Gender studies: women and girls Books

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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Book SynopsisIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women’s deviance and rehabilitation, Unruly Women argues that women’s performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.Boyle considers both real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess. Unruly Women explores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women’s non-normatiTrade Review'Unruly Women offers a rich discussion of gendered rehabilitative practices and their performative dimensions, both on and off the stage in early modern Spain.' -- Jane Bitomsky Parergon vol 33:01:2016 'Unruly Women provides a strong foundation from which to build a more nuanced understanding of the engendering of early modern women's roles and behaviors in Spain. This brief volume makes its argument with great clarity; it will be useful to both graduate students and scholars of early modern Spanish cultural studies.' -- Stacey Schlau Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:02:2015 'Unruly Women deftly explores the relationships between historical recogidas and the fictional female protagonists of the comedia... It will be of interest to scholars and teachers of early modern theater, history, and women's studies.' -- Emily C. Francomano Hispania vol 98:02:2015 'Unruly Women provides readers with enough valuable insights on early modern judicial and rehabilitative practices to make it well worth the read.' -- Barbara Mujica Modern Philology vol 112:04:2015 "Margaret Boyle has produced a compelling study, based on the ingenious juxtaposition of the rise of custodial institutions and their interconnections with a thriving professional theater business that nurtured many "unruly" female performers, entrepreneurs, and audience members." -- Elizabeth R. Wright Seventeenth Century News, Volume 73:3&4, Fall/Winter 2015 'One of the latest in a series of excellent University of Toronto Press books on the social and cultural context of early modern Spanish Literature... Boyle's work is well grounded in the body of recent scholarship that emphasizes women's active and formative role in early modern Spanish Society.' -- Jodi Campbell Left History vol 20:01:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One Chapter 1: Gendering Recogimiento in Early Modern Madrid I. Reforming Prostitutes: Madrid's Magdalen House II. Reforming the Magdalen House: Madre Magdalena de San Jeronimo's galera III. Recogimiento as a Women's Practice Part Two Chapter 2: Stage Widow in Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La dama duende Chapter 3: Dramatizing Women's Community in Maria de Zayas's La traicion en la amistad Chapter 4: Women's Exemplary Violence in Luis Velez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1A Reason and Form of the Galera and Royal House (1608) Appendix 1B Razon y forma de la galera y casa real (1608) Appendix 2A Historical Compendium and Instructive Manifesto on the Origin and Foundation of the Royal House of St. Mary Magdalene of the Penitence, commonly known as the Recogidas of Madrid Appendix 2B Compendio historico, y manifiesto instructivo del origen, y fundacion de la Real Casa de Santa Maria Magdalena de la Penitencia, vulgo las Recogidas de Madrid Works Cited

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Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women’s organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers’ interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard''s exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women’s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized mateTrade 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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Book SynopsisThe Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.

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Book SynopsisSince around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fay?a Tijaniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women’s stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they Trade Review"Hill's study looks beyond the dualistic framework of inhabiting/subverting the norms and frames the pious disposition as significantly informed by materiality and conventional tropes of feminine performance. In locating the deeper nuances which engenders women’s pious narratives – marked by liminal states of trance, fissures, and transitions – the work has made a definitive contribution to the wide array of writings on gendered sacred experientialities." -- Simi K. Salim * Religion and Gender *"Hill does a good job of teasing out the diversity of women’s experiences, and his extensive knowledge of Muslim practices more broadly gives the work a useful comparative nature. This book would be especially valuable to scholars of religious studies, African Studies, anthropology, and women’s and gender studies. The chapters can stand alone so undergraduates could also read portions of the text." -- Katherine Ann Wiley, Pacific Lutheran University * Journal of Religion in Africa *Table of Contents1. An Emerging Urban Youth Movement 2. The New Muqaddamas 3. Wrapping 4. Motherhood Metamorphosis Metaphors 5. Cooking up Spiritual Leadership 6. “They Say a Woman’s Voice Is ʿAwra” 7. The Ascetic and the Mother of the Knowers Epilogue: Islam as a Numinous, Performative Tradition

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Constitution of Canada in a New Key Richard Albert, Paul Daly, and Vanessa MacDonnell 1. The Most Opaque Branch? The (Un)accountable Growth of Executive Power in Modern Canadian Government Mary Liston 2. The Future of Constitutional Change in Canada: Examining Our Legal, Political, and Jurisprudential Straitjacket Emmett Macfarlane 3. Section 96: Striking a Balance between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism Paul Daly 4. Canada’s "Constitution outside the Courts": Provincial Non-enforcement of Constitutionally Suspect Federal Criminal Laws as Case Study Wade K. Wright 5. Cooperative Federalism in Canada and Quebec’s Changing Attitudes Noura Karazivan 6. Religious and Political Communities in the Canadian Judicial Imagination: Two Tensions, Two Questions Howard Kislowicz 7. Collective Diversity and Jurisdictional Accommodations in Constitutional Perspective Asha Kaushal 8. Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation Vrinda Narain 9. Freeing Inherent Aboriginal Rights from the Past David Milward 10. False Western Universalism in Constitutionalism? The 1867 Canadian Constitution and the Legacy of the Residential Schools Sujith Xavier 11. The Unstable Scope of Constitutionalized Property Rights in Canada: Public, Indigenous, and Private Dwight Newman 12. A Role for Human Dignity under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Emily Kidd White 13. Is the Permanent Campaign the End of the Egalitarian Model for Elections? Michael Pal 14. Immutability, Immigration Status, and the Limits of Equality Protection Efrat Arbel and Eileen Myrdahl Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFor people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential treatment that females and males received before the law, especially in regard to family matters and sexuality. A patriarchal justice system, increasingly under the influence of 'expert' opinion from social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other medial doctors, openly espoused a sexual double standard and sough to regulate the behaviour of girls and women 'for their own good'. Indeed, women in physically abusive relationships were at times advised by judges, probation officers, and social workers to 'go home and sleep with your husband' on the assumption that keeping him sexually sated would end the violence.In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law

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Book SynopsisIt is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the 1970s. Being Fat focuses on the earliest strands of the movement, covering the last decades of the twentieth century. The book explores how fat activists wrestled with feminist issues of the era, including femininity, sexuality, and health. Showcasing the earliest efforts of fat activists in Canada, such as the growth of social initiatives for fat women only, Being Fat helps us recognize the long reach of second-wave feminism and how it shaped activists’ approaches to everyday experiences like shopping, exercise, and going to the doctor.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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Book SynopsisThis ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself. Working with the novels of Richardson, Fielding, Haywood, Manley, Sterne, Wollstonecraft and Inchbald, and the portraits of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Highmore, Hudson, Hogarth, and others, Private Interests points to the intimate connections between the literary works and the paintings. Arguing that the novel's representation of the portrait sustains a tension between competing definitions of private interests, Conway shows how private interests are figured as simultaneously decorous and illicit in the novel, with the portrait at once an instrument of propriety and of scandal. Examining women's roles as both authors of and characters in the novel and the novel's encounters wit

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Book SynopsisWomen writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels purposely tie narrative structure to thematic content, creating in the process powerful texts that reflect and challenge literary and socio-cultural norms.Through the lens of the genre, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology. She also analyses what may be the first woman-authored Italian example of epistolary fiction: Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati's Lettere di Giulia Willet (1818). In their reworking of the epistolary narrative form, Italian women writers challenged dominant assumptions aboutTrade Review‘In this fascinating book Salsini shows the multiple ways in which Italian women writers challenged social and literary conventions “to find a voice, a sense of identity, and to create an alternative to the male constructed national cannon”. This is the first study to systematically analyze the crossroads of genre and content of this cohort of Italian women writers.’ -- Sonia Cancian * Quaderni D’Italianistica vol 31:02:10 *‘Thoughtful and engaging book… The open form of the letter novel and the strategic transformation of an apparently regressive genre leave space for the reader actively to engage both in the construction of a narrative and in the critique of the societies in which women live.’ -- Sharon Wood * Modern Language Review, vol 108:04:2013 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Love Letters 2. Literary Responses 3. Making Connections 4. Addressing Women

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Book SynopsisUnequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.Trade Review“Miglena Todorova's book deserves the attention of both scholars and political activists at a time of extraordinary violence against women's, queer, and racialized bodies in former socialist states and beyond.” -- Raia Apostolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * Aspasia *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Epistemology of Doubt 1. Race, Women, and Nation-Building 2. Socialist Racialism: Desired and Undesired Genres of Women and the Paradoxes of Socialism 3. Women’s Work: Gendered and Racialized Socialist State Governmentality 4. Second-Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms 5. Challenging the Modern-Postmodern Duality: Race, Socialist Masculinity, and Global American Culture Conclusion: Postsocialism, Anti-Racism, and Transnational Feminisms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure. Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, the booTrade Review“Miglena Todorova's book deserves the attention of both scholars and political activists at a time of extraordinary violence against women's, queer, and racialized bodies in former socialist states and beyond.” -- Raia Apostolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * Aspasia *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Epistemology of Doubt 1. Race, Women, and Nation-Building 2. Socialist Racialism: Desired and Undesired Genres of Women and the Paradoxes of Socialism 3. Women’s Work: Gendered and Racialized Socialist State Governmentality 4. Second-Third World Women: Socialist State Feminisms and Internationalisms 5. Challenging the Modern-Postmodern Duality: Race, Socialist Masculinity, and Global American Culture Conclusion: Postsocialism, Anti-Racism, and Transnational Feminisms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMost people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low numbers of female candidates running for winnable seats. The question of why there are so few female candidates has been difficult to answer, largely because we know so little about the pool of potential candidates. Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada presents results from a regional field-based study, which confronted this challenge directly for the first time. Louise Carbert gathered together small groups of rural community leaders (126 women in all) throughout the four Atlantic provinces, and interviewed them about their experiences and perceptions of leadership, public life, and running for elected office. Their answers paint a vivid picture of politics in rural communities, illustrating ho

