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Book SynopsisA startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beautyWhat is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separating, all in service of one sharply circumscribed model purported to be pleasing—but not to most, if any, women. This extraordinary book reimagines beauty at its most provocative and fetishized locus: the female breast. Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Frances Murray, her friend and collaborator for more than thirty years, documents Frueh’s journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Reflecting with insight, directness, and humor—and with contributions from a breast surgeon, an oncologist, and artists and scholars who have had breast cancer—Frueh arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance. Central to this reckoning is her documentation and critique of the notion of hyperbeauty (the flash of flesh appeal, hyperthin, hyperfeminine, hyperbosomy, hypersexy, and hyperyoung sold at the global 24/7 beauty bazaar) and her playful, inventive presentation of tools for remaking minds and hearts disfigured by self-denying ideals.In its bracing critique, passionate argument, and compelling narrative—all illustrative of its own unapologetic beauty—this collaboration is a performance of startling power, stirring to consider and a pleasure to behold.Trade Review"Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on women’s wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murray—in writing and image—call out the fact that our ‘hyperbeauty’ culture relies on stereotypical ‘taboos’ to make individuals unique or edgy, when we must rather recognize that ‘real flesh, real love: they are the taboos.’ And the world needs more of both."—Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver"A wonderful, evocative depiction of a woman in all her glory."—Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book"Joanna Frueh develops her earlier strands: body image; representation of self; relationships between image, text, and body; body work; illness and healing. Starting with friendship and creativity, she draws these themes in her work together in a powerful invocation of moving toward self-love through self-acceptance. It will always be the right time to read this, no matter the body one inhabits."—Hilary Robinson, editor of Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014Table of ContentsContentsAn Art of FriendshipCulture’s Breasts ICulture’s Breasts IIMy BreastsApologyHyperbeautyBeauty HeroesBeauty RedefinedThe Pleasure of Pleasing OurselvesLanguageThe 4 C’s of Creating BeautyAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossary

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Book SynopsisReexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their abusers publicly—from well-known celebrities to politicians and high-profile business leaders. Not surprisingly, conservatives quickly opposed this new movement, but the fact that “sex positive” progressives joined in the opposition was unexpected and seldom discussed. Why We Lost the Sex Wars explores how a narrow set of political prospects for resisting the use of sex as a tool of domination came to be embraced across this broad swath of the political spectrum in the contemporary United States.To better understand today’s multilayered sexual politics, Lorna N. Bracewell offers a revisionist history of the “sex wars” of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Rather than focusing on what divided antipornography and sex-radical feminists, Bracewell highlights significant points of contact and overlap between these rivals, particularly the trenchant challenges they offered to the narrow and ambivalent sexual politics of postwar liberalism. Bracewell leverages this recovered history to illuminate in fresh and provocative ways a range of current phenomena, including recent controversies over trigger warnings, the unimaginative politics of “sex-positive” feminism, and the rise of carceral feminism. By foregrounding the role played by liberal concepts such as expressive freedom and the public/private divide as well as the long-neglected contributions of Black and “Third World” feminists, Bracewell upends much of what we think we know about the sex wars and makes a strong case for the continued relevance of these debates today. Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a history of feminist thinking on topics such as pornography, commercial sex work, LGBTQ+ identities, and BDSM, as well as discussions of such notable figures as Patrick Califia, Alan Dershowitz, Andrea Dworkin, Elena Kagan, Audre Lorde, Catharine MacKinnon, Cherríe Moraga, Robin Morgan, Gayle Rubin, Nadine Strossen, Cass Sunstein, and Alice Walker.Trade Review"Why We Lost the Sex Wars is a fascinating read. It provides a gripping social history of both feminist movement and of feminist political theory, including archival research into interviews and writings that current feminist ‘legends’ did as graduate students. This is intertwined with incisive and creative theoretical analysis of the arguments offered in courts, conferences, and publications. Lorna N. Bracewell shows that the so-called ‘sex wars’ were not warlike, nor a clear-cut duality, but rather multiple and complex, and that these debates and arguments still influence feminism and feminist theory today. In Bracewell’s account of the central role that feminists of color played, which is often overlooked, is particularly insightful and important. This book is essential reading for all of us interested in the history of late twentieth-century feminism and in understanding how we got to where we are today."—Nancy Hirschmann, author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory"Lorna N. Bracewell’s careful treatment of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1980s demonstrates how their framing in terms of liberal philosophies of the eighteenth century contributed to a reductive misunderstanding of key questions about freedom and sexuality that continue to resurface decades later. This is a timely and important work."—Judith Grant, Ohio University"Thoroughly researched, yet immensely readable, Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a clear, illuminating, and utterly engaging account of antipornography feminism and sex radical feminists’ consequential encounters with liberalism. It details how liberalism remade both and, in that remaking, helped to foreclose feminist imaginations regarding damage and reparation and worked to lead us to our carceral present. It, rightly, highlights the oft-overlooked interventions of Black and ‘Third World’ feminists who critiqued the ‘monism’ of white antipornography and whose analysis helped to clarify that pornography could do far worse than simply objectify women. The book skillfully and seamlessly combines historical accounts and close textual reading. Among the latter method, the author's convincing illustration of the impact of antipornography feminism on one of liberalism's most revered feminist critics, Carole Pateman, stands out, as it demonstrates how the feminists, who we too often understand to have lost their fight ultimately, helped to shape her understanding of male power. An important contribution to feminist political theory."—Shatema Threadcraft, author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic "A timely revisionist scholarly history certain to spark debate."—Kirkus Reviews "Why We Lost the Sex Wars is incredibly detailed, well-researched, and well-organized."—Kara Reviews "An illuminating retelling of this period of American feminist history."—The New Yorker "A thorough, thoughtful account of the multiple and evolving constellations of perspectives and interactions that composed the so-called Sex Wars."—Gender & Society Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the Sex Wars1. “Pornography Is the Theory. Rape Is the Practice”: The Antipornography Feminist Critique of Liberalism2. Free Speech, Criminal Acts: Liberal Appropriations of Antipornography Feminism3. Ambivalent Liberals, Sex Radical Feminists4. Third World Feminism and the Sex WarsConclusion: The Liberal Roots of Carceral FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books.Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity.What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making. Trade Review "A generous reassessment of Edith Wharton and materialized cultures. With this exceptional interpretation of the modern bookshelf, Sheila Liming offers page after page of unanticipated insight into gender and literary production. This is mandatory reading for those of us committed, like Wharton, to harboring ‘an ethos of collecting’—and for those of us, like this brave critic, committed to Wharton herself."—Scott Herring, Indiana University "This imaginative, deeply learned study illuminates the role of libraries and books for Edith Wharton, but it also provides an important examination of what the art of collecting books in the late nineteenth century tells us about how women writers and readers created networks of intellectual labor and ambition. Lyrically written and brilliantly argued, Sheila Liming’s study is also an indispensable meditation on the act of collecting and the unseen worlds ordinary and extraordinary readers and writers created through it."—Stephanie Foote, author of The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism "It makes sense that Liming would posit the meaning of libraries in general in a book about what a library means to a woman: the universalization of intellectual inheritance passes by necessity through women. Sheila Liming’s fascinating book proves her to be an exemplary heir."—Los Angeles Review of Books "An enormously valuable addition to our understanding of one of the twentieth century’s most literary bibliophiles."—ALH Online Review Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Library as Space: Self-Making and Social Endangerment in The Decoration of Houses and Summer2. The Library as Hoard: Collecting and Canonicity in The House of Mirth and Eline Vere3. The Library as Network: Affinity, Exchange, and the Makings of Authorship4. The Library as Tomb: Monuments and Memorials in Wharton’s Short FictionConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books.Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity.What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making. Trade Review "A generous reassessment of Edith Wharton and materialized cultures. With this exceptional interpretation of the modern bookshelf, Sheila Liming offers page after page of unanticipated insight into gender and literary production. This is mandatory reading for those of us committed, like Wharton, to harboring ‘an ethos of collecting’—and for those of us, like this brave critic, committed to Wharton herself."—Scott Herring, Indiana University "This imaginative, deeply learned study illuminates the role of libraries and books for Edith Wharton, but it also provides an important examination of what the art of collecting books in the late nineteenth century tells us about how women writers and readers created networks of intellectual labor and ambition. Lyrically written and brilliantly argued, Sheila Liming’s study is also an indispensable meditation on the act of collecting and the unseen worlds ordinary and extraordinary readers and writers created through it."—Stephanie Foote, author of The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism "It makes sense that Liming would posit the meaning of libraries in general in a book about what a library means to a woman: the universalization of intellectual inheritance passes by necessity through women. Sheila Liming’s fascinating book proves her to be an exemplary heir."—Los Angeles Review of Books "An enormously valuable addition to our understanding of one of the twentieth century’s most literary bibliophiles."—ALH Online Review Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Library as Space: Self-Making and Social Endangerment in The Decoration of Houses and Summer2. The Library as Hoard: Collecting and Canonicity in The House of Mirth and Eline Vere3. The Library as Network: Affinity, Exchange, and the Makings of Authorship4. The Library as Tomb: Monuments and Memorials in Wharton’s Short FictionConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson BayUnrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic Canoeing with the Cree, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho faced unexpected trials, some harrowing, some simply odd. But for the two friends—the first women to make this expedition—there was one timeless challenge: the occasional pitfalls that test character and friendship. Warren’s spellbinding account retraces the women’s journey from inspiration to Arctic waters, giving readers an insider view from the practicalities of planning a three-month canoe expedition to the successful accomplishment of the adventure of a lifetime. Along the route we meet the people who live and work on the waterways, including denizens of a resort who supply much-needed sustenance; a solitary resident in the wilderness who helps plug a leak; and the people of the Cree First Nation at Norway House, where the canoeists acquire a furry companion. Describing the tensions that erupt between the women (who at one point communicate with each other only by note) and the natural and human-made phenomena they encounter—from islands of trash to waterfalls and a wolf pack—Warren brings us into her experience, and we join these modern women (and their dog) as they recreate this historic trip, including the pleasures and perils, the sexism, the social and environmental implications, and the enduring wonder of the wilderness.Trade Review"Ann and Natalie would be heralded for showing that adventure can still be had in a changing environment, and that women have not only a place in the landscape of adventure, but an important voice that needs to be heard. [Their] journey illuminates the physical landscapes, hardships, and human encounters; it also uncovers the heart of any good journey, the human spirit."—Ann Bancroft, from the Foreword"Hudson Bay Bound is a story of friendship forged on the river as two young women paddle 2,000 miles to the Arctic. With the candor and enthusiasm of a first grand adventure, Natalie Warren shares the joys and trials of living by water, propelled northward by muscle power and the belief that anything is possible."—Caroline Van Hemert, author of The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000–Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds"Natalie Warren's Hudson Bay Bound is part adventure-memoir, part nontraditional love story. Her adoration for the water and deep respect for the history of the land it weaves through is clear throughout the journey. Complemented by the intimacy of a friendship cultivated in motion, this is a refreshing, fun, and thoughtful read."—Gale Straub, author of She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild"Natalie and Ann’s story is classic example of how the exuberance of youth and a healthy dose of grit make any dream possible. From the foggy swirl of excitement as they launched their canoe into the flooded Minnesota River to their final paddle strokes down the Hayes River, Hudson Bay Bound provides a vivid account of an awesome adventure that we couldn’t put down."—Amy and Dave Freeman, authors of A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters "A friendly, educational quest story for readers of everyone from Rachel Carson to Edward Abbey."—Kirkus Reviews "Hudson Bay Bound exudes female strength and resilience, and shares the obstacles women still face in the outdoors industry."—Rochester Post-Bulletin "An inspiration for young people everywhere to chart their own course."—The Christian Science Monitor "A delightful journey."—International Falls Daily Journal "Written in a storytelling style by Natalie, it’s about adventure, danger, fierce storms, winds, portages, running rapids, wild animals, friendship, humour and a window into the people and communities living along the urban and wilderness waterways."—Northern Wilds "In Hudson Bay Bound, Warren is spreading the gospel of outdoor adventure for teenage girls who feel like they don’t fit in."—Outside "This book is for anyone who wants to reminisce about their own past adventures, wants to understand why their own loved ones have gone or want to go on a nature expedition, and most importantly, to whet the palate of those who desire to set out on their own but are held back by other obligations."—Tower-Soudan Timberjay "You will be inspired as you paddle along with them on their adventure into the wild."—Northeaster "Sometimes that flow is filled with lightning storms, high winds, bears, and other tests of stamina, as Natalie Warren describes in Hudson Bay Bound."—Minnesota Women’s Press "The story takes readers on an engaging, fast-paced journey through both a physical space of interest and the lives of its young adventurers."—Anchorage Daily News "From planning the three-month expedition to completing the adventure of a lifetime, the author gives the reader an insider view of the perils and pleasures of wilderness tripping."—Ely Summer Times Table of ContentsForewordAnn BancroftPrologueFrom Palms to PinesThe Pack-OutFlooded UpstreamAgainst the WindMeet Me at the Popcorn StandRiver Races and Role ModelsLiving the Dream, DownstreamRapture Before the BorderAt Home on the Big LakeDon’t Wake the BeastWaiting for the WindEscape from Gull HarborA Tale of Tiny BoatsWindbound to Norway HouseYork Boats and Dog DaysInto the WildPancakes and PortagesSpring Break at Hell’s GateKnife RapidsPolar Bear ParadiseAfterwordNatalie Warren and Ann Raiho

