walking the Red Road Culture contains the seed... Today's Writers Música, Teatro, Film, The Counter-Insurgency The Land That Came Back to Life The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice New Worker Struggles Immigrant Rights Alliance Building Across Color Lines Chicanas in Public Office Youth Are Rising Not to Be Forgotten Further Reading Photo & Illustration Credits About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Randall gives readers an inside look at her children’s education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people’s lives. Trade ReviewA moving and intimate contemplation of a key historical moment that has been relegated to the margins of political discussion in the wake of the cold war. -- Mark Behr * author of The Smell of Apples *To know Cuba, neither analyses nor statistics nor official declarations nor diatribes by its adversaries are enough. One needs eyes infused with heart, passionate eyes, with which to look at the Cuban people in their daily life. In this book Margaret Randall looks at Cuba through such eyes. -- Maria Lopez Vigil * author of Cuba: Neither Heaven Nor Hell *"Many ask if those of us who lived the Cuban revolution in flesh and spirit would wage that battle again. Margaret Randall's loving and realistic book reveals why we would. It gives us the highlights and shadows of a process that marked the 20th century like no other."THERE SHOULD BE ACUTE ACCENTs OVER THE i IN RODRIGUEZ AND OVER THE o IN CALDERON. -- Mirta Rodriguez Calderon * Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and feminist *Randall's fondness and indeed admiration for Cuba are unmistakable, especially when she's talking about the nation's systems of health care and education, a premise that will both provoke and anger some readers. Yet Randall's personal reflection on a decade in Cuba is a worthy addition to the ever growing body of literature on Cuba--past and present. -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *It is Randall's ability to make the reader a part of her daily encounters that makes her memoir so engaging. Her writing humanizes a revolution all too often stereotyped by the U.S. mainstream press. The contradictions of the Cuban revolution are illustrated movingly by incidents in a mother's daily life. To Change the World not only covers the years Randall spent in Cuba and the months leading up to them, it lays the groundwork for a considered examination of the Cuban situation today, ending the last chapter with an expansive global political and societal analysis. Randall's personal story would have been a page turner in itself, but her choice to bear witness to the larger struggle of the Cuban people at a time in history when many places in the world were engaged in the struggle for social justice makes for a riveting account that will undoubtedly stand the test of time. * National Catholic Reporter *To Change the World is a rare double opportunity: an intimate look at the Cuban Revolution from 1969 to 1980, and a fascinating portrait of the development of a historian, poet, and political thinker. * Monthly Review *To Change the World is a gripping, affective narrative by one of the most extraordinary feminists of our times--and a cautionary look at how and why the reach of revolution can fall far short of its grasp. * Women's Review of Books *Randall's prose is beautiful and she walks the reader through the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in a way no other sort of text or author could do. * A Contra Corriente *Table of ContentsScarsdale to Havana Transition Settling in Food, food, food Ten million tons of sugar and eleven fishermen A poetry contest and a beauty pageant Women and difference Information and consciousness Changing hearts, minds, and law "Poetry, like bread, is for everyone" El quinquenio gris The Sandinistas A question of power Epilogue

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that represent the range of feminist literary criticism.Trade Review"Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *"Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons." * Feminist Formations *"Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *"Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons." * Feminist Formations *Table of ContentsCanons Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" (1979) "Dancing Through the Minefield" (1980) "What Has Never Been:An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism" (1981) "Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) "Caste, Class, and Canon "(1981/87) "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989) "Introduction" from Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, Difference (1997) Readings "Introduction: On the Politics of Literature" from The Resisting Reader (1978) "The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction (1982) "Constructing the Subject, Deconstructing the Text" (1985) "Introduction" and "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986) "Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do With It?" (1986) "The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (1990) "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (2002) "Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop (1986) "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" (1987) "Me and My Shadow" (1987) "The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up" (1992) "Feminist and Ethnic Theories in Asian American Literature" (1993) "Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985, 1999) "Introduction" from En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) Bodies "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions" from Gender Trouble (1999) "Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals" (2002) "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2002) "The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence" from Having a Good Cry (2003)

