Gender studies: women and girls Books
University of Nebraska Press Heroic Hearts
Book SynopsisHeroic Hearts examines how young women in nineteenth-century France, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged individual authority over domesticity and marriage, sought to change the world.Trade Review"In this richly documented and lucidly written work, Popiel . . . shows how in the course of the nineteenth century, three strongly independent women changed the Catholic Church in France in ways that were important in their time and beyond."—S. Bailey, Choice“Jennifer Popiel’s book offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on the often maligned Catholic culture of the nineteenth century. Through a close analysis of devotional literature, fiction, images, and personal correspondence, Popiel moves beyond conventional assessments that emphasize patriarchal authority and female submission. Popiel shows us instead how Catholic women could find in intensely sentimental language and iconography centered on devotions such as the Sacred Heart models of heroic behavior and independence.”—Thomas Kselman, coeditor of Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives“Jennifer Popiel has rehabilitated language and imagery that both contemporaries and historians have interpreted as demonstrating women’s inherent emotionality and passivity. Heroic Hearts breaks ground in its consideration of nineteenth-century women’s spirituality and its serious discussions of sentimental literature and imagery.”—Sarah Curtis, author of Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of French EmpireTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Pastel Saints and Powerful Women 1. Shaping the Sentimental Order: Martyrdom, Marriage, and Catholic Heroism 2. Contesting Oppression: Love, Suffering, and Sentimental Literature 3. Seeing the Path to Heaven: Sentimental Virtue and Visual Culture 4. Preferring Jesus Christ to Any Man: Chastity, Sacrifice, and the Religious of the Sacred Heart 5. Changing the World: Pauline Jaricot, Social Reform, and the Power of the Heart 6. Becoming a Saint: Zélie Martin, Suffering, and Heroism in a Consumer Society Conclusion: Roses, Elevators, and Modern Heroism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Womens
Book SynopsisFeminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women’s writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers, that examine women’s debts to and appropriations of different literary genres, and that offer practical suggestions for the teaching of women’s texts in several different contexts. Contributors explore the possibility of feminist formalism, a methodology that both attends to the structural, rhetorical, and other formal techniques of a given text and takes gender as a central category of analysis. This collection contends that feminist formalism is a useful tool for scholars of the early modern period and for literary studies more broadly because it marries the traditional questions of formalism—including questions of style, genre, and literary history—with the political and cultural concerns of feminist inquiry. ContributorTrade Review“A feminist formalist is exactly what is needed at this moment to integrate the study of early modern women writers into the literary canon. All of the contributions are clearly written and highly readable, and the entire collection is a pleasure to read, without exception. . . . The pedagogy section of this collection offers useful, practical advice. This groundbreaking collection is both brilliant and necessary. It will find a wide audience among researchers, teachers, and students.”—Paula McQuade, author of Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England“A significant and particularly timely contribution to the field of early modern women’s writing. . . . What is striking here is that most of the contributors to this collection have established reputations in a wide variety of areas in the field, yet their astute and thorough-going investigations of the subject in relation to bodies of women’s writings with which they are intimately familiar are eye-opening. This flexibility and facility speaks both to the deep expertise possessed by the contributors and to the profit to be gained through formalist critique.”—Patricia Phillippy, editor of A History of Early Modern Women’s WritingTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Defining Feminist Formalism Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd Part 1. Readings 1. Taking the Thread of Mary Wroth’s “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love” Jennifer Higginbotham 2. Margaret Cavendish’s Forms: Literary Formalism and the Figures of Cavendish’s Atom Poems Liza Blake 3. Margaret Cavendish and the Recipe Form in Poems and Fancies Edith Snook 4. Building/s with Form: Dorothy Calthorpe’s Castle and Chapel Julie A. Eckerle 5. Gendering the Emblem: Hester Pulter’s Formal Experimentation Victoria E. Burke Part 2. Conversations 6. Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive Dianne Mitchell 7. Mary Wroth’s Urania Manuscript: Poems in Their Proper Places Paul Salzman 8. Katherine Philips’s Monument: The Genre of “Wiston Vault” Stephen Guy-Bray 9. Formalism Dispossessed: Pulter, Donne, and the Obliviated Urn Marshelle Woodward Part 3. Pedagogies 10. Collaborative Close Readings: Anne Vaughan Lock’s Sonnets in the Undergraduate Survey Course Lauren Shook 11. Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing through Literary and Material Form Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich 12. Teaching the Modesty Trope: Early Modern Women’s Texts in a Twenty-First-Century Classroom Margaret J. M. Ezell 13. The Idea of a Woman: Teaching Gender and Poetic Form in Early Modern Elegy Sarah C. E. Ross 14. Quixotic Pedagogy and Attention in the Early Modern Literature Classroom Andrew Black Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Cather Studies Volume 13
Book SynopsisWilla Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896–1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively—and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: “A Death in the Desert,” “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” “A Wagner Matinee,” and “Paul’s Case.” During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh.Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped CatTrade Review"Joining the prestigious Cather Studies series, Willa Cather's Pittsburgh provides valuable information and insights on what is probably the least known period in the author's life and career, her years in Pittsburgh from 1896 to 1906. Editors Tim Bintrim, James Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan brought particular expertise to bear on the subject, and the result is a highly useful and thought-provoking collection."—Janis Stout, American Literary RealismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Timothy W. Bintrim, James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan Prologue: Becoming “Miss Cather from Pittsburgh” Ann Romines Part 1. East Meets West 1. Bicycles and Freedom in Red Cloud and Pittsburgh: Willa Cather’s Early Transformations of Place and Gender in “Tommy, the Unsentimental” Daryl W. Palmer 2. Where Pagodas Rise on Every Hill: Romance as Resistance in “A Son of the Celestial” Michael Gorman 3. The Boxer Rebellion, Pittsburgh’s Missionary Crisis, and “The Conversion of Sum Loo” Timothy W. Bintrim Part 2. Class Action: Retrying “Paul’s Case” 4. Growing Pains: The City behind Cather’s Pittsburgh Classroom Mary Ruth Ryder 5. Big Steel and Class Consciousness in “Paul’s Case” Charmion Gustke 6. “The Most Exciting Attractions Are between Two Opposites That Never Meet”: Willa Cather and Andy Warhol Todd Richardson Part 3. Friendships, Literary and Musical 7. Willa Cather as Translator: The Pittsburgh “French Soirées” Diane Prenatt 8. A Collegial Friendship: Willa Cather and Ethel Herr Litchfield John H. Flannigan 9. Grave and God-Free: Ethelbert Nevin as a Pivotal Historical Source in “The Professor’s Commencement” and The Professor’s House Kimberly Vanderlaan Part 4. Later Stories 10. “I’m Working, I’m Working”: The Industrious Artist of Pittsburgh in Willa Cather’s The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Publications Kelsey Squire 11. Venetian Window: Pittsburgh Glass and Modernist Community in “Double Birthday” Joseph C. Murphy 12. Cather’s Pittsburgh and the Alchemy of Social Class Angela Conrad Epilogue: Why Willa Cather? A Retrospective John J. Murphy Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheeses