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Book SynopsisThe first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships Adrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s, while the distinctive political and social visions she achieved during the second half of her career remain inadequately understood. In Outward, poet, scholar, and novelist Ed Pavlić considers Rich’s entire oeuvre to argue that her most profound contribution in poems is her emphasis on not only what goes on “within us” but also what goes on “between us.” Guided by this insight, Pavlić shows how Rich’s most radical work depicts our lives—from the public to the intimate—in shared space rather than in owned privacy.Informed by Pavlić’s friendship and correspondence with Rich, Outward explores how her poems position visionary possibilities to contend with cruelty and violence in our world. Employing an innovative framework, Pavlić examines five kinds of solitude reflected in Rich’s poems: relational solitude, social solitude, fugitive solitude, dissident solitude, and radical solitude. He traces the importance of relationships to her early writing before turning to Rich’s explicitly antiracist and anticapitalist work in the 1980s, which culminates with her most extensive sequence, “An Atlas of the Difficult World.” Pavlić concludes by examining the poet’s twenty-first century work and its depiction of relationships that defy historical divisions based on region, race, class, gender, and sexuality.A deftly written engagement in which one poet works within the poems of another, Outward reveals the development of a major feminist thinker in successive phases as Rich furthers her intimate and erotic, social and political reach. Pavlić illuminates Rich’s belief that social divisions and the power of capital inform but must never fully script our identities or our relationships to each other. Trade Review"In Outward, Ed Pavlić uncovers new layers in Adrienne Rich’s poems as he traverses the long arc of her career. His work contemplates Rich’s engagement with the individual and the collective through a lyrical give-and-take with Rich’s poems that offers fresh insights into her poetic development, substantively furthering our understanding of one America’s foremost poets."—Jeannette E. Riley, author of Understanding Adrienne Rich"Ed Pavlić maps Adrienne Rich’s path as a citizen poet in his Outward, surveying the underpinning of this activist’s life and poetry. In this sense, Outward serves as an overlay that clarifies theories through details. Pavlić shows us the paths taken—until Rich arrives at a place called ‘radical solitude.’"—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of the Earth"Outward offers a compelling new framework for approaching Adrienne Rich's six-decade-long poetic career. In its focus on Rich's unstinting lyrical and ethico-political development, Pavlić's book offers a much-needed corrective to the scarcity of critical attention to the last three decades of Rich's writing life. At once a moving tribute to a mentor-friend and a robust critical assessment of her poetry, Outward will expand the scholarly conversation and introduce new generations of readers to the fullness of Rich's poetic legacy and her ‘radical vitality’ as one of the nation's greatest poets."—Cynthia R. Wallace, author of Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering"While the level of granularity make this best suited for scholars, this will nonetheless provide that crowd with a new framework for understanding the celebrated poet."—Publishers Weekly "Outward is a very important step forward for Rich scholarship, and a lively read for anyone interested in Rich’s poetry and development. "—News and Letters Committees"This excellent, gracefully written book is enhanced by the author’s personal connection to his subject. "—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “How we are with each other”Charting a Radical Geography“Our words misunderstand us.”Poems toward an Aesthetics of Experience, 1951–1970“look at her closely if you dare”Feminism and a Relational Solitude, 1970–1981“solitude of no absence”The Fugitive Condition of Social Solitude, 1981–1991“so are we thrown together”Fugitive and Dissident Solitude Mobilized, 1991–2006“Voices from open air”Mutually Embodied in Radical Solitude, 2006–2012CodaAcknowledgmentsSources of QuotationsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships Adrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s, while the distinctive political and social visions she achieved during the second half of her career remain inadequately understood. In Outward, poet, scholar, and novelist Ed Pavlić considers Rich’s entire oeuvre to argue that her most profound contribution in poems is her emphasis on not only what goes on “within us” but also what goes on “between us.” Guided by this insight, Pavlić shows how Rich’s most radical work depicts our lives—from the public to the intimate—in shared space rather than in owned privacy.Informed by Pavlić’s friendship and correspondence with Rich, Outward explores how her poems position visionary possibilities to contend with cruelty and violence in our world. Employing an innovative framework, Pavlić examines five kinds of solitude reflected in Rich’s poems: relational solitude, social solitude, fugitive solitude, dissident solitude, and radical solitude. He traces the importance of relationships to her early writing before turning to Rich’s explicitly antiracist and anticapitalist work in the 1980s, which culminates with her most extensive sequence, “An Atlas of the Difficult World.” Pavlić concludes by examining the poet’s twenty-first century work and its depiction of relationships that defy historical divisions based on region, race, class, gender, and sexuality.A deftly written engagement in which one poet works within the poems of another, Outward reveals the development of a major feminist thinker in successive phases as Rich furthers her intimate and erotic, social and political reach. Pavlić illuminates Rich’s belief that social divisions and the power of capital inform but must never fully script our identities or our relationships to each other. Trade Review"In Outward, Ed Pavlić uncovers new layers in Adrienne Rich’s poems as he traverses the long arc of her career. His work contemplates Rich’s engagement with the individual and the collective through a lyrical give-and-take with Rich’s poems that offers fresh insights into her poetic development, substantively furthering our understanding of one America’s foremost poets."—Jeannette E. Riley, author of Understanding Adrienne Rich"Ed Pavlić maps Adrienne Rich’s path as a citizen poet in his Outward, surveying the underpinning of this activist’s life and poetry. In this sense, Outward serves as an overlay that clarifies theories through details. Pavlić shows us the paths taken—until Rich arrives at a place called ‘radical solitude.’"—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of the Earth"Outward offers a compelling new framework for approaching Adrienne Rich's six-decade-long poetic career. In its focus on Rich's unstinting lyrical and ethico-political development, Pavlić's book offers a much-needed corrective to the scarcity of critical attention to the last three decades of Rich's writing life. At once a moving tribute to a mentor-friend and a robust critical assessment of her poetry, Outward will expand the scholarly conversation and introduce new generations of readers to the fullness of Rich's poetic legacy and her ‘radical vitality’ as one of the nation's greatest poets."—Cynthia R. Wallace, author of Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering"While the level of granularity make this best suited for scholars, this will nonetheless provide that crowd with a new framework for understanding the celebrated poet."—Publishers Weekly "Outward is a very important step forward for Rich scholarship, and a lively read for anyone interested in Rich’s poetry and development. "—News and Letters Committees"This excellent, gracefully written book is enhanced by the author’s personal connection to his subject. "—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “How we are with each other”Charting a Radical Geography“Our words misunderstand us.”Poems toward an Aesthetics of Experience, 1951–1970“look at her closely if you dare”Feminism and a Relational Solitude, 1970–1981“solitude of no absence”The Fugitive Condition of Social Solitude, 1981–1991“so are we thrown together”Fugitive and Dissident Solitude Mobilized, 1991–2006“Voices from open air”Mutually Embodied in Radical Solitude, 2006–2012CodaAcknowledgmentsSources of QuotationsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industryCastoffs of Capital examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh, anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses attention onto the lives of older women aged out of factory work, heretofore largely ignored, thereby introducing a new dimension to the understanding of a female-headed workforce that today numbers around four million in Bangladesh.Bringing a feminist labor studies lens, Castoffs of Capital foregrounds these women not only as workers but as mothers, wives, sisters, lovers, friends, and political agents. Focusing on relations among work, gender, and global capital’s targeting of poor women to advance its market penetration, Karim shows how women navigate these spaces by adopting new subject formations. She locates these women’s aspirations for the “good life” not only in material comforts but also in their longings for love and sexual fulfillment that help them momentarily forget the precarity of their existence under the shadow of capital.Through richly detailed ethnographic studies, this innovative and beautifully written book examines the making and unmaking of these women’s wants and desires, loves and tribulations, hopes and despairs, and triumphs and struggles.Trade Review "Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, Castoffs of Capital informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world."—Leela Fernandes, author of Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State "In Castoffs of Capital, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless."—American Anthropologist

