Gender studies: women and girls Books
John Wiley & Sons Off the Straight Path
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the historical progression of Islamic law's treatment of illicit sex. This book provides a comprehensive review of the concept of zina, sexual indiscretion, exploring the diverse interpretation of zina crime as presented in a variety of sources from the Qur'an and hadith to legal literature.Trade ReviewA pioneering work.... It will be the standard text to be cited by scholars working on the period and the subject matter for years to come. - Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Gender and Medicine in Ireland 17001950
Book SynopsisExamines the intersections between gender, medicine, and conventional economic, political, and social histories in Ireland between 1700 and 1950. Gathering many of the top voices in Irish studies and the history of medicine, the editors cover a range of topics including midwifery, mental health, alcoholism, and infant mortality.
£30.56
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Policing Egyptian Women Sex Law and Medicine in
Book SynopsisDelineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and “policed” the bodies of subaltern women. Some of these women were runaway slaves, others were deflowered outside of marriage, and still others were prostitutes. Kozma traces the effects of nineteenth-century developments on these women who lived at the margins of society.Trade ReviewThis book sets a new standard for studies of women, gender, and state formation in nineteenth-century Egypt, and its approach is certainly applicable to other periods. Kozma’s greatest contribution... is her clear demonstration of the significance of women at society’s margins for the consolidation of a new juridical culture and the impact of a new judicial culture on those women’s lives. The result of Kozma's dedication to exhuming the subaltern voice, her impressive research, and her deft writing create a snapshot of khedival Egypt.
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Syracuse University Press Unveiling the Harem Elite Women and the Paradox
Book SynopsisA history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.
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John Wiley & Sons Arab and Arab American Feminisms
Book SynopsisArab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centred struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Laura Cornelius Kellogg Our Democracy and the
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John Wiley & Sons Resistance Revolt and Gender Justice in Egypt
Book SynopsisCharts the arc of the Egyptian women’s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women’s status in Egyptian society and politics.Trade ReviewTadros’s study of the Egyptian women’s movement following 2011 explains its ‘red lines’ while providing rich and nuanced empirical analysis of the women’s movement’s organizational, ideological, and legal challenges.""—Diane Singerman, editor of Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity""An important contribution to the literature on women’ s movements in the Arab world as well as to theoretical debates about transitions to democracy and collective action.""—Hoda Elsadda, author of Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008
£49.30
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Off the Straight Path
Book SynopsisThe legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Elyse Semerdjian’s “Off the Straight Path” takes a bold step toward filling that gap, offering a fascinating look at the historical progression of Islamic law’s treatment of illicit sex.Trade ReviewA pioneering work. . . . It will be the standard text to be cited by scholars working on the period and the subject matter for years to come."" —Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
£18.86
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Kate OBrien and Spanish Literary Culture
Book SynopsisOne of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O'Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women's writing. In this highly original approach to O'Brien's work, Davison traces the influence of three leading Spanish writers - Jacinto Benavente, Miguel de Cervantes, and Teresa of Avila - on O'Brien's work.
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John Wiley & Sons Iranian Women and Gender in the IranIraq War
Book SynopsisDespite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Iranian Women and Gender in the IranIraq War
Book SynopsisDespite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Book SynopsisIn this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics”, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Islam Revival and Reform
Book SynopsisRooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing impact of revival and reform movements beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing through to the present.Trade ReviewA wonderfully unified collection in light of the scholarship of John O. Voll and the various historiographical and intellectual trends reflected in Islamic Studies during his lifetime. This volume establishes John Voll as the natural inheritor of Marshall Hodgson’s legacy, and as the foremost living scholar of Islam in its transhistorical and global dimensions. That his work has inspired and informed scholars working across such a wide range of topics and settings—both historical and contemporary—speaks to the depth and breadth of hisinfluence. These first class "Essays Inspired by John O. Voll" are a testimonial to Voll's impact both on scholarship internationally and on hisformer students who are now established scholars in academia. A brilliant reflection of a brilliant career….Through detailed analysis of diverse localized dynamics in global context, this collection demonstrates Voll’s enduring contributions to the study of modern Islamic history.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Book SynopsisAn organiser, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Laura Cornelius Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination. This book resurrects her legacy and includes Kellogg's writings, speeches, photographs, congressional testimonies, and coverage in national and international newspapers of the time.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Jewish Women in Comics
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives.
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John Wiley & Sons Jewish Women in Comics Bodies and Borders
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives.