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Book Synopsis No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the 'wave' metaphor for capturing the complex history of women''s rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women''s movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women''s rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women''s advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the conTrade Review"From Seneca Falls to hip-hop, this striking collection pushes us to rethink the who, what, when, where, and why of U.S. feminist history. The wide-ranging essays toss out the overly tidy generational model and replace it with complex, rich, and inclusive accounts of our feminist past. Highly recommended." -- Joanne Meyerowitz * author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States *"An important contribution to the ongoing dialogue on the meaning of feminism and its application not just within the academy, but also to a larger and more general political, social, and intellectual forum. Recommended." * Choice *"As an intellectual enterprise the book successfully established the overlapping and intertwined configurations of feminist movements from the 1840s to the present. Hewitt's book is a compelling guide to contemporary interpretations of American feminisms. Its thought-provoking essays will be especially useful in classroom distussions about historical practice." * Journal of American History *"No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference." * Signs *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming HistoriesChapter 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Chapter 2. Multiracial FeminismChapter 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency“We Have a Long, Beautiful History”Chapter 5. Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”Part II: Coming Together/Pulling ApartChapter 6. Overthrowing the “Monopoly of the Pulpit”Chapter 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on WomenChapter 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s MovementChapter 9. Rethinking Global SisterhoodChapter 10. Living a Feminist LifestyleChapter 11. Strange BedfellowsChapter 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie CulturePart III: Rethinking Agendas/Relocating ActivismChapter 13. Staking Claims to IndependenceChapter 14. “I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before”Chapter 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative ActionChapter 16. U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style!Chapter 17. “Under Construction”

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Trade Review"A Jewish Feminine Mystique? succeeds admirably in expanding scholarship on postwar American Jewish women." * Journal of American History *"Although no one volume can fill the 'gaping hole' in scholarship about Jewish women in the postwar years, the editors and contributors have made a valiant first effort. Recommended." * Choice *"A fascinating anthology. For readers who relish the joy of reading Jewish and American history, this book will be a delight." * Jewish Book World *"A marvelously fresh look at Jewish women in the post war period. This volume of collected essays deeply enriches our understanding of the varied experiences of Jewish women in the 1950s. Reading this volume will forever transform the way the reader thinks about Jewish women, female power, and the pervasive influence of gender." -- Shuly Schwartz * Jewish Theological Seminary *"A Jewish Feminine Mystique? succeeds in describing the complex roles of Jewish women in the time of Betty Friedan and the rise of the second wave feminist movement in America. This book provides a rich chorus of voices, further proving that whatever the lives of Jewish women in the American postwar period were, they weren't simple." * Lilith *"The essays in this fine collection help to revise our understanding of Jewish women and the feminine mystique. Jewish women were affected by the pervasive folk myths of the 1950s, but, like Friedan, they were hardly defined by the feminine mystique; they were too busy starting revolutions." * Hadassah Magazine *Table of ContentsSome of us were there before Betty : Jewish women and political activism in postwar Miami / Raymond A. Mohl The polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's postwar Jewish Cold War / Nancy Sinkoff Our defense against despair : the progressive politics of the national council of Jewish women after World War II / Kathleen A. Laughlin It's good Americanism to join Hadassah : selling Hadassah in the postwar era / Rebecca Boim Wolf A lady sometimes blows the shofar : women's religious equality in the postwar reconstructionist movement / Deborah Waxman Beyond the myths of mobility and altruism : Jewish immigrant professionals and Jewish social welfare agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Rebecca Kobrin Negotiating new terrain : Egyptian women at home in America / Audrey Nasar The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in postwar America / Giovanna P. Del Negro Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Mobilizing the Latina myth 2 Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line 3 Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation 4 Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race 5 Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic" 6 Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity Notes Works Cited Index

