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University of Delaware Press Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarres Heptaméron
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New Growth Press You Are Welcomed: Devotions for When Life Is a
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New Growth Press You Are Still a Mother: Hope for Women Grieving a
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New Growth Press A Seasoned Marriage
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University of Utah Press,U.S. With Grit and Determination: A Century of Change
Book SynopsisSpanning more than one hundred years of women's careers and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a female archaeologist. These personal accounts of researchers, ethnographers, and field archaeologists in the private, public, and academic sectors highlight the unique role women have played in the development of American and Great Basin archaeology. Written by women trained or working in the Great Basin, these accounts reflect the broader landscape of American archaeology, offering a glimpse into a larger narrative about making one's way in a historically male field. By sharing their stories, the authors highlight the positive aspects of the field, recognize the challenges that still exist, and encourage conversations about inclusion, diversity, and the future of archaeology in the Great Basin and beyond. Their authentic and intimate narratives inspire us to look at challenges not as roadblocks, but as opportunities for lifelong growth and success.Trade ReviewThis is a significant work in the history of the science of archaeology. The book will be useful for women considering archaeology as a career choice. I know of no other book that is similar to this one." —Barbara Voorhies, research professor and professor emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara"Any archaeologist involved in field science will find kinship with the authors in this volume. General readers will find this interesting as well. The world needs to know more about strong women and why they were successful." —Mary Lou Larson, professor of archaeology, University of Wyoming
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University of Nevada Press Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and
Book SynopsisMaría de Zayas is unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of exemplary novels whose quality is often compared to Miguel de Cervantes' masterful works. Her two main collections of short stories, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and Desengaños amorosos, encompass a social critique based on literary fiction that exposes flaws in the idealized archetypes of masculine identity in early modern Spain. Zayas's stories redefine women's patriarchal disadvantage as a tool to expose the ways in which early modern Spanish women could be empowered to counteract men's discursive and political authority, which they use to unfairly maintain their own social privilege.Xabier Granja Ibarreche explores how Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity that had been popularized by conduct manuals and the traits they specified for appropriate noble comportment. In doing so, Zayas elaborates a nonofficial discourse throughout plots that subvert patriarchal hierarchies: she rearticulates the existing ideological order to empower women who are no longer willing to remain silent and oppressed by masculine domination after centuries of failing to attain a sufficiently self-sufficient political position to ascend in the social hierarchy. By inverting the male gaze that assumes masculinity as a preeminent identity, Zayas subverts the patriarchal subject/masculine, object/feminine order and destabilizes manly superiority as a basic universal reality, thereby empowering and unshackling Spanish women to liberate Iberian culture from the repressive and pernicious future she forebodes.Trade ReviewThe author enhances his discussion of her fiction with historical case studies of abused women from the time during which Zayas lived and wrote. This archival material . . . is a welcome addition to the consideration of Zayas's stories and reflects her complexity." - Marina Brownlee, Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, author of The Cultural Labyrinth of María de ZayasTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Man Redefined: Hegemony, History, and Refashioning Chapter Two: Woman Nullified: The Gendered Dangers of Noblemen's Despotism Chapter Three: Woman Victimized: The Sexual Assault in Patriarchal Oppression Chapter Four: Woman Brutalized: The Bodies Broken by Masculine Violence Chapter Five: Conclusion: Woman Redefined Bibliography Index About the Author
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Information Age Publishing Gender, Tenure and the Pursuit of
Book SynopsisFemale faculty underrepresentation in higher education is perpetuated by gender-based social and professional practices and roles. Existing research confirms gender disparities in faculty recruitment, retention, salary, tenure, and mentorship. This book explores how female, tenure-track faculty navigate the process of balancing their personal and professional lives. Utilizing a qualitative phenomenological approach, the stories of nine female, full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty as well as four administrators employed in faculty diversity, development, and work-life are explored. With a blended application of poststructuralist feminism and work-family border theoretical framework, the book illustrates gender norms, roles, and boundaries as experienced and interpreted by female faculty navigating their work, family, and community spheres of influence. This book highlights the first known study to explore a “new Ivy” institution, and there are no other known studies that incorporate both the qualitative perspectives of female faculty as well as those of the faculty diversity and development administrators who oversee and develop the very programs and policies that support those faculty. A key chapter in the book,“Baby, It’s Cold Inside: Faculty Context & Campus Climate” offers unique insight into what female faculty, and those who love them, face on the path to tenure today. Five thematic findings are overviewed and explored: faculty support comes in many forms; seeking clarity in job elements and teaching, research, service (TRS) ratios; coping strategies in the wake of an overloaded TRS ratio (“Quick meals, late nights, and what gym?”); family borders in the academy, and work-life-family fit: stability, not balance. This work aims to stimulate faculty gender norm consciousness and acknowledge and relay the unique challenges in faculty’s pursuit of work-life-family stability, career path navigation, and role negotiation. The author offers an insider’s glimpse of modern faculty and administrator lives for the benefit of tenure-track faculty, their departments, their families, and higher education institutions at large. This work aims to better inform university and departmental policy planning and enhance institutional understanding and subsequent support in and of the faculty experience, and thus the experiences of the increasingly diverse students whom educational institutions aim to serve.Table of Contents Preface Chapter1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective and Work–Family Border Theory Chapter 3: Methodology and Three Cultures of Academia Chapter 4: Baby, It’s Cold Inside: Faculty Context and Campus Climate Chapter 5: Where’s My Net? Support At Work and Home Chapter 6: Clarity on the Climb: A Tenure Escalator Chapter 7: Hoping and Coping Strategies: Quick Meals, Late Nights, and What Gym? Chapter 8: Family and Home:Navigating Boundaries and Pushing Boundaries Chapter 9: Work, Life, Family Fit: Stability, Not Balance Chapter 10: Conclusion: Summary and Implications About the Author
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Information Age Publishing Gender, Tenure and the Pursuit of
Book SynopsisFemale faculty underrepresentation in higher education is perpetuated by gender-based social and professional practices and roles. Existing research confirms gender disparities in faculty recruitment, retention, salary, tenure, and mentorship. This book explores how female, tenure-track faculty navigate the process of balancing their personal and professional lives. Utilizing a qualitative phenomenological approach, the stories of nine female, full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty as well as four administrators employed in faculty diversity, development, and work-life are explored. With a blended application of poststructuralist feminism and work-family border theoretical framework, the book illustrates gender norms, roles, and boundaries as experienced and interpreted by female faculty navigating their work, family, and community spheres of influence. This book highlights the first known study to explore a “new Ivy” institution, and there are no other known studies that incorporate both the qualitative perspectives of female faculty as well as those of the faculty diversity and development administrators who oversee and develop the very programs and policies that support those faculty. A key chapter in the book,“Baby, It’s Cold Inside: Faculty Context & Campus Climate” offers unique insight into what female faculty, and those who love them, face on the path to tenure today. Five thematic findings are overviewed and explored: faculty support comes in many forms; seeking clarity in job elements and teaching, research, service (TRS) ratios; coping strategies in the wake of an overloaded TRS ratio (“Quick meals, late nights, and what gym?”); family borders in the academy, and work-life-family fit: stability, not balance. This work aims to stimulate faculty gender norm consciousness and acknowledge and relay the unique challenges in faculty’s pursuit of work-life-family stability, career path navigation, and role negotiation. The author offers an insider’s glimpse of modern faculty and administrator lives for the benefit of tenure-track faculty, their departments, their families, and higher education institutions at large. This work aims to better inform university and departmental policy planning and enhance institutional understanding and subsequent support in and of the faculty experience, and thus the experiences of the increasingly diverse students whom educational institutions aim to serve.Table of Contents Preface Chapter1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective and Work–Family Border Theory Chapter 3: Methodology and Three Cultures of Academia Chapter 4: Baby, It’s Cold Inside: Faculty Context and Campus Climate Chapter 5: Where’s My Net? Support At Work and Home Chapter 6: Clarity on the Climb: A Tenure Escalator Chapter 7: Hoping and Coping Strategies: Quick Meals, Late Nights, and What Gym? Chapter 8: Family and Home:Navigating Boundaries and Pushing Boundaries Chapter 9: Work, Life, Family Fit: Stability, Not Balance Chapter 10: Conclusion: Summary and Implications About the Author
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Information Age Publishing Black Mother Educators: Advancing Praxis for
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Information Age Publishing Black Mother Educators: Advancing Praxis for
