Gender studies: women and girls Books
New York University Press What Works for Women at Work
Book SynopsisPresents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace.Trade Review"[The book] identifies four overall patterns of gender bias that high-achieving career women face." -- Jazelle Hunt * Black Voice News *"Deftly combining sociological research with a more casual narrative style, What Works for Women at Workoffers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women....The authors plow nimbly through decades of research, transforming what could have been dry and impenetrable statistics into attention-grabbing revelations." -- Debora L. Spar * The New York Times Book Review *"Forty years later, gender bias shouldnt exist in the workplace, but it does, in large part because many of us dont recognize its most common forms. Thats a pitfalland for me, at least, a pratfall. ReadingWhat Works for Women at Work would be a good first step in avoiding both." -- Theodore Kinni * Strategy and Business *"If youre a working woman searching for the best pocket guide to success at work, here it is. Prove-It-Again, the Tightrope, The Maternal Wall, the Tug of War, Double Jeopardythe distinguished scholar Joan Williams and her daughter guide women through each of these sticky wickets. Their invaluable advice is no substitute for broader changes in the workplace, they note, but it can help position more women to accomplish that change." -- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Outsourced Self"In their compelling new book, Williams (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law) and Dempsey (a student at Yale Law School who blogs for Huffington Poston women's issues) spell out the two sets of rules, higher standards and closed doors that many women encounter on the job these days." -- Kerry Hannon * Forbes *"Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey clearly and vividly detail the double standards and the dead ends that so many women face in the workplace. Fortunately, the authors also provide easy-to-follow strategies to counter these scenarios. This book can help women claim their seat at the table and lean in to their careers." -- Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"Much of its advice is solid career counsel for anyone looking to move up...ultimately the tone of this book is quite hopeful...[T]his book's message: If we make ourselves and the men in our lives aware of the roadblocks women still face, and we use some of the many tools the authors offer in this volume, we are likely to see women move ahead more quickly. In fact I wish there were a way to interest men in reading this book. They would get the most out of it." -- Susan Adams * Forbes.com *"The book offers women advice for asking for promotions or pay raises, while acknowledging that women who ask for these things can be considered masculine in ways that might undermine their success. I particularly appreciated reading about the toxic competition between women at work that can also hinder the success of women collectively." -- Joshunda Sanders * Salon.com *"The book's plentiful examples and suggestions provide smart strategies for federal workers to find work/life balance without calling their commitment to career into question." -- Katherine Reynolds Lewis * The Business of Federal Technology *"Williams and Dempsey provide the essential bridge between research findings on prejudice and discrimination and the problems that women experience at work. Solutions exist, and these authors present them. What Works for Women at Work is a must-read book for everyone committed to creating gender-fair workplaces." -- Alice H. Eagly, author of Through the Labyrinth"Written by a mother-daughter duo, this decidedly unwonky examination of gender bias doubles as a playbook on how to transcend and triumph." -- Abbe Wright * O, The Oprah Magazine *"Having sifted through many of the debates about how much women can and should succeed, Williams and Dempsey finally offer a template on how women can do that and how the workforce can support this integration; whether these women are homemakers or management, this book is a confidence booster. A much needed look at what women might want, but what society needs." -- Amy Richards, author of Opting In"This title is many steps beyondLean In(2013), Sheryl Sandbergs prescription for getting ahead in business.What Works for Women at Workis filled with street-smart advice and plain old savvy about the way life works in corporate America." * STARRED Booklist *"Its great to have a smart compilation of helpful suggestions put together not by two self-help gurus but by two women who understand that all their advice might still not be enough. Besides, make no mistake: the guidance they offer is often quite good, and I suspect few women will not find either a strategy theyve successfully used in the past or one they can utilize in the future within its pages. [] It pretty much sums up what happens to all too many women today." * Women's Review of Books *"The insights from cognitive psychology and social psychology, and the tips gleaned from experience, that this book brings to bear on experiences of gender in the workplace are worth learning." * Feminist Economics *"The book offers an accessible and sound model of problems faced by women climbing the corporate ladder, and presents clear strategies to take while waiting for business to catch up." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsForeword by Anne-Marie Slaughter Preface 1. Introduction: It's Not (Always) Your Fault Part I: Prove-It-Again! 2. Spotting Prove-It-Again! Patterns 3. Prove-It-Again! Action Plan Part II: The Tightrope 4. Spotting Tightrope Patterns 5. Tightrope Action Plan: Neither a Bitch 6. Tightrope Action Plan: ... Nor a BimboPart III: The Maternal Wall 7. Spotting Maternal Wall Patterns 8. Maternal Wall Action Plan Part IV: The Tug of War 9. Spotting Tug of War Patterns 10. Tug of War Action Plan Part V: Double Jeopardy? 11. The Experience of Gender Bias Differs by Race Part VI: Leave or Stay? 12. Leave or Stay? Reading the Tea Leaves 13. Leave or Stay? Don't Dismay Part VII: 20 Lessons 14. The Science of Savvy in 20 Lessons 15. Conclusion: Jump-Starting the Stalled Gender RevolutionAcknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors
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New York University Press Tea Party Women
Book SynopsisExamines the significant role of women in the conservative movementNotable for its radical conservative views, the Tea Party is progressive in one way that much of mainstream US politics is not: it has among its most vocal members not spokesmen but spokeswomen. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Governor Nikki Haley, US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and many others are all prominent figureheads for the fiery and prominent political movement. Many major Tea Party organizations, such as the Tea Party Patriots, are led by women and women have been instrumental in founding new right wing organizations for women, such as Smart Girl Politics, with ties to the movement. In Tea Party Women, Melissa Deckman explores the role of women in creating and leading the movement and the greater significance of women's involvement in the Tea Party for our understanding of female political leadership and the future of women in the American Right. Through national-level public opinion data, observatiTrade ReviewTea Party Women delves deeply into how gender, ideology and activism intersect. Deckmans thorough and scrupulously researched account of why and how women have emerged as leaders of the Tea Party movement is essential reading for scholars of women and politics, interest groups, political parties, social movements and conservative politics. This accessible, yet comprehensive book, provides firsthand insights into how women have found their voices through conservative politics and what motivates them to promote Tea Party causes. The book is thematically timely, but will also stand the test of time, as it addresses enduring political questions of strategy, power and identity. -- Ronnee Schreiber,author of Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American PoliticsToo often, the media's caricature of the Tea Party misses the mark on what this movement was all about and why so many women felt drawn to it. In Tea Party Women, Melissa Deckman actually speaks with women in the movement and digs into the data to provide a more nuanced picture of the reasons why the Tea Party attracted many American women. -- Kristen Soltis Anderson,author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading AmericaDeckman profiles some of the most vocal pro-women groups of the movement...A sharp...critical analysis of how the role of women in the rise of the tea party is affecting conservative political change. * Kirkus Reviews *In these times of political polarization, Deckman's work is a conduit to help us better listen to and understand the complexities of identities and the genealogies of political strategy, in order to see how 'they' define 'their interests. * Politics & Gender *[Recommended] to all of those who wish to understand why, how, to what endand with what impactwomen are involved in the Tea Party. * Sex Roles *
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New York University Press Fake Geek Girls
Book SynopsisReveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communitiesWhen Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film's real fans to be white, straight men. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014.Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. But this shift has left some people behind. Suzanne Scott points to the ways in which the men's rights moveTrade ReviewScott has created a terrific and timely account of the exclusionary logics that inform fan culture and mirror contemporary American politics. It helps contextualize the recent sexist, racist, and homophobic backlashes against Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ghostbusters, and The Little Mermaid (for casting a black actress as Ariel) as symptomatic of the culture at large. Fake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in learning how gender, power, and privilege shape media production and fandom. -- Women's Review of BooksFake Geek Girls ties together a dizzying array of fan studies theories, feminist media theories, and industrial critiques to build a convincing argument about the convergence culture industry and its gendered practices… Fake Geek Girls provides an interesting and timely intervention into questions of gender, fan studies, and popular culture. -- ConvergenceEssential reading for anyone interested in fandom, media industries, and the larger political struggles in which we all live. In this compelling book, Scott investigates the boundary-policing in media fandom that constructs female fans as inauthentic, marginal, and unwelcome. Fake Geek Girls situates these gendered struggles as part of a larger war on women, helping us to understand the way that privilege and power operate within contemporary convergence culture and beyond. -- Derek Johnson, author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture IndustriesFake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in the gender politics of the media industry and media fandom. Scott connects the dots between GamerGate, Trump's election, and the mainstreaming of fandom, revealing the systemic gender policing underpinning all three. An incisive and thoughtful critique, this book lays bare the gendered logics at work in the industrys hailing of fans while recognizing the complexity of their response. -- Louisa Stein, author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia AgeScott’s book acts as resistance to the persistent vilification of fangirls, seeks to reestablish fan-girls’ influence on both culture and cultural studies, and examines the persistently aggressive gendering of American fandom today. * Media Industries *Without doubt an important text for media scholarship and fandom studies. It’s meticulously researched, politically relevant, and it significantly revisits and reimagines early convergence culture theory. * Science Fiction Research Association Review *A clearly argued and insightful work that I would recommend to everyone interested in contemporary media culture, feminism, and identity politics. [...] We need studies like Fake Geek Girls that make us see the gendered power structures in today’s digital culture we might otherwise choose to ignore. * Fafnir Journal *
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New York University Press Gender Violence 3rd Edition
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violenceFrom Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today's headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement. Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others.Trade Review"This volume moves beyond the binary and avoids the pitfalls of studying only white, cisgendered women as victims of gender violence." -- Gwen Hunnicutt, author of Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the Earth"Gender Violence provides a toolbox that students, teachers and scholars will find integral to understanding and re-making our world. This truly interdisciplinary volume crosscuts the broad area of gender violence, covering multiple angles of the focus topics. Chapters provide clear conceptual tools, empirical examples, and recommended readings, making it ideal for classroom use and a resource for all, regardless of prior knowledge." -- Chrysanthi Leon, author of Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America
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New York University Press Women Rising
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women's political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century moveTrade Review"An amazing, timely, and spectacular contribution to the scholarship on women’s empowerment in the context of the Arab world. The volume brings together works by the field’s most renowned experts. It captures theoretical debates, empirical nuances and a remarkable and sophisticated lens that captures the daily lives and experiences of Arab women. This is a must-read! Stephan and Charrad have assembled a masterpiece!" -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World"In Women Rising, activists, scholars, politicians, and artists tell a compelling story of women’s mobilization before, during, and after the Arab uprising of 2011. Well written and analytically powerful, these essays show us the important role women have played in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and women’s rights across the diverse communities in the region. Pushing the boundaries of the study of feminist resistance, this book will inspire students, scholars, and activists." -- Verta Taylor, co-editor of Feminist Frontiers"A rich collection that records the life and efforts of women during a critical point of history for Arab women as they struggle against odds that often seem insurmountable." -- Amira Sonbol, author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism"The message of this inspiring collection of personal reflections from Arab women activists of various types is that the Arab Spring is far from over - even bloody civil wars are not extinguishing women’s efforts to be heard in calling for reform, resistance and even revolution! The activist chorus so effectively captured here includes poetry, academic essays, accounts of organizing experiences and political reflections from more or less successfully democratized countries. Each contribution is a striking solo, but they harmonize nicely, pointing together to the variety of roots of women’s rebellions in 2010 and the diversity of blooms still opening since!" -- Myra Marx Ferree, author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective"A uniquely stimulating and timely compendium teeming with Arab women’s voices and multiple forms of activism before, during and after the Arab uprisings. Using varied forms of expression, from art and literary production to political commentary, this volume offers a definitive challenge to misrepresentations of Arab women’s agency and their ongoing roles in democratic struggles." -- Deniz Kandiyoti, co-editor of Gender, Governance, and Islam"This exciting and unique collection of essays by Arab activists, politicians, scholars, and others is remarkable in its breadth, covering a wide range of Arab countries and contexts to explore the activism of women before, during and after the Arab Spring uprisings. This important and impressive contribution to the study of women’s activism in the region reveals distinctive features of Arab women’s struggles and the national and local origins of their protests. It shows how women, through their very presence in protests, transformed the relationship of women to public space. Women were emboldened through their organizations; they increased political representation; and made legislative changes. But they also asserted their creative agency through literature, film, street art, the photographic lens, and many other forms of expression." -- Aili Mari Tripp, author of Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights"A welcomed reaffirmation that women have been and successfully continue to work for change as well as a much needed resource for area scholars and those who want to know women can accomplish." * Al Jadid *"Delivers theoretical and empirical insights to the field of Middle East, gender and women’s studies. Stephan and Charrad bring together different stories of resistances and diverse voices of change and thus challenge essentialist and ahistorical readings of women and gender in the region." * Comparative Politics *"For educators teaching about the region, selections from the anthology are an excellent source of potential course material ... The editors have done a truly impressive job of collating work by a wide range of individuals writing about a large number of countries." * The Middle East Journal *"Through a reading of Women Rising, one can observe how Arab women’s activism has repositioned following the Arab Spring and increasingly, Arab women are using new modes of mobilizing and organizing to better represent themselves and simultaneously, upset normative ideas of Arab women. This in itself is a reclamation of Arab women’s identity, which as this volume clearly indicates, is not a monolith." * Journal of International Women's Studies *
