Gender studies: women and girls Books
Temple University Press,U.S. The Gendered Executive
Book SynopsisExcluded from the ranks of elite executive decision-makers for generations, women are now exercising power as chiefs of government and chiefs of state. As of April 2016, 112 women in 73 countries have served as presidents or prime ministers. The Gendered Executive is a critical examination of national executives, focusing on matters of identity, representation, and power. The editors and contributors to this volume address the impact of female executives through political mobilization and participation, policy- and decision-making, and institutional change. Other topics include party nomination processes, the intersectionality of race and gender, and women-centered U.S. foreign policy in southern Africa. In addition, case studies from Chile, India, Portugal, and the United States are presented, as are cross-national comparisons of women leaders in Latin America.The Gendered Executive will enhance our understanding of the complexity of gender in and comparative analyses of executive pol
£70.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Empowered by Design
Book SynopsisIn her probing book, Empowered by Design, Meg Rincker asks, Under what conditions will decentralization lead to women's empowerment in countries around the globe? Using three case studiesthe United Kingdom, Poland, and Pakistanshe shows how decentralization reforms create new institutional offices as power shifts from the national level to a meso-tier level, which is located between the national government and local municipalities. These shifts impact a country's political, administrative, and fiscal reforms as well as women's representation.Rincker argues that this shiftshouldbe inclusive of womenor at least lead more women to participate in institutionsbut this is not always the case.She indicates that three conditions, the gender policy trifecta, need to be met to achieve this: legislative gender quotas, women's policy agencies, and gender-responsive budgeting at the level of governance in question.Rincker'sinnovative research uses original comparative data about what women want, qu
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures The
Book SynopsisInvestigating the opportunities, resources, and frames that women utilize to create legislative caucusesTrade Review"In addition to important documentation of women’s caucuses and where they have emerged, Mahoney offers important theoretical and conceptual contributions to literatures on identity politics, partisanship, and collective action within legislative institutions.... Beyond telling compelling stories about the success or failure of specific caucuses, Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures successfully tells a much larger—and even more broadly applicable—story about the ways in which gender and partisanship significantly shape the patterns, distribution, and exercise of power within our legislative institutions."--State LegislatureTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter One: Women Take Their Place……………….…………...……………………………..9Chapter Two: Many Paths to Yes: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses………………………..33Chapter Three: For Women, There is No One Way or Place to Caucus………………………...52Chapter Four: The New Jersey Women’s Legislative Caucus………………………………..…85Chapter Five: The Colorado Women’s Legislative Caucus……………………………………114Chapter Six: The Pennsylvania Attempt………………………………………………………..148Chapter Seven: The Iowa Attempt……………………………………………………………...174Chapter Eight: Explaining Women’s Caucuses………………………………………………...199References………………………………………………………………………………………219
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures The
Book SynopsisInvestigating the opportunities, resources, and frames that women utilize to create legislative caucusesTrade Review"In addition to important documentation of women’s caucuses and where they have emerged, Mahoney offers important theoretical and conceptual contributions to literatures on identity politics, partisanship, and collective action within legislative institutions.... Beyond telling compelling stories about the success or failure of specific caucuses, Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures successfully tells a much larger—and even more broadly applicable—story about the ways in which gender and partisanship significantly shape the patterns, distribution, and exercise of power within our legislative institutions."--State LegislatureTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter One: Women Take Their Place……………….…………...……………………………..9Chapter Two: Many Paths to Yes: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses………………………..33Chapter Three: For Women, There is No One Way or Place to Caucus………………………...52Chapter Four: The New Jersey Women’s Legislative Caucus………………………………..…85Chapter Five: The Colorado Women’s Legislative Caucus……………………………………114Chapter Six: The Pennsylvania Attempt………………………………………………………..148Chapter Seven: The Iowa Attempt……………………………………………………………...174Chapter Eight: Explaining Women’s Caucuses………………………………………………...199References………………………………………………………………………………………219
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Womens Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil
Book SynopsisIn 2010, Dilma Rousseff was the first woman to be elected President in Brazil. She was re-elected in 2014 before being impeached in 2016 for breaking budget laws. Her popularity and controversy both energized and polarized the country. In Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil, dos Santos and Jalalzai examine Rousseff’s presidency and what it means for a woman to hold (and lose) the country’s highest power.The authors examine the ways Rousseff exercised dominant authority and enhanced women’s political empowerment. They also investigate the extent her gender played a role in the events of her presidency, including the political and economic crises and her ensuing impeachment. Emphasizing women’s political empowerment rather than representation, the authors assess the effects of women executives to more directly impact female constituencies—how they can empower women by appointing them to government positions; make policies
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Undermining Intersectionality
Book SynopsisA sustained critique of the ways in which scholars have engaged with and deployed intersectionality
£51.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Undermining Intersectionality
Book SynopsisA sustained critique of the ways in which scholars have engaged with and deployed intersectionality
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Anna May Wong
Book Synopsis Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese and, more generally, “Oriental” women between 1925 and 1940. In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer Lim re-evaluates Wong’s life and work as a consummate artist by mining an historical archive of her efforts outside of Hollywood cinema. From her pan-European films and her self-made My China Film to her encounters with artists such as Josephine Baker, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter Benjamin, Lim scrutinizes Wong’s cultural production and self-fashioning. Byconsidering the salient moments of Wong’s career and cultural output, Lim’s analysis explores the deeper meanings, and positTrade Review “Lim’s innovative book expands the existing archive on Anna May Wong and provides a new analytic framework for materials discussed in other works. Her masterful exploration of modernity and women of color through the central presence of Wong, combined with her creative ways of imagining different experiences, is both engaging and moving. Broadening the analysis from a singular celebrity, Anna May Wong shows how women of color whose careers relied on their visibility and self-fashioning encountered and engaged modernity and its various articulations. Richly nuanced, this book is elegant and lucid, absorbing and provocative.”—Karen J. Leong, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Anna May Wong
Book Synopsis Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese and, more generally, “Oriental” women between 1925 and 1940. In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer Lim re-evaluates Wong’s life and work as a consummate artist by mining an historical archive of her efforts outside of Hollywood cinema. From her pan-European films and her self-made My China Film to her encounters with artists such as Josephine Baker, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter Benjamin, Lim scrutinizes Wong’s cultural production and self-fashioning. Byconsidering the salient moments of Wong’s career and cultural output, Lim’s analysis explores the deeper meanings, and positTrade Review “Lim’s innovative book expands the existing archive on Anna May Wong and provides a new analytic framework for materials discussed in other works. Her masterful exploration of modernity and women of color through the central presence of Wong, combined with her creative ways of imagining different experiences, is both engaging and moving. Broadening the analysis from a singular celebrity, Anna May Wong shows how women of color whose careers relied on their visibility and self-fashioning encountered and engaged modernity and its various articulations. Richly nuanced, this book is elegant and lucid, absorbing and provocative.”—Karen J. Leong, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Motherlands
Book SynopsisIn the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare resources in America! Whereas conservative states like Nebraska offer affordable, readily available, and high quality childcare, progressive states that advocate for women's economic and political power, like California, have expensive childcare, shorter school days, and mothers who are more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labor market altogether to be available for their children.In Motherlands, Leah Ruppanner cogently argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. She provides suggestions and solutions for policy makers interested in supporting working families. Whether a woman lives in a state with stronger childcare or gender empowerment regimes, at stake is mothers' financial dependence on their partTrade Review“Ruppanner offers a major breakthrough in our understanding of the institutional roots of gender and family inequality. Beginning with the key insight that the United States is not a singular welfare state but rather has a patchwork of diverse state-based policies, this ingenious study offers a profusion of eye-opening discoveries about the ways policy regimes put women’s empowerment at odds with the caretaking of children.Motherlands exposes the urgent need for a holistic set of policies that ensure both economically-based gender justice and generous caregiving supports for families.”—Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University, and author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family“In this meticulously researched book, Leah Ruppanner compellingly makes the case that we don’t need to look to other countries such as Sweden to design policies that promote women’s economic self-sufficiency and gender equality. Taking advantage of the natural experiment that is the United States, Ruppanner shows us that the inspiration and answers lie in our own backyard. Exploiting and exploring the considerable diversity across states with regard to economic and demographic context, prevailing attitudes, and public policy around women, work, and family, she identifies the conditions that do—and don’t—foster women’s economic independence and gender justice, forces that often occur in surprising combinations and in surprising places. Lively and provocative, Motherlands challenges readers and policy makers to take a fresh look at what is happening close to home to come up with a roadmap to policy solutions that can be implemented at the national level.”—Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and coauthor of Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Motherlands
