Gender studies: women and girls Books

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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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important work for Asian American studies and ethnic studies."—CHOICE"This book should be hailed as a novel and welcome contribution to gender studies among Asian Americans."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and PowerChia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma VangPart I. History and Knowledge Production1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western TextsLeena N. Her2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and SexualityChia Youyee VangPart II. Social Organization and Kinship4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang PaoMai Na Lee5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural WealthJulie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural SpacePrasit LeepreechaPart III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social NetworkingFaith Nibbs8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural AgencyGeraldine Craig9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab ZooAline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong WorldsLouisa Schein11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong DiasporaBruce Thao12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQKong PhaAfterwordCathy Schlund-VialsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"No foggy remnant of a dying era, lesbian (and women’s) lands continue to provide meaning and solace to many women who are dissatisfied with and alienated from the dominant U.S. culture and its heterosexism. Herlands documents a particular moment in history in which a radical movement of primarily white women imagined and crafted a different world. There are few instances cross-culturally in which women have taken such dramatic steps to remake the world in their own image, which is why this story, an empathetic view of a group of women continuing to define themselves and live independently, is a must read."—Evelyn Blackwood, Purdue University"Herlands is an accessible and sympathetic ethnography of the lesbian back-to-the-land movement. Going well beyond caricatures of landdykes, Keridwen N. Luis shows the promise of feminist intentional communities—their enactment of utopic ideals of collectivity, feminist embodiment, and ecofeminism—without sidelining how the animating logic of women’s nature/nature-as-woman also reproduces transphobia, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. What emerges is a complex reading of gender, race, and nature in a rural lesbian culture."—Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality "The book is an ethnography rooted in the methods and language of Anthropology. It’s refreshing to see women's lands positioned as the saving remnants that we always hoped they might become!"—Duluth News Tribune "For urban, landscape, and community planners, a careful read of Herlands can shake loose the biases and banalities that inform our current assumptions about who is included in our sanitized visions of future communities. Landscape architecture and planning practices are grappling with intersecting threads of systemic racism and segregation, income inequality, and new perspectives on gender and identity, all within the context of climate change. Women’s communities have been facing these issues head-on, grappling with them in all the conflict and messiness required in utopian work, and they offer clues for alternative practices. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space. She is able to interact with others less carefully, and to experience a sense of self-possession and awareness."—Full Stop "Herlands makes important points about the cultural dynamics of social movements, the politicization of everyday life, current debates within feminism, and the persistence of inequality within social movements."—Mobilization "The book is deeply enmeshed in cutting-edge contemporary academic arguments about identity politics."—American Journal of Sociology "The relevance of the collectives, in addition to their reach into mainstream and left-of-mainstream culture, is their creation of a space to debate and examine and critique. In some of the most refreshing sections of the book, Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space."—Full Stop Reviews Supplement "Luis’s depiction of real women necessarily provides a much more nuanced narrative of complex lives, identities, and motives."—H-Net "This book beautifully illustrates the possibilities that can become realities when people collectively re-imagine ways of building community, creating homes, and living outside of traditional societal structures."—Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Women’s Land, Here Is Your Umbrella1. The Political Is Personal: From the Peace Camp and Women’s Music Festivals to Women’s Land2. Are the Amazons White? Race and Space on Women’s Land3. “Now My Neighbors and Friends Are the Same People”: Community, Language, and Identity4. The Giving Tree: Gift Economies Planted in Capitalist Soil5. The Mountain Is She: Gender as Landscape, Landscape as Gender6. Primally Female: Agency and the Meaning of the Body on Women’s Land7. We Have Met the Enemy and She Is Us: Scapegoating Trans Bodies8. The Hermit and the Family: Aging and Dis/Ability in CommunityAfterword: Women’s Lands, Women’s LivesAcknowledgmentsBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What happens when feminist critique inverts into governing norms? What kind of feminism becomes law and what becomes of arguments among feminists when it does? How are feminist challenges to male super-ordination transformed and distributed by bureaucratization and NGO-ification? How might we honestly assess feminism that governs? In this deeply intelligent, reflective, and pedagogical work, four feminist legal scholars probe these theoretical and empirical questions. No reader will favor every move, but all will be usefully provoked and instructed."—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"The book delivers a good summary of which feminist theories have prevailed and can be seen as the governing ones. Excellent for collections on feminism and women’s rights."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: An Ethic of ResponsibilityJanet HalleyPart I. Varieties of Governance Feminism1. Where in the Legal Order Have Feminists Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley2. Which Forms of Feminism Have Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley3. Dancing across the Minefield: Feminists Reflect on Generating, Owning, and Critiquing PowerJanet HalleyPart II. From the Transnational to the Local4. Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India’s Rape LawsPrabha Kotiswaran5. Anti-trafficking in Israel: Neo-abolitionist Feminists, Markets, Borders, and the StateHila Shamir6. When Rights Return: Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive Rights and against Sex-selective AbortionRachel RebouchéConclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance FeminismJanet HalleyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What happens when feminist critique inverts into governing norms? What kind of feminism becomes law and what becomes of arguments among feminists when it does? How are feminist challenges to male super-ordination transformed and distributed by bureaucratization and NGO-ification? How might we honestly assess feminism that governs? In this deeply intelligent, reflective, and pedagogical work, four feminist legal scholars probe these theoretical and empirical questions. No reader will favor every move, but all will be usefully provoked and instructed."—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"The book delivers a good summary of which feminist theories have prevailed and can be seen as the governing ones. Excellent for collections on feminism and women’s rights."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: An Ethic of ResponsibilityJanet HalleyPart I. Varieties of Governance Feminism1. Where in the Legal Order Have Feminists Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley2. Which Forms of Feminism Have Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley3. Dancing across the Minefield: Feminists Reflect on Generating, Owning, and Critiquing PowerJanet HalleyPart II. From the Transnational to the Local4. Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India’s Rape LawsPrabha Kotiswaran5. Anti-trafficking in Israel: Neo-abolitionist Feminists, Markets, Borders, and the StateHila Shamir6. When Rights Return: Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive Rights and against Sex-selective AbortionRachel RebouchéConclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance FeminismJanet HalleyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global SouthGovernance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. GaTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJanet HalleyPart I. Feminism Wields the Sword1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral FeminismKaren Engle2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking CampaignsElizabeth Bernstein3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth DiscourseHelen Reece4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention CourtsAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate MogulescuAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success StoryLeigh GoodmarkPart II. The Long March through the Institutions7. Governing Sex through BureaucracyJacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS ResponseAziza Ahmed9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security AgendaDianne Otto10. Sex Quotas and Burkini BansDarren RosenblumPart III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in CanadaMariana Valverde12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United StatesLibby Adler and Janet Halley13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and FeministsMaleiha Malik14. Gay Governance: A Queer CritiqueAeyal GrossPart IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law ReformsPrabha Kotiswaran16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in PakistanVanja Hamzić17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in ColombiaIsabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied PalestineRema Hammami19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to EmpowermentVasuki NesiahAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJanet HalleyPart I. Feminism Wields the Sword1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral FeminismKaren Engle2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking CampaignsElizabeth Bernstein3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth DiscourseHelen Reece4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention CourtsAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate MogulescuAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success StoryLeigh GoodmarkPart II. The Long March through the Institutions7. Governing Sex through BureaucracyJacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS ResponseAziza Ahmed9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security AgendaDianne Otto10. Sex Quotas and Burkini BansDarren RosenblumPart III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in CanadaMariana Valverde12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United StatesLibby Adler and Janet Halley13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and FeministsMaleiha Malik14. Gay Governance: A Queer CritiqueAeyal GrossPart IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law ReformsPrabha Kotiswaran16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in PakistanVanja Hamzić17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in ColombiaIsabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied PalestineRema Hammami19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to EmpowermentVasuki NesiahAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMelody Maxwellâs The Woman I Am analyses the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) represents the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, yet Southern Baptist womenâs voices have been underreported in studies of American religion and culture. In The Woman I Am, Melody Maxwell explores how female Southern Baptist writers and editors in the twentieth century depicted changing roles for women and responded to the tensions that arose as Southern Baptist women assumed leadership positions, especially in the areas of missions and denominational support. Given access to a century of primary sources and archival documents, Maxwell writes, as did many of her subjects, in a style that deftly combines the dispassionate eye of an observer with the multidimensional grasp of a participant. She exami