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New York University Press Botox Nation
Book SynopsisOne of NPR's Best Books of 2017The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are about two-and-a-half million Botox procedures performed annually, and that number continues to increase. The procedure is used as a preventive measure against aging and a means by which bodies, particularly women's, can be transformed and improved through the appearance of youth. But why is Botox so popular, and why is aging such a terrifying concept? Botox Nation draws from engaging, in-depth interviews with Botox users and providers as well as Dana Berkowitz's own experiences receiving the injections. The interviews reveal the personal motivations for using Botox and help unpack how anti-aging practices are conceived by, and resonate with, everyday people. Berkowitz is particularly interested in how Botox is now being targeted to younger women; since Botox is a procedure that must be continualTrade ReviewThis book is an essential text for anyone interested in sociology and the body. Beautifully written and personally reflexive, it is a wonderful example of the drawing together and application of different strands of social theory -- symbolic interactionism, feminist theories of embodiment and post-structuralism, among them. While taking very seriously the epic sociological dilemma of structure vs. agency, it demonstrates quite explicitly how the self and the corporeal are constructed via an emerging body technology like Botox; in turn, it shows how the meanings of such technologies are made concrete in and through the bodies of contemporary women -- including the author's own body. -- Debra Gimlin,author of Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American CultureWhen we think of body modification, we think of surgery -- like liposuction, face lifts, breast augmentation. Dana Berkowitz's exciting work dramatically expands the discussion to include nonsurgical procedures -- which account for 80% of all procedures. Combining deft fieldwork, detailed interviews, and daring autoethnography, Berkowitz broadens and deepens our understanding of the cosmetically altered but not surgically redefined body. -- Michael Kimmel,author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an EraThis book is a significant contribution to understanding the ways in which the aging body is commodified in contemporary societies and how promissory discourse may shape views and actions and have inequitable outcomes. It will prove invaluable to those interested in the body and society, the sociology of health and illness, and the dynamics of new and emerging treatment markets. * American Journal of Sociology *The writing is approachable, and the research is well-documented in an appendix, making the volume suitable for methods courses. * Choice *
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New York University Press Women in New Religions
Book SynopsisAn in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practiceWomen in New Religions offers an engaging look at women's evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religionsMormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wiccato illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals.Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gendeTrade ReviewInWomen and New ReligionsLaura Vance offers a creative strategy for furthering this work of integration. * Nova Religio *This second volume is particularly interesting because, while much has been written on European traditional religion, these newer denominations have not had as much neutral examination. * Magistra *This work emphasizes the necessity of examining gender in the quest to understand religions. * Choice *This is an important volume in the series onWomen in Religion. It is both engaging and insightful and offers critical information about new religions and the role and influence women have had in their developments. * Catholic Book Review *This book has much to offer in terms of both history and sociological frameworks for evaluation, and for that reason it should work well in classrooms that focus on topics including gender and religion, new religious movements, and American religion, among others. * Sociology of Religion *The new Women in Religions series from NYU Press offers accessible primers on ways women have shaped and been influenced by various religious traditions. * Sojourner's Magazine *Vance has offered an excellent introduction to the histories, theories, and practices of women in Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca. * Religious Studies Review *Argues that religion is a site for both legitimating and challenging gender roles . . .The book would work well in undergraduate courses focusing on gender and religion, or new religious movements. * Review of Religious Research *Clearly the result of intensive research, this book offers invaluable insights into the differentand shiftingattitudes towards and experiences of women in four alternative religions. I recommend it most strongly not only to scholars interested in the study of gender and of new religions, but also to the general reader curious about the extraordinary variety of ways in which half the population can be viewed and treated according to widely differing perceptions of reality. -- Eileen Barker,author of New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction"This engaging new book shows us why and how gender plays a powerful role in the formation and growth of new religions. Integrating gender and social theory with illuminating accounts of spiritual entrepreneurs both strange and familiar, this is a thorough, well-crafted, and eminently useful addition to an important field of study. -- Margaret Bendroth,Congregational LibraryTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Study Women in New Religions? 1 1. Mormonism: Gendering the Heavens 19 2. Seventh-day Adventism: Women's Changing Role in an Endtime Religion 49 3. The Family International: Sexualizing Gender 77 4. Wicca: Valuing the Divine Feminine 101 Conclusion 121 Questions for Discussion 131 Notes 135 Works Cited 169 For Further Reading 183 Index 185 About the Author 189
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New York University Press Ballots Babies and Banners of Peace
Book SynopsisExplores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 to the beginnings of World War II. This book demonstrates that no history of birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presence.Trade Review"By illuminating Jewish women's contributions to mainstream social and political activism, the book fills an important scholarly gap . . . Klapper's work provides a window onto the broader topography of turn-of-the-century progressive reform. This variegated lens on the way gender and ethnicity inflected Jewish women's progressive reform stands as a major contribution to the historical record, providing a compelling view on a broad constellation of activist foci and the manifold ways in which they were connected ideologically. That Klapper contextualizes her stories of individual activists with rich big-picture analysis makes this book an excellent choice for teaching. . . . The author ultimately provides an eloquent and detailed set of answers no only to the question, 'what's Jewish about American Jewish women's activism?' but also 'how are struggles for social justice forged in the politics of identity?' In other words, Klapper provides yet more eloquent historical proof that the personal has always been political." -- Caroline Light * H-Net Reviews *"Highly recommended." -- R.C. Cottrell * CHOICE *"In this illuminating account of campaigns for social justice, Melissa Klapper takes an important cohort of Jewish women and shows us how Jewishness mattered to their activism as well as how their activism influenced the world they lived in. This book provides the best explanation I have yet encountered for the more recent involvement of Jews in the social movements of the 1960s. It is a wonderful and inspiring read." -- Alice Kessler-Harris,author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman"In this lucid and compelling narrative, Klapper captures both the personal dedication of individual women and the broad sweep of Jewish womens activism. By illuminating the complex activist identities and organizations forged by Jewish women in the early twentieth century, this book requires future scholars of feminism to engage more fully with ethnicity and religion and Jewish historians to incorporate more fully womens experiences." -- Nancy A. Hewitt,author of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism"Klapper . . . conducted her research across the country, accessing primary sources such as Jewish newspapers, National Council of Jewish Women meeting minutes, letters and diaries. The result is the stories of many impassioned, educated and influential women who helped shape the early social and political movements." -- Melissa Gerr * Baltimore Jewish Times *"Klapper paints a vivid picture of the activists involved in several social reform movements. Hers is a well-researched, finely textured, and significant contribution to our understanding of how the categories of 'Jewish' and 'woman' animated American activism." -- Marc Dollinger * American Historical Review *"Klapper's work on the Jewish women who organized and helped fund the fight for suffrage, established birth control clinics in immigrant neighborhoods, and played a key role in the international peace movement is an example of the kind of careful scholarship that is needed to correct the imbalances in both Jewish and women's history." -- Ellen R. Rothman * Jewish Women's Archive *"Melissa Klapper has made an outstanding contribution to a history that we thought we knew well, of some of the great women's struggles of the early twentieth century suffrage, peace, and birth control. However, she has changed that history by focusing on Jewish women's important participation in them. We learn not only of their contribution, but the antisemitism they encountered. Her analysis is nuanced and represents the very best of what women's history does, to understand the complexity of identity as women struggled to become citizens and political actors in the United States. This is a remarkable book." -- Riv-Ellen Prell,Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota"Melissa R. Klapper provides a wonderful overview of Jewish involvement in three major early twentieth-century women's movements. She illuminates the struggle those activists faced in negotiating their Jewishness within female-led organizations, places where they not infrequently encountered anti-Semitism. Klapper contributes a much-needed focus on the influence played by religion, other than Protestantism, on American women's activism.-," -- Mary McCune * The Journal of American History *"While the names Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem have become synonymous with second-wave feminism, the role of Jewish women in earlier feminist causes has gone largely unrecognized. With her new book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940, Melissa R. Klapper, a history professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, is trying to change that, bringing to light the outsize role Jewish women played in the suffrage, birth control and peace movements.-," -- Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil * Moment Magazine *"Klapper writes to restore Jewish women to their rightful place in these histories as well as to insert women's activism into the panorama of American Jewish life. . . . This book is an opening, a gift, an invitation, and anyone who writes on these subjects after her owes the author a massive debt of gratitude for the map she has drawn." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"In this important volume, Melissa Klapper introduces readers to an overlooked generation of Jewish women and the causes they championed, particularly in the interwar eramost notably suffrage, access to birth control, and the international peace movement." * Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 *"[The] recent book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940, explore[s] the lives of those who focused on the great women's movements of the early 20th century: suffrage, birth control, and peace." * Jewish Exponent *"[The] strength of this book lies in the individual stories that Klapper unearths. Painstakingly researched, Klapper draws on a tremendous number of primary sources, published and nonpublished." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Carefully footnoted and with an extensive bibliography, this book will educate and enlighten readers looking for a detailed disquisition on a thought-provoking topic…Its consistently well-researched facts are analyzed into a set of cogent conclusions about the primacy of Jewish women in both social and political causes, and it is eminently readable." * Jewish Book Council *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of Organization Names Introduction 1 "We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested in Our New Citizenship": American Jewish Women and the Suffrage Movement 2 "I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children": The American Jewish Community and the Early Years of the Birth Control Movement 3 "We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace": Jewish Women, Peace Activism, and Acculturation 4 "They Have Been the Pioneers": American Jewish Women and the Mainstreaming of Birth Control 5 "Where the Yellow Star Is": American Jewish Women, the Peace Movement, and Jewish Identity during the 1930s and World War II Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press A Body Undone
Book SynopsisA woman''s fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accidentIn the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentraTrade ReviewA Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraordinary and luminous book. -- Judith Butler,author of Precarious LifeChristina Crosby insists on the challenge of living on after great pain and loss and shows us what it is like to begin this altered life in ones middle years. Tender, fierce, and eloquent, A Body, Undone is a necessary, even life-altering book. -- Laura S. Levitt,author of American Jewish Loss after the HolocaustChristina Crosby has written a frank and lyrical memoir describing her traumatic experience of becoming quadriplegic and offering profound reflections on the role of the body in identity, on the humbling experiences of being cared for, on privilege and class in caregiving, and on loss of control. Crosbys eloquence and brutal honesty make this a stunning and harrowing account of the experience of human loss. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Crosbys powers of articulation, her ethical convictions, her deep knowledge of politics, literature, and culture, her queer commitments, and her dedication to using language to convey the farthest limits of embodied experience combine to makeA Body, Undonea transformational read, one that underscores the basic facts of our interdependence, precarity, and capacity to sustain each other. * Vela Magazine *[I]nher surgically incisive descriptions of how it feels to live in her ravaged body and to redefine herself within extreme new limits, Crosby resists both self-pity and the too-easy narrative of hardship overcome. Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sense of the word, life in a body can be. * TheNewYorker.com *Most memoirs about life with a disability 'almost always move toward a satisfying conclusion of lessons learned, Crosby writes. But Crosby knows that there are no satisfying conclusions when one lives 'a life beyond reason'--and that bit of wisdom alone is cause to read this elegant and harrowing book. * The Washington Post *Perhaps the most profound lesson of Crosby's book is how lonely pain is...[she] is not the person whose suffering can be made into a vessel for other people's metaphors. Her book's drama lies in trying to decode who she really is. * New Republic *[A Body, Undone]is fascinating and painful, humiliating and beautiful...There's no bitterness in these pages, no anger at the action that led to her injury. * Mediander.com *[S]harp and transformativeA Body, Undoneis about a calamitous accident, yes, but its also about the accident of all our lives, and the inevitable mortality that informs every one of our days. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Part grueling diary of living with chronic pain and part celebration of survival, this is a complicated understanding of what it means to change your definition of living while living through it. * Elle *conversations within feminist and Disability Studies classrooms and contribute to our collective effort to theorize relationality, embodiment, and interdependence. * Disability Studies Quarterly *In its intellectual generosity, its frankness, and its dexterous deployment of the resources of scholarship toward the ends of life writing,A Body, Undonerecalls other invaluable memoirs of illness and disability by feminist academics like Susan GubarsMemoir of a Debulked Womanand Eve Kosofsky SedgwicksA Dialogue on Love, though unlike those antecedents Crosby engages explicitly with the now-robust field of disability studies. * Feministing.com *Crosby discusses her reality with a candor that must be experienced to be believed. And the reader is left to face the truth that one's embodiment and the world that goes with it) can change utterly and forever, in a heartbeat. * Inside Higher Ed. *Our sense of ourselves cannot exist outside our bodies. As such, Crosby's act of writing the body is a powerful act of self-preservation. * Inside Higher Ed. *Crosby weaves poetry and literary references into her her story in an attempt to find meaning in her life. Her poignant, well-written, and thoughtful memoir will be of interest to scholars in feminist, gay, and disability studies. * Journal of American Culture *
