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Book SynopsisCo-winner of the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics of the Canadian Political Science AssociationThe Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social tiesspecifically family tiesplayed in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Central to these ties, Kimberley Ens Manning finds, were women as both the subjects and leaders of reform. Drawing on interviews with 163 participants in the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu, as well as government documents and elite memoirs, biographies, speeches, and reports, Manning offers a new theoretical lensattachment politicsto underscore how family and ideology intertwined to create an important building block of state capacity and governance. As The Party Family details, infant mortality in China dropped by more than half within a decade of the PRC's foundation, a policy achTable of ContentsIntroduction: Family Ties as Political Attachments States of Activism 1. The May Fourth Movement 2. The Chongqing Coalition 3. The Long March to Yan'an 4. Land Reform State Capacity adn Contention 5. Maternal Bodies 6. Filial Brides 7. Household Managers 8. Shock Troops 9. Leaders Conclusion: The Attached Politics of State Capacityand Contention

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Book SynopsisSusan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to women.That transformation did not happen. In this book, full of the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess Trade ReviewEisenberg makes a persuasive case for beefing-up affirmative action guidelines and revising archaic union apprenticeship programs that were designed with eighteen-year-old men in mind. -- Maureen Corrigan * Fresh Air *We'll Call You if We Need You... is an inspirational and life-affirming book. Eisenberg tells the story through interviews with thirty women—carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers. * New York Times Book Review *Eisenberg's book engenders a new respect for the women in the trades and the difficult work they do. * The Progressive *

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Book SynopsisSusan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to women.That transformation did not happen. In this book, full of the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess Trade ReviewEisenberg makes a persuasive case for beefing-up affirmative action guidelines and revising archaic union apprenticeship programs that were designed with eighteen-year-old men in mind. -- Maureen Corrigan * Fresh Air *We'll Call You if We Need You... is an inspirational and life-affirming book. Eisenberg tells the story through interviews with thirty women—carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers. * New York Times Book Review *Eisenberg's book engenders a new respect for the women in the trades and the difficult work they do. * The Progressive *

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Book SynopsisProstitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seductionthe Victorian fallen woman represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.Trade ReviewAs the subtitle suggests, Anderson’s subject is not so much the prostitute in Victorian literature as it is the rhetoric the Victorians used to construct ‘fallenness.’ * CHOICE *Some ideas in Tainted Souls and Painted Faces will be useful in classroom discussions about the pressures exerted on authors by specific literary forms and generalized cultural anxieties. -- Sally Mitchell * Victorian Studies *

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Book SynopsisShoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objectsthe topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of female fetishism in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing.Trade ReviewIn light of recent critical debate, one might say that of the perversions fetishism is the most widely shared. Its subjects and objects are ubiquitous, and include male and female writers, patients, and literary characters and critics. The publication of such an in-depth analysis of fetishism in turn-of-the-century French literature seemed necessary in such a climate, and Apter's insightful book fulfills the perverse reader's expectations. -- Marie Lathers * French Review *

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Book SynopsisDrawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of voice as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a communal voiceincluding Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittigshe finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.Trade ReviewFictions of Authority is an important book, marking the coming of age of feminist studies of women and the novel. Its critical attention is fixed on the narrative form, as opposed to the representational content, of women’s novels. It takes an ambitious scope of three centuries to construct a history of the modern novel that problematizes the correspondences between women’s literary and social authority. -- Syvia Bowerbank * Studies in the Novel *

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Book SynopsisAdopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Condé, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.Trade ReviewAutobiographical Voices is an innovative, highly suggestive study of autobiographical writing that cuts across traditional boundaries of canon and culture, gender, genre, and academic discipline. Lionnet’s purpose is to break down accepted polarities, opening up the field of literary studies to a cultural diversity that she herself has incorporated in both her subject matter and methodology. Although a scholarly work, this book also expresses a forthright message about freedom of expression, especially that of groups silenced by political and cultural oppression. -- Mary Rice-Defosse * Modern Language Studies *

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Book SynopsisAccording to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe.After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, Clarissa W. Atkinson reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women''s bodies and reproduction; inherited from Greek science and popularized through the practice of midwifery, these assumptions helped shape common beliefs about what mothers were. She then describes the development of spiritual motherhood both as a concept emerging out of monastic ideologies in the early Middle Ages

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn recording the histories and putting them to print, Patricia Norland succeeded in capturing an important slice of history and the very personal story of exemplary women. * Foreign Service Journal *To put it mildly, these stories are gripping. * Green Left *This is a well-written, incredibly valuable book. Highly recommended. * Choice *[Norland] gives [these women] a platform to talk directly to the reader[,] thereby revealing the women's double and even multiple lives, full of contradiction and inner conflicts caused by the complexity and long duration of the war years. The Saigon Sisters is a substantial collection of thoughts, memories, moments of pain and joy in individual lives. * Asian Review of Books *The literature on the war in Vietnam includes hundreds of first-person sources by men on all sides in the conflict, but fewer than a dozen books about women are in print. Thus this collection of oral history interviews by Norland (formerly, US Department of State) is an important contribution. * Choice *It is quite easy, and motivating as well, to imagine a course on Vietnamese history after World War II that includes only work by women and with The Saigon Sisters as a pivotal work connecting them all. As Norland's powerful oral-history recounting of the lives of this 'band of sisters' demonstrates, friendship and independence required vigilance but endured despite decades of war. * Pacific Affairs *To read a good group biography is to come out with a different level of appreciation for the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another... Norland tells the stories of nine [Vietnamese women] who chose to stay, and who, after spending their childhoods secretly dreaming of Vietnamese independence, found surprising ways into the resistance. * The Atlantic *Table of Contents1. Thanh: "Our Hearts Beating for the Cause" 2. Trang: "Living a Contradiction" 3. Minh: "Generation at a Crossroads" 4. Le An: "The University of Life" 5. Sen: "A Question of Habit" 6. Tuyen: "A Chance to Succeed" 7. Lien An: "Deep Down, We Remain Vietnamese" 8. Xuan: "Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality Were Not for Our People" 9. Oahn: "I Did Not Become a Refugee" 10. Tranh: "We Are, After All, Human Beings" 11. Trang: "Prepared for Any Sacrifice or Risk" 12. Minh: "I Led Two Lives" 13. Le An: "The Theme of Our Work... Was Revolution" 14. Sen: "Working for the People, Not a Particular Party" 15. Tuyen: "Everyone Was Wrong" 16. Lien An: "We Understood What We Had to Do" 17. Xuan: "We Could Not Stay Indifferent" 18. Oanh: "French Are Very Nice in France and Very Colonialist in the Colonies" 19. Reuniting Epilogue

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Book SynopsisWhen Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir''s international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public. This correspondence, at the heart of Sex, Love, and Letters, immerses us in the tumultuous decades from the late 1940s to the 1970sfrom the painful aftermath of World War II to the horror and shame of French colonial brutality in Algeria and through the dilemmas and exhilarations of the early gay liberation and feminist movements. The letters also provide a glimpse into the power of reading and the power of readers to seduce their favorite authors.The relationship between Beauvoir and her audience proved especially long, intimate, and vexed. Coffin traces this relationship, from the publication of Beauvoir''s acclaimed The Second Sex to the release of the last volume of her memoirs, offering an unfamiliar perspective on one oTrade ReviewCoffin opens up a new perspective onto a major writer, and makes a convincing case for her continuing intellectual relevance. * Publisher's Weekly *The title of Judith Coffin's book evokes, for those of us old enough to remember it, Steven Soderbergh's 1989 hit movie, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, whose main argument, according to the late and great Roger Ebert, was that "conversation is better than sex—more intimate, more voluptuous."[1] * H-France Review *This beautifully written, frequently moving book is a crucial addition to the scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir. * Kirkus Reviews *[Coffin] writes engagingly about... historic developments while paying strict attention to the vivid immediacy of those letters that range far and wide across the categories of sentiment, education, and motive, revealing personalities that run the gamut from the elegant to the crude, the appreciative to the demanding. * Boston Review *Several years ago, Coffin had the great fortune to be the first researcher to open an uncataloged Beauvoir archive.... No less fortunately, she had the great intelligence and skill to translate these letters into English for us and cast them in a lucid and fascinating account of Beauvoir's relationship to her readers then and since. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Sex, Love, and Lettersis a highly engaging book that provides an excellent contribution to the field ofBeauvoir scholarship. Coffin provides readers with an exceptionally rich picture of the cultural landscape of France and beyond in the decades after World War II, which is indispensable for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Beauvoir's work. * Simone de Beauvoir Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Intimate Life of the Nation: Reading The Second Sex in 1949 2. Beauvoir, Kinsey, and Midcentury Sex 3. Readers and Writers 4. The Algerian War and the Scandal of Torture 5. Shame as Political Feeling 6. Second Takes on The Second Sex 7. Couple Troubles 8. Sexual Politics and Feminism Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLaura Nader documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by esteemed author and anthropologist Laura Nader. She revisits her correspondence with academic colleagues, lawyers, politicians, military officers, and many others, all with unique and insightful perspectives on a variety of social and political issues. She uses personal and professional correspondence as a way of examining complex issues and dialogues that might not be available by other means. By compiling these letters, Nader allows us to take an intimate look at how she interacts with people across multiple fields, disciplines, and outlooks.Arranged chronologically by decade, this book follows Nader from her early career and efforts to change patriarchal policies at UC, Berkeley, to her efforts to fight against climate change and minimize environmental degradation. The letters act as snapshots, giving us glimpses of the lives and issues that dominated culture at the time of their writing. AmTrade ReviewLetters is a carefully crafted book that masterfully weaves together several narratives. Letters challenges us all to contemplate, calmly compose our thoughts, and commit ourselves to reclaiming the art of heartfelt, handwritten communication. * PoLAR *A fascinating and eclectic documentary record, one for which different readers will find disciplinary, historical, and biographic interest in relation to different topics, exchanges, and interlocuters. * Public Anthropologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Getting Started in the Sixties 2. Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies 3. Uncovering Academic Mindsets in the Eighties 4. The Ivory Tower Is No More in the Nineties 5. A Twenty-First-Century World Epilogue