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Book SynopsisContributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.Trade Review“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.” —Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called HopeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra Graban Acknowledgments Introduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette Part I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri Hauman Chapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman Chapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara Propper Chapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker Milbourne Chapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean Sharp Part II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica Ouellette Chapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin Winet Chapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. Kondrlik Chapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz Lane Chapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa Blankenship Part III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine Fredlund Chapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye Roberson Chapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany Kinney Chapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy Ratliff Chapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. Banaji Chapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany Mannon Afterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. Blair Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Preconceptions Chapter 2. The Virtue of Efficiency Chapter 3. Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not Chapter 4. Margaret Sanger: The Performance of Polemic Chapter 5. The Tender Cover of the Law Chapter 6. The Children's Bureau: Into the Care of the State Chapter 7. Lillian Gilbreth: The Engineer of Motherhood Chapter 8. Consequences Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe Women's Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English women's suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property destruction as a strategy to achieve suffrage for women. Because of its comparative rarity, terrorist violence by reform (as opposed to revolutionary) movements is underexplored, as is the discursive rhetoric that accompanies this violence. Largely because of the moral stance that drives such movements, the need to justify violence is greater for the reformist than for the revolutionary terrorist. The burden of rhetorical justification falls even more heavily on women utilizing violence, an option generally perceived as open only to men. The militant suffragettes justifed their turn to limited terrorism by arguing that their violence was part of a just war. Appropriating the rhetoric of a just war in defense of reformist violence allowed the suffragettes to exercise a traditional rhetorical vision for the sake of radical action. The c

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Book SynopsisExamining an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life.Trade Review“Playing House in the American West is an impressive book. Its chronological scope is large, as is its range of writers and genres. It articulately and imaginatively shows the wide variety of ways women writers and women’s writings have been able to move past what might have been the stifl ing drudgery of housework into affirming, creative, agency- producing acts of playing house.”—Western American Literature “Cathryn Halverson’s major contribution to American literary studies in Playing House in the American West is to map an alternative trajectory in women’s writing about the West, and this alternative is all the more appealing because it largely ignores, and acknowledges its displacement of, the confining and oversimplifying narratives that reduce much of western American literature to the political unconscious of American imperialism…. The strength of Halverson’s book is in its acknowledgment of these moments when self- fashioning and “playing house” are undone by imperial power and social hierarchies, all the while focusing on how, despite these “grim realities,” women’s writing about the West so frequently strives to offer “more palatable versions of their lives” (175).”—Legacy“Through a series of incisive literary readings, Cathryn Halverson reconfigures the U.S. West as a space of liberating domesticity--the more unorthodox, the better. Exploring women life writers who range across race, class, sexuality, period, and genre, she excavates compelling conversations and legacies, unsettles assumptions about home-making, and mines unsuspected layers of textual play. The revealed relationship between women and the West just became that much richer.”—Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 “Cathryn Halverson’s splendid Playing House in the American West is a rigorous, original, and finally joyous book that shakes loose a century or more of assumptions about western women’s writing and regional domestic space. In opposition to the received notion of the West as a land of vast open spaces and the big outdoors, Halverson reveals women authors who posit the home as the expression of, and perhaps source of, both personal autonomy and regional identity. Thus Halverson herself engages in a compelling form of serious play, arguing that these authors—including Caroline Kirkland, Willa Cather, M.F.K. Fisher, and Marilynne Robinson—actively reimagine not only gender roles and western domesticity but the American West itself. Halverson is intentionally thinking inside the box, and she has written an ambitious book that will prove to be an important and enduring contribution to the study of western American literature and culture.”—Nathaniel Lewis, author of Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Georgia Lowcountry.