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New York University Press Reproductive Injustice
Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist AnthropologyWinner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyFinalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American PublishersA troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of Black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infantsBlack women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain DavTrade ReviewDavis explores how medical racism impacts black women... The work is unique in that it is the first to focus on the subject as it relates to professional working women and provides evidence that black women across all classes still have a higher rate of premature births than other women. * Library Journal *As a white NICU nurse, I came to read Reproductive Injustice because I suspected I was participating in medical racism, but had never learned the relevant history to identify how, or critical race theory to know what to do about it. Reading Dr. Davis’ work, it was devastatingly easy for me to see how current practices in my NICU workplace reflected racist ideologies born from American slavery. As the work repeatedly ‘[reiterates] racism’s grammar,’ Reproductive Injustice gave me the vocabulary to begin to challenge it. * Words of Choice *Reproductive Injustice provides a powerful look at the disturbing and lingering disparity in premature births occurring among black women... Davis presents a deterritorialized ethnography that covers time and space: her fieldwork with mothers, birth workers, and hospital staff illuminates a rich narrative encompassing black women’s reproduction, the history of the March of Dimes, and development of the neonatal intensive care unit. A must read for students of anthropology, sociology, and medicine, particularly practitioners working with pregnancy and childbirth. * Choice *Davis brings context to the large-scale statistics and inferences that are built of individuals’ stories. Part of the afterlife of slavery has been the tendency to explain away statistics by singling out black women and blaming their individual behaviors, treating each woman in isolation rather than pointing to systemic inequities and toxic stress and their effects on health. Telling multiple individuals’ stories in aggregate works against this tendency; it creates a picture of structural racism … [and] paints an alarming picture of how medical racism affects black women’s health and black infant prematurity. * Christian Century *As anthropologists, we should hope that Reproductive Injustice finds audiences outside of the academy, as it is an excellent example of the continuing relevance of the discipline, generally—and ethnography, specifically—in contemporary conversations about race in the United States. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *What makes Davis’ timely contribution in Reproductive Injustice especially powerful is her careful and well-documented insistence that we must understand the racial disparities in birth outcomes—and in particular, higher rates of premature birth among Black women—as a product of structural racism and its numerous manifestations in medicine and everyday life. * Social Force *Reproductive Injustice [...] highlights the troubling role medical racism plays regarding Black women who have given birth to premature and low weight infants, as well as their families. * Journal of African American History *[An] essential reading for social workers and anyone interested in understanding health disparities [...] A call to action to medical providers, social workers, and those involved in health disparities research, practice, and/or advocacy. * Journal of Women and Social Work *
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New York University Press A Bun in the Oven
Book SynopsisThere are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, most births happen in large hospitals, about a third result in C-sections, and the US does not fare well in infant or maternal outcomes. In A Bun in the Oven Barbara Katz Rothman traces the food and the birth movements through three major phases over the course of the 20th century in the United States: from the early 20th century era of scientific management; through to the consumerism of Post World War II with its turn to the French' in making things gracious; to the late 20th century counter-culture midwives and counter-cuisine cooks. The book explores the tension throughout all of these eras between the industrial demands of mass-management anTrade ReviewA Bun in the Oven is a fascinating investigation of the parallels and differences between two important consumer movements of our times: the food movement and the birth movement. Witty and thought-provoking throughout, it will stimulate discussion among those who seek to keep artisanal skills and knowledge alive in both of these fundamental areas of our lives. -- Ina May Gaskin,author of Spiritual MidwiferyA Bun in the Oven is an erudite but fun read into these two worlds and how people struggle for identity, choice, voice and meaningful experiences in our increasingly industrialized world. The reader leaves with an understanding and appreciation for the struggles of both the food and birth movements and a sense of what these two, often overlapping, life-or-death important movements can learn from one another. -- Jonathan Deutsch,co-author of Barbecue: A Global HistoryBarbara Katz Rothman provides an unsettling comparison of two domains where women's labor has been colonized by men in the name of science and industry. In the process she gives a rare insight not only into what happens when the gap between everyday experience and expert knowledge is bridged in the name of professionalism, but also equips her readers with reasonable hope in cross-fertilizing lessons from the food and the natural birthing movements. Students, teachers and scholars will earn much in engaging with Katz Rothman's rich description and sharp critique.-Krishnendu Ray,author of The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali * American Households *A sociologist in the world of midwifery is introduced to food studies, and spots parallelseverywhere with the world of birth. Her wittily named study ranges insightfully from JuliaChild to natural childbirth, and from Lamaze and Pavlov to labour times, Cesareans andkale chips as she considers how & birth and food, once so profoundly part of womensworld of production, ultimately came to be acts of consumption * Times Higher Education *Katz Rothman is at her most interesting when explaining why the modern medicalized birth which increases the speed and reduces the pain of labour is not always best for either mother or baby. * Times Literary Supplement *Katz Rothmans deep examination of the history of midwives and childbirth in America allows her to explore not only the birth and food movements of today, but also much more: capitalism, privilege, the meaning of home, and some might argue the meaning of life. * Feminist Collections *Rothman is passionate about her topic, and her writing style reflects her enthusiasm. The book is well-researched and fun and offers a useful model for the comparison of two important social movements. * Journal of American Culture *A Bun in the Oven is an intriguing, often startling reading, especially if you have never given much consideration to birth and all that implies. It is also a very personal and moving account, in which the author shares episodes of her own life, her reflection on death, life, and suffering, as well as more general considerations about authority, gender, and power. * Huffington Post *This book is intended for gender and womens studies, sociology, anthropology, and medical studies audiences, but would be useful also for psychologists interested in womens health, health psychology, and feminist psychology. The authoritative sociological and historical background that Rothman places the activities of eating and giving birth provides an extremely useful context from which to study individual choices and social behavior. * PsycCRITIQUES *This book is readable, authoritative, and thoughtful. Its combination of scholarly expertise and heart-on-its-sleeve advocacy gives it a distinct voice that is sure to provoke reaction especially if it is, as Rothman and I would hope, taken up by readers who are not already foodies and birthies. * North American Dialogue *
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New York University Press A Troubled Marriage
Book SynopsisA provocative exploration of how the legal system's response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to change it.Trade Review"[A] compelling reappraisal of domestic violence . . . outstanding for collections on women and the law, domestic violence, and victimization. Highly recommended." -- D. Schultz,CHOICE"Goodmark's synthetic, accessible, and critical account of the development, current condition, and possible futures of legal remedies for women subjected to abuse tracks the progress and perils of three decades of inspired feminist legal activism. Goodmark raises important questions about feminist theory and legal advocacy while engaging longstanding debates about strategies for social change and the limits and possibilities of the state as a terrain of feminists struggle." -- Lisa D. Brush * Tulsa Law Review *"A Troubled Marriage is powerful and spot-on in its challenges to those of us who have given over so much to the state through law and funding. It is a must read for everyone involved in crafting law, litigating for reforms, creating new services and assistance (which may or may not be what battered women would chose) and surrendering to the power of the state in so many ways.I urge activists to come together for conversation and debate about A Troubled Marriage." -- Barbara J. Hart,co-founder, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence"In this important book, Goodmark bravely exposes the range of feminist premises about violence in the home, steadfastly confronts the paradoxical reality of under- and over-enforcement of existing law, and calls for a wide new range of remedies far beyond the ken of dominance feminisms crabbed penal imagination. Respect for womens agency and womens strategies in and through sex and power animate this dramatic, comprehensive, immensely readable, completely new approach. Goodmarks anti-essentialist feminism is the voice of a new generation. It could change the program of legal feminism, vastly for the better." -- Janet Halley,author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism"We all think we know what 'justice' is, what it looks like. But in this thoroughly researched and carefully argued book, Leigh Goodmark demonstrates that justice has multiple meanings, depending on who is doing the defining. She also makes clear that women who have been abused often find their ability to define and seek justice usurped by others who believe they know 'what's best.' Goodmark's analysis highlights the possibilities and limits of law for abused women seeking justice, and proposes extra-legal remedies that will undoubtedly spark debate, but ultimately may prove appealing to the true experts on domestic violence: women who have experienced abuse." -- Claire M. Renzetti,author of Feminist Criminology"She uses both theory and legal case studies to build her narrative: it is an effective strategy, one that makes Goodmark's criticism of the current legal system convincing." * Women's Studies Journal *"Leigh Goodmark's book effectively explains why scholars and practitioners have reached this conclusion and makes inroads to setting a new direction. In her analysis, the root of the problem is linked to the influence of 'dominance' feminism on reform practices and the solution is found in developing responses to domestic violence 'beyond the law.'" * Criminal Law Bulletin *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Developing the Legal Response 2 Defining Domestic Violence 3 Deconstructing the Victim 4 Separation 5 Mandatory Interventions 6 Reframing Domestic Violence Law and Policy: Anti-Essentialist Principles 7 A Reconstructed Legal System 8 Beyond the Law Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Surviving State Terror
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThrough the connecting thread of the body and embodiment, Sutton delivers a complex, creative, and powerful analysis of gender-based violence in Argentinas clandestine detention centers. The author masterfully reveals intersections of state terror and gender ideologies with clear relevance across space and time. A must read -- Cecilia Menjívar,Author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in GuatemalaTorture survivors are witnesses. Many people do not want to hear their voices. Barbara Sutton has listened to scores of Argentinian women who survived to detail the misogynist lengths to which a military junta will go to stay in power. Sutton reveals how our listening to these women is crucial for sustainable democracy. -- Cynthia Enloe,Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of PatriarchyHow history is told is political. Who tells it is political. How the voices of those telling it are portrayed is political. Barbara Sutton makes clear choices in this powerful book to bring forward the voices of powerful women. Yes, women who have been tortured in ways that are unfathomable, and still their stories reveal their power. * Marina Sitrin, NACLA Report on the Americas *Sutton’s work is both timely and pressing, illuminating how state violence is not simply a matter of perpetrators and victims but is connected to persistent discourses and practices of violence aimed at turning captive people into humiliated, objectified, and sexualized bodies, stripped of identity and rights. What is at stake are lessons ... that move between the past and the present and across geographical boundaries to connect gender discourse to materiality, survival to resistance, and embodied memories from survivors to memories about the body that are culturally produced. * Jennifer Earles, Gender & Society *By amplifying the voices of women who endured state violence in Argentina, Sutton demonstrates the social dimensions of collective memory, the archive, and the capacities of societies to attend closely to a range of voices who have been targeted for state violence. The significance of excavating such narratives is underscored by both the parallels of state violence to the many forms of gendered violence women face daily and the impunity many torturers and state officials continue to enjoy in the aftermath of state violence. … Sutton powerfully demonstrates that state violence is at once the exception and, at the same time, is the rule. * Amina Zarrugh, Sociological Inquiry *[B]y accessing these voices the archive in question plays an important role through which testimonies are not only stored, but are performed. In opening the potentially ‘inert’ archive, Sutton’s work is relevant for those beyond Argentina, and indeed Latin America, who are interested in violence, testimony and women’s resistance, and in the connection between sexual and political violence and resistance. * Cara Levey, Oral History *The last military regime in Argentina (1976–1983) ended over 35 years ago. Yet, like many countries that have gone through periods of gross human rights violations under authoritarian regimes, the country still struggles with how to remember what happened and ensure that it never happens again. Barbara Sutton’s book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina makes an important contribution to these scholarly and practical efforts toward transitional justice and collective memory. * Michelle D. Bonner, Contemporary Sociology *Surviving State Terror nos conecta con unas utopías que son quizás más frágiles y precarias que las que conformaban el horizonte político de futuro de los setentas. Pero son utopías que se toman en serio la derrota, el dolor y la pérdida. En un momento político que invita constantemente al optimismo banal o al pesimismo rotundo, resulta profundamente esperanzador leer un libro que no le teme a la palabra utopía y que establece una relación crítica con el pasado para ayudarnos a imaginar que, a pesar de todo, el presente no está clausurado. * Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Corpus *Las historias que Bárbara Sutton despliega con detalle y sutileza en su libro no cuentan circunstancias individuales, 'aunque individuos remarcables emergen de la historia de las luchas por los derechos humanos', sino que en su ejemplaridad establecen legados activistas que nos permiten 'imaginar de otro modo' formas de solidaridad para continuar el trabajo de fortalecer la memoria y buscar la verdad y la justicia para las futuras generaciones. * Claudia Bacci, Revista Transas *En efecto, la potencia interpretativa (y, fundamentalmente, política) de este libro no se anuda solo en la audaz y cuidadosa recuperación de esas voces, otrora vulneradas y silenciadas, sino también, y fundamentalmente, a su advertencia precisa y contundente sobre los modos aún vigentes de sometimiento de este y otros grupos que han sido y continúan siendo social, cultural y políticamente vulnerados. * Julieta Lampasona, Clepsidra *
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New York University Press Queering Family Trees