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Book SynopsisDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industryCastoffs of Capital examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh, anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses attention onto the lives of older women aged out of factory work, heretofore largely ignored, thereby introducing a new dimension to the understanding of a female-headed workforce that today numbers around four million in Bangladesh.Bringing a feminist labor studies lens, Castoffs of Capital foregrounds these women not only as workers but as mothers, wives, sisters, lovers, friends, and political agents. Focusing on relations among work, gender, and global capital’s targeting of poor women to advance its market penetration, Karim shows how women navigate these spaces by adopting new subject formations. She locates these women’s aspirations for the “good life” not only in material comforts but also in their longings for love and sexual fulfillment that help them momentarily forget the precarity of their existence under the shadow of capital.Through richly detailed ethnographic studies, this innovative and beautifully written book examines the making and unmaking of these women’s wants and desires, loves and tribulations, hopes and despairs, and triumphs and struggles.Trade Review "Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, Castoffs of Capital informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world."—Leela Fernandes, author of Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State "In Castoffs of Capital, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless."—American Anthropologist

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Book SynopsisRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism.By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.Trade Review "This truly revelatory work pushes the already rich encounters between contemporary left feminist scholars and 1930s radical women writers in new directions—new ways of thinking and new fields of desire. Beautifully written, it is a model of engaged, compassionate, and grounded activist research."—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and coeditor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 "Rosemary Hennessy’s latest book (re)introduces women writers of the Communist Left who thought the unthinkable of their time and increasingly ours: Black left feminism, radical ecology, the ‘erotics of race work.’ Their work, and Hennessy’s, are primers and love letters for liberation. In the Company of Radical Women Writers exemplifies materialist feminism, scholarship on the American Left, and literary studies for the twenty-first century."—Cheryl Higashida, author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 "In the Company of Radical Women Writers is significant; it covers 1930s literary history, the civil rights and women’s rights movements, and the under-heralded work of seven powerful writers."—Foreword

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Book SynopsisRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation.As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism.By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.Trade Review "This truly revelatory work pushes the already rich encounters between contemporary left feminist scholars and 1930s radical women writers in new directions—new ways of thinking and new fields of desire. Beautifully written, it is a model of engaged, compassionate, and grounded activist research."—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and coeditor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 "Rosemary Hennessy’s latest book (re)introduces women writers of the Communist Left who thought the unthinkable of their time and increasingly ours: Black left feminism, radical ecology, the ‘erotics of race work.’ Their work, and Hennessy’s, are primers and love letters for liberation. In the Company of Radical Women Writers exemplifies materialist feminism, scholarship on the American Left, and literary studies for the twenty-first century."—Cheryl Higashida, author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 "In the Company of Radical Women Writers is significant; it covers 1930s literary history, the civil rights and women’s rights movements, and the under-heralded work of seven powerful writers."—Foreword

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking international collection engages vexed and vexing questions about the future of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, from the legacies of coloniality to the prospects of international law, and from the implications of the global arms trade to the impact of climate change. The collection balances analysis of emerging trends with specially-commissioned reflections from those at the forefront of policy and practice.Table of ContentsSoumita Basu, Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd, ‘Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Cartography’; Part One: Encounters; Rita Manchanda, ‘Difficult Encounters with the WPS Agenda in South Asia: Re-scripting Globalised Norms and Policy Frameworks for a Feminist Peace’; Rita M. Lopidia and Lucy Hall, ‘South Sudanese Women on the Move: An Account of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’; Nicole George, ‘The Price of Peace? Frictional Encounters on Gender, Security and the “Economic Peace Paradigm”’; Sam cook and Louise Allen, ‘Holding Feminist Space’; Minna Lyytikäinen and Marjaana Jauhola, ‘Best Practice Diplomacy and Feminist Killjoys in the Strategic State: Exploring the Affective Politics of Women, Peace and Security’; Elizabeth Pearson, ‘Between Protection and Participation: Affect, Countering Violent Extremism and the Possibility of Agency’; Patricia Visuer Sellers and Louise Chappell, ‘Lessons Lived in Gender and International Criminal Law: A Conversation Between Patricia Visuer Sellers and Louise Chappell’; Part Two: Horizons; Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen, ‘Global Racial Hierarchies and the Limits of Localisation via National Action Plans’; Anna Stavrianakis, ‘Towards a Postcolonial and Anti-Racist Feminist Mode of Weapons Control’; Marta Bautista Forcada and Cristina Hernández Lázaro, ‘The Privatisation of War: A New Challenge for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’; Gema Fernández and Christine Chinkin, ‘Human Trafficking, Human Rights, and Women, Peace and Security’; Briana Mawby and Anna Applebaum, ‘Addressing Future Fragility: Women, Climate, and Migration’; Joy Onyesoh, Madeleine Rees, and Catia C. Confortini, ‘Feminist Challenges to the Co-Optation of WPS: A Conversation with Joy Onyesoh and Madeleine Rees’.

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Book SynopsisAttachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents’ choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies. Examining black mothers’ engagements with attachment parenting, Hamilton shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, this outstanding book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies. Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting is shortlisted for the 2021 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Contexualizing AP: Attachment Parenting’s Rise To Prominence (And Infamy) From Scientific Motherhood To Intensive Mothering Why Now? AP In A Neoliberal, Postracial Context Part II: AP And Parenting Advice In Britain And Canada Best For Whom? Experiences Of Breastfeeding Mother Knows Best? Bedsharing Against Expert Advice Babywearing: Fads, Dangers and Cultural Appropriation Part III: Dividing Parenting Labour Negotiating Parental Leave Policies in Britain and Canada 'Staying At Home' Or 'Choosing To Work' Part IV: Constructing An Oppositional Model Of Good Motherhood Reclaiming AP Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAttachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents’ choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies. Examining black mothers’ engagements with attachment parenting, Hamilton shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, this outstanding book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies. Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting is shortlisted for the 2021 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Contexualizing AP: Attachment Parenting’s Rise To Prominence (And Infamy) From Scientific Motherhood To Intensive Mothering Why Now? AP In A Neoliberal, Postracial Context Part II: AP And Parenting Advice In Britain And Canada Best For Whom? Experiences Of Breastfeeding Mother Knows Best? Bedsharing Against Expert Advice Babywearing: Fads, Dangers and Cultural Appropriation Part III: Dividing Parenting Labour Negotiating Parental Leave Policies in Britain and Canada 'Staying At Home' Or 'Choosing To Work' Part IV: Constructing An Oppositional Model Of Good Motherhood Reclaiming AP Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBrings together a wide range of feminist research focused on women’s lived experiences and centred on their own narratives. Drawing on expertise in contemporary fields of study, using cutting-edge participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies, the book updates Carlen’s pioneering work for current times.Table of ContentsForeword – Pat Carlen Introduction – Sharon Grace, Maggie O’Neill, Tammi Walker, Hannah King, Lucy Baldwin, Alison Jobe, Orla Lynch, Fiona Measham, Kate O’Brien and Vicky Seaman 1. Hearing the Voices of Women Involved in Drugs and Crime – Sharon Grace 2. Knifing Off? The Inadequacies of Desistance Frameworks for Women in the Criminal Justice System in Ireland – Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch 3. Sex Work, Criminalisation and Stigma: Towards a Feminist Criminological Imagination – Maggie O’Neill and Alison Jobe 4. Criminal Women in Prison Who Self-harm: What Can We Learn from Their Experiences? – Tammi Walker 5. Criminal Mothers: The Persisting Pains of Maternal Imprisonment – Lucy Baldwin, with Mary Elwood and Cassie Brown 6. ‘The World Split Open’: Writing, Teaching and Learning with Women in Prison – Hannah King, Kate O’Brien and Fiona Measham, with Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel 7. Women’s Biographies through Prison – Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel, with Hannah King, Kate O’Brien and Fiona Measham Afterword – Loraine Gelsthorpe