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Book SynopsisExplores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of colour as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and environmental policies and practices.

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Book SynopsisAmerica’s Collectible Cookbooks is a wonderful concoction of gossipy morsels and serious reflection about cookbooks and cookbook authors. Although the names Fannie Merritt Farmer, Eliza Leslie, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Irma Rombauer are familiar to generations of American books, few know how really extraordinary these women were.Trade Review“America’s Collectible Cookbooks…is a remarkable olio of gossipy tidbits, history, and an up-front look at the cooks who so greatly influenced our lives. Reading the recipes from early-day cookbooks makes one marvel at the women who became such expert cooks using such limited instructions…A fascinating read.” * Las Vegas Sun *“Scrupulously researched but eminently readable.” * Contemporary Collectibles *“This book provides a valuable reference for tracking historical food preparation and home care information and learning about cultural contributors to our food heritage and kitchen management. It encourages local cookbook projects and collectors, libraries, and historical museums to preserve local treasures and collectibles…Encourages the enjoyment and study of food habits, customs, social and economic history, and scientific and technological progress.” * Journal of the American Dietetic Association *“This is an important contribution to our understanding of a key element of American popular culture that both academic and public libraries, whatever their policy on collecting actual cookbooks may be, should acquire for the light it sheds on several aspects of our cultural and social history.” * Popular Culture in Libraries *“America’s Collectible Cookbooks should be required reading for all cookbook collectors and for every woman or man who’s ever imagined the story behind that butter-smeared copy of ‘Joy of Cooking.’ Cooks will enjoy the dozens of period menus and recipes included in each section (side effect of this book: It makes you hungry).” * Syndicated Columnist, “Collectibles” *

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1916, as the workers for woman suffrage were laying plans for another attack on the bastions of male supremacy, the idea for The Sturdy Oak was born: a satiric look at the gender roles of the time written as a collaborative effort by the leading authors of the day, such as Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, and Kathleen Norris.

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Book SynopsisJohn Ruskin’s prominence as the author of “Of Queen’s Gardens,” his principal statement of Victorian gender opposition, makes him an ideal example for analyzing the power of mythic discourse to undermine gender division.

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Book SynopsisContemporary French writing on the Maghreb—that part of Africa above the Sahara—is truly postmodern in scope, the rich product of multifaceted histories promoting the blending of two worlds, two identities, two cultures, and two languages.Nomadic

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Book SynopsisHow a woman reporter from Columbus, Ohio, broke into the ranks of the male-dominated upper echelon at the New York Times.Trade Review“Charlotte Curtis was one smart, tough, and sassy journalist. Marilyn Greenwald splendidly captures the life and times of a newspaper legend.” * Village Voice *“What can you say about a woman who was brilliant, unique, and never let her own success go to her head — a woman who died all too young at the tender age of fifty-eight and at the top of her game?”

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Book SynopsisOur Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women (Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot), Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.Trade Review“Adams’s pioneering work in nineteenth-century feminist theology puts her at the forefront of an expanding new field of scholarship.”

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Book SynopsisTracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines, with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because she exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities.Drawing on the recent work of feminist historians, Patricia Johnson lays the groundwork for a reinterpretation of Victorian social-problem fiction that highlights its treatment of issues that particularly affected working-class women: sexual harassment; the interconnections between domestic ideology and domestic violence; their relationships to male-dominated working-class movements such as Luddism, Chartism, and unionism; and their troubled connection to middle-class feminism.Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction ranging from hot-tempered

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and comprehensive account of the role Ohio women have assumed in the history of the state and a narrative of their hardships and of the victories that have been won in the past two hundred years.

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Book SynopsisIn 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had occurred: women had penetrated even the venerable walls of Oxford and Cambridge and could earn degrees at the many new universities founded during Victoria’s reign.Trade ReviewLaura Green's generous intelligence and literary sensibility mark every turn taken by these alert readings. Tracing the lines of stress shot through women's educational reform by both domestic ideology and liberal individualism, this study of Victorian fiction is itself an education. * editor of Victorian Studies *Educating Women offers insights into gender ideologies in Victorian England and into the specific ways they play out in important Victorian novels. Every page of this study offers something new to think about, and the study as a whole provides a new lens through which to view Victorian literature. * author of Dangerous by Degrees and The Diva's Mouth: Body, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics *

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Book SynopsisIn 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had occurred: women had penetrated even the venerable walls of Oxford and Cambridge and could earn degrees at the many new universities founded during Victoria's reign.Trade ReviewLaura Green's generous intelligence and literary sensibility mark every turn taken by these alert readings. Tracing the lines of stress shot through women's educational reform by both domestic ideology and liberal individualism, this study of Victorian fiction is itself an education. * editor of Victorian Studies *Educating Women offers insights into gender ideologies in Victorian England and into the specific ways they play out in important Victorian novels. Every page of this study offers something new to think about, and the study as a whole provides a new lens through which to view Victorian literature. * author of Dangerous by Degrees and The Diva's Mouth: Body, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics *

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Book SynopsisAlthough George Eliot has long been described as “the novelist of the Midlands,” she often brought the outer reaches of the empire home in her work. Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot studies Eliot’s problematic, career-long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness.Placing

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Book SynopsisOne of the most intriguing cultural artifacts of our nation’s past was made by young girls—the embroidery sampler. In Ohio Is My Dwelling Place, American decorative arts expert Sue Studebaker documents the samplers created in Ohio prior to 1850, the girls who made them, their families, and the teachers who taught them to stitch.InTrade Review“Sue Studebaker's comprehensive book covering the development of female education and the role of needlework in a young lady’s life in Ohio significantly contributes to the study of regional styles in American needlework and samplers.”

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Book SynopsisRaising the Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls literary housekeeping. The three writers she examines rejected turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to set the human household in order.TTrade Review“Raising the Dust is a scrupulously careful and deeply useful book. Sutton-Ramspeck daringly brings together disparate fields: American and British literature, progressive and conservative authors, domestic science and aesthetic paeans, cultural history and fiction. This interdisciplinary work, impressive in its own right, produces some quite exciting juxtapositions.”

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Book SynopsisThe literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.Trade Review“…(Women & Slavery, Volume 1 clearly demonstrates that far from simply being a by-product of a trade in male slaves, in many societies women were the prime focus of the slave trade.…” * Africa: The Journal of the IAI *“The geographic and methodological diversity of the chapters constitute one of the collection’s salient appeals.… The two volumes challenge us to reconsider women and slavery and appreciate the strongly gendered nature of servitude in world history.” * African Studies Review *“Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic offers an exciting addition to the scholarship on gender and slavery. Students and professors alike will find this volume provocative and useful in examining the role of women in slavery and slave trades.… This collection, and its sister publication, Women and Slavery: The Modern Atlantic, by the same editors, work masterfully together and could serve as the basis for an entire course on women and slavery.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“All these contributions broaden and deepen the historian’s craft as well as our understanding of the gendered nature of slave-life in each instance. We learn of queens and thralls struggling to survive, of the lives of slave-washerwomen, and the significance of ‘maturity’ among female slaves…. Measured in terms of (Sue Miers’s) own career, this volume shows just what a long way the historiography of Africanist slavery has come and where it yet needs to go.” * Slavery and Abolition *“I believe these essays have an audience among anyone interested not only in the intersecting histories of slavery and women, but also those who are intrigued more generally by the historian's craft.”“Women and Slavery (Volumes 1 & 2) makes a significant contribution to our understanding of slavery in a global context” and “showing the centrality of women to slave systems around the world.” * Journal of Global History *Table of ContentsAfrica and the Western Indian Ocean Islands; Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller Introduction; George Michael La Rue A Love Triangle in Cairo: A Generation of African Slave Women in Egypt, from c. 1820 to the Plague Epidemic of 1834-35; Timothy Fernyhough Women, Gender History, and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Ethiopia; Richard B. Allen Free Women of Color and the Socioeconomic Marginality in Mauritius, 1767-1830; Gwyn Campbell Female Bondage in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-95; Katrin Bromber Mjakazi, Mpambe, Mjoli, Suria - Female Slaves in Swahili Sources; Jan-Georg Deutsch Female Slave Prices and Changes in the Life Cycle of Female Slaves. Some Evidence from German East Africa; Fred Morton Female Inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850-80; Elizabeth Grzymala Jordon "It All Comes Out in the Wash": Engendering Archaeological Interpretations of Slavery; Sharifa Ahjum The Law of the (White) Father: Psychoanalysis, "Paternalism," and the Historiography of Slave Women at the Cape of Good Hope; Philip J. Havlik From Pariahs to Patriots: Women Slavers in Nineteenth-Century "Portugese" Guinea; Richard Roberts Women, Household Instability, and the End of Slavery in Banamba and Gumbu, French Soudan, 1905-1912.; Martin A. Klein Sex, Power and Family Life in the Harem: A Comparative Study; Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch Women, Marriage, and Slavery in Africa South of the Sahara during the Nineteenth Century; Paul E. Lovejoy The Sahara-Atlantic Divide, or How Women Fit into the Slave Trade.