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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University of Nebraska Press A Planetary Lens
Book SynopsisThomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature AssociationA Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate the sites where stories resonate, and to listen to western women’s voices. From foundational California photographers Anne Brigman and Alma Lavenson to contemporary Native poets and writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Joy Harjo, women artists have used photographs to generate stories and to map routes across time and place. A Planetary Lens illuminates the richness and theoretical sophistication of such composite texts. Looking beyond the ideologies of wilderness, migration, and progress that have shaped settler and popular conceptions of the region, A Planetary Lens shows how many artists gather and assemble images and texts to reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the UTrade Review"A fine addition to the University of Nebraska Press 'Postwestern Horizons' series, this book will be valuable for students of US literature and photography and of feminist and gender studies."—B. Wallenstein, Choice"Goodman's study provides a well-researched and accessible model for producing interdisciplinary scholarly writing for the humanities, environmental studies, and antiracist projects. . . . A Planetary Lens is an invitation for future scholars to further engage the important relations between regionality and planetary citizenship, meditative text and snapshot, adaptation and revision, as well as change and belonging."—Susan Kollin, American Literary History“A Planetary Lens demonstrates a new reading strategy that will serve us well as we consider the deep and ongoing effects of patriarchy and colonization on the way women and others produce creative texts and understand place. . . . Goodman’s beautiful book reveals how re-storying colonized spaces is crucial for bodies and land.”—Gioia Woods, editor of Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West“A Planetary Lens advances several important scholarly conversations including environmental justice, feminist critical regionalism, local and global Indigenous studies, western American literary studies, and material ecocriticism. Goodman’s elegantly written study draws together texts from a broad array of perspectives to interrogate how artists combine image and written texts in ways that revise and reorient conceptions of region, self, and storytelling. . . . Lucid and persuasive.”—Amy T. Hamilton, author of Peregrinations: Walking in American LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking Pictures, Making Books 1. Photographers and Storytellers in the U.S. West: Toward a Regional Photo-Poetics 2. Western Women’s Camera Work: Reassembling California Photo-Books 3. Joan Didion’s White Albums: Notes and Snapshots from a “Native” Daughter 4. Visual Passageways: Restorying Native Portraits 5. Circling Out from Laguna: Leslie Silko’s Planetary Storytelling 6. Apertures into the Next World: Joy Harjo’s Visionary Poetics Conclusion: Open Archives, Unbound Books Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press A Civil Society
Book SynopsisJames Smith Allen explores the two-hundred-year struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France's civil society and its civic morality on behalf of women's rights.Trade Review“James Smith Allen presents readers with an engaging, kaleidoscopic account of the uphill and contentious struggle to include select women as full participants in the arcane brotherhood of French freemasonry.”—Karen Offen, author of Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920“A Civil Society is important because it connects the activism and writing of major figures in French women’s history with masonic networks and impulses. It accomplishes all of this by providing copious evidence presented with clarity.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of Women in World History: 1450 to the Present“In this ambitious new study, James Smith Allen seeks to understand how masonic sisters and their fellow travelers contributed to a more liberal republic and open society and engaged civic culture in the Old Regime and modern France. A Civil Society is a welcome addition to all those interested in the history of sociability, progressive politics, and civil society.”—Kenneth Loiselle, author of Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations List of French Masonic Orders / Obediences Introduction: French Women in Public Space Freemasonry Writ Large How Else Civil Society – and Freemason Women – Matter Chapter 1: Masonry’s Gendered Variations Before and After 1789 The Eighteenth Century’s Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges Freemason Women’s Social Networks in the Old Regime Revolution: The Communities of Freemason Women Transformed Chapter 2: The Craft’s Long March to Mixed Orders, 1799-1901 Variations on Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges Freemason Women’s Changing Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century Revolution(s): The Successive Redefinitions of Women’s Masonic Communities Chapter 3: Women’s Freemasonry and the Women’s Movement, 1901-1944 Renewed Mixed Orders and Adoption Lodges at Home and Abroad The Feminist Networks of Freemason Women The Communities of Freemason Women During Two World Wars Chapter 4: Contestatory Imaginaries: The Representations of Freemason Women Serafina, Comtesse de Cagliostro Pamina and Balkis Consuelo, Comtesse de Rudolstadt Diana Vaughan and Others Conclusion: Civic Morality in Modern France Themes Between Theory and History A Social Conscience Appendices Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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University of Nebraska Press Burning the Breeze
Book SynopsisWILLA Literary Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction Finalist, Evans Handcart Award In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis, Montana. Julia, a big-game hunter whom friends described as “a clever shot with both rifle and shotgun,” flouted gender conventions to build guest ranches in Montana and Arizona that attracted world-renowned entertainers and artists. Bennett’s entrepreneurship, however, was not a new family development. During the Civil War, her widowed grandmother and her seven-year-old daughter—Bennett’s mother—set out from Missouri on a ten-month journey with little more than a yoke of oxen, a covered wagon, and the clothes on their backs. They faced countless heartbreaks and obstacles as they struggled tTrade Review"Women's history buffs will find plenty of drama and adventure in this thoroughly researched account of how one family's 'spirit of resilience' helped form the character of the American West."—Publishers Weekly"This is an outstanding tribute to three strong, assured, and fearless women battling long odds to survive and thrive in the West."—Robert Clark, Roundup Magazine"An excellent read, well researched, this book will have broad appeal to academics and lay persons alike."—Dee Garceau, Utah Historical Quarterly"Using family journals, correspondence, and photographs, Burning the Breeze explores the story of three generations of intrepid women in rich and engrossing detail."—Missouri Historical Review"The novel-like feel, inclusive detail, and supplementary photographs make this book an enjoyable read."—Stephanie M. P. Aulner, South Dakota History“[A] remarkable blend of history and biography. There’s a Ken Burns or Willa Cather–like feel of both intimacy and sweep to the storytelling, and a touch of the heroic. When I finished reading, I felt not only as though I knew these women (and was inspired by them) but that I had a deeper understanding of American history.”—Susan Neville, author of Fabrication: Essays on Making Things“Only enormously gifted women could have won the contest between financial disaster and hard-earned success. This book is a wonderful read. You won’t be saddle sore, but you will be thrilled by the ride.”—Pierce C. Mullen, professor emeritus of history at Montana State University“Julia Bennett sure did ‘burn the breeze’ as she rode at full speed though a long life. . . . [Hendrickson] vividly portrays the ups and downs of a remarkable woman, sprinkled with a dash of scandal.”—James H. Madison, professor emeritus of history at Indiana University“Hendrickson meticulously fleshes out the larger-than-life Bennett, a woman who overcomes financial woes to set up and operate early dude ranches, catering to elite and monied early twentieth-century blue-blood Americans seeking diversion and adventure in the West.”—Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the WestTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I. The Perilous Journey Part II. A Woman’s Place Part III. Selling the West Epilogue Afterword by James E. Pepper Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Gendered Citizenship