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Charts Acknowledgments Introduction Towards a Feminist Edition Towards Material Analysis as a Methodological Approach to the Study of Cartularies The Abbey of Notre-Dame et Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré Par Eulx et Leurs Gens: Prémontré and Its Place in the Social, Economic, and Religious Landscape Social Networks and Patronage Economic Life and the Curtes Network Confraternity and Conflict: Relationships with Other Religious Communities Munimine Roborare: The Cartulary of Prémontré The Manuscript and Its Maker A Brief Description of the Cartulary’s Material Aspects The Conceptual Design and Organizational Schema The Practical Design: The Cartulary Maker's Workflow and Practices The Date of Cartulary Construction and Completion The Historical Context of Cartulary Construction The Context of Documentary Production at the Time of Cartulary Completion Later Readers Conclusion Editorial Principles and Methodology Principles of Transcription Act Structure The Cartulary of Prémontré Bibliography Manuscript Primary Sources from Prémontré Other Manuscript Primary Sources Primary Sources in Print Archaeological Reports Online Resources Secondary Sources Appendices Appendix 1: Other Manuscripts Possibly Made or at Prémontré in the Thirteenth Century Appendix 2: Select Latin Glossary Appendix 3: Select French Glossary Appendix 4: List of Abbots of Prémontré Appendix 5: Bishops of Laon, Noyon, and Soissons Appendix 6: List of Popes Appendix 7: List of Acts in Chronological Order Index

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Book SynopsisA Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents 1. Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor General’s Wife 2. Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva’s Central Asian Sketches Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game 3. Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India 4. Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers 5. In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol’ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskovia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRenowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Part One: Introduction 1. The Case Study 2. The Scholarship Part Two: Narrative, Subjectivities, and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter 3. Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice 4. Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities 5. Marital Conflict, Emotions, and “De-culturalizing” Violence 6. Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and “Mini-Skirt” Feminism Part Three: Community-Building Experiments, Integration Projects, and Collective Belonging 7. Making Multicultural Community at the Institute 8. Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training 9. Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget Part Four: Ethnic Folk Cultures and Modern Multicultural Mandates 10. Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation 11. Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism Conclusion Appendices Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women’s rights in marriage and the family. Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women’Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reimagining Postwar German Families, 1945–7 2. Gender Equality and the Family in the Two Constitutions, 1948–9 3. The Failed Reforms of Family Law, 1949–53 4. A Series of Stalemates, 1953–57 5. Achieving Equality, 1957–76 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women’s rights in marriage and the family. Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women’Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reimagining Postwar German Families, 1945–7 2. Gender Equality and the Family in the Two Constitutions, 1948–9 3. The Failed Reforms of Family Law, 1949–53 4. A Series of Stalemates, 1953–57 5. Achieving Equality, 1957–76 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection features state-of-the art scholarship by diverse contributors on a contemporary array of compelling and contentious gender and politics concerns.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transforming and Transformational Gender Politics in Turbulent Times Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky Part I. Transforming Institutions and Ideas: Turbulent Times and Ongoing Struggles 1. A Diverse, Feminist "Open Door" Canada? Trudeau-Styled Equality, Liberalisms, and Feminisms Alexandra Dobrowolsky 2. Feminist Government or Governance Feminism? Exploring Feminist Policy Analysis in the Trudeau Era Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala 3. Gender-Sensitivity under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change? Jeanette Ashe 4. Feminism, Public Dialogue, and Sexual Assault Law Elaine Craig 5. Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics Gina Starblanket 6. How Gender Became a Defence Issue: A Feminist Perspective on Canadian Defence Policy Maya Eichler 7. Free Mining Body Land and the Social Reproduction of Indigenous Life Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez 8. The Promises and Perils of Hashtag Feminism Tamara A. Small 9. Women and Children First! Childhood, Feminisms, and the Co-Emancipatory Model Toby Rollo Part II. Non-Institutional and Intersectional Politics: Feminisms, Allies, Affect, and Anger 10. Gender and Feminist Mobilizations in Quebec: Changes Within and Outside the Movement Pascale Dufour and Geneviève Pagé 11. The Intersectional Politics of Black Lives Matter Debra Thompson 12. Pinkwashing Pride Parades: The Politics of Police in LGBTQ Spaces in Canada Alexa DeGagne 13. Refusing Extraction: Environmental Reproductive Justice Across the Pacific Sarah Wiebe 14. Erasure at the "Tipping Point"? Transfeminist Politics and Challenges for Representation: from Turtle Island to the Global South/s Chamindra Weerawardhana 15. Rethinking Disability, Citizenship, and Intersectionality Stacy Clifford Simplican 16. Engendering Fatness and "Obesity": Affect, Emotions, and the Governance of Weight in a Neoliberal Age Michael Orsini 17. The "Alt" Right, Toxic Masculinity, and Violence John Grant and Fiona MacDonald

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection features state-of-the art scholarship by diverse contributors on a contemporary array of compelling and contentious gender and politics concerns.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transforming and Transformational Gender Politics in Turbulent Times Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky Part I. Transforming Institutions and Ideas: Turbulent Times and Ongoing Struggles 1. A Diverse, Feminist "Open Door" Canada? Trudeau-Styled Equality, Liberalisms, and Feminisms Alexandra Dobrowolsky 2. Feminist Government or Governance Feminism? Exploring Feminist Policy Analysis in the Trudeau Era Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala 3. Gender-Sensitivity under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change? Jeanette Ashe 4. Feminism, Public Dialogue, and Sexual Assault Law Elaine Craig 5. Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics Gina Starblanket 6. How Gender Became a Defence Issue: A Feminist Perspective on Canadian Defence Policy Maya Eichler 7. Free Mining Body Land and the Social Reproduction of Indigenous Life Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez 8. The Promises and Perils of Hashtag Feminism Tamara A. Small 9. Women and Children First! Childhood, Feminisms, and the Co-Emancipatory Model Toby Rollo Part II. Non-Institutional and Intersectional Politics: Feminisms, Allies, Affect, and Anger 10. Gender and Feminist Mobilizations in Quebec: Changes Within and Outside the Movement Pascale Dufour and Geneviève Pagé 11. The Intersectional Politics of Black Lives Matter Debra Thompson 12. Pinkwashing Pride Parades: The Politics of Police in LGBTQ Spaces in Canada Alexa DeGagne 13. Refusing Extraction: Environmental Reproductive Justice Across the Pacific Sarah Wiebe 14. Erasure at the "Tipping Point"? Transfeminist Politics and Challenges for Representation: from Turtle Island to the Global South/s Chamindra Weerawardhana 15. Rethinking Disability, Citizenship, and Intersectionality Stacy Clifford Simplican 16. Engendering Fatness and "Obesity": Affect, Emotions, and the Governance of Weight in a Neoliberal Age Michael Orsini 17. The "Alt" Right, Toxic Masculinity, and Violence John Grant and Fiona MacDonald