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Trade Review"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a 'smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mark on modern American culture." -- Maria DiBattista * author of Fast Talking Dames *"Keyser's book is a pleasure to read not only because it is incisive and informative, but also because the writer's own wit is everywhere apparent. Her sparkling prose, wedding style, and critical acumen shows Keyser to be an accomplished student of the writers she studies." * Clio *"It is, academically speaking, a smart book." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Keyser contributes invaluable insights into how women crafted professional and public identities in the pages of American periodicals at the turn of the twentieth century. * Legacy: A Journal of American Woman Writers *"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a 'smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mark on modern American culture." -- Maria DiBattista * author of Fast Talking Dames *"Keyser's book is a pleasure to read not only because it is incisive and informative, but also because the writer's own wit is everywhere apparent. Her sparkling prose, wedding style, and critical acumen shows Keyser to be an accomplished student of the writers she studies." * Clio *"It is, academically speaking, a smart book." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Keyser contributes invaluable insights into how women crafted professional and public identities in the pages of American periodicals at the turn of the twentieth century. * Legacy: A Journal of American Woman Writers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Thoroughly Modern Millay and Her Middlebrow Masquerades 2. "This Unfortunate Exterior": Dorothy Parker, the Female Body, and Strategic Doubling 3. "First Aid to Laughter": Jessie Fauset and the Racial Politics of Smartness 4. The Indestructible Glamour Girl: Dawn Powell, Celebrity, and Counterpublics 5. "Scratch a Socialist and You Find a Snob": Mary McCarthy, Irony, and Politics Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first full-length work to solve this puzzle based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. He identifies the lover as Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father, and portrays the broad dimensions of their clandestine thirty-year romance. Trade Review"Emily Dickinson is popularly portrayed as a recluse who shunned romance and love. As Dickinson biographer Walsh points out in this compelling tale of love and mystery, Dickinson’s only documented affair of the heart—with the elderly Otis Lord—didn’t happen until she was in her 50s, about eight years before her death. Their involvement, which began in 1877, after Lord’s wife’s death, continued for seven years until Lord’s death in 1884. The two shared a fully committed love, though they met infrequently, otherwise expressing their feelings in letters. But scholars have been faced with a mystery regarding Dickinson’s earlier love life: letters published 50 years ago reveal a romantic attachment in her 30s with an unidentified man she called 'Master.' With painstaking detective work, Walsh examines each of these letters, comparing them with Dickinson’s confessional poetry and other letters, and claims that 'Master' was Lord, who ruled Dickinson’s heart much earlier than previously known. It was at the end of the affair that Dickinson became the familiar recluse dressed in white. In appendixes, Walsh presents the text and reproductions of the 'Master letters.'" * Publishers Weekly *"The mention of Emily Dickinson's name does not generally conjure up images of a hot-blodded hussy sneaking off for steamy encounters with a married man who was old enough to be her father. But that's essentially the picture the author presents in this intriguing piece of literary detective work. The love story Walsh tells is compelling." * Foreword Reviews *"You don’t have to be a Dickinson scholar to appreciate the details of research and informed speculation revealed in Emily Dickinson in Love. A cache of letters, which appeared in the possession of a literary confidence man in the decade after Dickinson’s death, were found to be a series of intense, emotional declarations by the poet to someone she called 'Master,' with whom she had clearly been infatuated for years. At the time, the Dickinson family was convinced of their authenticity, and, indeed, there is every reason to believe that they were written by Emily Dickinson—but to whom? The author here makes a compelling argument for Otis Lord, two decades older than Emily, a distinguished judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and married. There is no evidence that the meeting of these two disparate minds ever led to anything more than a fierce emotional bond, featuring chaste meetings in Boston andat the Dickinson household. But Walsh makes a persuasive case that Judge Lord was, in fact, the Master, and finds suggestions to support his notion throughout Dickinson’s poetry." * Weekly Standard *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrologue: A Puzzlement Part I. The Unmasking1. Twenty Old Letters: A Reconstructed Episode2. The Wildest Word3. The Knee That Bore Her Once4. Oh Gaudy Heart!Part II. The Love Affair5. Hunting for the Day6. Bridal Gown7. Basking in Bethlehem8. Aetherial ThrongAcknowledgmentsAppendicesA. Mrs. Lord's DiaryB. The Master LettersC. The Last White DressNotes and SourcesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Trade Review"Raising the Race is a fascinating and original study of the lives of professional black women that contributes significantly to theorizing about women’s negotiation of family and career. Barnes expands sociological approaches to class mobility and feminist approaches to marriage, motherhood, and work by revealing how race profoundly affects the domestic strategies of these women despite their upward social mobility." -- Dorothy Roberts * author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty *"Rich in narrative power and in theoretical complexity, this important book defines the terrain for a new generation in work-family studies that moves beyond the past focus on white women." -- Joan Williams * author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It *"Barnes draws on interviews of 23 married professional mothers obtained through a snowball sample of women in the Atlanta area ... The method allows the author to fill a gap in the literature on black women’s work and family life and to challenge prevailing ideas about women’s strategies for addressing the work-family conflict ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate collections and above." * CHOICE *"Barnes's thoughtful analysis is timely and relevant for today's Black professional women and will benefit readers from a variety of levels and backgrounds" * PsycCRITIQUES *"In focusing specifically on black professional women who are also wives and mothers, Barnes makes a major contribution towards broadening sociological understandings of black families and the impacts of race across social class lines ... As a first-of-its-kind interrogation of important and timely issues, Raising the Race significantly advances our understandings of these complex social dynamics." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"An excellent, well-written work for scholars and laypersons desirous of either introductory or updated information about the lifestyles of educated and wealthy African American women." * Journal of African American History *"Raising the Race makes several strong contributions to work–family scholarship and should serve as a call to action, encouraging us to broaden our conversations about work and family to ensure that they reflect the diverse experiences of people across race, class, and gender. Building on her work, we can ask new questions, eschew simplistic understandings of work and family, and uncover the challenges faced by people based on race, class, gender, and other social statuses." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *Left of Black with Riché Barnes, interview with host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal * Left of Black *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Black Career Women and Strategic Mothering Chapter 1 The Role of Black Women in Black Family Survival Strategies Chapter 2 Black Professional Women, Careers, and Family “Choice” Chapter 3 “Just in Case He Acts Crazy”: Strategic Mothering and the Collective Memory of Black Marriage and Family Chapter 4 Enculturating the Black Professional Class Chapter 5 Black Career Women, the Black Community, and the Neo-Politics of Respectability Conclusion Epilogue: Whatever Happened To . . . Appendix Notes References Index