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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University of Nebraska Press The Sisterhood
Book SynopsisThe Sisterhood is the story of the first and second generations of national team players, known as the 99ers, who were the driving force behind the rise of U.S. women’s soccer and who built the foundation for the team’s enduring success. Trade Review"As we celebrate a new generation of savvy U.S. women’s soccer players who will succeed on the pitch and off, The Sisterhood is a good reference point (and a very good read) on how the first generation to achieve such success did it."—Robert Hay, World Soccer Talk"There's great history and insight here into a pivotal moment in American sports."—Marc Bona, Cleveland"This book can be recommended for everybody interested in soccer, peak performance sport, team-sport, as well as for sport scientists and students of sport sciences (history, psychology, sociology). Scholars, practitioners, and academics involved in sport, especially in soccer/football will have something to learn from the U.S. Women's Soccer national team."—Bente Ovedie Skogvang, Idrotts Forum“The Sisterhood includes some of my favorite stories from the badass women whose DNA and gritty mentality are the inspiration and legacy of today’s world-dominating U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.”—Michelle Akers, National Soccer Hall of Fame member, Olympic and World Cup champion, and FIFA Female Player of the Century“In The Sisterhood, Rob Goldman vividly captures the 99ers’ personalities, mentality, and our love for the game and for each other. I lived this story and became a better player and person because of these women. The Sisterhood shows you why.”—Kristine Lilly, National Soccer Hall of Fame member, Olympic gold medalist, and 1991 and 1999 World Cup winner“A phenomenal story of how an extraordinary group of women built the foundation for one of the most dominant teams in sports history. A fantastic read that takes you along on the journey with players who formed more than a team. They formed a sisterhood.”—Kevin Baxter, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter for the Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsPart 1. Rough and Tumblers 1. The Mavericks 2. OOSSAAA, OOSSAAA, AH 3. Fury and Finesse 4. The Perfect Intersection 5. The Babies 6. Green and Growing 7. The Breadcrumb Generation—Haiti 8. The Queen of Women’s Soccer 9. Crazy Legs Carin 10. M&M’s Cup 11. Bookends 12. A Captain’s Tale Part 2. The DiCicco Method 13. Improbable Improbabilities 14. The Only 15. Le Passion Play 16. “Michelle, Get Up” 17. Perseverance 18. Mac Attack 19. Power to Be Bold 20. The Advocate 21. The Outlier 22. The Atlanta Olympics 23. The Mia Parables 24. Storm Clouds 25. The Elephant in the Room Part 3. To the Cup 26. Lightning in a Bottle 27. Road to Pasadena 28. Game Day 29. The PK Thing 30. “Fake It Till You Make It” 31. AAAKERS 32. Presidential Approval 33. Women Power 34. Antagonists 35. Goodbye to a Friend Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes on Sources Selected Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Girl Archaeologist
Book SynopsisGirl Archaeologist illuminates the life and trailblazing career of Alice Kehoe, a woman with a family who was always, also, an archaeologist.Trade Review“Kehoe has seen archaeology grow and change over sixty years—both technically and politically. While women in positions of prestige and influence were rare in the 1960s, today they are common. Kehoe’s story documents what it took to move the profession in that direction. It is an inspiration to all.”—American Archaeology “Books such as Girl Archaeologist are not only a reflection of how the field of archaeology has changed, but also provide space to examine the profession at the current moment.”—Historical Archaeology “Kehoe’s gift for friendship shines in her enduring relationships with students, colleagues, and her Native teachers. Hers is an accessible, absorbing book suitable for all readers and for a variety of courses in women’s studies, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.”—R. Berleant-Schiller, Choice "Alice is not one to "shut up and be quiet." She crafted a career, published sixteen books and four co-edited collections, and was honored for her enduring work as a Plains archaeologist. Her life as a "girl archaeologist" began in an era when there were few women in the field, and most faced the same kinds of discrimination and serious roadblocks. Now that there are many more successful women archaeologists, it is important to remember this grim history."—Louise Lamphere, Journal of Anthropological Research“Girl Archaeologist is everything Alice Beck Kehoe is—witty and irreverent while at the same time touching, honest, and open. . . . This book is necessary for anyone interested in archaeology’s less-than-welcoming history, especially in light of today’s calls for social justice, inclusion, and equity.”—Joe Watkins, president of the Society for American Archaeology, 2019–21“Piercing, funny, and heartbreaking all at once, the story of Kehoe’s grit and perseverance in the face of rampant sexism will keep you glued.”—Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close“Alice Kehoe is a living legend in archaeology. . . . She digs deep with self-reflection and searing honesty to survey her struggles and breakthrough achievements. . . . She persevered through it all with unbroken tenacity.”—Chip Colwell, author of Plundered Skulls and Stolen SpiritsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Born into a Man’s World 2. Launched into Archaeology, Where Sexism Ruled 3. Achieving the MRS. and Fieldwork, with Toddlers 4. “Benign Neglect” at Harvard 5. Academia 6. Trolls Appear 7. Life on My Own 8. My Friends Out on the Tundra with Me 9. Issues with Limits 10. Applause and Reward Epilogue: Where Was I When Kennedy Was Shot? Acknowledgments Appendix: Books I Have Written and Why
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University of Nebraska Press Knocked Down