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the author successfully argues, women's hard work, financial acumen, social networks, and sometimes physical courage are essential to explaining how Sweden, with a small population and limited resources, emerged victorious in what is often seen as the first "modern" war."—M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Choice"Courage and Grief cogently surveys women’s significant contributions to the Swedish war effort during the Thirty Years’ War. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will appreciate how Ailes weaves together a textured account of the impact warfare had across seventeenth-century Swedish society and the central role that women played. Crucially, by highlighting the “home front,” Courage and Grief charts a potential path forward for historians to reexamine the impact of early modern warfare on society that relies centrally on women’s experiences."—Lauren Swift, H-War"A welcome contribution to the field of early modern women's history. . . . Ailes has gone to great lengths to highlight not only women of the highest social strata but individuals from all parts of society. This is an important book for readers who are not familiar with the subject."—Svante Norrhem, Early Modern Women"[Ailes] draws together many different strands of recent Swedish research into these topics, making it available for readers who do not know Swedish. . . . Courage and Grief will interest a wide range of early modern historians."—Erik Thomson, Journal of Modern History"Ailes believes that her depiction of the Thirty Years' War calls for alternative and more comprehensive perspectives on war than those perspectives just focused on traditional battlefields. That call is easy to agree with."—Maria Sjöberg, American Historical Review"[Courage and Grief is] an interesting and valuable contribution to the scholarship on early modern Sweden."—Maria Agren, Michigan War Studies Review“The Swedish kingdom was the most innovative military power in Europe from the middle of the sixteenth until well into the seventeenth century. The contributions of women to making those innovations and the impacts of those innovations offer an interesting and little-researched story. Mary Elizabeth Ailes makes a convincing case for the importance of women in Sweden’s war efforts.”—Jason Lavery, professor of early modern European history at Oklahoma State University and author of The History of FinlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Women on Campaign Peasant Women and Conscription Officers' Wives on the Home Front Queen Christina and Female Military Leadership Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis 2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women In the last thirty yearsscholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and lawhelp shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women’s political alliances. Grouped into three sections—domestic, court, and kinship alliances—these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Offering new perspectives on female authors such as the Cavendish sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips, as well as on male-authored texts such as Romeo and Juliet,Trade Review"This volume is more than a collection; it is itself a conversation about where early modern feminist scholarship might "go" next. These chapters perform an extraordinary service, each in its own special expertise, embracing dramatic and poetic performance, the sociology of both collective labor and disruptive competition."—Naomi Conn Liebler, Early Modern Women: An Introductory Journal“An excellent exploration of the ways that politics—writ large—resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.”—Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern BritainTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors’ Introduction Part 1. The Politics of Women’s “Domestic” Alliances 1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern England Bernard Capp 2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’s The Two Angry Women of Abington Ronda Arab 3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women Megan Inbody 4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’s Tragedy and The Tamer Tamed Niamh J. O’Leary 5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’s Letters Elizabeth Hodgson Part 2. Women’s Alliances and the Politics of the Court 6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich 7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’ Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean Stage Roberta Barker 8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’s Tale Alicia Tomasian 9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance Christina Luckyj Part 3. The Politics of Female Kinship 10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet Steven Urkowitz 11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record Jessica L. Malay 12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary / Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters Jennifer Higginbotham 13. Afterword Susan Frye and Karen Robertson Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis2020Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize In post-1968 Mexico a group of artistsand feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive emphasis on written culture was giving way to audio-visual communications. Motivated by a desire for self-representation both visually and in politics, female artists and activiststransformedexisting regimes of media and visuality.Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyzethe fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated. Through their concern for self-representation (both visually and in formal politics), these women played a crucial role in transforming existing regimes of medTrade Review"Women Made Visible is meticulously and creatively researched thanks to the access that the author gained to personal and institutional archives, and to the detailed interviews she conducted with art practitioners and feminist activists. . . . This book will be of interest to scholars of visual and art history and feminist studies, as well as to urban historians, particularly those concerned with the ways in which metropolises like Mexico City become places where countercultural movements flourish."—Tania Islas Weinstein, Latin Americanist"Timely and necessary, Women Made Visible advances the field of Latin American, Chicanx, and Latinx art history."—Teresa Eckmann, Woman's Art Journal"Women Made Visible may be of interest to students and scholars who study art, feminism, Mexico, politics, and history."—Margarita H.Tapia, Communication Booknotes Quarterly“Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda brilliantly contrasts two primary sources that are not normally read together: private artist archives (and interviews with the artist-archivists) and state security archives. The author’s deeply researched—and theoretically and methodologically sophisticated—study will be an extraordinary resource for this subfield of video art and experimental film in Mexico.”—George Flaherty, author of Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the ’68 Movement“An impressive foundation. Women Made Visible adds important women artists to the canon of Mexican art history. Written in a brisk, accessible, but still sophisticated prose style, this book will serve novice and specialist alike.”—Mary K. Coffey, author of How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican StateTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Women Made Visible Part 1. Feminizing the City 1. The Official City 2. The Media City 3. The Embodied City Part 2. The Archival Practices of a Visual Letrada 4. The Archival and Political Awakenings of Ana Victoria Jiménez 5. Secret Documents and Feminist Practices 6. Performing Feminist Art Part 3. Protesting the Archive 7. Interrupting Photographic Traditions 8. Feminist Collaborations in 1970s Mexico 9. POLArizing the Archive Conclusion: New and Emergent Visual Letradas Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPopular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.Trade Review"This edited collection is a meaningful contribution to the literature concerning the movement and travel of women during the Age of Exploration. Up until this point, the literature has either fully ignored the movement of these women or marginally presented the travels of elite women post-eighteenth century. Therefore, Travel and Travail serves as a corrective, describing the very literal and very common travels of women during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."—Dyese Elliott-Newton, Comitatus"Travel and Travail produces important feminist knowledge and fills a lacuna in our understanding of the expanding global enterprise and women's place in it. It is marvelously written, a pleasure to read."—Mira'Assaf Kafantaris, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinay Journal"Travel and Travail, a collection of essays on early modern women's travel, is a timely and much-needed contribution to the scholarship of women's travel writing and women's mobility. The sixteen essays in this book collectively offer fresh insights into historical women travellers in the early modern world as well as literary representations of female travel on the English stage."—Yoojung Choi, Review of English Studies"These stories place women in the context of larger issues surrounding the early modern world—beyond their local cities and, what was considered at the time, domestic spaces."—Arazoo Ferozan, Renaissance and Reformation"Travel and Travail is a celebration of interdisciplinary research. . . . This work challenges historians, digital humanity scholars, and collegiate learners to look anew at their own understandings of women travelers in the early modern world."—Gina G. Bennett, Terrae Incognitae"Travel and Travail is a thrilling statement of a field in its emergence and will become a touchstone in scholarship on early modern women, early modern travel and colonialism, and early modern drama."—Gavin Hollis, Early Theater“Packed with fascinating case studies, this collection reveals overlooked evidence of early modern women traveling between England, Persia, India, and the Americas, alongside illuminating accounts of how dramatists characterized traveling women. Essential reading for students and scholars of travel writing.”—Gerald MacLean, professor emeritus of English literature, University of Exeter“By focusing on women, this book compellingly changes the way scholars will understand the nature and scope of travel in the early modern period. While offering impressive rereadings of fictional representations of women travelers, Travel and Travail is also rich in archival discoveries, unearthing surprising accounts of seventeenth-century women who traveled within and far beyond the British Isles. Akhimie and Andrea have orchestrated an original and important contribution to Early Modern studies.”—Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University“An important collection for the field of travel writing and early modern women’s and gender studies more broadly. The collection seeks to establish a canon of women travelers in the period, and through the reoccurrence of certain key figures across the volume, both historical and fictional, it goes a long way towards doing so.”—Julia Schleck, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–LincolnTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling Richmond Barbour 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company Karen Robertson 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century Amrita Sen 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort Carmen Nocentelli 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Carmelite Relic Bernadette Andrea 6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels’s “The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy” (1650) Patricia Akhimie 7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas Elisa Oh 8. Lady Anne Clifford’s Way and Aristocratic Women’s Travel Laura Williamson Ambrose Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman’s Place Laura Aydelotte 10. Eroticizing Women’s Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello Stephanie Chamberlain 11. Desdemona’s Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello Michael Slater 12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda Eder Jaramillo 13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex Ruben Espinosa 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World Dyani Johns Taff 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the Book of Ruth Suzanne Tartamella 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part I Gaywyn Moore Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing Mary C. Fuller Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather in thirty years, this book combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal Wharton's and Cather's parallel experiences of dislocation, their relationship to each other as writers, and the similarities in their theories of fiction.Trade Review"This book makes a compelling and convincing argument on the meaning of beauty and place in the lives and work of Wharton and Cather and contributes to the fields of literary studies and especially comparative studies. Olin-Ammentorp's Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture is essential reading for all who are invested in the work of American women writers."—Emily Orlando, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers“The parallel careers and lives Olin-Ammentorp explores here shape a stunning synthesis of the biographical, the cultural, and the literary. Wharton and Cather, together here, capture the Modernist moment. While the two never met, their writing defined, this book well shows, the place of culture through the culture of place.”—Robert Thacker, coeditor of the Willa Cather Review “Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture dispels oversimplifications that have positioned Cather and Wharton as opposites. In rejecting such traditional characterizations of the two, Julie Olin-Ammentorp beautifully demonstrates that they are in fact comparable and complementary. If the book stopped here it would be truly valuable, but it goes further, exploring concepts such as place, culture, home, and even that most elusive of ideas, beauty. . . . Olin-Ammentorp develops provocative rereadings of texts we thought were familiar.”—Janis Stout, author of Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World and Cather Among the Moderns“A splendid meditation on place, culture, and beauty. Olin-Ammentorp takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the lives and works of two beloved American authors, demonstrating that, although they may seem to inhabit different worlds, in fact the two share many crucial concerns. With a particularly sensitive attention to language, the book is filled with rich insights and nuanced readings of both Wharton and Cather, and it builds a convincing argument about the centrality of beauty and of place in the lives and writings of both.”—Irene Goldman-Price, editor of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann and Selected Poems of Edith Wharton“Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture is a game changer, opening up the ways we look at two of the most famous American writers (male or female) of the early twentieth century. Olin-Ammentorp combines a masterly grasp of the big picture alongside the nuance and detail of close analysis and invites new ways of thinking about the writers’ interconnectedness, their sense of place, geography, culture, beauty, and language. . . . [This] will be a touchstone reference text for a whole new generation of scholars.”—Laura Rattray, editor of Edith Wharton in Context and The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton“That Wharton and Cather lived lives seemingly so different yet so profoundly parallel makes for an endlessly compelling analysis. This work also speaks more broadly to the careers and global interests of women writers whose experiences of place, travel, geography, nationality, and postwar identities shaped their careers in ways distinctive to the early twentieth century. . . . Clearly the product of deep knowledge, this work promises to contribute to comparative studies; to studies that focus on geography, place, and travel; and to literary interpretations of both authors’ works.”—Melanie Dawson, coauthor of American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity and president of the Edith Wharton SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Wharton, Cather, Place, and Culture Part 1. Contexts and Intersections 1. The “Literary Aristocrat” and the Plainspoken Pioneer 2. The Land of Letters, the Kingdom of Art Part 2. The Place of Culture 3. New York City: Beauty, Business, and Hothouse Flowers 4. The West: Provinciality, Vitality, and the “Real” America 5. The Idea of France 6. Questions of Travel and Home Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers.Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women's mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the safety bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women's professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902. For sevenyears, female racers drew large and enthusiastic crowds across the country, including Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleansand many smaller cities in between. Unlike the trudging, round-the-clock marathons the men (and their spectators) endured, women's six-day races were tightly scheduled, fast-paced, and highly competitive. The best female racers of the eraTillie Anderson, Lizzie Glaw, and Dottie Farnsworthbecame household names and were AmTrade Review“Gilles’s book is a window into a virtually unknown time in women’s sports, and it is important because it adds to the history of female athletes who have overcome so many obstacles to be able to compete. It’s also more evidence that women have always been more suited to sports than they’ve been given credit for, and that when they have the opportunity to train, they’ve always been just as capable as the men.”—Britni de la Cretaz, Guardian “In focusing on these pioneers of American women’s athleticism, Gilles has provided a much needed examination of a little-known aspect of American women’s history in general.”—K.B. Nutter, Choice "Roger Gilles's Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bike Racing gives due recognition to the achievements of Anderson and her rivals, breathes fresh life into stories that once gripped thousands of sports fans across America."—Feargal McKay, Podium Cafe"Gilles has resurrected a time of women’s racing that we today didn’t know even existed. Thanks to Women on the Move, we can catch up and learn about pioneer women bike racers."—Peter Joffre Nye, Bike Race Info"Gilles . . . has finally brought back to light these long-forgotten heroines."—Peter Joffre Nye, U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame"Fans of sports, bike racing, and amazingly talented female athletes will delight in reading—and picturing as they ’round the corner—Women on the Move."—Evan Friss, Missouri Historical Review"Women on the Move is an enjoyable read, and Gilles is clearly passionate about the subject matter. This book will attract academic and non-academic audiences alike because of its accessible style and fascinating content. Gilles brings to life an important piece of cycling history that deserves much more attention. Tillie Anderson and her fellow cycliennes demonstrate how much the bicycle was a revolutionary piece of technology that transformed how men and women interacted, exercised, and lived their lives."—Rebecca Beausaert, Journal of Arizona History"An important and compelling story. It is the fact that Giles has uncovered this hidden history that makes his book such a worthy contribution."—Robert J. Turpin, Technology and Culture“Women on the Move is a much-needed look at the history of sports and the challenges—and advancement—of women in America. A must-read for sports fans, equality advocates, and history enthusiasts.”—Kathryn Bertine, author of The Road Less Taken and documentary filmmaker of Half The Road“Roger Gilles shines a much-deserved light on 1890s women cyclists, bringing back to life Tillie Anderson, Dottie Farnsworth, and their sisters on wheels. Thoroughly researched, this is a rollicking read—a treasure.”—Peter Joffre Nye, author of Hearts of Lions and The Fast Times of Albert ChampionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Terrible Swede Part 1. Bicycles and Bloomers Chapter 1. Six-Day Bike Race for Women Chapter 2. Watch the Woman Cyclists Chapter 3. After Gold and Medals Part 2. Leading Ladies Chapter 4. Riders Are Dressed in Pleasing Costumes Chapter 5. Like Spiders on a Wall Chapter 6. Lovers True Chapter 7. Girls May Pull Hair Part 3. Backlash Chapter 8. Threatened with Suspension Chapter 9. A Gala Event on Wheels Chapter 10. Is Bicycling Immoral? Chapter 11. Men versus Women Chapter 12. Amazons on Wheels Part 4. Rivals Chapter 13. Girls Have a Spat! Chapter 14. It Will Be Run for Blood Chapter 15. They Do Not Speak Chapter 16. The “Muscular Beauties” Part 5. Lisette Chapter 17. The Parisian, Unbeaten and Unafraid, Is Coming Chapter 18. Lisette and Her Lightning Rivals Chapter 19. The Greatest Drawing Card in Bicycle History Part 6. Farewell to Cycliennes Chapter 20. War on Six-Day Bicycle Races Chapter 21. Grand Vaudeville Chapter 22. Have You Seen the Cycle Whirl? Epilogue: Maiden Name Known to All Notes Index