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Book SynopsisThe literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.Trade Review“I believe these essays have an audience among anyone interested not only in the intersecting histories of slavery and women, but also those who are intrigued more generally by the historian's craft.”“Nicely, (Women and Slavery, Vol. 2) reads as a conversation—among people who disagree—about the 'second sex' and slavery…. The collection should be commended for its panoply of concerns and authors and its breadth and depth of historical research. ” * University of Toronto Quarterly *“(T)he anthology raises a number of important questions and provides scholarship of the highest quality on a subject that has too often been omitted from early studies of slavery.” * The Historian *“The geographic and methodological diversity of the chapters constitute one of the collection’s salient appeals…. The two volumes challenge us to reconsider women and slavery and appreciate the strongly gendered nature of servitude in world history.” * African Studies Review *(Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic) and its sister publication, Women and Slavery: The Modern Atlantic, by the same editors, work masterfully together and could serve as the basis for an entire course on women and slavery.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“(Women and Slavery, Vols. 1 & 2) are accomplished, extensive and innovative collections that make a major contribution not only to slavery studies, but also to the histories of the various regions represented, to ‘women’s history,’ and to gender, race and area studies more generally.” * Africa: The Journal of the IAI *“Women and Slavery (Volumes 1 & 2) makes a significant contribution to our understanding of slavery in a global context” and “showing the centrality of women to slave systems around the world.” * Journal of Global History *Table of ContentsThe Americas; Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller Introduction; Mariza de Carvalho Soares Gender and Power among African Catholics in Colonial Brazil; Myriam Cottias Gender and Republican Citizenship in the French West Indies, 1848-1945; Bernard Moitt Freedom from Bondage at a Price: Women and Redemption from Slavery in the French Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century; Laurence Brown and Tara Inniss The Slave Family in the Transition to Freedom: Barbados, 1834-41; Kenneth Morgan Slave Women and Reproduction in Jamaica, c. 1776-1834; Henrice Altink Deviant and Dangerous: Proslavery Representations of Jamaican Slave Women's Sexuality, c. 1780-1834; Richard Follett "Lives of Living Death": The Reproductive Lives of Slave Women in the Cane World of Louisiana; Barbara Krauthamer A Particular Kind of Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, Kinship, and Freedom in the American Southeast; Laura Edwards Enslaved Women and the Law: Paradoxes of Subordination in the Post-Revolutionary Carolinas; Felipe Smith The "Condition of the Mother": The Legacy of Slavery in African American Literature of the Jim Crow Era; Claire Robertson and Marsha Robinson (Re)Modeling Slavery as if Women Matter/ed; Joseph C. Miller Domiciled and Domesticated: Slaving as a History of Women.

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Book SynopsisNegotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.Trade Review“Abrams Locklear honors the complexity of Appalachian identity by presenting a comprehensive and suitably multi-dimensional look at what it means to be a literate Appalachian woman….” * Studies in American Culture *“An important and revealing portrayal of Appalachian women that works to challenge stereotypes, (Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment) raises questions about the difficulties of negotiating multiple literacies.” * Journal of American Culture *“Informed by literacy theory, Locklear’s analysis is further enhanced by her interviews with DeRosier and Smith, which she includes in this volume. This is a thoughtful contribution to Ohio University Press’s ‘Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.’’ * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *“Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment is the best study we have to date of the ways in which becoming literate is always a way of becoming a new kind of person. In the process, there is always gain and loss. As people change who they are, they come to see who they were differently. This dilemma is general, but is rendered moving, visible, and real in this striking book.”“In Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment, Erica Abrams Locklear carefully explores what happens when a modern, monolithic, metropolitan literacy is imposed upon residents of the Appalachian South. With great insight, she shows that such literacy, offered as a gift to presumed illiterates, in fact threatens lettered ways of knowing and being that are well adapted to the region’s traditional social arrangements. Understanding in particular how women writers respond to this threat—which for them is also sometimes an opportunity—adds much to what we know about the complex legacies of literacy.” * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *“From many perspectives, Erica Abrams Locklear explores the cultural, social, and psychological complexities of literacy with clarity and compassion: an absorbing and enlightening study.”

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Book SynopsisIn Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?Trade Review“Original and stimulating, Our New Husbands Are Here challenges traditional historical accounts of gender and tests new concepts and frameworks that promise insightful openings in African studies.”“This refreshingly bold and provocative study of Kankan…draws upon a broad range of sources…. By tracking the constantly shifting means through which households and wealth have been constructed over time, the author sets the reader up extremely well to appreciate the radical shift in the understanding of marriage, households, and gender that was introduced under French colonial rule.” * American Historical Review *“By focusing on the household as a social, political, and economic unit, rather than merely the domain of women, Osborn illuminates the intimate connections between slavery, marriage, and family in West Africa and de-centers the male-dominated state…. Our New Husbands Are Here represents a rethinking of scholarly assumptions about the relationships between gender, power, and the state that provides an important intervention in Africanist scholarship as well as a helpful tool in the classroom.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Emily Osborn has written a highly accessible and well composed social and political history of Kankan covering the period up to the First World War. She explores and impressive variety of sources: oral history, local manuscripts, and archival texts. This work is an important contribution to debates in the social history of West Africa and to gender studies.” * Journal of African History *“Emily Osborn gives us a deep and fascinating insight into the important inland center of Kankan which has been sadly and strangely neglected in the historiography and anthropology of West Africa. She makes an enduring contribution to African history with ripples into the political science and anthropology of household and gender.”“Pathbreaking in its findings and approach, this elegantly written study explores the intimate relationship between household-building and state-building in West Africa over a span of three centuries. Through a sophisticated interrogation of oral and archival sources, Osborn has produced a new understanding of statecraft that bridges the artificial divide between the precolonial and colonial and anchors women firmly at the core.”

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Book SynopsisNelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994.