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power. Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" From the moment Colin Firth stripped down to his breeches and shirt in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, screen adaptations inspired by Austen's novels have banked on their ability to depict sexual tension and romantic desire. Meanwhile, the success of spin-offs, sequels, and elaborations confirms that Austen's novels have become a potent aphrodisiac for everyday readers. Clearly, the fourteen million viewers who watched Firth's unveiling were onto something: Austen's novels turn people on. Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond brings together a range of voices-from literary scholars to video game designers-to explore how different types of readers experience the realm of desire and the erotic in all things Austen. In this timely collection, writers, critics, journalists, and authors of internet content weigh in on sex and romance in Austen's works and in the conversations and creations the novels inspire-from sequels to critical analyses to online role-playing games. Contributors examine what is at stake for each set of Austen enthusiasts when Eros is added to the equation, in so doing building on the long tradition of Austen criticism and enriching our appreciation of the novels.Trade ReviewWhat makes this collection of essays unique, necessary, fun, and flat-out inspiring is how it brings together [...] an expansive range of perspectives and experiences. I've never read a collection quite like this one, and the editors' introductory essay on why scholars and fans need each other itself makes an important intervention. * JASNA News *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction - Nora Nachumi and Stephanie Oppenheim Part I: The Novels 1. Austen's Teasing, or What the Wit Wants - Mary Ann O'Farrell 2. Performing (Dis)comfort: Queer Possibilities in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park - Jade Higa 3. Taking Hands: The Fisting Phantasmic in Sense and Sensibility - Christien Garcia Part II: Austen Fan Culture and Austenesque Fiction 4. Always Wanting More: Desire and Austen Fan Fiction - Marilyn Francus 5. Unconquerable Attraction: Darcy and Elizabeth's Falling in Love in Austenesque Novels - Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli 6. What's Hidden in Highbury? - Stephanie Oppenheim 7. Passion and Pastiche - Diana Birchall Part III: Austen on Stage, on Screen, and Online 8. In Search of Colin Firth's Bum - Nora Nachumi 9. Jane Again - Rachel Brownstein 10. Touching Scenes: Austen, Intimacy and Staging Lovers' Vows - Elaine McGirr 11. Jane's Player's: Sex and Romance in the Virtual World of Jane Austen - Judy Tyrer 12. To YouTube from Gretna Green: Updating Lydia Bennet for the Digital Age - Margaret Dunlap Part IV: Austen in Conversations and Contexts 13. Erotic Austen - Devoney Looser 14. The Shadow Jane - Laura Engel 15. In Bed with Mr. Knightly: How Austen and Her Readers Understand Sexual Compatibility - Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last - Juliette Wells Notes on Contributors Index
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Boydell and Brewer Black Woman on Board
Book SynopsisOffers a rare view inside the university boardroom, to show the vital role Black women educational leaders played in ensuring access and equity for all.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial
Book SynopsisFocusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda. Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional performing arts and gender in western Uganda. The book focuses on runyege, the main genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, exploring its different components of singing, instrument playing, dancing, and acting and identifying their complex relationships to gender models and expressions. Today mainly performed at Ugandan school festivals and by semiprofessional ensembles, repertoires like runyege adhere to stage conventions that have developed over several decades. Some of these conventions are powerful devices allowing the actors involved (performers, teachers, students, adjudicators, and audiences) to collectively shape an image of local culture grounded in a gender binary that is perceived as traditional. At the same time, stage conventions are exploited by some performers to negotiate their gender identities and expressions in unconventional ways, thus challenging hegemonic gender models. Moving between analysis of historical recordings, oral accounts, and present-day fieldwork data and experiences, the book engages in a comprehensive analysis of the postcolonial entanglement of arts and gender. Audio and video recordings presented in the book can be accessed on the book's companion website, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/37373.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Samuel Kahunde Acknowledgments Note on Language Note on the Musical Examples Note on Online Audio and Video Material Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro 1 "Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave": Runyege, MDD, and Gender 2 Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor 3 "Women Aren't Supposed to": Instrument Playing in the Past and Today 4 Shaking the Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance 5 Narrating and Representing Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances 6 Trans-Performing and Morality in Cultural Groups Postlude: Gendering Culture Appendix I. Glossary of Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro Appendix II. Historical Recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro Author's Interviews References Index
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Boydell and Brewer Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the
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Texas A&M University Press Grand Tours and the Great War: Ima Hogg's
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Iter Press The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Ormonde, who, as Ireland’s only duke and three times its lord lieutenant, was a figure of considerable importance in seventeenth-century Ireland. But far from being overshadowed by her powerful husband, Butler was a person of significant power and influence in her own right. Descended from the tenth Earl of Ormonde, she brought a hefty portion of the Ormonde estate to the marriage. As Countess, Marchioness, then Duchess of Ormonde, as well as three times vicereine and a high-status courtier, she sat at the pinnacle of Irish and English society, unmatched by any other Irish woman of the period in terms of her wealth, social standing, and power. Her surviving correspondence reveals her importance within the Ormonde-Butler family and in the social, cultural, and political life of seventeenth-century Ireland. The volume comprises more than three hundred letters written by Ormonde to her husband and family, agents and servants, and friends and clients. Spanning six decades, these letters are meticulously transcribed, edited, and annotated, and the volume includes a substantial scholarly introduction, family trees, a glossary, and other resources. Trade Review“This is a landmark publication, enabling readers to delve deep into a rare treasure trove of letters by a leading aristocratic woman of seventeenth-century Ireland and England, spanning fifty-five years from adolescence to old age. . . . This edition will be a much-thumbed resource for those seeking information about the wider family and three kingdoms history, as well as those with a particular interest in early modern women’s letters. It is a welcome and important contribution to scholarship on letter writing, women’s writing, and seventeenth-century Irish history, and is sure to advance the field.” -- Marie-Louise Coolahan, Professor, NUI GalwayTable of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsOrmonde Butler Family Table and Family TreesChronologyA Note on NamesIntroduction “The noblest person, The wisest female, and the best of wives that Ever lived”: The Duchess of Ormonde and her LettersBirth, Lineage, and MarriageThe 1641 Rebellion and Confederate WarsExile and DispossessionNegotiating the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1652–1657Retirement in Dunmore, 1657–1660: Letters to the Marquess of OrmondeRestorationThe Lord Lieutenancy: The Culture of Dublin Castle, 1662–1668The Duke of Ormonde’s Dismissal: Letters to Captain George MathewDeath and LegacyA Note on the TextGeneral Description of the LettersEditorial PrinciplesThe Correspondence of Elizabeth Butler, Duchess of OrmondeEarly Marriage, 1629–1641The Confederate Wars, 1641–1648Royalist Exile in Caen, 1648–1652 The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1652–1657Retirement in Dunmore, 1657–1660Restoration, 1660–1662The Lord Lieutenancy, 1662–1668The Duke of Ormonde’s Dismissal, 1668–1674Final Decade, 1674–1684List of CorrespondentsPersons and PlacesGlossaryBibliography
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Iter Press Lucrece and Brutus – Glory in the Land of Tender
Book SynopsisA collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French woman author. Comprising texts by Madeleine de Scudéry, including many from her novel Clélie, this volume focuses on the story of Lucretia, the Roman matron whose rape and suicide led to the downfall of the Roman monarchy. Through her work, Scudéry seeks to contrast the enormous cultural contributions of women with their physical vulnerability and to propose an alternative to sexual violation, as envisioned on the Map of the Land of Tender that charts an imaginary land in the novel and outlines a path toward love. In Scudéry’s version of this tale, Lucrece and her beloved, Brutus, follow the path of tender friendship. Scudéry contradicts history’s characterization of Lucrece as craving glory in the form of fame. Indeed, contrary to ancient sources, Lucrece’s glory will be her decision to sacrifice herself secretly for her tender friend. Trade Review“In this erudite and insightful work, Sharon Nell assembles and expertly translates passages from Madeleine de Scudéry’s corpus, illuminating the foundational story of Lucretia, a Roman matron who turns her rape by Sextus Tarquinius into an act of supreme heroism through her suicide, which ultimately causes the downfall of the Roman monarchy. Scudéry’s version of this story poetically intertwines two of the main cultural preoccupations of mid-seventeenth-century France concerning women: female heroism and salon life, including the notion of tender friendship. Nell exposes the centrality of the Lucretia story which sparked debates about female glory and virtue originating in antiquity and continuing unabated through the seventeenth century, demonstrating that era’s intense preoccupation with the proper role of women.” -- Aurora Wolfgang, Professor of French, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction The Other Voice About This Volume Queen of Tender: The Life and Times of Madeleine de Scudéry Scudéry’s Legacy and the Afterlife of the Texts in This Volume Note on the Translation Glory and Woman before Clélie: Lucrece and Cloelia in the Femmes Illustres (1642) Lucrece to Colatin Cloelia to Porsenna The Language of Tender in Clélie, Part 1, Book 1 (1654) Conversation on the Power of Inclination Conversation on the Birth of Love The Map of the Land of Tender Lucrece and Brutus in Clélie: Glory in the Land of Tender Collatin Takes His Comrades to Visit Lucrece at Collatia, from Clélie, Part 1, Book 3 (1654) “Story of Lucius Junius Brutus,” from Clélie, Part 2, Book 1 (1655) Lucrece’s Suicide and Brutus’s Speech, from Clélie, Part 2, Book 3 (1655) Lucrece Appears to Brutus in a Dream, from Clélie, Part 3, Book 3 (1657) Lucrece Appears to Clelie in a Dream, from Clélie, Part 5, Book 2 (1660) Scudéry on Glory after Clélie Discourse on Glory (1671) Appendix A: Lucrece and Brutus: Sources from Livy to Augustine and Seventeenth-Century France Appendix B: Glossary Appendix C: List of Characters Bibliography Index