Book SynopsisArgues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage. But that narrative tells only one version of a very complex story about family and citizenship. Queering Family Trees explores the lived experience of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making. While the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2015 has provided avenues toward equality for some couples, structural and economic barriers have meant that othersespecially queer women of color who often have fewer financial resourcesTrade Review"For those looking to read a comprehensive and critical analysis of the laws and policies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—families in unequal ways based on the structures of race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality, and other inequalities, Queering Family Trees is a worthwhile read ... an important resource for understanding how lesbians create their families within the context of, and despite, and laws and policies largely meant to keep their families from forming, and invisible once created. At its very basic level, Queering Family Trees encourages us as readers to rethink how to construct our own family trees, and within the confined structure of the family tree, who we include and who we render invisible as 'family.'" * Social Forces *"Patton-Imani’s historical narrative-based exploration forces us to think about the roads not taken, the intersecting side roads of welfare, immigration, adoption, and marginalized families, from the 1990’s through Obergefell." * Jotwell *
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New York University Press Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Book SynopsisThe captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law's glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women's individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would neveTrade Review"Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is an inspirational story of individual successes and even more important, a historical analysis of the march toward improved gender equality in America." * Trial Magazine *"I cannot even begin to do justice to these stories, so I recommend it as reading for everyone. I have always considered Ruth Bader Ginsburg an inspiration, but now I know the names and stories of other trailblazers to admire: Ruth Abrams, Joanne Garvey, Constance Harvey, Herma Hill Kay, Shirley Hufstedler, Belva Lockwood, Janet Reno, Catherine Roraback, Norma Shapiro, Ada Shen-Jaffe, and so many more... Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is not just the story of what women went through to attain their current place in the law, but an empowerment to keep the fight for equality going strong. This book is highly recommended for law school libraries." -- Law Library Journal"[A]n interesting look at the lives of women who joined the legal profession in the middle and later part of the last century...[I]t offers tales both fascinating and frustrating about barriers and burdens women suffered as they fought their way into the legal profession" -- The Champion"This remarkable volume collects the life and career stories of more than a hundred female lawyers, all part of the so-called 'second wave'of the movement, that is the period after women gained suffrage and other full citizenship rights. These are women who have written important scholarship, served as Deans of major institutions, risen to the highest ranks of law practice while also devising new forms of public service---their stories mark a true revolution in the profession. The production of the book itself is as remarkable as the content a vast collaborative effort of oral history taking and writing, now organized with an historians fine hand. It will be useful for years to all scholars of the legal profession as a model and an inspiration." -- Barbara Babcock,Crown Professor Emerita, Stanford Law School, author of Fish Raincoats, A Woman Lawyer's Life"Jill Norgren has written a compelling portrait of women on the front lines of the ongoing struggle for gender equality in the legal profession. Her book eloquently describes a central feature of the civil rights revolution that continues today, and reminds us not to take for granted the hard-won victories of those whose stories she tells." -- John Shattuck,author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response"The words of the women lawyers here tell an inspiring yet sobering story of the path women lawyers blazed in the 20th century. They all, even the most successful and influential, faced the roadblocks of gender discrimination as they made their way through law school and up the professional ladder, and as they confronted the enduring challenge of balancing their personal and professional lives. Their stories are both a window into the past and a beacon for the future, revealing just how far women lawyers have advanced as well as what lies ahead in the 21st century." -- Virginia G. Drachman,author of Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History
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New York University Press Tea Party Women
Book SynopsisExamines the significant role of women in the conservative movementNotable for its radical conservative views, the Tea Party is progressive in one way that much of mainstream US politics is not: it has among its most vocal members not spokesmen but spokeswomen. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Governor Nikki Haley, US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and many others are all prominent figureheads for the fiery and prominent political movement. Many major Tea Party organizations, such as the Tea Party Patriots, are led by women and women have been instrumental in founding new right wing organizations for women, such as Smart Girl Politics, with ties to the movement. In Tea Party Women, Melissa Deckman explores the role of women in creating and leading the movement and the greater significance of women's involvement in the Tea Party for our understanding of female political leadership and the future of women in the American Right. Through national-level public opinion data, observatiTrade Review"Tea Party Women delves deeply into how gender, ideology and activism intersect. Deckmans thorough and scrupulously researched account of why and how women have emerged as leaders of the Tea Party movement is essential reading for scholars of women and politics, interest groups, political parties, social movements and conservative politics. This accessible, yet comprehensive book, provides firsthand insights into how women have found their voices through conservative politics and what motivates them to promote Tea Party causes. The book is thematically timely, but will also stand the test of time, as it addresses enduring political questions of strategy, power and identity." -- Ronnee Schreiber,author of Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics"Too often, the media's caricature of the Tea Party misses the mark on what this movement was all about and why so many women felt drawn to it. In Tea Party Women, Melissa Deckman actually speaks with women in the movement and digs into the data to provide a more nuanced picture of the reasons why the Tea Party attracted many American women." -- Kristen Soltis Anderson,author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America"Deckman profiles some of the most vocal pro-women groups of the movement...A sharp...critical analysis of how the role of women in the rise of the tea party is affecting conservative political change." * Kirkus Reviews *"In these times of political polarization, Deckman's work is a conduit to help us better listen to and understand the complexities of identities and the genealogies of political strategy, in order to see how 'they' define 'their interests." * Politics & Gender *"[Recommended] to all of those who wish to understand why, how, to what endand with what impactwomen are involved in the Tea Party." * Sex Roles *
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New York University Press What Works for Women at Work A Workbook
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New York University Press On Infertile Ground
Book SynopsisA critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is backand that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women's universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it backand why now? In On Infertile Ground, Jade S. Sasser explores how a small network of international development actors, including private donors, NGO program managers, scientists, and youth advocates, is bringing population back to the center of public environmental debate. While these narratives never disappeared, Sasser argues, histories of human rights abuses, racism, and a conservative backlash against abortion in the 1980s drove them undergrounduntil now. Using interviews and case studies from a wide range of sitesfrom Silicon Valley foundation headquarTrade Review"Like the best social science writing, the book will spark conversation and encourage critical questions about received knowledge. Notably, Sasser declines to offer any policy solutions in her conclusion, preferring to give her readers space for what she calls productive fretting. All in all, On Infertile Ground should be required reading for anyone interested in climate change, women’s lives, or global population dynamics. You may not agree with Sasser’s conclusions, but you will find her analysis thoughtful, clear-eyed, and great food for thought." * American Journal of Sociology *"Sasser shows how environmental activists and scientists have used the urgency of climate change to call for reducing population numbers in the Global South as part of the effort to slow global warming. Drawing on two years of fieldwork with NGO workers, government employees, volunteers, activists, and donors, Sasser chronicles a resurgent Malthusianism, which she calls “populationism,” dressed in progressive-sounding terms such as “empowerment,” “human rights,” and “reproductive justice.” ... Sasser’s observations of how family planning programs operate in low-resource communities are invaluable ... As Sasser notes, the distance between the intentions of idealistic advocates who talk about women’s empowerment and the women they claim to be helping is vast." * New York Review of Books *"On Infertile Ground deepens and expands our understanding of contemporary population politics and policy discourses in the era of climate change. In a fresh and original analysis, Jade S. Sasser reveals how poor women in the Global South are now instrumentalized as & sexual stewards of both the environment and the neoliberal economic order by population/environment NGOs, foundations, and policymakers. Her fieldwork gives us a first-hand view of how this hegemonic knowledge is produced and how it colonizes young white activists vision of the future. This book comes not a moment too soon as population control efforts gain force under a false banner of womens empowerment. Sasser has made an impressive contribution to political ecology, feminist theory, and the pursuit of real reproductive justice." -- Betsy Hartmann,Author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control"On Infertile Ground is a welcome and necessary addition to medical anthropology. It is especially fruitful for scholars interested in reproductive politics, climate disaster, international development, and histories of population control ... The book’s attention to sexual stewardship—Sasser’s principal contribution—serves as a guidepost to help scholars and activists untangle the social ontology of neoliberal rights during the mounting climate disaster." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"As we face a feverish and hyper politicized climate around reproductive justice and climate change, this is a critical book for our times. Superbly researched, carefully analyzed, and deeply historical, On Infertile Ground provides a thoughtful and insightful exploration of how we got here, and what the future has in store . . . Jade S. Sasser brings many important strains in feminist and environmental literature into a cogent analysis of contemporary politics" -- Banu Subramaniam,Author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity"Sasser’s groundbreaking insights clearly demonstrate the overlap between social justice groups, and in this case, environmental causes, reproductive justice, and women’s rights. [...] [Her] critical analysis couldn’t have come at a more crucial time where society finds itself at a crossroad between value priorities on personal, communal, national, and international levels." * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *
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New York University Press Wife Inc.
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once an obligation has become an exclusive club into which heterosexual women with the right amount of self-discipline may win entry. The newly exalted professionalized wife is no longer reliant on her husband's status or money; instead she can wield her own power provided she can successfully manage the business of being a wife. Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today's wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Trade ReviewLeonard unearths the complexity of femininity and marriage in the modern day, with attention to the inescapability of women’s historical presence in the domestic sphere ... Wife, Inc. will undoubtedly interest readers in fields of both Media and Women and Gender Studies who will gain intriguing insights from Leonard’s assertions on market-controlled constructions of feminine connection. * Communication Review *A smart and trenchant examination of the notion of the & wife as both a popular culture phenomenon and an economic powerhouse. Suzanne Leonard has once again proved herself to be an incisive interpretative voice. Written in a clear and engaging style, Wife Inc.s readers are in good hands as Leonard walks us through the nuances of wifedom in the twenty-first century. -- Brenda R. Weber,editor of Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality TelevisionHow and why do women in the twenty-first century seek and perform the role of wife? What norms and expectations define it and in what ways does it comply with and deviate from its traditional definitions? Tracking the image of the wife and the aspirant wife across multiple zones of popular culture, Suzanne Leonards brilliant, timely book elucidates the new stakes of wifehood in early twenty-first century culture, unpacking it as a status category, a state of risk and a mode of female labor that demands critical reflection, and the kind of fresh take that she is ideally suited to provide. -- Diane Negra,University College DublinLeonard explores how American women look at and experience marriage. For centuries a pragmatic economic arrangement, modern marriage has become bound up in the pursuit of happiness. . . . Yet even after getting married which is seen as the prize at the end of the romance narrative women often find themselves saddled with another job: the work of being a wife. -- Kate Tuttle,Boston GlobeSlick and sophisticated, Wife Inc. is a fascinating look at the figure of the wife as a mediated phenomenon. As the first book to treat the wife as an icon of post-feminist media culture, this is an extremely timely intervention. The stakes of what Suzanne Leonard sheds light on, especially with regard to political wives, are dramatically raised in our current time. Its topicality, compounded by its engaging style, make this an exciting read for those interested in feminist and political issues in popular culture. -- Hannah Hamad,Cardiff University
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New York University Press Women in Early America
Book SynopsisTells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the RepublicWomen in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known womenboth ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrantwho lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President's house; and as students and educators inspired by the air of equaliTrade ReviewA number of essays are particularly valuable in that they examine understudied areas of women's experiences...Other essays provide new insight into better-studied subjects. * Choice *These essays reveal the exciting intellectual payoff of a transcultural approach to womens lives in the past. Not only will readers confront a richly varied cast of historical actors, but they will come away convinced that womens relationships to each other, to men, to the law, the economy, and culture were central to the experimentation and adaptation of colonialism and nation-building. -- Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor,author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary AmericaWomen in Early America, an ambitious series of eleven essays edited by Thomas A. Foster, offers a more compelling version of early America and its heroines. The collection attends to two lacunae at once by focusing on women, a group whose presence in the records is often hard to come by, to unearth overlooked and understudied figures only touched on in earlier research (if at all). -- Alana Shilling-Janoff * Times Literary Supplement *A first-rate collectionvivid, varied, and provocativethat expands our view of early America. The expert essays interrogate sources, challenge assumptions, reconstruct mindsets, and vault over boundaries of nation, region, status, and culture. -- Nancy Woloch,Barnard CollegeI really think this book will become a landmark volume. Without losing sight of any of the complexities integral to our postmodern sensibilities, the authors have managed to return to a crucial but too often neglected subjectthe lived experiences of real women in Early America. Perhaps we can have it both ways after all. -- Camilla Townsend,Rutgers UniversitySweeping in scope and impressive in originality, the essays collected in Women in Early America offer a timely assessment of the history of women in early America. The volume is strikingly diverse and remarkably inclusive, with essays that encompass the experiences of African, Native, and European women and their descendants and range geographically well beyond the eastern seaboard of North America to include the Caribbean, New Spain, New France, and indigenous settlements in the era before European contact. Highly readable and carefully researched, Women in Early America sparkles with insights that will fascinate and enlighten students and historians of gender, women, and early America. -- Terri L. Snyder,California State University, FullertonHistorians must still prove stubborn archives, using gender theory, to understand how Native American, African America, and European women participated fully in the development of North American societies. These essays fulfill this mandate admirably. * Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography *One of the most fascinating aspects of the books in the authors use of sources, from court records to ledger books to church documents. * Feminist Collections *Table of ContentsContents 1. Dona Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition: The Travails of a Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Woman in New Mexico 7 Ramon A. Gutierrez 2. "Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men": Dutch Women in Early America 43 Kim Todt 3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America 66 Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis 4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 95 Betty Wood 5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley: Negotiating Identity on the Early American Borderlands, 1704-1757 118 Joy A. J. Howard 6. Womanly Masters: Gendering Slave Ownership in Colonial Jamaica 139 Christine Walker 7. Women at the Crossroads: Trade, Mobility, and Power in Early French America and Detroit 159 Karen L. Marrero 8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley 186 Susan Sleeper-Smith 9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776-1783 210 Ruma Chopra 10. "I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty"
