Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisBianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women who travel to Jamaica and form affective relationships Jamaican men and women that help construct notions of diasporic belonging and a form of happiness that resists the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States.Trade Review"Breathtaking. . . . Simply reading this book felt like an act of self-care for me—a breath of fresh air." -- Erica Lorraine Williams * Anthrodendum *"This book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, such as Black feminist studies, transnational and diaspora studies, and the anthropology of tourism and mobility. I particularly want to highlight the book’s contribution to affect studies, given Williams’ careful attention to the ways in which her interlocutors’ emotions are influenced by their racial, gendered, classed, and national subjectivities." -- Dannah Dennis * Journal for the Anthropology of North America *"The Pursuit of Happiness is an insightful and engrossing book about African-American women on topics few readers are privileged to hear about or understand." -- Jualynne E. Dodson * American Journal of Sociology *"The Pursuit of Happiness challenges white-centric understandings of Caribbean tourism, male-centric understandings of black diasporic connections, and youth-centric notions of leisure and emotional fulfillment. Williams's positioning of African American women as agents is especially remarkable. ... [This book] makes a vital contribution to transnational black feminist thought and feminist geography, African Diaspora studies, critical race studies, Caribbean studies, tourism studies, and cultural anthropology by centering black women's emotions and transnational mobilities within these fields." -- Nicosia Shakes * Anthropological Quarterly *"The Pursuit of Happiness is a beautifully written text which humanizes the lives, experiences, and desires of Black women. There are few exceptions wherein scholarly texts examines the experiences of U.S. Black women beyond the borders of the U.S. Williams' work is a guiding light as to how this may be successfully and meaningfully done in future works." -- Antwann Michael Simpkins * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. "Jamaica Crawled Into My Soul": Black Women, Affect, and the Promise of Diaspora 1 Interlude 27 1. More Than a Groove: Pursuing Happiness as a Political Project 31 Interlude 63 2. "Giving Back" to Jamaica: Experiencing Community and Conflict While Traveling with Diasporic Heart 65 Interlude 95 3. Why Jamaica? Seeking the Fantasy of a Black Paradise 99 Interlude 121 4. Breaking (It) Down: Gender, Emotional Entanglements, and the Realities of Romance Tourism 123 Interlude 159 5. Navigating (Virtual) Jamaica: Online Diasporic Contact Zones 163 Interlude 185 Epilogue. Lessons Learned 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 221

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Book SynopsisOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili—a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou—in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.Trade Review"Ezili’s Mirrors thoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. Ezili’s Mirrors is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive." -- Alexandria Smith * The New Inquiry *"I have longed for a book as daring as Ezili's Mirrors." -- Meredith Coleman-Tobias * Reading Religion *"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor." -- Darius Bost * The Black Scholar *"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s Ezili’s Mirrors. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on." -- Gloria Wekker * TSQ *"Ezili's Mirrors makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally." -- Roberto Strongman * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song 1 Introduction. For the Love of Laveau 3 Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing 29 1. To Transcender Transgender 31 Bridge. Sissy Werk 65 2. Mache Ansanm 67 Bridge. My Femdom, My Love 99 3. Riding the Red 101 Bridge. For the Party Girls 133 4. Its a Party 135 Bridge. Baía and Marigo 169 Conclusion. Arties's Song 171 Notes 195 Glossary 223 Bibliography 225 Index 241

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Book SynopsisIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women''s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre''s political potential lies in the authors'' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality''s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slavenarratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these tTrade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country's most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies such as these, as Elena Serrano describes in her book, were founded on the idea that laypeople could contribute to the advancement of their country by providing useful knowledge, and their fellows often referred to themselves as improvers, or friends of the country. After intense debates, the duchess of Benavente, along with nine distinguished ladies, claimed, won, and exercised the right of women to participate in shaping the future of their nation by inaugurating the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, or the Committee of Ladies of Honor and Merit. Ten years later, the Junta established a network of over sixty correspondents extending from Tenerife to Asturias and Austria to Cuba. With this book, Serrano tells the unknown story of how the duc

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Book SynopsisThis book presents in one volume a selection of the most representative, outstanding writing by Latin American women writers. Written entirely in Spanish, it is intended for third and fourth-year students.