Book SynopsisIn the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare resources in America! Whereas conservative states like Nebraska offer affordable, readily available, and high quality childcare, progressive states that advocate for women's economic and political power, like California, have expensive childcare, shorter school days, and mothers who are more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labor market altogether to be available for their children.In Motherlands, Leah Ruppanner cogently argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. She provides suggestions and solutions for policy makers interested in supporting working families. Whether a woman lives in a state with stronger childcare or gender empowerment regimes, at stake is mothers' financial dependence on their partTrade Review“Ruppanner offers a major breakthrough in our understanding of the institutional roots of gender and family inequality. Beginning with the key insight that the United States is not a singular welfare state but rather has a patchwork of diverse state-based policies, this ingenious study offers a profusion of eye-opening discoveries about the ways policy regimes put women’s empowerment at odds with the caretaking of children.Motherlands exposes the urgent need for a holistic set of policies that ensure both economically-based gender justice and generous caregiving supports for families.”—Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University, and author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family“In this meticulously researched book, Leah Ruppanner compellingly makes the case that we don’t need to look to other countries such as Sweden to design policies that promote women’s economic self-sufficiency and gender equality. Taking advantage of the natural experiment that is the United States, Ruppanner shows us that the inspiration and answers lie in our own backyard. Exploiting and exploring the considerable diversity across states with regard to economic and demographic context, prevailing attitudes, and public policy around women, work, and family, she identifies the conditions that do—and don’t—foster women’s economic independence and gender justice, forces that often occur in surprising combinations and in surprising places. Lively and provocative, Motherlands challenges readers and policy makers to take a fresh look at what is happening close to home to come up with a roadmap to policy solutions that can be implemented at the national level.”—Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and coauthor of Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work
£17.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Under the Knife
Book SynopsisMost women who elect to have cosmetic surgery want a natural outcomea discrete alteration of the body that appears unaltered. Under the Knife examines this theme in light of a cultural paradox. Whereas women are encouraged to improve their appearance, there is also a stigma associated with those who do so via surgery. Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves reveal how women negotiate their unnaturalbut hopefully (in their view) natural-lookingsurgically-altered bodies. Based on in-depth interviews with 46 women who underwent cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance, the authors investigate motivations for surgery as well as women's thoughts about looking natural after the procedures. Under the Knife dissects the psychological and physical strategies these women use to manage the expectations, challenges, and disappointments of cosmetic surgery while also addressing issues of agency and empowerment. It shows how different cultural intersections can produce varied goals and values around bTrade Review“Under the Knife is a timely, accessible, and unique intersectional analysis of cosmetic surgeries. Kwan and Graves unravel the paradox that surrounds people’s desire to undergo cosmetic surgery in a society that overwhelmingly continues to stigmatize the practice. Kwan and Graves’ theorization of the ‘natural fake’ will become a key concept that sociocultural scholars who study bodies and embodiment will draw on for years to come. Under the Knife is a very strong and impressive book.”—Georgiann Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis“Under the Knife draws on a rich set of interviews to shed new light on the expectations for femininity that place women in a double bindbetween trying to enhance their appearance by having cosmetic surgery and facing the stigmatization of doing so. Kwan and Graves present a clear, interesting, and novel argument regarding consumers’ claims that their surgeries were not life changing; these women asserted that they have maintained ‘an authentic self.’ This book contributes to the study of boundary work and the sociology of culture and will resonate with a broad readership.”—Maxine Leeds Craig, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, and author of Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Under the Knife
Book SynopsisMost women who elect to have cosmetic surgery want a natural outcomea discrete alteration of the body that appears unaltered. Under the Knife examines this theme in light of a cultural paradox. Whereas women are encouraged to improve their appearance, there is also a stigma associated with those who do so via surgery. Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves reveal how women negotiate their unnaturalbut hopefully (in their view) natural-lookingsurgically-altered bodies. Based on in-depth interviews with 46 women who underwent cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance, the authors investigate motivations for surgery as well as women's thoughts about looking natural after the procedures. Under the Knife dissects the psychological and physical strategies these women use to manage the expectations, challenges, and disappointments of cosmetic surgery while also addressing issues of agency and empowerment. It shows how different cultural intersections can produce varied goals and values around bTrade Review“Under the Knife is a timely, accessible, and unique intersectional analysis of cosmetic surgeries. Kwan and Graves unravel the paradox that surrounds people’s desire to undergo cosmetic surgery in a society that overwhelmingly continues to stigmatize the practice. Kwan and Graves’ theorization of the ‘natural fake’ will become a key concept that sociocultural scholars who study bodies and embodiment will draw on for years to come. Under the Knife is a very strong and impressive book.”—Georgiann Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis“Under the Knife draws on a rich set of interviews to shed new light on the expectations for femininity that place women in a double bindbetween trying to enhance their appearance by having cosmetic surgery and facing the stigmatization of doing so. Kwan and Graves present a clear, interesting, and novel argument regarding consumers’ claims that their surgeries were not life changing; these women asserted that they have maintained ‘an authentic self.’ This book contributes to the study of boundary work and the sociology of culture and will resonate with a broad readership.”—Maxine Leeds Craig, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, and author of Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move
£20.89
Temple University Press,U.S. Good Reasons to Run
Book SynopsisAfter the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.)The editors and contributors to Good Reasons to Run, a mix of scholars and practitioners, examine the reasons why women runand do not runfor political office. They focus on the opportunities, policies, and structures that promote women's candidacies. How do nonprofits help recruit and finance women as candidates? And what role does money play in women's campaigns?The essays in Good Reasons to Run ask not just who wants to run, but how to activate and encourage such ambition among a larger population of potential female candidates while also increasing the diversity of women running for office.Trade Review“How might more women in the United States run for and win political office? In this highly accessible and well-integrated edited volume, leading scholars in the field of women in politics provide answers. Drawing on original data, they explain how women can overcome obstacles to their candidacy and how women’s political ambition can be activated by taking into account race, class, and party affiliation. Good Reasons to Run also uncovers the new role that nonprofit organizations are playing in preparing women for public office and analyzes how money matters for women candidates. The insightful findings in this volume make it essential reading for anyone who believes that more women in politics is critical for our democratic future.”—Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia“Good Reasons to Run fills a gap in the gender and politics literature by offering a comprehensive examination of women’s political ambition and the effectiveness of programs designed to recruit, train, and encourage female candidates to run for public office. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume provide timely and essential guidance from an academic and practical perspective for organizations offering such programs as well as women who might consider a run for political office.”—Dianne Bystrom, Director Emerita, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Good Reasons to Run
Book SynopsisAfter the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.)The editors and contributors to Good Reasons to Run, a mix of scholars and practitioners, examine the reasons why women runand do not runfor political office. They focus on the opportunities, policies, and structures that promote women's candidacies. How do nonprofits help recruit and finance women as candidates? And what role does money play in women's campaigns?The essays in Good Reasons to Run ask not just who wants to run, but how to activate and encourage such ambition among a larger population of potential female candidates while also increasing the diversity of women running for office.Trade Review“How might more women in the United States run for and win political office? In this highly accessible and well-integrated edited volume, leading scholars in the field of women in politics provide answers. Drawing on original data, they explain how women can overcome obstacles to their candidacy and how women’s political ambition can be activated by taking into account race, class, and party affiliation. Good Reasons to Run also uncovers the new role that nonprofit organizations are playing in preparing women for public office and analyzes how money matters for women candidates. The insightful findings in this volume make it essential reading for anyone who believes that more women in politics is critical for our democratic future.”—Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia“Good Reasons to Run fills a gap in the gender and politics literature by offering a comprehensive examination of women’s political ambition and the effectiveness of programs designed to recruit, train, and encourage female candidates to run for public office. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume provide timely and essential guidance from an academic and practical perspective for organizations offering such programs as well as women who might consider a run for political office.”—Dianne Bystrom, Director Emerita, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Teaching Fear
Book SynopsisHow rules about safety and the fear of crime are learned and crystalized into crime myths especially for womenTrade Review“In Teaching Fear, Nicole Rader brings together what we know about contemporary fears of violence and victimization. She shows how our fears are created, why they take the forms they do, how they shape the lives of children and adults, and how we can approach our fears in more constructive ways.”—Joel Best, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, and author of American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World“Can a book about gendered fear of crime be an enjoyable read? If the book is Teaching Fear, the answer is yes. Written in a highly accessible style but grounded firmly in empirical research, Teaching Fear provides a much-needed debunking of popular gendered and racialized crime myths and offers strategies for finally ending the intergenerational transmission of these false and harmful beliefs."—Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, and author of Feminist Criminology"Girls are taught to be afraid of a variety of things from a very young age and thus grow up living a much narrower world compared to males.... This book is extremely helpful for understanding how the media, schools, and the criminal justice system perpetuate these fears, which can seriously impede peoples', particularly women's, lives. Rader strives to make readers understand that these fears frequently center on both specific races and the female gender.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Teaching Fear
