Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, contributors address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.Trade Review“Querying Consent gathers contributions that represent a diversity of perspectives on the multi-faceted issue of consent. The collection combines updated discussions on classical controversies with cutting edge and thought-provoking new questions altogether to a timely, much needed intervention and interrogation into the field of study on consent. An intriguing anthology that challenges the reader to think further and into new directions.”— Robin Bauer, author of Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries “A welcome interdisciplinary dialogue on the limits, exclusions, and paradoxes of consent, this volume poses delightfully challenging questions in a range of idioms and contexts. What does consenting to consent as an elementary relational paradigm prevent us from doing, seeing, knowing? Querying Consent could not be more timely.”— Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking "The essays collected in Querying Consent variously call attention to situations in which what might seem to be consent could in fact be construed to as something closer to coercion--not just in sexual interactions, but in everything from software user agreements to the fine print in authorization forms for medical treatment." — Harper's MagazineTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Subject of Consent Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens Part 1: Consent, Power, and Agency Chapter 1: Consent, Command, Confession Karmen MacKendrick Chapter 2: The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste Amanda Paxton Chapter 3: Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject Jordana Greenblatt Chapter 4: Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do” Keja Valens Part 2: Consent, Violence, and Refusal Chapter 5: The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature Justine Leach Chapter 6: Willful Creatures: Consent, Response, and Animal Will in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles Kimberly O’Donnell Chapter 7: Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence Brian Martin Chapter 8:Blue is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent Caroline Godart Part 3: Consent, Personhood, and Property Chapter 9: The Art of Consent Drew Danielle Belsky Chapter 10: Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James's Aspern Papers Annie Pfeifer Chapter 11: Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity Graham Potts Chapter 12: Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes Matthias Rudolf Chapter 13: “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew Victoria Olwell Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMedia portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Karen E. H. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype in Women of Valor to identify a powerful tradition of feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in media and culture.Trade Review"Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women."— Bryan Cheyette, author of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History "Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women’s agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective."— Ranen Omer-Sherman, JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville "Orthodox Jewish women 'erased' by popular culture, research finds"— Phys.org "Skinazi's approach to the different texts and ideas she introduces in Women of Valor is nuanced and complex....Women of Valor provides a breath of fresh air, for popular audiences as well as for orthodox audiences interested in the voices of orthodox Jewish women within their culture, or on their way out."— Journal of American Studies “Skinazi’s book is a thorough and engaging examination of all the ways in which Orthodox women have been imagined in literature and American popular culture of the past few decades. In it, we see not just the complexity of the figure of the Orthodox woman, but also the varied ways people from within and outside the community have represented her. Sometimes, these depictions say more about those outside the community than about those within it.”— Jewish Journal "What Skinazi has created with this well-researched monograph is a conversation—one that Orthodox Jewish women have started with their creative works that seek to expose issues of concern as they work toward solutions. This is the first of many conversations scholars should have about representations of and by Orthodox Jewish women, turning a contemporary eye on their subject and with empathy for these women and their liberation in a creative space separate from men."— Jewish Film and New Media "This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture."— Wendy Zierler, Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College "A Window into Hasidic Life," excerpted from Women of Valor by Karen E.H. Skinazi https://www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/a-window-into-hasidic-life— Canadian Jewish News “Skinazi’s analysis demonstrates how attention to the particularities of Orthodox Jewish womanhood is crucial for the analysis of their literature. Her invitation for an analytic recalibration in Jewish American literature is timely and generative.” — MELUS "Jew in the City" interview with Karen E.H. Skinazi— Jew in the City "Finding the Women I Drew," by Alexandra Gluckman— Columbia Daily Spectator "Women of Valor makes an important contribution to the study of Orthodox women, demonstrating the diversity of experiences and voices within that population, exposing subcultures within Orthodoxy that often go unnoticed, and complicating our understanding of how these 'traditional' communities relate to modernity."— American Jewish History "Today's narratives by and about Orthodox women are an engaging, at times provocative, counterargument to the mainstream media's picture of the Gitl of the twenty-first century. They are in constant battle with that picture, often manage to reinforce it, and have not emerged as the dominant image – or images."— Sir Read A Lot "Skinazi’s work is a valuable contribution to those interested in women’s studies, religious studies, and literature."— Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature "Skinazi serves as a knowledgeable guide for both the general reader and the scholar interested in contemporary cultural production that reflects the diversity and complexity of Orthodox women’s lives."— Jewish Book Council “This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I’ve been waiting for. Skinazi’s nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives.”— Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) "The Power Beneath That Sheitel," by Karen E.H. Skinazi— Lilith "At the heart of growing fundamentalism in the charedi sector lies the fate of women. Rabbis have banned women from driving, enforced modesty patrols and gender segregation on buses, and omitted women’s faces from newspapers and magazines. Charedi women, however, have not all been sitting in silent despair, they’ve been pushing back. Karen Skinazi highlights the work that charedi women are doing today."— Jewish Renaissance "Skinazi’s research is impressive. She draws on a dizzying array of primary sources....While the prose moves apace, Skinazi skilfully balances neat plot summaries and rich character descriptions with often impassioned and witty commentary. Thus, while thoughtful, this book is also entertaining."— Journal of Contemporary ReligionTable of ContentsTable of Contents An Unorthodox Guide to Orthodox Judaism A Woman of Valor (Proverbs 31:10-31) Introduction: She Puts Her Hand to the Distaff Chapter 1: A G-d-fearing Woman, She Should Be Praised: Exposure, Dialogue, and Remedy in “Off-the-Derech” Narratives Chapter 2: A Woman of Valor Who Can Find: Crime Fiction as Primers of Orthodoxy Chapter 3: She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: This Bridge Called My Voice Chapter 4: She Senses that Her Enterprise is Good: Representations of Orthodox Businesswomen Chapter 5: She Will Be Praised at the Gates by her Very Own Deeds: The Orthodox Artist and The Fruit of Her Hands Coda: Many Daughters Have Attained Valor Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMedia portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in literature, film, and music. Trade Review"Skinazi delivers a richly insightful, sensitive, and wide-ranging exploration of religious identity, women’s agency, and autonomy, providing genuinely illuminating perspectives on both the individual and the collective." -- Ranen Omer-Sherman * JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville *"This fascinating and engaging book is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish literature and culture." -- Wendy Zierler * Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, Hebrew Union College *“This wonderfully wise, sensitive and beautifully written study is a book I’ve been waiting for. Skinazi’s nuanced rendering of Orthodox Jewish women sees them at long last dodge their popular and academic stereotypes to appear as the agents and storytellers of their own lives.” -- Devorah Baum * author of Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) *"Women of Valor is eye-opening, energetic and intellectually adventurous. Drawing on a wide range of written, pictorial and cinematic sources, it brings to life a hitherto forgotten group of women." -- Bryan Cheyette * author of Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History *"Orthodox Jewish women 'erased' by popular culture, research finds" * Phys.org *"Today's narratives by and about Orthodox women are an engaging, at times provocative, counterargument to the mainstream media's picture of the Gitl of the twenty-first century. They are in constant battle with that picture, often manage to reinforce it, and have not emerged as the dominant image – or images." * Sir Read A Lot *"Jew in the City" interview with Karen E.H. Skinazi * Jew in the City *"Skinazi serves as a knowledgeable guide for both the general reader and the scholar interested in contemporary cultural production that reflects the diversity and complexity of Orthodox women’s lives." * Jewish Book Council *"At the heart of growing fundamentalism in the charedi sector lies the fate of women. Rabbis have banned women from driving, enforced modesty patrols and gender segregation on buses, and omitted women’s faces from newspapers and magazines. Charedi women, however, have not all been sitting in silent despair, they’ve been pushing back. Karen Skinazi highlights the work that charedi women are doing today." * Jewish Renaissance *“Skinazi’s analysis demonstrates how attention to the particularities of Orthodox Jewish womanhood is crucial for the analysis of their literature. Her invitation for an analytic recalibration in Jewish American literature is timely and generative.” * MELUS *"Finding the Women I Drew," by Alexandra Gluckman * Columbia Daily Spectator *"The Power Beneath That Sheitel," by Karen E.H. Skinazi * Lilith *"A Window into Hasidic Life," excerpted from Women of Valor by Karen E.H. Skinazi https://www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/a-window-into-hasidic-life * Canadian Jewish News *"Women of Valor makes an important contribution to the study of Orthodox women, demonstrating the diversity of experiences and voices within that population, exposing subcultures within Orthodoxy that often go unnoticed, and complicating our understanding of how these 'traditional' communities relate to modernity." * American Jewish History *“Skinazi’s book is a thorough and engaging examination of all the ways in which Orthodox women have been imagined in literature and American popular culture of the past few decades. In it, we see not just the complexity of the figure of the Orthodox woman, but also the varied ways people from within and outside the community have represented her. Sometimes, these depictions say more about those outside the community than about those within it.” * Jewish Journal *"Skinazi’s research is impressive. She draws on a dizzying array of primary sources....While the prose moves apace, Skinazi skilfully balances neat plot summaries and rich character descriptions with often impassioned and witty commentary. Thus, while thoughtful, this book is also entertaining." * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"What Skinazi has created with this well-researched monograph is a conversation—one that Orthodox Jewish women have started with their creative works that seek to expose issues of concern as they work toward solutions. This is the first of many conversations scholars should have about representations of and by Orthodox Jewish women, turning a contemporary eye on their subject and with empathy for these women and their liberation in a creative space separate from men." * Jewish Film and New Media *"Skinazi's approach to the different texts and ideas she introduces in Women of Valor is nuanced and complex....Women of Valor provides a breath of fresh air, for popular audiences as well as for orthodox audiences interested in the voices of orthodox Jewish women within their culture, or on their way out." * Journal of American Studies *"Skinazi’s work is a valuable contribution to those interested in women’s studies, religious studies, and literature." * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Table of ContentsTable of Contents An Unorthodox Guide to Orthodox Judaism A Woman of Valor (Proverbs 31:10-31) Introduction: She Puts Her Hand to the Distaff Chapter 1: A G-d-fearing Woman, She Should Be Praised: Exposure, Dialogue, and Remedy in “Off-the-Derech” Narratives Chapter 2: A Woman of Valor Who Can Find: Crime Fiction as Primers of Orthodoxy Chapter 3: She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: This Bridge Called My Voice Chapter 4: She Senses that Her Enterprise is Good: Representations of Orthodox Businesswomen Chapter 5: She Will Be Praised at the Gates by her Very Own Deeds: The Orthodox Artist and The Fruit of Her Hands Coda: Many Daughters Have Attained Valor Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that in some cultures, sex and sexuality have become privatized and located in individual subjectivity rather than in public political practices and institutions. Instead, the book contends that desire is a central aspect of political culture.Trade Review"Desired States provides a groundbreaking reading of the continuities of Chilean dictatorial ideology in private and domestic spheres, as well as of the ways in which masculinities shaped the country’s politics through the 20th century. The book redefines the relationship between gender and politics in ways that are not only paradigm-shifting for the study of Chile, but also suggestive and productive for Latin Americanists at large." -- Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado * author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 *"Desired States aptly brings to focus Chilean nation-state histories of oligarchy, Catholicism, and populism through a lens of sexuality beyond the realm of individualized subjectivity. Frazier carefully stitches a composite lived archive of the grammar of gender and sexuality while analytically zooming into the affective links with the nation-state as potentially transformative, well beyond the Chilean example.” -- Valentina Napolitano * author of Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church *"Desired States ...centrally engages with Latin American insights and concerns ...[with] extensive archival and ethnographic research in Chile and a mastery of the latest theoretical advances in feminist, queer, and cultural studies. Interdisciplinary scholarship is something that we academics talk a lot about but seldom do—and rarely do well. The apparent ease and success with which Frazier manages it is truly remarkable." -- Robert Buffington * co-editor of A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era *"Frazier is absolutely right that 'the state is not just a rational policy-generating apparatus.' Desire is complicated, ludic and motile. People support politicians for complicated reasons that often have nothing at all to do with policy, and political leaders self-consciously cultivate affective ties to their constituents in ways that cannot be accounted for merely in terms of charisma. How female political leaders pull this off presents interesting analytical challenges." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Introduction 1 Desiring the Working Class: A Spanish Feminist, a Bishop, an Oligarchic State, and Worker Sexuality, circa 1913 2 Desiring the Patriarchal State through Military Discipline in Cold War Prison Camps, 1947 and 1973 3 Sex and the New Man in Socialist Revolution: Ideologies and Practices, circa 1973 4 Gendered Erotics in the Space of Death: From Military Dictatorship to Civilian Market-State, circa 1999 Epilogue and Conclusion: The Desire to Govern and the Governing of Desire Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death.Trade Review"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings. Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice." -- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings. Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice." -- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Providing Abortion CarePart 1 Providers1 A NarrativeMorris Turner2 Being an AbortionistMarc Heller3 Establishing Abortion CounselingTerry BeresfordPart 2 Clinics4 Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile ClimateAmy Hagstrom Miller5 Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a TimeRenee ChelianPart 3 Conscience6 From Conscience Clauses to Conscience WarsSara Dubow7 Abortion as an Act of ConscienceCurtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd8 The Meaning of Viability in Abortion CareShelley Sella9 Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion ProvidersLisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. HarrisPart 4 The Fetus10 How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal InterpretationsShannon K. Withycombe11 A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue ResearchThomas V. Cunningham12 Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal CareJohn Colin PartridgeNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisBrings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death.Trade Review"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings. Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice." -- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings. Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice." -- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Providing Abortion CarePart 1 Providers1 A NarrativeMorris Turner2 Being an AbortionistMarc Heller3 Establishing Abortion CounselingTerry BeresfordPart 2 Clinics4 Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile ClimateAmy Hagstrom Miller5 Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a TimeRenee ChelianPart 3 Conscience6 From Conscience Clauses to Conscience WarsSara Dubow7 Abortion as an Act of ConscienceCurtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd8 The Meaning of Viability in Abortion CareShelley Sella9 Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion ProvidersLisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. HarrisPart 4 The Fetus10 How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal InterpretationsShannon K. Withycombe11 A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue ResearchThomas V. Cunningham12 Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal CareJohn Colin PartridgeNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. The book focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead. It draws heavily on the experiences of twenty anthropologists interviewed by Virginia Dominguez and Brigittine French.Trade Review"This important collection of conversations with anthropologists from all parts of the discipline provides a frank and revealing picture of what it really means to pursue an anthropological life. It illustrates not just what Dominguez and French call the 'spaciousness of the discipline', but also what connects us across all the radically different applications of anthropology. Anthropological Lives should be required reading for students in the field, and for those us already established in our careers, it feels like an affirmation." -- Adam Kaul * co-editor of Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying *“Lively, thought-provoking, and grounded in the lives and practices of twenty contemporary anthropologists, Anthropological Lives provides a rich and textured account of the field today. Dominguez and French have shaped an engaging and subtle account, one charting multiple sensibilities, orientations, and intellectual trajectories with insight and panache. A distinctive and stimulating work, one that conveys a remarkable feeling for the profession and its possibilities.” -- Donald Brenneis * co-editor of The Matrix of Language *"This important collection of conversations with anthropologists from all parts of the discipline provides a frank and revealing picture of what it really means to pursue an anthropological life. It illustrates not just what Dominguez and French call the 'spaciousness of the discipline', but also what connects us across all the radically different applications of anthropology. Anthropological Lives should be required reading for students in the field, and for those us already established in our careers, it feels like an affirmation." -- Adam Kaul * co-editor of Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying *“Lively, thought-provoking, and grounded in the lives and practices of twenty contemporary anthropologists, Anthropological Lives provides a rich and textured account of the field today. Dominguez and French have shaped an engaging and subtle account, one charting multiple sensibilities, orientations, and intellectual trajectories with insight and panache. A distinctive and stimulating work, one that conveys a remarkable feeling for the profession and its possibilities.” -- Donald Brenneis * co-editor of The Matrix of Language *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Profession of Anthropology and What it Means to Be an Anthropologist 2 First Encounters with Anthropology and Its Attractions 3 Anthropology as a Choice and a Profession 4 Anthropologists' Work, Locations, Institutions, and Successes 5 Anthropologists' Passions, Challenges, and Frustrations 6 Thinking like/with Anthropologists 7 Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Anthropologists Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. The book focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead. It draws heavily on the experiences of twenty anthropologists interviewed by Virginia Dominguez and Brigittine French.Trade Review"This important collection of conversations with anthropologists from all parts of the discipline provides a frank and revealing picture of what it really means to pursue an anthropological life. It illustrates not just what Dominguez and French call the 'spaciousness of the discipline', but also what connects us across all the radically different applications of anthropology. Anthropological Lives should be required reading for students in the field, and for those us already established in our careers, it feels like an affirmation." -- Adam Kaul * co-editor of Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying *“Lively, thought-provoking, and grounded in the lives and practices of twenty contemporary anthropologists, Anthropological Lives provides a rich and textured account of the field today. Dominguez and French have shaped an engaging and subtle account, one charting multiple sensibilities, orientations, and intellectual trajectories with insight and panache. A distinctive and stimulating work, one that conveys a remarkable feeling for the profession and its possibilities.” -- Donald Brenneis * co-editor of The Matrix of Language *"This important collection of conversations with anthropologists from all parts of the discipline provides a frank and revealing picture of what it really means to pursue an anthropological life. It illustrates not just what Dominguez and French call the 'spaciousness of the discipline', but also what connects us across all the radically different applications of anthropology. Anthropological Lives should be required reading for students in the field, and for those us already established in our careers, it feels like an affirmation." -- Adam Kaul * co-editor of Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying *“Lively, thought-provoking, and grounded in the lives and practices of twenty contemporary anthropologists, Anthropological Lives provides a rich and textured account of the field today. Dominguez and French have shaped an engaging and subtle account, one charting multiple sensibilities, orientations, and intellectual trajectories with insight and panache. A distinctive and stimulating work, one that conveys a remarkable feeling for the profession and its possibilities.” -- Donald Brenneis * co-editor of The Matrix of Language *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Profession of Anthropology and What it Means to Be an Anthropologist 2 First Encounters with Anthropology and Its Attractions 3 Anthropology as a Choice and a Profession 4 Anthropologists' Work, Locations, Institutions, and Successes 5 Anthropologists' Passions, Challenges, and Frustrations 6 Thinking like/with Anthropologists 7 Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Anthropologists Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTakes a long view on the figure of the femme fatale, exploring her style, language, and stories from silent cinema to contemporary television. Julie Grossman explores the notions of female ambition, frustration, and intelligence that undergird the power and fascination of the femme fatale across time and media.Trade Review"In this lively and engaging book, Julie Grossman elegantly traces the long tradition of the femme fatale figure in film, television and popular culture. She deftly analyses a diverse range of characters, from Theda Bara’s vamp in early Hollywood, the hard-boiled dames of classic Film Noir, to the complex and vibrant Villanelle in contemporary television’s Killing Eve. Grossman persuasively illustrates the centrality of role performance to these femme fatale figures, and establishes performance as a key mode by which they resist inequalities in social structures. This book provides both a history of how women have been represented, and a compelling case for the relevance of the femme fatale to contemporary debates on gender politics." — Helen Hanson, author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film "A fascinating exploration of Hollywood’s most notorious female that goes beyond film noir. With a focus on the performance of gender as subversive and empowered, Grossman illuminates over a century of femme fatales from silent cinema’s 'Vamp' Theda Bara to television’s Killing Eve."— Philippa Gates, author of Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective FilmTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 “Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck’s “Baby Face”: Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp” 2 Wartime and Postwar Film Noir, Neo-Noir, and the Femme Fatale 3 Tracy Flick, and Television’s Unruly Women Acknowledgements Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers readers a concise look at over a century of femmes fatales on both the silver screen and the TV screen, from Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck to Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, considering how this figure embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward female ambition, independence, and sexuality.Trade Review"A fascinating exploration of Hollywood’s most notorious female that goes beyond film noir. With a focus on the performance of gender as subversive and empowered, Grossman illuminates over a century of femme fatales from silent cinema’s 'Vamp' Theda Bara to television’s Killing Eve." -- Philippa Gates * author of Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film *"In this lively and engaging book, Julie Grossman elegantly traces the long tradition of the femme fatale figure in film, television and popular culture. She deftly analyses a diverse range of characters, from Theda Bara’s vamp in early Hollywood, the hard-boiled dames of classic Film Noir, to the complex and vibrant Villanelle in contemporary television’s Killing Eve. Grossman persuasively illustrates the centrality of role performance to these femme fatale figures, and establishes performance as a key mode by which they resist inequalities in social structures. This book provides both a history of how women have been represented, and a compelling case for the relevance of the femme fatale to contemporary debates on gender politics." -- Helen Hanson * author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 “Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck’s “Baby Face”: Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp” 2 Wartime and Postwar Film Noir, Neo-Noir, and the Femme Fatale 3 Tracy Flick, and Television’s Unruly Women Acknowledgements Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisNow that gender reassignment has become much more commonplace, many people are ready to finally undergo the procedures they have always secretly wanted. Dr. Anne Koch describes the step by step procedures that she underwent, and shares the impact on her personal life, in order to show seniors the benefits and challenges of transitioning.Trade Review"Bravo to Dr. Anne Koch! It Never Goes Away is a must-read that is filled with both words of wisdom and lots of practical information for a journey that many persons are now pursuing or will embark on some day. As a role model and humanitarian, Dr. Koch has produced an important example for families and friends who are supporting loved ones on their gender affirmation journey." -- Gloria Bachmann * Director of Women's Health Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School *“Dr. Koch shares an authentic, informative, and up to date compelling personal narrative. With passion, innovation, and sharp attention to detail, she provides a formative roadmap for how to meet the needs of anyone considering a transition later in life. This is a must read for the Trans community and their allies.” -- Sheila Nutt * Director, Educational Outreach Programs, Harvard Medical School *"Dr. Annie Koch has devoted much of her professional life to teaching others. In this revealing and personal account of her remarkable life she continues to inspire and encourages each of us to be true to ourselves; it's never too late. I've been fortunate to know Annie personally and anyone who reads her story will never forget her!" -- Jeffrey Spiegel, MD, FACS * The Spiegel Center, Newton, MA *"Dr. Anne Koch presents a compelling narrative of her later-in-life transition, skillfully weaving together experiences drawn from her professional and personal life. She adds an important voice to the literature on transgender health that will move health systems to continually improve care in this area." -- Jenny Siegel, MD * Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center *“It Never Goes Away is a riveting story about the gender transition journey of Dr. Anne Koch, a leading practitioner and educator in dental medicine. Her gentle but necessarily didactic story succeeds in unmasking the stigma faced so long by transgender people. The book “shines light” on one of the biggest problems in transgender medicine—that there is no continuity of care by many healthcare providers, with an exception of a few large gender centers and institutions. It Never Goes Away will become a core reading in educational programs at schools of medicine in the United States and Canada.” -- Lisa McBride * Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, TCU and UNTHS School of Medicine *"I finished this book in one sitting! It's a must-read for all healthcare practitioners....A very open and revealing work that will help everyone understand the struggles of transgender people and will be an indispensable tool for persons contemplating transition, since even complex medical concepts are explained clearly. Annie's story shows that even when transition happens late in life, the best years may still be ahead if you have the courage to face them." -- Amelia Guzman * Chair of Education, Philippine Nurses Association of America *"This is a must-read that is filled with both words of wisdom and lots of practical information for a journey that until recently was a thought that many times remained unfulfilled. Dr. Koch is a role model and humanitarian and provides us with an important example for families and friends who support their loved ones on their gender affirmation journey. Not only is this filled with information, it is authentic and a compelling personal narrative that is written with passion. It is written from the heart, revealing and inspirational." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface – It Never Goes Away Chapter 1 – The Early Years Chapter 2 – Dental School and the Professional Years Chapter 3 – My First Step: Facial Feminization Surgery Chapter 4 – Gender Reassignment Surgery Chapter 5 – My Observation on The Gender Reassignment Surgery Process Chapter 6 – The Role of Therapy Chapter 7 – Beginning the Transition Process Chapter 8 – Further Impressions from My Gender Transition Chapter 9 – Reality, Myths, and the Future of Transgender Health Care Chapter 10 – Would I Do It Again? Regrets and Mistakes I Made Chapter 11 – Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisExplores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research.Trade Review"Human rights scholars and activists will plumb this rich text for insights into the limitations of our legalistic understanding of human rights. Psychologists will find inspiration in the curative aspects of indigenous practices. Researchers will reevaluate how to conduct feminist, postcolonial PAR work. Feminists will rethink our work on identity and activism. And all of us will reach a fuller understanding of the human capacity for resistance and recovery from gross injustices and atrocities."— Psychology of Women Quarterly "New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-d-crosby-and-m-b-lykes-in-beyond-repair-mayan-womens-protagonism-in-the-aftermath-of-genocidal-harm-rutgers-up-2019/— New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies "Crosby and Lykes offer readers a unique opportunity to hear the voices of Mayan women who come together around pain and justice, and to learn about their mixed emotions and their experiences of poverty, peril, fear, and resiliency."— Journal of Community Psychology "Extremely persuasive and admirably clear, Beyond Repair? emphasizes the need to analyze gender violence through the historical lens of colonialized racial violence and underlines the centrality of the justice constructions and engagements of Mayan women."— Rachel Sieder, editor of Demanding Justice and Security in Latin America "This deeply researched book follows Mayan women as they search for justice in the aftermath of sexual violence. Using feminist participatory research methods, the authors attend to both suffering and protagonism."— Kimberly Theidon, author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru "Highly recommended."— Choice "Beyond Repair presents a valuable framework in which to understand how broader legal mechanisms can be deployed within transitional justice and human rights approaches."— Human Rights QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Documenting Protagonism: “I can fly with large wings” 2 Recounting Protagonism: “No one can take this thorn from my soul” 3 Judicializing Protagonism: “What will the law say?” 4 Repairing Protagonism: “Carrying a heavy load” 5 Accompanying Protagonism: “Facing two directions” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research.Trade Review"Extremely persuasive and admirably clear, Beyond Repair? emphasizes the need to analyze gender violence through the historical lens of colonialized racial violence and underlines the centrality of the justice constructions and engagements of Mayan women." -- Rachel Sieder * editor of Demanding Justice and Security in Latin America *"This deeply researched book follows Mayan women as they search for justice in the aftermath of sexual violence. Using feminist participatory research methods, the authors attend to both suffering and protagonism." -- Kimberly Theidon * author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-d-crosby-and-m-b-lykes-in-beyond-repair-mayan-womens-protagonism-in-the-aftermath-of-genocidal-harm-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies *"Human rights scholars and activists will plumb this rich text for insights into the limitations of our legalistic understanding of human rights. Psychologists will find inspiration in the curative aspects of indigenous practices. Researchers will reevaluate how to conduct feminist, postcolonial PAR work. Feminists will rethink our work on identity and activism. And all of us will reach a fuller understanding of the human capacity for resistance and recovery from gross injustices and atrocities." * Psychology of Women Quarterly *"Crosby and Lykes offer readers a unique opportunity to hear the voices of Mayan women who come together around pain and justice, and to learn about their mixed emotions and their experiences of poverty, peril, fear, and resiliency." * Journal of Community Psychology *"Beyond Repair presents a valuable framework in which to understand how broader legal mechanisms can be deployed within transitional justice and human rights approaches." * Human Rights Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Documenting Protagonism: “I can fly with large wings” 2 Recounting Protagonism: “No one can take this thorn from my soul” 3 Judicializing Protagonism: “What will the law say?” 4 Repairing Protagonism: “Carrying a heavy load” 5 Accompanying Protagonism: “Facing two directions” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEstye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.Trade Review"In The End of International Adoption, Estye Fenton brings us an eagerly awaited examination of the experiences of parents who adopted their children internationally in the last decade. This cohort of adoptive parents entered adoption during a time of both dramatically declining numbers of international placements and increasing public critique of this route to family formation. Timely and relevant, Fenton’s monograph is a welcome addition to the scholarship on international adoption and contemporary families." -- Heather Jacobson * author of Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies *“This book tells a compelling, nuanced story about the changing contemporary landscape of international adoption. A must read for anyone interested in understanding modern American family life.” -- Leslie Wang * author of Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 3: “We’re on the Market Again” Chapter 4: Parental Anxiety and Interwoven Decision-Making Surrounding Race, Health, and “Fitness” Chapter 5: Murky Truths and Double-Binds Chapter 6: The Reproductive Politics of International Adoption Appendix: Methods and Sample Characteristics Participant Biographies References