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Book SynopsisAvailable Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the intersection between water conservation and women's roles in a variety of Latin American settings—rural and urban, across a range of countries.Trade ReviewOpposing Currents provides a comprehensive overview of women's disadvantages with respect to water rights in Latin America and why and how this matters. In a series of lively essays, the authors in this volume demonstrate that women are central in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water [and] make a compelling case for a gender perspective in water policy, water management, and water projects. -Carmen Diana Deere, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; ""Offers an innovative interpretation of the interaction of two powerful currents: competition for access to scarce usable water in societies undergoing wrenching socioeconomic change, and the emerging influence of women as a significant political force in Latin America""-John J. Bailey, Georgetown University

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Book SynopsisWit's End is an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy, seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. Zwagerman argues that women, whose direct, explicit performative speech has been traditionally denied, or not taken seriously, have often turned to humor as a means of communicating with men.Trade Review"What's that funny sound?" she asked suddenly. It invariably made him angry when she heard a funny sound. "What funny sound?" he demanded. "You're always hearing funny sounds." She laughed briefly. "That's what you said when the bearing burned out," she reminded him.... "It sounds like a lot of safety pins being jiggled around in a tumbler." He snorted.... "Nothing gets the matter with a car that sounds like a lot of safety pins. I happen to know that." "Oh sure," she said. "You always happen to know everything." They drove on in silence.... - Excerpt from James Thurber's "A Couple of Hamburgers"

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Book SynopsisChoi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisIn Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters.Trade Review“Hedrick argues that chica lit novels negotiate a fine line between selling ethnicity and not seeming too ethnic or threateningly so; the lesson of chica lit is assimilable Americanness to which being Latina merely adds flavor without presenting conflict or critique.” —Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas|“Chica Lit is the first comprehensive study of an understudied genre. Hedrick analyzes the implications of how such texts convey a middle class Latina identity along with a reach toward other seemingly contradictory ethnic identity markers.” —Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.In this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts.Trade ReviewHow is literacy revalued as it moves across borders and boundaries? What forms does literate mobility take? What functions does the process of literate valuation perform? Refreshingly insightful and profoundly original, Writing on the Move offers an indispensable framework for theorizing about these questions and for understanding how competing social and economic forces shape, recognize, and regulate migrant literate lives."" - LuMing Mao, Miami University""Writing on the Move is an important contribution to transnational literacy studies. It not only complicates our understanding of literate repertoires performed in everyday life by migrant women with rich and resonant lives; it also extends our vocabulary of motive by critically examining how fixity, friction, and fluidity inform their literate values. A must-read in a time of great peril for immigrants in the U.S."" - Juan C. Guerra, University of Washington at Seattle

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Book SynopsisHow literature challenges the historical methodologies that have silenced the American experience of Puerto Rican women.

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Book SynopsisA compelling study of the changes in politics, society and gender roles brought about by the Women’s Land Armies during the world wars.