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Iter Press A True Account of My Life and Selected
Book SynopsisThe autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences in both England and Scotland in a series of manuscript meditations and an autobiographical narrative called A True Account of My Life. Royalism, romance, and contemporary religious debates are central to Halkett’s vivid portrayal of her life as a single woman, wife, mother, and widow. Collectively, the materials edited here offer the opportunity to explore how Halkett’s meditational practice informed her life writing in the only version of her writings to date available in a fully modernized edition. The forty-four meditations in this volume redefine the importance of Halkett’s contribution to seventeenth-century life writing. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations INTRODUCTION A TRUE ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE (1677–1678) SELECTED MEDITATIONS APPENDIX 1: Anne, Lady Halkett, “Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale” (ca. 1672) APPENDIX 2: Anne, Lady Halkett, “Letter to Her Stepson, Sir Charles Halkett” (n.d.) APPENDIX 3: Anne, Lady Halkett, “An Information of What Was Left Me by My Mother” (n.d.) APPENDIX 4: Items from Simon Couper, The Life of the Lady Halket (1701) 1. “Experiences in Fyvie.” 2. “Books by the Lady Halket.” 3. Biblical References in the “Books by the Lady Halket.” Bibliography Index
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Iter Press Amorous Hope, A Pastoral Play – A Bilingual
Book SynopsisA seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani’s Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society’s double-standards and it champions women’s dramatic agency by centering on the bleak reality they often faced, a reality that attempted to harm and silence its victims. The play’s salient episodes reflect realities modern women still face today. Miani’s literary achievements attest to her emergence as a cultural protagonist alongside Europe’s most talented women writers, such as Isabella Andreini, and she challenged the premodern notion that a woman’s eloquence is an indication of her sexual promiscuity. Trade Review“Joining recent publications of other drama by Italian women around 1600, Miani’s Amorous Hope is a work of considerable interest by a playwright only recently becoming better known after long neglect. Coller’s introduction, which makes use of excellent and up-to-date scholarship, persuasively presents Miani’s participation within a network of literati and academia members and pursues this topic of interconnections through a detailed account of her poems published in anthologies alongside the verses of others. Its discussion of the play focuses on Miani’s treatment of the main issue: male injustices to women, and the corrections or penalties delivered by the two leading female characters. As Coller points out, the lessons given by female characters are also the lessons to the audience by the playwright herself.” -- Janet L. Smarr, University of California San DiegoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Introduction The Other Voice Life, Works, and Afterlife of Valeria Miani The Ricovrati of Padua The Ricovrati on the Education of Women Miani among the “Illustrious and Famous Poets of Italy”: Contributions to Polinnia (1609) and the Gareggiamento poetico (1611) Miani’s Madrigal in Paolo Bozi’s Vita, attioni, miracoli (1614) Miani’s Amorosa speranza and Female-Authored Pastoral Drama Amorosa speranza: Structure and Themes Note on the Italian Text Note on the Transcription Note on the Translation Amorosa speranza / Amorous Hope Notes to the Italian Text Notes to the English Translation Appendix Selections from Polinnia Selections from Gareggiamento poetico, Le Lodi (Part Four) Bibliography Index
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Iter Press A Mother′s Manual for the Women of Ferrara – A
Book SynopsisThe first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular. Around 1460, Michele Savonarola produced the extraordinary Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara, a gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric treatise composed in the vernacular so that it could be read not only by the learned but also by pregnant and nursing mothers and the midwives and wet nurses who presided over childbirth. Savonarola’s work is not merely a trivial set of instructions, but the work of a learned scholar who drew on, among others, the ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, and Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine. The first of its kind, Savonarola’s Mother’s Manual helps readers understand both the development of late-medieval and early-modern obstetrics and gynecology, as well as the experiences of women who turn to advice books for help with reproductive issues. This book also provides a key to understanding why and how a new genre of book—the midwifery manual or advice book for pregnant women—arose in sixteenth-century Italy and eventually became a popular genre all over Europe from the early modern period to the present day. Trade Review“Savonarola’s fifteenth-century manual on obstetric and pediatric medicine, written in the vernacular, is the first text of its kind that could be read not only by male practitioners but also by uneducated midwives and women in general—or such was its stated purpose, for it was addressed to ‘the women of Ferrara.’ The introduction by Zuccolin offers a thorough reading of the innovative work by the Ferrarese physician Michele Savonarola. The translation by Marafioti is both accurate and instructive, subtly capturing the distinctive voice of the author. Savonarola’s manual is a wonderful addition to the great works by women and on women’s issues that The Other Voice Series has lovingly published through the years.” -- Valeria Finucci , Professor Emerita of Romance Studies, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroductionA Mother’s Manual for the Women of FerraraTo the Women of Ferrara Treatise OneTreatise TwoTreatise Three: On Raising ChildrenBibliography Index
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Iter Press Far from Home in Early Modern France – Three
Book SynopsisAn engaging account of women’s travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such traveling was rare. In 1639, Marie de l’Incarnation embarked for New France where she founded the first Ursuline monastery in present-day Canada. In 1750, Madame du Boccage set out at the age of forty on her first “grand tour.” She visited England, the Netherlands, and Italy where she experienced firsthand the intellectual liberty offered there to educated women. As the Reign of Terror gripped France, the Marquise de la Tour du Pin fled to America with her husband and their two young children, where they ran a farm from 1794 to 1796. The writings these women left behind detailing their respective journeys abroad represent significant contributions to early modern travel literature. This book makes available to anglophone readers three texts that are rich in both historical and literary terms. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Other Voice Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation (1599–1672) Anne Marie Fiquet Du Boccage (1710–1802) Henriette-Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin (1770–1853) Experiencing Otherness It will be there that I find bliss . . . Let us step outside our homeland, there will be a new being . . . The happiest moment of my existence . . . The Journey Narrative: Forms and Content The Missionary Letter The Familiar Letter The Autobiographical Memoir: A Hybrid Form Travel Writing and Gender as a Field of Investigation and a Source for Teaching Note on the Translations Travel NarrativesMarie de l’Incarnation, Correspondence Madame Du Boccage, Letters on England, Holland, and Italy Madame de La Tour du Pin, Journal of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman Appendix 1: Cécile de Sainte-Croix, The Story of Her Crossing and Arrival in Quebec (September 2, 1639) Appendix 2: Glossary of Places Appendix 3: Table of Currencies and Values Appendix 4: Chronology Bibliography Index of Names Thematic Index
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Iter Press The Carleton Bigamy Trial
Book SynopsisMultiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventeenth-century England. Mary Carleton was an ordinary woman from Canterbury who entered historical records when she was accused of bigamy. The seven pamphlets in this edition focus on the bigamy trial of Mary Carleton, in which the accused eloquently defends herself and is ultimately acquitted. Written in the early years of the English Restoration, they demonstrate that narratives presenting what “she said” and what “he said” can reveal, forcefully and painfully, how truth can be fragmented in the different arenas of law, love, and politics. Through their disparate accounts of a marriage gone wrong, these pamphlets reinforce the social status quo even while they radically shatter the very foundations that give it heft. In asking readers to question absolutes, they unmask the precarious relationship between words and the world. Trade Review“Matchinske’s edition of texts about the case of Mary Carleton will prove a treasure trove to students and scholars with an interest in gender, the law, and social class. The works assembled in this collection offer a valuable window into questions of personal identity and performance, but they also teach us to observe closely and ask probing questions about evidence and the construction of persuasive narratives in an early modern court of law and in popular print culture. The primary materials are carefully edited, and the engaging introduction provides pertinent context for both students and scholars, allowing readers to become familiar with or revisit this fascinating instance of seventeenth-century female self-fashioning.” -- Martine Van Elk, California State University, Long BeachTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments MARY CARLETON TIME LINE INTRODUCTION John Carleton, THE REPLICATION; OR, CERTAIN VINDICATORY DEPOSITIONS Mary Carleton, AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE GERMAN PRINCESS Mary Carleton, THE CASE OF MADAM MARY CARLETON John Carleton, THE ULTIMUM VALE OF JOHN CARLETON, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE F. B., VERCINGETORIXA; OR, THE GERMAN PRINCESS REDUC’D TO AN ENGLISH HABIT T. P., A WITTY COMBAT; OR, THE FEMALE VICTOR. A TRAGI-COMEDY THE ARRAIGNMENT, TRIAL, AND EXAMINATION OF MARY MODERS Bibliography Index