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New York University Press Brown Beauty
Book SynopsisExamines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class, and status. Brown Beauty considers how the media created a beauty ideal for these women, emphasizing different representations and expressions of brown skin. Haidarali contends that the idea of brown as a respectable shade was carefully constructed through print and visual media in the interwar era. Throughout this period, brownness of skin came to be idealized as the real, representational, and respectable complexion of African American middle class women. Shades of brown became channels that facilitated discussions of race, class, and gender in a way that would develop lasting cultural effects for an ever-modernizing world. Building on an impressive range of visuaTrade ReviewScholarly discussions of the Harlem Renaissance–New Negro era usually focus on men. In Brown Beauty, Laila Haidarali (African American and women’s history, Univ. of Essex, UK) widens the lens to examine women and the development of a race conscious ideal of “brown-skin” beauty. * Choice *Brown Beautyintroduces us to the tension of identity and beauty through concepts of advertising during a crucial period of the 20th century. It is well researched as it includes numerous accounts about black women rarely discussed such as the first black modeling agency in the 20th century. An important read, the author impressively argues that the fusion of the two racialized standards of beauty toward the end of the Harlem Renaissance resulted in the evolution of the urban New Negro woman by the end of WWII -- Deborah Willis, New York University, author of Posing BeautyLaila Haidarali has given us a path breaking study of the color question in New Negro womanhood. Her masterful interpretation of diverse sources will ensure that the category of 'brown beauty' will have to be reckoned with in any study of modern African American identity and culture. Haidaralis ability to interpret and historicize literary and popular print culture will serve as a model for cultural and social historians of the black experience for years to come. -- Victoria Wolcott, author of Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in AmericaLaila Haidarali has written a book that should act as a foundation for students and scholars interested in understanding modern origins of colorism in American society. * Journal of American Ethnic History *A thoughtful and meticulous interdisciplinary study that explores African Americans’ use of a gendered color-coded discourse [...] Without a doubt, Brown Beauty is an important addition to the field of Africana studies * Journal of African American History *
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New York University Press The Future of Tech Is Female
Book SynopsisAn accessible and timely guide to increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. The industry continues to see rapid growth, employing millions of people: in the US it is at the epicenter of the American economy. So why is it that only 5% of senior executives in the tech industry are female? Underrepresentation of women on boards of directors, in the C-suite, and as senior managers remains pervasive in this industry. As tech companies are plagued with high-profile claims of harassment and discrimination, and salary discrepancies for comparable work, one asks what prevents women from reaching management roles, and, more importantly, what can be done to fix it? The Future of Tech is Female considers the paradoxes involved in women's ascent to leadership roles, suggesting industry-wide solutions to combat gender inequality. Drawing upon 15 yeaTrade Review"Branson’s expertise as a teacher as well as a legal scholar makes this thorough analysis accessible and meaningful to professionals at all levels—he combines meticulous research and thorough documentation in a very readable, thought-provoking narrative." -- CHOICE"Of any major industry, technology has the worst record of promoting and retaining female executives… Branson’s book wanders through this paradox and attempts to provide solutions for tech companies." -- Harvard Law Review"Doug Branson has written another terrific book! He has the enviable talent of being an outstanding scholar combined with the journalistic flair of being able to write a great story. The story in question is the lack of women in leadership in the technology industry, but all the analysis equally applies to other sectors. The focus is not on what women need to do differently, but rather on what companies need to do to nurture women in the executive pipeline and ultimately to CEO position. This is a fresh perspective in which Branson draws on theories of leadership, corporate governance and feminism and weaves through his writing many engaging accounts of the women who inhabit the technology industry. It deserves to be read widely by both academics and practitioners." -- Susan Vinnicombe,Professor of Women and Leadership, Cranfield School of Management"This is a crucial book on a crucial subject. Douglas Branson brings a wealth of expertise and research to a field sorely in need of both. The barriers to women in the tech industry are persistent and pervasive, and Branson does masterful work in identifying the greatest challenges and most promising responses. It is neither just nor cost effective for tech companies to fail to take advantage of a talent pool that is increasingly female." -- Deborah Rhode,E.W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University"Professor Doug Branson has been pioneer in research on gender diversity in corporations. In his new book, he turns his attention to the IT industry an industry notable for its many achievements but also for its lack of gender diversity. Professor Branson examines the history of women in IT, evaluates the solutions that have been advanced previously to promote gender diversity in the IT industry (including mandatory quota laws, mentoring, and a greater emphasis on STEM education) and identifies the solutions that he believes have the best prospects of succeeding. Some think the solution lies with women doing more to advance their cause. Professor Branson puts the case that it is the industry that needs to increase opportunities for women. This important book is a call to action by the IT industry." -- Ian Ramsay,Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law, Melbourne Law School"Branson brilliantly tackles the pervasive and age-old problem of gender inequality in the previously unexplored sector of tech. He does more than just identify whats wrong. He also offers a comprehensive critique of old and new solutions and strategies, identifying those likely to positively impact the trajectory of this sector to make it one in which women thrive." -- Hannah Brenner,California Western School of Law
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New York University Press Our Voices Our Histories
Book SynopsisAn innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women's lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women's and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women.Trade Review"Carrying the thread of women’s agency throughout, this anthology encompasses struggles and triumphs around social, cultural, and civic citizenship, expanding outward from the US context to incorporate analyses of how gender is always already intersectional and intertwined with globalization, transnationalism, and empire-building in the Asian American and Pacific Islander context. . . . A welcome addition." -- Charlene Tung, Sonoma State University"A field-defining work, charting the past, present, and future of Asian American women’s history." -- Miliann Kang, author of The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work"This immersive anthology begins to address gaps and transform understanding in history and literature by, for and about Asian American and Pacific Islander women." * Ms. Magazine *
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New York University Press Fight Like a Girl Second Edition
Book SynopsisA blueprint for the next generation of feminist activists Fight Like a Girl offers a vision of the past, present, and future of feminism. With an eye toward what it takes to create actual change and a deep understanding of women's history and the key issues facing girls and young women today, Megan Seely offers a pragmatic introduction to feminism. Written in an upbeat and personal style, Fight Like a Girl offers an overview of feminism, including historical roots, myths and meanings, triumphs and shortcomings. Sharing personal stories from her own experience as a young activist, as a mother, and as a teacher, Seely offers a practical guide to getting involved, taking action, and waging successful events and campaigns. The second edition addresses more themes and topics than before, including gender and sexuality, self-esteem, reproductive health, sexual violence, body image and acceptance, motherhood and family, and intersections of identities, such as race, gender, class, and sexualiTrade Review"Feeling angry about how women are treated? Fight Like a Girl is perfect for women of all ages, with thoughtful analysis, helpful advice, and useful resources." -- Cindy Pearson,Executive Director of National Women's Health Network (NWHN)
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New York University Press Misogynoir Transformed
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBailey's aims are ambitious. She's not interested in just shining a light on misogynoir; she's interested in its destruction. In a voice that is scholarly yet accessible, she tackles media culture from television and film to Tumblr to YouTube web series, to hashtags, revealing how different media contribute to, transform and/or challenge the pervasive circulation of misogynoir and, importantly, how Black people deploy digital activism to resist. * NPR Books *In her new book, Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey takes an in-depth look at the histories and contemporary manifestations of racist misogyny toward Black women in media, analyzing everything from YouTube web series and Tumblr archives to Black women in Hollywood. Through a combination of thorough research and nuanced cultural criticism, Bailey analyzes how various forms of media have upheld, troubled, and transformed misogynoir. * Bitch.com *In this much-anticipated text, Moya Bailey examines misogynoir—a term she coined—and how Black women work to disrupt racist misogyny, to reclaim their autonomy and to tell their own stories, particularly in precarious digital spaces. * Ms.com *Misogynoir Transformed is a resounding, deftly reported manifesto centering the work of transformative Black women seeking one another in a culture that refuses to see us and center us. Moya Bailey reminds us that we are our liberators and have always had the tools to seek, see and celebrate ourselves. -- Janet Mock, New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing CertaintyMisogynoir Transformed is meticulously researched and an extraordinary example of Black feminist studies as an interdisciplinary project. It is brilliant in its exploration of the ways in which Black women, especially queer, nonbinary, agender, gender variant and trans women resist misogynoir in various media in their roles as 'digital alchemists.' The book underscores the urgency of reimagining how we define women's social movements given the use of social media platforms among Black women and girls in their mitigation of misogynoir. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist ThoughtMoya Bailey has written a powerful book that explores the reach and impact of her groundbreaking idea—misogynoir. Bailey centers her analysis on what she calls the margins of Black womanhood, illustrating both the many ways misogynoir has negatively shaped the life chances of Black women, and the many ways cis, queer and trans Black women and nonbinary, agender and gender variant Black folks are using digital tools to resist harm, define their complexity and create new narratives of Black women’s lives, health and futures. Using a series of case studies, Bailey details how Black women are using practices she labels digital alchemy to create new spaces, ideas and counter publics that empower Black women. Misogynoir Transformed is an important Black queer feminist text that implores us to think differently and expansively about Black women, resistance and power in the 21st century. -- Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American PoliticsGroundbreaking scholar in LGBTQ+ studies, Dr. Moya Bailey...is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, [which] focuses on queer and trans Black women, examining their use of social media to combat anti-Black misogyny. * Diverse, Issues in Higher Education *In sum, Misogynoir Transformed is a timely, significant work that squarely advances Black feminist literature into the fields of 21st-century communication and social interaction studies. The author introduces several terms into the feminist lexicon—misogynoir, digital alchemy, worldbuilding—all of which create a strong foundation for more in-depth ethnographic inquiry that will be useful for researchers, practitioners, and activists examining racial and gender disparities to work toward a more equitable future. * Choice *Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey’s excellent collection of essays Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance provides important insight into how black women utilize digital media to amplify their voices amid vitriol from a white, cisgender, and heteronormative majority…Bailey successfully provides a captivating glance into Black women’s digital and offline resistance in the wake of an array of relevant social justice movements. * Synoptique *[Bailey's] book is a good example of how to build theory through defining terms and tracing their trajectory alongside currently accepted terminology and concepts. * Communication Research Trends *
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New York University Press Fake Geek Girls
Book SynopsisReveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communitiesWhen Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film's real fans to be white, straight men. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014.Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. But this shift has left some people behind. Suzanne Scott points to the ways in which the men's rights moveTrade ReviewScott has created a terrific and timely account of the exclusionary logics that inform fan culture and mirror contemporary American politics. It helps contextualize the recent sexist, racist, and homophobic backlashes against Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ghostbusters, and The Little Mermaid (for casting a black actress as Ariel) as symptomatic of the culture at large. Fake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in learning how gender, power, and privilege shape media production and fandom. -- Women's Review of BooksFake Geek Girls ties together a dizzying array of fan studies theories, feminist media theories, and industrial critiques to build a convincing argument about the convergence culture industry and its gendered practices… Fake Geek Girls provides an interesting and timely intervention into questions of gender, fan studies, and popular culture. -- ConvergenceEssential reading for anyone interested in fandom, media industries, and the larger political struggles in which we all live. In this compelling book, Scott investigates the boundary-policing in media fandom that constructs female fans as inauthentic, marginal, and unwelcome. Fake Geek Girls situates these gendered struggles as part of a larger war on women, helping us to understand the way that privilege and power operate within contemporary convergence culture and beyond. -- Derek Johnson, author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture IndustriesFake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in the gender politics of the media industry and media fandom. Scott connects the dots between GamerGate, Trump's election, and the mainstreaming of fandom, revealing the systemic gender policing underpinning all three. An incisive and thoughtful critique, this book lays bare the gendered logics at work in the industrys hailing of fans while recognizing the complexity of their response. -- Louisa Stein, author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia AgeScott’s book acts as resistance to the persistent vilification of fangirls, seeks to reestablish fan-girls’ influence on both culture and cultural studies, and examines the persistently aggressive gendering of American fandom today. * Media Industries *Without doubt an important text for media scholarship and fandom studies. It’s meticulously researched, politically relevant, and it significantly revisits and reimagines early convergence culture theory. * Science Fiction Research Association Review *A clearly argued and insightful work that I would recommend to everyone interested in contemporary media culture, feminism, and identity politics. [...] We need studies like Fake Geek Girls that make us see the gendered power structures in today’s digital culture we might otherwise choose to ignore. * Fafnir Journal *