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Book SynopsisPreviously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals of Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) contain poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman’s perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century.Trade Review“A crucial, rare, and enlightening resource. This work has the potential to deepen our understanding of the challenges and rewards of Appalachian women writing.”“These writings, expertly collected by Cox, delve into Mile's life and observations on her family's challenging economic circumstances, her son's death from scarlet fever, and her own fight against tuberculosis, all transcribed in her trademark evocative prose.” * Appalachian Heritage *“The triumphs and trials of writer-artist Emma Bell Miles will resonate with modern readers. Steven Cox’s balanced introduction and careful editing of Miles’s journals (1908–1918) provide context for a take on Appalachian life that was at once sympathetic and unromantic, prescient yet still elusive. Sadly the short life the Journal records also reveals the price of a deep ambivalence for tradition and modernity in an era eerily similar to our own.”“Reading Miles’s journals thirty-six years ago in the Oklahoma home of daughter Judith Miles Ford, I felt then the world must see her poignant observations of the natural and cultural environment of her Appalachia. Steven Cox’s choices from Miles’s personal writings reveal powerful insights of a woman who lived, loved, absorbed, and recorded her place more than 100 years past.”Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Foreword by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Walden's Ridge * Chapter 2: Return to Walden's Ridge * Chapter 3: Tragedy and Heartbreak * Chapter 4: "I Must Be Free!" * Chapter 5: Pine Breeze Sanitarium * Chapter 6: A Brief Separation * Chapter 7: The Good Gray Mother * Epilogue * Notes * Index

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Book SynopsisIn Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria.Trade Review“One of the main planks on which this elegantly written book stands is the ideology of salvation as a political discourse and its deployment in the contestation over the notions of modern girlhood. The significance of Making Modern Girls in African studies is incontestable—it is by all standards one of the most sophisticated studies of girlhood in colonial Africa. George presents her carefully mined primary data in an engaging manner, rendering a first-rate analysis of the struggle about the ideas of modern girlhood by a spectrum of people (Nigerians and British).” * American Historical Review *“Firmly grounded and intellectually engaging, Making Modern Girls makes a significant contribution to colonial urban social history and also to the study of the late colonial state, its nationalist opponents, and their ‘welfarist’ and interventionist attitudes.”“By profiling the experiences of working-class girls—namely girl hawkers and ‘those who set out to save them in nineteenth-century colonial Lagos’—[George] emphasizes children as colonial subjects and discusses how an examination of their interactions with the colonial state adds a new perspective to our understanding of European rule, citizenship building, and knowledge production in Africa. … Making Modern Girls has something to offer to all readers. … This work offers a deep perspective on the contours of modernity in colonial Africa, while presenting new insights into the links among gender, labor, and sexuality in colonial Africa.” * African Studies Review *“George approaches the history of girls and girlhood through the lens of labour, focusing on the constitutive relationship between gender, class, generation, and work. Because of the dearth of scholarship focusing on girls as historical subjects, the author had to determine the different types of work that girls performed in public spaces and how adults responded to their labour. … Making Modern Girls … makes a significant contribution to scholarly understandings of girls and girlhood in modern Africa. … It would be useful in a historical methods course to show how silences in the historical record can be read as sources in and of themselves.” * Canadian Journal of History *

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Book SynopsisStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.Trade Review“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *“Standing Our Ground will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *“(Standing Our Ground) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *“Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of the expansion of power of the religious right in postsocialist Poland and its effects on individual rights and social mores.Trade Review“One of the many strengths of Mishtal’s study is that she doesn’t just describe a top-down model of power—she also focuses on everyday women of different economic classes and how they negotiated the legal and cultural restrictions on abortion and contraceptives.… I have been raving about this book to anyone who will listen.” * Cosmopolitan Review *“One of Mishtal’s most important contributions is her analysis of the gendering of biopolitics in Poland and the ways the Catholic Church has undertaken a politics of morality based on individual surveillance and political intimidation. Methodologically sophisticated, innovative, and refreshingly free of jargon, this is an important work.”“This excellent, insightful ethnography contributes important analysis to studies on Poland’s most recent history as well as anthropology of reproduction and women’s studies. Since ‘Poland is emblematic of the pivotal role of gender in nation-making (197),’ it is also the must-read book for scholars and students interested in gender studies.” * Social Anthropology *“Refreshingly incisive … A compelling ethnographic account… Mishtal's book will interest scholars of feminist activism, political transitions, and political religion as well as anthropologists of Poland and of reproduction. Her very accessible prose makes this book suitable for a wide audience, including undergraduates.” * Anthropologica *“This is the book I have been waiting for. … Meticulously researched and beautifully written … The rich data, critical yet balanced analysis, and comprehensive historical and cultural background all create an invaluable insight into the female experience in twenty-first-century Poland.…This is by far the best book about women in Poland I have ever read.” * Journal of Contemporary Religion *“This well researched and important book, which succeeds not only as a case study of a particular Polish paradox and its localized effects, but also as a broader exposition of the contradictions of the democratization process. Crucially, the book also happens to come at a particularly pertinent moment in history, given Poland’s recent political upheavals, which threaten to limit further women’s rights and access to reproductive health services. Given its accessibility, the book would be of interest to specialist and non- specialist audiences.” * Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe *“Mishtal provides a very thorough account of a series of church and state attempts to curtail women’s reproductive rights … She does a great job in analyzing various discourses on a given subject…” * Journal of Church and State *“A powerful book on postsocialist Poland from a perspective of gender policies and women’s reproductive practices…. (Mishtal) presents a compelling analysis of what it means when religious institutions, in this case the Catholic Church in Poland, affect state policies and intrude on everyday life of believers and nonbelievers alike. The stakes for women are especially high.” * The Polish Review *“Mishtal’s book is a compelling and horrifying account of how Polish institutions intervened and gained command over women’s lives, and how women have been losing control over who will have access to their bodies and the circumstances that warrant that access. A must-read for all who are interested in one of the most contested aspects of transformational politics in Poland—reproductive rights.”