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Book SynopsisEstye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.Trade Review"In The End of International Adoption, Estye Fenton brings us an eagerly awaited examination of the experiences of parents who adopted their children internationally in the last decade. This cohort of adoptive parents entered adoption during a time of both dramatically declining numbers of international placements and increasing public critique of this route to family formation. Timely and relevant, Fenton’s monograph is a welcome addition to the scholarship on international adoption and contemporary families." -- Heather Jacobson * author of Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies *“This book tells a compelling, nuanced story about the changing contemporary landscape of international adoption. A must read for anyone interested in understanding modern American family life.” -- Leslie Wang * author of Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 3: “We’re on the Market Again” Chapter 4: Parental Anxiety and Interwoven Decision-Making Surrounding Race, Health, and “Fitness” Chapter 5: Murky Truths and Double-Binds Chapter 6: The Reproductive Politics of International Adoption Appendix: Methods and Sample Characteristics Participant Biographies References

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Book SynopsisCombining biographical material with theoretical readings of poems, Angela Leighton offers a reinterpretation not only of some original and intriguing literature, but also of the very canon of Victorian poetry. Impressive in scope and highly original in its aims, this study will serve as the main critical work in this area for many years to come.

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Trade Review“Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies brims with memorable characters and offers an easily accessible introduction to a war that deserves to be better remembered, as well as a consideration of the place of gender and women within it.” —Amy S. Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University

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Book SynopsisIn this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women’s voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic society, and political ideology and policy in the political arena, to provide a definitive take on white women and political culture in the Confederacy.

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Book SynopsisIn this important and original work, Kristen Brill weaves together individual women’s voices in the private sphere, collective organisations in civic society, and political ideology and policy in the political arena, to provide a definitive take on white women and political culture in the Confederacy.

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Book SynopsisExamines the impact of Revolutionary-era women on the outcomes of the war and its subsequent narrative tradition, from popular perception to academic treatment. The contributors show how women navigated a country at war, directly affected the war’s result, and influenced the foundational historical record left in its wake.

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Book SynopsisExplores Sports Illustrated‘s treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine’s founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which the magazine engaged with the social and cultural changes affecting women’s athletics and the conversations about gender and identity they spawned.Trade Review“Gracefully written, brilliantly argued, thematically coherent, and a real pleasure to read.” - Derek Catsam, The University of Texas, Permian Basin, author of Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement“In Skimpy Coverage, Bonnie M. Hagerman goes beyond the obvious debate--what the SI swimsuit issue means in the context of a magazine about sports--and delves into a deeper, and more interesting question, which is how SI’s coverage of swimsuit supermodels relates to its coverage of female athletes. Whatever one thinks of the swimsuit issue, it’s clear that it shouldn’t have had any influence on how the magazine covered the steadily growing role of women in American spectator sports. And yet, maddeningly, it did. That’s the compelling story being told here.” - Michael MacCambridge, author of The Franchise: A History Of Sports Illustrated MagazineTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "How It All Began" 1. "The Big F" 2. "Girls Like That" 3. "An Odd Way to Even Things Up" 4. "The Frailty Myth" 5. "The Olympic Ideal" 6. "A League of Their Own" Conclusion: "A Pretty Girl on the Cover"

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Book SynopsisExplores Sports Illustrated‘s treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine’s founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which the magazine engaged with the social and cultural changes affecting women’s athletics and the conversations about gender and identity they spawned.Trade Review“Gracefully written, brilliantly argued, thematically coherent, and a real pleasure to read.” - Derek Catsam, The University of Texas, Permian Basin, author of Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement“In Skimpy Coverage, Bonnie M. Hagerman goes beyond the obvious debate--what the SI swimsuit issue means in the context of a magazine about sports--and delves into a deeper, and more interesting question, which is how SI’s coverage of swimsuit supermodels relates to its coverage of female athletes. Whatever one thinks of the swimsuit issue, it’s clear that it shouldn’t have had any influence on how the magazine covered the steadily growing role of women in American spectator sports. And yet, maddeningly, it did. That’s the compelling story being told here.” - Michael MacCambridge, author of The Franchise: A History Of Sports Illustrated MagazineTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "How It All Began" 1. "The Big F" 2. "Girls Like That" 3. "An Odd Way to Even Things Up" 4. "The Frailty Myth" 5. "The Olympic Ideal" 6. "A League of Their Own" Conclusion: "A Pretty Girl on the Cover"

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Book SynopsisBy focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the American Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights.Trade Review“Cynthia Kierner gives us the mesmerizing story of Jane Spurgin, an abandoned wife in the Carolina backcountry who could have appealed for sympathy but instead defied centuries of patriarchal precedent by demanding the 'common rights of other citizens.' More broadly, The Tory’s Wife persuades even a skeptic like me that the American Revolution’s influence on nominally-free women was positive and powerful.” - Woody Holton, University of South Carolina, author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution“Can focusing on an obscure North Carolina woman provide novel insights into the American Revolution? In a study of Jane Welborn Spurgin and her family, Cynthia Kierner answers that question with an emphatic yes! Thoroughly researched and well written, this engaging narrative brings to life the Spurgins' experiences amid the chaos of backcountry warfare--and reveals the untiring efforts of the indomitable Jane to claim her rights as a citizen of the new republic.” - Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University, author of Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American WomenTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Woman on the Verge 1. Settling the Backcountry 2. An Enemy to His Country 3. William's War 4. Jane's World 5. The Tory's Wife 6. The Common Rights of Other Citizens Postscript: Remembering the Revolution

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Trade ReviewA thoughtful and well documented account . . . written in a straightforward and accessible style." —American Journal of Philology"A pioneering single survey of one ancient society." —The Classical Review

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the experiences of religious women who participated in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, this book explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist community.

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Book SynopsisConcrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a 'concrete box,' which, unlike the 'glass ceiling' of the liberal feminist discourse, is multi-dimensional and harder to break free from.As the stories unfold, the reader is introduced to the unique paths developed by each of five women in order to keep their families and commuity together in the face of the stigmatic and hegemonic narratives of Israelis who seldom set foot in their social and geographic periphery. Motzafi-Haller's ethnography includes the daily struggles of Nurit, a single mother with a drug-addicted partner, in her attempt to make ends meet

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Book SynopsisArgues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with embodied memory: the way the body materializes memory. This book investigates how memory manifests in the drawn shape of the body as an expression of the weight of personal and collective histories.