Book SynopsisHow rules about safety and the fear of crime are learned and crystalized into crime myths especially for womenTrade Review“In Teaching Fear, Nicole Rader brings together what we know about contemporary fears of violence and victimization. She shows how our fears are created, why they take the forms they do, how they shape the lives of children and adults, and how we can approach our fears in more constructive ways.”—Joel Best, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, and author of American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World“Can a book about gendered fear of crime be an enjoyable read? If the book is Teaching Fear, the answer is yes. Written in a highly accessible style but grounded firmly in empirical research, Teaching Fear provides a much-needed debunking of popular gendered and racialized crime myths and offers strategies for finally ending the intergenerational transmission of these false and harmful beliefs."—Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, and author of Feminist Criminology"Girls are taught to be afraid of a variety of things from a very young age and thus grow up living a much narrower world compared to males.... This book is extremely helpful for understanding how the media, schools, and the criminal justice system perpetuate these fears, which can seriously impede peoples', particularly women's, lives. Rader strives to make readers understand that these fears frequently center on both specific races and the female gender.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice“Rader does an excellent job at highlighting how the intersection of ideas about race and gender deeply shape how we understand crime. She explains this dynamic clearly and simply without losing any of the important nuances.... [I]t is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on the social reproduction of crime myths, especially gendered ones."—Social Forces
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. The Compassionate Court
Book SynopsisLaws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution. The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) that offer to rehabilitate people arrested for street-based sex work as an alternative to incarceration. However, as the authors show, these PDPs often fail to provide sustainable alternatives to their mandated clients. Participants are subjected to constant surveillance and obligations, which creates a paradox of responsibility in conflict with the system's logic of rescue. Moreover, as the participants often face shame and re-traumatization as a price for services, poverty and other social problems, such as structural oppression, remain in place. The authors of The Compassionate Court? provide case studies of such programs and draw upon interviews and observations conducted over a decade to reveal how participants and professionals perceive court-affiliated PDPs, clients, and staff. Considering the motivations, vision, and goals of theseTrade Review“The Compassionate Court? is a beautifully reflexive and critical examination of prostitution diversion programs and their place in the problem-solving court movement. Despite the best efforts, these programs reinforce entrenched stigmas around race, gender, and class under the ‘cover’ of supposedly neutral crime-control goals. The authors converge around a troubling and powerful conclusion: these courts fail defendants, who are often victims themselves, withholding services to favor those who conform to norms of sexuality and femininity and reinforcing stereotypes that discipline women.”—Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University, and author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court“The Compassionate Court? presents a comprehensive analysis of prostitution diversion programs (PDPs). The accomplished scholars, drawing on a decade of research on two PDPs, reveal how well-intentioned criminal system reforms fall short in addressing underlying structural issues such as poverty, trauma, and housing and job insecurity. Through too-often-ignored stories of PDP participants and program professionals, this eye-opening book challenges current approaches and advocates for alternative solutions that account for the complex realities faced by marginalized sex workers.”—Barbara G. Brents, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and coauthor of Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. The Compassionate Court
Book SynopsisLaws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution. The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) that offer to rehabilitate people arrested for street-based sex work as an alternative to incarceration. However, as the authors show, these PDPs often fail to provide sustainable alternatives to their mandated clients. Participants are subjected to constant surveillance and obligations, which creates a paradox of responsibility in conflict with the system's logic of rescue. Moreover, as the participants often face shame and re-traumatization as a price for services, poverty and other social problems, such as structural oppression, remain in place. The authors of The Compassionate Court? provide case studies of such programs and draw upon interviews and observations conducted over a decade to reveal how participants and professionals perceive court-affiliated PDPs, clients, and staff. Considering the motivations, vision, and goals of theseTrade Review“The Compassionate Court? is a beautifully reflexive and critical examination of prostitution diversion programs and their place in the problem-solving court movement. Despite the best efforts, these programs reinforce entrenched stigmas around race, gender, and class under the ‘cover’ of supposedly neutral crime-control goals. The authors converge around a troubling and powerful conclusion: these courts fail defendants, who are often victims themselves, withholding services to favor those who conform to norms of sexuality and femininity and reinforcing stereotypes that discipline women.”—Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University, and author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court“The Compassionate Court? presents a comprehensive analysis of prostitution diversion programs (PDPs). The accomplished scholars, drawing on a decade of research on two PDPs, reveal how well-intentioned criminal system reforms fall short in addressing underlying structural issues such as poverty, trauma, and housing and job insecurity. Through too-often-ignored stories of PDP participants and program professionals, this eye-opening book challenges current approaches and advocates for alternative solutions that account for the complex realities faced by marginalized sex workers.”—Barbara G. Brents, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and coauthor of Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Are You Two Sisters
Book SynopsisAuthored by one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple's lifelong journey together.Trade Review“Every lesbian looking for a partner would love to know the secret of successful relationships. In her early book The Mirror Dance, Susan Krieger described themes of belonging and ambivalence in a lesbian community; now she turns that mirror inward for a candid reflection on her own relationship of forty years, from an uncertain beginning to an important place of refuge. With beautiful imagery and an engaging writing style, Krieger describes the highs and lows of two women with very different personalities learning to live together.” —Esther Rothblum, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Lesbian Studies“I could not stop reading this riveting account of traveling through the world in a lesbian relationship. What an honest, engaging, and stunningly written story about the beauty and tensions of being together and separate. The author invites us into her heart, emotions, and head as she seeks to reflexively understand the nuances of lesbian intimacy. This is a book for all those seeking to understand relationships more deeply and those who appreciate getting lost in an extraordinary autoethnography.” —Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida, and author of Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness (Temple)“Intimate and unvarnished, Are You Two Sisters? documents the many accommodations necessary in a long-term lesbian relationship. Susan Krieger shares her remembrances of journeys with Hannah, and the rhythm of their life together is underscored by Krieger’s increasing loss of sight, enlarging the parameters of their partnership.”—Marcia M. Gallo, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement"The book is both intimate and deeply personal, while also a sociological study of life as a lesbian in the United States through a period of dynamic political and social change…. Are You Two Sisters? is a good roadmap full of descriptive material about how their relationship evolved and what obstacles were overcome…. A key strength of the book is Krieger’s openness in sharing her own lesbian identity journey."—Affilia
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethical Encounters
Book SynopsisEthical Encounters is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema can conjure a global cinematic imagination for the advancement of humanity.By examining contemporary, women-centered Muktijuddho cinemafeatures and documentaries that focus on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971Elora Chowdhury shows how these films imagine, disrupt, and reinscribe a gendered nationalist landscape of trauma, freedom, and agency. Chowdhury analyzes Bangladeshi feminist films including Meherjaan, and Itihaash Konna (Daughters of History), as well as socially-engaged films by activist-filmmakers including Jonmo Shathi (Born Together), and Shadhinota (A Certain Liberation), to show how war films of Bangladesh can generate possibilities for gender justice.Chowdhury argues that justice-driven films are critical to understanding and negotiating the layered meanings and consequences of catastroTrade Review“Inspired by critical Black and transnational feminist traditions, Ethical Encounters offers a compelling and comprehensive analysis of how women-centered films about the Bangladesh Liberation War navigate patriarchal nationalisms and dehumanizing racial and gender ideologies. Ethical Encounters is a must-read for anyone interested in visual modalities of spectacle and surveillance and the power of human rights cinema to narrativize colonial violence and transgress statist histories.”—Wendy S. Hesford, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at The Ohio State University, and author of Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics“Ethical Encounters lucidly highlights the fraught registers feminist filmmakers have to straddle when engaging with the narratives of human rights, genocide, and nationalism in trying to highlight the various unacknowledged injustices of the Bangladesh War of 1971. Chowdhury brings out the tightrope of filmmaking in Bangladesh and shows the various ethical negotiations filmmakers make in relation to the production, circulation, and consumption of the accounts of death, injury, and sexual violence during Muktijuddho and the various moral choices generated. This book enables a timely understanding of contemporary Bangladesh through the cinematic lens of 1971.”—Nayanika Mookherjee, Professor of Political Anthropology at Durham University, UK, and author of The SpectralWound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971"Ethical Encounters is a brilliant exploration of the complex relationship among transnational feminism, human rights, and visual practices. Chowdhury skillfully engages the violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema to incisively explore gender, vulnerability, victimhood, spectatorship, and witnessing. Offering film as a potentially disruptive archive for redress, conjuring, and transformation, this book challenges readers to imagine new possibilities for and figurations of gender justice. Ultimately, this book compellingly asserts the importance of critically examining visual language to uncover dynamic and understudied sites of feminist knowledge production."—Treva B. Lindsey, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, and author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice"[A] provocative feminist analysis of cinema about the 1971 Bangladesh independence war.... With this important book, Chowdhury places the independence struggle of Bangladesh in world historiography and leaves us with new ways of understanding national cinema, healing, identity, and justice, through such powerful concepts as friendship in feminist theory, women’s agency and subjectivity, the separation of woman from nation, memory and eyewitness in cinema, and narrative strategies that can disrupt dominant national narratives."—Pacific Affairs"[A] compelling book that deals with women-centric Bangladeshi films, challenging dominant narratives and putting forward women’s agency in the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.... Ethical Encounters is a welcome, theoretically dense contribution to South Asian film studies, feminist film history, and the historiography of war."—BioScope"Ethical Encounters complicates the simplistic distinctions between victim and perpetrator, and loss and victory, thereby conceptualizing a new imaginary of gender justice and political reconciliation in the context of twenty-first-century South Asia.... Chowdhury’s work is an invitation to scholars of South Asian studies to pay attention to not just shared histories and futures but also shared traumas and ways of healing."—South Asian Review