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Trade Review"Raising the Race is a fascinating and original study of the lives of professional black women that contributes significantly to theorizing about women’s negotiation of family and career. Barnes expands sociological approaches to class mobility and feminist approaches to marriage, motherhood, and work by revealing how race profoundly affects the domestic strategies of these women despite their upward social mobility." -- Dorothy Roberts * author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty *"Rich in narrative power and in theoretical complexity, this important book defines the terrain for a new generation in work-family studies that moves beyond the past focus on white women." -- Joan Williams * author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It *"Barnes draws on interviews of 23 married professional mothers obtained through a snowball sample of women in the Atlanta area ... The method allows the author to fill a gap in the literature on black women’s work and family life and to challenge prevailing ideas about women’s strategies for addressing the work-family conflict ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate collections and above." * CHOICE *"Barnes's thoughtful analysis is timely and relevant for today's Black professional women and will benefit readers from a variety of levels and backgrounds" * PsycCRITIQUES *"In focusing specifically on black professional women who are also wives and mothers, Barnes makes a major contribution towards broadening sociological understandings of black families and the impacts of race across social class lines ... As a first-of-its-kind interrogation of important and timely issues, Raising the Race significantly advances our understandings of these complex social dynamics." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"An excellent, well-written work for scholars and laypersons desirous of either introductory or updated information about the lifestyles of educated and wealthy African American women." * Journal of African American History *"Raising the Race makes several strong contributions to work–family scholarship and should serve as a call to action, encouraging us to broaden our conversations about work and family to ensure that they reflect the diverse experiences of people across race, class, and gender. Building on her work, we can ask new questions, eschew simplistic understandings of work and family, and uncover the challenges faced by people based on race, class, gender, and other social statuses." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *Left of Black with Riché Barnes, interview with host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal * Left of Black *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Black Career Women and Strategic Mothering Chapter 1 The Role of Black Women in Black Family Survival Strategies Chapter 2 Black Professional Women, Careers, and Family “Choice” Chapter 3 “Just in Case He Acts Crazy”: Strategic Mothering and the Collective Memory of Black Marriage and Family Chapter 4 Enculturating the Black Professional Class Chapter 5 Black Career Women, the Black Community, and the Neo-Politics of Respectability Conclusion Epilogue: Whatever Happened To . . . Appendix Notes References Index

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Trade Review“With a transatlantic approach that yields fascinating results, Layne Craig’s When Sex Changed adds nuance, new insight, and fresh ideas to previous historical and literary studies of the birth control movement.” -- Beth Widmaier Capo * author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction *"In When Sex Changed, Craig breaks new ground by establishing the transnational nature of the 'political ascendance and gradual institutionalization of birth control as a family planning model' with a well-researched history of birth control politics. She succeeds in bringing to light new meanings buried in texts well combed-over by literary scholars." * Modernism/Modernity *

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