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Book SynopsisMore than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands - along with her close friend Susan B Anthony - as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. This title reintroduces, contextualizes, and critiques Stanton's numerous contributions to modern thought.Trade ReviewI picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe;with a new appreciation of Stantons brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America. -- Lynn Sherr * ABC News *It is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations of some of our leading historians and writers. -- Linda K. Kerber,author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of CitizenshipThe editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stantons ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large. * Feminist Review *The selected documents give a taste of Stantons often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stantons role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Candida SmithPart I The Essays1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Long View 2 Missed Connections: Abolitionist Feminism in the Nineteenth Century 3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill, and the Nature of Feminist Thought 4 Stanton on Self and Community5 "The Pivot of the Marriage Relation": Stanton's Analysis of Women's Subordination in Marriage 6 "Free Woman Is a Divine Being, the Savior of Mankind": Stanton's Exploration of Religion and Gender 7 Stanton and the Right to Vote: On Account of Race or Sex 8 "Lower Orders," Racial Hierarchies, and Rights Rhetoric: Evolutionary Echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Thought during the Late 1860s Part II A Selection of Speeches, Articles, and Essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,1854-1901About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAn important work documenting how the criminal justice system polices women''s reproductive capacityThe intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices such as shackling during labor and poor prenatal care. And decades after Roe, the criminalization of certain procedures and regulation of abortion providers still obstruct women's access to safe and private abortions.In this important work, JeTrade ReviewBolstered by quotes and firsthand accounts, Flavin delivers eye-opening reports on topics including abortion rights, infant abandonment and battered women, detailing little-noticed or taken-for-granted policies that restrict and remand women. Written in a flowing academic style, Flavins attention to historical detail and unfailing moral compass make her progressive reexamination of womens rights thorough and convincing. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *In Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Flavin traces the life-and-death power that the little-examined patriarchal assumptions informing our common life can haveespecially among poor, nonwhite women. Flavin . . . supplies a sobering primer on the laws and social constraints that keep women from fully controlling their bodies. The case studies she surveys in Our Bodies, Our Crimes make it painfully clear that the freedom to decide how and when to reproduce is, for a huge swath of American women, just as important as the much more fervidly discussed question of how and when women can choose not to reproduce. * Bookforum *Flavin's book shows how American women, especially those who are poor or incarcerated, face societal pressure, stigma and even legal procedures in attempts to force them to become the "right" kind of mothersif they are deemed worthy of motherhood at all. * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *Highly recommended. * Choice *Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Jeanne Flavins thorough examination of the criminalization of female reproduction in America, is dense yet provocative. * make/shift *At last, a book that recognizes that reproductive rights encompass more than abortion rights. Our Bodies, Our Crimes covers all of the essential and highly controversial topics regarding the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice. -- Claire M. Renzetti,co-author of Women, Men, and SocietyOur Bodies, Our Crimes is a beautifully written and well researched book that makes an original and important contribution to the emerging social science literature on reproductive politics. I strongly recommend it. -- Carole Joffe,author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v WadeOur Bodies, Our Crimes is one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Flavins writing is exquisite and her documentation is careful and thorough. Whether informing the reader about reproductive freedom, battered women, or incarcerated women, she does so even-handedly and ably captures the complexities and depravities that real women and girls encounter every day in this country. Flavin draws on high profile cases, unknown cases, laws, policies, history, criminology research and much more to explain how her cases are decided by race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her book will help students, legal professionals, gender and legal scholars, and lay people to understand the common themes and threads of violence against women and girls and the sexism, racism, and classism in labeling girls and women deviant and criminals. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeIlluminates the dark corners of a public polity that holds pregnant women accountable for all aspects and outcomes of their reproduction without offering the compassion, education, or control necessary to produce happy endingsor beginnings. -- Jennifer Reich,author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare SystemTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Beginning 1 "Race Criminals": Reproductive Rights in America Part II Begetting 2 "Breeders": The Right to Procreate 3 "Back-Alley Butchers": Terminating Pregnancies 4 "Baby-Killers": Neonaticide and Infant Abandonment Part III Bearing 5 "Innocent Preborn Victims": Fetal Protectionism and Pregnant Women 6 "Liars and Whiners": Incarcerated Women's Right to Reproductive HealthPart IV Mothering 7 "Bad Mothers": Incarcerated Women's Ties to Their Children 8 "Asking for It": Battered Women and Child Custody Conclusion: Being Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis"A fascinating account of the extraordinary life of W. E. B. Du Bois's widow: a complex, creative woman who lived a colorful, meaningful life." (Essence) "Horne is the first biographer to grant Shirley Graham Du Bois her due." (Boston Globe)Trade ReviewHorne is the first biographer to grant Shirley Graham Du Bois her due. * Boston Globe *Horne's writing handsomely communicates the artistic, political and social climate of the world that created the multidimensional Graham Du Bois... You will not want to put it down. * Black Issues Book Review *A fascinating account of the extraordinary life of W. E. B. Du Bois's widow: a complex, creative woman who lived a colorful, meaningful life. * Essence *Gerald Horne has brought a wealth of detail and insight to the life of Shirley Graham Du Bois, a writer and activist as significant in her own right as for her long and vital companionship with W. E. B. Du Bois. -- David Levering Lewis,Pulitzer Prize winner and author of W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963Gerald Horne rescues Shirley Graham Du Bois from historical obscurity and from the shadow of her husband. * The Women's Review of Books *Table of Contentsl Family 2 On Her Journey Now 3 The Middle of Her Journey 4 Crossroads 5 Shirley Graham Du Bois 6 Home 7 On the Road Again 8 Mother, Africa 9 Detour l0 Black, to the Left l l The End of Her Journey