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Book SynopsisScholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region.Trade Review“Combines secondary and primary material in a way that no other existing book on the topic does…. It is a needed book [that represents] a milestone in the scholarship.”“This volume offers an updated historical and intersectional feminist perspective on women in West Virginia and, more broadly, Appalachia...Women of the Mountain South would also be appealing to readers outside of academia interested in...Appalachia and the contributions of women to the histories of these places.” * West Virginia History N.S. 11, No. 1, Spring 2017 *“Connie Rice Park and Marie Tedesco have masterfully organized this collection of important new essays and commentaries on a rich array of primary documents to add depth and breadth to our understanding of 200 years of diverse women’s lives and livelihood in the Mountain South.”“This is a fabulous and long-overdue collection that highlights just how rich and diverse are the experiences and identities of women in Appalachia. It includes work from some of the best new scholars on the region along with important insights from seasoned veterans. Combining key documents, meaty essays, and questions for discussion, this book will surely be a gold mine for Appalachian studies, but it will also illuminate much broader themes in the gendered history of the United States. I can’t wait to assign it to a class.”Table of Contents* Acknowledgments* Introduction: A Tapestry of Voices Women's History in the Mountain South Connie Park Rice*Part One: Identity and Women of the Mountain South* One: Women in Cherokee Society Status, Race, and Power from the Colonial Period to Removal Marie Tedesco* Two: Mothers' Day v. Mother's Day The Jarvis Women and the Meaning of Motherhood Katharine Lane Antolini* Three: Female Stereotypes and the Creation of Appalachia, 1870-1940 Deborah L. Blackwell* Four: Women on a Mission Southern Appalachia's "Benevolent Workers" on Film John C. Inscoe* Five: Embodying Appalachia Progress, Pride, and Beauty Pageantry, 1930s to the Present Karen W. Tice* Documents* Moravian Lebenslauf (Memoir or Life's Journey)* Petition for Divorce* Women of the Mountains Rev. Edgar Tufts* Rebel in the Mosque: Going Where I Know I Belong Asra Q. Nomani* An Undocumented Mexican Mother of a High School Dropout in East Tennessee Maria Alejandra Lopez* Questions for Discussion*Part Two: Women and Work in Appalachia* Six: Challenging the Myth of Separate Spheres Women's Work in the Antebellum Mountain South Wilma A. Dunaway* Seven: Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem Prostitution in Wheeling during the Civil War Barbara J. Howe* Eight: Professionalizing "Mountain Work" in Appalachia Women in the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers Penny Messinger* Nine: "'Two fer' the Money"? African American Women in the Appalachian Coalfields Carletta A. Bush* Ten: Flopping Tin and Punching Metal A Survey of Women Steelworkers in West Virginia, 1890-1970 Louis C. Martin* Documents* The Indenture of Mary Hollens* The Testimony of Mrs. Maggie Waters* A Working Woman Speaks* The Pikeville Methodist Hospital Strike* Poetry from the Coal Mining Women's Support Team News* Questions for Discussion*Part Three: Women and Activism in the Mountain South* Eleven: In the Footsteps of Mother Jones, Mothers of the Miners Florence Reece, Molly Jackson, and Sarah Ogan Gunning H. Ada m Ackley* Twelve: "She Now Cries Out" Linda Neville and the Limitations of Venereal Disease Control Policies in Kentucky Evelyn Ashley Sorrell* Thirteen: Garrison, Drewry, Meadows, and Bateman Race, Class, and Activism in the Mountain State Lois Lucas* Fourteen: Ethel New v. Atlantic Greyhound Fighting for Social Justice in Appalachia Jan Voogd* Fifteen: "Remembering the Past, Working for the Future" West Virginia Women Fight for Environmental Heritage and Economic Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Joyce M. Barry* Documents* The Petition of Margaret Lee* The Fight for Suffrage* Abortion in the Mountain South* Helen Louise Gibson Compton: Founder and Proprietor of The Shamrock Carol Burch-Brown* At the Intersection of Cancer Survivorship, Gender, Family, and Place in Southern Central Appalachia: A Case Study Kelly A. Dorgan, Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson* Questions for Discussion* Epilogue: Reflections on the Concept of Place in the Study of Women in the Mountain South A Roundtable Discussion with the Authors* Contributors* Index