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Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a lady novelist. As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents'' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it.Exploring the connections between Woolf''s immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation''s concerns and controversies to Woolf''s considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf''s creative works, politics, and criticism in Trade ReviewCorbett's meticulously researched study... locates influence socially as well as literarily, and details the societal changes wrought by the female Victorian writers... * Choice *In Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts, Mary Jean Corbett makes a nuanced contribution to the discussion by showing that Woolf's relationship with the Victorians was not a matter of periodicity but one of generation, attitude, and temperament. Well-written and well-informed, this book draws on the latest debates in Woolf scholarship concerning public life, political activism, the professions, and history, and it adds an important dimension to discussion of Woolf and the Victorians. * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *The book provides a road map to guide us through the obscured routes of Woolf's neglected second-generation female predecessors. Corbett makes us pause to consider diversions from the Victorian male-dominated high road trodden by Woolf's father's venerated literary companions—Hardy, James, Meredith—and in some ways by Woolf herself. Through extensive research—patiently plodding along these archival paths—Corbett has made some of those second-generation voices more richly accessible to us. * Virginia Wolf Miscellany *A considerable achievement. For too long Woolf has been placed on a pedestal as the 'exceptional' modernist woman, despite the efforts of scholars to challenge this narrative. Corbett offers us a different Woolf, one entangled and immersed in a world richly populated with exceptional women; perhaps a messier, more complicated picture, but one truer and all the more interesting for that. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Gender, Greatness, and the "Third Generation" Interlude I: Grand Reads Woolf 2. New Women and Old: Sarah Grand, Social Purity, and The Voyage Out Interlude II: Disinterestedness 3. "Ashamed of the Inkpot": Woolf and the Literary Marketplace Interlude III: Duckworth and Company 4. "To Serve and Bless": Julia Stephen, Isabel Somerset, and Late-Victorian Women's Politics Interlude IV: Somerset, Symonds,Stephen, and Sexuality 5. "A Diferent Ideal": Representing the Public Woman

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Book SynopsisBlack Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which the interwar black market sex industry thrived. The clandestine sex industry flourished in sites of legal inconsistency, cultural changes, economic disparity, rural-urban division, and demographic shifts. As a nexus of the many tensions besetting late colonial Tonkin, the black market sex industry serves as a useful lens through which to examine these tensions and the ways they affected marginalized populations. More specifically, an investigation of this black market shows how a particular population of impoverished womena group regrettabTrade ReviewFirpo (California Polytechnic State Univ.), author of The Uprooted: Race, Childhood, and Imperialism in Indochina, 1890–1980, provocatively argues that French colonial rule gave rise to a black market for sex in Northern Vietnam. * Choice *Christina Firpo's latest book is a lively social history of the black market sex industry in late French colonial northern Vietnam, known then as Tonkin (1920–45). Black Market Business is an absorbing historical study[.][T]his rigorously researched study testifies to Firpo's high scholarly calibre. Accessibly and lucidly written, the book will be of interest to general readers, students and scholars alike from many disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, law, literature and cultural studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies. * Sojourn *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Late Colonial Vietnam and the Development of the Black Market 1. The Geography of Vice: Spatial Dimensions of Clandestine Sex Wor 2. Venereal Diseases: Policing the Sources of Infection 3. Unfree Labor: Debt Bondage and Human Trafficking 4. Adolescent Sex Work: Poverty and Its Effects on Children 5. Đào Singers: New Ways to Police Female Performance Art 6. Taxi Dancers: Western Culture and the Urban-Rural Divide Conclusion: Patterns of Clandestine Sex Industries into the Postcolonial Era

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWang's thought-provoking study of erotic media markets in Beijing from the 1880s to the 1930s breaks new ground by effectively bridging elite discourses and mass consumption and grounding the discussion within the context of indigenous practices and technologies. * Choice *This volume's concerns reach far beyond eroticism and sexuality. It explores the shifting power structures and cultural politics behind the "global modern pornographic turn" of which China was a part as it emerged at the turn of the twentieth century (14-17, 44, 202). * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Chinese History of Pornographic Modernity 1. Challenging Yin Hierarchy: Late Imperial Antecedents of the Global Modern Pornographic Turn Part One: A Globalizing Market Transforms Sexual Representations 2. Commodifying Licentiousness in a Time of Flux: The Material Dimensions of Global Modern Pornography 3. The Implied Masturbator Speaks: Technologies and Markets Catalyze Transformations in Yin Ideology Part Two: Global Modern Pornography Raises Reactions and Contradictions 4. Sex(ology) Sells: The Marketplace Assimilates Global Modern Innovations 5. Plus c'est la même chose: Reinventing Licentiousness for a New Age Conclusion: From Yin to "Yellow"

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book fits nicely within the feminist literature on mothering and raises significant questions about the gendered demands and distribution of childcare, as well as the criteria and practice of child custody processes. * Choice *Table of Contents1. A Contradiction in Terms 2. The Mothers 3. She Must Have Done Something 4. Still a Mother 5. Father of the Year 6. Manufacturing Bad Mothers 7. Still in an Abusive Relationship 8. Lessons Learned

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Book SynopsisJackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that these noncustodial mothers'' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal systems that shapes the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means being there, then noncustodial mothers, through their absence, are seen as nonmothers. They are anti-mothers to be reviled. At the very least, these mothers serve as cautionary tales.Still a Mother questions the existence of an objective method for determining custody of children and challenges the best-interests standard through a feminist, reproductive justice lens. The stories of noncustodial mothers that Krasas relates shed light on marriage and divorce, caregiving, gender violence, and family court. Unfortunately, much of the contemporary discussion of child custody determination is domTrade ReviewThis book fits nicely within the feminist literature on mothering and raises significant questions about the gendered demands and distribution of childcare, as well as the criteria and practice of child custody processes. * Choice *Table of Contents1. A Contradiction in Terms 2. The Mothers 3. She Must Have Done Something 4. Still a Mother 5. Father of the Year 6. Manufacturing Bad Mothers 7. Still in an Abusive Relationship 8. Lessons Learned

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCastro-Woodhouse brings to life Rasami and the other consorts who are otherwise flattened by historical accounts. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introducing Lan Na, Siam, and the Inland Constellation 2. Dara Rasami's Career in the Siamese Royal Palace 3. Performing Identity and Ethnicity in the Siamese Court 4. Inventing Lan Na Tradition and Dara Rasami's Legacy 5. Intertwined Fates: Monarchy, Women's Bodies, and the Thai State

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Book SynopsisThe thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is filled with wonder. When I bird, life is bigger, more vibrant. That is why Susan Fox Rogers is a birder. Learning the Birds is the story of how encounters with birds recharged her adventurous spirit. When the birds first called, Rogers was in a slack season of her life. The woods and rivers that enthralled her younger self had lost some of their luster. It was the song of a thrush that reawakened Rogers, sparking a long-held desire to know the birds that accompanied her as she rock climbed and paddled, to know the world around her with greater depth. Energized by her curiosity, she followed the birds as they drew her deeper into her authentic self, and ultimately into love. In Learning the Birds, we join Rogers as she becomes a birder and joins the community of passionate and quirky bird people. We meet her birding companions close to home in New YorTrade ReviewWith its whimsy and discerning intellect, this radiates beauty. * Publishers Weekly *Rogers's memoir brought me into a season of discovery alongside her, and in many ways, I felt I was witnessing someone fall in love for the first time. Rogers's memoir will make a great read for anyone who wants to dip back into the first joys of birdwatching, and offers a beautifully written story filled with worthwhile information and insights. * The Urban Audubon *Susan Fox Rogers' Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure is a treat for readers who savored When Birds Are Near, Rogers's 2020 anthology of contemporary birding essays. Her solo venture offers three intertwined stories: Rogers's initiation into the world of birding; a burgeoning romance between her and her birding partner; and a sustained reflection on what it means to be middle-aged. The author's perspective expands and deepens, and tonally the chapters range through inquisitiveness, euphoria, restlessness, lonesomeness and fulfillment. Rogers's ease with language often brushes against poetry, but the writing is grounded by straightforwardness and humility. * Michigan Quarterly Review *Rogers's engaging essays offer something for everyone. Active birders can relate to the rigorous study and dedication necessary to gradually master an appreciation of the natural world; nonbirders can enjoy the adventure and developing love interest that compel the introspective, thought-provoking narrative. * Terrain.org *Rogers invites readers to fall for birds, and a human love interest, in this book of natural history interlaced with self-reflection and meditations on relationships. You'll surely discover something new about birds - and yourself. * Audubon *Learning the Birds is a great way to re-live being a new birder, especially if you started the adventure as an adult. Rogers spins a good tale - her adventures are relatable. A great winter read. * Pennsylvania Ornithological Society *Florida readers will particularly enjoy her jaunt through the Everglades, heart set on finding a flamingo.Learning the Birds is a story of self-discovery in a phase of life that is unde-rexplored, and, like many of the "unremarkable" birds it documents, very much worth paying attention to. * The Gabber *Table of Contents1. I Wish I Knew 2. Snow Bunting 3. Learning the Birds 4. Bicky 5. Methinks 6. Florence 7. Twitching 8. Christmas Bird Count 9. Don't Move 10. No Other Everglades 11. Little Brother Henslow 12. Interlude: The Other Leopold 13. Good Bird 14. Guided 15. Chiuit 16. A Perfect Fall Day 17. Surviving the Winter 18. #1 Birder 19. Rusty Blackbird 20. Dawn Chorus 21. Little Blue 22. So Much to Learn