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Book SynopsisSophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato want us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. This book constitutes a major contribution to the debate between philosophical pluralism, unitarism, and pragmatism.Trade Review"... the publication of this anthology represents a major event in continental thought: a summa of Cassin's multifaceted philosophical project to date." -- Paul Earlie -Radical Philosophy "To think with Barbara Cassin is a pleasure and a privilege. English readers will be grateful to Fordham University Press for making Cassin's work in classics and philosophy available to them finally. Her unique readings, combining ancient texts and contemporary theory, breathe new life into everything they touch." -- -Bonnie Honig Brown University "Nietzsche considered that Socrates mischaracterized the Sophists and exiled them out of the Logos, making their art the other of philosophy, of what became the Platonic-Aristotelian orthodoxy in the history of western thought. Barbara Cassin's Sophistical Practice undertakes the Nietzschean task of reappraising the Sophists' enterprise and the lessons that their "other" conception of the Logos has for us, today: about the long suppressed feminine buried under the orthodox history of philosophy, about language and translation, about the meaning of a transitional justice (of the kind illustrated by post-apartheid South Africa) that demands not the absolute Platonic truth-in-itself but the sophistical "enough-truth-for" restoring communities fractured by hate and strife and giving them the sense of a future. This is a superb work of classical erudition at the service of the reflection on contemporary issues." -- -Soulemane Bachir Diagne Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a New Topology of Philosophy I. Unusual Presocratics 1. Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness 2. Speak if You Are a Man, or the Transcendantal Exclusion 3. Seeing Helen in Every Woman II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics 4. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece 5. Topos/Kairos, Two Modes of Invention 6. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy 7. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City? 8. Aristotle With and Against Kant on the Idea of Nature 9. Paradigms of the Past in Arendt and Heidegger IV. Performance and Performative 10. How To Really Do Things With Words. Performance Before the Performative 11. The Performative Without Condition, A University Sans Appel (with Ph. Buttgen) 12. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy 13. Philosophizing in Languages V. "Enough of the Truth For" 14. "Enough of the Truth ForEL" On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 15. Politics of Memory. On the Treatment of Hate 16. Google and Cultural Democracy 17. Relativity of Translation and Relativism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisReligious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his beloved,abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions.Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women's books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glTrade Review"Lifshitz has written an interesting book in which she presents new perspectives and scenarios on an ongoing debate." -TMR: The Medieval Review "Lifshitz's endeavor to map a cultural and intellectual world and explore a collective identity on the basis of a limited-yet unique-set of sources not only forms an important contribution to feminist scholarship but also creates a model for other manuscript-based explorations of collective identities. This is a splendid book." -- -Albrecht Diem Catholic Historical Review "In this pathbreaking book, Felice Lifshitz gives us a magisterial reexamination of the place of women in the early medieval Chritianity. Through an innovative and convincing analysis of a range of manuscripts produced by and for Frankish religious women, she shows us how the Christian culture and intellectual life of the eighth century were gender-egalitarian and even 'feminist' in the sense of a resistance to patriarchal ideas. An exciting book for medievalists, but also for anyone interested in the history of gender relations over the centuries." -- -Anne-Marie Helvetius Professor of Medieval History, University of Paris VIII-Vincennes-Saint-Denis. "Once again, Felice Lifshitz has emerged from the archives with set of neglected texts --this time, documents from the English monasteries of Leoba and Boniface in Germany--and applies her usual fierce scrutiny to the manuscripts in order to show the rest of us what we have missed, misconstrued, and misinterpreted about early medieval history, gender, and religion. This book offers a model method for graduate students and a reminder to all medievalists that the sometimes onerous analysis of manuscripts still has much to tell us about such well-known topics as the Christianization of Germany as well as such seemingly modern issues as gender equity and women's intellectual agency." -- -Lisa Bitel University of Southern California "Erudite, intellectually rigorous, and well-researched, Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia offers a more detailed study of religious women in eighth-century Francia in greater depth than anyone else has heretofore published." -- -Valerie L. Garver Northern Illinois UniversityTable of ContentsList of Color Plates List of Abbreviations Preface: Medieval Feminism Acknowledgments Part I: Introductions: People, Places, Things 1. Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 2. The Monastic Landscape of the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 3. The Gun(t)za and Abirhilt Manuscripts: Women and their Books in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia Part II: Textual Analysis 4. "I am Crucified in Christ" (Galatians 2:20): The Kitzingen Crucifixion Miniature and Visions of the Apostle Paul 5. "We Interpret Spiritual Truths to People Possessed of the Spirit" (1 Cor. 2:13): Studying the Bible with the Fathers of the Church 6. "The Sensual Man does not Perceive those Things that are of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints" 7. "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Cor. 4: 17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life Part III: Conclusions 8. "Now Concerning Virgins, I Have No Commandment of the Lord" (1 Cor. 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 9. "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Cor. 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe Notes Bibliography: Manuscripts and Printed Materials Index