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Book SynopsisExplores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalitiesTrade ReviewKarim’s sensitive ethnographic work and well-written analysis provide engaging insights into the lives of contemporary American Muslim women. . . . [and] flow beautifully to its thoughtful conclusion. -- Karen Isaksen Leonard,author of Muslims in the United States: The State of ResearchAmerican Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah by Spelman College Professor of Religious Studies Jamillah Karim is a welcome departure from the usual portrayals of Muslim women in the U.S. as victims of their religion. * Color Lines *Jamillah Karims new book, American Muslim Women, is an insightful, well-written examination of the space where religion and race intersect in America. Implementing adept ethnographic skills to conduct interviews in two cities across the tangible ethnic boundaries between Sout hAsian and African American Muslims, Karim provides insight into the complexities and tensions within the Muslim ummah, or community. * Journal Of Middle East Women’s Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 African American and Immigrant Relations: Between Inequality and Global Flows 2 Race, Class, and Residence in the Chicago Ummah: Ethnic Muslim Spaces and American Muslim Discourses 3 Across Ethnic Boundaries: Women's Movement and Resistance in the Chicago Ummah 4 Negotiating an American Muslim Identity after September 11: Second-Generation Muslim Women in Chicago 5 Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques 6 Negotiating Sisterhood, Gender, and Generation: Friendship between Second-Generation South Asian American and African American Muslim Women Conclusion Notes Bibliography Glossary Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that no history of the birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presenceTrade Review"By illuminating Jewish women's contributions to mainstream social and political activism, the book fills an important scholarly gap . . . Klapper's work provides a window onto the broader topography of turn-of-the-century progressive reform. This variegated lens on the way gender and ethnicity inflected Jewish women's progressive reform stands as a major contribution to the historical record, providing a compelling view on a broad constellation of activist foci and the manifold ways in which they were connected ideologically. That Klapper contextualizes her stories of individual activists with rich big-picture analysis makes this book an excellent choice for teaching. . . . The author ultimately provides an eloquent and detailed set of answers no only to the question, 'what's Jewish about American Jewish women's activism?' but also 'how are struggles for social justice forged in the politics of identity?' In other words, Klapper provides yet more eloquent historical proof that the personal has always been political." -- Caroline Light * H-Net Reviews *"Highly recommended." -- R.C. Cottrell * CHOICE *"In this illuminating account of campaigns for social justice, Melissa Klapper takes an important cohort of Jewish women and shows us how Jewishness mattered to their activism as well as how their activism influenced the world they lived in. This book provides the best explanation I have yet encountered for the more recent involvement of Jews in the social movements of the 1960s. It is a wonderful and inspiring read." -- Alice Kessler-Harris,author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman"In this lucid and compelling narrative, Klapper captures both the personal dedication of individual women and the broad sweep of Jewish womens activism. By illuminating the complex activist identities and organizations forged by Jewish women in the early twentieth century, this book requires future scholars of feminism to engage more fully with ethnicity and religion and Jewish historians to incorporate more fully womens experiences." -- Nancy A. Hewitt,author of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism"Klapper . . . conducted her research across the country, accessing primary sources such as Jewish newspapers, National Council of Jewish Women meeting minutes, letters and diaries. The result is the stories of many impassioned, educated and influential women who helped shape the early social and political movements." -- Melissa Gerr * Baltimore Jewish Times *"Klapper paints a vivid picture of the activists involved in several social reform movements. Hers is a well-researched, finely textured, and significant contribution to our understanding of how the categories of 'Jewish' and 'woman' animated American activism." -- Marc Dollinger * American Historical Review *"Klapper's work on the Jewish women who organized and helped fund the fight for suffrage, established birth control clinics in immigrant neighborhoods, and played a key role in the international peace movement is an example of the kind of careful scholarship that is needed to correct the imbalances in both Jewish and women's history." -- Ellen R. Rothman * Jewish Women's Archive *"Melissa Klapper has made an outstanding contribution to a history that we thought we knew well, of some of the great women's struggles of the early twentieth century suffrage, peace, and birth control. However, she has changed that history by focusing on Jewish women's important participation in them. We learn not only of their contribution, but the antisemitism they encountered. Her analysis is nuanced and represents the very best of what women's history does, to understand the complexity of identity as women struggled to become citizens and political actors in the United States. This is a remarkable book." -- Riv-Ellen Prell,Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota"Melissa R. Klapper provides a wonderful overview of Jewish involvement in three major early twentieth-century women's movements. She illuminates the struggle those activists faced in negotiating their Jewishness within female-led organizations, places where they not infrequently encountered anti-Semitism. Klapper contributes a much-needed focus on the influence played by religion, other than Protestantism, on American women's activism.-," -- Mary McCune * The Journal of American History *"While the names Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem have become synonymous with second-wave feminism, the role of Jewish women in earlier feminist causes has gone largely unrecognized. With her new book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940, Melissa R. Klapper, a history professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, is trying to change that, bringing to light the outsize role Jewish women played in the suffrage, birth control and peace movements.-," -- Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil * Moment Magazine *"Klapper writes to restore Jewish women to their rightful place in these histories as well as to insert women's activism into the panorama of American Jewish life. . . . This book is an opening, a gift, an invitation, and anyone who writes on these subjects after her owes the author a massive debt of gratitude for the map she has drawn." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"In this important volume, Melissa Klapper introduces readers to an overlooked generation of Jewish women and the causes they championed, particularly in the interwar eramost notably suffrage, access to birth control, and the international peace movement." * Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 *"[The] recent book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940, explore[s] the lives of those who focused on the great women's movements of the early 20th century: suffrage, birth control, and peace." * Jewish Exponent *"[The] strength of this book lies in the individual stories that Klapper unearths. Painstakingly researched, Klapper draws on a tremendous number of primary sources, published and nonpublished." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Carefully footnoted and with an extensive bibliography, this book will educate and enlighten readers looking for a detailed disquisition on a thought-provoking topic…Its consistently well-researched facts are analyzed into a set of cogent conclusions about the primacy of Jewish women in both social and political causes, and it is eminently readable." * Jewish Book Council *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of Organization Names Introduction 1 "We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested in Our New Citizenship": American Jewish Women and the Suffrage Movement 2 "I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children": The American Jewish Community and the Early Years of the Birth Control Movement 3 "We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace": Jewish Women, Peace Activism, and Acculturation 4 "They Have Been the Pioneers": American Jewish Women and the Mainstreaming of Birth Control 5 "Where the Yellow Star Is": American Jewish Women, the Peace Movement, and Jewish Identity during the 1930s and World War II Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills AwardDraws a vivid picture of the race and gender inequalities that harm young African American women in poor urban communities Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young men, but less is said about the harsh realities for African American young women in disadvantaged communities. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not uncommon experiences. In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents a compelling picture of this dire social problem and explores how inextricably, and tragically, linked violence is to their daily lives in poor urban neighborhoods.Drawing from richly textured interviews with adolescent girls and boys, Miller brings a keenTrade ReviewThe result of Millers information lode is a sometimes uplifting book. It is possible for government and private-sector programs to alleviate the violence against females, Miller believes—but not if those in charge lack the will and refuse to allocate the resources. * St. Louis Post Dispatch *It offers an in-depth examination of how class, race, gender, and educational inequalities place young African American girls in positions of powerlessness as they navigate an urban terrain that glorifies patriarchy and machismo. Getting Played is an eye-opening, emotional roller coaster that will capture your attention and heart from the first page. * The Journal of African American History *Millers analysis is spot-on and sensitive, illuminating the oft overseen effects and workings of privilege. * Feminist Review *Millers analysis is spot-on and sensitive, illuminating the oft overseen effects and workings of privilege . . . she does a great job at showing how large societal forces have very real, individual, and private consequences. * Feminist Review *Getting Played shows powerfully how gender, class, and race inequality expose girls in disadvantaged urban communities to violent and sexual victimization, both in neighborhoods and in schools. Miller expertly analyzes how extreme social and economic disadvantage combine with pervasive normative codes to create a context in which girls face high risks of victimization at the hands of boys and men. Getting Played is masterful. -- Karen Heimer,co-editor of Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and OffendingBy giving us a better understanding of how the neighborhoods and the peer culture of poor African American youth increase the risk of gendered victimization, Getting Played challenges both academics and policymakers to face the role of structured discrimination in the perpetuation of violence toward women. -- Candace Kruttschnitt,co-author of Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in CaliforniaIn Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents a compelling picture of this dire social problem and explains how inextricably and tragically, linked violence is to their daily lives in poor urban neighborhoods. * Harlem Book Fair *In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents a compelling picture of this dire social problem and explores how inextricably, and tragically, linked violence is to their daily lives in poor urban neighborhoods. -- QBR * The Black Book Review *Miller gives us a detailed examination of the violence experienced by Black inner city girls whose victimization is based on multiple dimensions of their lives: because they are Black, because they live in extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods, and because they are women. Millers careful, rich, detailed field work documents and analyzes the complex realities of these young womens lives that set the context for the struggles they routinely contend with. The voices of these young people have been ignored for too long. Getting Played has given them an opportunity to be heard that is long overdue. -- Robert Crutchfield,University of WashingtonMiller grabs readers attention with the stark reality of the widespread occurrence of violent victimization among the girls she studies. -- From the Foreword by Ruth D. Peterson,Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State UniversityThis is a significant and timely book. Miller has taken on a vitally important, but understudied, topicviolence against young Black girls in economically depressed urban settings. -- Dana M. Britton,author of At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered OrganizationTable of ContentsForeword by Ruth D. PetersonPreface Acknowledgments 1 Perspectives on Gender and Urban Violence 2 Gender 'n the 'Hood: Neighborhood Violence against Women and Girls 3 Playin' Too Much: Sexual Harassment in School4 Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Sexual Coercion and Violence 5 The Playa' and the Cool Pose: Gender and Relationship Violence 6 Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix: Study Participants Notes References IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisChronicles the effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare. This book profiles the day-to-day struggles of Mexican immigrant women in the Los Angeles area, showing that the "welfare-to-work" regime has produced tremendous instability and insecurity for these women and their children.Trade ReviewA smart, engaging, and groundbreaking study that exposes the racist underpinnings of welfare reform. A model of stellar scholarship and a must read for anyone seeking to understand poverty in relation to the meaning of American citizenship today. -- Arlene Davila,author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal CityOriginal and insightful. Not Working is a powerful book, connecting theories of the state, citizenship, and globalization with first rate ethnography. It is an instant classic and will remain the definitive book on immigrant women and welfare reform for some time. -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,author of Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of AffluenceThis highly significant contribution assures that Latina immigrants will no longer be invisible in scholarly research on welfare reform. This superb ethnography establishes a clear connection to the political, legal, and economic realities that is needed in reassessing the success stories of welfare reform. It should be read by all those concerned with social inequality, poverty, and justice in America. -- Mary Romero,author of Maid in the U.S.AThis is a scholarly, professional critique of social science research paradigms generally, and poverty knowledge industry and associated applied policy research in particular: * Choice: Highly recommended *With this book, Marchevsky and Theoharis make a distinct contribution to the welfare reform debate by addressing a topic that has received less attention in the literature, namely how welfare reforms have impacted immigrant. Not Working is particularly timely as immigrants become more visible as they move to less traditional U.S. regions to find work and the immigration debate rages. * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship PART I Neither a Hand Up nor a Handout1 Ending Welfare: New Nativism and the Triumph of Post-Civil Rights Politics 2 Poverty in the Suburbs: Race and Redevelopment Policy in Long Beach PART II Any Job at Any Wage3 Tough Love in L.A. County: The Failure of Welfare-to-Work 4 The Myth of Welfare Dependency: Caught between Welfare and Work 5 "It's Not What You Choose, but Where They Send You": Inside Personal Responsibility Conclusion: The Emperor's New Welfare: Reassessing the "Success" of Welfare Reform Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisShows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement.Trade Review"How the Vote Was Won is the first comprehensive, modern history of woman suffrage in the American West. Mead shows us that virtually everything that is modern and important about the winning stages of the woman suffrage movement began in the West. This is a bold, original history that historians of the West, of women, of the United States in general, should be sure to read." -- Ellen Carol DuBois,University of California, Los Angeles"In this fine study, Rebecca Mead answers with skill and sweep the intriguing question that historians have forgotten to ask: why did women in the West gain the vote decades before those in the rest of the nation?" -- Joyce Appleby,University of California, Los Angeles"Rebecca Meads book is a very important contribution not only to our understanding of suffrage victories in the American West, but also helps us to better understand the region and the vagaries of American electoral politics more generally. How the Vote Was Won tackles a thorny scholarly problem and does so with ambition, reach, and success." -- William Deverell,California Institute of Technology"In this superb study . . . Rebecca J. Mead convincingly demonstrates the importance of the region to understanding the success of the national suffrage movement." * American Historical Review *"In this densely written and tightly argued work, Mead (Northern Michigan Univ.) presents answers to the often asked question of why woman suffrage was accomplished in the US West well before it was in the East." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms 1 The Context of the Western Woman Suffrage Movement 2 Early Western Suffragists as Organic Intellectuals 3 Reconstruction, Woman Suffrage, and Territorial Politics in the West 4 Suffrage and Populism in the Silver State of Colorado 5 California, Woman Suffrage, and the Critical Election of 1896 6 Woman Suffrage and Progressivism in the Paci?c Northwest 7 The Western Zephyr and the 1911 California Campaign 8 The West and the Modern Suffrage Movement NotesBibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisRecounts the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights - Belva lockwood, who was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans.Trade Review"Norgren has written an engrossing and insightful book about Belva Lockwood, a woman who, through tenacity, drive and self worth, accomplished more in the 19th century than many modern women accomplish. Because Lockwood was known to few and most of her personal papers were destroyed after her death, Norgren has done an exemplary job of illuminating the life of this varied and accomplished woman." * The Law and Politics Book Review *"Long before Hillary Clinton, there was Belva Lockwood: two-time presidential hopeful, Lockwood campaigned in 1884 and 1888 on a platform of women's suffrage. In the first full-length biography of this feminist pioneer, legal historian Norgren has meticulously researched what little has remained of Lockwoods papers, most of which were destroyed after her death." * Publishers Weekly Annex *"An engaging account of Belva Lockwoods struggles and achievements as one of the first women to enter the legal profession in the United States in the late 19th century." * Canadian Journal of Law and Society *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Many biographers would balk at the paucity of archival sources, but Norgren persisted. . . . In [Norgrenl;s] credible narrative, Lockwood emerges as a shrewd self-promoter, never hesitating to garner publicity for herself and her causes. . . . In eloquent detail, Norgren shows how Lockwood loved the law." * New York Sun *"Astonishingly, this is the first scholarly biography of 19th-century activist Belva Lockwood. Lawyer, lobbyist, wife, mother, and contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lockwood was among the most formidable of equal rights advocates. The first female lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the relentlessly ambitious Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888 on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Later she concentrated on her work for the Universal Peace Union and her Washington, D.C., legal practice while maintaining a demanding public-speaking schedule. Her life was never easy, as she constantly fought to surmount political and legal barriers and to support her family. Although few of Lockwood's papers have survived, Norgren has delivered an able and long overdue study of Lockwoods life, drawing on newspapers, magazines, organizational records, and the papers of Lockwood's contemporaries. Though the book emphasizes Lockwoods career, the inclusion of information on her family and friends gives added dimension. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries; essential for womens history collections." * Library Journal, starred review *"For those interested in U.S. womens history or the nineteenth-century practice of law, Norgens work is a must." * Law and History Review *"Jill Norgrens study of Belva Lockwood (which comes with a graceful preface by Ruth Bader Ginsburg) is a very unusual book. . . . Norgren has the great discernment to see Lockwoods life as large and anticipatory rather than eccentric and half-realized. A legal historian of considerable skill, she ploughed through reams of records to construct an account of Lockwoods legal career. . . . The comparison [of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to] Belva Lockwood is illuminating, because it was Lockwoods instinct for opportunity that took her out of women's politics, with their intact principles, into the thick of things. . . . The biographies of these women will be composed of the workaday, disenchanted materials of political livesperseverance, competence, canniness, and, yes, a facility for the quick grabthat Belva Lockwood cultivated and prized." -- Christine Stansell * The New Republic *"Exceptionally well-researched. Norgrens contribution is to situate Lockwood among a generation of female activists. Norgren is successful in moving the woman who would be president to her proper standing as a pioneering lawyer who would change America." -- Jean Baker * American Historical Review *"In this thoroughly researched and beautifully written biography, Jill Norgren traces Belva Lockwoods dogged efforts to earn a living as a lawyer in Washington while caring for her daughter and becoming a leading advocate for womans suffrage and the peaceful arbitration of international disputes. Norgrens brilliant study makes clear why Lockwoodthe first woman to argue before the Supreme Court (1879) and run for President (1884 and 1888)belongs in the ranks of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard" -- John M. Ferren,author of Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge"Jill Norgren beautifully weaves the personal and political ordeals of Belva Lockwoods life into a compelling story that illuminates Lockwood's enduring contributions. This is a dramatic account of a pioneering woman whose life in the law still resonates in contemporary times." -- Joan Biskupic,author of Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most influenti"Jill Norgrens biography of Belva Lockwood is a gem. Not only does she describe the amazingly full life of an important woman now practically forgotten, but she takes us into the politics of the late-nineteenth century women's reform movement in a way few other authors have done. This is a must-read book." -- Melvin I. Urofsky,editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History"Jill Norgrens splendid biography of one of historys most astonishing pioneersfirst woman counsel before the Supreme Court, visionary for equal rights, international peace activist, Indian rights litigator, presidential candidateis provocative, challenging, galvanizing! Brilliantly researched, vividly written, and profoundly discerning. Everybody concerned about justice, human rights, the future of democracy, and womens power will rush to read, and assign, this important book." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt"Belva Lockwood lived a life of firsts as a practicing lawyer at a time when women were rare in any profession. She was the first woman admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court and twice ran for President of the United States. Jill Norgren captures the story of this forgotten heroine in a biography as fast paced and interesting as the life Lockwood led." -- Barbara Babcock,Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford University, and author of Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution Maker"Norgren eloquently and succinctly educates the reader on the story of the first woman to ever be allowed to argue before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the first woman to ever launch two full scale bids for this countrys presidency . . . Norgrens writing is engaging and her narrative is accessible yet rich with fact." * Feminist Review *"Jill Norgren has written a fascinating biography of one of the forgotten icons of nineteenth century feminism. Thanks to Norgren, [Lockwood] will become a role model for current and future women politicians." * Foreword Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgPrologue and Acknowledgments 1 Early a Widow2 In Search of a New Identity 3 Apprenticeship 4 Becoming a Lawyer 5 Notorious Ladies 6 A Tougher Fight 7 Woman Lawyer 8 The Practice of Law 9 Lady Lobbyist10 Lockwood for President11 Life on the Platform 12 Lay Down Your Arms! 13 The Power of Association 14 Pushing for Place 15 AWorld's Fair and a Million-Dollar Case 16 Aging Soldiers of Cause Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisConsiders the difference women's and gender history has made to and within national fields of studyTrade Review"This outstanding collection contributes to the usable past" and should help readers understand the present and shape the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"Making Womens Histories is an innovative collection that brings together state-of-the-art essays on developments in national, continental, transnational, and thematic areas. In its attention to the politics of womens historypersonal and structural connections to womens movements, the impact of nationalism and imperialism, the impact of globalizationthe volume reminds us how important the history we write and teach is for making the world a better place." -- Leila J. Rupp,University of California, Santa Barbara"[T]his collection is well worth reading by serious scholars of women's and gender history." -- Simone M. Caron * American Historical Review *"A smart, insightful, and thought-provoking book. The juxtaposition of nationally/regionally based historiographical essays by leading scholars offers striking new insights into the origins and diverse trajectories of womens and gender history, and into the ways in which feminist scholarship is informing comparative, transnational, and international histories. A must-read for anyone interested in world-historical scholarship." -- Birgitte Soland,The Ohio State University"Making Womens Historiesis an invaluable guide for undergraduate and graduate students with varying levels of experience in history, gender and feminist studies, and historiography." * Feminist Collections *"Fusing the personal, political, and professional, Making Women's Histories situates women's, gender, and sexuality history as an unfinished global project of activist scholarship." * Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Writing Women's History across Time and SpacePamela S. Nadell and Kate HaulmanImagining New Histories 1. Women's Past and the Currents of U.S. History Kathy Peiss 2. New Directions in Russian and Soviet Women's History Barbara Alpern Engel 3. Putting the Political in EconomyClaire Robertson 4. Sexual Crises, Women's History, and the History of Sexuality in Europe Anna ClarkEngendering National and Nationalist Projects 5. Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women's History Arianne Chernock 6. Amateur Historians, the "Woman Question," and the Production of Modern History in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt Lisa Pollard 7. Women's and Gender History in Modern India: Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present Mytheli SreenivasExploring Transnational Approaches 8. World History Meets History of Masculinity in Latin American StudiesUlrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman 9. Connecting Histories of Gender, Health, and U.S.-China Relations Cristina Zaccarini 10. A Happier Marriage? Feminist History Takes the Transnational TurnJocelyn Olcott About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thoughtful and meticulously researched contribution to the body of knowledge about community-centered health care provision and activism for the past 50 years. Nelson's critical analysis and evaluation of historical source materials provides a rich explanation of the promise and potential of empowerment-based models of health care. By linking the civil rights, new left, and women's movements' strategies into a consistent and comprehensive narrative, she provides fresh insight into how important historical ideas of the 1950s and 1960s had new life breathed into them in the 21st century, proving that the past is indeed prologue. I strongly recommend this book for anyone seeking answers for how to build effective health care solutions for disadvantaged communities." -- Loretta Ross,co-founder, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective"Jennifer Nelson has written another terrific book! Her history of the antecedents, the evolution, and the political challenges of the women-of-color-led movement for reproductive and sexual healthand its present identity as the Reproductive Justice movement is absolutely indispensable and profoundly important." -- Rickie Solinger,author of Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know"Makes an important contribution to the growing body of work on the history of health activism. . . . With a deft eye for detail, Nelson grounds her analysis in local stories that take us from Mississippi to Seattle to Atlanta and offer rich stories about womens understanding of reproductive and sexual rights and the negotiationssometimes successful, sometimes unsuccessfulbetween white feminists and women of color. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the history of the womens health movement in a nuanced way, taking full account of the ways race and class shaped feminist organizing and affected womens experiences of reproduction and sexuality." -- Johanna Schoen,Rutgers University"Nelson has written a demanding but important book. She researched her topic well and provides a valuable history of womens health care movements of the 20thcentury." * Choice *"In the 1960s and & 70s, US feminists worked for a womens health movement that would reach beyond the sex discrimination dominating the mainstream medical system and towards healthcare that valued womens autonomy. The author examines the struggle for abortion rights, as well as the creation of community and women-centered clinics." * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *"The stories Nelson presents are familiar to womens history, the civil rights movement, and women of color feminism, but sewn together they tell a broader and connected story of the womens health movement across the United States and its longevity through the 1980s and 1990s." * Journal of American History *"More Than Medicinemakes important contributions to the history of medicine and womens history. It is a welcome addition to both fields of study." * Project Muse *"More Than Medicineis an extensively researched book, focusing on the struggle for feminists to make womens health a priority, to reach out to those in need of health care, and to integrate women friendly policies and provide care to those who have very little access to it." * Metapsychology *"Nelsons work inMore than Medicineis a solid primer on feminist health and the need for collaboration across social justice platform." * Feminist Collections *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Medicine May Be the Way We Got in the Door": Social Justice and Community Health in the Mid-1960s 15 2. "Thank You for Your Help ... Six Children Are Enough": The Abortion Birth Control Referral Service 57 3. Reproductive Control, Sexual Empowerment: The Aradia Women's Health Center and the Early Movement for Feminist Health Reform 91 4. Conserving Feminist Health Care, Confronting Anti-Abortion: The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center 123 5. "All This That Has Happened to Me Shouldn't Happen to Nobody Else": Loretta Ross and the Women of Color Reproductive Freedom Movement of the 1980s 167 6. Women of Color and the Movement for Reproductive Justice: A Human Rights Agenda 193 Notes 221 Index 253 About the Author 265