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethical Encounters
Book SynopsisEthical Encounters is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema can conjure a global cinematic imagination for the advancement of humanity.By examining contemporary, women-centered Muktijuddho cinemafeatures and documentaries that focus on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971Elora Chowdhury shows how these films imagine, disrupt, and reinscribe a gendered nationalist landscape of trauma, freedom, and agency. Chowdhury analyzes Bangladeshi feminist films including Meherjaan, and Itihaash Konna (Daughters of History), as well as socially-engaged films by activist-filmmakers including Jonmo Shathi (Born Together), and Shadhinota (A Certain Liberation), to show how war films of Bangladesh can generate possibilities for gender justice.Chowdhury argues that justice-driven films are critical to understanding and negotiating the layered meanings and consequences of catastroTrade Review“Inspired by critical Black and transnational feminist traditions, Ethical Encounters offers a compelling and comprehensive analysis of how women-centered films about the Bangladesh Liberation War navigate patriarchal nationalisms and dehumanizing racial and gender ideologies. Ethical Encounters is a must-read for anyone interested in visual modalities of spectacle and surveillance and the power of human rights cinema to narrativize colonial violence and transgress statist histories.”—Wendy S. Hesford, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at The Ohio State University, and author of Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics“Ethical Encounters lucidly highlights the fraught registers feminist filmmakers have to straddle when engaging with the narratives of human rights, genocide, and nationalism in trying to highlight the various unacknowledged injustices of the Bangladesh War of 1971. Chowdhury brings out the tightrope of filmmaking in Bangladesh and shows the various ethical negotiations filmmakers make in relation to the production, circulation, and consumption of the accounts of death, injury, and sexual violence during Muktijuddho and the various moral choices generated. This book enables a timely understanding of contemporary Bangladesh through the cinematic lens of 1971.”—Nayanika Mookherjee, Professor of Political Anthropology at Durham University, UK, and author of The SpectralWound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971"Ethical Encounters is a brilliant exploration of the complex relationship among transnational feminism, human rights, and visual practices. Chowdhury skillfully engages the violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema to incisively explore gender, vulnerability, victimhood, spectatorship, and witnessing. Offering film as a potentially disruptive archive for redress, conjuring, and transformation, this book challenges readers to imagine new possibilities for and figurations of gender justice. Ultimately, this book compellingly asserts the importance of critically examining visual language to uncover dynamic and understudied sites of feminist knowledge production."—Treva B. Lindsey, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, and author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice"[A] provocative feminist analysis of cinema about the 1971 Bangladesh independence war.... With this important book, Chowdhury places the independence struggle of Bangladesh in world historiography and leaves us with new ways of understanding national cinema, healing, identity, and justice, through such powerful concepts as friendship in feminist theory, women’s agency and subjectivity, the separation of woman from nation, memory and eyewitness in cinema, and narrative strategies that can disrupt dominant national narratives."—Pacific Affairs"[A] compelling book that deals with women-centric Bangladeshi films, challenging dominant narratives and putting forward women’s agency in the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.... Ethical Encounters is a welcome, theoretically dense contribution to South Asian film studies, feminist film history, and the historiography of war."—BioScope"Ethical Encounters complicates the simplistic distinctions between victim and perpetrator, and loss and victory, thereby conceptualizing a new imaginary of gender justice and political reconciliation in the context of twenty-first-century South Asia.... Chowdhury’s work is an invitation to scholars of South Asian studies to pay attention to not just shared histories and futures but also shared traumas and ways of healing."—South Asian Review
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Temple University Press,U.S. Solidarity Care
Book SynopsisThe members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organizationimmigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York Cityformed to fight for dignity and respect and to bring meaningful change to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. Solidarity & Careexamines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as well as ethnographic observation during DWU meetings Trade Review“Solidarity & Care exemplifies the best of feminist research and scholarship. Emerging out of her long tenure volunteering with the worker-organizers of New York’s Domestic Workers United, Glaser’s organizational history centers the narratives of women workers around the unsustainable structure of the industry that motivated their legal campaigns and ultimately resulted in the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Their frank insights enliven the work of organizing by compelling readers to not only listen to, but also stand with them.”—Julietta Hua, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, and author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights“Solidarity & Care gives texture to the complexities of activism among domestic workers in New York. Alana Lee Glaser has elaborated on what we know about Domestic Workers United by giving voice to domestic workers of various cultures and showing readers not only how the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights was established, but how the fight for equal rights continued after it was passed. This vivid ethnography presents the desperate need for solidarity between community members, workers, and employers for better working conditions and a sense of communal citizenship."—Tamara Mose, Professor of Sociology and author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community"One group doing such 'prefigurative' work is Domestic Workers United (DWU) in New York, as Alana Lee Glaser emphasizes in Solidarity & Care. Glaser—who does an exemplary job defining her terms throughout the book and thus offers a remarkably accessible study—uses an ethnographic method to show how the DWU established the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in New York State. Because she spent multiple years with the DWU, she is able to tell the longer story of a policy victory: how it relied on an 'emotional community' where workers shared stories and taught one another how to advocate for better treatment, starting with knowing their rights as employees."—Public Books"Anthropology professor Alana Lee Glaser has written this exemplary ethnography of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization and their tremendous efforts to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. All royalties go directly to the Domestic Workers United."—Ms.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Solidarity Care
Book SynopsisThe members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization—immigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York City—formed to fight for dignity and respect and to “bring meaningful change” to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. Solidarity & Careexamines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as Trade Review“Solidarity & Care exemplifies the best of feminist research and scholarship. Emerging out of her long tenure volunteering with the worker-organizers of New York’s Domestic Workers United, Glaser’s organizational history centers the narratives of women workers around the unsustainable structure of the industry that motivated their legal campaigns and ultimately resulted in the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Their frank insights enliven the work of organizing by compelling readers to not only listen to, but also stand with them.”—Julietta Hua, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, and author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights“Solidarity & Care gives texture to the complexities of activism among domestic workers in New York. Alana Lee Glaser has elaborated on what we know about Domestic Workers United by giving voice to domestic workers of various cultures and showing readers not only how the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights was established, but how the fight for equal rights continued after it was passed. This vivid ethnography presents the desperate need for solidarity between community members, workers, and employers for better working conditions and a sense of communal citizenship."—Tamara Mose, Professor of Sociology and author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community"One group doing such 'prefigurative' work is Domestic Workers United (DWU) in New York, as Alana Lee Glaser emphasizes in Solidarity & Care. Glaser—who does an exemplary job defining her terms throughout the book and thus offers a remarkably accessible study—uses an ethnographic method to show how the DWU established the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in New York State. Because she spent multiple years with the DWU, she is able to tell the longer story of a policy victory: how it relied on an 'emotional community' where workers shared stories and taught one another how to advocate for better treatment, starting with knowing their rights as employees."—Public Books"Anthropology professor Alana Lee Glaser has written this exemplary ethnography of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization and their tremendous efforts to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. All royalties go directly to the Domestic Workers United."—Ms.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Gender and Violence against Political Actors