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Book SynopsisHow can we reimagine the relationship between academia and activism to provide new opportunities for social change? Based on an ethnography with an anti-violence feminist collective, this vibrant and vital book develops an interdisciplinary approach to activism and activist research, helping us reimagine the role of scholarship in the fight against social inequality. With its reflections on novel tools that can be utilized in the fight for social justice, this book will be a valuable resource for academics in critical management studies, sociology, gender studies, and social work as well as practitioners and policymakers across the social services sector.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Academic/Activist 1. Setting Out 2. Unsettling the In/Out Part 2: Ties That Bind; Ties That Break 3. Outside of Ourselves 4. Passionate, Sad, Angry People Part 3: Vulnerable Bodies 5. Gendered Bodies 6. LGBT+ Bodies 7. Radically Unsettled Bodies Part 4: A Story Like Mine 8. An Account of Ourselves 9. Through Diff erence Conclusion: Our Words Must Spill

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Book SynopsisHow can we reimagine the relationship between academia and activism to provide new opportunities for social change? Based on an ethnography with an anti-violence feminist collective, this vibrant and vital book develops an interdisciplinary approach to activism and activist research, helping us reimagine the role of scholarship in the fight against social inequality. With its reflections on novel tools that can be utilized in the fight for social justice, this book will be a valuable resource for academics in critical management studies, sociology, gender studies, and social work as well as practitioners and policymakers across the social services sector.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Academic/Activist 1. Setting Out 2. Unsettling the In/Out Part 2: Ties That Bind; Ties That Break 3. Outside of Ourselves 4. Passionate, Sad, Angry People Part 3: Vulnerable Bodies 5. Gendered Bodies 6. LGBT+ Bodies 7. Radically Unsettled Bodies Part 4: A Story Like Mine 8. An Account of Ourselves 9. Through Diff erence Conclusion: Our Words Must Spill

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Book SynopsisUsing interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, Dabrowski makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state’s legitimization of austerity and women’s everyday experiences, she reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, this book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Austerity, Women and the Role of the State is shortlisted for the 2021 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Political Project of Austerity Living In and With Austerity Navigating through Austerity Austerity Talk Austerity and Feminism(s) Austerity Future(s)? Conclusion: The State Women Are Now In

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Book SynopsisSpanning the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers’ politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare, work and gender. The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to organize against low pay, exploitative working conditions and state retrenchment and provides a unique theorization of feminist divisions and solidarities. Bringing together social reproduction with maternal studies, this is a resonating call to build a cross-sectoral, intersectional movement around childcare. Maud Perrier shows why social reproduction needs to be at the centre of a critical theory of work, care and mothering for post-pandemic times.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Counter-Thinking from the Nursery: Theorizing Contemporary Childcare Movements 2. Selfish Strikers and Intimate Unions: Early Years Educators’ Walkouts and the Big Steps Campaign, Australia 3. Mothering the Mothers: Stratified Depletion and Austerity in Bristol, United Kingdom 4. At the Table or Thrown under the Bus: Migrant Nannies’ Organizing and Childcare Coalitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic 5. Maternal Worker Power Pandemic Postscript

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Book SynopsisRecent North Korean diaspora has given rise to female refugee groups fighting for the protection of women’s rights. Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how their harrowing experiences have become an impetus for their activism. The author also reveals how their utopian dream of a better future for fellow North Korean women is vital in their activism. Unique in its focus on the intersections between gender, politics, activism and mobility, Lim's illuminating work will inform debates on activism and human rights internationally.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Researching North Korean Women’s Human Rights: Methodological Considerations 3. Cycle of Oppression: Violations of Human Rights Against North Korean Women 4. North Korean Women’s Human Rights Activism 5. Altruistic Political Imagination (API) 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds with this rhetoric. Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in these sectors. Contributors flesh out the differences and similarities across different Nordic countries and explore how the shifts in labour market conditions have impacted on women in research and innovation. This is an invaluable contribution to global debates around the mechanisms that maintain gendered structures in research and innovation, from academia to biotechnology and IT.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Gabriele Griffin 2. Research and Innovation in the Academy: A Precarious Business - Gabriele Griffin 3. Navigating Career Imaginaries in Academia: A View from Women Researchers in Biotechnology - Oili-Helena Ylijoki 4. Unconventional Routes into ICT Work: Learning from Women's own Solutions for Working Around Gendered Barriers - Hilde G. Corneliussen and Gilda Seddighi 5. Changes in Funding and the Intensification of Gender Inequalities in Research and Innovation - Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen and Päivi Korvajärvi 6. Promoting Gender Equality in STEM-oriented Universities: Institutional Policy Measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway - Charlotte Silander, Ida Drange, Maria Pietilä, Liza Reisel 7. Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting Female Associate Professors - May-Linda Magnussen, Rebecca W. B. Lund and Trond Stalsberg Mydland 8. "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" How Early Career Researchers Imagine the (Im)Possible Future in Academia - Siri Øyslebø Sørensen and Guro Korsnes Kristensen 9. "If It Had Been Only Me, It Would Not Have Worked Out": Women Negotiating Conflicting Challenges of ICT Work and Family in Norway - Gilda Seddighi and Hilde G. Corneliussen 10. Co-creative Platforms for Societal Impact of Research on Gender Issues: A Comparative Study of the Gender Academy and Gender Contact Point - Malin Lindberg, Ulf Mellström and Paula Wennberg 11. The Discourse of Rurality in Women’s Professional-life Narratives: Gender and ICT in Rural Norway - Hilde G. Corneliussen, Gilda Seddighi, and Carol Azungi Dralega

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.Table of ContentsInterleave 1 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis Interleave 2 2. Methods in Crisis Interleave 3 3. Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' Interleave 4 4. Smoke, Machines and Public Health Interleave 5 5. Kin, Care and Crises Interleave 6 6. Pyro-Reproductive Futures Interleave 7 7. Making Bushfire Babies

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Book SynopsisThe poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s A Gray Realm the Ocean were all written under the influence of art-specifically twenty-and twenty-first-century abstract visual art. All the art referenced in the poems was done by women. Although many of these painters, sculptors, performance artists, ceramicists, and fabric artists have earned international reputations, albeit late in their lives or even after their deaths, most have only recently been given the notice and gallery space they deserve. Composed in response to the artists’ multiplicity of forms, styles, modes, and moods, the poems are variously experimental. Drunk on color and language, line and lines, they don’t so much describe the art as revel in it. No patriarchal anxiety here—the poet actively seeks to join in conversation with the artists, listening closely and seeking their influence. She ponders, interrogates, and celebrates the work, taking each artist on her own term—respecting the achieved calm of Agnes Martin’s “Night Sea” and the flare and smolder of Ana Mendieta’s “earth-body” work, the lyric voluptuousness of Joan Mitchell and the intellectual geometries of Carmen Herrera, the arrested explosions of Cornelia Parker and Ruth Asawa’s cool embodiments of shadow, the sun-drenched reveries of Emmi Whitehorse and Pat Steir’s un-skied star falls. Yet A Gray Realm the Ocean not only seeks to honor these artists—their work, their courage, and their curiosity. Taken together, the collection is also a meditation on looking—conscious, attentive looking—and the mysterious nature of abstraction.Table of ContentsForeword, by Patricia Spears Jones | xi Incognita | 1 Spirit Level | 3 “Night Sea” | 4 Like Somewhere in Saskatchewan | 5 She Would Not Say Her Work is the Work of Turning | 7 “Lemon Tree” | 8 “Milk River” | 9 Sufficing | 10 Abstraction | 11 Reading Nautical Maps | 12 “Mountains and Sea” | 13 “The Bay” | 15 ‘Womb-of-All, Home-of-All, Hearse-of-All Night’ | 17 A Clear Jar | 18 White | 19 “La Grande Vallée XIII” | 21 “Sunflower III” | 23 Sub-Linguistic Mumbling | 24 Interior 1963 | 26 If | 28 Cartography | 30 Show Me an Angel | 31 Star River Night 33 Alma Thomas’s “Orion” Is | 35 “Spiral Leap” | 37 Motion and Cessation | 38 At Sea | 40 Night Forms | 41 Night Vision | 43 “Femme-Maison” | 44 Irascible | 46 The Wall | 47 Fire | 48 After the Burning of Flood Christian Church in Ferguson, MO: An Exploded View | 49 The Melancholy of the Actual World | 51 Why Seek the Dead Among the Living? | 52 ‘It Remains to Be Seen’ | 53 Quick and Still | 54 Seismography | 56 The Coriolis Effect | 58 “Uninvited Collaboration” | 59 Afloat | 60 Whole Cloth | 61 “Cranoch Glen” | 63 Looking | 65 “Character Set” | 67 The Provenance of Color | 69 Black on Black | 70 Sea and Grass | 71 Afterword | 72 Notes | 75 Acknowledgments | 81