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Book Synopsis2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman’s presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these “angels of the home” began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women’s work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women’s movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married anTrade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminar. It is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."—Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm"This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."—Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review“In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico“Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”—Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New EnglandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Graphs and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work” 2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s 3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City 4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City 5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s 6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s 7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers’ March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain—and, arguably, torture—in examining a state that engenders love and loyalty among its non-European Jewish women citizens while simultaneously inflicting pain on them. Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel presents a model of bureaucracy as divine cosmology that is both lyrical and provocative. Lavie’s focus on the often-minimized Mizra?i population juxtaposed with the state’s monolithic culture suggests that Israeli bureaucracy is based on a theological notion that inserts the categoriesTrade Review“Thick, accusative, and critical, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel is indeed a must-read for all.”—Anne de Jong, American Anthropologist“Important and provocative. . . . Recommended to researchers, postgraduate students, and undergraduates who are interested in Israel/Palestine, political protest, discrimination, and the anthropology of the state.”—Tobias Kelly, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“Incredibly insightful conceptually but also powerful politically. It does not merely challenge conceptual frameworks and academic canons but actively undoes them through shifting and diverse modes of writing.”—Adi Kuntsman, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies“Engaging and insightful. . . . The book makes an important contribution to the literature, demonstrating that throughout the history of Israel, the Jewish immigrants of European descent have retained their privileged socioeconomic position and maintained claims to cultural superiority over communities coming from Asia and the Middle East. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel is an important ethnography of Mizrahi women and an excellent addition to anthropology of Israel.”—Yulia Egorova, American Ethnologist“Lavie’s study is solid, scrupulously researched and documented and has the ring of truth that comes from the personal experience of a researcher who has had to live through her fieldwork situation in a manner that few anthropologists experience. . . . Lavie has created a text whose insights and analysis extend far beyond her admirable Israeli study.”—William O. Beeman, Anthropological Quarterly“Lavie raises important questions about victimhood and agency pertinent to the study of the subaltern. . . . This book is not just a unique contribution to understanding gender and race in state bureaucracy and the operations of nationalism in the Middle East; it will interest anyone studying the disenfranchised and their everyday life, something that almost always involves ‘bureaucratic torture.’ . . . Wrapped in the Flag of Israel exposes how inhumanity can be normalized and can thrive in any modern liberal democracy.”—Sealing Cheng, Asian Anthropology“Lavie’s meticulous ethnographic work and pointed theoretical analysis explain the hopelessness of social protest and problematize the concept of agency in the context of intra-Jewish conflict in Israel; in this Lavie also addresses the ramifications of Mizrahi marginalization on the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”—Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Cultural Studies“Lavie illustrates how asking difficult, troubling questions that disturb taken-for-granted silences can be an important strategy of resistance. In doing so, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel offers theoretical and political insights that extend beyond Israel’s undeclared borders.”—Simona Sharoni, Journal of Palestine Studies“Lavie has written a brave and scholarly auto-ethnography using an extended case study method, of a social movement in contemporary Israel. . . . With theoretical sophistication and granular accounts of day-to-day struggles of her own and other single mothers’ efforts to survive and gain access to resources and entitlements as Israelis . . . This is a painful account well worth reading. Social workers from many nations who are involved in difficult macro- and mezzo-practice would find illuminating the many elements of social movement activity and peer-group support that Lavie characterizes and theorizes so powerfully.”—Barbara Levy Simon, Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work“At the crossroads between a coursebook, a piece of writing about life and a feminist manifesto, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel . . . [is] both an enlightening insight into Israeli intra-racism and an original and valuable connection between two seemingly unrelated concepts: bureaucracy and torture.”—Sorina Georgescu, HyperculturaTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers “Reaganomics,” Ḥok HaHesderim, and the Oslo Boomtime The Hudna Knafonomics: Vicky and I On Ethnographic Data Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’s Bureaucracy: A Road Map Chapter 1. Left Is Right, Right Is Left: Zionism and Israel’s Single Mothers Ḥad Horit: Notes on the Hebrew Etymology of Single Motherhood The Typology of Israel’s Single Mothers On Zionism Why Mizraḥim Support the Right Wing Why Mizraḥi Feminists’ Hands Are Tied Chapter 2. Protesting and Belonging: When the Agency of Identity Politics Becomes Impossible Figurations of Agency Protesting and Belonging: An Argument in Six Parts Capturing and Conveying Elusive Bureaucratic Torture Chapter 3. Take 1: The GendeRace Essence of Bureaucratic Torture Classificatory Schemes of Bureaucratic Logic Negative Communitas: Bureaucracy’s “Tough Love” The Plus-Minus Model of Torture The Zone of Repulsion: Plus-Plus Relationships of Pain Documents as Implements of Torture Bureaucracy’s Essence: GendeRace Response to Bureaucracy: Bracketing Impossible Articulation, Impossible Agency Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, Welfare, and Single Mothers Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a Welfare Mother Chapter 6. The Price of National Security Knafoland—The End This Is Exactly What We Did Epilogue: Israel, Summer 2011 Afterword(s): Gaza 2014 and the Mizraḥi Predicament Bureaucratic Torture: When Agency Becomes Impossible Agency Torture One People One Heart: The War on Gaza 2014 The New Black Panthers, or HaLo Neḥmadim Ḥok HaHesderim 2014 Labor Hill B-Jamusin The Ḥamas Salary Fiasco Operation Brother’s Keeper The War on Gaza—Protective Edge Under the Smokescreen of War Elections 2015: The Center Moves Further to the Right The Mizraḥi Cultural Renaissance The Steady Drumbeat of Eternal Return Acknowledgments Notes Glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish Terms References Index