Book SynopsisThere has been an increase in testimonies from women politicians who have been targets of violence and from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The editors and contributors to ofGender and Violence against Political Actorsseek to understandhow gender influences both physical and psychological forms of violence andhow sexual violence affects both men and women. Chapters focus on theoretical approaches demonstrating how different disciplinary starting pointse.g., politics, violence and gendergive rise to different lenses. Essaysexamine violence carried out during conflict and peacetime, and relate to the continuum of violencephysical, sexual, psychological, and online. In addition, six country case studies reveal how different types of political actors have been targets of violence. Gender and Violence against Political Actorsends by providing various approaches to responding to the problem of gendered violence in politics while also evaluating policy responses. ContrTrade Review“This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides a systematic gendered analysis of political violence across different countries and political contexts. It is based on solid theories and concepts and provides a broad coverage of the forms of violence that harm women’s political participation. The rich case studies make the volume a rewarding read for scholars and students. The book is also highly recommendable as it provides suggestions for policy responses.”—Johanna Kantola, Professor of European Societies and Their Politics at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Gender and the European Union“The editors and contributors to this book make broad contributions to our understanding of, and ability to conduct research about, gender and political violence. They examine various forms of violence—spanning physical to psychological violence—in diverse arenas, ranging from war to legislative chambers to political campaigns. This book’s broad theoretical scope, paired with case studies in highly diverse contexts and with policy attempts to address political violence, makes Gender and Violence against Political Actors an indispensable resource for scholars and students in all areas of gender politics.”—Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and coauthor of Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?“Whereas violence against women who take on political roles is as old as the witch hunts, it has only recently become the subject of systematic study. This book offers an important collection of perspectives from different subfields of political science that deepen and broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of gendered violence(s). Working with the notion of a continuum of violence spanning psychological and physical violence while attending to the gendered power relations that shape it, the editors and contributors highlight how multiple approaches are needed to fully explain and address violence against gendered political actors.”—Annick T. R. Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace, and Security at the Swedish Defence University
£81.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Gender and Violence against Political Actors
Book SynopsisThere has been an increase in testimonies from women politicians who have been targets of violence and from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The editors and contributors to ofGender and Violence against Political Actorsseek to understandhow gender influences both physical and psychological forms of violence andhow sexual violence affects both men and women. Chapters focus on theoretical approaches demonstrating how different disciplinary starting pointse.g., politics, violence and gendergive rise to different lenses. Essaysexamine violence carried out during conflict and peacetime, and relate to the continuum of violencephysical, sexual, psychological, and online. In addition, six country case studies reveal how different types of political actors have been targets of violence. Gender and Violence against Political Actorsends by providing various approaches to responding to the problem of gendered violence in politics while also evaluating policy responses. ContrTrade Review“This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides a systematic gendered analysis of political violence across different countries and political contexts. It is based on solid theories and concepts and provides a broad coverage of the forms of violence that harm women’s political participation. The rich case studies make the volume a rewarding read for scholars and students. The book is also highly recommendable as it provides suggestions for policy responses.”—Johanna Kantola, Professor of European Societies and Their Politics at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Gender and the European Union“The editors and contributors to this book make broad contributions to our understanding of, and ability to conduct research about, gender and political violence. They examine various forms of violence—spanning physical to psychological violence—in diverse arenas, ranging from war to legislative chambers to political campaigns. This book’s broad theoretical scope, paired with case studies in highly diverse contexts and with policy attempts to address political violence, makes Gender and Violence against Political Actors an indispensable resource for scholars and students in all areas of gender politics.”—Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and coauthor of Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?“Whereas violence against women who take on political roles is as old as the witch hunts, it has only recently become the subject of systematic study. This book offers an important collection of perspectives from different subfields of political science that deepen and broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of gendered violence(s). Working with the notion of a continuum of violence spanning psychological and physical violence while attending to the gendered power relations that shape it, the editors and contributors highlight how multiple approaches are needed to fully explain and address violence against gendered political actors.”—Annick T. R. Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace, and Security at the Swedish Defence University
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Inspired Citizens
Book SynopsisPolitical role models are people that voters form a connection with, and who provoke them to think differently about and engage with politics. Inspired Citizens examines the impact role models have in American politics through the lens of political psychology. Jennie Sweet-Cushman investigates how citizens, especially marginalized ones, can be influenced by the presence of political role models. She asks critical questions: Do role models increase political participation and strengthen American democracy? Do role models encourage candidate emergence? Sweet-Cushman develops Inspired Citizenship Theory to show that political role models can have motivating effects on one's political citizenship and may, in some case, insulate those who have been traditionally marginalized in American politics. Moreover, she asserts that citizens who have political role models possess very different political behaviors and attitudes than those who do not. Inspired Citizens also considers the often-confl
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Temple University Press,U.S. Intimate Strangers
Book SynopsisAt the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and later in the United States, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship.Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration, their motivations for moving to the United States, their settlement, and their growing awareness of their place in American society. Toyota chronicles how these resilient young women became active agents in circumventing social restrictions to fashion new lives of meaning. The Nikkei
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Intimate Strangers
Book SynopsisAt the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and later in the United States, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship.Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration, their motivations for moving to the United States, their settlement, and their growing awareness of their place in American society. Toyota chronicles how these resilient young women became active agents in circumventing social restrictions to fashion new lives of meaning. The Nikkei
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Rural Womens Health
Book SynopsisRural Women's Health presents a national perspective on the nature of women's health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.Trade Review'This volume is a rare and important collection of ground-breaking work on a topic too often ignored in Canadian academia.' -- Megan J. Davis BC Studies vol 185 spring 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Connecting Rural Women's Health Across Time, Locales, and Disciplines Beverly Leipert (University of Western Ontario), Wilfreda Thurston (University of Calgary) and Belinda Leach (University of Guelph) Part I Research, Policy, and Action 1. Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Rural Women's Health Research and Policy in Canada Rebecca Sutherns and Margaret Haworth-Brockman (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) 2. Rural Women's Research and Action on the Prairies Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Rachel Rapaport Beck (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence), Joanne Havelock, Harpa Isfeld (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence), Noreen Johns, Diane Martz (University of Saskatchewan), Lynn Scruby (University of Manitoba), and Jayne Whyte 3. Closing the Gap: Rural Women's Organizations and Rural Women's Health in Canada Beverly D. Leipert, Tamara Landry (University of Western Ontario) and Belinda Leach 4. Health Issues of Women in Rural United States: An Overview Angeline Bushy Part II Health and Environment 5. Farm Work in Ontario and Breast Cancer Risk James T. Brophy (University of Windsor), Margaret M. Keith (University of Windsor), Andrew Watterson (University of Stirling), Michael Gilbertson and Matthias Beck (University of York) 6. An Exploration of Canadian Farmwomen's Food Provisioning Practices Lynn McIntyre (University of Calgary) and Krista Rondeau (University of Calgary) 7. The Multiple Dimensions of Health: Weaving Together Food Sustainability and Farm Women's Health Wendee Kubik (University of Regina) and Amber Fletcher (University of Regina) 8. Outside Assumptions. Research with the Old Order Mennonite Women in Ontario: An Exploratory Study Eva M. Dabrowska (University of Alberta) and Susan K. Wismer (University of Waterloo) Part III Gender-Based Violence 9. Living with their Bodies: Three Generations of Rural Newfoundland and Labrador Women Marilyn Porter (Memorial University) and Natalie Beausoleil (Memorial University) 10. Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding and Responding to the Unique Needs of Women in Rural and Northern Communities Karen G. Dyck (University of Manitoba), Kelly L. Stickle (University of Northern British Columbia ) and Cindy L. Hardy (University of Northern British Columbia) 11. There's a Nightmare in the Closet! Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Major Health Issue for Women Living in Remote Aboriginal Communities Beverly Illauq 12. Rural Women's Strategies for Seeking Mental Health and Housing Services Phyllis Montgomery, Cheryl Forchuk (University of Western Ontario), Carolyne Gorlick (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario) and Rick Csiernik (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario) Part IV Population Health, Health Promotion, and Public Health 13. Being a Good Woman: The Gendered Impacts of Restructuring in Rural Alberta Barbara Heather (Grant MacEwan University), D. Lynn Skillen, Jennifer Young and Theresa Vladicka (Government of Alberta, Advanced Education and Technology) 14. Gender Politics and Rural Women: Barriers to and Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency Nikki Gerrard (University of Saskatchewan) and Alanah Woodland (University of Calgary) 15. Defining Health: Perspectives of African Canadian Women Living in Remote and Rural Nova Scotia Communities Josephine B. Etowa (University of Ottawa), Wanda Thomas Bernard (Dalhousie University), Barbara Clow (Dalhousie University) and Juliana Wiens 16. The Quality of Life of Elderly Ukrainian Women in Rural Saskatchewan, Canada Nuelle Novik (University of Regina) 17. The Health of Pregnant Women in the Northwest Territories Pertice M. Moffitt (Dalhousie University) 18. Rural Women, Leisure, Rural Identity and Health and Well-being: Historical and Contemporary Connections Deborah Stiles (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Steven Dukeshire (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Kenneth S. Paulsen (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Melanie Goodridge, David Hobson, Jamie MacLaughlin, Katriona MacNeil and J. Cristian Rangel Part V Theorizing Rurality and Gender 19. Healthy Rural Bodies? Embodied Approaches to the Study of Rural Women's Health Jo Little (University of Exeter) 20. Women, Chronic Illness and Rural Australia: Exploring the Intersections between Space, Identity and the Body Barbara Pini (Curtin University) and Karen Soldatic (Curtin University) 21. Health Policy and the Politics of Citizenship: Northern Women's Care Giving in Rural British Columbia Jo-Anne Fiske (University of Lethbridge), Dawn Hemingway (University of Northern British Columbia), Anita Vaillancourt (University of Toronto), Heather Peters (University of Northern British Columbia), Christina McLennan (Thompson Rivers University), Barbara Keith (Vancouver Coastal Health) and Anne Burrill (University of Northern British Columbia) 22. Well Beings: Placing Emotion in Canadian Rural, Gender, and Health Research Deborah Thien (California State University, Long Beach) Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Ms. Prime Minister