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Book SynopsisThe Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Üstündağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future can be critically rethought in revolutionary ways. In the movement’s images, figures, voices, bodies, and their reverberations Üstündağ elaborates a new political imagination that has emerged in Kurdistan through women’s acts and speech. This political imagination unfolds between flesh, body, voice, language. It is the result of Kurdish women’s desire to find new ways of being and becoming, between the necessary and the possible. Focusing on the figures of the mother, the woman politician and woman guerilla, Üstündağ argues that the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement changes what politics consists of, including its matter, relationality, temporality, and spatiality. Although anchored in the specific Kurdish experiences, the book puts the movement into conversation with feminist political theory, psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Queer Studies, and Decolonial Studies. In solidarity with the Kurdish Movement’s tradition of resistance to History with a capital H that Kurds have built through reiterated performance, the book seeks to establish what new entanglements with wide-ranging thought the movement offers as a provocation for contemporary politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Mother 1. The Voice of the Maternal: Kurdish Mothers at the Intersection of Linguicide and Matricide | 25 2. Law(s) of the Maternal: Kurdish Mothers in Public | 47 Part II: Politician 3. Antigone as Kurdish Politician: Gendered Dwellings in the Limit between Freedom and Peace | 73 4. Kurdish Women Politicians at the Border between Body and Flesh | 100 Part III: Guerrilla 5. Who Are We and How Must We Live? Being a Friend in the Guerrilla Movement | 127 6. A Promise, a Letter, a Funeral, and a Wedding | 156 Conclusion | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 183 Bibliography | 229 Index | 251

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Book SynopsisThe Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Üstündağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future can be critically rethought in revolutionary ways. In the movement’s images, figures, voices, bodies, and their reverberations Üstündağ elaborates a new political imagination that has emerged in Kurdistan through women’s acts and speech. This political imagination unfolds between flesh, body, voice, language. It is the result of Kurdish women’s desire to find new ways of being and becoming, between the necessary and the possible. Focusing on the figures of the mother, the woman politician and woman guerilla, Üstündağ argues that the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement changes what politics consists of, including its matter, relationality, temporality, and spatiality. Although anchored in the specific Kurdish experiences, the book puts the movement into conversation with feminist political theory, psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Queer Studies, and Decolonial Studies. In solidarity with the Kurdish Movement’s tradition of resistance to History with a capital H that Kurds have built through reiterated performance, the book seeks to establish what new entanglements with wide-ranging thought the movement offers as a provocation for contemporary politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Mother 1. The Voice of the Maternal: Kurdish Mothers at the Intersection of Linguicide and Matricide | 25 2. Law(s) of the Maternal: Kurdish Mothers in Public | 47 Part II: Politician 3. Antigone as Kurdish Politician: Gendered Dwellings in the Limit between Freedom and Peace | 73 4. Kurdish Women Politicians at the Border between Body and Flesh | 100 Part III: Guerrilla 5. Who Are We and How Must We Live? Being a Friend in the Guerrilla Movement | 127 6. A Promise, a Letter, a Funeral, and a Wedding | 156 Conclusion | 173 Acknowledgments | 181 Notes | 183 Bibliography | 229 Index | 251

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Book SynopsisBreaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscapethe conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women''s memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion.The book's thought-provoking essays artfully traverse the complex terrains of gender portrayal, urban tales, ancestral practices, and grassroots activismall anchored in the bedrock of cultural remembrance. Rich in the range of cases discussed, the book sifts through multifaceted representations of women, from Marians to Liberties, to handmaidens, to particular historical women.Breaking the Bronze Ceiling offers a panoramic view of worldwide memorials, critically analyzing grandiose tributes while also honoring s

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Book SynopsisAre you struggling today? Do you look back and long for what used to be, or are you looking ahead and have no idea what's coming? Are you stuck in the middle of a mess because life has not turned out as you expected? When you run to God for answers, do you often feel like you aren't getting them--or at least aren't getting the answers you want? Are you holding on . . . but not sure how much longer you can? In times of not knowing, Sheila Walsh offers a lifeline of hope. With great compassion born of experience and hardship, Walsh comes alongside the hurting, fearful, and exhausted to remind us that we serve a God who is so much greater than our momentary troubles, no matter how insurmountable they feel. She doesn't offer a quick fix. She offers a God fix. Sharing from her own painful struggles and digging deep into biblical stories of rescue, hope, and miracles, she gives you the strength to keep going, to keep holding on to God in a world turned upside down. The accompanying study includes 10 lessons to help individuals or groups dive deeper.

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Book SynopsisMany Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction? When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a few dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over 674 books. These women describe not only their country and its inhabitants, but a remarkable variety of other subjects: from the story of transportation to the legacy of Canadian missionary activity around the world. While most of the writers lived in what is now Canada, other authors were British or American travellers who visited Canada throughout the years and reported on what they found here. This compendium has brief biographies of all these women, short descriptions of their books, and a comprehensive index of their books' subject matters. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 will be an invaluable research tool for women's studies and for all who wish to supplement the male gaze on Canada's past.