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Book SynopsisThe two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives.Trade Review"A very important contribution in the field of Italian American studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, literary studies in general, and studies on the memoir in particular. Personal Effects explores Louise DeSalvo's work as a memoir writer, teacher, and scholar, illustrating the contribution Italian American authors can give both to Italian culture and to American culture and literature." -- -Caterina Romeo Sapienza Universita di Roma "Wide-ranging, sophisticated,and stylish, Personal Effects is both a brilliant tribute to a powerful scholar-memoirist and a significant contribution to Italian-American studies and cultural studies more generally. It is a collection to savor!" -- -Sandra Mortola Gilbert author of The Culinary Imagination "The essays in Personal Effects do more than bear witness to the extraordinary achievement of Louise DeSalvo; they extend and amplify her inquiry into the nature of self, the politics of identity, the consequences of trauma. No study of memoir, of biography, of the role of literary criticism in the understanding of our time, can be complete without this multifaceted colloquy. Like the work of DeSalvo herself, this is a book of heartfelt intelligence and brilliant passion." -- -Richard Hoffman author of Half the House, and Love & Fury "Personal Effects is a significant contribution to DeSalvo scholarship. It is a stunning example of the power of blending literary and cultural criticism with creative nonfiction." -- -Roseanne Giannini Quinn DeAnza College "With equal parts scholarship and creativity, Personal Effects penetrates the diversity and importance of DeSalvo's body of work. These thoughtful, disquieting, and insightful essays perfectly mirror the very essence of this vital American author." -- -Domenica Ruta author of With or Without YouTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: “Habit of Mind” 1 Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta Memoir Louise DeSalvo’s “Even in Death, La Bella Figura”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37 Margaux Fragoso The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing 50 Peter Covino Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo 62 Jeana Delrosso Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75 Julija Sukys Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir 86 Joshua Fausty Teaching On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo 105 Kym Ragusa Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111 Emily Bernard Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo’s Unlikely Narrative 117 Kimberly A. Costino Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130 Lia Ottaviano Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140 Benjamin D. Hagen Culture The Context of Louise DeSalvo’s Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography 155 Mark Hussey “Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo 169 Jenn Brandt Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179 Amy Jo Burns The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family 189 Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel 210 Theodora Patrona DeSalvo’s Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge 222 Ilaria Serra The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table 233 John Gennari Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo’s Accented Writing 251 Anthony Julian Tamburri List of Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book Synopsis"A cultural analysis of representation and representational discourse that advances black feminist practice as a modality through which black social life is both theorized and made material."Trade Review"Scandalize My Name is beautifully written and compellingly argued. Moving deftly between personal narrative, media analysis, and literary criticism, Williamson makes a major contribution to black studies, media studies, and feminist and gender studies. The questions she raises are ones scholars will take up for generations to come." -- -C. Riley Snorton author of Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low "Scandalize My Name is a rare work that manages to enter the field of black feminist theory and articulate something truly new, something that builds in thoughtful and rigorous ways upon the work that has come before but also advances the field of critical inquiry that we call "black feminism" in a profound (rather than incremental) way. Williamson's theoretical elaboration of the concept of "black social life"--as a response and antidote to black "social death" theory and as a means of exposing and circumventing the constraints of stereotype that shape respectability discourse and other common critical rhetorics that structure black feminist analysis--is incredibly important." -- -Candice Jenkins University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Back to Living Again One. On Anger Two. Getting Happy Three. The Way It Is Four. Baby Mama Five. In the Life Sojourn, an Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: “Habit of Mind” 1 Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta Memoir Louise DeSalvo’s “Even in Death, La Bella Figura”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37 Margaux Fragoso The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing 50 Peter Covino Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo 62 Jeana Delrosso Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75 Julija Sukys Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir 86 Joshua Fausty Teaching On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo 105 Kym Ragusa Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111 Emily Bernard Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo’s Unlikely Narrative 117 Kimberly A. Costino Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130 Lia Ottaviano Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140 Benjamin D. Hagen Culture The Context of Louise DeSalvo’s Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography 155 Mark Hussey “Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo 169 Jenn Brandt Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179 Amy Jo Burns The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family 189 Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel 210 Theodora Patrona DeSalvo’s Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge 222 Ilaria Serra The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table 233 John Gennari Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo’s Accented Writing 251 Anthony Julian Tamburri List of Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Called 2. Rome’s Mixed Messages 3. Conflict and Creativity 4. Ordination 5. Sacraments 6. Ministries on the Margins 7. Bodies in persona Christi Conclusion Appendixes Appendix A. Interview Subjects and Primary Sources Appendix B. Interview Questions for Womenpriests Appendix C. Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Called 2. Rome’s Mixed Messages 3. Conflict and Creativity 4. Ordination 5. Sacraments 6. Ministries on the Margins 7. Bodies in persona Christi Conclusion Appendixes Appendix A. Interview Subjects and Primary Sources Appendix B. Interview Questions for Womenpriests Appendix C. Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue | ix Acknowledgments | xiii Introduction | 1 Part I. Facing Grief 1. Living Tissue | 13 2. Imagining Disaster | 27 3. Mother’s Day | 34 Part II. Sustaining Things 4. Second Chances | 47 5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke | 58 6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality | 71 Part III. Memory without Pain 7. Food as Anthropological Lens | 85 8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate | 98 The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue | 109 Notes | 115 Index | 127