Book SynopsisMs. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two former Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark; and Australia’s 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Linda Trimble concludes that reporting both reinforces and contests unfair gender norms. News about female leaders gives undue attention to their gender identities, bodies and family lives. Yet equivalent men are also treated to evaluations of their gendered personas. And, as Trimble finds, some media accounts expose sexism and authenticate women''s performances of leadership. Ms. Prime Minister provides important insight into the news frameworks that work to deny or confer political legitimacy. It concludes with advice designed to inform the gender strategies of women who aspire to political leadership roles and the reporting techniques of tTrade Review"This volume examines news coverage of women prime ministers at crucial stages in their political careers (selection as party leaders, governance, election, and departure from their leadership roles.) Research was conducted about women politicians, mass media, political leadership, and sexism in political culture." -- Anne Burke * Feminist Caucus, July 2018 *Table of Contents1. Gender, Media and Leadership 2. Ascension Stories 3. First Women and the X Factor 4. First Men and the Family Strategy 5. Body Politics 6. Love and War 7. Speech and Shame 8. Dealing (with) the Gender Card
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University of Toronto Press Body Failure
Book SynopsisIn this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review'Body Failure is an extensively researched and carefully argued book... It is an excellent contribution to the rich, intersecting field of body and medicine in Canada.' -- Jane Nicholas Acadiensis vol 44:02:2015 'This nuanced account of medical views of women in the first half of the twentieth century is sometimes depressing, but it is always fascinating, and tells a story which deserves to be more widely known.' -- Tracey Loughran Social History of Medicine vol 27:04:2014 'Body Failure's rich detail can be profitably mined for lectures, so it is a treat for professors, including the many fine young scholars Mitchinson has trained and mentored in her long career. It is a highly recommended addition and we look forward to her next.' -- Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014 'Body Failure is a very valuable resource on medical views of women's health in Canada... This study reminds us that medicine was and still is, a profession engaged in constant debate, conjecture, and speculation about how gender shapes bodily differences.' -- Susan L. Smith Bulletin of Medical History vol 88:04:2014 'This solid albeit dispassionate book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of a male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself and her body.' -- Herizons, Winter 2015 "This book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself or her body. " -- Maya Khankhoje Herizons Magazine (Winter, 2015) 'Meticulously researched, well organized and clearly written. Body Failure offers a complex and compelling understanding of the medicalization process through a gendered lens and as such, makes an important contribution to the literature on women's health, healthcare, and medicine.' -- Rebecca Kluchin Journal of Social History Fall 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Woman's Place Chapter Two Growing Up and Facing Puberty Chapter Three "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation Chapter Four Understanding Sexuality Chapter Five Advice on Marriage and Motherhood Chapter Six "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility Chapter Seven Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion Chapter Eight "The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology Chapter Nine The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat Chapter Ten The Mind's Health Chapter Eleven Menopause: The End of Womanhood Conclusion Notes on Sources and Methodology
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University of Toronto Press Charlotte Lennox
Book SynopsisCharlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Susan Carlile’s biography places Lennox in the context of intellectual and cultural history and focuses on her role as a central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England. Lennox participated in the most important literary and social discussions of her time, including debates concerning female authorship, the elevation of Shakespeare to national poet, and the role of periodicals as didactic texts for an increasingly literate population. Lennox also contributed to making Greek drama available for English-language audiences and pioneered the serialization of novels in magazines. Carlile’s work is the first biographiTrade Review"This biography…gives the fullest account of [Charlotte Lennox’s] life yet…and conducts readers through all of her major works. It arrives as a handsome, substantial volume, complete with full scholarly apparatus and a proselytizing zeal of application…It is undoubtedly a good thing that we have a new biography of Charlotte Lennox, and this is an industrious and likeable contender." -- Min Wild * Times Literary Supplement, August 15, 2018 *"This much-anticipated critical biography of the accomplished yet elusive eighteenth-century author Charlotte Lennox is well worth the wait." -- Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University * Women's Writing *"There hasn’t been a new biography of Charlotte Lennox since 1967. Susan Carlile’s substantive, scrupulously researched Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind makes up for lost time." -- Jayne Lewis * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"The wide range of Lennox’s writing requires Carlile to become an expert on an extraordinary variety of topics, from Sir Joshua Reynolds’s commission prices, to the political machinations between the Duke of Newcastle and the Duke of Bute in the early 1760s, to the 1774 copyright decision Donaldson v. Becket, to the biography of the Duchesse de La Vallière (a mistress of Louis XIV whose memoirs Lennox translated). This breadth of knowledge both fills in Lennox’s world and shows why Carlile considers her such a significant writer: one whose life and works illuminate many of the key topics of eighteenth-century studies. Charlotte Lennox will be an indispensable and unavoidable resource for any future research on this at once unique and representative figure." -- Rachael Scarborough King, University of California, Santa Barbara, * Early Modern Women, Spring 2020 *"Carlile gives a vivid picture of the London literary world during the mid to late eighteenth century. She notes that in an era that has been christened ‘The Age of the Emerging Female Author’, Lennox’s professional life bears witness to the greater visibility and acceptance of women writers, as well as to the shift from literary patronage to the growing power of the bookseller, the development of the novel as an important genre, the interrelationships between British and Continental as well as American literatures, and the reassessment of Shakespeare’s works." -- Susan Kubica Howard, Duquesne University * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"Clearly a labor of love, Carlile’s meticulously detailed biography brings to life a woman whose commitment to her own personal autonomy and rejection of conventional thought and behavior make Lennox a woman impossible for readers not to respect, if not like or even also love." -- Robin Runia * 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era, Volume 25 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction The American 1. New World Thinking 2. An English Sappho 3. Making a Trade of Her Wit 4. Uniting the Laudable Affections of the Mind The Professional 5. Debating "Genius" 6. Prospering in a Patronizing Profession 7. "The Same Darling End...By Different Means" 8. Recasting a Career The Celebrity 9. "The Law of Custom"...or of "Fools"? 10. "Work Upon That Now!" 11. Friendship, Marriage, and Motherhood 12. "A Pen that Conferred Immortality" Lennox's Afterlife Notes Publications, Editions, and Reprints Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Autonomous Motherhood
Book SynopsisSince the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to parent alone.Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood? probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, including legislative history, case studies, and interviews with single mothers, the authors conclude that while women may now have the economic and social freedom to parent alone, they must still negotiate a socio-legal framework that suggests their choice goes against the interests of society, fatherhood, and children.Trade Review‘Autonomous Motherhood is a wonderful and welcome contribution to feminist socio-legal literature….It raises provocative, timely, and important questions, and will provide the basis for future scholarship on single motherhood, relational autonomy, and legal regulation.’ -- Brenda Cossman * Canadian Journal of Family Law vol 30:01:2017 *‘Through a refined investigation showing sociological, legal, and historical depth, the authors offer many insightful answers to the problem of social reproduction which continues to be framed in terms of private and personal matters…This book offers an innovative study of an over-neglected topic.’ -- Emmanaulle Turcotte * Canadian Journal of Family and Youth vol 9:01:2017 *Table of Contents1. Motherhood, Autonomy, Choice, and Constraint 2. Autonomous Mothers and the Emergence of Unmarried Fathers' Rights to Access and Custody 3. "A Person is the Child of his Natural Parents": Illegitimacy, Law Reform, and Maternal Autonomy 4. Custody and Access Disputes between Unmarried, Non-Cohabiting Biological Parents 1945-2009 5. Women's Experiences Of Autonomous Motherhood, 1965-2010: An Historical Snapshot 6. Autonomous from the Start: The Narratives of Single Mothers by Choice 7. Whither Autonomous Motherhood? Choice and Constraint
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Womens Health in Canada
Book SynopsisThis collection considers how health, and women's health are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part One: Conceptual Foundations Introduction to Women’s Health Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe 1. Women’s Health in the 21st Century Olena Hankivsky 2. Overhauling Life Course Approaches to Women’s Health: Towards an Intersectional Approach Olena Hankivsky and Nicole Etherington Part Two: Historical Foundations 3. Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Women’s Health Movement in Canada Marina Morrow and Christabelle Sethna 4. Synergies of Oppression: Barriers Faced by Older Immigrant Women in Accessing Services for Elder Abuse Sepali Guruge and Astuko Matsuoka 5. All My Relations – Indigenous Women’s Health in Canada Billie Allan and Janet Smylie 6. Reproductive Politics: Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice Holly Mckenzie Part Three: Methodological Foundations: Operationalizing Social Justice and Social Change 7. Decolonizing Research Colleen Varcoe and Holly Mckenzie 8. From Gender Mainstreaming Toward Mainstreaming Intersectionality Olena Hankivsky and Gemma Hunting 9. Engaging Communities: Intersectional Feminist Participatory Action Research Marina Morrow, Colleen Reid, Ania Landy, Sabina Chatterjee, Wendy Frisby, Cindy Holmes, and Audrey Yap Part Four: Exemplifying Change (Health Policy and Practice) 10. Social Determinants of Injection Drug Use Among a Community Sample of Sex Workers: Intersections of Structure and Agency Across the Life Course Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Rachel Phillips, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, and Kate Vallance 11. Toward a Broader Conceputalization of Trans Women’s Sexual Health Greta Bauer and Rebecca Hammond 12. “Women and Madness” Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional and Mad Studies Frameworks Marina Morrow 13. The Intersecting Social and Structural Contexts of Navigating HIV Risk and Access to Care among Women Andrea Krüsi and Kate Shannon 14. Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Wellbeing and Women’s Marginalisation in Community Contexts Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, and Mei Lan Fang 15. Violence Against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice Kate Rossiter 16. Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality Christine Kelly 17. Understanding Migrant Women’s Health: Looking Through Intersectional, Gendered and Human Rights Lens Bilkis Vissandjée and Ilene Hyman 18. An Intersectional Analysis of the Ontario Dementia Strategy Ngozi Iroanyah 19. Prioritizing Non-Communicable Diseases at the Intersections: Global Action in the Canadian Context Olena Hankivsky, Claire Sommerville, and Mary Mandhar 20. Beyond Sex and Gender Difference in Funding and Reporting of Health Research Olena Hankivsky, Kristen W. Springer, and Gemma Hunting Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