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Book SynopsisSovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti - a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies - the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti's exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of ""otherness"" by assuming the role of ""archaeologists of amnesia."" They seek to elucidate women's variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identifications - identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations. Nations such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are still locked in battles over self-determination, but, as Chancy demonstrates, women's gendered revisionings may open doors to less exclusionary imaginings of social and political realities for Caribbean people in general.Trade Review"Chancy's multifaceted study examines contemporary Cuban, Haitian, and Dominican women's use of literary and performance arts to resurrect marginalized and silenced subjects' memories. Her paradigm for constructing cohesive Caribbean relations is the Haitian Revolution's broad rejection of the French occupation, Haiti's reclamation of national sovereignty, freedom from the imposition of Enlightenment logic, and reassertion of collective national memory. Troubling for Chancy's transformative vision is neighbouring nations' acceptance of imposed rather than original, indigenous cultures, thereby rejecting association with Haiti's black majority population.... This book is an incredible read." -- J.C. Richards, Park University -- Choice, 201210"Believing that texts by women have the most to teach us about the limits of subjectivity and identity, Chancy fearlessly exposes the role of gender and the identity of Blackness in making women invisible. Her analysis playfully swirls throughout the text, an intellectual liveliness that defies its serious and challenging conclusions. Of the many poignant questions posed by the author, her ultimate quest is an exploration of how can the bodies of women in these three regions--Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic--be reclaimed, if at all, and can they, as figures of the nation, reformulate the body politic?.... Drawing on the work of scholars in history, geography, sociology, political science, anthropology, women's sexuality, and gender studies, Chancy employs feminist, race, and literary theories to constructively reconceptualize the role of Black women. Moving effortlessly between these perspectives, Chancy arrives at a fundamentally different rationale for the absence of Black women in the historical record. Rather than identifying the notion of the degenerate African as the heart of the problem, she argues that it is the strong, courageous, adaptable, and living African, or in this case descendants of Africans, that remains the fundamental obstacle. This Blackness is menacing not because of racialist views of degeneracy, but rather because of the threat of the alternative epistemes and structures of power of the African presence, especially embodied by the first constitution of the Haitian nation, upsetting the drive for 'whiteness' reflected in the national discourses of Latin American countries.(10).... As with all pivotal works, Chancy has created an intellectual and activist road map for us to follow believing that these writers, their stories, and the painful truths they expose, will provide a new way forward." -- Patricia Harms, Brandon University -- Labour/Le travail, 74, 201412"Rich and suggestive, this broad-ranging and original study combines interpretive readings and personal conversations with individual artists. Chancy places women's bodies, voices, memories, and visions at the centre of a careful scrutiny of the way three global axes of power--sugar, sovereignty, and revolution--have defined and confined Caribbean history, with its traumatic events and lingering painful memories. Conjugating national and transnational approaches to the Creolophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone islands, Chancy redefines our understanding of terror by opening up innovative cultural and scholarly avenues for hopeful new beginnings. This is a transformative intervention in the contemporary realities of the region." -- Françoise Lionnet, UCLA; Co-editor, The Creolization of Theory -- 201203"In this original and provocative study, Myriam Chancy reads the catastrophic history of the Caribbean in the narrative and visual fictions of a number of remarkable women artists, disclosing hitherto uncharted maps of time and voice and remembrance. A work of studied insight, engaged criticism, and graceful sentences, it will alter not only the frames in which Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic are represented, but the very conditions for a gendered and transnational inquiry into the Caribbean present." -- David Scott, Columbia University; Editor, Small Axe -- 201203Table of ContentsTable of Contents for From Sugar to Revolution: Womenâs Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic , by Myriam J.A. Chancy Preface The Stories We Cannot Tell Introduction ¿Y donde esta tu abuela? : On the Respective Racial (Mis)Idendifications of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean PART I SUGAR: Haiti Facing the Mountains: Dominican Suppression and the Haitian Imaginary in the Works of Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Recovering History âBone by Boneâ: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat PART II SOVEREIGNTY: Cuba Travesía : Crossings of Sovereignty, Sexuality, and Race in the Cuban Female Imaginaries of Zoé Valdés, Nancy Moréjon, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons Recovering Origins: A Conversation with María Magdalena Campos-Pons PART III REVOLUTION: The Dominican Republic Subversive Sexualities: Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, and Loida Maritza Pérez on Revolutionizing Gendered Indentities Against Cuban and Dominican Landscapes The Heart of Home: A Conversation with Loida Maritza Pérez Conclusion Non progredi regredi est : The Making of Transformative Visions Acknowledgements Notes Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women's archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace consider a series of central questions: What are the challenges that affect archival work about women in Canada today? What are some of the ethical dilemmas that arise over the course of archival research? How do researchers read and make sense of the materials available to them? How does one approach the shifting, unstable forms of new technologies? What principles inform the decisions not only to research the lives of women but to create archival deposits? The contributors focus on how a supple research process might allow for greater engagement with unique archival forms and critical absences in narratives of past and present. From questions of acquisition, deposition, and preservation to challenges related to the interpretation of material, the contributors track at various stages how fonds are created (or sidestepped) in response to national and other imperatives and to feminist commitments; how archival material is organized, restricted, accessed, and interpreted; how alternative and immediate archives might be conceived and approached; and how exchanges might be read when there are peculiar lacunae - missing or fragmented documents, or gaps in communication - that then require imaginative leaps on the part of the researcher. Trade Review`` Basements and Attics theorizes archives as non-neutral sites, and articulates archival work as open to critical interpretations and methodologies.... Each section explores alternative research by highlighting the resourcefulness of publishers' archives, private collections, or digital repositories. The contributions included in "Reorientations" and "Responsibilities," for instance, constitute excellent "how-to" guides for researchers interested not only in how archives problematize (dis)location, representation, and cultural translation, but also in ethical (re)readings of an author's literary career.... Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace ...serves as an essential guide in defining what constitutes an archive-as an ideologically and culturally constructed site-and in addressing pertinent challenges encountered both in the creation and study of Canadian women's archives, and also those presented by the advent of new technologies.'' -- Cristina Ivanovici -- Canadian Literature, 219, Winter 2013`` Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace is a fine example of the systematic ways in which Canadian scholars (to a greater degree, perhaps, than their Australian counterparts) have successfully opened out and responded to some of the larger and more compelling questions concerning what it means to work in, and with, archived personal papers, whether as archivists or researchers. As Morra and Schagerl observe, their collection "addresses the real and sometimes peculiar challenges that affect archival work today", and they freely admit that some of that work now involves "deciding what constitutes and archive" (p. 1). The subtitle, Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives , indicates that the volume is especially directed towards those engaged in ongoing debates concerning the archiving of material produced by women, but those professing little or no knowledge of these debates or Canadian literature more generally still have much to gain from these detailed and sometimes provocative essays. If, as Catherine Hobbs suggests in her contribution ... "archival theory has done a terrible job of accommodating the particular needs of individual peoples' archives" (p. 181), this volume arguably goes some way towards addressing this lacuna. Comprising 20 essays, as well as a lengthy introduction and afterword, it is a substantial work.... While the last section contains perhaps the most explicit reflection on questions of ethics, contributors across the volume consistently return to this aspect of archival work, thus making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to extend their understanding of the many ethical dimensions invovled in managing personal papers, whether in their acquisition, processing, accessing or scholarly use.... [A] major contribution to ongoing debates in the area of personal papers.... Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace is a valuable addition to current scholarship and debate and, as such, deserves to be read and appreciated well beyond the Canadian border.'' -- Maryanne Dever, University of Newcastle -- Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 41, No. 2``Each of the volume's authors explores some of the unacknowledged, yet crucial, ethical, material, and cultural boundaries that pertain to the archiving of, and access to, the works of Canadian women.... The book's contributors also address issues extending beyond gender, such as the challenges of archiving digital works and those of a more ephemeral nature, modes of resistant reading and in every way challenge the static view of how we might come to understand both archives and the process of archiving.'' -- Kane Faucher -- Western News, October 31, 2013Table of Contents Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Women's Archives, edited by Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl Introduction: No Archive is Neutral Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl I. Reorientations Of Mini-Ships and Archives Daphne Marlatt Finding Indian Maidens on eBay: Tales of the Alternative Archive (and More Tales of White Commodity Culture) Cecily Devereux ""Faster Than a Speeding Thought"": Lemon Hound's Archive Unleashed Karis Shearer and Jessica Schagerl ""I remember""I was wearing leather pants"": Archiving the Repertoire of Feminist Cabaret in Canada T.L. Cowan ""In the hope of making a connection"": (Re)Reading Archival Bodies, Responses, and Love in Marian Engel's Bear and Alice Munro's ""Meneseteung"" Catherine Bates An Archive of Complicity: Ethically (Re)Reading the Documentaries of Nelofer Pazira Hannah McGregor Psyche and Her Helpers, under Cloud Cover Penn Kemp II. Restrictions Archival Matters Sally Clark Keeping the Archive Door Open: Writing about Florence Carlyle Susan Butlin The Oral, the Archive, and Ethics: Canadian Women Writers Telling It Andrea Beverley Halted by the Archive: The Impact of Excessive Archival Restrictions on Scholars Ruth Panofsky and Michael Moir Personal Ethics: Being an Archivist of Writers Catherine Hobbs Invisibility Exhibit: The Limits of Library and Archives Canada's ""Multicultural Mandate"" Karina Vernon III. Responsibilities Rat in the Box: Thoughts on Archiving My Stuff Susan McMaster Letters to the Woman's Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon's ""The Country Homemakers"" and a Public Culture for Women Katja Thieme Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, ""As Long as the Leaves Hold Together"" Vanessa Brown and Benjamin Lefebvre The Quality of the Carpet: A Consideration of Anecdotes in Researching Women's Lives Linda M. Morra ""I want my story told"": The Sheila Watson Archive, the Reader, and the Search for Voice Paul Tiessen ""You can do with all this rambling whatever you want"": Scrutinizing Ethics in the Alzheimer's Archives Kathleen Venema Locking Up Letters Julia Creet Afterword Janice Fiamengo Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMap Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal "text" of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.Trade Review"...an inspiring book that is fascinating and highly-researched. A take away message is thatwhilst women were always a minority, they have made major contributions to cartography. Theircommon ground is their love of maps and map making and their belief in the value of their work inteaching others to open their eyes to the world." - Jennifer Carter,School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast,Journal of The Australian and New Zealand Map Society, The Globe, Number 74, 2014.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: The Strands through Map Worlds; Who Is a Cartographer?; The Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries; The Eighteenth & Early Nineteenth Centuries (1666 to 1850); Cartography from the Margins: From the Early Twentieth Century to World War II; Mid- to Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers & Advancers in North America; Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers & Advancers in Europe, Asia, & Latin America; "Getting There without Aiming at It": Womens Experiences in Becoming Cartographers; "We Are Good Ghosts!": Orientations & Expectations of Women Cartographers; Educational Opportunities & Obstacles; The Gendered Social Organization; Female Pathways Through the Present-Day Map World; Gender Shifts; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women’s track and field, African American women found sport opened the door to a better life. However, they also discovered that success meant challenging perceptions that many Americans—both black and white—held of them.Through the stories of six athletes—Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee—Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes use to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women’s relationship with sport in the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisVeterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women. However, average salaries have dropped as this shift has occurred, and even with women in the vast majority, only 25 percent of leadership roles are held by women.These trends point to gender-based inequality that veterinary medicine, a profession that tilts so heavily toward women, is struggling to address. How will the profession respond? What will this mean for our students and schools? What will it mean for our pets entrusted to veterinarian care? Who has succeeded in these situations? Who is taking action to lead change? What can we learn from them to lead the pack in our lives?Leaders of the Pack, by Julie Kumble and Dr. Donald Smith, explores key themes in leadership and highlights women in veterinary medicine whose stories embody those themes. In it, Kumble and Smith cull over three years of interviews to profile a wide variety of women as they share triumphs and challenges, lucky as well as tough breaks, and the sound advice and words that inspired them to take their careers in unanticipated directions. By sharing unique stories that illuminate different paths to leadership and reflecting on best practices through commentary and research, Leaders of the Pack will allow more female leaders to create wider pathways to the top of their profession.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology collects key texts on women in culture and offers an ideal introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience today.Trade Review"Helpful, editorial summaries of the field, a diverse selection of 'readings'." Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Part I The Cultural Construction of Gender 13 1 Women in Culture 15 Introduction 15 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture 23 Sherry B. Ortner Oppression 45 Marilyn Frye Suggested Activities 50 Bibliography 52 2 Commonalities and Differences among Women 55 Introduction 55 Commonalities and Differences (excerpt) 63 Johnnetta B. Cole Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 69 Audre Lorde And A’n’t I a Woman? 77 Sojourner Truth When you Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman 80 Indiana University Empowerment Workshop Heterosexuality Questionnaire 81 Gay and Lesbian Speaker’s Bureau Suggested Activities 82 Bibliography 85 3 Cultural Representations of Women 91 Introduction 91 Ways of Seeing (excerpt) 97 John Berger Beyond caring: the De-moralization of Gender 105 Marilyn Friedman Suggested Activities 112 Bibliography 114 Part II Cultural Institutions Defining Women 117 4 Women and Popular Culture I: Advertising, Print Media, and Pornography 119 Introduction 119 Beauty and the Beast of Advertising 127 Jean Kilbourne Fresh Lipstick: Rethinking Images of Women in Advertising 131 Linda M. Scott Suggested Activities 141 Bibliography 145 5 Women and Popular Culture II: Television and Film 149 Introduction 149 Solace in Soapland 153 Elayne Rapping No Way to Treat a Lawyer 160 Terry Kay Diggs Suggested Activities 165 Bibliography 167 6 Fashion, Beauty, and Women’s Health 171 Introduction 171 The Beauty Myth (excerpt) 179 Naomi Wolf Madonna, Fashion, and Identity (excerpt) 187 Douglas Kellner Obsession: the Tyranny of Slenderness 201 Kim Chernin Suggested Activities 216 Bibliography 219 7 Motherhood and Families 223 Introduction 223 Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood (excerpt) 231 Patricia Hill Collins Fall from Grace: Twentieth-century Mom (excerpt) 244 Shari L. Thurer Out of the Stream: an Essay on Unconventional Motherhood 251 Shirley Glubka Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens (excerpt) 261 Susan Sherwin Suggested Activities 272 Bibliography 275 8 Sex, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Abuse 283 Introduction 283 High School Lowdown 301 Miranda J. Van Gelder Scope of the Problem 304 Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot Legal Images of Battered Women (excerpt) 323 Martha R. Mahoney In the Truth Itself, There is Healing (excerpt) 338 Ellen Bass Suggested Activities 349 Bibliography 356 Part III Opportunities for Women in Culture 363 9 Women Creating Culture 365 Introduction 365 The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Woman in Nineteenth-Century America (excerpt) 372 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Revolution, Girl Style 391 Farai Chideya, with Melissa Rossi and Dogen Hannah Witchcraft as Goddess Religion 394 Starhawk Suggested Activities 401 Bibliography 404 10 Feminism and the Future 409 Introduction 409 Feminism: a Transformational Politic 418 bell hooks Recognizing, Accepting, and Celebrating our Differences 427 Papusa Molina Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism (excerpt) 433 Ynestra King Still I Rise 440 Maya Angelou Suggested Activities 441 Bibliography 444 Index 449