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New York University Press Unexpected
Book SynopsisWhat prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choicesWhen Alison Piepmeierscholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndromedied of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research of their friend and colleague, as well as adding new perspectives to her work. Based on interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome, as well as women who terminated their pregnancies because their fetus was identified as having the condition, Unexpected paints an intimate, nuanced picture of reproductive choice in today's world. Piepmeier takes us inside her own daughter's life, showing how Down syndrome is misunderstood, stigmatized, and condemned, particularly in the context of prenatal testing. At a time when medical technology iTrade Review"Asks questions such as, what is the line between illness and disability, and how can a parent deal with uncertainties? … Shares rarely heard stories from parents and prospective parents who have confronted challenging decisions about a fetus with Down syndrome … provides insight into a segment of the population rarely explored." * Library Journal *"A thought-provoking book at the value of all human life … This book should reassure parents who choose to skip genetic testing or decide not to terminate pregnancies after learning their fetus may not be 'normal.' Like Piepmeier and her coauthors, they may well find unexpected joys in happy, loving kids." * Booklist *"Unexpected is a beautiful, thoughtful, and challenging co-authored and deeply reflexive book. It engages the porous lessons of disability, debility, death and an enduring love that is at once familial and friendship-centered. Collectively, Alison Piepmeier recruits George Estreich and Rachel Adams into a profound conversation that narrates their experiences of raising children with Down Syndrome as an optic on injustice, advocacy, and social transformation through this most intimate of parent-child relations." -- Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
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New York University Press Whiter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whiter captures the many dimensions of colorism that shape Asian women's lives. Messages from mothers, others, and the surrounding cultures all coincide to constrain women's sense of beauty, family, identity, and worth. But Nikki Khanna and the distinguished contributors to this volume capture the many ways, both subtle and overt, that women negotiate, succumb to, and defy the dominant messages around skin color. This volume is a wonderful combination of sociology, cultural studies, memoir, history, media studies, and poetics bringing a diversity of voices and perspectives to this conversation." -- Margaret Hunter, author of Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone"Colorism affects Asian American women of every background, whether it's due to Asian beauty standards, colonialism, or racism. Khanna taps into the cultural pressures to possess lighter skin color. By curating relatable and thought-provoking stories from a diverse group of Asian American women in their own voices, Whiter will appeal to a wide breadth of readers—from gender and race scholars to anyone interested in deconstructing beauty standards." -- Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism"Whiter is an eye-opening book that aims to help us better understand the role of skin color in social mobility." * Bitch Magazine *"This insightful, thought-provoking volume gives voice to the wide range of Asian American women's experiences of colorism." * Choice *
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New York University Press Denied
Book SynopsisA courtside view of how women athletes' identities are policed, on and off the courtWomen's college basketball is big businesstop teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women's NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and raceexpectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or look like men, and they are not supposed to be queer. A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I women's basketball program as one of the team's managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into the locker room, andTrade ReviewA powerful cautionary tale. Michelle J. Manno shows how women athletes—especially those who are Black, queer, and/or masculine-presenting—are constrained by strict policing of gender and sexuality. Manno paints a rich picture of women’s sports as a microcosm of intersectional struggles for dignity, equality, and social justice. * Michael A. Messner, co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change *Manno’s work sets a powerful standard for the ways in which the complex identities of women athletes outshine the false boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality. Her thoughtful analysis and compassionate storytelling point the reader to what all of us seeking our place in sport strive for: to bring one’s full self to the world of competition, to find our own authentic belonging there, and ultimately to create a sense of ‘home’ for ourselves and others among teammates and competitors alike. * Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, NBA Referee *Denied blends vivid story-telling with incisive theoretical analysis to highlight the persistent racism and sexism that limit women athletes of all races, sexualities, and gender identities. * Pat Griffin, author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport *Manno takes readers inside a Division I collegiate basketball program. Denied convincingly argues women athletes, specifically Black, queer, and gender non-conforming athletes, are subject to racialized and gendered strategies of containment and control which ultimately impose constraints on who they can be and what they can achieve. * Cheryl Cooky, co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports *As a former college athlete, Manno evocatively lays bare the challenges women athletes face both on and off the court as they balance the many competing demands placed on them. Her personal approach and deep empathy for this topic offer a necessary lens through which we can understand how women athletes’ identities are policed along the lines of race, gender, and sexuality. * Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA All-star and Olympic Gold Medalist *For nine months, Manno was embedded within the Midwest State University women’s basketball team, an elite and competitive DI program. Immersed in that insular yet high-stakes world, she observes firsthand how unyieldingly female athletes—particularly queer, Black, and/or masculine-presenting—are policed both within and without. * Electric Literature *
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New York University Press A Bun in the Oven
Book SynopsisThere are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, most births happen in large hospitals, about a third result in C-sections, and the US does not fare well in infant or maternal outcomes. In A Bun in the Oven Barbara Katz Rothman traces the food and the birth movements through three major phases over the course of the 20th century in the United States: from the early 20th century era of scientific management; through to the consumerism of Post World War II with its turn to the French' in making things gracious; to the late 20th century counter-culture midwives and counter-cuisine cooks. The book explores the tension throughout all of these eras between the industrial demands of mass-management anTrade Review"A Bun in the Oven is a fascinating investigation of the parallels and differences between two important consumer movements of our times: the food movement and the birth movement. Witty and thought-provoking throughout, it will stimulate discussion among those who seek to keep artisanal skills and knowledge alive in both of these fundamental areas of our lives." -- Ina May Gaskin,author of Spiritual Midwifery"A Bun in the Oven is an erudite but fun read into these two worlds and how people struggle for identity, choice, voice and meaningful experiences in our increasingly industrialized world. The reader leaves with an understanding and appreciation for the struggles of both the food and birth movements and a sense of what these two, often overlapping, life-or-death important movements can learn from one another." -- Jonathan Deutsch,co-author of Barbecue: A Global History"Barbara Katz Rothman provides an unsettling comparison of two domains where women's labor has been colonized by men in the name of science and industry. In the process she gives a rare insight not only into what happens when the gap between everyday experience and expert knowledge is bridged in the name of professionalism, but also equips her readers with reasonable hope in cross-fertilizing lessons from the food and the natural birthing movements. Students, teachers and scholars will earn much in engaging with Katz Rothman's rich description and sharp critique.-Krishnendu Ray,author of The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali" * American Households *"A sociologist in the world of midwifery is introduced to food studies, and spots parallelseverywhere with the world of birth. Her wittily named study ranges insightfully from JuliaChild to natural childbirth, and from Lamaze and Pavlov to labour times, Cesareans andkale chips as she considers how & birth and food, once so profoundly part of womensworld of production, ultimately came to be acts of consumption" * Times Higher Education *"Katz Rothman is at her most interesting when explaining why the modern medicalized birth which increases the speed and reduces the pain of labour is not always best for either mother or baby." * Times Literary Supplement *"Katz Rothmans deep examination of the history of midwives and childbirth in America allows her to explore not only the birth and food movements of today, but also much more: capitalism, privilege, the meaning of home, and some might argue the meaning of life." * Feminist Collections *"Rothman is passionate about her topic, and her writing style reflects her enthusiasm. The book is well-researched and fun and offers a useful model for the comparison of two important social movements." * Journal of American Culture *"A Bun in the Oven is an intriguing, often startling reading, especially if you have never given much consideration to birth and all that implies. It is also a very personal and moving account, in which the author shares episodes of her own life, her reflection on death, life, and suffering, as well as more general considerations about authority, gender, and power." * Huffington Post *"This book is intended for gender and womens studies, sociology, anthropology, and medical studies audiences, but would be useful also for psychologists interested in womens health, health psychology, and feminist psychology. The authoritative sociological and historical background that Rothman places the activities of eating and giving birth provides an extremely useful context from which to study individual choices and social behavior." * PsycCRITIQUES *"This book is readable, authoritative, and thoughtful. Its combination of scholarly expertise and heart-on-its-sleeve advocacy gives it a distinct voice that is sure to provoke reaction especially if it is, as Rothman and I would hope, taken up by readers who are not already foodies and birthies." * North American Dialogue *
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New York University Press Denied
Book SynopsisA courtside view of how women athletes' identities are policed, on and off the courtWomen's college basketball is big businesstop teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women's NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and raceexpectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or look like men, and they are not supposed to be queer.A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I women's basketball program as one of the team's managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into tTrade ReviewA powerful cautionary tale. Michelle J. Manno shows how women athletes—especially those who are Black, queer, and/or masculine-presenting—are constrained by strict policing of gender and sexuality. Manno paints a rich picture of women’s sports as a microcosm of intersectional struggles for dignity, equality, and social justice. * Michael A. Messner, co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change *Manno’s work sets a powerful standard for the ways in which the complex identities of women athletes outshine the false boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality. Her thoughtful analysis and compassionate storytelling point the reader to what all of us seeking our place in sport strive for: to bring one’s full self to the world of competition, to find our own authentic belonging there, and ultimately to create a sense of ‘home’ for ourselves and others among teammates and competitors alike. * Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, NBA Referee *Denied blends vivid story-telling with incisive theoretical analysis to highlight the persistent racism and sexism that limit women athletes of all races, sexualities, and gender identities. * Pat Griffin, author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport *Manno takes readers inside a Division I collegiate basketball program. Denied convincingly argues women athletes, specifically Black, queer, and gender non-conforming athletes, are subject to racialized and gendered strategies of containment and control which ultimately impose constraints on who they can be and what they can achieve. * Cheryl Cooky, co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports *As a former college athlete, Manno evocatively lays bare the challenges women athletes face both on and off the court as they balance the many competing demands placed on them. Her personal approach and deep empathy for this topic offer a necessary lens through which we can understand how women athletes’ identities are policed along the lines of race, gender, and sexuality. * Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA All-star and Olympic Gold Medalist *For nine months, Manno was embedded within the Midwest State University women’s basketball team, an elite and competitive DI program. Immersed in that insular yet high-stakes world, she observes firsthand how unyieldingly female athletes—particularly queer, Black, and/or masculine-presenting—are policed both within and without. * Electric Literature *
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New York University Press Women in Early America
Book SynopsisTells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the RepublicWomen in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known womenboth ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrantwho lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies.In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President's house; and as students and educators insTrade Review"A number of essays are particularly valuable in that they examine understudied areas of women's experiences...Other essays provide new insight into better-studied subjects." * Choice *"These essays reveal the exciting intellectual payoff of a transcultural approach to womens lives in the past. Not only will readers confront a richly varied cast of historical actors, but they will come away convinced that womens relationships to each other, to men, to the law, the economy, and culture were central to the experimentation and adaptation of colonialism and nation-building." -- Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor,author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America"Women in Early America, an ambitious series of eleven essays edited by Thomas A. Foster, offers a more compelling version of early America and its heroines. The collection attends to two lacunae at once by focusing on women, a group whose presence in the records is often hard to come by, to unearth overlooked and understudied figures only touched on in earlier research (if at all)." -- Alana Shilling-Janoff * Times Literary Supplement *"A first-rate collectionvivid, varied, and provocativethat expands our view of early America. The expert essays interrogate sources, challenge assumptions, reconstruct mindsets, and vault over boundaries of nation, region, status, and culture." -- Nancy Woloch,Barnard College"I really think this book will become a landmark volume. Without losing sight of any of the complexities integral to our postmodern sensibilities, the authors have managed to return to a crucial but too often neglected subjectthe lived experiences of real women in Early America. Perhaps we can have it both ways after all." -- Camilla Townsend,Rutgers University"Sweeping in scope and impressive in originality, the essays collected in Women in Early America offer a timely assessment of the history of women in early America. The volume is strikingly diverse and remarkably inclusive, with essays that encompass the experiences of African, Native, and European women and their descendants and range geographically well beyond the eastern seaboard of North America to include the Caribbean, New Spain, New France, and indigenous settlements in the era before European contact. Highly readable and carefully researched, Women in Early America sparkles with insights that will fascinate and enlighten students and historians of gender, women, and early America." -- Terri L. Snyder,California State University, Fullerton"Historians must still prove stubborn archives, using gender theory, to understand how Native American, African America, and European women participated fully in the development of North American societies. These essays fulfill this mandate admirably." * Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography *"One of the most fascinating aspects of the books in the authors use of sources, from court records to ledger books to church documents." * Feminist Collections *Table of ContentsContents 1. Dona Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition: The Travails of a Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Woman in New Mexico 7 Ramon A. Gutierrez 2. "Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men": Dutch Women in Early America 43 Kim Todt 3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America 66 Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis 4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 95 Betty Wood 5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley: Negotiating Identity on the Early American Borderlands, 1704-1757 118 Joy A. J. Howard 6. Womanly Masters: Gendering Slave Ownership in Colonial Jamaica 139 Christine Walker 7. Women at the Crossroads: Trade, Mobility, and Power in Early French America and Detroit 159 Karen L. Marrero 8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley 186 Susan Sleeper-Smith 9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776-1783 210 Ruma Chopra 10. "I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty"