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Book Synopsis2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman’s presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these “angels of the home” began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women’s work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women’s movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married anTrade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminar. It is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."—Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm"This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."—Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review“In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico“Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”—Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New EnglandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Graphs and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work” 2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s 3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City 4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City 5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s 6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s 7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWomen, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 tells the story of how women’s bodies were at the center of the international politics of women’s rights in the postwar period.Giusi Russo focuses on the United Nation Commission on the Status of Women and its multiple interactions with the colonial and postcolonial worlds, showing how—depending on the setting and the inquiry—liberal, imperial, and transnational feminisms could coexist. Russo suggests that in the early stages of identifying discriminating agents in women’s lives, UN commissioners overlooked the nation-state and went through a process of fighting discrimination without identifying the discriminator. However, it was the focus on empire that allowed for a clear identification of how gender constructs were instrumental to state politics and the exclusion of women. An emphasis on colonial practices also generated a focus on the body and radically shiftedTrade Review"In recent years, a new wave of histories has documented the broad range and reach of women’s interventions in the international arena in the twentieth century. Giusi Russo’s Women, Empires, and Body Politics provides a welcome addition to this literature, exploring how women from a wide variety of countries engaged with the formal mechanisms created by the United Nations (UN) in the years before International Women’s Year (1975). Russo focuses, in particular, on the records of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), an archive that had largely been untapped to date."—Nicole C. Bourbonnais, Women's History Review"Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 constitutes a very significant contribution to the study of the UN's gender politics, imperial feminism, and Cold War history, which will equally interest historians of women's and gender history and historians working on the global Cold War."—Chiara Bonfiglioli, H-Diplo“Giusi Russo sheds light on the pivotal and until-now-overlooked role the UN Commission on the Status of Women played in defining international women’s rights between 1946 and 1975. During this era of the Cold War, decolonization, and economic development, the CSW developed the blueprint for what was later popularized as ‘women’s rights are human rights.’ . . . Demonstrating the inextricable links between ‘body politics’ and international politics, Russo’s book fills important gaps in global feminist, foreign relations, and human rights histories.”—Katherine M. Marino, author of Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement“An astute analysis. Giusi Russo provides a chronology of the emergence of body politics and the move from public (civic and political equality) to private (marriage and reproduction) discrimination that characterized this lingering period of imperial feminism. Russo has produced a theoretically sophisticated work that moves the discussion of feminisms in new directions by centering the Global South during and after colonial occupation.”—Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Women of the World: Visible and Invisible Bodies 2. Imperial Encounters and Occupied Bodies 3. Cold War, Competing Womanhood, and Bodies in the Microcosm 4. The Sacred Trust and the Body in Pain 5. Bodily Rituals and the Dialectic of Foreign and Local Voices 6. Bodies in Captivity, Gender Equilibrium, and the Shift from Liberal Politics 7. Reproducing the Nation and the Right to Control One’s Destiny Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTwenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women's Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela in 2010; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed. A Game of Their Own chronicles the largely invisible history of women in baseball and offers an account of the 2010 Women's World Cup tournament.Trade Review“A Game of Their Own provides a reminder that although Title IX has helped create more opportunities for girls and women in sports, ‘the segregated masculinity of baseball’ still intimidates all but the strongest and most resilient girls and women who’ve chosen baseball as their game.”—Bill Littlefield, on WBUR’s Only a Game “A Game of Their Own reveals a thrilling and too-long-hidden part of our collective sports history. We owe Jennifer Ring a debt of gratitude for assembling this terrific text. We owe a similar debt to the women in these pages who fiercely and rebelliously love a sport that for too long has refused to return their affections. I don’t think a person can say they have a comprehensive sports history library without the inclusion of A Game of Their Own.”—Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation “Fascinating.”—Huffington Post "This revealing book, which makes an important contribution to sports and women's history, will interest anyone curious about an overlooked segment of amateur athletics."—Craig Clark, Booklist“I would recommend the book to those interested in baseball, sports history, gender and women’s studies but also to those who are interested in culture and sociology and how one sport in particular which could easily be open to girls and boys, has managed to discriminate against girls and women for decades through tight control, culture, and legacy.”—Ellen Bartages, AETHLON: Journal of Sports Literature"A Game of Their Own is an engaging and well-written chronicle of women's baseball in the United States."—Maria J. Veri, Journal of Sport History"More than just the content or message, what I really believe makes this book very good is Ring's writing. Her style captures the emotions and heart of each player instead of just reporting on what they did on the field. If nothing else, for that reason alone everyone who reads baseball books should add this one to their libraries."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“Ring does not bring comfort to those comfortable with the status quo in baseball. She raises tough questions and follows up with a poignant account of the girls and women who must continue to fight for their place on the field. Meticulously researched, eloquently told.”—Jean Hastings Ardell, author of Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime “Jennifer Ring has written a book that fills a painful gap in baseball history. It is so much more than the story of the playing careers of a group of ballplayers. It is an examination, through the words of the players themselves, of their trials and struggles to be accepted as ballplayers.”—Leslie Heaphy, associate professor of history at Kent State University at Stark and coeditor of Encyclopedia of Women in BaseballTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Baseball and American Women1. The Dream and Its Challenges2. Cary, 20103. From Cary to CaracasPart 2. The Veterans4. Tamara Holmes5. Donna Mills6. Jenny Dalton HillPart 3. Softball and Baseball Players7. Tara Harbert8. Veronica Alvarez9. Sarah Gascon10. Jenna MarstonPart 4. Baseball Girls11. Malaika Underwood12. Marti Sementelli13. Lilly Jacobson14. Meggie MeidlingerPart 5. Gender Segregation, Equality, and Women’s Baseball15. America’s Team16. Grassroots Women’s Baseball17. USA BaseballAppendix A: Player Interview QuestionsAppendix B: USA Baseball Women’s National Team Rosters and Current Women’s Baseball Leagues and Teams in the United StatesNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of how citizenship was lived, practiced, and deployed by women in France in the modern period, Practiced Citizenship demonstrates how gender normativity and the resulting constraints placed on women nevertheless created opportunities for a renegotiation of the social and sexual contract.Trade Review"Remarkably cohesive and consistent in tone and writing quality, Practiced Citizenship is historiography at its finest."—Hope Christiansen, French Review"There is much to commend in this volume, not least the extensive research that underpins each essay. Its central concept of “citizenship as practice” enables a diverse exploration of the ways in which women carved out spaces for themselves in the social domain and were far from silent, especially on issues about which their womanhood gave them some particular interest under the gender norms of the day. Several chapters show how successful they were in influencing policy and shaping politics, even if they could not formulate policy or vote.This approach gives complexity to the notion of “citizenship” and highlights the different interpretations that can be applied to it."—Susan Foley, H-France Review“Practiced Citizenship takes the issue of women’s citizenship, most often discussed theoretically by political scientists, and gives it concrete substance based on the activism and activities of women across almost two centuries of French history. The ramifications and the lessons to be learned go beyond the borders of France to help inform our understanding of women’s citizenship more generally. Rich in new archival research and work with primary sources, this volume shows the civic, political, and social activism and activities of women from all social classes. Quite a feat.”—Bonnie Smith, Board of Governors Distinguished Emerita Professor of History at Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword by Johnson Kent Wright Introduction Nimisha Barton and Richard Hopkins 1. “Patriotic Discipline”: Cloistered Behinds, Public Judgment, and Female Violence in Revolutionary Paris Katie Jarvis 2. Restoring the Royal Family: Marie-Thérèse and the Family Politics of the Early Restoration Victoria E. Thompson 3. Gender, Immigration, and the Everyday Practice of Social Citizenship Nimisha Barton 4. Hospital Policies, Family Agency, and Mothers at l’Hôpital Sainte-Eugénie, 1855–1875 000 Stephanie McBride-Schreiner 5. Illustrations as Good as Any Slides: Women’s Activist Social Novels and the French Search for Social Reform, 1880–1914 Jean Elisabeth Pedersen 6. French Girls Are the Most Desired: Organizing against the White Slave Trade in the Belle Epoque Eliza Earle Ferguson 7. Vérine, the Ecole des Parents, and the Politics of Gender, Reaction, and the Family, 1929–1944 Cheryl A. Koos 8. Politics, Money, and Distrust: French-American Alliances in the International Campaign for Women’s Equal Rights, 1925–1930 Sara L. Kimble Afterword by Elinor A. Accampo Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn This Fish Is FowlXu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary“glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries of residence, she writes her way around the globe. Caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s in Hong Kong becomes the rhythmic accompaniment to an enforced, long-term, long-distance relationship with her partner and home in New York. In between Xu reflects on all her selves, which are defined by those myriad monikers of existence. As an author who began life as a novelist and fiction writer, she also considers the nature of genre, which snakes its way through these essays. In her linguistic trip across the comic tragedy that is globalism, she wonders Trade Review"A whirlwind, wise introduction to the complicated joys of multiculturalism, This Fish Is Fowl is intensely personal yet fully engaged with the world, celebrating our differences as well as our shared universal experiences."—Foreword Reviews, starred"Broad-ranging, introspective, and honest essays that reveal a fine writer's experiences, mind, and heart."—Kirkus"Throughout these broad-ranging and honest essays, Xi wonders about humanity and the future of our world. She explores her cultural and family identity as well as past experiences. . . . Xi reminds us of the true meanings of identity and belonging, while celebrating all our differences."—Anita Nham, Hippocampus Magazine“There is absolutely no one like Xu Xi. To read these smart, inventive, and always surprising essays is to be given a passport to a transnational perspective the world sorely needs at this moment. Xu Xi’s sense of identity: Indonesian/Chinese/American/Hong Kong is not mixed up (though she likes to label herself a ‘mongrel’), but expansive. Identity for her has almost nothing to do with borders but with a kind of echolocation—sending forth her speculations on what it means to be a traveler, a daughter, a life partner, a woman in order to determine a shifting but remarkable path through geographies of being.”—Robin Hemley, founder of NonfictioNOW and author of A Field Guide for Immersion Writing“In an age of willful ignorance, parochialism, and a dominant prose style typified by misspelled tweets, Xu Xi’s writing is smart, international, and fluid. She navigates smoothly between not only countries and continents but, perhaps hardest of all, family members. Here the personal isn’t just political; it’s global. And, most important, deeply compassionate.”—Sue William Silverman, author of The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew“This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being explores the life of one whose shredded passport is never large enough to hold it all. Woven into skillful family story are topics ranging from the status of Dreamers in the U.S. to the ‘crying city’ of Hong Kong after the Occupy Movement, all dancing around the question of what it means to belong. With so many countries gripped by a new and brutal nationalism, Xu Xi reminds us there is another side—a world lived by many between a blur of borders. Part breezy, leaping memoir, part social commentary, this book adds a crucial chapter to the old story of national identity.”—Susanne Antonetta, author of Make Me a Mother and A Mind ApartTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsOn Being To Be American Why I Stopped Being Chinese Citizenship BG: The Significant Years Default Home Letter from America Winter Moon The Summers of My Discontent The Crying CityMum and Me Typhoon Mum Maternity Leave My Mother’s Story: The Fiction and Fact Mum and Me Precarious Precision Journeys through Past Times: A Norwich Narrative Home Base And Then, Filial Time Off-Season with Snake Waiting Women For As Long As We Both Shall LiveWo/man Roars Feminism and Faith On Being Fowl: Notes on Some Explorations in Home Economics Concubine LoveOrigins A Ledge, a Nun The English of My Story Ambition Game The Book That Saved My Writing Life To Loaf, or How Not to Write a CV This Door Is Close By Any Other Name