Book SynopsisA laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying “I do” she’s pregnant, life is on track, and thenwham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. As her husband’s bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronTrade Review"Love, marriage, and a harrowing pregnancy yield a haunting story of survival in this gripping account."—Publishers Weekly"Can a high-risk pregnancy, a marriage on the rocks, financial problems, a falling-down house in the middle of stalled renovations and lingering grief for a beloved dead father add up to a riotously funny read? The answer is yes, at least when the author is the gifted humorist Aileen Weintraub."—Elizabeth Edelglass, Hadassah Magazine"Knocked Down is a big-hearted, hilarious, and moving account of staying put, rooting in, and learning how to persevere together—as a married couple, as a family, and in community with others."—Kerry Neville, Hippocampus"Aileen Weintraub's debut memoir, Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir, is an intimate and introspective story about her complicated pregnancy and the reverberating effects on her marriage, religious beliefs, and identity as a mother. Despite the uncertain future Weintraub and her unborn child face, this mostly chronological memoir is chock-full of witty observations and humorous reflections."—Erin Fogarty Owen, Linden Review"The truth is, we can never know what tomorrow will bring. Even the best prepared will be knocked to the ground, bewildered by what life brings. The wisdom of this memoir is in the striving for acceptance of all life's travails for what they are, as they come. The darkest of times may seem endless, but with humor and the love of a (quirky) family, this book shows that we can make it through."—Mikhal Weiner, Literary Mama“Aileen Weintraub has written a profoundly honest memoir that is sometimes painful but always loving, as she walks us through her journey from Brooklyn childhood to rural living. Heartfelt and often humorous Jewish culture meets rural farming culture, all coming together in the glorious Hudson Valley. It took us back to the best moment of our lives—the beginning of making a family.”—Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody“This memoir of an almost inconceivably difficult pregnancy (pun intended) involves multiple dichotomies: urban/rural, male/female, Jew/non-Jew, life/death. Weintraub handles these oppositions with the deft, stunning, and mesmerizing touch of a writer who knows when to weep and when to laugh, when to hold on and when to let go. Whatever the opposite is of ‘elegy,’ this is it.”—Sue William Silverman, author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences“A gripping blend of humor and poignancy. . . . Weintraub’s keen eye for detail and breathless storytelling make this sharply observed memoir impossible to put down.”—Sari Botton, author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen X Weirdo“Knocked Down is a funny and poignant story of a pregnant urban girl suddenly uprooted and forced to rediscover herself in a possibly haunted old ramshackle farmhouse—a brave and vibrant story of self-discovery and grace.”—Aspen Matis, #1 Amazon best-selling author of Your Blue Is Not My Blue and Girl in the Woods“Knocked Down engaged me from the opening lines. This is a wonderfully nuanced story, at turns laugh-out-loud hilarious and heartbreaking, rooted in love, romance, community, and resilience. I loved this book.”—Elissa Altman, author of MotherlandTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note 1. Roots Run Deep 2. A GORE-TEX Primer 3. Produce Man 4. Cricket Hill 5. Monsters 6. The Pregnant Pause 7. Purgatory 8. The Whirling Dervish and Her Magic Meatball Sideshow 9. Operation Redecoration 10. Dos and Don’ts and Don’ts 11. Bras on Fire 12. It Comes Down to Blood 13. The Art of Conversation 14. Puttin’ Up a Fight 15. Blame It on the Cossacks 16. The Hex Upon Us 17. Power Equipment + Bed = Sexy 18. The Vanishing Penis and the Reason I Have a Therapy Fund Set Aside for My Unborn Child 19. Going in Reverse 20. The Muck and the Mire 21. Dream Crusher 22. Sandman Rising 23. Battle on Cervix Hill 24. Helter Skelter Swelter 25. The Man behind the Curtain 26. A Low Guttural Howl 27. Take Me Home 28. Meltdown 29. The County Fair 30. Gumption 31. Calypso 32. Courage and Cremation 33. Jeeps and Rabbits 34. A Shit Farm in Paradise 35. Settled, but Not Really 36. The Fibroids Ate My Baby 37. After Birth 38. Mother Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Under My Bed and Other Essays
Book SynopsisJody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. As a young adult living alone for the first time, she began a nighttime ritual of checking under her bed each night, not sure who she was afraid of finding. An intruder? A monster? Her father? Keisner’s fears mature as she becomes a wife and mother, and the boogeyman under the bed shape-shifts,though its shapes are no less frightening—a young aunt’s drowning, the “chest chomp” in the classic horror movie The Thing, a diagnosis of a chronic autoimmune disease, the murder of a young college student, an eccentric grandmother’s belief in reincarnation and her dying advice: “Don’t be afraid.” In Under My Bed and Other Essays, Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of motTrade Review"Keisner debuts with a riveting essay collection that revisits her painful past. . . . The essays attack difficult material straight on, but Keisner's smart, clear, and incisive writing cuts deep."—Publishers Weekly"In her luminous new collection, Under My Bed and Other Essays, Keisner interrogates fear—personal and collective—from one sharp angle after the next, with a special acuity for the fears known best by women and mothers."—Jeannine Ouellette, Brevity's Blog"As she faces her worries head on, Keisner grants herself—and her readers—access to the deeper, more sustaining forces that underlie our anxieties: attachment, devotion, joy, and an exquisite awareness of the preciousness of life. What we most fear, her writing reminds us, reveals what we most treasure. The greatest triumph of Under My Bed and Other Essays is how masterfully Keisner captures this inescapable tension."—Nicole Graev Lipson, Hippocampus Magazine"Under My Bed is a tender book, an honest book, and a rich tale of learning to thrive just as we are—flawed and imperfect, yet still fully capable of risking both growth and love."—Susan J. Tweit, Story Circle Network"Ultimately, it is women who heal other women. The author's grandmother's parting advice to her is, 'Don’t be afraid.' With these essays, Jody Keisner both enumerates the many reasons women should be afraid and the many ways grace and strength carry them past that fear and onto empowerment."—Alice Stephens, Washington Independent Review of Books"Keisner's book shows how we can pull the proverbial boogeyman out from under the bed and, by naming it, remove its power over us."—Elizabeth Fiala, Adroit Journal"Under My Bed offers a complex, compelling, and multi-faceted look at the origins of fear, motherhood, and forgiveness."—Emily Webber, merliterary.com"Keisner expertly braids together her life's stories with research to guide readers through the immediate experience of fear as well as the effort to reckon with it."—Whitney (Walters) Jacobson, Split Rock Review"This well-written and insightful book is for anyone who wonders how to confront fear for themselves, their children, or women in general. Told with compassion and curiosity, it will also appeal to anyone overcoming chronic disease or parental bullying."—Sandra Hager Eliason, Rain Taxi“Vulnerable and smart, thoughtful and thought-provoking, gorgeously written and poignantly tender, Under My Bed and Other Essays shines a light into darkness and shows us all the messy glories of what it means to be human.”—Randon Billings Noble, editor of A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric EssaysTable of ContentsPreface Part 1. Origins Under My Bed Recreationally Terrified Fracture The Secret of Water Firebreaks Haunted Part 2. Under the Skin The Maternal Lizard Brain Neural Pathways to Love Body Language Side Effects Part 3. Risings My Grandmother and the Sleeping Prophet In-Between Runaway Daughter Woman Running Alone Gratitude Selected Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Animal Bodies