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Book SynopsisFollowing the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the early decades of the twentieth century, ideas that are the basis for much of today''s progressive thought. As one of the new women who came of age during the Progressive era, Mary Field Parton, a close friend of Clarence Darrow, pursued social justice as a settlement house worker and as a leading writer on labor organizing, transforming pragmatic principles into action.Mark Douglas McGarvie shows how, following the upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, liberals such as Mary Field Parton turned to pragmatism, hoping to generate greater social awareness from constructions of values rooted in personal experiences instead of philosophical or religious truths. The Pragmatic Ideal reveals how Mary Field Parton sought to expand her rights as a woman while nonetheless denigratTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Victorian Childhood in Defense of Tradition, 1878 -1896 2. Expanded Opportunities beyond the Home, 1896–1905 3. The New Women and Life in the Urban United States, 1905–1908 4. The Trials of Progressivism, 1909-1914 5. Liberalism's Decline during and after the Great War, 1914–1924 6. A Rights Revival in the Roaring Twenties, 1924–1929 7. A New Deal for Liberalism and the United States, 1929–1969 Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationshipsfrom the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was foundational not only to the colonization of the Philippines but also to the longer, uneven history between the two nations. Although some relationships between Filipinos and Americans served as demonstrations of US benevolence, too-close sexual relations also threatened social hierarchies and the so-called civilizing mission. For the Filipino, Indigenous, Moro, Chinese, and other local populations, intercourse offered opportunities to negotiate and challenge empire, though these opportunities often came at a high cost for those most vulnerable.Drawing on a multilingual array of primary sources, Dangerous Intercourse highlights that sexual relationships enablTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dangerous Intercourse: Romantic Pretense and Colonial Violence 1. Marshaling Interracial Intercourse during the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902 2. Colonial "Frontiers": Empire Building and Intercourse in the Northern and Southern Philippines 3. Colonial Society and Policing Dangerous Intercourse, 1898-1907 4. The Trials of Intercourse: Criminality and Illegitimacy in the Colonial Courts 5. Depicting Dangerous Intercourse: Sam and Maganda on the Pages of Empire 6. Making Mestizos: Filipino American Mixed-Race Children and Discourses of Belonging, 1898 and Beyond Conclusion: "My Filipino Baby," Absolution, and Aftermath of an Imperial Romance

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Book SynopsisCo-winner of the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics of the Canadian Political Science AssociationThe Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social tiesspecifically family tiesplayed in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Central to these ties, Kimberley Ens Manning finds, were women as both the subjects and leaders of reform. Drawing on interviews with 163 participants in the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu, as well as government documents and elite memoirs, biographies, speeches, and reports, Manning offers a new theoretical lensattachment politicsto underscore how family and ideology intertwined to create an important building block of state capacity and governance. As The Party Family details, infant mortality in China dropped by more than half within a decade of the PRC's foundation, a policy achTable of ContentsIntroduction: Family Ties as Political Attachments States of Activism 1. The May Fourth Movement 2. The Chongqing Coalition 3. The Long March to Yan'an 4. Land Reform State Capacity adn Contention 5. Maternal Bodies 6. Filial Brides 7. Household Managers 8. Shock Troops 9. Leaders Conclusion: The Attached Politics of State Capacityand Contention

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Book SynopsisThe Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser''s prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women''s intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement.Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex proseincluding essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviewsaddresses issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes; the prison-industrial complex, Jewish culture and diaspora, motherhood, literature, music, cinema, and translation. Many of the selected texts have been forgotten, have fallen out of print, or wer

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion. Trade Review"In this stunningly original book, Wendy Anne Lee looks beyond the usual suspects in the history of the novel. A masterful stylist who navigates between wit and eloquence with admirable brio, she often made me laugh out loud—and almost made me weep." -- Deidre Lynch * Harvard University *"Arguing for the novel as a form provoked and sustained by the vexatious philosophical problem of insensibility, Wendy Lee anchors high theory in history, providing striking new readings of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known texts. Her elegant, witty, and sociable prose makes unfeeling endlessly engaging." -- Helen Deutsch * University of California at Los Angeles *"Wendy Lee makes the bold, paradigm-shifting argument that unfeeling is the heart—the inscrutable, insensible heart!—of the novel. She does so with bravura style and impressive range, producing a book that is both memorable and persuasive." -- Sarah Kareem, University of California * Los Angeles *"Lee traces insensibility from 'the unlikely stock figure of the prude' to Austen'sSense and Sensibilityand Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'—from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe to George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth. Along the way, she blends philosophical erudition and a series of razor-sharp readings with an uncommon wit that ratifies the absolute centrality of insensibility in the novel but also in the world...Essential."––J. Risinger, CHOICE"Wendy Lee's book is an astonishing achievement. Not simply has she turned inside-out one of our deeply held beliefs about eighteenth-century literature and culture—that the novel is an exercise in cultivating and celebrating sensibility—but she has also presented us with a series of compelling new readings of some of the eighteenth century's most-read fictions....Each strikingly original chapter presents a new facet of the problem she investigates, never falling into the pattern of reiteration with new evidence, but instead, driving the argument further and deeper, nuancing her central contention in ways that continually surprise and amaze." -- Rebecca Tierney-Hynes * The Review of English Studies *"Wendy Anne Lee makes me think about what we feel privately. Her brilliantly contrarian Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel looks at what happens when the answer is nothing....a dazzlingly original and irreverent monograph." -- Jayne Lewis * Studies in English Literature *"Through her capacious research, masterful close readings, and exquisitely stylish prose, Wendy Anne Lee presents her readers with an enlightening study of the preeminent genre of fiction that the British Enlightenment would produce....she offers what is no less than a new way of reading the novel—a method that is as attuned to the expressiveness of silence as it is to profusive embodiments of emotion." -- Kirstin M. Girten * Modern Philology *"A significant contribution to the study of both eighteenth-century philosophy and novel theory, Failures of Feeling—like its central figures—will no doubt generate significant response. It is the rare monograph that I feel the need—but also the willingness—to reread upon finishing, but I am certain that returning to Lee's text will only reveal new connections and depths." -- Stephanie Insley Hershinow * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"Failures of Feeling is an absorbing, challenging, and profound work....While it may be true that the narrative trajectories of most of the novels Lee discusses flirt with tragedy and irresolution, in her hands the beauty of these works shines more brightly than ever." -- Adela Pinch * Novel *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1A Brief History of the Prude chapter abstractThis chapter locates an unlikely precursor to Bartleby in the stock figure of the prude, whose ubiquity in early print culture attests to a primary connection in the history of the novel between insensibility and gender. Diving into an elaborate, seventeenth-century taxonomy of female subjects, this discussion highlights the précieuses, a fraught libertine construction that registered the political and social discomforts generated by women's writing. Eighteenth-century English prude fictions, this chapter argues, extend the feminocentric threat of the précieuses (to estate, sovereignty, and conjugality) and import the punitive script of their transformation, a story line dedicated to the violent exposure of female feeling. The chapter concludes with a reading of Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, a breathtaking novel that revises and redeems Descartes's account of desire in The Passions of the Soul. 2Clarissa's Marble Heart chapter abstractThis chapter explicates Samuel Richardson's prime demonstration of the doomed logic of insensibility in European fiction, Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady. The so-called father of the psychological novel, Richardson distilled narrative purpose into the probing of female interiority. Newly framed by early prude fictions, Clarissa, this section argues, can be understood through a long-standing and deeply gendered anxiety about dualism, or the metaphysical gaps between sensation, speech, and action. Drawing on John Locke's concept of "indifferency" and Frances Ferguson's crucial theorization of rape and the psychological novel, the chapter spotlights the embedded narrative of Clarissa's life as an urban rape survivor. Insensibility, it argues, embeds a trenchant countermodel within a Richardsonian project. 3The Man of No Feeling chapter abstractThis chapter turns to sentimental fiction's man of feeling, radically reinterpreting his fine-tuned sensibility as a late iteration of sovereign contempt. In a close look at the insensible who loomed largest over the eighteenth century, Charles I, this discussion takes up the phenomenon of laughter, what Hobbes controversially defined as a triumphant glorying in the infirmities of others. Reconnecting power to humor, the analysis focuses on Oliver Goldsmith, a Grub Street writer who exploited his period's tipping point between satire and sentiment. Dissatisfied with what he regarded as the distinct humorlessness of the novel, Goldsmith turned to theater's ready-made insensible, the hero of comic misrule, Puck. Arguing for the political transformations of that figure in early modernity, the chapter depicts the "insensible cub" Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer as the fictional force that reanimates sovereign laughter. 4Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy chapter abstractChapter 4 features the figure of godlike dispassion who presides at the apex of the novel form, Jane Austen. The case of Austen's insensibility exemplifies the ways in which failures of feeling are entwined with narrative failure and how the charge of contempt so often marks a disruption to protocols of fiction. This analysis focuses on the curdled plot of Sense and Sensibility, whose stalwart Elinor Dashwood has been identified with Austen herself. Examining David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, a text considered to be the philosophical companion to Austen's oeuvre, this chapter examines the qualities of resemblance, contiguity, and causation that conduce to sympathy in Hume's account, or what in Austen's novel makes emotion a contagion, or one sister's pain feel distressingly like the other's. Conclusion: Death Wish for the Novel chapter abstractI conclude this study of insensibility with George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, a late nineteenth-century novel that draws together the different strands of the Bartleby problem presented by the book: the ridiculed dream of female sovereignty in prude fictions, the anxious and sadistic logic of the Richardsonian plot, the inevitable burnout of the man of feeling, and the compromising ethics of intimacy in Jane Austen. Eliot, this reading argues, brings these elements to bear in order to euthanize a genre that relies on the now thoroughly pathologized principle by which insensibility inflames the passions. Featured here is the character of the Alcharisi, a brilliant conflation of Diderot's paradoxically dispassionate actor and Defoe's flagrantly unmaternal mother, revived by Eliot to call out the constraints of the novel form. Introduction: The Bartleby Problem chapter abstractThe introduction lays out the book's theory at large through a reading of Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street," which features fiction's most infamous insensible, a motionless young clerk who would prefer not to. The analysis here draws on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and contemporary affect theorists to showcase and explain that signature feeling of unfeeling: contempt. Reframing the Bartleby problem from a picture of capitalist abjection to a fundamental philosophical problem about narrative, this introduction returns to the riddle of the unmoved or prime mover as the instigator of all motions and, it argues, emotions.