£30.56
Syracuse University Press Sumud Birth Oral History and Persisting in
Book SynopsisOpens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. She maps the ways in which individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories.
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Critical Companion to JK Rowling A Literary
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University of Arizona Press Reflections in Place Connected Lives of Navajo Women
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University of Arizona Press Cultural Capital
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University of Arizona Press Bodies at War
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University of Arizona Press Girl of New Zealand Colonial Optics in Aotearoa
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University of Arizona Press Intersectional Chicana Feminisms
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University of Arizona Press Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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University of Arizona Press Teaching Gloria E Anzalda Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities
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University of Arizona Press Cookstove Chronicles
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University of Minnesota Press Private Screenings
Book SynopsisWhile much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry.Table of ContentsInstalling the television set - popular discourses on television and domestic space, 1948-1955, Lynn Spigel; the spectacularization of everyday life - recycling Hollywood stars and fans in early television variety shows Denise Mann; the meaning of memory - family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programmes, George Lipsitz; sit-coms and suburbs - positioning the 1950s homemaker, Mary Beth Haralovich; "Is this what you mean by colour TV?" - race, gender, and contested meanings in NBC's, Julia Aniko Bodroghkozy; defining women - the case of Cagney and Lacey, Julie D'Acci; Kate and Allie -"new" women and the audience's television archives, Robert H. Deming ; all's well that doesn't end - soap operas and the marriage motif, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; all that television allows - TV melodrama, postmodernism and consumer culture, Lynne Joyrich; source guide to TV family comedy, drama and serial drama, 1946-1970, Dan Einstein, Nina Leibman, Randall Vogt, Sarah Berry, Jillian Steinberger, and William Lafferty.
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University of Minnesota Press Pattys Journey From Orphanage To Adoption And
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University of Minnesota Press Easy Women Sex And Gender In Modern Mexican
Book SynopsisThe figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies, and stands at the crossroads of its rational literary culture. This text focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, to ask why it exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination.
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University of Minnesota Press Further To Fly
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University of Minnesota Press Border Women
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University of Minnesota Press Isabel Rules
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University of Minnesota Press Pure Beauty Judging Race in Japanese American
Book SynopsisExamines the question of who is Japanese American.
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University of Minnesota Press Suzanne Lacy Spaces Between
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction: Positionality, Performance, and Participation, 1. Visceral Beginnings, 2. Embodied Networks, 3. The Urban Stage, 4. Convergences, 5. We Make the City, the City Makes Us, 6. Turning Point, 7. Teens and Violence, Conclusion: Spaces Between, Still (Inter)Acting, Chronology of Suzanne Lacy, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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University of Minnesota Press Suzanne Lacy
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction: Positionality, Performance, and Participation, 1. Visceral Beginnings, 2. Embodied Networks, 3. The Urban Stage, 4. Convergences, 5. We Make the City, the City Makes Us, 6. Turning Point, 7. Teens and Violence, Conclusion: Spaces Between, Still (Inter)Acting, Chronology of Suzanne Lacy, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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University of Minnesota Press Women and the Everyday City Public Space in San
Book SynopsisWomen in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.Trade Review"Jessica Ellen Sewell takes her readers on an invigorating jaunt through women’s history. She shows more vividly than ever before how a generation of women took command of public space and moved decisively and exuberantly onto the streets, and all the way to the voting booths." —Mary Ryan, Johns Hopkins University"Women and the Everyday City illuminates how the shifting geography of consumption transformed women’s physical experience of the city-scape and increased their comfort at exerting rights to public space. Sewell makes a significant new contribution to the understanding of urban space and power." —Sarah Deutsch, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: Women in Public 1. Sidewalks and Streetcars 2. Errands 3. Dining Out 4. Spectacles and Amusements 5. Spaces of Suffrage Epilogue: Everyday Landscapes Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Women Adrift The Literature of Japans Imperial