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Iter Press New Observations on the French Language, with
Book SynopsisTwo volumes by a seventeenth-century French gentlewoman and teacher, published in English for the first time. According to the few historical records that mention Marguerite Buffet, she lived her entire life in seventeenth-century Paris where she taught French to aristocratic women. Buffet’s vivid example of proper language use in New Observations on the French Language offers a rare glimpse into the life, habits, and culture of seventeenth-century France. She describes common errors in contemporary language use and gives examples of correct expressions for speaking and writing all the while encouraging women to aspire to higher levels of intellectual achievement. In addition, her Praises of Illustrious Learned Women, a catalog of biographies of women who displayed exemplary intellect, wit, and conversation, includes a number of the author’s contemporaries such as Anna Maria van Schurman and Madeleine de Scudéry. Buffet’s collected praises of these women, many of whom were connected to the court of Louis XIV, show her unique position as both a participant in and historian of the intellectual and social world of the French salon. This volume presents Buffet’s work in its near entirety for the first time in English, bringing to light Buffet’s unique contribution to the centuries-long debate concerning the status of women known as the querelle des femmes. Trade Review“Buffet’s fascinating text allows today’s readers to experience the vibrant and provocative salon culture of seventeenth-century France by bringing to life its sounds, conversations, and participants. Meskill’s elegant and faithful translation conveys the voices of Buffet’s female contemporaries as they shape French language and engage fully in early modern culture wars. Buffet’s text forces a reexamination of long-held views about salon culture and women’s roles in seventeenth-century France, freeing the salon from satirical portraits of Molière and succeeding centuries. Meskill’s exemplary introduction provides the tools to understand this work in its complex literary and historical context. Women regain their place as the masters of conversation and a major force that shaped the French language." -- Faith E. Beasley, Professor of French, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women Epistle: “To the Queen” Epistle: “To the Reader” Epistle: “To Mademoiselle Buffet, on Her Book” Of the necessity of speaking your language well, and how highly French is esteemed by all nations The First Part For the correction of barbarous and archaic terms, as well as those necessary for proper use; and of the origin of the letters that make up spelling Against those who speak too much, and the advantages to those who are sparing of words. On the subject of Pleonasm which follows The Second PartExamining pleonasm, or the redundancy of useless words, and the means of correcting it Concerning corrupt and badly pronounced words, and the advantages enjoyed by women who speak with exactness The Third PartTreating corrupt and badly pronounced words, and the means of correcting these errors Regarding terms that are poorly adapted, and the use one should make of time The Fourth PartIn which may be found remarks concerning some badly adapted terms, or terms whose meanings are confused with other terms A Treatise of Praises of Illustrious Learned Women, Past and Present Praises to the Glory of Some Illustrious Learned Women of Past Ages Certificate of the King’s Privilege Bibliography
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Iter Press A Mother’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and
Book SynopsisKey insights into women’s multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century. Lady Mary Carey (c. 1609–c. 1680) was a noblewoman who examined her life and expressed her views in a handwritten manuscript that she intended for self-reflection and for sharing with restricted audiences of family and friends, rather than for print publication. Her poetry and prose, composed and revised between 1650 and 1658, were important enough to her inner circle, however, that her autograph manuscript was carefully copied by another hand in 1681. In addition to providing us with key insights into women’s multidimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century in England, Carey’s work teaches us a great deal about a woman’s deepest emotional and spiritual states while confronting the hardships of life—from the fears of childbearing to the sorrows over child loss to the terrors of war. Trade Review"While Lady Mary Carey’s poetry has been available in small excerpts in anthologies, this is the first attempt to gather her known writings, prose and poetry, in a single authoritative edition—one that establishes that Carey was an active participant in probably more than one coterie network and was conversant with multiple genres of spiritual writing, from mothers’ legacies, elegies, and prayers to conversion narratives and autobiographical meditations. While Carey matches the description of a good/proper early modern woman in the period’s prescriptive writings, her volume also contains robust questioning of male superiority, as well as a poignant challenge to the God who took so many of her children at an early age. Her writings have much to show us about the ways in which literate seventeenth-century Englishwomen navigated patriarchal environments." -- Margaret Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations INTRODUCTION A MOTHER’S SPIRITUAL DIALOGUE, MEDITATIONS, AND ELEGIES To My Most Loving and Dearly Beloved Husband, George Payler, Esquire A Dialogue Betwixt the Soul and the Body Note on the Deaths of Five Children Written by My Dear Husband at the Death of Our Fourth (at That Time) Only Child, Robert Payler Written by Me at the Same Time, on the Death of My Fourth and Only Child, Robert Payler Written by Me at the Death of my Fourth Son and Fifth Child, Peregrine Payler A Meditation or Commemoration of the Love of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost A Meditation or Commemoration of the Love of Christ A Meditation or Commemoration of the Love of the Holy Ghost Upon the Sight of My Abortive Birth the 31 of December 1657 APPENDIX 1: MARY CAREY’S LETTER TO THOMAS PELHAM APPENDIX 2: POETIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN MARY CAREY AND THOMAS FAIRFAXBibliography Index
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Iter Press Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the field.Subject/Object and Beyond brings together essays by established and emerging scholars to honor the exceptionally rich contributions and career of scholar Colette H. Winn. It also celebrates fifty years of sustained scholarship on early modern women, along with the foundation of Women’s Studies as a recognized academic discipline in North America. The collection comprises seventeen articles that explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to various fields, including literature, music, politics, religion, and science.Trade Review“These essays give a sense of the really broad and incredibly varied swath of studies in early modern literature and culture that Colette Winn has influenced and helped to cultivate. The field of studying early modern women/writers is an incredibly vibrant, rich, and complex one, with really exciting things happening on many fronts." -- Nora Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln“…une contribution substantielle aux études sur les femmes de la première modernité.” -- Luc Vaillancourt, Université de Quebec à ChicoutimiTable of ContentsIllustrations viiContributors ixPréfaceFrançois Rouget xviiColette H. Winn Publications 1IntroductionNancy M. Frelick, Edith Benkov 15PART ONETranslating “damoiselline facherie”: Claude Scève, Claude Nourry,and Urbain le mescongneu filz de l’Empereur Federic BarberousseEmily E. Thompson 25Hélisenne de Crenne’s “Roman de Dido”Marian Rothstein 49« Car ce te sera honte de quereler avec une femme » :Hélisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé et la satire au fémininBernd Renner 71Lost in the Labérynthe: Mythologizing Louise Labé and the École lyonnaiseNancy M. Frelick 91PART TWOFrom Trickery to Triumph: Female Alliances and the Paths to Powerin Heptaméron 4 and 58Dora E. Polachek 127Femmes, bagues et anneaux dans l’Heptaméron : le labyrintherhétorique du parcours amoureuxBrigitte Roussel 149Cross-Dressed Monks in Saints’ Lives and Their Parodies:A Source for Heptaméron 31Scott Francis 173Chasteté et honneur des veuves de l’Heptaméron de Margueritede NavarreCynthia Skenazi 195Gossip, Commérage, and Caquets: Women’s Words in Early Modern FranceKathleen M. Llewellyn 213PART THREEA Huguenot Noblewoman’s Poetry Collection:The Album Belonging to Louise de Coligny (1555–1620)Jane Couchman 237The Poetics of a Poetry AlbumStephen Murphy 263Music for Women and Fleas: The Example of Catherine Des RochesKendall Tarte 287Souvenir anatomique d’une femme : l’autopsie en vers de Madamede MercoeurHélène Martin 309PART FOURLa tragicomédie du suicide couplé, ou : lien et devoir conjugal selon « De trois bonnes femmes » (Montaigne, Essais, II, 35)Corinne Noirot 337“Le mestier des femmes”: Queens, Nuns, Peacemaking, and theWars of ReligionEdith Benkov 361Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges(1632–1637)Cathy Yandell 381“[Dieu] se servit de Jeanne d’Arc”: The Textual Public Identity and Political Agency of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil (c. 1584–c. 1643)Anne R. Larsen 403
£52.25
Academica Press Conflict, Gender, and Body Politic in Nepal:
Book SynopsisMore than 13,000 people lost their lives and many others suffered in other ways during the Maoist-led armed conflict that lasted for ten years (1996-2006) in Nepal. Many people are still missing and many more have been displaced. The lives of women in particular have been affected, with a heightened prevalence of gender-based violence during the armed conflict and post-conflict transition period. The warring sides used gendered strategies of the war wage war against each other and this book deals about the implications of such tactics. The implications of the cantonment camps in which the Maoist combatants were placed illuminate unintended consequences of this temporary provision. By recording the implications and subjective experiences of some of the victims of this war, often regarded as a low-intensity conflict, this book portrays the agony of women who endured the conflict. It shows how the conflict exacerbated the prevailing gender inequality suffered by women. Narratives of victims themselves and their portrayal in some newspapers during the conflict period have been taken in account in developing this book. The book also highlights the agentive strategies women devised to cope with the unwanted situation appropriate in their social, cultural, and political contexts. This book presents the social history of certain segment of people, especially women and displaced people, whose traumatic experiences, agonies, or efforts to come out of that often gets shadowed in the portrayal of macro level picture of the society, polity or even a war.