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Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of non-canonical approaches to art.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Am I Black Enough for You? is a deeply personal memoir, told in Anita Heiss's distinctive, wry style. She gives a first-hand account of her experiences as a woman with an Aboriginal mother and Austrian father, and explains the development of her activist consciousness.Trade ReviewAm I Black Enough For You? is a vibrant, upbeat, restless and often driven account.- Sydney Morning Herald

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Book SynopsisOffers a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman introduces readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors, the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein.

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Book SynopsisPlaces women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. This study outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients.

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Book SynopsisSeeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding this important political figure. Joyce A. Hanson shows that the choices Bethune made often appear contradictory, unless one understands that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth.Trade ReviewHanson deftly enables the reader to follow the unfolding process of becoming a political leader during a tumultuous time."" - Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisAs Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances - as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analysing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort.Trade ReviewLisa Ossian's book is thoughtful and entertaining. It is a joy to read. Both WWII scholars and Iowans will be amazed at the amount of interesting material she has uncovered."" - Doris Weatherford, author of American Women and World War II""An exceedingly well-written account on Iowa during World War II. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 is stimulating, provocative, and well worth reading."" - Richard Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West

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Book SynopsisA dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for 2003-2004. In this full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales.Trade Review“This original, welcome, and exciting approach to Glück’s work will be of lasting importance and merit to all future study of this poet.” —Jonathan N. Barron, coeditor of Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections

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Book SynopsisRevisits the activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and examines how far the inclusion of career women in the Park Service has progressed. This work discusses how staff can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. This reality and the acceptance of women as leaders has affected Park Service culture.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: ""Kaufman used extensive sources from women's, environmental, and national park history; she interviewed almost four hundred women... She analyzes effectively the ways in which various women dealt with the male-defined Park Service culture, contemporary patterns of service in which women are superintendents primarily in small to medium sized historic parks, problems of dual-career marriages, and ways in which women's perspectives and values, which often differ from those of men, helped shape today's national parks."" -- Sylvia W McGrath, H-Net, the Popular Culture and the American Culture Associations.Table of ContentsPart 1 - Speaking for Parks: The Pioneers; Part 2 - Speaking for Parks: Modern Sisters.

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Book SynopsisIn the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers - work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century to the cartel queens who make news today.

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