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Book SynopsisEven as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.Trade Review"With vivid description and sharp analysis, Beauty Diplomacy reveals the layers upon layers of complexity that surround the Nigerian beauty pageant industry. Seen through the eyes of contestants, producers, and anti-pageant protesters, the pageants are the object of contradictory desires, ambitions and fears. This highly engaging study shows how pageants have become the focal point for debates about the meaning of the nation, global political campaigns, and more."—Maxine Leeds Craig, author of Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move"It's one thing to describe beauty practices and place them in historical context. It's quite another, bigger challenge to show how these practices embody disputes over national identity, culture, and economic development. Combining deep knowledge of Nigerian society with rich, painstaking field research, Dr. Balogun's book is the best I've read on the intersection of postcolonial nationalism, globalization, and bodies."—Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati, and co-editor of Bodies without Borders and Global Beauty, Local Bodies"In Beauty Diplomacy, Balogun argues that beauty pageants are not benign; rather, they are arenas in which young women are trained, transformed, and deployed as beauty diplomats—forging ties among Nigerian businessmen and politicians, embodying nationalism, and serving as cultural ambassadors tasked with repairing the nation's reputation on the global stage. This clearly written and conceptually innovative book is a significant achievement."—Sanyu A. Mojola, author of Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS"Compellingly, Balogun uses the framework of global nationalism to describe the ways in which pageant organizers and participants navigate between constructing and embracing new forms of Nigerian nationhood....This engagingly written volume, of accessible length, should be read by academics at all levels, but will be a particularly excellent selection for advanced undergraduate courses in African studies and related fields. Highly recommended."—E. E. Stiles, CHOICE"Oluwakemi M. Balogun's Beauty Diplomacy is a rich sociological study of the strategic role beauty pageants play when developing countries try to elevate their status as an emerging economy in the global neoliberal order."—Jaita Talukdar, American Journal of Sociology"It can be challenging to trace how abstract concepts like globalization or nationalism appear in everyday life. But beauty pageants are an excellent site to explore cultural meaning-making.Beauty Diplomacyis a welcome addition to scholarship in global and transnational sociology as well as sociology of the body, embodiment, and gender."—Alka Menon, Contemporary Sociology"Beauty Diplomacy is an important contribution to the literature on gender, Nigerian political economy, nationalism and nation-building, women's bodies and sexuality, transnational feminist sociology, international relations, and neoliberal globalization."—Gloria Chuku, International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of Contents1. The Nigerian Factor 2. Snapshots of Nigerian Pageantry 3. The Making of Beauty Diplomats 4. Miss Cultural and Miss Cosmopolitan 5. The Business of Beauty 6. As Miss World Turns 7. After the Spotlight

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Book SynopsisAgainst all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to believe that the world is tilted – economically, socially, politically – against them. A majority of men across the political spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men to express their gender identity, and when circumstances make it difficult or impossible for them to do so, they search for another outlet to compensate. Sometimes these behaviors are socially positive, such as placing a greater emphasis on fatherhood, but other times they can be maladaptive, as in the case of increased sexual harassment at work. These trends have emerged, notably, since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Drawing on multiple data sources, the authors find that the specter of threats to their gender identity has important implications for men's behavior. Importantly, younger men are more likely to turn to nontraditional compensatory behaviors, such as increased involvement in cooking, parenting, and community leadership, suggesting that the conception of masculinity is likely to change in the decades to come.Trade Review"This fascinating study reveals how threats to traditional masculine identities can fuel political polarization and anti-female backlash, but also shows that some men respond by reworking their definitions of masculinity in positive, egalitarian ways."—Stephanie Coontz, author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s"This compelling, highly readable, wide-ranging book deftly maps the shifting terrain of American masculinity and the complex relationship between men's identities and social behavior. Masculinity is dangerous, but fragile; based on traditional roles, but highly adaptable. As Besen-Cassino and Cassino illustrate, this malleability also sows the seeds of social change."—Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland"This timely, well-researched social scientific study is based on the premise that men perceive themselves to be less advantaged than they once were compared to women and, in response, engage in what the authors describe as compensatory acts, sensing a threat to their masculinity. ... Recommended."—S. J. Bronner, CHOICETable of Contents1. Threatened Identity 2. Mad Men at Work 3. Men and Politics 4. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 5. God, Guns, and Pornography 6. Alternate Masculinities 7. The Future of Men

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Book SynopsisEven as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.Trade Review"With vivid description and sharp analysis, Beauty Diplomacy reveals the layers upon layers of complexity that surround the Nigerian beauty pageant industry. Seen through the eyes of contestants, producers, and anti-pageant protesters, the pageants are the object of contradictory desires, ambitions and fears. This highly engaging study shows how pageants have become the focal point for debates about the meaning of the nation, global political campaigns, and more."—Maxine Leeds Craig, author of Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move"It's one thing to describe beauty practices and place them in historical context. It's quite another, bigger challenge to show how these practices embody disputes over national identity, culture, and economic development. Combining deep knowledge of Nigerian society with rich, painstaking field research, Dr. Balogun's book is the best I've read on the intersection of postcolonial nationalism, globalization, and bodies."—Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati, and co-editor of Bodies without Borders and Global Beauty, Local Bodies"In Beauty Diplomacy, Balogun argues that beauty pageants are not benign; rather, they are arenas in which young women are trained, transformed, and deployed as beauty diplomats—forging ties among Nigerian businessmen and politicians, embodying nationalism, and serving as cultural ambassadors tasked with repairing the nation's reputation on the global stage. This clearly written and conceptually innovative book is a significant achievement."—Sanyu A. Mojola, author of Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS"Compellingly, Balogun uses the framework of global nationalism to describe the ways in which pageant organizers and participants navigate between constructing and embracing new forms of Nigerian nationhood....This engagingly written volume, of accessible length, should be read by academics at all levels, but will be a particularly excellent selection for advanced undergraduate courses in African studies and related fields. Highly recommended."—E. E. Stiles, CHOICE"Oluwakemi M. Balogun's Beauty Diplomacy is a rich sociological study of the strategic role beauty pageants play when developing countries try to elevate their status as an emerging economy in the global neoliberal order."—Jaita Talukdar, American Journal of Sociology"It can be challenging to trace how abstract concepts like globalization or nationalism appear in everyday life. But beauty pageants are an excellent site to explore cultural meaning-making.Beauty Diplomacyis a welcome addition to scholarship in global and transnational sociology as well as sociology of the body, embodiment, and gender."—Alka Menon, Contemporary Sociology"Beauty Diplomacy is an important contribution to the literature on gender, Nigerian political economy, nationalism and nation-building, women's bodies and sexuality, transnational feminist sociology, international relations, and neoliberal globalization."—Gloria Chuku, International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of Contents1. The Nigerian Factor 2. Snapshots of Nigerian Pageantry 3. The Making of Beauty Diplomats 4. Miss Cultural and Miss Cosmopolitan 5. The Business of Beauty 6. As Miss World Turns 7. After the Spotlight