Book SynopsisBy drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part A: Contextualizing Gendered Violence in Canada Introduction: Expanding the Lens on Gendered Violence 1. An Intersectional Lens on Gendered Violence 2. Situating Canadian Women: Socio-Economic Locations 3. Regulatory Discourses and Representation: How Women Are “Known” Part B: Interpersonal Violence 4. Everyday Intrusions on the Street, on Campus, and Online 5. Sexual Assault: Laws, Scripts, and Victim Blaming 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Brutish Husbands and Passive Wives Part C: Workplace Violence 7. Not “Just a Joke”: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Microagressions in the Workplace 8. Just Part of the Job? Predatory, Situational, and Slow Violence at Work 9. Invisibilized Migrant Women: Over-Regulated and Under-Protected Workers from the Global South Part D: Structural Violence 10. Moral Regulation, Discipline, and the Beauty Industrial Complex 11. State Violence: Women and the Criminal Justice System 12. Colonial Violence against Indigenous Women Conclusion: “No Free Lunch”: Costs and Consequences of Gendered Violence in Canada and Globally Appendix 1: Works Cited Appendix 2: Glossary
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University of Toronto Press Veiled Figures
Book SynopsisIn Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling.Trade Review‘Veiled Figures is a compelling work that presents an original and well-documented argument by a scholar well versed in the field of women’s and gender studies in Middle Eastern studies. -- Roberta Micallef * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol 36:02:2017 *‘Veiled Figures is an important read for those who seek examinations of the veil’s role in the contemporary context that present a hopeful alternative to the common narrative.’ -- Georgia Carter * Journal of Religion and Culture vol 27:01:2017 *"Teresa Heffernan’s timely and powerful Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism is a significant entry into the discussions that have ensued from Edward Said’s 1978 Orientalism… In framing the (un)veiled woman in historical, global debates, interrogating voices of compliance and resistance, and documenting the troubling new iterations of this trope in the present day, Heffernan follows Said’s model in crossing disciplinary boundaries and revealing cross-cultural dialogues." -- Carolyn McCue Gofman, Depaul University * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Islam, Secularism, and the Veil 2. The Great Whore of Babylon: Cosmopolitanism and Racialized Nationalism 3. Two Western Women Venture East: Lady Annie Brassey and Anna Bowman Dodd 4. The Great War and its Aftermath: Militarized Citizens, (Un)Veiled Bodies, and the Nation 5. The Burqa and the Bikini: Veiling and Unveiling at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Conclusion: The Legacy of Orientalism
£38.70
University of Toronto Press Drama by Women to 1900
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of some 3,000 entries of plays, monologues, and entertainments for amateur groups written before 1900 by British and American women writers. It includes works either privately or publicly performed as well as those never produced but written in dramatic form.(Bibliographies of Women Writers to 1900)
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Corporeal Bonds
Book SynopsisThe mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter’s point of view and depicts the daughter’s bond with the mother.Highlighting the recurrent images throughout these works, Sambuco traces these back to alternative forms of communication between mother and daughter, as well as to the female body. Sambuco also explores the attempts of the daughter-narrators to define a female self that is outside the constrictions of patriarchal society. Through these investigations, Corporeal Bonds identifies a strong connection between the ideas of post-Lacanian critical theorists, Italian feminist thinkers, and the stories within the novels.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism The Denial of the Mother The Mother Figure and the Maternal Irigaray: Subjectivity and the Mother-Daughter Corporeal Bond From Mothers to Daughters: The Italian Scene Diotima and Luisa Muraro Adriana Cavarero 2 Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond Menzogna e sortilegio and the Critics Motherhood and the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Cesira and Anna Maternal Love: Rosaria and Alessandra Elisa 3 Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination Body as Object of Desire The Male Hero Medical Establishment: The Attack on the Body Critique and Re-imagining Writing, Imagination, and Language Narrator, Character, and Author in Search of Identity 4 Mariateresa Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality Desire Chiara The Daughter within the Heterosexual Economy Body and Knowledge 5 Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother's Body Delia: The Love and Hatred of a Selfless Subject Reconstructing the Past The Language of Dresses 6 Elena Stancanelli's Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities Elena Stancanelli and the Literary Scene, 1995-2000 Benzina 154 Mother and Daughter: Different Bodies, Different Personalities A Relationship of Fusion and Independence Oppressed Bodies in the Family Home Looking, and Looking at Each Other Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Healing Home
Book SynopsisApplying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface: A Room of One's Own I. "The Story Behind the Story": An Introduction II. "Once Upon A Time": Storying Feminist Theory in Neoliberal Times III. "Girl, You'll Be A Woman...Soon": A Narrative Project IV. "Girls Aloud": Narratives and Self-Stories: Savannah; Danika; Erin; Jean; Radha; Faith & Raven; Arielle V. "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice": Age, Space, Gender and Health VI. "Seen and Not Heard": Negotiating Health and Wellness VII. "Begging for Change": Barriers, Facilitators and Implications VIII. "Living in a Material World": Challenges and Change IX: "A Journey of a Thousand Miles": One Conclusion Youth Resources List References
£46.75
University of Toronto Press Unruly Women
Book SynopsisIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.Trade Review'Unruly Women offers a rich discussion of gendered rehabilitative practices and their performative dimensions, both on and off the stage in early modern Spain.' -- Jane Bitomsky Parergon vol 33:01:2016 'One of the latest in a series of excellent University of Toronto Press books on the social and cultural context of early modern Spanish Literature... Boyle's work is well grounded in the body of recent scholarship that emphasizes women's active and formative role in early modern Spanish Society.' -- Jodi Campbell Left History vol 20:01:2016 'Unruly Women provides a strong foundation from which to build a more nuanced understanding of the engendering of early modern women's roles and behaviors in Spain. This brief volume makes its argument with great clarity; it will be useful to both graduate students and scholars of early modern Spanish cultural studies.' -- Stacey Schlau Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:02:2015 'Unruly Women deftly explores the relationships between historical recogidas and the fictional female protagonists of the comedia... It will be of interest to scholars and teachers of early modern theater, history, and women's studies.' -- Emily C. Francomano Hispania vol 98:02:2015 'Unruly Women provides readers with enough valuable insights on early modern judicial and rehabilitative practices to make it well worth the read.' -- Barbara Mujica Modern Philology vol 112:04:2015 "Margaret Boyle has produced a compelling study, based on the ingenious juxtaposition of the rise of custodial institutions and their interconnections with a thriving professional theater business that nurtured many "unruly" female performers, entrepreneurs, and audience members." -- Elizabeth R. Wright Seventeenth Century News, Volume 73:3&4, Fall/Winter 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One Chapter 1: Gendering Recogimiento in Early Modern Madrid I. Reforming Prostitutes: Madrid's Magdalen House II. Reforming the Magdalen House: Madre Magdalena de San Jeronimo's galera III. Recogimiento as a Women's Practice Part Two Chapter 2: Stage Widow in Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La dama duende Chapter 3: Dramatizing Women's Community in Maria de Zayas's La traicion en la amistad Chapter 4: Women's Exemplary Violence in Luis Velez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1A Reason and Form of the Galera and Royal House (1608) Appendix 1B Razon y forma de la galera y casa real (1608) Appendix 2A Historical Compendium and Instructive Manifesto on the Origin and Foundation of the Royal House of St. Mary Magdalene of the Penitence, commonly known as the Recogidas of Madrid Appendix 2B Compendio historico, y manifiesto instructivo del origen, y fundacion de la Real Casa de Santa Maria Magdalena de la Penitencia, vulgo las Recogidas de Madrid Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press Body Failure
Book SynopsisIn this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review'Body Failure is an extensively researched and carefully argued book... It is an excellent contribution to the rich, intersecting field of body and medicine in Canada.' -- Jane Nicholas Acadiensis vol 44:02:2015 'This nuanced account of medical views of women in the first half of the twentieth century is sometimes depressing, but it is always fascinating, and tells a story which deserves to be more widely known.' -- Tracey Loughran Social History of Medicine vol 27:04:2014 'Body Failure's rich detail can be profitably mined for lectures, so it is a treat for professors, including the many fine young scholars Mitchinson has trained and mentored in her long career. It is a highly recommended addition and we look forward to her next.' -- Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014 'Body Failure is a very valuable resource on medical views of women's health in Canada... This study reminds us that medicine was and still is, a profession engaged in constant debate, conjecture, and speculation about how gender shapes bodily differences.' -- Susan L. Smith Bulletin of Medical History vol 88:04:2014 'This solid albeit dispassionate book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of a male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself and her body.' -- Herizons, Winter 2015 "This book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself or her body. " -- Maya Khankhoje Herizons Magazine (Winter, 2015) 'Meticulously researched, well organized and clearly written. Body Failure offers a complex and compelling understanding of the medicalization process through a gendered lens and as such, makes an important contribution to the literature on women's health, healthcare, and medicine.' -- Rebecca Kluchin Journal of Social History Fall 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Woman's Place Chapter Two Growing Up and Facing Puberty Chapter Three "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation Chapter Four Understanding Sexuality Chapter Five Advice on Marriage and Motherhood Chapter Six "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility Chapter Seven Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion Chapter Eight "The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology Chapter Nine The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat Chapter Ten The Mind's Health Chapter Eleven Menopause: The End of Womanhood Conclusion Notes on Sources and Methodology
£63.90
University of Toronto Press A Great Rural Sisterhood