Book SynopsisHow women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empireTrade Review"Women Adrift is a rigorous, sophisticated, and nuanced investigation that refuses to reduce the complexity of the issues it raises to platitudes and fixed assumptions about the nature of colonialism in general, women’s writing under the gaze of empire in particular." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California"Noriko J. Horiguchi’s study, by focusing on the material and discursive bodies of these famous women writers, not only sheds new light on the complexity and uses of kokutai ideology, but also pushes us to rethink our assessment of their bodies of works." —Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion1. Japan as a Body2. The Universal Womb3. Resistance and Conformity4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi FumikoConclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Women Adrift
Book SynopsisHow women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empireTrade Review"Women Adrift is a rigorous, sophisticated, and nuanced investigation that refuses to reduce the complexity of the issues it raises to platitudes and fixed assumptions about the nature of colonialism in general, women’s writing under the gaze of empire in particular." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California"Noriko J. Horiguchi’s study, by focusing on the material and discursive bodies of these famous women writers, not only sheds new light on the complexity and uses of kokutai ideology, but also pushes us to rethink our assessment of their bodies of works." —Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion1. Japan as a Body2. The Universal Womb3. Resistance and Conformity4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi FumikoConclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Crossing through Chueca Lesbian Literary Culture
Book SynopsisAn exploration of queer Madrid’s physical and symbolic literary culture.Trade Review"With sharp and original analysis, Jill Robbins offers for the first time a profound investigation of the role of not only the formation of an urban gay community, but also of the participation of a local gay/lesbian bookstore on the visibility of lesbian culture and experience in Spain." —Inmaculada Pertusa, coeditor of Tortilleras: Latina Lesbians"Reflecting a deep and insightful grasp of Spanish queer studies, Crossing through Chueca focuses on the increasingly globalized queer identity and book market in Spain, examining the changing publishing trends of the 1990s and its relationship to women writers." —Tatjana Pavlovic, author of The Mobile Nation (1954-1964): España cambia de piel"Crossing through Chueca is a historically grounded, theoretically agile, and politically engaged exploration of a place and time marked as much by the triumphant rhetoric of democratic consolidation as by the troubling persistence of repressive tolerance." —Brad Epps, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Marching toward Marriage 1. A Brief History of Chueca and Madrid's Queer Space 2. Lesbian Literary Identities in the Madrid Book Business 3. The New Safita: Andalusia and the Phallic Woman in Plumas de España 4. Lesbian-Themed Best-Sellers and the Politics of Acceptance 5. Dislocations: Identity and Communication in Cenicienta en Chueca 6. Popular Lesbian Fiction: Romance, Literature, and Legislation Conclusion: Toward Lesbian Visibility Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Health Rights Are Civil Rights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Health Rights are Civil Rights suggests an entirely new geography of Los Angeles based on both activism and geopolitics. Jenna M. Loyd makes pathbreaking connections between health, war-making, race, and the environment that offer us a new way of viewing midcentury Los Angeles. An essential text for all scholars of Los Angeles, health, race, and activism." —Laura Pulido, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: War, American Exceptionalism, and the Place of Health ActivismPart I. Desegregating Health, Transforming Health Care1. Urban Geopolitics and the Fight for “Equal Justice in Health Care Now”2. Watts, the War on Poverty, and the Promise of Community ControlPart II. Urban Crisis3. Economic Conversion, Survival, and Race in “Dodge City”4. Mothering Underground: The Home in Women’s Welfare and Peace Organizing5. The War at Home: Forging Interracial Solidarities for Peace and FreedomPart III. Cold War Body Politics6. Population Scares and Antiviolence Roots of Reproductive Justice7. Where Is Health? The Place of the Clinic in Social Change8. “Property Rights over Human Life”: Taxes and Austerity in the Divided CityEpilogue: The Right to Health Meets the Right to the CityNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Beginning to See the Light Sex Hope and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If this book can be said to make one central assumption, it is that there really is such a thing as liberation." —Ellen Willis, from the Introduction
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays
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University of Minnesota Press Pregnant on Arrival
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEithne Luibhéid exquisitely details how the Irish became embroiled in a politics over the sexuality and reproduction of mainly African refugees, leading to the controversial referendum denying birthright citizenship. Pregnant on Arrival is the story of a nation of emigrants that suddenly finding itself a nation of immigrants, with a wealth of insights for anyone interested in how the law constructs the ‘illegal alien’ and renders pregnant mothers and their babies as threats to the nation.—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationPregnant on Arrival makes an enormous, essential contribution in demonstrating how women’s bodies and their sexuality become central to immigration controls. By bringing the question of queerness to bear on the ‘threat’ of pregnant asylum seekers in Ireland, Luibhéid charts how a queer migration framework that simultaneously attends to geopolitics, nation-building, gender, and race, can shed light on the sexual politics of determining who is a legitimate immigrant, asylum seeker, and neoliberal subject worthy of citizenship.—Monisha Das Gupta, author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. Shifting Boundaries through Discourses of Childbearing2. Counternarratives of Migration Law and Childbearing3. Baby Gives Birth to Parents: Direct Provision and Subject Formation4. The “Right to Life of the Unborn” and Migration Controls5. Reproductive Futurism and the Temporality of Migration Control6. From Childbearing to Multiple Sexuality and Migration StrugglesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Black Women against the Land Grab