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Book SynopsisAndrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future — if not for themselves, then for their children. But, when it became clear that their hopes were in vain, they chose to emigrate. Children of the Revolution tells these four women's stories up to their adulthood in Italy. Laura J. Enríquez's compassionate account highlights the particularities of each woman's narrative, and shows how their lives were shaped by social factors such as their class, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. These factors limited the options available to them, even as the women challenged the structures and violence surrounding them. By extending the story to include the children, and now grandchildren, of the four women, Enríquez demonstrates how their work abroad provided opportunities for their families that they themselves never had. Hence, these stories reveal that even when a revolution fails to fundamentally transform a society in a lasting way, seeds of change may yet take hold. Trade Review"Children of the Revolution weaves women's biography with Nicaraguan history in capturing the essence of sociological imagination to illustrate structural violence and agency embedded in surviving revolution and the aftermath of structural adjustment policies. Narrating compelling transnational migration stories of four mothers and their children, Enriquez reveals the personal cost of violence and inequality and mothers' heroic efforts to build a better life for the next generation."—Mary Romero, author of The Maid's Daughter"Enríquez's meticulously analyzed oral history makes the case that even when revolutions falter, newly ignited consciousness remains and fuels agentic migration trajectories, yielding both generational sacrifices and gains."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of DomésticaTable of Contents1. Situating the Stories of Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela 2. Childhood and Coming of Age in Nicaragua 3. Violent Expressions of Gender Inequalities 4. Emigrating for Their Children to Get Ahead 5. The Children of Andrea, Ana, and Pamela Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.Trade Review"Pious Peripheries brings the reader into a diverse and opinionated world of Afghan women thrown together only because they all refused to abide by gendered social norms. Sonia Ahsan's willingness to step aside and allow these remarkable women to speak for themselves is a tremendous strength." -- Thomas Barfield * Boston University *"The extraordinary achievement of Pious Peripheries lies in Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's astute explanation of how Afghan women exercise agency despite their subjugation to often brutal male authority. In this stunning ethnography, she skillfully shows how courageous women navigate the dynamics of piety and promiscuity to achieve seemingly inaccessible freedoms." -- Michael Herzfeld * Harvard University *"Pious Peripheries offers a compelling challenge to the idea that Afghan women need 'saving.' Via a highly original and intrepid ethnography, Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi reveals how, from the margins of Afghan society, a community of formidable women is fashioning their own distinctive claims about Islam, Pashtun identity, sexuality, and the state." -- Robert D. Crews * Stanford University *"Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's Pious Peripheries disrupts conventional categories of piety and secularism to bring to light the immense resourcefulness of Afghan women living at society's margins. Erudite and deeply empathic, with lucid vignettes that will stick in your memory, this is a must-read for anyone interested in feminism, Islam, and the tormented history of Afghanistan." -- Julie Billaud * Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies *"Boldly and poetically defying patriarchy, the runaway women of Pious Peripheries become the surprising harbingers of an emancipatory politics in war-torn Afghanistan. Immortalized by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's brave and soulfully crafted ethnography, these women's nomadic existence shatters myopic notions of religious identity and expands our sense of where reworlding comes from." -- João Biehl * Princeton University *"For practicing traditionally male-ascribed roles of hospitality, refuge, guest hosting, justice, friendship, love, and courage, Ahsan describes the women (through the Pashto poetic tradition of landay) as using their agentive action to reimagine what is legitimate and authorized and what could be. Most important, these women demonstrate that promiscuity is not the opposite of piety or morality but the potential basis for constructing new and different worlds for women. Recommended." -- B. Tavakolian * CHOICE *"Pious Peripheries is the model of engaged scholarship based on ethnographic research among marginalized groups... The diverse experiences of these runaway women reveal the confluence of concerns about subtle feminist and religious expressions and their yearning to reinvent a new sense of belonging inside the shelter system." -- Joseph Tse-Hei Lee * Acta Via Serica *

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion. Trade Review"In this stunningly original book, Wendy Anne Lee looks beyond the usual suspects in the history of the novel. A masterful stylist who navigates between wit and eloquence with admirable brio, she often made me laugh out loud—and almost made me weep." -- Deidre Lynch * Harvard University *"Arguing for the novel as a form provoked and sustained by the vexatious philosophical problem of insensibility, Wendy Lee anchors high theory in history, providing striking new readings of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known texts. Her elegant, witty, and sociable prose makes unfeeling endlessly engaging." -- Helen Deutsch * University of California at Los Angeles *"Wendy Lee makes the bold, paradigm-shifting argument that unfeeling is the heart—the inscrutable, insensible heart!—of the novel. She does so with bravura style and impressive range, producing a book that is both memorable and persuasive." -- Sarah Kareem, University of California * Los Angeles *"Lee traces insensibility from 'the unlikely stock figure of the prude' to Austen'sSense and Sensibilityand Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'—from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe to George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth. Along the way, she blends philosophical erudition and a series of razor-sharp readings with an uncommon wit that ratifies the absolute centrality of insensibility in the novel but also in the world...Essential."––J. Risinger, CHOICE"Wendy Lee's book is an astonishing achievement. Not simply has she turned inside-out one of our deeply held beliefs about eighteenth-century literature and culture—that the novel is an exercise in cultivating and celebrating sensibility—but she has also presented us with a series of compelling new readings of some of the eighteenth century's most-read fictions....Each strikingly original chapter presents a new facet of the problem she investigates, never falling into the pattern of reiteration with new evidence, but instead, driving the argument further and deeper, nuancing her central contention in ways that continually surprise and amaze." -- Rebecca Tierney-Hynes * The Review of English Studies *"Wendy Anne Lee makes me think about what we feel privately. Her brilliantly contrarian Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel looks at what happens when the answer is nothing....a dazzlingly original and irreverent monograph." -- Jayne Lewis * Studies in English Literature *"Through her capacious research, masterful close readings, and exquisitely stylish prose, Wendy Anne Lee presents her readers with an enlightening study of the preeminent genre of fiction that the British Enlightenment would produce....she offers what is no less than a new way of reading the novel—a method that is as attuned to the expressiveness of silence as it is to profusive embodiments of emotion." -- Kirstin M. Girten * Modern Philology *"A significant contribution to the study of both eighteenth-century philosophy and novel theory, Failures of Feeling—like its central figures—will no doubt generate significant response. It is the rare monograph that I feel the need—but also the willingness—to reread upon finishing, but I am certain that returning to Lee's text will only reveal new connections and depths." -- Stephanie Insley Hershinow * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"Failures of Feeling is an absorbing, challenging, and profound work....While it may be true that the narrative trajectories of most of the novels Lee discusses flirt with tragedy and irresolution, in her hands the beauty of these works shines more brightly than ever." -- Adela Pinch * Novel *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1A Brief History of the Prude chapter abstractThis chapter locates an unlikely precursor to Bartleby in the stock figure of the prude, whose ubiquity in early print culture attests to a primary connection in the history of the novel between insensibility and gender. Diving into an elaborate, seventeenth-century taxonomy of female subjects, this discussion highlights the précieuses, a fraught libertine construction that registered the political and social discomforts generated by women's writing. Eighteenth-century English prude fictions, this chapter argues, extend the feminocentric threat of the précieuses (to estate, sovereignty, and conjugality) and import the punitive script of their transformation, a story line dedicated to the violent exposure of female feeling. The chapter concludes with a reading of Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, a breathtaking novel that revises and redeems Descartes's account of desire in The Passions of the Soul. 2Clarissa's Marble Heart chapter abstractThis chapter explicates Samuel Richardson's prime demonstration of the doomed logic of insensibility in European fiction, Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady. The so-called father of the psychological novel, Richardson distilled narrative purpose into the probing of female interiority. Newly framed by early prude fictions, Clarissa, this section argues, can be understood through a long-standing and deeply gendered anxiety about dualism, or the metaphysical gaps between sensation, speech, and action. Drawing on John Locke's concept of "indifferency" and Frances Ferguson's crucial theorization of rape and the psychological novel, the chapter spotlights the embedded narrative of Clarissa's life as an urban rape survivor. Insensibility, it argues, embeds a trenchant countermodel within a Richardsonian project. 3The Man of No Feeling chapter abstractThis chapter turns to sentimental fiction's man of feeling, radically reinterpreting his fine-tuned sensibility as a late iteration of sovereign contempt. In a close look at the insensible who loomed largest over the eighteenth century, Charles I, this discussion takes up the phenomenon of laughter, what Hobbes controversially defined as a triumphant glorying in the infirmities of others. Reconnecting power to humor, the analysis focuses on Oliver Goldsmith, a Grub Street writer who exploited his period's tipping point between satire and sentiment. Dissatisfied with what he regarded as the distinct humorlessness of the novel, Goldsmith turned to theater's ready-made insensible, the hero of comic misrule, Puck. Arguing for the political transformations of that figure in early modernity, the chapter depicts the "insensible cub" Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer as the fictional force that reanimates sovereign laughter. 4Sense, Insensibility, Sympathy chapter abstractChapter 4 features the figure of godlike dispassion who presides at the apex of the novel form, Jane Austen. The case of Austen's insensibility exemplifies the ways in which failures of feeling are entwined with narrative failure and how the charge of contempt so often marks a disruption to protocols of fiction. This analysis focuses on the curdled plot of Sense and Sensibility, whose stalwart Elinor Dashwood has been identified with Austen herself. Examining David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, a text considered to be the philosophical companion to Austen's oeuvre, this chapter examines the qualities of resemblance, contiguity, and causation that conduce to sympathy in Hume's account, or what in Austen's novel makes emotion a contagion, or one sister's pain feel distressingly like the other's. Conclusion: Death Wish for the Novel chapter abstractI conclude this study of insensibility with George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, a late nineteenth-century novel that draws together the different strands of the Bartleby problem presented by the book: the ridiculed dream of female sovereignty in prude fictions, the anxious and sadistic logic of the Richardsonian plot, the inevitable burnout of the man of feeling, and the compromising ethics of intimacy in Jane Austen. Eliot, this reading argues, brings these elements to bear in order to euthanize a genre that relies on the now thoroughly pathologized principle by which insensibility inflames the passions. Featured here is the character of the Alcharisi, a brilliant conflation of Diderot's paradoxically dispassionate actor and Defoe's flagrantly unmaternal mother, revived by Eliot to call out the constraints of the novel form. Introduction: The Bartleby Problem chapter abstractThe introduction lays out the book's theory at large through a reading of Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street," which features fiction's most infamous insensible, a motionless young clerk who would prefer not to. The analysis here draws on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and contemporary affect theorists to showcase and explain that signature feeling of unfeeling: contempt. Reframing the Bartleby problem from a picture of capitalist abjection to a fundamental philosophical problem about narrative, this introduction returns to the riddle of the unmoved or prime mover as the instigator of all motions and, it argues, emotions.