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, 11 scholars explore the role of ethnic food in American culture, with a particular focus on women. They argue that ethnic cooking represents both a source of sustenance and a complex form of communication.

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Book SynopsisIn the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. As America modernized and women left the home to enter the paid labour force, mastery of cooking remained a sign that a woman took her gendered responsibilities seriously. Ironically, over the course of the 20th century, as ready-made foods and kitchen appliances made home cooking less essential and labour-intensive, culinary skill continued to be perceived not only by society but often by women as a measure of a woman's true value. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old. Still tied to the kitchen, women found that instead of simply providing sustenance for the household, they now had to master more complex cooking techniques, the knowledge of ""ethnic"" cuisines, the science of nutrition, the business of consumerism, and, perhaps most important of all, the art of keeping their families happy and healthy.Trade ReviewThis book would be an excellent beginning for in-depth research or for a pleasant introduction to the field. It will have a wide appeal to those interested in women's roles in the 20th century and in home cooking. - Choice ""An easy read - graceful and often witty. I was often charmed and just as often instructed. It is a book that could be used in American studies and women's studies courses."" - Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

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Book SynopsisA study of the evolution of American women's clothing, ""When the Girls Came Out to Play"" traces the history of modern sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender roles. Patricia Warner shows how this profound cultural shift, which did not reach fruition until World War II, originated during the previous century with the gradual expansion of socially acceptable physical activity for women. Behind this development was a growing interest in sports and exercise that was further nurtured by the establishment of schools of higher education for women. The participation of women in athletic pursuits previously reserved for men began with the relatively genteel sports of croquet and tennis. With the founding of women's colleges, these ""ladylike"" games were supplemented by more vigorous activities and competitive team sports, from gymnastics to swimming to basketball. At first, Warner points out, women literally had nothing to wear for these activities. Whereas such fashionable attire as corsets, petticoats, hats, and gloves could be worn while playing outdoor lawn games, more strenuous athletic endeavours required less physically restrictive clothing. Even so, change came only gradually, as women's colleges, shielded from public scrutiny and prying male eyes, permitted the adoption of looser, more comfortable apparel for physical education. Many of these new outfits featured trousers, garments considered taboo for women, though they often remained hidden beneath voluminous skirts. Over time, however, the practicality and versatility of such clothing led to social acceptance, laying the foundation for the emergence of the now ubiquitous yet distinctly American style known as sportswear. Although, we take it for granted, Warner observes, this is the first time in the history of the world that such universality has existed in clothing, and it has lasted now for well over half a century - in itself a marvel, considering the speed of fashion change in an era of instant messages and images.

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Book SynopsisPolly Adler's ""house"" - the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name ""synonymous with sin."" This new edition of Adler's autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass phenomenon, in both hardback and paperback, when it was first published. A self-consciously literary work, ""A House Is Not a Home"" provides an informal social history of immigrant mobility, prostitution, Jewish life in New York, police dishonesty, the ""white slavery"" scare of the early twentieth century, and political corruption. Adler's story fills an important gap in the history of immigrant life, urban experience, and organized crime in New York City. While most other accounts of the New York underworld focus on the lives of men, from Herbert Asbury's ""Gangs of New York"" through more recent works on Jewish and Italian gangsters, this book brings women's lives and problems to the forefront. ""A House Is Not a Home"" is compellingly readable and was popular enough to draw Hollywood's attention in the early 1960s - leading to a film starring Shelley Winters as Adler. The book has been largely forgotten in the ensuing decades, lost both to its initial audience of general readers and to scholars in women's studies, immigration history, and autobiography who are likely to find it a treasure trove. Now, with a new introduction by Rachel Rubin that contextualizes Adler's life and literary achievement, ""A House Is Not a Home"" is again available to the many readers who have come to understand such ""marginal"" life stories as a special refraction of the more typical American success narrative.

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Book SynopsisIn the winter of 1892, the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, introduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of Basket Ball. An immediate if unexpected success, the game spread to other women's schools across the country, and soon its founder, Senda Berenson (1868-1954), was called upon to codify its distinctive set of gender-specific rules. Emphasizing team passing and position over individual play, the version she instituted defined women's basketball for seventy years and eventually earned her the honor of being the first female elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Yet, as Ralph Melnick points out, Berenson's pioneering role in the history of women's athletics was more a matter of accident than destiny. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, prone to ill health throughout her childhood, she enrolled in the Boston Normal School for Gymnastics in the fall of 1890 with the hope of strengthening herself so that she could pursue a career as a pianist, dancer, or painter. Instead, she soon became both a practitioner and a proponent of a new approach to women's physical education, one aimed at providing a ""natural outlet of the play instinct,"" developing ""endurance and physical courage"" as well as ""quickness of thought and action,"" and promoting through team work the ""power of organization"" women needed to achieve full social equality. Extending her work into the factories and blighted urban tenements of America, Berenson later won the recognition of Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger, and other progressive reformers. Believing that ""Americans have forgotten how to play,"" she wanted to teach others to live ""joyfully - beautifully."" For Berenson, the physical culture of exercise and games, played not for competition but for personal and social development as well as sheer enjoyment, was but another form of art. This convergence of athletics and aesthetics was hardly surprising, Melnick explains, because the single most important influence on Senda Berenson's life was her brother, the renowned art critic and connoisseur, Bernard Berenson. The two siblings wrote frequently to each other over the course of their lives, and the author draws heavily on their correspondence throughout the book to create an intimate and insightful portrait of a remarkable American woman.