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Book SynopsisPresents a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today. Through an examination of US Census data, this book highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process, and interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration.Trade Review...An engaging read...I would strongly recommend it as a course text. * Mobilization *It contributes a great deal to our deeper understanding of the gendered nature of migration, as well as the ways in which human beings marshal their personal resources to reconstruct their lives. I recommend it. * Contemporary Sociology *A must read for sociologists, gender scholars, historians, legal scholars, and policy makers interested in issues on immigration and incorporation. Highly recommended. -- K.K. Hill * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 "We Can't Go Back": Immigrant Women, Intersections, and AgencyPart I: Who They Are 2 "Your Story Drops on You": Who Are These Women? Part II: How They Come 3 "I Had to Start Over": Entering through the Front Door 4 "I Had to Leave My Country One Day": Entering through the Back DoorPart III: What They Do 5 "I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman": Immigrant Women and Domestic Service 6 "Mighty Oaks": The Entrepreneurs 7 "There Is Still Work to Do": Immigrant Women in Gender-Atypical Occupations 8 "Always in Life, We Are Ripping": Culture Work Part IV: Where They Are Going 9 "Misbehaving Women": The Agency of Activism 10 "Making History": Drawing Conclusions, Looking Forward Appendix A: Notes on Research Methods Appendix B: List of Interviewed Women Appendix C: Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy and Women, 1875-2009 Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisSeeks to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their facultiesTrade Review"Rosser has no doubt that women are disadvantaged at every stage along the career path in small but subtle ways - what she terms 'micro-inequities' - and that this process plays a central role in the way women drop out and burn up. In this book she discusses how these micro-inequities manifest themselves at different career stages, building on the experiences and reflections of her interviewees. She also touches upon what might be done to improve the climate." * Times Higher Education *"Breaking into the Lab shows us the good, the bad, and the occasionally ugly experiences of women in science. Sue Rosser's interviews with women clarify how the difficulties they face change as they move from junior to senior positions. Her review of the gender gap in patents makes clear how easily the present repeats the past. Rosser's unparalleled knowledge of the role of gender in the workings of science, colleges and universities, and federal funding agencies informs her comprehensive prescriptions for opening the laboratory doors wider. Read and heed!" -- Virginia Valian,author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women"In this & must read book, Rosser reviews thirty years of work on women in science. In addition to analyzing new areas, such as womens relative representation in patenting, Rosser draws from her experience as a scientist, National Science Foundation program officer, and high-level university administrator to provide unique insights." -- Londa Schiebinger,author of Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science"Sue Rosser has for more than three decades epitomized what is meant by feminist studies of science. In her most recent book, Breaking into the Lab: Engineering progress for women in science, she sums up a lifetime of experiences as being a female scientist who herself encounters resistance and trouble, which is equivalent to documented discrimination experienced by other female scientists. Yet Rosser has never given up and today she holds the position of provost at San Francisco State University. Thus, in a humble and intelligent way, Rosser offers her own lifetime of learning to us. At the same time, through references to her own fighting, she acts as a role-model. Along the way describing her own career path, she contributes with a myriad of solid research results from the 1980s and onwards pointing to other role models, but also showing how little progress has actually been made. Rosser offers new disconcerting research showing that history may repeat itself with new means. . . . & The more it changes, the more it stays the same may stand as a motto for the sweeping overview of what happened to women who tried to & break into the lab. Yet Rosser herself is a living example of how women should not give up trying to fight back slowly, slowly make changes in a system that in incredibly subtle and complex ways attempts to keep women in the sidetrack of scientific progress." * Review in Cultural Studies of Science Education *"The book is accessible to a wide readership and is especially important reading for students and scholars of science and gender studies, higher education leaders, and individuals involved in scientific funding or policymaking." * Sex Roles *"Engagingly written and full of eye-widening narratives." * Society *"The book provides helpful guidance not only for potential mentors, but for women scientists and their institutions as well." * On Campus with Women *"Rosser is a noted scientist/administrator who has written widely on the subject of women and science. Therefore, her perspective and insight are important to a discussion of the topichow to compensate for the dearth of women in science, particularly in the physical sciences and engineering fields. . . . Recommended [for] graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Why Women in Science Are Still Controversial after Thirty Years 2 Starting Careers: Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose 3 Positive Interventions from Mentors and Mentoring Networks 4 New Filters for Senior Women Scientists 5 Advancing Women Scientists to Senior Leadership Positions 6 The Gender Gap in Patents 7 The Impact that Women Have Made on Science and Technology 8 Conclusion: Women in Science Are Critical for Society Appendix A: Grants to Support Women Scientists Cited in This Book References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWomen's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executiveoffices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but thisglobal increase in women's representation masks significant variationamong different democratic political systems. For example, inDecember of 2009, Rwanda's legislature contained 56% women,while the U.S. Congress contained only about 17% and the JapaneseDiet had only 11%. Since 2000, only twenty-seven womenhave achieved executive office worldwide. Contagious Representationis a comprehensive look at women's participation in all aspectsof public life in the main democratic political institutionsthe executive,the judiciary, the legislature, and within political parties. Moving beyond studies of single countries and institutions, ContagiousRepresentation presents original data from 159 democraticcountries spanning 50 years, providing a comprehensive understandingof women in democracies worldwide. The first volume tooffer an analysis on all avenues for women's particiTrade ReviewFrank Thames and Margaret Williams concept of contagion and their careful analysis of how womens participation and gains in one institution affect their opportunities in other areas of government pushes the scholarship on women and politics forward.They draw on a broad array of empirical evidence including both large n statistical analysis and case studies drawn from around the world to support their argument. By advancing our understanding of how inter-institutional relationships affect opportunities for womens political participation, this book makes important contributions to the women and gender studies literature. Clearly written, the book is accessible to a wide audience. -- Melinda Adams,Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison UniversityThis is a very accessible book that provides rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methods and a theory that can be tested in other areas such as business. Highly recommended for scholars of gender and political representation and a valuable text for women's studies, research methods, and political science students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- I. Coronado * Choice *Using the novel idea of contagion, this pathbreaking book is indispensable for those of us who struggle to account for the variations in womens representation in diverse political institutions, regions and across time. Its a must for women and politics courses. -- Marianne Githens,Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Goucher CollegeTable of Contents1 Women's Political Participation and the Influence of Contagion2 Understanding Women's Legislative Representation3 Women and the Executive4 Gender and Cross-National Courts5 Contagion and the Adoption of Voluntary Party Quotas6 Contagion and the Adoption of National Quotas7 Conclusion: Why Contagion Matters