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Book SynopsisThe industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America's goods transit, pollution is literally killing the residents. In response, a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, predominated by Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women who are transforming our political landscape—yet we know very little about these change makers. In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells their stories, finding that the women are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country's nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization. The women are highly conscious of how these harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions, and of their resulting reliance on a state they prefer to avoid and ignore. In spite of such challenges and contradictions, however, they have developed creative, unconventional, and loving ways to support and protect one another. They challenge the state's betrayal, demand respect, and, ultimately, refuse death.Trade Review"Immigrant environmental justice movements are at the leading edge of social change in global cities, and yet they are frequently overlooked. Nadia Kim delivers a major intervention for reassessing the impacts of these movements, extending our vision with a keen ethnographic eye, a compelling narrative, and robust theoretical analyses."—David Naguib Pello, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?"An urgent, much-needed account of the activism of Filipin@ and Latin@ immigrant activists in Los Angeles. Spotlighting gendered resistance and community citizenmaking, Kim effectively recasts environmental justice to mean commitment to care for both physical and emotional lives."—Yen Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego"An innovative and close-up look at the ways in which Latin@ and Filipin@ activists mobilize bodies, emotions, and gendered caregiving in their struggle for environmental justice."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California"The author poignantly conveys how aware these women are that pollution in their community is assaulting their bodies and emotions and leading to death. One of the book's major strengths is the respectful and culturally sensitive manner in which Kim employs mixed methods and intersectional approaches to detail how the women-led act of embodied citizenship—emotional support of one's neighbors against the assault of 'bioneglect'—constitutes a key resistance strategy....Highly recommended."—I. Coronado, CHOICE"I found the focus on embodiment and the expansion of Foucauldian thought to bioneglect to be the most compelling parts of this book. In addition, I was struck by Kim's honesty when she reported contradictions in the field."—Sanchita Dasgupta, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Kim's book is an essential read and eminently teachable. It will be a new classic in environmental justice, grounded in the original home discipline of the field and drawing from key works of sociologists like Robert Bullard, Beverly Wright, and David Pellow."—Julie Sze, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Fighting for Breath in the Other LA 1. Neoliberal Embodied Assault 2. Emotions as Power 3. Every Body Matters 4. "Our Community Has Boundaries": Race and Class Matter 5. Citizenship as Gendered Caring 6. politics Without the Politics 7. The Kids Will Save Us Afterword: Toward Bioneglect

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Book SynopsisAgainst all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to believe that the world is tilted – economically, socially, politically – against them. A majority of men across the political spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men to express their gender identity, and when circumstances make it difficult or impossible for them to do so, they search for another outlet to compensate. Sometimes these behaviors are socially positive, such as placing a greater emphasis on fatherhood, but other times they can be maladaptive, as in the case of increased sexual harassment at work. These trends have emerged, notably, since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Drawing on multiple data sources, the authors find that the specter of threats to their gender identity has important implications for men's behavior. Importantly, younger men are more likely to turn to nontraditional compensatory behaviors, such as increased involvement in cooking, parenting, and community leadership, suggesting that the conception of masculinity is likely to change in the decades to come.Trade Review"This fascinating study reveals how threats to traditional masculine identities can fuel political polarization and anti-female backlash, but also shows that some men respond by reworking their definitions of masculinity in positive, egalitarian ways."—Stephanie Coontz, author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s"This compelling, highly readable, wide-ranging book deftly maps the shifting terrain of American masculinity and the complex relationship between men's identities and social behavior. Masculinity is dangerous, but fragile; based on traditional roles, but highly adaptable. As Besen-Cassino and Cassino illustrate, this malleability also sows the seeds of social change."—Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland"This timely, well-researched social scientific study is based on the premise that men perceive themselves to be less advantaged than they once were compared to women and, in response, engage in what the authors describe as compensatory acts, sensing a threat to their masculinity. ... Recommended."—S. J. Bronner, CHOICETable of Contents1. Threatened Identity 2. Mad Men at Work 3. Men and Politics 4. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 5. God, Guns, and Pornography 6. Alternate Masculinities 7. The Future of Men

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In Remnants, these tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. With this book, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist reading of the Armenian Genocide. She explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments, she writes a deeply personal history, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory. Traces of women and children rescued during and after the war are reconstructed to center the quietest voices in the historical record. This daring work embraces physical and archival remnants, the imprinted negatives of once living bodies, as a space of radical possibility within Armenian prosthetic memory and a necessary way to recognize the absence that remains.Trade Review"Remnants is a rich cultural history of the Armenian Genocide and a powerful investigation of patriarchal assault on the female body. An original work with broad meaning for all histories of mass violence and genocide, and their traumatic aftermaths."—Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate"Elyse Semerdjian has authored a brilliant book. Remnants is at once powerful, moving, engaging, and convincing. Its turn to bodies and voices, remnants and fragments—away from the traditional archive—restores the stories of those most silenced and forgotten, and shows how gender is pivotal to genocidal thinking. A real tour de force."—Beth Baron, author of The Orphan Scandal"Remnants is the book we've all been waiting for—breathtaking plot, methodological novelty without any accompanying conceit, theoretically and factually grounded. Elyse Semerdjian's work will prove regenerative in the best possible way."—Lerna Ekmekcioglu, author of Recovering Armenia"A very ethical book, demonstrating to all of us how one can recover a violent past with professionalism and grace instead of rhetoric and partisanship. Remnants recovers and gives agency to women who were silenced in history."—Fatma Muge Gocek author of Denial of ViolenceTable of Contents1. Zabel's Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide 2. Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body 3. Rescuing "Kittens" in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort 4. Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria's Armenian Colonies 5. "Changelings" and "Halflings": Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child 6. Aurora's Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering 7. What Lies beneath Grandma's Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin 8. Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East 9. Removing the "Brand of Shame," Rehabilitating Armenian Skin 10. Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency 11. If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur 12. Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of "Non-Sites of Memory" 13. Bone Memory: Community, Ritual, and Memory Work in the Syrian Desert

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Book SynopsisAndrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future — if not for themselves, then for their children. But, when it became clear that their hopes were in vain, they chose to emigrate. Children of the Revolution tells these four women's stories up to their adulthood in Italy. Laura J. Enríquez's compassionate account highlights the particularities of each woman's narrative, and shows how their lives were shaped by social factors such as their class, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. These factors limited the options available to them, even as the women challenged the structures and violence surrounding them. By extending the story to include the children, and now grandchildren, of the four women, Enríquez demonstrates how their work abroad provided opportunities for their families that they themselves never had. Hence, these stories reveal that even when a revolution fails to fundamentally transform a society in a lasting way, seeds of change may yet take hold. Trade Review"Children of the Revolution weaves women's biography with Nicaraguan history in capturing the essence of sociological imagination to illustrate structural violence and agency embedded in surviving revolution and the aftermath of structural adjustment policies. Narrating compelling transnational migration stories of four mothers and their children, Enriquez reveals the personal cost of violence and inequality and mothers' heroic efforts to build a better life for the next generation."—Mary Romero, author of The Maid's Daughter"Enríquez's meticulously analyzed oral history makes the case that even when revolutions falter, newly ignited consciousness remains and fuels agentic migration trajectories, yielding both generational sacrifices and gains."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of DomésticaTable of Contents1. Situating the Stories of Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela 2. Childhood and Coming of Age in Nicaragua 3. Violent Expressions of Gender Inequalities 4. Emigrating for Their Children to Get Ahead 5. The Children of Andrea, Ana, and Pamela Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhy are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass ceiling or being included in institutions with shrinking power, not least as a result of neo-liberalism. In this powerful essay, internationally renowned scholar of gender and politics Drude Dahlerup explains how democracy has failed women and what can be done to tackle it. Political institutions, including political parties, she argues, are the real gatekeepers to elected positions all over the world, but they need to be much more inclusive. By reforming these institutions and carefully implementing gender quotas we can move towards improved gender equality and greater democratization.Trade Review"Drude Dahlerup offers an interesting, lucid and challenging argument about the many relationships between gender and democracy. This book should be read by anyone interested in feminism and politics."—Joni Lovenduski, Professor Emerita of Politics, Birkbeck College "This wide-ranging and well-informed book offers an impressive overview or women's political empowerment in global historical perspective. Democracy, it concludes, has failed women, but women can revitalize democracy, providing a powerful impetus for future studies and advocacy for more women in political life."—Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University "The book provides a terrific overview of key issues and debates in gender and politics from the perspective of someone who has a genuinely global perspective. This is a wonderful resource and text for teaching because it is written so clearly and concisely."—Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Dahlerup and Polity are to be congratulated on bringing out such a succinct and accessible account.... The questions raised remain central to how far we can support the legitimacy of the politics that govern us."—Gary Evans, London School of Economics "Well-written, personable, and evidence-based, Dahlerup's book bids good riddance to the old boys' club because 'gender is one of the most important axes of power in society' and therefore gender quotas are essential for bringing representation into balance. Only this change can democratise old democracies, and break the patriarchal code adhered to so fastidiously by the political parties in this august category."—Jean-Paul Gagnon, Canberra University "Hence, Dahlerup's Has Democracy Failed Women? can be a rewarding reference to any researcher with an expertise in feminist studies, gender studies, leadership studies, and political science studies."—Yuwei Ge, Phillips-University of Marburg "Using examples from her own work as an advisor on the empowerment of women around the world, Dahlerup undertakes institutional as well as discursive analysis of the parity of women's presence in leadership positions in ways that are complex, nuanced, and highly readable."—Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, University of Victoria "Insightful"—Gender ForumTable of ContentsContents Preface List of tables and figures Chapter 1: Exclusion without words Chapter 2: Breaking male dominance in politics Chapter 3: The impact of Gender Quotas Chapter 4: Gendering Public Policy Chapter 5: Women in global politics