Book SynopsisFocusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab explores how black women’s views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights. Trade Review"Black Women against the Land Grab makes a unique and overdue contribution to our understanding of social movements in Brazil. In a bold intervention from the tendency to ignore women’s participation in struggles for land rights and access to basic resources, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry paints women as the categorical leaders in resisting ‘development’ plans that amount to expelling poor, black communities from their historical homes. Her long-term involvement with the Gamboa de Baixo community in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and unabashed advocacy for their cause, results in an electrifying ethnography that showcases the wry humor and perceptive analyses of grassroot community activists." —Sarah Hautzinger, author of Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil"Black Women against the Land Grab is an excellent treatment of the production of racialized space in Brazil. This book will be a useful contribution to future scholarship concerning anti-racist resistance and struggles for land and water across the black diaspora."—Anthropological Quarterly"Obligatory reading for anybody interested in racism, grassroots politics, and the exclusionary effects of urban renewal."—Antipode"Essential."—CHOICE"Stimulating and well-researched."—Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"A real contribution to both social change and social justice research."—Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"This book is of central importance for those in the social sciences and humanities that are interested in the role of women in grassroots organizations."—Journal of Latin American Geography "An invaluable contribution."—Cultural Geographies"A detailed and moving book."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"Black Women against the Land Grab contains an enjoyable ethnography, and will be useful to scholars interested in the intersections between race and gentrification in Latin America."—Luso-Brazilian Review"An example of an empirical investigation conducted by a committed activist, a feature that provides the book with intensity and engagement from the author."—Political Studies Review"Keisha-Khan Perry’s intimate look at the grassroots struggles of black women for urban land rights in Salvador, Bahia, is an important reminder of the need to examine the relationships between material need, personal identity, and political action."—The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History"Suitable for students of gender politics, Africana and cultural studies, and readers interested in land rights and land distribution."—Bulletin of Latin American Research"Keisha-Khan Perry’s brilliant ethnography reveals not only the complexity of Brazil’s young democracy but also the interconnections among conceptions of gender, race, community, and 'development.'"—Transforming Anthropology"Well written, well organized, and accessible . . . a welcome read for both Brazilian specialists and a general public who may be interested in understanding why the World Cup and Olympic protests started in Brazil’s favelas (slums)."—Contemporary Sociology"Throughout Black Women against the Land Grab, Perry provides thorough explanations of both the history and current state of the land rights conflict in Salvador, which clearly come from her background as a social scientist with theoretical interests in black feminism, critical race theory, and urban studies. She explores various examples of the intersectionality of race, gender, and class within the context of the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood organization’s activities and, as a participant-observer, offers a unique perspective that combines detailed, firsthand accounts of the conflict with the contextualization of social scientific theories."—The Oral History Review"It is written in an accessible and engaging style and aptly contributes to intersectional analysis of race, gender, and class."—Humanity and SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Diasporic Blackness and Afro-Brazilian Agency1. Engendering the Grassroots2. The Gendered Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion3. The Black Movement’s Foot Soldiers4. Violent Policing and Disposing Urban Landscapes5. “The Women Gather Crying”: Everyday Violence and Community6. Politics Is a Women’s ThingConclusion. Above the Asphalt: From the Margins to the Center of Black Diaspora PoliticsBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Women Write Iran Nostalgia and Human Rights from