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New York University Press Social Poverty
Book SynopsisHow low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a privateproblem? In Social Poverty, Sarah Halpern-Meekin provides a much-needed window into the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-one couples, collected during their participation in a government-sponsored relationship education program called Family Expectations, she brings unprecedented attention to the relational and emotional dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage. Poverty scholars typically focus on the economic use value of social tiesfor example, how relationships enable access to job leads, informal loans, or a spare bedroom.However, Halpern-Meekin introduces the important new concept of social poverty, identifying it not just as a derivative of economic poverty, but as its own condition, which also perpetuates povertTrade Review"Halpern-Meekin makes worthy critiques to try to strengthen public policy to support relationship education … Halpern-Meekin’s in-depth understanding of these couples’ lives allows her to add the lens of social poverty to help us understand why stressed and struggling couples are drawn to these programs and how the programs could actually help them." -- Institute for Family Studies"In this thoughtful and important book, Sarah Halpern-Meekin reframes decades-long debates over the value and efficacy of government-supported relationship and marriage education programs. Drawing on rich in-depth research into the lives and relationships of low-income, unmarried couples, Social Poverty powerfully shows how policy can play a key role in alleviating, not only economic deprivation, but families unmet, though equally important needs for emotional closeness, intimacy, and support. With a smart set of recommendations researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should heed, this book is crucial reading for a sophisticated and beautifully written analysis of how promoting social connection can and should be at the heart of anti-poverty policy." -- Jennifer Randles,author of Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America"What would happen if we considered the relationships that sustain us as important as financial resources, or if we viewed isolation or loneliness as serious social problems as we do disease? With the deceptively simple concept of 'social poverty,' Halpern-Meekin asks us to recognize the tremendous inherent value of human connection, and greatly expands our capacity to understand the costs of low-income couples thin emotional ties to other people....She picks her way through the detritus of the marriage promotion debates to issue her own clarion call: we should consider social poverty as important as income poverty, and aim to redress both." -- Allison Pugh,author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity"Essential. Halpern-Meekin writes with deep sympathy and understanding." * Choice *"Halpern-Meekin makes a compelling argument for considering essential concepts like poverty in new and multifaceted ways." * Journal of Children and Poverty *
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New York University Press Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia
Book SynopsisHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to AsiaFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about the fashionable, and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress fashionably. In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizationTrade ReviewAs Asia becomes increasingly central to the global fashion system, books like Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia become ever more important. -- Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of TechnologyFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia is razor sharp in its framework and rigorous in its analysis. Eschewing tropes about the Asian continent and its oblique relationship to Western industries, the book maps new transnational circuits of exchange and offers readers fresh language to explain modernity, geopolitics, economics, and global taste cultures. It is so refreshing to read scholarship that takes fashion and beauty seriously. -- Tanisha C. Ford, author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
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New York University Press No Shortcut to Change
Book SynopsisA critical examination of the weaknesses inherent in international gender policy2018 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science AssociationGender equality has become a central aspect of global governance and development in the 21st century. States increasingly promote women in government, ensure women's economic rights and protect women from violence, all in the name of creating a more gender equitable world. No Shortcut to Change is a historical, theoretical, and political overview of why the common, liberal-feminist-driven shortcut' approach has not actually improved the status of women throughout the worldand why a new approach taking social, racial, and political hierarchies into account alongside gender is sorely needed. This innovative book unites several streams of international relations and feminist theory in pursuit of a practical solution to global gender inequality. She gives an overview of what add-women' policymaking looks like and has (or has not) accompliTrade ReviewNo Shortcut to Change should be in all libraries that serve gender and women’s studies programs. Not only is it beautifully written in a pedagogical style that clearly defines key terms; it also addresses the most fundamental questions and dilemmas at the core of the discipline. Individual chapters even work well as standalone texts. The book is most appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists, policy makers, and members of international organizations whose work hopes to contribute to gender equality. -- Resources for Gender and Women's StudiesNo Shortcut to Change is a groundbreaking critique of common-sense approaches to improving gender equality throughout the world. A must-read book for anyone who seriously cares about this important issue. -- Laura Sjoberg,author of Women as Wartime Rapists: Beyond Sensation and StereotypingKara Ellerby's book is necessary and required reading for all those engaged with debates on gender empowerment, equality, equity, or quotas in global or national contexts. This is a powerful and lucid argument about why the gender inclusion model may not achieve feminist goals or provide a path to improving women's (or anyone else's) lives. Ellerby has advanced feminist thinking and politics. -- Inderpal Grewal,author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
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New York University Press Graffiti Grrlz
Book SynopsisAn inside look at women graffiti artists around the worldSince the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists' anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a boys club, where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost unimaginable. In Graffiti Grrlz, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón interrupts this stereotype and introduces us to the world of women graffiti artists.Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabón-Colón argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of girl power. Graffiti Grrlz also unpacks the digital side of Hip Hop graffiti subculture anTrade ReviewBrilliantly countering any claims that feminism is dead and that the Hip-Hop culture & is detrimental to women and girls, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón has written an impeccably researched study of the grrls who have paved their way into the predominantly male graffiti culture, claiming their own space. * Street Art NYC *The graffiti grrlz featured here know how to throw up fresh ways of re-imagining feminism, urban belonging, and world-making practices. Through bright ethnographic accounts of graffitis gendered politics and global reach, Pabón-Colón takes down assumed notions of hip-hop culture by passing the mic to a new generation of feminist graffiti artists engaged in writing and speaking on their own terms. -- Juana María Rodríguez, author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina LongingsVibrant, complex, and totally engaging, Graffiti Grrlz recovers womens presence in graffiti subcultures around the globe. In this ambitious and passionate book, Jessica Pabón-Colón amplifies the resistant and creative practices of women graffiti artists and masterfully highlights their important contributions to contemporary feminism. In doing so, she transforms and expands our ideas about the meaning of graffiti and of feminist political action. -- Jessica Taft, author of Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the AmericasGraffiti Grrlz will change the way we think about women's involvement in Hip Hop culture and the way we think about feminist movements. Graffiti Grrlzgives us a part of the story we didn't know we were waiting for and we didn't know how much we needed. Powerful stuff, the prose takes shape like a fly graffiti backdrop and paints a picture that perfectly captures the work these women put in. Graffiti Grrlz is groundbreaking and game-changing scholarship that answers the question, where my grrlz at, with a powerful and provocative right here. This is a must read for anyone interested in Hip Hop Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. -- Gwendolyn D. Pough, author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public SphereIn her groundbreaking book, Pabón-Colón explores how the graffiti subculture has been coded as male. . . Her dedication to detail and thoroughly researching is evident throughout the book. She explores over 100 women artists in 23 countries and makes a compelling case that graffiti subculture is a place where feminists come into their own. * Bitch Magazine *There hasnt been any significant interrogation into the gender politics of the art form or culture [of graffiti] until now. Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón has presented her work inGraffiti Grrlzin a way that is thoughtful and thorough as she asks important questions about how women navigate the world of graffiti. Anyone with an interest in the art form and the culture should do themselves a favor and read this book. * Scratched Vinyl *Through stories from 100 womxn in 23 countries, Graffiti Grrlz examines the world of graffiti art, revealing the daily performance of feminism for the girls and womxn who write graffiti, and the spaces and subculture they inhabit. * Public Art Review *Pabón-Colón successfully shows that women graffiti writers are fundamentally important to the development of art, despite their exclusion and omission from historic and contemporary discussion of graffiti art and practice. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *A rigorous, loving take on women’s empowerment in a high-risk art. * Feminist Collections *Pabón-Colón’s wonderfully engaging, important new book locates itself in the midst of still-urgent questions about how we can ethically and effectively 'face' our shared publics. More than 15 years in the making and colored brightly by Pabón-Colón’s own experiences as a writer in feminist hip hop graffiti subcultures, this detailed performance ethnography examines the work and the working practices of graffiteras across the Americas, in Europe and the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere. Written in an intentionally accessible style, and wearing its heart on its sleeve, it nevertheless does an outstanding job of asking questions important to feminist performance theory and practice. * Social Forces *
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New York University Press Stripped 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisWhatkind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us insidecountless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those thatspecialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, toreveal the startling lives of exotic dancers. Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in strip clubs around the country, Stripped is a classic portrait of what it's like for those who choose to strip as a profession. Barton explores why women begin stripping, the initial excitement and financial rewards of the work, the dangers of the lifenamely, drugs and prostitutionand, inevitably, the difficulties in staying in the business over time, especially for their relationships, sexuality and self-esteem. In this completely revised and updated edition, Barton returns to the strip clubs she originally studied to observe the major changes in the industry that have occurred over the last decade. She examines how raunch culture affects eTrade Review"The thrust of stripper scholarship is that both dancers and customers are more like your next-door neighbors. Some are your next-door neighbors." * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Stripped is a revealing book about a revealing (and controversial) trade that focuses on a philosophical clash between oldand newschool feminism." * Courier-Journal *"Compelling. . . . This accessibly written, matter-of-fact book makes important contributions to what is known about the lives and experiences of the growing number of women who ‘dance’ naked for money. . . . Throughout, the author listens attentively to the shifting, insightful, diverse voices of women with whom she has a palpably respectful connection. Barton uses the complex picture that emerges to engage longstanding debates over the meanings of commodified femininity and sexuality." * Choice *"Makes an impressive contribution to the sociology of work and its intersection with sex and gender studies at the theoretical and applied levels. It is an excellent examples of the rich data and critical methodological insights that can emerge in the course of engaged field research." * American Journal of Sociology *"Written clearly with very little jargon, this volume sensitively explores the lives of exotic dancers." -- Noralee Frankel * Archives of Sexual Behavior *"A terrific read! Stripped is the best kind of feminist work: original, honest, and deeply engaging. Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this worldits burdens of emotional labor, social stigma, exhaustion, and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism, ego-gratification, intimacy, and even spirituality." -- Kathleen Blee,author of Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement"Barton presents [exotic dancers] as open-minded & intelligent risk takers who are & comfortable exploring things other people are scared of.-" -- Carlin Romano * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Fascinating, insightful, and surprisingly balanced. This book will take you way beyond Hollywood's clichés and into the realities of stripping, and you'll emerge with a deeper understanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies." -- Susan Bordo,author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body"With Stripped, Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off. The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex workit is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them. Yet, of course, things are never that simpleand Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking." -- Katherine Frank,author of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
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New York University Press On Infertile Ground