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Book SynopsisIn the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. These mythical women were like the 1950s TV character June Cleaver, white, middle-class, suburban housewives. Not June Cleaver unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image.This collection of fifteen revisionist essays charts new directions in American women's history and provides connections to scholarship that, until recently, has focused primarily on the years before 1945 and after 1960. The contributors explore the work and activism of postwar American women and also point to the contradictions and ambiguities in postwar concepts of gender.Including examinations of such aspects of postwar women's history as the arrival of Chinese women immigrants in New York City; women's changing presence in the labor force and in union organization; and the precarious lives of women abortionists, lesbians, and single mothers, the authors effectively demonstrate how postwar women's identities were not only an expression of their gender but also of their class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, occupation, and politics.Trade Review"Not June Cleaver reconsiders the roles of women as mothers, workers, activists, unionists and pacifists and read together these fine essays signify a systematic devaluation of women that eventually manifested itself in the coming of age of the women's movement."—Publishers Weekly"An astonishingly successful effort to rewrite the history of American women in the postwar era... [that] challenges well-established interpretations of postwar gender ideology, shows how gender politics were integral to Cold War politics, and complicates and deepens our understanding of postwar women...—working and middle-class, Chicana, white, black, and Asian...and essential text for historians of the Cold War and postwar gender politics"—George Chauncey, University of ChicagoTable of Contents1. Introduction: Women and Gender in the Postwar United States Joanne Meyerowitz Part I: Women and Wage Labor 2. When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown Xiaolan Bao 3. An "Obligation to Participate": Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s Susan Rimby Leighow 4. Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era Dorothy Sue Cobble 5. Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years Susan M. Hartmann Part II: Activist Women and Their Organizations 6. Gender and Post-World War II Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s Susan Lynn 7. Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists During the McCarthy Era, 1945-1955 Harriet Hyman Alonso 8. "Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?": Familialism Against McCarthyism Deborah A. Gerson 9. Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-1962 Margaret Rose 10. "Our Skirts Gave Them Courage!": The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-1961 Dee Garrison Part III: Constructions of Womanhood 11. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958 Joanne Meyerowitz 12. "I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till Ruth Feldstein 13. White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States Regina G. Kunzel Part IV: Sexual Outlaws and Cultural Rebels 14. Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients Before Roe v. Wade Rickie Solinger 15. The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America Donna Penn 16. The "Other" Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls Wini Breines About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisOriginal research on the changing roles of women in Japan and KoreaTable of Contents1. Introduction --Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley Part I: Japanese Women 2. Women and the Family in Transition in Postindustrial Japan --Chizuko Ueno 3. Women's Education and Gender Roles in Japan --Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda 4. Abortion and Women's Reproductive Rights: The State of Japanese Women, 1947-1991 --Miho Ogino 5. Women Workers in Japan: Past, Present, Future --Eiko Shinotsuka 6. Obstacles and Opportunities: Women and Political Participation in Japan --Kimiko Kubo and Joyce Gelb 7. A Short History of the Feminist Movement in Japan --Sandra Buckley Part II: Korean Women 8. Six Barriers to Equality for Women in Korea --Elizabeth Choi 9. Overcoming Confucian Barriers: Changing Educational Opportunities for Women in Korea --Ho Kyung Won 10. Korean Women's Groups, Social Movements, and Health --Lisa Kim Davis 11. Women Workers in a Changing Korean Society --Roh Mihye 12. Agenda for Social Reform: Women's Political Participation in Sough Korea --Sohn Bong Scuk 13. Feminism in a Confucian Society: The Women's Movement in Korea --Marian Lief Palley About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewellery boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home "Living Rooms as Factories." Hsiung studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories, and how their work and family lives have contributed to Taiwan's 9.1 percent GNP growth over the last three decades, the 'economic miracle'. This vivid portrayal of the dual lives of these women as wives, mothers, daughters-in-law and as manufacturing workers also provides sophisticated analyses of the links between class and gender stratification, family dynamics, state policy, and global restructuring within the process of industrialization. Hsiung uses ethnographic data to illustrate how, in this system of intersecting capitalist logic and patriarchal practices, some Taiwanese women experience upward mobility by marrying into the owners' family, while others remain home and wage workers. Although women in both groups acknowledge gender inequality, this commonality does not bridge divergent class affiliations. Along with a detailed account of the oppressive labor practices, this book reveals how workers employ clandestine tactics to defy the owners' claims on their labor. Author note: Ping-Chun Hsiung is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Taiwan's Economic Miracle 2. "Living Rooms as Factories": Women, the State, and Taiwan's Economic Development 3. Satellite Factory System from Within 4. Women, Marriage, and Family in the Satellite Factory System 5. The Everyday Construction of an Economic Miracle: Labor Control on the Shop Floor 6. Are Women Really "Petty Minded"? Awareness, Compliance, and Resistance in the Workplace Conclusion Notes References Index Photographs

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Book SynopsisHome. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives. They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries -- the United States, Canada, or England. As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Mari Chauvet give voice to Afro-Caribbean women's alienation and longing to return home. Whether their return is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.Trade Review"[A] fine book. Searching for Safe Spaces explores some of the major issues of our historical moment: migration, exile, African diaspora, and the position of women within that context. It addresses some of the most vibrant new writings in the Americas and will bring wide readership to these excellent writers." --Gay Wilentz, author of Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the DiasporaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Prologue "Natif-Natal" Acknowledgments One Productive Contradictions: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Feminism and the Question of Exile Two Exiled in the "Fatherland": Joan Riley and Beryl Gilroy Voice Afro-Caribbean Women in Britain Three "Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay": M. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, and Makeda Silvera and Women's Dignity in Canadian Exile Four Remembering Ourselves: The Power of the Erotic in Works by Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, and Michelle Cliff Five Exile, Resistance, Home: Retelling History in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Marie Chauvet Epilogue "Return" Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWhen we see children playing in a supervised playground or hear about a school being renovated, we seldom wonder about who mobilized the community resources to rebuild the school or staff the park. Mexican American Women Activists tells the stories of Mexican American women from two Los Angeles neighborhoods and how they transformed the everyday problems they confronted into political concerns. By placing these women's experiences at the center of her discussion of grassroots political activism, Mary Pardo illuminates the gender, race, and class character of community networking. She shows how citizens help to shape their local environment by creating resources for churches, schools, and community services and generates new questions and answers about collective action and the transformation of social networks into political networks. By focusing on women in two contiguous but very different communities -- the working-class, inner-city neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Eastside Los Angeles and the racially mixed middle-class suburb of Monterey Park -- Pardo is able to bring class as ell as gender and ethnic concerns to bear on her analysis in ways that shed light on the complexity of mobilizing for urban change. Unlike many studies, the stories told here focus on women's strengths rather than on their problems. We follow the process by which these women empowered themselves by using their own definitions of social justice and their own convictions about the importance of traditional roles. Rather than becoming political participants in spite of their family responsibilities, women in both neighborhoods seem to have been more powerful because they had responsibilities, social networks, and daily routines separate from the men in their communities. Pardo asserts that the decline of real wages and the growing income gap means that unforunately most women will no longer be able to focus their energies on unpaid community work. She reflects on the consequences of this change for women's political involvement, as well as on the politics of writing about women and politics.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments ONE Introduction: Putting Women at the Center of Politics TWO Community Contexts and Controversies: The Barrio and the Suburb THREE The Politics of Community Identity in Eastside Los Angeles: "We Got Everything Nobody Else Wanted" FOUR The Politics of Community Identity in Monterey Park: "Things Looked Better over There" FIVE Becoming an Activist in Eastside Los Angeles: "For My Kids, for My Community, for My 'Raza'" SIX Becoming an Activist in Monterey Park: "The Elementary School Kids Are Still Too Young to Defend Themselves" SEVEN Creating Community in Eastside Los Angeles: "We Have to Do It!" EIGHT Creating Community in Monterey Park: "Keeping an Eye on the Block" NINE Women Transforming the "Political": "Traditions Are Not So Traditional" Appendix: Concepts and Terms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMany new mothers and fathers are surprised at how they change as individuals and as couples after a baby is born. Susan Walzer's interviews explore the tendency for men and women to experience their transitions into parenthood in different ways -- a pattern that has been linked to marital stress. How do new mothers and fathers think about babies, and what is the influence of parental consciousness in reproducing motherhood and fatherhood as different experiences? The reports of new parents in this book illustrate the power of gendered cultural imagery in how women and men think about their roles and negotiate their parenting arrangement. New parents talk about what it means to them to be a \u0022good\u0022 mother or father and how this plays out in their working arrangements and their everyday interactions over child care. The author carefully unravels the effects of social norms, personal relationships, and social institutions in channeling parents toward gender-differentiated approaches to parenting.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Becoming Mothers and Fathers Chapter 2 Parental Consciousness and Gender Chapter 3 "Good" Mothers and Fathers Chapter 4 Bonding with the Baby: Biology and Social Meanings Chapter 5 As a Wife and a Mother: Marriage and Approaches to New Parenthood Chapter 6 Images of Family Chapter 7 Employment, Child Care, and Parental Accountability Chapter 8 Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFeminist scholars, and those inspired by other liberatory movements, have raised profound questions about the standard practices of social research. Arguing that established methods too often ignore and obfuscate social oppression, they search for approaches that will more adequately represent marginalized groups and the social processes that organize their lives. Liberating Method charts one researcher's view of this project as Marjorie L. DeVault, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of feminist methodology, examines in her collection of new and previously published essays the dimensions of feminist research. DeVault believes in \u0022writing carefully,\u0022 that is with care (precision) and caring (empathy). In addition to essays on how women write, are silenced, and can speak up, she includes an autobiographical sketch, a discussion of \u0022the self as resource,\u0022 and a section on what she calls \u0022excavation,\u0022 or the work of recovering unrecognized or suppressed aspects of women's experience. She explores the sources and meanings of feminist methodology, the strategies of reflexive analysis, and the issues that arise when writing and teaching feminist research. Committed to a feminism attentive to oppressions that operate simultaneously with gender, DeVault considers exclusions and distortions in feminist research and strategies for building more inclusive approaches. Including a closing essay that presents \u0022practical advice\u0022 for oppositional researchers, Liberating Method reflects DeVault's conviction that feminist insights can and should contribute to a sounder, more rigorous social science.Trade Review"Marjorie DeVault is a major voice in the field of qualitative and feminist methods. Any bibliography that did not include her work would be incomplete. Her book does not only delve into the past, but charts the future." -Shulamit Reinhartz, author of Feminist Methods in Social Research "Liberating Method makes an innovative and valuable contribution to ongoing debates over the status and nature of feminist research in sociology... Those teaching courses on feminist research, in particular, will find this a valuable book for suggesting strategies, prodding thinking, and sparking debate." -Canadian Journal of Sociology OnlineTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1 Becoming a Feminist Scholar: A Second-Generation Story Part II: What is Feminist Methodology? 2 Talking Back to Sociology: Distinctive Contributions of Feminist Methodology 3 Institutional Ethnography: A Strategy for Feminist Inquiry Part III: Excavation 4 Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis 5 Ethnicity and Expertise: Racial-Ethnic Knowledge in Sociological Research Part IV: The Self as Resource 6 Novel Readings: The Social Organization of Interpretation 7 Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public Health Nutrition Part V: Writing and Rhetorical Strategy 8 Women Write Sociology: Rhetorical Strategies 9 Metaphors of Silence and Voice in Feminist Thought (with Chrys Ingraham) 10 Speaking Up, Carefully: Authorship and Authority in Feminist Writing Part VI: Craft Knowledge of Feminist Research 11 From the Seminar Room: Practical Advice for Researchers Appendix A List of Data fro Sources in Chapter 6: Commentary on The Late Bourgeois World Appendix B Readings for a Seminar on "Feminist Methodologies" Notes References Index

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