Book SynopsisIn A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life and the creation of the Associated Country Women of the World.Trade Review‘Ambrose has put together a rich and detailed portrait of Margaret "Madge" Robertson Watt that highlights her contributions to early twentieth-century rural and international women’s activism…She offers a fascinating portrait of what it meant to build an international movement of women.’ -- Lisa Pasolli * BC Studies issue number 195 *"Ambrose’s study will command a broad audience; it is not only a valuable scholarly text about significant themes and topics in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it is also an accessible read that provides a complex portrait of a key figure in the history of women’s movements who had a vision of "a great rural sisterhood" and worked tirelessly to realize that vision." -- Jodey-Nurse Gupta * The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt 1. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life 2. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor 3. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society and Sorrow 4. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero 5. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks 6. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death 7. Conclusion: Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt
£54.00
University of Toronto Press Outsiders Still
Book SynopsisDespite years of dominating journalism school classrooms across North America, women remain vastly underrepresented at the highest levels of newspaper leadership. Why do so many female journalists leave the industry and so few reach the top?Trade Review"It should be essential reading for news room managers in all forms of media and should be read by deans and directors of journalism schools, as well as students.' -- Barbara Barnett Journalism - 2016 "I suggest you give Outsiders Still by Vivian Smith as a gift to a journalism student near you, just in case the J-school forgets to put it on her reading list. It may well be the most valuable thing she learns all year." -- Shannon Rupp TheTyee.ca, 22 Aug 2015 "Smith's book should be a must read for everyone with an interest in working in Canadian journalism." -- Catherine McKercher, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Carlton University j-source.ca, June 22, 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Are You Still Here ? 2 Senior Women Print Journalists: So Stuck, Yet So Lucky 3 Mid-Career Participants: Hard Work, Sacrifice and Missing Family Pizza Night 4 For the Youngest Journalists, It's "a Game of Chicken" 5 Of Darkness, Dragons, and Black Holes 6 Six Who Walked Away: Frustrations and New Beginnings 7 Conclusions: Taking Control of the Narrative Notes References Index
£41.65
University of Toronto Press Constance Maynards Passions
Book SynopsisUsing Maynard's extensive personal papers, especially her diaries and autobiography, Constance Maynard's Passions is the fascinating account of a life which confounds the usual categories of faith, gender, and sexuality.Trade Review'Phipps has produced a study that is thoughtful, scholarly, and engaging, despite its subject being both difficult to really know, and difficult to like.' -- Deirdre Raftery Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Seeking great Reward from Thee" 1. "Sweetest of Earth's Glories, Love!": 1849-71 2. "Crisis, Restraint and Liberty": 1869-72 3. "Caught in the Current": 1872-75 4. "An Unhappy Marriage": 1876-80 5. "A Man or a Woman?": 1880-83 6. "Years of Gloom": 1883-94 7. "Glorious New Spring": 1896-1913 Conclusion: "Shadow of 'Outer Darkness' Close to Me"
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women in American History to 1880
Book SynopsisWomen in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America''s colonial period through Reconstruction. Features images, poems, newspaper articles, and letters not found in other collections Offers a balanced approach to women''s experiences by representing a diversity of voices and focusing on themes of work, citizenship, representations, and domestic lives Includes an introductory chapter, document headnotes, questions for further discussion after each chapter, and a bibliography for further study, designed to encourage students to engage with the text Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Series Editors' Preface x Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Seekers, 1540–1680 15 1 Luys Hernandez de Biedma on the Destruction of Mavila, 1540 15 2 A Chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc, 1590 17 3 John Rolfe, Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 18 4 Pocahontas, 1616 21 5 Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 23 6 Anne Bradstreet, "A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment," 1650 26 7 John Hammond, Excerpt from Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitful Sisters Virginia and Mary-land, 1656 27 8 Samuel Willard on Elizabeth Knapp, 1671–1672 29 Chapter 2: Colonists and Colonized, 1660–1730 35 1 Excerpts from the Code Noir, 1685 35 2 Assembly of Virginia, Act XII, 1662 36 3 Father Chrestien Le Clercq on Micmac Women, 1691 37 4 Examination of Tituba, 1692 38 5 Petition of Abigail Faulkner, 1692 41 6 Fray Francisco de Vargas on Taking Indian Captives, 1696 42 7 John Lawson on Native American Women and Childbirth, 1709 43 8 An Act Concerning Feme Sole Traders, 1718 45 9 Letters of Sister Mary Magdalene Hachard, 1728 47 Chapter 3: Conceptions of Liberty, 1730–1780 50 1 John Taylor, Excerpt from The Value of a Child, 1753 50 2 William Smith on the Relations between Indians and Their Captives during Pontiac's War, 1764 53 3 Fugitive Slave Ad for Violet, 1766 54 4 Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield," 1770 55 5 Edenton Ladies' Agreement, 1774 58 6 A Society of Patriotic Ladies, 1775 59 7 Hannah Griffitts, "Upon Reading a book Entituled [sic] Common Sense," 1776 60 Chapter 4: Revolution, 1780–1810 63 1 Jemima Wilkinson, Excerpts from The Universal Friend's Advice, to Those of the Same Religious Society, 1784 63 2 Indenture of Eunice Allis, 1789 65 3 Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 66 4 Sarah Pierce, Verses, 1792 70 5 Susanna Rowson, Excerpt from Charlotte Temple, 1794 72 6 Liberty, 1796 73 7 Excerpt from the Will of David Bush, Connecticut Slave Owner, 1797 75 8 Elizabeth Seton, Letters to Archbishop John Carroll, 1809–1810 76 9 Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman, 1811 79 10 Mary Jemison on her Experiences during the American Revolution, 1824 81 11 William A. Whitehead on New Jersey's Early Female Voters, 1858 82 Chapter 5: Awakenings, 1810–1835 85 1 Scenes from a Seminary for Young Ladies, c.1810–1820 85 2 Frederick Douglass Describes His Mother, 1845 85 3 Catharine Beecher, "Circular Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States," 1829 88 4 Cherokee Women’s Petition against Removal, 1831 92 5 Mrs. Mary Mathews to Mrs. Lydia Finney, 1831 93 6 Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832 96 7 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "On the Use of Free Produce," 1832 99 8 Jarena Lee, "My Call to Preach the Gospel," 1836 100 Chapter 6: Contested Spheres, 1835–1845 104 1 Lucy Larcom, Beginning to Work, 1889 104 2 Angelina Grimke, "An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States," 1837 107 3 L.T.Y., "Just Treatment of Licentious Men," 1838 111 4 Petition Protesting the Gag Rule, 1838 112 5 S.E.C., "Mothers and Daughters," 1840 114 6 Oregon Missionary Narcissa Whitman, Letter to her Mother, May 2, 1840 117 7 "Lives of the Nymphs: Amanda B. Thompson and her Attache," 1841 120 8 Catharine Beecher, Excerpt from A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1845 122 Chapter 7: Partisans, 1845–1860 126 1 Susan Shelby Magoffin Describes Dona Gertrudis "La Tules" Barcelo, 1846 126 2 Lucretia Mott, Letter to Edmund Quincy, 1848 128 3 Imogen Mercein Describes the Five Points Mission, 1852 130 4 Excerpt on Complex Marriage from Bible Communism, 1853 132 5 Women of the Oneida Community, undated 137 6 Julia Gardiner Tyler, "To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England," 1853 139 7 Horace Greeley et al., "Woman and Work," 1854 142 8 Clarina Howard Nichols, "To the Women of the State of New York," c.1856 145 9 Illustration of Women's Procession, Lynn, Mass., Shoemakers' Strike, 1860 147 10 Ernestine Rose on Divorce, 1860 148 Chapter 8: Civil Wars 152 1 Louisa May Alcott Treats the Wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863 152 2 Advertisement for the Great Western Sanitary Fair, 1863 154 3 John Burnside and Abisha Scofield, Affidavits on the Removal of Black Soldiers' Families from Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864 155 4 Thomas Nast, Emancipation, 1865 158 5 Jane Kamper, Milly Johnson, and Rebecca Parsons, Testimony on the Apprenticeship of Their Children, 1864–1867 160 6 Testimony of Rhoda Ann Childs, 1866 161 7 Historical Sketch of the Ladies' Memorial Society of New Bern, North Carolina, 1885 163 Chapter 9: Redefining Citizenship, 1865–1880 166 1 Jeannette Gilder and Senator Cattell, Correspondence Regarding Job in the US Mint, 1867–1868 166 2 Susan B. Anthony, Remarks to the American Equal Rights Association, 1869 167 3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech on the Acquittal of Daniel McFarland, 1870 170 4 Our Goddess of Liberty, 1870 174 5 Mother [Eliza Daniel] Stewart, Excerpt from Memories of the Crusade, 1873 176 6 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Speech at the Centennial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1875 179 7 Florence Kelley, Letter to William D. Kelley, 1878 181 8 Pretty Shield Describes the Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1932 183 Further Reading 186 Index 190
£29.40
Bristol University Press Women of Power
Book SynopsisThis unique book presents all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, through a series of fascinating case studies that discuss the motives, achievements and life stories of these women of power.Trade Review"Women of Power is a valuable resource to those who seek an insight into the struggle women have faced in becoming leaders in their own right." LSE Review of Books"From the outset, it is clear that this book, in its study of the transformative potential of women leaders, has an intrinsic power to transform." The Tribune“The empirical data in Power of Women inspire further research on women, politics and power: To what extent do women top leaders represent a new type of politician, new policies and new methods of exerting political power? With the slow increase in the number of female prime ministers and presidents (50/50 in 200 years) it will continue to be of interest to study how women rise to the top and which factors play a role, for a long time to come ... 'Power of Women' will remain a great work within the study of female political leadership and politics.” translation from review in Internasjonal Politikk"This fascinating book on Women of Power is the first comprehensive overview of how and why women made it to the top of political leadership in the years after World War II till 2010." Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights“Skard describes the development of feminist breakthroughs in top leadership roles…she argues female subordination is a cultural product that can be subject to change with a certain amount of political will. The book represents an excellent academic source for both students of gender studies and international relations.” Croation International Relations Review."Skard takes on an enormously ambitious project in her recent book. Organized both chronologically and geographically, Skard includes over 70 leaders in 50 countries, and uncovers a variety of paths to power, regional patterns and variation, and fascinating individual stories." New Books in Political Science"This is the essential reference on women in power, covering a half-century of women at the political helm of democracies as both presidents and prime ministers." Choice"It is important that we learn lessons from those who went before" Mary Robinson, President of Ireland 1990 - 1997"A compelling major work on powerful women in international politics in our time... recommended as a comprehensive and exciting work in global woman`s studies during the last 50 years." Professor Dr Öyvind Foss, Academy of Sciences/University of Stavanger, NorwayTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Breakthrough on several continents; Women in politics; Western industrial countries I; ‘Roaring she-tigers’ in South Asia; Equilibrists in East Asia; Machism, marianism, modernism in Latin America; Lopsided democracies in the Caribbean; ‘Big Chiefs’ in sub-Saharan Africa; Eastern Bloc from communism to capitalism; Western industrial countries II; Where women rose to the top; When women made it.
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