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Book SynopsisWhy are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass ceiling or being included in institutions with shrinking power, not least as a result of neo-liberalism. In this powerful essay, internationally renowned scholar of gender and politics Drude Dahlerup explains how democracy has failed women and what can be done to tackle it. Political institutions, including political parties, she argues, are the real gatekeepers to elected positions all over the world, but they need to be much more inclusive. By reforming these institutions and carefully implementing gender quotas we can move towards improved gender equality and greater democratization.Trade Review"Drude Dahlerup offers an interesting, lucid and challenging argument about the many relationships between gender and democracy. This book should be read by anyone interested in feminism and politics."—Joni Lovenduski, Professor Emerita of Politics, Birkbeck College "This wide-ranging and well-informed book offers an impressive overview or women's political empowerment in global historical perspective. Democracy, it concludes, has failed women, but women can revitalize democracy, providing a powerful impetus for future studies and advocacy for more women in political life."—Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University "The book provides a terrific overview of key issues and debates in gender and politics from the perspective of someone who has a genuinely global perspective. This is a wonderful resource and text for teaching because it is written so clearly and concisely."—Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Dahlerup and Polity are to be congratulated on bringing out such a succinct and accessible account.... The questions raised remain central to how far we can support the legitimacy of the politics that govern us."—Gary Evans, London School of Economics "Well-written, personable, and evidence-based, Dahlerup's book bids good riddance to the old boys' club because 'gender is one of the most important axes of power in society' and therefore gender quotas are essential for bringing representation into balance. Only this change can democratise old democracies, and break the patriarchal code adhered to so fastidiously by the political parties in this august category."—Jean-Paul Gagnon, Canberra University "Hence, Dahlerup's Has Democracy Failed Women? can be a rewarding reference to any researcher with an expertise in feminist studies, gender studies, leadership studies, and political science studies."—Yuwei Ge, Phillips-University of Marburg "Using examples from her own work as an advisor on the empowerment of women around the world, Dahlerup undertakes institutional as well as discursive analysis of the parity of women's presence in leadership positions in ways that are complex, nuanced, and highly readable."—Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, University of Victoria "Insightful"—Gender ForumTable of ContentsContents Preface List of tables and figures Chapter 1: Exclusion without words Chapter 2: Breaking male dominance in politics Chapter 3: The impact of Gender Quotas Chapter 4: Gendering Public Policy Chapter 5: Women in global politics

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Book SynopsisWhile many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. This book uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Caitlin Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.Trade Review“Failing Moms is a tour de force, offering a timely and critical analysis of the myriad ways that mothers are failed by just about everyone. Killian offers compelling and disturbing evidence that American mothers are embattled and exhausted. Happily, she also offers a host of solutions, beginning with valuing mothers.”Monica Casper, San Diego State University“This book does a breathtaking job of illuminating the ways all women are imperiled by the denigration of mothers. This accepted cruelty is systemic, built into the legal system, state neglect, and social mores and codes with which all women must contend, but none more so than those who become (or who are suspected of becoming) birthing bodies.”Kate Baldwin, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction All Moms Are Bad Moms Pre-Conception Discrimination Criminal Pregnancies “Neglectful” Mothers Mothers of Maimed and Murdered Children Fighting Back, Fighting for the Future References

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Book SynopsisWhile many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. This book uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Caitlin Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.Trade Review“Failing Moms is a tour de force, offering a timely and critical analysis of the myriad ways that mothers are failed by just about everyone. Killian offers compelling and disturbing evidence that American mothers are embattled and exhausted. Happily, she also offers a host of solutions, beginning with valuing mothers.”Monica Casper, San Diego State University“This book does a breathtaking job of illuminating the ways all women are imperiled by the denigration of mothers. This accepted cruelty is systemic, built into the legal system, state neglect, and social mores and codes with which all women must contend, but none more so than those who become (or who are suspected of becoming) birthing bodies.”Kate Baldwin, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAll Moms Are Bad MomsPre-Conception DiscriminationCriminal Pregnancies“Neglectful” MothersMothers of Maimed and Murdered ChildrenFighting Back, Fighting for the FutureReferences

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Book SynopsisCarol Loeb Shloss creates a compelling portrait of a complex relationship of a daughter and her literary-giant father: Ezra Pound and Mary de Rachewiltz, Pound’s child by his long-time mistress, the violinist Olga Rudge. Brought into the world in secret and hidden in the Italian Alps at birth, Mary was raised by German peasant farmers, had Italian identity papers, a German-speaking upbringing, Austrian loyalties common to the area and, perforce, a fascist education. For years, de Rachewiltz had no idea that Pound and Rudge, the benefactors who would sporadically appear, were her father and mother. Gradually the truth of her parentage was revealed, and with it the knowledge that Dorothy Shakespear, and not Olga, was Pound’s actual wife. Dorothy, in turn, kept her own secrets: while Pound signed the birth certificate of her son, Omar, and claimed legal paternity, he was not the boy’s biological father. Two lies, established at the birth of these children, created a dynamic antagonism that lasted for generations. Pound maneuvered through it until he was arrested for treason after World War II and shipped back from Italy to the United States, where he was institutionalized rather than imprisoned. As an adult, de Rachewiltz took on the task of claiming a contested heritage and securing her father’s literary legacy in the face of a legal system that failed to recognize her legitimacy. Born on different continents, separated by nationality, related by natural birth, and torn apart by conflict between Italy and America, Mary and Ezra Pound found a way to live out their deep and abiding love for one another. Let the Wind Speak is both a history of modern writers who were forced to negotiate allegiances to one another and to their adopted countries in a time of mortal conflict, and the story of Mary de Rachewiltz’s navigation through issues of personal identity amid the shifting politics of western nations in peace and war. It is a masterful biography that asks us to consider cultures of secrecy, frayed allegiances, and the boundaries that define nations, families, and politics.Trade Review"[A] meticulous literary biography...Shloss illuminates the complexities of Mary’s life [and]...captures her 'fiercely principled' subject and the times in which she lived, using impressive research to highlight the obstacles she navigated to secure her father’s literary legacy. Pound scholars will appreciate new insights into his personal life." * Publishers Weekly *"In this deeply researched biography of an extraordinary and fascinating living person, Carol Loeb Shloss uncovers web upon web of the lies, secrets, and silences that entangled Mary de Rachewiltz even before her birth as Mary Rudge in 1925 in Bressanone, Italy (formerly Austria). What other major writer’s child has a life story that intersects at all points with both international geopolitics and her father’s boundary-crossing, world-making poetry and poetics; with the after-effects of one world war and the lived experience of another; with the hidden causes and devastating effects of Italian and Allied spy networks, including Hoover’s FBI, whose abuse of the law came to daylight in the Watergate investigation; with the contending by lawyers, scholars, and libraries over a valuable international literary estate? Let the Wind Speak casts new light on Ezra Pound’s controversial yet indispensable life and work through the lens of his daughter’s life, full of twists, turns, surprises, and mysteries, some of them still unsolved. As a portrait of Mary de Rachewiltz, it captures a moving image of its courageous subject—an eloquent poet, writer, and translator in her own right—as she navigates formidable familial, political, literary, and legal terrains over a turbulent century with forbearance, grace, and creative love." * Christine Froula, Northwestern University *