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Book SynopsisConveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig, a Spanish instructor, and Martha Florinda González, a Mayan community leader living in Nebraska, have gathered the oral histories of contemporary Mayan women living in the state.Trade Review"[The Mayans Among Us] is an essential read to understand modern Mayan women and issues they face. All students and experts of Latin America and Mayan civilization must read it."—Washington Book Review“This book makes for a fascinating read. Sittig and González help us understand the points of view of an almost invisible population. The stories of the Mayans, huge and heartbreaking stories, increase our moral imaginations. I wish this were required reading for all our politicians and policy makers. I recommend it to all who yearn to understand the America we live in today.”—Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community “Ann L. Sittig and Martha Florinda González offer an instructive and significant depiction of the changes of work, religion, place, and life in small-town Nebraska.”—Elaine Carey, associate professor of history at St. John’s University and author of Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Guatemala: Life before Emigration2. Guatemalan Civil War and Postwar Rebuilding3. The Journey to El Norte4. Religious Practice and Community Life in Nebraska5. Mayans and Meatpacking in NebraskaConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Telltale Women is an important book that will set the terms of scholarly inquiry on these matters for years to come."—Katherine Goodland, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal"Allison Machlis Meyer provides a welcome intervention in a nexus of divergent fields—source studies, feminist criticism, and historiography. By considering the shifting ways in which early modern queens have been represented across genres, Meyer offers a new treatment of the relationship between historical narratives and history plays, making a case for the ways in which history writing—in all of its myriad forms—wrestles productively with larger cultural desires."—Emma Katherine Atwood, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England"The treatment of histories and plays as intertexts is an exciting, fresh approach that offers new insights and approaches to history scholars."—E. A. Nicol, Choice“Allison Machlis Meyer’s thoughtful and compelling book has in effect given the field two studies it needs badly: an analysis of women’s political roles in early modern narrative historiography and a new examination of how these roles are transformed—and limited—in dramatic representation.”—Dan Breen, associate professor of English at Ithaca College“Meyer’s historically alert and rhetorically savvy argument introduces a novel approach to source studies. Lucidly and engagingly she attends to long-term developments of the early modern chronicle and historical drama genres while richly delineating the contexts of the early authors’ political and personal allegiances and rivalries. Students of gender and book history alike will benefit from this insightful study of the shaping of cultural attitudes toward the political agency of royal women and their use for the consolidation of a citizen-centered English nation.”—Kirilka Stavreva, professor of English at Cornell College and author of Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern EnglandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Early Modern Royal Women and the Historical Record 1. A Very Prey to Time: Rewriting Elizabeths in Tudor Historiography and William Shakespeare’s Richard III 2. Your Hope Is Gone: Narrowing the Nation in The True Tragedy of Richard III and Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV 3. From a Noble Lady to an Unnatural Queen: Imagining Queen Isabel in Chronicle History and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II 4. So Masculine a Stile: Gender and Genre in Elizabeth Cary’s The History of Edward II 5. You Must Be King of Me: Queens and Rivals in Francis Bacon’s The History of King Henry VII and John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck Coda: Double Drowned in the Gulf of Forgetfulness Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of illegal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California’s anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Trade Review"[From Back Alley to the Border] effectively challenges readers to consider how legal and social frameworks come together to constrict people's reproductive autonomy both in the past and in the present."—Natalie Lira, California History“In this first history about the underground abortion network in the west, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine explores abortion providers and those who sought them during the anti-abortion statute era in California. Well-researched and accessible, this volume illustrates how the past truly informs the future.”—Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine“Gutierrez-Romine’s story of the [Pacific Coast Abortion Ring] offers fascinating insight into an elaborate crime syndicate that also provided women with an essential medical procedure.”—Jennifer L. Holland, Pacific Historical Review"Well-written and accessible to students, this book bears ample witness to the fact that although access to abortion (legal or illegal) can change drastically through time, the desperate need for the service does not."—A. H. Koblitz, Choice“Gutierrez-Romine’s important book on illegal abortion reminds us that those who have historically been labelled as ‘criminals’ cannot—and should not—be understood outside the context of the society and the circumstances in which they lived.”—Erin N. Bush, assistant professor of U.S. and digital history at the University of North Georgia“Alicia Gutierrez-Romine skillfully walks the reader through the complicated world of criminal abortion and, in the process, reveals how racialized logics, changing family values, and evolving legal frameworks created the post–Roe v. Wade world we inherited. This transnational account offers rich historical context while insightfully illuminating dozens of fascinating individual stories of women’s choice—and lack thereof. From Back Alley to the Border is an urgent and eloquently argued contribution to contemporary debates about the value of life, family, and reproductive freedom.”—Suzanna Krivulskaya, assistant professor of history at California State University, San MarcosTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. From Back Alley: Butchers and the Underworld 2. Regular Physicians, Irregular Circumstances: Loopholes and Scandals 3. Inconceivable Blackness: Race, Medicine, and Contraception 4. “The Mid-Wife Type”: Wicked Women Abortionists 5. The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring: Organized Crime and Criminal Ambitions 6. After PCAR: Surveillance, Repression, and Restriction 7. To the Border: “Tijuana Abortions” and Legal Vagueness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPathologies of Love examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the querelle des femmes, in early modern France. Questions concerning women’s physical makeup and its psychological and moral consequences played an integral role in the querelle. This debate on the status of women and their role in society began in the fifteenth century and continued through the sixteenth and, as many critics would say, well beyond.In querelle works early modern medicine, women’s sexual difference, literary reception, and gendered language often merge. Literary authors perpetuated medical ideas such as the notion of allegedly fatal lovesickness, and physicians published works that included disquisitions on the moral nature of women. In Pathologies of Love, Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in tTrade Review"This study offers insight into the interlocking domains of literary history, medicine and gender in early modern France."—Alexandra Verini, Early Modern Women“An important and engaging book, Pathologies of Love examines the role played by received ideas on erotic diseases—from lovesickness to syphilis—in the early modern debates known as the querelle des femmes. . . . Accessible, thought provoking, and informative, this volume will prove essential reading for anyone interested in early modern medicine, gender studies, and literature.”—Nancy Frelick, associate professor of French studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver “The volume’s careful study of subjects as diverse as courtly love, early modern medicine’s perceptions of women, and questions of interpretation of sixteenth-century discourse and literature is a substantial and welcome contribution to the existing scholarship on women and their evolving role in early modern society.”—Leanna Bridge Rezvani, Department of Global Studies and Languages at MITTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Early Modern Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes 1. Love or Seduction? Christine de Pizan’s Legacy from the Querelle de la Rose to the Querelle des Femmes 2. From Physical to Spiritual Love: Molinet’s Romant de la rose moralisé (1500) and the Querelle des Femmes 3. Platonic Love, Marriage, and Infertility in Symphorien Champier’s Nef des princes (1502) and Nef des dames (1503) 4. Love and Death in Lemaire’s Couronne Margaritique and the Trois contes de Cupido et d’Atropos: Excessive Grief and the Great Pox 5. Fatal Lovesickness in Marguerite de Navarre’s Quatre dames et quatre gentilzhommes and the Heptaméron Conclusion: From Courtly Love to Fatal Lovesickness Appendix 1: Works in the Querelle de la Rose and the Querelle des Femmes (1240–1673) Appendix 2: Major Early Modern Medical Authorities, Translators, and Commentators Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGendered Citizenship explores how the original ERA conflict served as the vehicle through which Americans not only forged new conceptions of citizenship, but also renewed the justification for sex-specific treatment.Trade Review"Gendered Citizenship sheds important light on the mid-twentieth-century ERA conflict, exposing some of its forgotten dimensions."—Katherine Turk, American Historical Review"The great contribution made by Rebecca DeWolf in Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963 lies in the granular detail she provides about the way the amendment evolved in the early 1920s and why it took the shape it did."—Glenna Matthews, California History"This book's substantial strength lies in its detailed and lucid accounting of the myriad actors, organizations, institutions, laws, and court rulings that shaped the ERA's fortunes in the period from 1920 to 1963, an era given less attention by historians. DeWolf's prodigious research reveals both the complexity and the extent of activism surrounding the Era and situates its trajectory solidly within wider historical contexts."—Lynne Curry, Journal of American History"DeWolf's well-researched history emphasizes the ongoing significance of the conflict a century ago for politics today and will be of interest for graduate students and scholars of the subject, as well as educated readers with a passion for legal and political history."—Nancy Elizabeth Baker, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Gendered Citizenship is a must-read for history lovers, policy wonks, women's rights activists, and anyone else interested in how the U.S. government can support gender equality."—Rebecca Brenner Graham, Society for U.S. Intellectual History"Although this book is on the ERA, it does go into other laws that affected women, especially their employment opportunities. Read it as a general review of public policy on women, especially at the federal level up to 1963. Then imagine how different things would have been if the ERA had been ratified several decades ago."—Jo Freeman, seniorwomen.com“Like the sun peeking through the clouds, Rebecca DeWolf’s groundbreaking book clears the fog that has long surrounded the Equal Rights Amendment. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why the ERA is not yet law would be well advised to read this book.”—Johanna Neuman, author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote“By tracing the origins of the ERA from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to 1963, DeWolf offers a deep legal and judicial review of the debate around what constitutes equality under the law and the very nature of citizenship.”—Page Harrington, former executive director of the National Woman’s Party at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument“Rebecca DeWolf has brought us a meticulously researched and vividly detailed account of the original ERA conflict that provides readers with rich context to trace how the arguments against gender equality of nearly a century ago continue to shape our cultural attitudes about the role and duties of women in the domestic sphere today.”—Betsy Fischer Martin, executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University“Rebecca DeWolf has given us a book we desperately need—perhaps now more than ever. In Gendered Citizenship DeWolf peels back the layers of conflict surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment . . . to the core question regarding the true scope of American citizenship that arose in the wake of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment securing women’s suffrage in 1920.”—Angie Maxwell, author of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Equal Rights Amendment and American Citizenship 1. The Radical Nineteenth Amendment: Masculine Citizenship and Women’s Status 2. “The Right to Differ”: The Power of Protectionism, 1920–1932 3. “To Be Regarded as Persons”: Emancipationism on the Move, 1933–1937 4. “We Women Want to Be Persons Now”: The Rise of Emancipationism, 1938–1945 5. “Motherhood Cannot Be Amended”: The Return of Protectionism in the Postwar Era 6. “Socially Desirable Concepts”: The Triumph of Protectionism, 1947–1963 Epilogue: The Legacy of Protectionism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge''s standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today.—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research JournalBury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege.Midge ponders Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slicTrade Review“This uproarious, truth-telling collection of satirical essays skewer[s] everything from white feminism to ‘Pretendians’ to pumpkin spice. Midge, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, muses bitingly on life as a Native woman in America, staring colonialism and racism in the face wherever she finds them, from offensive Halloween costumes to exploitative language. This collection’s deliciously sharp edges draw laughter and blood alike.”—Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire “Midge is a hilarious satirical essayist and nonfiction writer, and her work brings all the laughs. But they are ‘thinky’ laughs, because the humor doubles back on itself and makes you see so much about modern Native American life in a new way.”—David Treuer, Los Angeles Times “Midge is a wry, astute charmer with an eye for detail and an ear for the scruffy rhythms of American lingo.”—Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "[A] cornucopia of literary brilliance. The Standing Rock Sioux writer’s wickedly funny autobiography offers laugh-out-loud passages alongside compassionate profiles, bitter sarcasm, and heartbreaking chronicles. Each of the memoirs are short yet potent, compelling the reader to continue while paradoxically causing one to pause to reflect on Midge’s astute observations. Every entry is so well-crafted that the only disappointment you’ll find is when you realize you’ve read them all. Then again, this is a book that demands to be reread."—Ryan Winn, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education"If you're wondering why the presence of Andrew Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office is offensive, this is your book."—Kirkus"Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is timely reading for the fall season, with Midge suggesting "Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes," and proclaiming "Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving." Treat yourself to a fast-moving correction of any vestiges you may have of the stoic, unsmiling Native stereotype and enjoy at least a Tweet or a one-liner from Tiffany Midge. You’re sure to learn something as you laugh."—Jan Hardy, Back in the Stacks"This collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge's standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today."—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"[Midge's] no-b.s., take-no-prisoners approach is likely to resound with twenty-something readers, but the older crowd ought to give Midge a look, too."—Joan Curbow, Booklist"Abundant with brilliant satire."—Shelf Awareness“Tiffany Midge is the kind of funny that can make the same joke funny over and over again. Which means, of course, that she is wicked smart, and sly, and that she has her hand on the pulse of the culture in a Roxane Gay-ish way, only funnier, and that she has our number, your number, and my number too, all of our numbers. Which means she is our teacher, if we let her be.”—Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism. It is perhaps the funniest nonfiction collection I have ever read. But it is much more than funny: it is moving, honest, and painful as well, and looks at the absurdities of modern America. Midge’s collection is so good it could raise Iron Eyes Cody from the grave and make him laugh till he cries.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Table of ContentsForeword by Geary Hobson Part I: My Origin Story Is a Cross between “Call Me Ishmael,” a Few Too Many Whiskey Sours Packed in an Old Thermos at the Drive-In Double Feature, and That Little Voice That Says, “You Got This” Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s Headlines Part II: Instead of a “Raised by Wolves” T-Shirt, Mine Says “Raised by Functioning Alcoholics with Intimacy Phobias & Low Self-Esteem” The Jimmy Report My Name Is Moonbeam McSwine The Siam Sequences Part III: Micro (Aggression) Memoirs First World (Story) Problems: Brown Girl Multiple Choice Edition Tweets as Assigned Texts for Native American Studies Course Ghoul, Interrupted Part IV: Garsh Durn It! You Say Patriarchy, I Say Patri-Malarkey, Dollars to Donuts Cuckoo Banana Pants, You Gals & Your Lady Power This ’n’ That An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Historical Amnesia Fertility Rites Wonder Woman Hits Theaters, Smashes Patriarchy Jame Gumb, Hero and Pioneer of the Fat-Positivity Movement Post-Election Message to the 53 Percent Committee of Barnyard Swine to Determine Fate for Women’s Health Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and under Certain Conditions) An Open Letter to White Girls Regarding Pumpkin Spice and Cultural Appropriation Part V: Me, Cutting in Front of All the People in All of the Lines Forever: “It’s Okay, I Literally Was Here First” #DecolonizedAF Thousands of Jingle Dress Dancers Magically Appear at Standing Rock Protector Site Satire Article Goes Viral on Day of 2016 Presidential Election Results Attack of the Fifty-Foot (Lakota) Woman Minnesota Art Gallery to Demolish “Indian Uprisings” Exhibit after Caucasian Community Protest Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats Li-Li-Li-Li-Land, Standing Rock the Musical! Part VI: Merciless Indian Savages? Try Merciless Indian Fabulous! Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series Fifty Shades of Buckskin Conversations with My Lakota Mom Feast Smudge Snag Eight Types of Native Moms Part VII: “Shill the Pretendian, Unfav the Genuine” Is the 2018 Remix of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” Red like Me: I Knew Rachel Dolezal Back When She Was Indigenous A List of Alternative Identities to Try for Fun and Profit I Have White Bread Privilege Things Pseudo-Native Authors Have Claimed to Be but Actually Are Not You Might Be a Pretendian Part VIII: I Watched Woman Walks Ahead and Frankly Was Offended by the Cookie-Cutter, Stereotypical Portrayal of the Menacing White Soldier Reel Indians Don’t Eat Quiche: The Fight for Authentic Roles in Hollywood Are You There, Christmas? It’s Me, Carol! Post-Election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition West Wing World Part IX: The Native Americans Used EVERY Part of the Sacred Turkey Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving Clown Costumes Banned, Racist Native American Halloween Costumes Still Okay Thanksgiving Shopping at Costco: I Just Can’t Even Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes Part X: BREAKING NEWS—Your Neighbor Who Said, “Whoa, Dude, This Whole Trump Thing’s, Like, So Fricken Surreal,” Might Actually Be on to Something Step Right Up, Folks Trump Pardons Zombie Apocalypse There’s Something about Andrew Jackson Trump Administration to Repeal Bison as First National Mammal President Trump Scheduled for Whirlwind Tour to Desecrate World’s Treasures Part XI: The Trump Administration’s Pop-Up, Coloring, Scratch ’n’ Sniff, Edible, and Radioactive Activity Book You’ve Got Mail! Executive Order Requiring All Americans Take Up Cigarettes by End of 2017 The Wild West (Wing) and Wild Bill Hiccup Give a Chump a Chance Ars Poetica by Donald J. Trump Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as “Princess Red Wing,” St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the United States. Today St. Cyr is known for her portrayal of Naturich in Cecile B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914); although DeMille claimed to have “discovered the little Indian girl,” the viewing public had already long adored her as a petite, daredevil Indian heroine. She befriended and worked with icons such as Mary Pickford, Jewell Carmen, Tom Mix, Max Sennett, and William Selig. Born on the Winnebago Reservation in 1884 and orphaned in 1888, she spent ten years in Indian boarding schools before graduating from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1902. She married James Young Johnson, and in Trade Review"This lively biography pays long overdue tribute to a forgotten star of the silent era while celebrating Native American contributions to the motion picture industry."—Kirkus Reviews"Although Waggoner herself suggests Starring Red Wing! is not an academic text, scholars of Native studies, film studies, women's studies, and beyond will find St. Cyr's biography and filmography . . . a valuable contribution to scholarship in their fields."—Amy S. Fatzinger, Native American and Indigenous Studies"Relying on careful and copious research, Waggoner skillfully weaves St. Cyr's story with that of early American film and Native American history. . . . Too few people know St. Cyr's name—Waggoner rectifies that wrong, training a spotlight on an icon of early film who broke through barriers."—Carolyn M. Mulac, Library Journal"Building on her expertise in Ho-Chunk history, Waggoner paints an intimate portrait that also successfully illuminates the worlds Red Wing (1884–1974) inhabited as a pathbreaking Indian celebrity."—Andrew H. Fisher, New Mexico Historical Review"Linda Waggoner's biography takes us on a journey through the life of Lilian St. Cyr and shows the reader how this innovative woman reinvented herself repeatedly, during an era when not even white women exercised complete agency over their lives. In becoming Red Wing, she managed to free herself of her "Indian place" and her feminine limitations. She traveled, performed, produced, and made a name for herself, both with and without a husband. She was the remarkable heroine of her own life."—Noemi Hernandez Alexander, California History"Linda Waggoner provides us with another splendid biography of a Ho-Chunk woman."—Liza Black, Western Historical Quarterly"For a vivid portray of early filmmaking history and a groundbreaking Native Nebraska-born actress’s role in it, this is a worthwhile read."—Andrea I. Faling, Nebraska History“This life of the groundbreaking Winnebago actress, the first Native American film star, joins staggering research with a story full of ambition, courage, and true grit. Linda Waggoner’s smartly written book recounts the early history of racial representation on the silver screen before Hollywood became a household word. Her story of a talented Native actor, along with a vivid portrayal of the silent film era, make this a probing, satisfying, and utterly unique read.”—Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn “In this profoundly thoughtful biography, Linda Waggoner reveals how Lilian St. Cyr’s astonishing life as a performer and activist helped to shape Native identities in modern America. Waggoner’s deeply researched and carefully written account reminds us that if St. Cyr was best known as an early Native film star, she was also fiercely devoted to Indigenous causes and spent decades defending and promoting Native interests. This nuanced book recalls the enormous importance of one of the twentieth century’s most important Native women.”—Clyde Ellis, professor of history at Elon University and author of A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern PlainsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Lilian Margaret St. Cyr of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Chapter 2: Ochsegahonegah at the Lincoln Institute Chapter 3: Role Models and Visitors Chapter 4: Home and Away Again Chapter 5: James Young Johnson and Family Secrets Chapter 6: Princess Red Wing and Young Deer Chapter 7: Edendale, California Chapter 8: New Careers with Pathé Frères Chapter 9: Leaving Young Deer Chapter 10: Keeping Up with the Competition Chapter 11: The Calm before the Storm Chapter 12: Young Deer and the White Slavery Ring Chapter 13: Cecil B. DeMille and The Squaw Man Chapter 14: In the Days of the Thundering Herd Chapter 15: Ramona and Home Again Chapter 16: Lilia Red Wing on Tour and the Visual Education Movement Chapter 17: The Metropolitan Group of American Indians Chapter 18: Fare Thee Well and Hollywood Reunion Chapter 19: The Moon Shines on Pretty Red Wing Appendix A: Lilian Margaret St. Cyr Family Appendix B: James Young Johnson Family Appendix C: Red Wing’s Filmography, 1908–1931 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMolly McClain presents a biography of Ellen Browning Scripps, an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, social reformer, and philanthropist who made her fortune in the rapidly expanding Scripps chain of newspapers and used her wealth and influence to support philanthropic causes. Trade Review“What a life! Ellen Browning Scripps made an astonishing amount of money, lived a very long time, and gave millions away. In doing so, she changed the landscape of the far West and earned for herself a pivotal place in American philanthropy. This fine book gives Scripps her due.”—William Deverell, director of the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West “[Ellen Browning Scripps’s] progressive legacy undergirds the best of San Diego. This compelling book breaks the glass ceiling in the genre of Southern California biographies.”—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles “McClain tells Scripps’s story with verve, suggesting that her example of modest living and exorbitant giving has many lessons for our own gilded age.”—Rebecca Jo Plant, associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego “A skillful and loving tribute to Ellen Browning Scripps, one of America’s least-known yet influential philanthropists. This is the inspiring true story of how one person has made a difference in the world.”—William Lawrence, executive director of the San Diego History Center “McClain’s biography of Ellen Browning Scripps isn’t just about a beloved San Diego philanthropist. . . . [It] is also a history of women’s fight for equality, the rise of mass-market media, Detroit as a booming industrial center, and San Diego as an upstart West Coast center of innovation. Scripps appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the 1920s and she still warrants attention nearly a century later.”—Roger Showley, staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune “McClain’s biography of this remarkable philanthropist and journalist is a gift to all readers.”—Hannah S. Cohen, coauthor of Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneer to the PresentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology 1. A Lapsed Victorian 2. The Evening News 3. The Realm of Queen Calafia 4. A Young Jewel 5. A Cold Shower of Gold 6. Down to the Sea 7. Old Age, New Age 8. A Feminist Speaks Out 9. Sweet Virginia 10. Educating Girls 11. The Playground and Community House 12. South Molton Villa 13. The Sinews of War 14. Still Roaring in the 1920s 15. Educating Women Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOver the five decades of her writing career, Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. Cather Studies, Volume 12 shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions.Trade Review"Willa Cather and the Arts reveals a writer deeply embedded in, and curious about, her geographical, historical, and cultural moment."—Maura D'Amore, Great Plains Quarterly"The collected essays within volume 12 of Cather Studies offer an invaluable addition to every Cather scholar's library—just as it presents fresh and readable new insights for the more casual Cather enthusiast."—Kim Vanderlaan, American Literary Realism"A must for Cather readers."—N. Birns, Choice"This twelfth volume of Cather Studies continues an active conversation in Cather scholarship about the writer’s engagement with artistic traditions, such as painting and opera. One solid strength of this particular collection . . . is its expansive definition of the arts in Cather’s work—inclusive of both traditional arts like painting and music as well as domestic arts, Black vernacular in poetry, illustrations, and consumer objects."—Holly Blackford, Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Willa Cather and the ArtsGuy J. Reynolds1. “A Lot of Things”: The Value of the Vernacular in Shadows on the RockDiane Prenatt2. “Down by de Canebrake”: Willa Cather, Sterling A. Brown, and the Racialized VernacularJanis P. Stout3. The Singer as Artist: Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Artist’s VoiceSarah L. Young4. Cather’s Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late FictionJohn H. Flannigan5. Memory and Image: Graphemics for a New Frontier Icon in My ÁntoniaJoyce Kessler6. “Paul’s Case” and Pittsburgh: Industry and Art in the Great Manufacturing TownJames A. Jaap7. Under the White Mulberry Tree: Food and Artistry in Cather’s OrchardsStephanie Tsank8. “The Passionless Bride”: Love, Loss, and Lucretius in The Professor’s HouseMatthew Hokum9. Advertising Willa Cather as ProductErika K. HamiltonContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson re-members and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.Trade Review"Both relatable and scholarly, this is a fascinating and original study."—T. L. Stowell, Choice“The particular significance of this rich scholarship is the way it foregrounds and uplifts music, movement, dance, and cultural practice in the long, complex, and astonishing story of struggle, resilience, imagination, survival, and innovation among African diasporic people. The movement detailed and the role of story, percussion, and sound offer histories/herstories of people continuously facing unspeakable brutalities and invasions of the body and soul, who will always continue to live their ancestries, their cultures, and the maps of their souls in folklore and in the physical world. This is rich, essential work.”—Kathy Engel, poet and associate arts professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University“It is not only the breadth and range of the scholars referenced in this book that has me awestruck but the amount of material covered that is impressive. It yields a fresh perspective on familiar material and a creative perspective in linking genres together in time periods and places never before charted. This is a brilliant and original work.”—Kariamu Welsh, director of the Institute for African Dance Research and PerformanceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Past and Prologue as Prelude: Eurydice’s Black Flight 1. The Way We Do: An Introductory Mapping 2. Juba Danced: Following a Story in Motion 3. The Ancestors and the Lullaby: Passing It On 4. Put Your Hands on Your Hips: Rites of Passage in Performance 5. Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: Work Songs and the Blues Coda: Circling Back Around Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change.Trade Review"In an entanglement of opinions and assumptions, Greenwald thoroughly iterates the principal arguments and struggles of this time and any scholar researching feminism, or perhaps simply a curious reader, would do well to pick up this book."—Celina Vargas, French Review"Scholars of twentieth-century feminist history on both sides of the Atlantic will want to take note of Lisa Greenwald's comprehensive account of the ideological debates that underpinned feminist-led public policy changes in postwar France."—Sandra Reineke, American Historical Review“‘Femininity and womanhood had long been expressions of women’s power and the root of their identity in French society,’ writes Lisa Greenwald. Her lively, smart, and thoroughly researched book shows how those terms—and the power arrangements and identities they stood for—were revised, reinterpreted, and repudiated. . . . The fiftieth anniversary of May ’68 will direct new attention to its powerful aftershocks. Feminism was one of those aftershocks, and Greenwald’s book will be part of our reappraisal of this historical moment.”In an entanglement of opinions and assumptions, Greenwald thoroughly iterates the principal arguments and struggles of this time and any scholar researching feminism, or perhaps simply a curious reader, would do well to pick up this book. Judith G. Coffin, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin“Lisa Greenwald introduces anglophone audiences to the breadth and depth of second-wave feminism in France. Her bold analysis encompasses much more than theory by restoring to us the complexity of the activist components of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes.”—Karen Offen, senior scholar, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University“Finally! In her remarkable book on the history of French feminism after World War II, Lisa Greenwald restores overlooked feminist activists of the 1950s and 1960s to their rightful place. Embedding them in their changing historical context, Greenwald follows feminism through upheaval and fracture after 1968, exploring both the unresolved dilemmas and the profound changes feminists brought about.”—Sarah Fishman, associate dean for undergraduate studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston“A solid and well-documented investigation into the Women’s Liberation Movement in France: its actions, its components, its relations with previous generations, and its painful internal conflicts. It reveals the very important role played by radical and materialist feminists. It is an effective antidote against the invention of ‘French feminism’ by some American scholars.”—Sylvie Chaperon, professor of contemporary and gender history at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Laboratory FRAMESPA“This is the book you need in order to grasp the complex history of French Second-Wave Feminism.”—Bibia Pavard, senior lecturer in history, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of Media (CARISM) at the University Paris II"In the United States, there remains the belief that French feminism of the second wave is only a literary and/or theoretical movement, leaving in the shadow its political struggles, internal conflicts, and their real impacts. The novelty of this work is to place the women's liberation movement in the historical and intellectual contexts in which it emerged and grew . . . Lisa Greenwald's book will therefore be of interest in more than one way: not only does it offer, for the first time on the other side of the Atlantic, a history of the women's liberation movement in France and highlights—in a comparative perspective with the United States movement by example—the peculiarities that cross it. It also lets us French readers see a new approach to second wave feminism by placing it in a longer time frame—by linking it to the French political and intellectual context and to the first writings and first actions of women (mainly since the end of World War II)."—Archives du Feminisme"Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement, is the story of modern-day French feminism which was both impactful and full of intellectual and personal conflict."—Marshal Zeringue, Page 99 TestTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Reigniting French Feminism for the Twentieth Century 1. Liberation and Rethinking Gender Roles: 1944–1950 2. Reform and Consensus: Feminism in the 1950s and 1960s 3. The May Events and the Birth of Second-Wave Feminism: 1968–1970 4. New Feminist Theory and Feminist Practice: The Early 1970s 5. The Mouvement de Libération des Femmes and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom: 1970–19796. Takeover? Feminists In and Out of Party Politics: The Late 1970s 7. Who Owns Women’s Liberation? The Campaigns for French Women Not a Conclusion: The Socialist Party’s Ascendancy and French Feminism’s Second Wave Appendix: The Feminist Press in France, 1968–1981 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis newly revised book tells the story of Christa McAuliffe and how she graduated from her role as a much-loved high school teacher to occupying a seat on the Challenger, the veteran orbiter’s tenth and last flight into space. Trade Review"This biography honors the life of Christa McAuliffe by telling her story. It is an insightful reflection on a time in the space program that brought great joy (that everyday people would be flying to space onboard the Shuttle) and ultimately great sadness."—Scott Sacknoff, Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly“While Colin Burgess revisits the terrible events of January 1986 in his masterful book, he also offers a deserving tribute to the Challenger crew and in particular a dedicated, loving teacher named Christa McAuliffe.”—Col. Alfred M. Worden, USAF (Ret.), command module pilot, Apollo 15“This book offers an insightful reflection on not only that tragic day in 1986 but the inspiring way in which some truly remarkable people then embarked on a mission to help realize and honor Christa’s dream of touching the future through education.”—Col. Pamela Melroy, USAF (Ret.), NASA space shuttle pilot and commander“Christa McAuliffe was a wonderful human being, a beloved teacher, our forever first NASA Teacher in Space, and the perfect representative of our teaching profession. Thank you for honoring Christa by telling her story and sharing her inspiration with the world for generations to come.”—Barbara Morgan, McAuliffe’s Teacher in Space backup, NASA mission specialist, STS-118“This book touchingly portrays the human story of a very ordinary individual embroiled in a national tragedy.”—Francis French, educator and author of Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn EiseleTable of ContentsForeword by Grace George Corrigan Acknowledgments 1. Launch Day 2. No Ordinary Person 3. Touching the Future 4. The Ride of a Lifetime 5. Civilians in Space 6. Learning the Ropes 7. Delays and More Delays 8. “The Craft Has Exploded!” 9. The Dream Continues 10. Educating from Orbit Epilogue: Christa McAuliffe’s Messenger Appendix A: Shuttle Orbiter Challenger Facts and Figures Appendix B: Numbering the Shuttle Flights Appendix C: Honors for the Seven Challenger Astronauts Index