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner in Essays How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca’s cobbled streets, the Mekong River’s floating markets, Fire Island’s windswept beaches, Nashville’s honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada’s snowy slopes, Roberts interrogates her memory and tries to make sense of her own private losses (deaths of people and relationships), as well as more public losses, including a mass shooting in her hometown and environmental devastation in the Amazon rainforest. With lyricism, insight, honesty, and dark humor, these essays illuminate the sometimes terrible beauty of wTrade Review“Personal and heart wrenching, the essays of Animal Bodies concern control and surrender.”—Dontaná Mcpherson-Joseph, Foreword Reviews“[Animal Bodies] is beautifully observed and realized, heartfelt and informed, self-deprecating, and often wryly witty. These essays explore how the bodies we inhabit bring pleasure and shame. How the planet which hosts us is beautiful and terrible. How sometimes we cherish it, and sometimes we treat it as carelessly as we would a disdainful ex. How grief is the residue of love.”—Elizabeth Bales Frank, Brevity"Fierce, bright, and connected to this moment in time, Roberts's Animal Bodies will remain with the reader for the way it channels clarity amid despair."—Jennifer Sinor, Western American Literature"In the essay 'Rights of Passage,' Roberts writes, 'The parts of our bodies that betray our animal natures and remind us of our animal bodies . . . are off-limit topics in polite conversation. We deny the most natural parts of ourselves—our hunger or desires, our vulnerabilities and frailties, and even our grief.' Animal Bodies is both a response and a remedy to that denial, an example of how to behold with tenderness the parts of ourselves we are most inclined to hide."—Lucy Bryan, Prairie Schooner"For readers who have experienced grief—and that's all of us—Animal Bodies by Suzanne Roberts will resonate. Readers will not have had all of the same experiences as the author, but we certainly have felt the same sorts of confusion and pain, and this connection, this bond between reader and writer can make us all feel less alone in our own grief."—Pam Anderson, Portland Review"Animal Bodies is a fierce accomplishment, full of varied formal experiments with the essay yet dedicated to precise readable prose. It is a book to take on an airplane, to bring on long travels, to leave in some exotic place for the next traveler. Though you may not want to leave it, due to the circumstances, you are forced to travel light, and you feel its void in your pack, even though you have picked up another book to read on the way home."—Heavy Feather Review"How do we grieve? How do we look at the most shameful parts of ourselves? How do we reconcile with our contradictory nature? In Animal Bodies: Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, Suzanne Roberts's newest book of lyrical, poignant, and daring essays, the author takes us into the trenches."—Vilune Sestokaite, terrain.org“In Animal Bodies, Suzanne Roberts offers surprising insight, both intimate and universal, into death, desire, and how we all move through this difficult world. Her essays are ruthless, beautiful, graceful, and endlessly fascinating. A wonderful book.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire“Suzanne Roberts’s essays are eloquent and vibrantly imaginative. They are lyrical in the best sense: the language is rhythmic, pulsing on the page, but never poeticized, flowery, or vague. Roberts’s wisdom and humor are evident throughout. I so welcome a collection of her essays, all in one place.”—Carolyn Forché, author of What You Have Heard Is True“No one travels the depths of place and experience more phenomenally than Suzanne Roberts. In these essays that explore being, beauty, desire, death, and our collective animal journeys on the planet, Animal Bodies gathers our questions about life and brings them to the only place where meaning might emerge: adaptation. This book is a triumph that transcends humans and gives us a chance to re-story ourselves into the larger world.”—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of WaterTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Death The Essay Determines How It Will Begin The Grief Scale Eight Hours The Same Story Becoming Bird A Kiss for the Dying Bone & Skin Wearing Her Eye Shadow A Love Letter to My Hometown after the Shooting The Red Canoe Traveling with Ghosts Friending the Dead Desire Keep Your Numbers Down In Love with the World Sportfucking This Far from Desire Traveling Alone Winter Travel The Hungry Bride Breaking the Codes My Mother’s Daughter Funerals, Safety Pins, and Flaming Saddles The Good-Time Girl What She Must Do Other Difficulties Animal Bodies The Queen of the Amazon A True Story about Jealousy The Last Goodbye Rites of Passage Traveling with the Dead The Disappearing Act Honky-Tonk Woman Auntie Suzanne The Danger Scale Words Etched into Skin Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf Ways to Speak the Unspeakable Dreaming in the Time of Wildfire Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press If This Were Fiction
Book Synopsis2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers AssociationIf This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Trade Review“Christman’s writing is moving and poetic, and she has a knack for imbuing profundity into everyday activities, whether slicing an avocado or climbing a hill. Fans of the personal essay shouldn’t miss these intimate encounters.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Eloquent and probing, Christman’s essays examine the profound ways relationships can—for better or worse—transform an individual life and provide glimpses into the complexities of the human heart. A warmly wise, intimate memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews"If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays gives you what you didn't know you needed: sloths and loss and Swedish Fish candy, alligators and avocados and bird girls, pain and loss and hard traveling back to confront that pain, googly eyes and wayward skirts and lipsticks uncapped in purses, electric eye contact with a fetching poet across a dive bar, all woven with joy."—Sonya Huber, Brevity“Reading these essays is like hanging out with a true friend, someone who isn’t afraid to be real. Jill Christman writes about love, loss, trauma, fear, parenthood, and the strange wonder of our past and former selves with deep understanding, humor, and so much beauty.”—Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen, author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner“If This Were Fiction is the collection I wish I had the talent and skill to write. Christman’s words shine with unusual beauty and hard-earned brilliance.”—Ashley C. Ford, author of Somebody’s Daughter“What is more complex than love, marriage, motherhood, and family? Probably nothing, but Jill Christman takes the deep dive with intelligent, intense, intimate essays that will catch you off guard and leave you wanting more. If This Were Fiction is a piercing book by a brilliant, gutsy writer.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of To Hell with It“Engaging and distinctive. Christman brings intelligence, wit, and insightful honesty to her personal experiences with motherhood, womanhood, and girlhood, to abuse and its legacies, to the search for joy, creative expression, and love. Moving, beautifully written, and often quite funny.”—Megan Harlan, author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in EssaysTable of ContentsPart I. since feeling is first The Sloth Going Back to Plum Island The Surprise Baby The River Cave Bird Girls Life’s Not a Paragraph Part II. we are for each other Family Portrait The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap The Googly Eye A Stone Pear Leading the Children Out of Town Slaughterhouse Island Part III. And death i think is no parenthesis The Avocado The Baby and the Alligator Aiskhyne The Lucky Ones Naked Underneath Our Clothes Spinning Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press The Rebounders