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Book SynopsisIn Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples. Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination. With the benefit of hindsight, the book’s contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the field of women’s rights, as it provides substantive insights into a range of transnational legal developments in the quest for transformative gender equality and non-discrimination rights...[H]ighly recommended. The contributions provide insight into the importance of feminist theories concerning gendered harms, intersectionality, substantive and transformative gender equality and non-discrimination, international and regional laws and their functioning, and the importance of reimagining existing jurisprudence through a feminist lens. " * The South African Law Journal *"This is a substantive publication, whose primary task is to analyze international and regional human rights treaty legislation designed to eliminate gender discrimination and to secure gender equality. Divided into three parts, the publication presents a series of very thoughtful essays from a number of renowned legal experts on (a) what is gender equality; (b) how human rights treaty systems can advance the case of gender equality better; and (c) how can the concept of gender equality evolve continually to meet new social realities?..." * New York Journal of Books *"[A] solid account and does well to touch upon developments in recent years. Authors illustrate their theories on inequality and discrimination with the experiences of, for example, transgender women athletes, indigenous women and water access, the under-representation of women in clinical research and the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdown. The book therefore offers newcomers a foundational text while for others, it is a thought-provoking addition to the scholarship, with reconfigured theories on how to strengthen the institutional structures, both internationally and domestically, that have been designed to protect rights and particularly for those individuals currently left behind. " * Asian Journal of Internaitonal Law *"Frontiers of Gender Equality is required reading for those wanting to learn about the evolution of gender equality law and where additional analysis is warranted to secure the democratic ideals of gender equality." * from the Foreword by Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Former Judge, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and former member and Chair, the UN Human Rights Committee *

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Book SynopsisIn Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples. Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination. With the benefit of hindsight, the book’s contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the field of women’s rights, as it provides substantive insights into a range of transnational legal developments in the quest for transformative gender equality and non-discrimination rights...[H]ighly recommended. The contributions provide insight into the importance of feminist theories concerning gendered harms, intersectionality, substantive and transformative gender equality and non-discrimination, international and regional laws and their functioning, and the importance of reimagining existing jurisprudence through a feminist lens. " * The South African Law Journal *"This is a substantive publication, whose primary task is to analyze international and regional human rights treaty legislation designed to eliminate gender discrimination and to secure gender equality. Divided into three parts, the publication presents a series of very thoughtful essays from a number of renowned legal experts on (a) what is gender equality; (b) how human rights treaty systems can advance the case of gender equality better; and (c) how can the concept of gender equality evolve continually to meet new social realities?..." * New York Journal of Books *"[A] solid account and does well to touch upon developments in recent years. Authors illustrate their theories on inequality and discrimination with the experiences of, for example, transgender women athletes, indigenous women and water access, the under-representation of women in clinical research and the spike in domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdown. The book therefore offers newcomers a foundational text while for others, it is a thought-provoking addition to the scholarship, with reconfigured theories on how to strengthen the institutional structures, both internationally and domestically, that have been designed to protect rights and particularly for those individuals currently left behind. " * Asian Journal of Internaitonal Law *"Frontiers of Gender Equality is required reading for those wanting to learn about the evolution of gender equality law and where additional analysis is warranted to secure the democratic ideals of gender equality." * from the Foreword by Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Former Judge, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and former member and Chair, the UN Human Rights Committee *

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Book SynopsisThe construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.Trade Review"In this beautifully written book, Joan Flores-Villalobos places West Indian women at the very heart of the Panama Canal’s construction. They navigated tremendous contradictions, seen as essential to the project yet facing racist exclusion and marginalization by government officials. Their determination to secure moral and economic independence, Flores-Villalobos shows, profoundly shaped Panama, the Caribbean, and more broadly the history of the Americas. Along the way, The Silver Women illuminates in rich detail the critical role Caribbean women played in creating and sustaining the practices of diaspora." * Julie Greene, author of The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal *"Flores-Villalobos shakes up the traditionally told history of the construction of the Panama Canal in this explorative historical analysis. The author contends that the creation of the Panama Canal would not have been possible without the labor of West Indian Black migrant women....Flores-Villalobos beautifully tells the story of these women and brings this important history to life using a vast array of archival sources." * Library Journal *"The Silver Women is utterly original in its research and analysis. With enormous skill and sensitivity, Joan Flores-Villalobos invites us to understand the West Indian women who travelled to Panama as part of a much broader story: to place their intimate lives, choices, losses, grief, anger, and ambition at the center of the story of a region-wide economic and geopolitical transformation that kicked off ‘the American Century.’ Here we meet a diverse array of women and come to understand that history was made by them." * Lara Putnam, author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age *"Joan Flores-Villalobos moves deftly across a rich set of archival sources to uncover the complexities of West Indian women’s social reproduction in the Panama Canal Zone. The Silver Women exposes how Black women negotiated suspicion, hostility, and even criminalization, in the process of migrating to make a life for themselves and their kin. A necessary perspective on West Indian women’s efforts to sustain their communities while also resisting American imperialist control over their labor and personal lives." * Laurie R. Lambert, author of Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution *"The Silver Women unsettles the triumphalist story of the Panama Canal as a white, male feat, instead showing the essential role of Black migrant women in the success of the project. Like Flores-Villalobos’s analysis, the women she studies similarly disrupted the world they lived in...Even as The Silver Women offers a thorough exploration of race and gender in Panama, the book is not about Panama alone. Instead, it crafts an essential revisionist account of the overlooked but indispensable role that West Indian women played in forging their diaspora across the Americas." * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisToward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her “best story” to be A Marsh Island (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett’s range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett accomplished in these pages a truly great novel. Undoubtedly, another reason lies in the novel’s themes of queer kinship and same-sex domesticity, as enjoyed by the flamboyant protagonist Dick Dale. Written a few years into Jewett’s decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, A Marsh Island echoes Jewett’s determination to split time between her family home in Maine and Fields’s place on Charles Street in Boston. The novel follows the adventures of Dale, a Manhattanite landscape painter in the Great Marsh of northeastern Massachusetts and envisions the latter region’s saltmarsh as a figure for dynamic selfhood: the ever-shifting boundaries between land and sea a model for valuing both individuality and a porous openness to the gifts of others. Jewett’s works played a major role in popularizing the genre of American regionalism and have garnered praise, both in her time and ours, for her skill in rendering the local landscapes and fishing villages along or near the coasts of New England. Just as Jewett brought attention to the unique beauty and value of the Great marsh region, editor Don James McLaughlin reveals a convergence of regionalism and sexuality in Jewett’s work in his introduction. A Marsh Island reminds us that queer kinship has a long tradition of being extended to incorporate queer ecological belonging, and that the meaning of “companionship” itself is enriched when we acknowledge its indebtedness to environment.

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Book SynopsisIn The Senator Next Door, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar chronicles her remarkable heartland journey, from her immigrant grandparents to her middle-class suburban upbringing to her rise in American politics. At a moment when America's government often seems incapable of getting anything done, Amy Klobuchar proves that politics is still the art of the possible.Trade Review"Amy Klobuchar’s The Senator Next Door is a must read for public servants across the country. With her trademark Midwestern honesty and humor, she recounts the events that have shaped her life and reminds us that it is still possible, with grit and good will, to work across the aisle to get things done in Washington."—Senator John McCain "From the halls of her high school all the way to the United States Senate, Amy Klobuchar's journey is one of incredible perseverance and success. Her story radiates with warmth, humor, and candor."—Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In"The Senator Next Door is both a desperately needed wake-up call to our politicians and a delightful memoir that will inspire everyone. Buy one for yourself and give one to an elected official."—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin "I absolutely loved this book and could not put it down. It's smart, funny, moving, and filled with wisdom and insight. The Senator Next Door left me deeply inspired with renewed hope for the American Dream."—Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"The Senator Next Door is about avoiding the sort of blistering rhetoric and political posturing that makes it hard to forge alliances across party lines to get things done."—USA Today"The Lean In of political memoirs."—The New Republic "The book is timely because there’s talk of the senator moving to higher office in the future." —Pioneer Press "If, in these polarized times, you need to boost our faith in democratic politics, this is the book for you." —The Annals of IowaTable of ContentsContentsPrologue 1. Beginnings2. Growing Up 3. From New Haven to Hyde Park 4. The Real World 5. A Mom and a Candidate 6. The Chief Prosecutor 7. Without Fear or Favor 8. Running for the Senate 9. Under the Capitol Dome 10. Governing Epilogue Notes AcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact and others, analyzing how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities. Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks—and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade’s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Nan Goldin. The art highlighted in In Visible Archives demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy—work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women’s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation. Trade Review "Margaret Galvan asks all the right questions about queer and feminist visual storytelling from the 1980s: Where were these works situated? How did communities use them? How have they been archived? Both commentary upon as well as an integral part of the activist project begun by the creators themselves, In Visible Archives helps keep these remarkable works visible for us all."—Justin Hall, California College of the Arts, editor of No Straight Lines "This wonderful book demonstrates the critical importance of community-based archives. Utilizing primary source materials, Margaret Galvan has produced an original and consequential contribution to the history of the feminist sex wars, and her attention to the visual aspects of those documents provides long overdue recognition to the period’s artists, designers, and activists."—Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Making Visible Archives 1. The Collage Activists: Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, and Marybeth Nelson Frame the Feminist Sex Wars 2. The Comics Visionaries: Lee Marrs’s and Roberta Gregory’s Underground Feminism 3. The Newspaper Cartoonist: Alison Bechdel’s Queer Grassroots Networks 4. The Editor and Pedagogue: Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Public Drawing 5. The Photographer and Curator: Nan Goldin’s Witness to HIV/AIDS Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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