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Book SynopsisScholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region.Trade Review“Combines secondary and primary material in a way that no other existing book on the topic does…. It is a needed book [that represents] a milestone in the scholarship.”“This volume offers an updated historical and intersectional feminist perspective on women in West Virginia and, more broadly, Appalachia...Women of the Mountain South would also be appealing to readers outside of academia interested in...Appalachia and the contributions of women to the histories of these places.” * West Virginia History N.S. 11, No. 1, Spring 2017 *“Connie Rice Park and Marie Tedesco have masterfully organized this collection of important new essays and commentaries on a rich array of primary documents to add depth and breadth to our understanding of 200 years of diverse women’s lives and livelihood in the Mountain South.”“This is a fabulous and long-overdue collection that highlights just how rich and diverse are the experiences and identities of women in Appalachia. It includes work from some of the best new scholars on the region along with important insights from seasoned veterans. Combining key documents, meaty essays, and questions for discussion, this book will surely be a gold mine for Appalachian studies, but it will also illuminate much broader themes in the gendered history of the United States. I can’t wait to assign it to a class.”Table of Contents* Acknowledgments* Introduction: A Tapestry of Voices Women's History in the Mountain South Connie Park Rice*Part One: Identity and Women of the Mountain South* One: Women in Cherokee Society Status, Race, and Power from the Colonial Period to Removal Marie Tedesco* Two: Mothers' Day v. Mother's Day The Jarvis Women and the Meaning of Motherhood Katharine Lane Antolini* Three: Female Stereotypes and the Creation of Appalachia, 1870-1940 Deborah L. Blackwell* Four: Women on a Mission Southern Appalachia's "Benevolent Workers" on Film John C. Inscoe* Five: Embodying Appalachia Progress, Pride, and Beauty Pageantry, 1930s to the Present Karen W. Tice* Documents* Moravian Lebenslauf (Memoir or Life's Journey)* Petition for Divorce* Women of the Mountains Rev. Edgar Tufts* Rebel in the Mosque: Going Where I Know I Belong Asra Q. Nomani* An Undocumented Mexican Mother of a High School Dropout in East Tennessee Maria Alejandra Lopez* Questions for Discussion*Part Two: Women and Work in Appalachia* Six: Challenging the Myth of Separate Spheres Women's Work in the Antebellum Mountain South Wilma A. Dunaway* Seven: Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem Prostitution in Wheeling during the Civil War Barbara J. Howe* Eight: Professionalizing "Mountain Work" in Appalachia Women in the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers Penny Messinger* Nine: "'Two fer' the Money"? African American Women in the Appalachian Coalfields Carletta A. Bush* Ten: Flopping Tin and Punching Metal A Survey of Women Steelworkers in West Virginia, 1890-1970 Louis C. Martin* Documents* The Indenture of Mary Hollens* The Testimony of Mrs. Maggie Waters* A Working Woman Speaks* The Pikeville Methodist Hospital Strike* Poetry from the Coal Mining Women's Support Team News* Questions for Discussion*Part Three: Women and Activism in the Mountain South* Eleven: In the Footsteps of Mother Jones, Mothers of the Miners Florence Reece, Molly Jackson, and Sarah Ogan Gunning H. Ada m Ackley* Twelve: "She Now Cries Out" Linda Neville and the Limitations of Venereal Disease Control Policies in Kentucky Evelyn Ashley Sorrell* Thirteen: Garrison, Drewry, Meadows, and Bateman Race, Class, and Activism in the Mountain State Lois Lucas* Fourteen: Ethel New v. Atlantic Greyhound Fighting for Social Justice in Appalachia Jan Voogd* Fifteen: "Remembering the Past, Working for the Future" West Virginia Women Fight for Environmental Heritage and Economic Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Joyce M. Barry* Documents* The Petition of Margaret Lee* The Fight for Suffrage* Abortion in the Mountain South* Helen Louise Gibson Compton: Founder and Proprietor of The Shamrock Carol Burch-Brown* At the Intersection of Cancer Survivorship, Gender, Family, and Place in Southern Central Appalachia: A Case Study Kelly A. Dorgan, Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson* Questions for Discussion* Epilogue: Reflections on the Concept of Place in the Study of Women in the Mountain South A Roundtable Discussion with the Authors* Contributors* Index

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Book SynopsisFirst formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women’s League has grown into a leading organization in the women’s movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation’s century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as a core constitutional value.

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Book SynopsisDespite international human rights decrees condemning it, marriage by force persists to this day. In this volume, the editors bring together legal scholars, anthropologists, historians, and development workers to explore the range of forced marriage practices in sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review“This fascinating collection addresses the important problem of determining what forced marriage is through the perspective of historical studies of marriage from precolonial through postcolonial eras in Africa. The essays destabilize any idea that there is a simple dichotomy between forced and consensual marriage, and show that calling forms of coerced marriage customary or traditional ignores the extent to which tradition is constantly subject to change.”“Marriage by Force? pulls back the curtain and reveals the layers of social structures, gender, resistance, and liberation which manifest themselves when marriage is forced. The volume asks pertinent questions about a continuum of coercion in war and peace. Ultimately, the contributors have provided new perspectives on marriage, where contestations exist, with regard to not only the patriarchies of control of sexuality, the body and behavior, but also over labor, belonging and longing.”“This eloquent volume tackles age-old yet pressing problems of coercion, gender, and marriage in present-day Africa. The authors offer compelling case studies to demonstrate the deep-seated and complex values that underpin the subordination of women and girls and highlight the vulnerability of the female gender in the face of a growing movement—in Africa and abroad—to address the problem. This volume is a must-read for all those who teach, think, write, and formulate laws and public policy about gender and violence.”“...This volume, dealing with one of the ‘more critical human rights challenges in the twenty-first century sub-Saharan Africa’, is a timely and useful contribution to a broader literature which seeks to place gender-based violence into historical, social, and cultural context. It ought to be essential reading for scholars and practitioners engaging in work to analyse and intervene in gender-based violence on the African continent and elsewhere.” * Africa at LSE *

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Book SynopsisIn this concise biography, Scully shows us how the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks to many of the key themes of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“A clear and concise introduction to the woman and to the domestic and international politics that have shaped her personally and professionally.”“In scarcely 100 short pages, this excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series offers a valuable perspective on Liberia’s outgoing President, and Africa’s first elected female Head of State.” * LSE Blog (London School of Economics) *

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Book SynopsisThe latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving tells the story of Josie Mpama/Palmer’s activism and political legacy in South Africa and around the world.Trade Review“A fascinating, deeply researched biography of a key figure in black South African politics—a wonderful addition to our understanding of the early history of the South African Communist Party. The chapters on Josie Mpama’s family history are particularly illuminating on the complexities of ‘race’ in South African society.”“Robert R. Edgar presents the remarkable life story of little-known South African activist Josie Mpama/Palmer in this fascinating biography.”“Would make a wonderful supplemental text to courses in resistance politics, Black internationalism, and gendered activism, and students at both the undergraduate and graduate level will appreciate its readability.” * H-Net / H-Africa *

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