£112.50
Information Age Publishing Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity,
Book SynopsisIn Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education, Brenda Marina and Sabrina N. Ross address the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities through a creative convergence of scholarship focused on intellectual activism and structural change. Inspired by the African American oral tradition of call and response, this text illuminates the calls, or personal narratives of women faculty of color who identify racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based challenges associated with work in predominantly White institutions. Accounts of social justice-oriented strategies, policies, and practices that support women faculty of color and reflections by women of color who are senior faculty members serve as literal and metaphorical responses. The convergence of calls for social justice and equity-minded responses and reflections in this text provide intellectual foundations for the development of higher education spaces where women faculty of color can thrive.Beyond Retention is a critical geographic project intended to identify and mitigate structures of oppression that act as barriers to the full incorporation of women of color in predominantly White academic contexts. This text will be of interest to scholars interested in curriculum topics of race, gender, sexuality, and place. The text offers strategies for coping and success for women of color in doctoral programs, faculty positions, and mid-level administration positions within the academy; as such, Beyond Retention will be a valuable addition to the reading libraries of each of these groups. Men and women with interests in the experiences of educators of color within predominantly White contexts will also gain valuable insights from this book, as will individuals interested in various areas of women studies, multicultural education, and diversity.Beyond Retention also provides accounts of practices and policies that have been successful in supporting the needs of women faculty of color; knowledge gained from this text will be useful for higher education administrators seeking to improve the campus climate for faculty of color. Additionally, human resource directors, equal opportunity specialists and diversity trainers will find this text helpful when considering strategies for managing diversity.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity,
Book SynopsisIn Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education, Brenda Marina and Sabrina N. Ross address the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities through a creative convergence of scholarship focused on intellectual activism and structural change. Inspired by the African American oral tradition of call and response, this text illuminates the calls, or personal narratives of women faculty of color who identify racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based challenges associated with work in predominantly White institutions. Accounts of social justice-oriented strategies, policies, and practices that support women faculty of color and reflections by women of color who are senior faculty members serve as literal and metaphorical responses. The convergence of calls for social justice and equity-minded responses and reflections in this text provide intellectual foundations for the development of higher education spaces where women faculty of color can thrive.Beyond Retention is a critical geographic project intended to identify and mitigate structures of oppression that act as barriers to the full incorporation of women of color in predominantly White academic contexts. This text will be of interest to scholars interested in curriculum topics of race, gender, sexuality, and place. The text offers strategies for coping and success for women of color in doctoral programs, faculty positions, and mid-level administration positions within the academy; as such, Beyond Retention will be a valuable addition to the reading libraries of each of these groups. Men and women with interests in the experiences of educators of color within predominantly White contexts will also gain valuable insights from this book, as will individuals interested in various areas of women studies, multicultural education, and diversity.Beyond Retention also provides accounts of practices and policies that have been successful in supporting the needs of women faculty of color; knowledge gained from this text will be useful for higher education administrators seeking to improve the campus climate for faculty of color. Additionally, human resource directors, equal opportunity specialists and diversity trainers will find this text helpful when considering strategies for managing diversity.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Portraying lives: Headmistresses and Women
Book SynopsisThe expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and experiences across many professional fields. Engaged in the public activity of teaching in a range of educational institutions, women were able to exercise a level of professional expertise, authority and independence. Paradoxically, women were both empowered by the possibilities of educational careers yet at the same time restricted by the historical era in which they lived and the feminized positions they occupied. In this book, we draw on Sarah Lawrence–Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffmann Davis’ methodological adoption of the use of portraits and portraiture to frame our history of women educators and highlight their unsettled acceptance of contemporary constraints and pressures exerted on educated women. This book will be essential reading for those involved or interested in the historiography of women’s education, women teachers and headmistresses, women’s higher education, educational biography and visual methodologies. This book will also be of particular relevance to those engaged in the study of history, sociology, women and gender studies, teacher education, educational research, and history of education.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1. Framing Women’s Lives, Tanya Fitzgerald, Josephine May. CHAPTER 2. Portraits of Past Lives, Josephine May. CHAPTER 3. Leading Women, Josephine May. CHAPTER 4. Circles of Relationships, Josephine May. CHAPTER 5. Networks and Friendships, Tanya Fitzgerald. CHAPTER 6. Commemorating a Life, Tanya Fitzgerald. CHAPTER 7. Portraits of Women’s Educational Histories, Tanya Fitzgerald, Josephine May. References Archival References About the Authors
£42.46
Information Age Publishing Portraying lives: Headmistresses and Women
Book SynopsisThe expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and experiences across many professional fields. Engaged in the public activity of teaching in a range of educational institutions, women were able to exercise a level of professional expertise, authority and independence. Paradoxically, women were both empowered by the possibilities of educational careers yet at the same time restricted by the historical era in which they lived and the feminized positions they occupied. In this book, we draw on Sarah Lawrence–Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffmann Davis’ methodological adoption of the use of portraits and portraiture to frame our history of women educators and highlight their unsettled acceptance of contemporary constraints and pressures exerted on educated women. This book will be essential reading for those involved or interested in the historiography of women’s education, women teachers and headmistresses, women’s higher education, educational biography and visual methodologies. This book will also be of particular relevance to those engaged in the study of history, sociology, women and gender studies, teacher education, educational research, and history of education.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1. Framing Women’s Lives, Tanya Fitzgerald, Josephine May. CHAPTER 2. Portraits of Past Lives, Josephine May. CHAPTER 3. Leading Women, Josephine May. CHAPTER 4. Circles of Relationships, Josephine May. CHAPTER 5. Networks and Friendships, Tanya Fitzgerald. CHAPTER 6. Commemorating a Life, Tanya Fitzgerald. CHAPTER 7. Portraits of Women’s Educational Histories, Tanya Fitzgerald, Josephine May. References Archival References About the Authors
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Information Age Publishing White Women's Work: Examining the
Book SynopsisHistorically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and cultural norms. Labor trends suggest that students of color are likely to sit in front of many more white women teachers than males or non?white teachers, thus making it imperative to better understand the nature of white women’s work in culturally diverse settings and the factors that most profoundly impact their effectiveness. This book examines how white women teacher dispositions (i.e. knowledge, beliefs, and skills) intersect (and/or interact) with their racial identity development, the concept of whiteness, institutional racism, and cultural perspectives of racial difference. All of which, as the authors in this volume argue, matter for nurturing a teaching practice that leads to more equitable schooling outcomes for youth of color.While it is imperative that the field of education recruits and retains more nonwhite teachers, it is equally important to identify research?supported professional development resources for a white woman?dominated profession. To that end, the book’s contributors present critical insight for creating cultural contexts for learning conducive to effective cross?cultural and cross?racial teaching. Chapters in the first section explore white women’s role in establishing and maintaining school environments that cater to Eurocentric sensibilities and white racial preferences for learning and social interaction. Authors in the second section discern the implications of white images, whiteness, and white racial identity formation for preparing and professionally developing white women teachers to be effective educators. Chapters in the third section of the book emphasize the centrality of race in negotiating academic interactions that demonstrate culturally responsive teaching. Each chapter in this book is written to investigate the intersectionality of race, cultural responsive pedagogies, and teaching identities as it relate to teaching in multiethnic environments. In addition, the book offers solution?oriented practices to equip white women (and any other reader) to respond appropriately and adequately to the needs of racially diverse students in American schools.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Gumbo for the Soul: Liberating Memoirs and