Book SynopsisWomen Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution.Trade Review"Nima Naghibi’s familiarity and eloquence on the subject of Iranian women’s textual cultures is seen throughout Women Write Iran, opening up a clear discussion of human rights and humanitarianism."—Gillian Whitlock, University of Queensland"Long awaited and truly welcomed, Women Write Iran offers an erudite analysis of some of the auto/biographical works produced by Iranian women in diaspora in post-revolutionary Iran. Nima Naghibi takes her reader on a journey into these works, showing their complexity not only in their own right, but in relation to their reception, demanding a more nuanced and historically situated approach from readers."—Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University"A probing investigation of these life narratives that transcend generic boundaries to include memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels."—The Muslim World Book Review"Naghibi’s book is a new starting point for the way scholars and readers could approach these texts from the angle of human connection and empathy."—Biography"Women Write Iran is a meaningful contribution to multiple fields including women’s and gender studies, diaspora studies, Iranian studies, Trauma studies, and human rights studies. Naghibi approaches these subdisciplines in a way that mutually illuminates them."—Contemporary Women’s StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Righting the Past1. Claiming Neda2. Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Empathic Witnessing: Prison Memoirs 3. Feeling Nostalgic, Feeling Guilty: Remembering Iran in Documentary Film 4. Repetitions of the Past: Marjane Satrapi and Intergenerational Memory5. Revolution, Nostalgia, and Memory in Diasporic Iranian MemoirsConclusion. Testimonial Life NarrativesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Women Write Iran Nostalgia and Human Rights from
Book SynopsisWomen Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution.Trade Review"Nima Naghibi’s familiarity and eloquence on the subject of Iranian women’s textual cultures is seen throughout Women Write Iran, opening up a clear discussion of human rights and humanitarianism."—Gillian Whitlock, University of Queensland"Long awaited and truly welcomed, Women Write Iran offers an erudite analysis of some of the auto/biographical works produced by Iranian women in diaspora in post-revolutionary Iran. Nima Naghibi takes her reader on a journey into these works, showing their complexity not only in their own right, but in relation to their reception, demanding a more nuanced and historically situated approach from readers."—Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University"A probing investigation of these life narratives that transcend generic boundaries to include memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels."—The Muslim World Book Review"Naghibi’s book is a new starting point for the way scholars and readers could approach these texts from the angle of human connection and empathy."—Biography"Women Write Iran is a meaningful contribution to multiple fields including women’s and gender studies, diaspora studies, Iranian studies, Trauma studies, and human rights studies. Naghibi approaches these subdisciplines in a way that mutually illuminates them."—Contemporary Women’s StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Righting the Past1. Claiming Neda2. Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Empathic Witnessing: Prison Memoirs 3. Feeling Nostalgic, Feeling Guilty: Remembering Iran in Documentary Film 4. Repetitions of the Past: Marjane Satrapi and Intergenerational Memory5. Revolution, Nostalgia, and Memory in Diasporic Iranian MemoirsConclusion. Testimonial Life NarrativesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Eugenic Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Explicating complex theories in accessible ways, Asha Nadkarni explores the link between feminism and nationalism through the lens of women’s reproduction. Eugenic Feminism adds to the debates over continued feminist investments in maternalist nationalism and in population control that negatively effect the women most marginal to the nation." —Monisha Das Gupta, author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Eugenic Feminism and the Problem of National Development1. Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias2. Regenerating Feminism: Sarojini Naidu's Eugenic Feminist Renaissance3. "World Menace": National Reproduction, Public Health, and the Mother India Debate4. The Vanishing Peasant Mother: Reimagining Mother India for the 1950s5. Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Problem of SubalternityEpilogue: Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother IndiaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Juárez Girls Rising
Book SynopsisThrough the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violenceTrade Review"Rarely do we read about the on-the-ground liberatory work of teachers and youths in schools and the agency of young women to live meaningful and joyous lives. In Juárez Girls Rising, the stories of the women and the school are beautifully interwoven, providing a powerful, nuanced, and compelling ethnography that neither victimizes nor romanticizes young, working-class women as they form meaningful identities and future possibilities in the context of gender-, race- and class-based violence."—Sofia Villenas, Cornell University"An important and unique insider's perspective on the city of Juárez, Juárez Girls Rising provides a complex, detailed, and nuanced lens to better understand the multiple barriers young women in the city encounter."—Gilda L. Ochoa, author of Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap"The nuance with which Cervantes-Soon reflexively offers insights as an insider/outsider in ways that are deeply reflective of humanizing research make it an ideal fit for courses on ethnography, qualitative methods, critical pedagogy, or culturally sustaining pedagogies."—Teachers College Record "Cervantes-Soon provides the reader with an understanding that moves beyond the often stigmatizing or pathologizing discourses constructing the city. This engages the reader in the compassionate empathy that characterizes the school ethos." —American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Countering Despair and Stigma through Autogestión1. Border Paradoxes, Dystopia, and Revolutionary Education 2. Through Girls’ Eyes: Coming of Age in Ciudad Juárez 3. Enacting a Pedagogy of Autogestión4. Building a Mujerista Space at Altavista5. Mujeres Autogestivas: Young Women Authoring Their Identities Epilogue: Life after AltavistaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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