Book SynopsisUnlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway's story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women's basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process when Ottaway is an eager, naive teenager and ending when she's a more contemplative twentysomething alumna. Ottaway's story, along with the journeys of her dynamic Wildcat teammates at Davidson College in North Carolina, covers in engaging detail the life of a mid-major athlete: recruitment, the preseason, body image and eating disorders, schoolwork, family relationships, practice, love life, team travel, game day, injuries, drug and alcohol use, coaching changes, and what comes after the very last game. In addition to the everyday issues of being a student athlete, The Rebounders also covers the objectification of female athletes, race, sexuaTrade Review“With its special emphasis on what it means to be a female pursuing athletic excellence, Amanda Ottaway’s story is a welcome addition to the growing list of books addressing this subject. Unflinching and celebratory, The Rebounders captures the spirit of collegiate sport with both candor and joy.”—Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle and To the New Owners"Ottaway is a fine writer who exhibits both compassion and insight throughout this story of one woman's coming-of-age as an athlete."—Wes Lukowsky, Booklist"An enjoyable account of women working hard at Division I basketball and one ends the book happy to have shared Ottaway's journey."—Murry Nelson, Sport in American History"The Rebounders is a must for anyone interested in college athletics."—Book and Film Globe"Over the course of her four-year college career, Ottaway loses her innocence. But she gains an appreciation for her teammates, words, and a good story. And this is a very compelling story, and Ottaway tells it well. . . . For Ottaway and her teammates, it was a grueling grind, but it makes required reading for anyone interested in college basketball."—Jon Hart, Stadium Journey“A personal, often poignant account of how hard it is to be a student-athlete, especially at a place like Davidson—and about what actually matters in the end.”—Michael Kruse, senior staff writer for Politico and author of Taking the Shot: The Davidson Basketball Moment“This book, an exaltation of women in sports, is an important conversation about the space that women hold for one another; the knots we tie, the goals we reach, the urgency of college sports as experienced by women, and the sacred sorority of female athletes who seek excellence—and find it.”—Dominique Christina, author of This Is Woman’s Work: Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves"[The Rebounders] reminds us how far women's basketball has come. But more than anything, it captures the feel of the game, literally, in the swoosh of the ball through the net, and figuratively, as a metaphor for love itself."—Kirk Weixel, BookMarkTable of ContentsNote to the Reader Prologue 1. The Bubble 2. I Want You to Want Me 3. A Night with the ’Cats 4. Heading Home 5. Wet Season 6. Knocked Out 7. Sisterhood of the Traveling Sweatpants 8. A Postgame Surprise 9. A Team in Transition 10. Our Bodies, Everyone’s Business 11. Students or Athletes? 12. FTP 13. The Popularity Contest 14. The Dream Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Womens American Football
Book SynopsisWomen's American Football is a history of women playing American football in the United States, focused on the growth of the game since the passage of Title IX in 1972.Trade Review“An amazing compilation of facts, anecdotes, and forecasts for the future of women’s football. Russ Crawford not only captures the flavor of the trailblazers of this sport but illustrates the sport itself and its possible future. If you play this sport, or have someone in your life who does, this is a must-read.”—Rick Rasmussen, two-time Independent Women’s Football League national champion head coach of the Utah Falconz“Russ Crawford’s research about women football players and coaches is a fun and interesting journey through time. Their stories encompass so much of the passion and drive women have shown as they continue to play a sport they love. Crawford brings to life the reality of those early pioneers, and the continued efforts of today’s torchbearers to grow the game. . . . Crawford’s book will inspire others to believe in and live their own football dreams.”—Louise Bean, two-time Independent Women’s Football League national champion quarterback for the Utah Falconz and Women’s Football Hall of Fame inductee“A journey begins with a passion. Football is no different. But for many reasons women through history have been excluded from that passion. . . . I, and many women’s football athletes, thank Russ Crawford for depicting the amazing history of women’s tackle football.”—Oscar F. Lopez, founder of Gridiron Beauties“Russ Crawford’s book is going to help the world understand that girls can play football, and so can women! It’s not just a man’s sport! He also provides information for parents whose daughters might love to participate in girls’ tackle football in the future.”—Crys Sacco, co-founder of the Utah Girls Football League and head coach of the UGFL’s Kearns Cougars“With vivid details of the adversity these women have gone through to play the game they love, Women’s American Football is a must-read as much for newcomers to the game as it is for longtime fans. In fact, I am willing to bet that the people who will one day make women’s tackle football a true professional sport in which women can earn a living will cite Crawford’s book as a key inspiration of theirs.”—Michael “Burmy” Burmeister, superfan of women’s football and curator of the Hometown Women’s Football Facebook groupTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Free to Play 1. Women’s Professional Football Begins 2. Women’s Football Roars Back 3. The Independent Women’s Football League 4. The Women’s Football Alliance 5. The X League 6. The Women’s National Football Conference 7. Girls Take the Field 8. American Women Tackle the World Postscript: 1 July 2020—Born to Play Appendix: List of Interviewees Notes Index
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University of Nebraska Press A Bride Goes West
Book SynopsisNannie T. Alderson's memoir recounts the life of a transplanted, southern woman who, after marrying in 1883, finds herself learning to run a ranch in eastern Montana near the mouth of Lame Deer Creek.Trade Review“A Bride Goes West still has much to tell us about white women’s resilience and community during Montana’s pioneer era. [Alderson’s] narrative provides an alternative to overly romanticized male accounts of frontier life and calls attention to the overlooked stories and histories of the eastern region of the state.”—Randi Lynn Tanglen, coeditor of Teaching Western American Literature“After reading, as a very young woman, the Western American classic A Bride Goes West, what a great pleasure in my later years to hear Nannie Alderson’s voice again in this new edition and to reflect on the many changes that have occurred in the West since Nannie’s time, the time of my first reading, and the present.”—Mary Clearman Blew, author of All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family“Among hundreds of books written by and about range men, there are hardly a dozen valid ones concerning women. I pick A Bride Goes West . . . as [one of] the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman’s point of view dominating.”—J. Frank Dobie“A charming vignette of ranching life in Montana during the mid-1880s.”—ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII
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University of Nebraska Press We Who Walk the Seven Ways
Book SynopsisTerra Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) sought healing and found belonging. After a difficult loss, Native women elders embraced and guided her over three decades, lifting her from grief and showing her how to age from youth into beauty.Trade Review"Covering topics as diverse as race, religion, and the craft of writing, We Who Walk the Seven Ways is a moving memoir about friendship and identity."—Foreword Reviews"We Who Walk the Seven Ways is a tender, deeply personal memoir written by a courageous and searingly honest woman."—Charlotte Hinger, Roundup Magazine“Raised to conceal her Native ancestry, Terra Trevor learns from elders to nurture her mixed blood identity and shape her activism in transracial adoption, Indian health and education, and community building. This is an inspiring, heartfelt memoir of one Native woman’s spirit journey from childhood to her own elderhood.”—Robert Bensen, editor of Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education“This poignant memoir touches on the trials and tribulations of Terra Trevor, a mixed blood American Indian straddling two races. It’s a book you won’t be able to put down, written with simplicity, grace, and urgency, transcending any expectations. In spite of many obstacles, Trevor is a woman of unimaginable strength and courage. After not being heard as a child, she thankfully found her voice as a writer, and how lucky we are!”