Book SynopsisRejection. Loss. Confusion. Pain. Our past and our future are intertwined. Each distinct memory becomes one life. What once hurt, eventually heals, and the lesson (or lessons) to be learned becomes one with our soul and our spirit. Our experiences provide strength instead of destruction. Our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers -- all women of power who came before us -- were great descendants of the coastal lands of West Africa. They arrived in strange lands with their Gumbo - -their memories, rhythms, ingenuity, creativity, strength, and compassion. Their lived stories and conversation were recipes mixed with unique combinations of ingredients, dropped into the cast iron pot -- stirred, dropped in, seasoned, dropped in, stirred again, and again, and again, until done. This Gumbo is savory like the soul, carefully prepared, recipes rich with what our foremothers brought with them from their homeland. They brought the best of what they had to offer.Gumbo or Gombo is a Bantu word meaning `okra’. Okra is a rich vegetable that serves as the base (or gravy) for a delicately prepared stew. (Today’s Gumbo cooks use a `roux’ as the base- see the recipe on page 3). Gumbo’s West African origins have been modified over the past two centuries by people of varied ancestry: Native American, German, Spanish, and French (Moss, 2014). It is essential to understand the manner in which Gumbo is prepared: each ingredient must be placed into the stew at its specified time so that it can cook in and savor its own flavor. When completed, Gumbo is usually served over grits or rice.Gumbo has become a cornerstone of life in African-descended communities across the south and southwest spanning from South Carolina to Louisiana and Texas. Gumbo is a treasure… a reminder of the greatness that lived in the village in a time of strength and abundance…a reminder of the resilience and richness of our people over generations.This book -- a collection of memoirs written by Women of Color is shared to inspire and motivate readers. The authors of these precious, soulful stories are from across the globe and represent various backgrounds and professions. What these women have in common, though, is their drive to tell their story. Stories of pain, discovery, strength, and stories of beginnings. Many of the experiences, as difficult as they may have been, made the women who they are today. Telling these stories to a new generation will empower and encourage them in their experiences no matter how troubling or challenging (Harris, 2015). These stories, like our foremothers offering their Gumbo, present the best these women have to offer. These authors want the world to know that deep inside of each of us is a rich, vibrant, purposeful beginning. As our lives develop and we are “stirred and stirred again”, like Gumbo, our experiences begin to shape who we are and who we become. When the stirring is complete, a comforting meal -- one that says no matter what has gone into the dish, it’s going to be amazingly magnificent!!The authors hope these stories will inspire and motivate girls and Women of Color to trust their experiences -- whether good or bad -- to help them become. Our becoming means that after all that life has thrown our way, we are strong, purposeful, and powerful people who are a great treasure to a world that sometimes rejects and ignores our existence. Embedded in this book are stories of abuse and triumph, sadness and victory, disappointment and resilience, discovery and victory.We are very proud to be the keepers of these rich recipes. They represent the first in what we hope will become a collection or series of inspirational memoirs that will be shared to help others live out their destiny and become the women they were born to be.
£33.20
Information Age Publishing Gumbo for the Soul: Liberating Memoirs and
Book SynopsisRejection. Loss. Confusion. Pain. Our past and our future are intertwined. Each distinct memory becomes one life. What once hurt, eventually heals, and the lesson (or lessons) to be learned becomes one with our soul and our spirit. Our experiences provide strength instead of destruction. Our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers -- all women of power who came before us -- were great descendants of the coastal lands of West Africa. They arrived in strange lands with their Gumbo - -their memories, rhythms, ingenuity, creativity, strength, and compassion. Their lived stories and conversation were recipes mixed with unique combinations of ingredients, dropped into the cast iron pot -- stirred, dropped in, seasoned, dropped in, stirred again, and again, and again, until done. This Gumbo is savory like the soul, carefully prepared, recipes rich with what our foremothers brought with them from their homeland. They brought the best of what they had to offer.Gumbo or Gombo is a Bantu word meaning `okra’. Okra is a rich vegetable that serves as the base (or gravy) for a delicately prepared stew. (Today’s Gumbo cooks use a `roux’ as the base- see the recipe on page 3). Gumbo’s West African origins have been modified over the past two centuries by people of varied ancestry: Native American, German, Spanish, and French (Moss, 2014). It is essential to understand the manner in which Gumbo is prepared: each ingredient must be placed into the stew at its specified time so that it can cook in and savor its own flavor. When completed, Gumbo is usually served over grits or rice.Gumbo has become a cornerstone of life in African-descended communities across the south and southwest spanning from South Carolina to Louisiana and Texas. Gumbo is a treasure… a reminder of the greatness that lived in the village in a time of strength and abundance…a reminder of the resilience and richness of our people over generations.This book -- a collection of memoirs written by Women of Color is shared to inspire and motivate readers. The authors of these precious, soulful stories are from across the globe and represent various backgrounds and professions. What these women have in common, though, is their drive to tell their story. Stories of pain, discovery, strength, and stories of beginnings. Many of the experiences, as difficult as they may have been, made the women who they are today. Telling these stories to a new generation will empower and encourage them in their experiences no matter how troubling or challenging (Harris, 2015). These stories, like our foremothers offering their Gumbo, present the best these women have to offer. These authors want the world to know that deep inside of each of us is a rich, vibrant, purposeful beginning. As our lives develop and we are “stirred and stirred again”, like Gumbo, our experiences begin to shape who we are and who we become. When the stirring is complete, a comforting meal -- one that says no matter what has gone into the dish, it’s going to be amazingly magnificent!!The authors hope these stories will inspire and motivate girls and Women of Color to trust their experiences -- whether good or bad -- to help them become. Our becoming means that after all that life has thrown our way, we are strong, purposeful, and powerful people who are a great treasure to a world that sometimes rejects and ignores our existence. Embedded in this book are stories of abuse and triumph, sadness and victory, disappointment and resilience, discovery and victory.We are very proud to be the keepers of these rich recipes. They represent the first in what we hope will become a collection or series of inspirational memoirs that will be shared to help others live out their destiny and become the women they were born to be.
£50.35
Information Age Publishing Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce
Book SynopsisWomen of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace contexts like mathematics, science, engineering, NASA, academia, government agencies, and others. They skillfully centered women and their experiences at the intersection of their identity dimensions of race, class, gender, and their respective discipline.While the disciplines and career contexts vary, the oppression, alienation, and social inequities were common realities for all. Despite the challenges, the women were resilient and persevered with tenacity, a strong sense of self as a person of color, and reliance on family, community, mentors, and spirituality. While we celebrated the successes, it is critical that organizational leaders, whether in education or other workplace settings, draw from narratives and counter?narratives of these women to improve the organizational climate where individuals can thrive, despite their racial, class and gender identity. This book will assist educational communities, professional communities, and families to understand their roles and responsibilities in increasing the number of women of color in STEM.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce
Book SynopsisWomen of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace contexts like mathematics, science, engineering, NASA, academia, government agencies, and others. They skillfully centered women and their experiences at the intersection of their identity dimensions of race, class, gender, and their respective discipline.While the disciplines and career contexts vary, the oppression, alienation, and social inequities were common realities for all. Despite the challenges, the women were resilient and persevered with tenacity, a strong sense of self as a person of color, and reliance on family, community, mentors, and spirituality. While we celebrated the successes, it is critical that organizational leaders, whether in education or other workplace settings, draw from narratives and counter?narratives of these women to improve the organizational climate where individuals can thrive, despite their racial, class and gender identity. This book will assist educational communities, professional communities, and families to understand their roles and responsibilities in increasing the number of women of color in STEM.