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Book SynopsisCompelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust.Trade ReviewA well-written, serious, and important book. I learned a great deal from this interesting and rich study. -- Joyce Antler,author of The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern AmericaMore than an account of the Jewish women who went South to help in the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties, Debra Schultz has produced a fascinating investigation into the relationship between these women and their parents, their black colleagues in the movement, the Jewish communities in the Southern states, and their final difficult decision to leave the movement. Going South should be read by everyone interested in this vitally important period of American history. -- Helen Suzman,former Member of South African ParliamentOnly recently are scholars beginning to pay full attention to the key role women played during the Civil Rights Movement. Going South is an important portrait of an often overlooked group whose workboth behind the scenes and on the front lineshelped transform our nation. -- Marian Wright Edelman,President, Children's Defense FundThese oral histories are compelling and fascinating, and reclaim a history previously unavailable to us. An original and important contribution. -- Deborah Dash Moore,coeditor of Jewish Women in America: An Historical EncyclopediaA fascinating text which adds to our understanding of recent Jewish Left and feminist politics and activism. * Australian Jewish News,Aug. 2001 *Table of ContentsI Taking the Action 1 Going South, 1960-1963 2 Moving In On Mississippi, 1963-1965 3 Crossing Boundaries: Jewishness in the South, 1960-1967 II Seeking the Legacy 4 Uncovering Family Legacies 5 Exploring Many Ways of Being Jewish 6 Creating a Living Legacy: Passing It On

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Book SynopsisThis volume is about the ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising conciousness and changing codes of law, to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies.

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Book SynopsisThe 19th-century women reformers discussed in this text, including Angelina Grimke and Abby Kelley, rejected the repressive features of the Christianity of their day. Their religiosity, however, was fundamental to their world view. This work explores the dimensions of this evolving faith.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this work illustrate the various ways in which women in the Middle East fall short of being vested with the rights and privileges that would define them as fully enfranchised citizens. They offer an examination of national legislation on personal status, penal law and labour.

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Book SynopsisUseful for students of gender and Middle East studies, this book examines gender, women's involvement, and sexuality in the ideologies and strategies of a transnational Palestinian political movement. It focuses on the central party apparatus of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front branches.Trade ReviewMasterfully puts together (with great ease) the multiplicity of factors that shape the ability of women to advance their feminist agendas. Moving beyond, yet addressing normative understandings, this book sets the stage for new research in this area." - Amaney Jamal, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisOffers a reexamination of the Egyptian women's movement in light of class differences. This book describes the way in which elite feminism created a concept of womanhood that fed into the nationalist cultural ideal, one that was not necessarily progressive for all Egyptian women.Trade ReviewOriginal.... An important and timely intervention into the history of Egyptian feminism." - Samah Selim, author of The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1800-1985

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