—Diana Raab, author of Regina’s Closet and Writing for Bliss“The book’s insights are fascinating, and there is a feeling of authenticity throughout. Terra Trevor confronts big (and often tragic) life events with humility and real wisdom. She not only describes how she makes her way through those events but does so in a very pragmatic way. Additionally, the work incorporates a powerful look at the intersections between gender, race, and culture. This is an important story, beautifully told and extremely relevant for these difficult times.”—Margaret Randall, author of I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary"Terra Trevor's book is a gentle invitation to journey with her across decades, an invitation to notice with her as she seeks healing and finds belonging. There were phrases and sentences I underlined, places where I wept, passages that will remain with me as they drew me to insights I'd previously struggled to name. I closed the final pages and knew that in reading this book, I had been the recipient of a generous and much-needed gift. While I can certainly finish a book in a day, I chose to move slowly through this one, letting each idea, each paragraph, each reflection gently spill over me, allowing the pages to alter me in some way."—Patrice Gopo, author of Autumn Song: Essays on AbsenceTable of Contents Author’s Note 1. We Who Walk the Seven Ways 2. Marie 3. Ann 4. Irene 5. Mary Lou 6. Back in Those Days 7. Returning the Gift 8. The Seven Ways 9. The Way of This Daughter 10. Undocumented 11. Growing Up 12. Luke 13. Gary 14. Leaping into Womanhood 15. The Way of This Mother 16. Luke and New Mexico on My Mind 17. After the First Silent Week 18. Just Writing 19. Winter of Hope 20. The Red Ribbon Bridge 21. The Winter the Stars Fell 22. Words Facing West 23. My Years at the Shelter 24. The Winter It Came Back 25. With Nothing Ahead but Sky 26. Somewhere Southwest of the Middle 27. Coming Back to the World 28. Pushing Up the Sky 29. Growing Old in a Beautiful Way 30. Water Chores and Rituals 31. The Landscape Will Teach You Who You Are 32. Safekeeping 33. Reading, Living, and My Books 34. The Winter My Grandfather Apologized 35. River in the Blood 36. Back in Those Days in Oklahoma 37. My Mother 38. Ann, Wilma, Joy, and Me 39. My Relationship with Honesty 40. Searching for a Place to Stand 41. On the Way Home 42. The Indigenous Way of Comprehending 43. On the Medicine Trail 44. Tangled Thoughts 45. Winter Count 46. Forty-Five Winters 47. Dancing to Remember 48. Tomol Evening 49. Returning the Gift to the Sea 50. Gratitude 51. November 52. The Harvest Dinner 53. Winter of Distance Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Autumn Song
Book SynopsisWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to continue living despite the absences we experience because of loss and disappointment, injustice and inequity, change and the passage of time. Autumn Song: Essays on Absence invites readers into one Black woman’s experiences encountering absences, seeing beyond the empty spaces, and grasping at the glimmers of glory that remain. In a world marred with brokenness, these glimmers speak to the possibility of grieving losses, healing heartache, and allowing ourselves to be changed.Trade Review“This gorgeous collection of essays about home and belonging casts a spell on me, with its gentle yet sharp observations and evocative sense of place. Like an alchemist, Patrice Gopo transforms ordinary moments into reflections on stillness and process. She investigates the destruction of a historically Black neighborhood in her town and explores the complicated nature of interracial relationships. Underlying these contemplative essays is an urgency to make sense of a world that often feels chaotic and frightening. Autumn Song: Essays on Absence is a necessary book, one I will return to again and again.”—Geeta Kothari, author of I Brake for Moose and Other Stories“Patrice Gopo deftly plunges the reader into a life that weaves the personal with the political—and spotlights patterns of beauty amid the chaotic and often racist American fabric, both past and present. Gopo’s prose is vivid and gorgeous. I remembered her memories and her family long after I finished the book.”—Devi S. Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues and Circa“Patrice Gopo brings a contemplative eye and heart to the small but poignant details that comprise the miracle of everyday life. Though subtitled Essays on Absence, Autumn Song displays a hopeful focus on what is present and affirming: the warmth of a grandmother’s embrace, the exquisite sound of snow melting, the quiet triumph of a deer shaking itself free after being stuck in a fence. Such observations hold the frequency of the book as the pandemic lockdown shrinks the world and casts events such as the death of George Floyd into stark light. Walking through these essays with Gopo is a profound and gratifying journey.”—Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton“With startling finesse and unmooring insight, Autumn Song: Essays on Absence will recalibrate your senses to understand there actually is no such thing as void or emptiness at all. Inside perceived absence, there is invitation for seizing, reconsidering, and creating new lexicons of poetic logic. These essays are treasures, tendered by Patrice Gopo’s rare gaze of lyrical precision. Autumn Song is an ode to the artistry of seeing oneself in a world of fast glances and forgotten histories.”—Lisa Factora-Borchers, author, activist, and editor of Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual ViolenceTable of ContentsBy Way of Explanation Dwelling Blueberry Season Winter’s Breakup That Autumn Between Mountains and Water Dispatches from a Walking Life Living Stones of Remembrance Raised to Life I Think My Grandmother Has Forgotten When the Challenger Exploded A Moment Leads to an Essay And There Will Be Imprints, and There Will Be Gifts Understanding A Brief Statement on Grace A Small-Scale Scavenger Hunt for Sight Breath More Than Tea Single-Family Zoning Considered The Blooming of Mournful Things Changing What Is Common, What Is Rare Our Words at a Moment in Time Two Field Guides My Pandemic Days: March–July 2020 Anticipating Autumn By Way of Conclusion Gratitude Source Acknowledgments Author Comments Notes Bibliography
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press From Back Alley to the Border
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
£21.59
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Gothic for Girls Misty and British Comics
Book SynopsisToday fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic.Trade Review"Julia's Gothic for Girls is a wonderful book, highly recommended by all here at Sector 13. It sets a new standard for books on british comics." - Sector 13
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Carnival Is Woman Feminism and Performance in
Book SynopsisWomen are performing an ever-growing role in Caribbean Carnival. Through a feminist perspective, this volume examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which women participate in the event.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Carnival Is Woman
Book SynopsisContributions by Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Jan de Cosmo, Frances Henry, Jeff Henry, Adanna Kai Jones, Samantha Noel, Dwaine Plaza, Philip W. Scher, and Asha St. BernardWomen are performing an ever-growing role in Caribbean Carnival. Through a feminist perspective, this volume examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which women participate in the event.While decried by traditionalists, the bikinis, beads, and feathers of 'pretty mas' convey both a newly found empowerment as a gendered resistance to oppression from men. Although research on Carnivals is substantial, especially in the Americas, the subject of women in Carnival as a topic of inquiry remains fairly new.These essays address anthropological and historical facets of women and their practices in the Trinidad Carnival, including an analysis of how women's costuming and performance have changed over time. The modern c
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Alison Bechdel From the Outside In