Book SynopsisA critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is backand that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women's universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it backand why now? In On Infertile Ground, Jade S. Sasser explores how a small network of international development actors, including private donors, NGO program managers, scientists, and youth advocates, is bringing population back to the center of public environmental debate. While these narratives never disappeared, Sasser argues, histories of human rights abuses, racism, and a conservative backlash against abortion in the 1980s drove them undergrounduntil now. Using interviews and case studies from a wide range of sitesfrom Silicon Valley foundation headquarTrade ReviewLike the best social science writing, the book will spark conversation and encourage critical questions about received knowledge. Notably, Sasser declines to offer any policy solutions in her conclusion, preferring to give her readers space for what she calls productive fretting. All in all, On Infertile Ground should be required reading for anyone interested in climate change, women’s lives, or global population dynamics. You may not agree with Sasser’s conclusions, but you will find her analysis thoughtful, clear-eyed, and great food for thought. * American Journal of Sociology *Sasser shows how environmental activists and scientists have used the urgency of climate change to call for reducing population numbers in the Global South as part of the effort to slow global warming. Drawing on two years of fieldwork with NGO workers, government employees, volunteers, activists, and donors, Sasser chronicles a resurgent Malthusianism, which she calls “populationism,” dressed in progressive-sounding terms such as “empowerment,” “human rights,” and “reproductive justice.” ... Sasser’s observations of how family planning programs operate in low-resource communities are invaluable ... As Sasser notes, the distance between the intentions of idealistic advocates who talk about women’s empowerment and the women they claim to be helping is vast. * New York Review of Books *On Infertile Ground deepens and expands our understanding of contemporary population politics and policy discourses in the era of climate change. In a fresh and original analysis, Jade S. Sasser reveals how poor women in the Global South are now instrumentalized as & sexual stewards of both the environment and the neoliberal economic order by population/environment NGOs, foundations, and policymakers. Her fieldwork gives us a first-hand view of how this hegemonic knowledge is produced and how it colonizes young white activists vision of the future. This book comes not a moment too soon as population control efforts gain force under a false banner of womens empowerment. Sasser has made an impressive contribution to political ecology, feminist theory, and the pursuit of real reproductive justice. -- Betsy Hartmann,Author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population ControlOn Infertile Ground is a welcome and necessary addition to medical anthropology. It is especially fruitful for scholars interested in reproductive politics, climate disaster, international development, and histories of population control ... The book’s attention to sexual stewardship—Sasser’s principal contribution—serves as a guidepost to help scholars and activists untangle the social ontology of neoliberal rights during the mounting climate disaster. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *As we face a feverish and hyper politicized climate around reproductive justice and climate change, this is a critical book for our times. Superbly researched, carefully analyzed, and deeply historical, On Infertile Ground provides a thoughtful and insightful exploration of how we got here, and what the future has in store . . . Jade S. Sasser brings many important strains in feminist and environmental literature into a cogent analysis of contemporary politics -- Banu Subramaniam,Author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of DiversitySasser’s groundbreaking insights clearly demonstrate the overlap between social justice groups, and in this case, environmental causes, reproductive justice, and women’s rights. [...] [Her] critical analysis couldn’t have come at a more crucial time where society finds itself at a crossroad between value priorities on personal, communal, national, and international levels. * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *
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Baylor University Press In the Image of Her
Book SynopsisArgues that a feminist, maternal theology is an overlooked and yet critical perspective for our understanding of God’s work in the world. Far from only being vessels of new creation, the bodies of mothers are distinct ecosystems of God’s creative agency and demonstrate how God’s work involves both cooperation and competition.Table of Contents Introduction: The Institution of Motherhood in Western Civilization 1 Early Christian Skepticism of the Mother-Child Bond 2 Eve's Sin and the Generosity of the Maternal Body 3 The Vulnerable Sinner's Attachment to Mother Mary 4 Maternal Piety, Magic, and Sisterhood 5 The Prayers and Tears of Christian Mothers 6 White Mothers' Theology, Black Mothers' Bible Conclusion: Mothers and the Christian Imagination
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University of Toronto Press I wish to keep a record
Book SynopsisI wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course experiences of nineteenth-century New Brunswick women. Gail G. Campbell offers an interpretive scholarly analysis of 28 women's diaries while enticing readers to listen to the voices of the diarists.Trade Review‘This is a volume that is a must read for those who are engaged in the history of New Brunswick and for those who themselves are trying to tease out the stories of women in the nineteenth- century settler world of North America.’ -- Jane Errington * Acadiensis, August 2017 *"These diaries present an engaging sense of history from below, as lived and felt by its participants…Consistently well documented, this study nicely positions the lives of these New Brunswick women within the larger context of nineteenth-century women’s history." -- Carole Gerson * The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Diarists Introduction Chapter 1: The Diarists Chapter 2: Reading 19th Century Diaries: the Historian's Perspective Chapter 3: The Life Course in Demographic Context: Women's Experience Chapter 4: Three Generations: Women of their Time and Place Chapter 5: From Innocent Flirtation to Formal Courtship Chapter 6: The World of the Family Chapter 7: Households of Independent Women Chapter 8: Sociability and Social Networks Chapter 9: Schooling and Scholars Chapter 10: A Sustaining Faith Chapter 11: Work in the Home Chapter 12: Beyond the Bounds of Family: Paid Work Chapter 13: Politics and Social Reform Chapter 14: A Cosmopolitan Outlook Chapter 15: In the Midst of Life Conclusion Afterword Appendix Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic
Book SynopsisBernadette Andrea's groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesTrade Review‘This engaging, sophisticated book will find an audience among all Shakespeare lovers who wonder where the Bard’s Moors, Turks, and Tatars came from.’ -- M.Cooke * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in British Literature and Culture, c. 1500-1630 CHAPTER TWO: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar Girl, and the Tartar-Indian Woman CHAPTER THREE: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian Princess, and the Tartar King CHAPTER FOUR: Signifying Gender and Islam in Early Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors (1594) and the Gray's Inn Revels (1594-95) CHAPTER FIVE: Signifying Gender and Islam in Late Shakespeare: Henry VIII or All is True (1613) and British "Masques of Blackness" (c. 1507-1605) CHAPTER SIX: The Intersecting Paths of Two Women from the Islamic World: Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company BIBLIOGRAPHY
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University of Toronto Press Tournaments of Value
Book SynopsisA significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world. Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, between domestic and public domains. She demonstrates the fluidity of social life, the shifting nature of community organization, and in doing so provides a welcome counterpoint to more rigid formulations of Middle Eastern social structure usually expressed in ethnographies. Tournaments of Value incorporates vignettes to illustrate more analytical points and to enliven the text, allowing the reader to enter fully into the rich world of Zabid in Yemen. This expanded 20th anniversary edition introduces this seminal work on Middle Eastern ethnography Table of ContentsPreface Introduction * Going Out in Zabid * Tournaments of Value * The Bayt: Family and Household * Achieving Virtue through Modesty * Distinction and Display in the Visiting Scene * Moments of Consequence: Weddings and Mourning Ceremonies * Personhood, Emotion, and Hierarchy * Moral Worth and Piety in Everyday Life * Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Families Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Radical Housewives
Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement.Trade Review"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada." -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 2: Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls Chapter 3: Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls Chapter 4: Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens Chapter 5: Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists? Chapter 6: "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Global Health and the Village
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women's access to safe maternity care into focus.Table of ContentsContents List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary of Acholi (Luo) Words Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction to A Crisis in Maternal Health Introduction Contexts of Care Background on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) Policy and social contexts for maternity care and childbirth The post-conflict setting Methodology and Methods Key Institutional Ethnography definitions: Institutions, participants, and work Data collection Positioning myself as researcher Theorizing methods Outline Chapter Two: Ongoing Social Distress: Care-seeking in a Remote Post-Conflict Context Introduction Overview of the Conflict in Northern Uganda Ongoing Social and Economic Impacts of the War Abduction, health and community membership The internally displaced persons (IDP) camps Ongoing Social Distress: Land Conflicts and Disease Epidemics The outbreak of disease Agriculture Land disputes Poverty and lack of infrastructure Impacts on study participants Conclusion Map of Uganda Chapter Three: Pregnancy and Daily Life: Health System and Home Factors Shaping Care Introduction Focused (Goal-Oriented) Antenatal Care (ANC) The Message to Attend ANC The Provision of Mama Kits Formal Health Care Providers The setting for formal health care provision Clinical officers Midwives Enrolled comprehensive nurses, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and nurse aides Informal Health Care Providers Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) The village health team (VHT) Transportation, Nutrition, and Work Transportation Lack of capacity to provide care at sub-county health centres Nutrition and work Chapter Four: Charity and Control: When Help Requires Compliance Introduction A Reward for Care or a Gift to the Vulnerable? Divergent Ideas the Mama Kit’s Role The mama kit as creating and rewarding compliance with ANC The mama kits as an incentive or reward for health centre delivery The mama kits as supporting and signaling ‘vulnerable’ women The mama kits as a gift or charity Registration and Distribution of Mama Kits Health Centre Staff and Administrators on the Mama Kits’ Role: Helping the Vulnerable, or Motivating Care-seeking? “In our setting, who is the most poor?” Perceptions of vulnerability as a distribution criteria Health centre staff on the mama kit: ‘Motivating’ women to deliver at a health facility The Goals of the Uganda Red Cross NGO - Health Centre Partnerships: Problems with Withdrawal and Shortages Unpredictable Distribution Affects how Women Perceive Formal Care and Health Workers Conclusion Chapter Five: Vertical Health: Failures of Compulsory Couples HIV Testing Introduction Background: Prevalence, Policies, and Practice Women’s experiences of male reluctance Health Worker Perspectives on Couples HIV Testing During ANC Health Worker Strategies for Couples Testing in the Face of Male Reluctance “Without a Man We are Not Going to Give you a Card”: Male Refusal as a Barrier to Women’s Care Gender, Couples Testing, and Vertical Health Gender and Intersectional Power Relationships Conclusion Chapter Six: Conclusions: Reconceiving the Maternal Health Crisis Introduction Global goals, Local lives Discourses governing care: Choice, tradition and culture Limitations Conclusion References
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University of Toronto Press Being Fat
Book SynopsisBeing Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and issues it was debating: femininity, sexuality, and health.Trade Review"Being Fat is an important text that provides a historical and political grounding of fat women organizations in Canada. […] This scholarship is imperative to recognizing and understanding how the fat liberation movement began and provides insight to contemporary forms of resistance." -- Nicholas Villarreal, San Diego State University * Fat Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Fat Women Are Not Few 1. FIFI: Feminist Approaches to Being Fat 2. Between Women: Fat Acceptance Organizations 3. “If Only You’d Lose Weight...”: Femininity, Sexuality, and Fat Activism 4. Dr Fullovitt, MD: Fat Women’s Experiences with Doctors and Dieting 5. “Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”: Aerobics for Fat Women Only 6. Bodies in Fashion: Buying and Selling Plus-Size Clothing Conclusion: When We Rise the Earth Will Shake Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Detailed List of Research Participants Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Mavis Gallant
Book SynopsisEndowed with a confidant's insights, Marta Dvorák sets up a trailblazing connection between Mavis Gallant's dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts.Trade Review"Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear, a landmark study by Marta Dvořák, presents a compelling case that Gallant’s keen visual and aural senses were profoundly shaped by her immersion in art, film, and music. In what Dvořák calls a modernist assimilation of literary texts, visual culture, and music, Gallant submerged herself in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and the Russians, as well as Pablo Picasso, Ella Fitzgerald, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the film director Wallace Worsley." -- Gregory Shupak * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Acquisitions: Mapping World and Work an Acrostic for Mavis Mavis, osmosis, & the Artful Dodger the medium calling the tune? why Degas? Mavis, the (moving) pictures, and music borderblur beyond our current way of seeing 2. Is it Dead or Alive? Gallant’s shining language: wholeness, harmony, and radiance "the rest is just rice pudding": compression & expansion "not mad, not drowning, not Ophelia": a poetics of rhythm 3. The Oratorical Triad: "Like Looking Into the Sun" upstairs & downstairs: the banal & the barbarism the calf & the ox: comical cleavage poetic speech & the heard word metre and the art of sinking — & rising again visual overlays: page & screen an ellipsoidal narrative rhythm through which ideas rush: where import lies 4. Dissonance & Syncopation "silent, flickering areas of light": making strange "tougher than bulldogs": the odd man out "tum titty": adjacency pairs frame-breaking: The Real and the Reel Surfeit and Lack 5. Text/Image Borderblur, & Cubist Realism "you paint not what you see but what you know is there" never happier than in an artist’s studio: intersections "taking apart & putting together" a fraught realism 6. Who Is I and When Is Here? simultanism vs clocktime the subject-centred perceptual apparatus double vision: from short cut to short circuit 7. "How Can You Tell What Somebody’s Worth? What’s the Measure?" Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Bad Attitudes on Trial
Book SynopsisMainstream, or straight, pornography still flourishes, while those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. A critical analysis of pornography after the Supreme Court's Butler (1992) decision.Trade Review'The authors tackle their subjects with a sensitivity to the arguments of their ideological foes, but effectively demonstrate that the protection of women from harm does not begin with the suppression of imagery.' -- Karen Hill Quill and Quire 'Bad Attitude/s presents a detailed refutation of anti-pornography feminists, accuses them of being enveloped by conservative social trends, and offers arguments for a dissenting feminist positions.' -- Bart Testa The Globe and Mail 'A thorough and provocative book.' -- Bart Testa, The Globe and Mail 'Bad Attitude/s on Trial is a thoughtful and complex study of both genuinely complicated social issues and tangled legal reasoning. It's definitely worth reading.' -- Stan Persky The Vancouver Sun 'Although many readers many not agree with the opinions expressed about sexuality and depiction in Bad Attitude/s, they should take careful note of how genuine progressive concerns have been hijacked by the same old authoritarian social forces we thought were history.' -- Robyn Gillam eye Weekly 'The most daring aspect of Bad Attitude/s on Trial is the authors' attempt to sketch out a positive theory of sexuality to counter the essential negative view enshrined in the common law traditions shared by Canada and the United States.' -- Nathan M. Greenfield The Boston Book Review
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University of Toronto Press Female Suicide Bombings
Book SynopsisFemale Suicide Bombings critically examines and challenges common assumptions of this loaded term. Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight introduce female suicide bombings as a socio-political practice and a product of deeply politicized, gendered representations.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Mapping the Framework: Key Terms and Concepts Chapter Two: The History of Modern Female Suicide Bombings: Contextualizing Acts of Violence Chapter Three: Female Suicide Bombings: Between Agential Choice and Structural Determinism Chapter Four: Gender, Power, and Violence: Exploring the Organizations behind Female Suicide Bombings Chapter Five: Global Power, Knowledge, and the Politics of Difference in the Representations of Female Suicide Bombings Chapter Six: Counter-Terrorism, Gender, and Human Security Conclusion
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