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Book SynopsisKat D. Williams traces Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez’s life from her childhood in Cuba to her reinvention of herself as a professional American baseball player, illuminating the importance of sport as a source of stability in a life defined by challenges. Trade Review"The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) operated from 1943 through 1954, giving over six hundred female athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball. Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez was one of those women, and Marshall University Professor Kat D. Williams tells her remarkable story, revealing the courageous struggle Lefty overcame to make it in America."—Rob Sheinkopf, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture"A very good read. It is not only about a baseball player in the AAGPBL, but also about a young Latino woman who makes good in America."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books"One cannot help but root for the dark-haired, left-handed 15-year-old pitcher, who came to the United States with hardly any education and no command of the language. . . . Lefty Alvarez is truly in a league of her own."—Bob D'Angelo, Sports Bookie“The history of baseball in Cuba is well documented, with the exception of the island’s women who played the game. Kat Williams’s nuanced examination of how baseball informed, indeed transformed, the life and prospects of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez fills that gap. Set against an ample background on Cuban political, social, and sports history, Williams demonstrates what a love for baseball can mean to a young woman.”—Jean Hastings Ardell, author of Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National PastimeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. El Cerro Chapter 2. Refashioning Lefty Chapter 3. The Passion of the Island Chapter 4. Coming to America Chapter 5. Life after the League Chapter 6. A League of Her Own Epilogue Appendix I. Lefty Alvarez Baseball Statistics Appendix II. Women’s Baseball Time Line Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn’t just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaw’s story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a NTrade Review“A compelling and inspirational. . . . It is the memoir of a woman who struggles to find her identity as an American Indian woman in the face of racism, emotional turmoil, and physical handicap. . . . The book is easy to read, and the story is fascinating.”—Sunu Kodumthara, Chronicles of Oklahoma“This is a riveting story about resilience and strength. Susan Supernaw opens the door into the beauty of the Native American spirit as a young girl who triumphs in spite of tough circumstances. It’s also the best of the Miss America story—not about who wins a crown but about who is helped to become all she is called to be.”—Jane Jayroe, author of More Grace than Glamour: My Life as Miss America and Beyond“What remains most striking is the unexpected gift of the heavy understory of Susan Supernaw’s spiritual tests. Throughout the telling, she remains straightforward and mesmerizing.”—Joy Harjo, U.S. poet laureate and Mvskoke Creek writer “A unique story, but also an iconic American story, it is inspiring and heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive. Susan Supernaw is living testimony to the triumph of the human spirit as well as the strength of Native American culture.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie"Muscogee Daughter would be a strong choice for a book group, or for readers interested in contemporary Native American memoirs. Supernaw's life story is compelling—not only because of her one-of-a-kind experience, but also because of her ability to appeal to a universal readership."—Claire Rudy Foster, Foreword"A worthy addition to the American Indian Lives series and an uplifting story of one Native woman's ability to rise above poverty and prejudice."—Deborah Donovan, Booklist"A surprise and a delight to read."—Betty Lytle, NewsOK.com"While recounting her journey to compete for the Miss America crown, Susan remains focused on what is most important and never forgets the many people who helped her along the way. This is a charming story of perseverance and spiritual growth."—Sandy Amazeen, Monstersandcritics.comTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsFamily Genealogy1. Blessings Inside a Tipi2. Jimmy3. Bozo4. Horse Crazy5. A New Name6. Metamorphosis7. Sewer Rats8. Beef Noodle9. Susie Q10. Super Sue11. Tomorrow's Leader12. Coming Home13. Scorpio Sue14. Superstar Supernaw15. The Barefoot Queen16. The Indian Queen17. Dancing Feet18. Ellia PonnaNotes

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