Book SynopsisIn a definitive collection of original essays, scholars cover the span of Alison Bechdel's career, placing her groundbreaking early work within the context of her more well-known recent projects. Contributors provide new insights on major themes in Bechdel's work, such as gender performativity, lesbian politics, trauma, and queer theory.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Beyond the Blockbusters Themes and Trends in
Book SynopsisWhile critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reading Testimony Witnessing Trauma Confronting
Book SynopsisTheorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Women in Comics
Book SynopsisExplores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Women in Comics
Book SynopsisExplores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book SynopsisNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: 'I have things to say and I'll say them.'Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate readers of the author's work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abidin
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Rebirthing a Nation
Book SynopsisAlthough US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of these white men''s speech, few notice or have thoughtfully considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women''s messages that organizationally preserve white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which con
£27.71
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Policing Intimacy Law Sexuality and the Color
Book SynopsisAnalyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through work by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sylvia Plath Day by Day Volume 1 19321955
Book SynopsisEach new biography of Sylvia Plath has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Transforming Girls The Work of NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisReframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political
Book SynopsisExamines the roots of Black political activism in the petition movement; Prince Hall and the creation of the first Black masonic lodges; the Black Baptist movement; writings; sermons; and the practices of festival days, through the story of a remarkable but largely unheralded woman and pioneering public intellectual.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and
Book SynopsisBuilding on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Little Women at 150
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community, examines anew the enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad complexities of Alcott’s most famous work.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Little Women at 150
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community, examines anew the enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad complexities of Alcott’s most famous work.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Heritage and Hoop Skirts How Natchez Created the
Book SynopsisReveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed the Mississippi landscape through historic preservation, and fashioned elements of the Lost Cause into an industry.
£31.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Women Who Invented the Sixties
Book SynopsisWhile there were many protests in the 1950s the movements that took off in the early 1960s were qualitatively different. They were sustained, national, and they changed public opinion. Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Eudora Welty and Mystery
Book SynopsisIn Eudora Welty’s puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfilment of conventions. This book reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, forms often condescended to in literary studies, but beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Authenticating Whiteness Karens Selfies and Pop
Book SynopsisExplores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act.
£23.70
University Press of Mississippi Activism in the Name of God
Book SynopsisCelebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women’s intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers, listeners, and fellow activists to seek justice for the oppressed.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Matria Redux
Book SynopsisContends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Matria Redux Caribbean Women Novelize the Past
Book SynopsisContends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre.
£27.00
University Press of Mississippi Ferocious Ambition Joan Crawfords March to
Book SynopsisRobert Dance’s new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and - while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life - focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a rare combination of grit, determination, beauty, and talent.Trade ReviewFerocious Ambition presents a commendable, well-researched study of its subject from a sharp-eyed scholar." - Marion Meade, author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
£30.36
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Seat at the Table
Book SynopsisPresents essays on African American women within the larger context of American intellectual history. Divided into four parts, the volume considers women in politics, art, government, journalism, media, education, and the military.Trade ReviewWilliams and Ziobro have assembled a body of work that expands the parameters of Black women’s intellectual discourse. The fresh, innovative perspectives in A Seat at the Table challenge canonical thinking and urge us to reconsider who we conceive of as 'public intellectuals." - Patricia G. Davis, author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Seat at the Table Black Women Public
Book SynopsisPresents essays on African American women within the larger context of American intellectual history. Divided into four parts, the volume considers women in politics, art, government, journalism, media, education, and the military.Trade ReviewWilliams and Ziobro have assembled a body of work that expands the parameters of Black women’s intellectual discourse. The fresh, innovative perspectives in A Seat at the Table challenge canonical thinking and urge us to reconsider who we conceive of as 'public intellectuals." - Patricia G. Davis, author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
£26.96
Cornell University Press Casino Women
Book SynopsisCasino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupationsmaking beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires'' relentless quest for profits.The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nationthe 60,000-member Trade ReviewFor all of the popular culture that's been based in and around the casino industry—Casino Royale, 21, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and many others—few have ever taken into account the stories of women working to keep the industry going.... Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones penned this book with the desire to not only fill the void, but also to provide inspiration for others....The emphasis is most certainly on the harsh working conditions and uncertainty that many of Nevada’s women face. Casino Women unashamedly offers this view in an attempt to make more people aware of the conditions faced, and in the longer term, to improve these women’s’ lives.... Many of the tales included are certainly fascinating and provide an intriguing insight to an area hardly ever spoken about. * CasinoOnline.co.uk *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. "You Have to Do It for the People Coming"Part I: Back of the House, Front of the House2. "They're Treating Us Like Donkeys, Really": Housekeeping and Other Back of the House Work3. "Kiss My Foot": Cocktail WaitressingPart II: Union Women4. "I'll Always Love the Union"5. "Here's My Heart"Part III: Nonunion Women Stand Up6. Darlene Jespersen v. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.7. Liberation Theology, Pit Boss StylePart IV: Dealers: The Illusion of Power8. Dealing: The View from Dead Center9. Stuck10. Big Tobacco Rides the StripPart V: Women in Management11. Crossing Over to the Other Side12. Conclusion: "A Marvelous Victory"Notes Bibliography Index
£19.94