£82.80
University of Arkansas Press Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black
Book SynopsisThe first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely within Arkansas’s agrarian history.The Black women activists highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens, Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces where they confronted economic, educational, public health, political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and interference.Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of Black women activists who uplifted their communities while subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.Trade Review“In Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps, Cherisse Jones-Branch offers a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of African American women who worked on behalf of their rural Arkansas communities through the cooperative extension service, educational institutions, and other organizations. By centering Black women’s transformative leadership within the contexts of segregation, global war, racial violence, natural disasters, and the civil rights movement, Jones-Branch brings the voices of rural Black women into larger conversations about the significance of life and labor in the countryside. Painstakingly researched, her thoughtful cultivation of historical records brings to life the Black women who worked in Arkansas as extension agents, farmers, educators, and activists during a period of tremendous transformation.” —Jenny Barker-Devine, author of On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women’s Activism Since 1945 “American rural history needs more women’s history. And rural women’s history needs more Black history. Cherisse Jones-Branch addresses these needs by writing about Black women in Arkansas who had been rendered invisible by previous scholarship. Beginning with a profound respect for Black women leaders, Jones-Branch brings her skillful archival research and her enthusiastic storytelling to the task of setting the historical record straight. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps makes a major contribution to Arkansas history and American rural history.” —Linda M. Ambrose, author of A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW “In impressive detail and lovely, engaging prose, Cherisse Jones-Branch argues that African American women who remained in Arkansas during the years of widespread migration remade the countryside through their struggle to improve their communities’ access to health care, food, political representation, and economic opportunity. With this book, Jones-Branch has established herself as a leading historian not only of rural Black women’s twentieth-century activism but also of American rural history overall.” —Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War
£34.36
University Press of Florida Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of
Book SynopsisIlluminating the activism of Black women during Cuba’s prerevolutionary periodIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women’s engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives.Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black women—without formal political power—navigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national women’s organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.Trade ReviewBrunson’s study of over 75 years of complex change . . . does its intellectual work from a distinct and critical vantage. . . . Her work innovatively centers racial analysis by locating the Afro-descended women contributing to political discourse across a range of mediums and carefully piecing together their contributions."—Hispanic American Historical Review"What distinguishes this study of race and gender in early Republican Cuba is its nuanced focus on how Black male veterans, elite white women’s civic clubs, and women of African descent shaped different citizenship practices in the public sphere."—Choice"In putting together this compelling story, Brunson undertook research in archives in Cuba and the United States. . . . Brunson builds on the work of Latin American and Cuban history as well as Black feminist scholarship to center Black women as critical protagonists in the struggle for Black rights and freedom."—New Books Network
£24.26
Red Lightning Books What's the Score?: 25 Years of Teaching Women's
Book SynopsisWho is the first female athlete you admired? Were male and female athletes treated differently in your high school? Is there a natural limit to women's athletic ability? How has Title IX opened up opportunities for women athletes?Every semester since 1996, Bonnie Morris has encouraged students to confront questions like these in one of the most provocative college courses in America: Athletics and Gender, A History of Women's Sports. What's the Score?, Morris's energetic teaching memoir, is a peek inside that class and features a decades-long dialogue with student athletes about the greater opportunities for women—on the playing field, as coaches, and in sports media. From corsets to segregated schoolyards to the WNBA, we find women athletes the world over conquering unique barriers to success.What's the Score? is not only an insider's look at sports education but also an engaging guide to turning points in women's sports history that everyone should know.Trade ReviewWhat do gender and sports fandom have to do with the American and global social and political landscape? As historian Bonnie J. Morris (The Disappearing L) writes, despite progress with women's rights, we still 'don't expect women to initiate, share, participate in, or pass along sports literacy. In other words, except on a few annual occasions, we don't expect women to know the score.' In response to this gendered cultural gap and the lack of a conversation around it, Morris created a course called Athletics and Gender, which she taught for 25 years at several universities, including George Washington University and UC Berkeley. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, and What's the Score? takes readers into Morris's classroom, reflecting on the social and cultural changes that shaped discussions with students and stakeholders over the years. Morris describes her book not as a 'complete or formal history of women's sports' but a 'memoir of teaching and a template for teaching, drawing from remembered and successful best practices to pass on.' She shares how the course was created and developed over time, along with insights from her students and how the conversation around sports and gender is pertinent to a large variety of undergraduate fields. This invaluable resource for sports fans also includes three versions of the syllabus and a wealth of additional information, including reading materials, documentaries and various legal and sports timelines. -- Michelle Anya Anjirbag * Shelf Awareness *Table of ContentsTimeline: 101 Turning Points in Women's Sports HistoryPrologue: The Bus Ride before the GameIntroduction: Nothing Better to Do on a Friday Night?1. The Strength of Our Foremothers: Engaging Student Athletes with the Past2. How Female Athletes Disappear: Headlines, Publicity, and Media Activism3. Tomboy Identities, Muscular Ideals: Discussing Gender Roles and Homophobia in Sports4. From Half-Court to Federal Court: Title IX and the American Playing Field5. Global Encounters with Women's Sports: Teaching Students at Sea6. Challenges for a Women's Sports Professor: Evaluating 25 Years of ClassConclusion: When the Scoreboard Went Dark in 2020Critical Thinking ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.89
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change: Essays
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Table of ContentsA Note on Translations … v Introduction ... 1 Jennifer SmithPart I: Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists ... 26 One Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar ... 27Akiko Tsuchiya Two Forging Progressive Futures for Spain’s Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829-Madrid 1888) ... 55Christine Arkinstall Three Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos’s Ideas on Fashion in Context ... 94Roberta JohnsonPart II: Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic ... 119 Four Pardo Bazán’s “Apuntes autobiográficos”and “El baile del Querubín”: A Theoretical Reexamination ... 120Susan M. McKenna Five The Twice-Told and the Unsaid in Pardo Bazán’s “Presentido,” “En coche-cama,” “Confidencia,” and “Madre” ... 147Linda M. Willem Six Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion ... 175Denise DuPont Seven “A Most Promising Girl”: Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “La dama joven” ... 205Margot VersteegPart III:Representations of Female Deviance ... 237 Eight A Woman’s Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Dos mujeres ... 238Rogelia Lily Ibarra Nine Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman’s Jouissance, translated by Lourdes Albuixech... 261Neus Carbonell Ten The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores ... 289Jo Labanyi Eleven Female Masculinity in La Regenta ... 307Jennifer Smith Afterword ... 333Acknowledgments... 337Bibliography ... 338Index ... 373About the Contributors ... 374
£26.99
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change: Essays
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"This book is a beautiful tribute to Maryellen Bieder, an important and significant scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative by women. The essays in this book—by scholars and writers of several different generations who are also highly esteemed in the same and other areas—expand and continue Bieder’s research to new horizons. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change is a very important contribution to the field: it continues current research, embarks on new areas of investigation, and employs distinct or innovative theoretical ideas." -- Sandra J. Schumm * author of Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels *"An outstanding work of collaborative scholarship and unreservedly recommended for community Women's Studies sections, as well as college and university library Literary & Iberian Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Jennifer Smith continues to vindicate the validity of feminism today. There is no doubt that Maryellen Bieder would be proud of the legacy passed on to her numerous disciples and colleagues." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *“An outstanding contribution of cutting-edge research to students and scholars of feminist discourses, gender studies, and modern Peninsular literatures and cultures.” * Hispania *"The volume adds to our understanding of nineteenth-century women’s agency and the lead roles played by women in conversations about modernity and national identity within the cultural, literary and political spheres. The volume also models the same kind of literary activism championed by some of the women whose work inspires its various chapters." * Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies *"The volume demonstrates the need to continue learning about the historical and cultural legacy of these women as agents of change and modernity to understand in more detail the role of Spanish women in the present moment, a moment that is challenging the anti-feminist and conservative discourse on both sides of the Atlantic as outdated." * Revista de Literatura *"Well-written and insightful." * Anales Galdosianos *"This book is a beautiful tribute to Maryellen Bieder, an important and significant scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative by women. The essays in this book—by scholars and writers of several different generations who are also highly esteemed in the same and other areas—expand and continue Bieder’s research to new horizons. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change is a very important contribution to the field: it continues current research, embarks on new areas of investigation, and employs distinct or innovative theoretical ideas." -- Sandra J. Schumm * author of Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels *"An outstanding work of collaborative scholarship and unreservedly recommended for community Women's Studies sections, as well as college and university library Literary Iberian Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Jennifer Smith continues to vindicate the validity of feminism today. There is no doubt that Maryellen Bieder would be proud of the legacy passed on to her numerous disciples and colleagues." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *“An outstanding contribution of cutting-edge research to students and scholars of feminist discourses, gender studies, and modern Peninsular literatures and cultures.” * Hispania *"The volume adds to our understanding of nineteenth-century women’s agency and the lead roles played by women in conversations about modernity and national identity within the cultural, literary and political spheres. The volume also models the same kind of literary activism championed by some of the women whose work inspires its various chapters." * Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies *"The volume demonstrates the need to continue learning about the historical and cultural legacy of these women as agents of change and modernity to understand in more detail the role of Spanish women in the present moment, a moment that is challenging the anti-feminist and conservative discourse on both sides of the Atlantic as outdated." * Revista de Literatura *"Well-written and insightful." * Anales Galdosianos *Table of ContentsA Note on Translations … v Introduction ... 1 Jennifer SmithPart I: Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists ... 26 One Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar ... 27Akiko Tsuchiya Two Forging Progressive Futures for Spain’s Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829-Madrid 1888) ... 55Christine Arkinstall Three Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos’s Ideas on Fashion in Context ... 94Roberta JohnsonPart II: Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic ... 119 Four Pardo Bazán’s “Apuntes autobiográficos”and “El baile del Querubín”: A Theoretical Reexamination ... 120Susan M. McKenna Five The Twice-Told and the Unsaid in Pardo Bazán’s “Presentido,” “En coche-cama,” “Confidencia,” and “Madre” ... 147Linda M. Willem Six Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion ... 175Denise DuPont Seven “A Most Promising Girl”: Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “La dama joven” ... 205Margot VersteegPart III:Representations of Female Deviance ... 237 Eight A Woman’s Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Dos mujeres ... 238Rogelia Lily Ibarra Nine Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman’s Jouissance, translated by Lourdes Albuixech... 261Neus Carbonell Ten The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores ... 289Jo Labanyi Eleven Female Masculinity in La Regenta ... 307Jennifer Smith Afterword ... 333Acknowledgments... 337Bibliography ... 338Index ... 373About the Contributors ... 374
£107.20
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
£30.60
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
£107.20
Brandeis University Press A Jewish Woman of Distinction – The Life and
Book SynopsisZinaida Poliakova (1863–1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines in Imperial Russia. For more than seventy-five years, Poliakova kept detailed diaries of her world, giving us a rare look into the exclusive world of Jewish elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society through their intimate friendships and patronage of the arts and philanthropy. And they did it all without converting—in fact, while staunchly demonstrating their Jewishness. Poliakova’s life was marked by her dual identity as a Russian and a Jew. She cultivated aristocratic sensibilities and lived an extraordinarily lifestyle, and yet she was limited by the confessional laws of the empire and religious laws that governed her household. She brought her Russian tastes, habits, and sociability to France following her marriage to Reuben Gubbay (the grandson of Sir Albert Abdullah Sassoon). And she had to face the loss of almost all her family members and friends during the Holocaust. Women’s voices are often lost in the sweep of history, and so A Jewish Women of Distinction is an exceptional, much-needed collection. These newly discovered primary sources will change the way we understand the full breadth of the Russian Jewish experience.
£64.60
Brandeis University Press Marie Syrkin – Values Beyond the Self
Book SynopsisA compelling biography of an important eyewitness to the twentieth century. Marie Syrkin’s life spanned ninety years of the twentieth century, 1899–1989. As a polemical journalist, socialist Zionist, poet, educator, literary critic, translator, and idiosyncratic feminist, she was an eyewitness to and reporter on most of the major events in America, Israel, and Europe. Beautiful as well as brilliant, she had a rich personal life as a lover, wife, mother, and friend. During her lifetime Syrkin’s name was widely recognized in the world of Jewish life and letters. Yet, since Syrkin’s death, recognition of her name is no longer quite so immediate. Carole S. Kessner’s biography restores Syrkin’s fascinating life and legacy for a new generation. Trade Review“Finally, Zionist thinker Marie Syrkin gets the recognition she deserves. . . . It is not sentimental overpraise to say that Marie Syrkin deserves a place at the roundtable of great intellects who helped shape contemporary Jewish-American liberalism.” * Haaretz *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IChapter 1. Marie’s BirthrightChapter 2. A Bronx AdolescenceChapter 3. That Fabulous Summer: MauriceChapter 4. Elopement and AnnulmentChapter 5. Marriage, Motherhood, and TragedyChapter 6. David, Divorce, and the Death of NachmanChapter 7. A New Life: CharlesPART IIChapter 8. An Unorthodox Marriage: Palestine and HollywoodChapter 9. At the Nexus of the “Jewish Problem”Chapter 10. On the Jewish Frontier: The Twenty-First Zionist CongressChapter 11. The War, the White Paper, and the Rescue of the JewsChapter 12. Wartime Horrors: Personal UnhappinessChapter 13. Postwar Projects: DP Camps, Blessed is the Match, IsraelChapter 14. Academia at Last: The Brandeis YearsEpilogueNotesIndex
£28.00
Brandeis University Press The Second Half – Forty Women Reveal Life After
Book SynopsisA frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty. The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all readers, and are illustrated by Warner’s stunning portraits which tell their own story. Trade Review"A fascinating, fly-in-amber distillation of forty women over fifty, the book pushes these women to the foreground, shaking up expectations along the way. The results (are) revelatory.” * Foreword Reviews, Starred Review *"Reading Ellen Warner’s The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty is like having one of those intimate conversations with each of 40 women from around the world as they share their formative experiences and advice for younger generations. Their insights are particularly valuable in a country where intergenerational learning is often lost…" * The Washington Post *"It is with these words (from the women in the book) that any woman who reaches the age of 50 and beyond can exhilarate in the fact that a better life is just beginning." * The New York Journal of Books *"As these women and others divulge their most difficult and joyous moments, the result is a book bristling with energy and wisdom." * BookPage, Starred Review *"The black-and-white portraits are intimate and revealing, and the interviews..are never less than fascinating… Its magic rests in the portraits, which are so wondrous that one is drawn irresistibly into the words." * Air Mail *"This is a collection of 40 beautiful portraits of 40 amazing women over 50. Gift it to all your friends, for no special occasion whatsoever. " * Ms. Magazine *"22 of 2022’s Top New Books (So Far)" * AARP *"What makes this book really special is that the women share what they’ve learned from their experiences, and how those lessons will shape the rest of their lives… (it) is a compelling testament to human perseverance in the face of hardship, but also to life’s enduring joys. Warner captures her subjects’ candid stories sensitively and with verve." * Hyperallergic *“We need to celebrate women for not wrinkles but laugh lines. We need to see ourselves changing and growing. If that means looking older – celebrate it. Experience is as beautiful as youth. These (words and) pictures are meant to teach us that every stage of life has its own enchantment.” * Erica Mann Jong, from the Foreword *"Ellen Warner’s powerful and moving portraits and interviews show us what we need to know: how extremely diverse women envision the second half of women’s’ lives, and the wide-ranging perspectives they offer to share with us, the fortunate readers." * Professor Elaine Pagels, historian *“The faces of the women in this book, deeply etched by experience and by sorrow and yet alight with life and hope are an enduring tribute not only to Ellen's genius as a photographer skill but also to the personal qualities that give her subjects the freedom to reveal who they really are." * Pat Barker, novelist *“Warner’s book beautifully reflects the challenges and opportunities of growing older in an ageist culture. The depictions of older women’s complexity, diversity and resiliency offer a wonderful resource for all of us – including younger people – in our age-segregated society.” * Joan Ditzion, MSW, and Judy Norsigian, co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves *“The diverse and inspiring stories in Ellen Warner’s The Second Half are as powerfully written as they are stunningly photographed, and superbly curated. Each face, each life, each page fills you with hope, and takes your breath away.” * Nandana Sen, writer, actor, activist *"Ellen Warner’s photographs are deeply narrative, and in this book we are presented with a remarkable enhancement to those images: the real narratives." * Tim Gunn, author, actor, Project Runway mentor. *"Books with good advice on healthy aging." * Beacon *Table of ContentsForeword by Erica JongForeword by Sarah LambIntroductionOdette Walling, born 1920, interviewed at age 86Resistance leader, Ravensbruck Prisoner #47321, Kings Medal for Courage, Medaille de Resistance, Paris, FranceJean Angell, born ca 1942, interviewed at age 65Lawyer with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Prout’s Neck, Maine, USARoxy Beaujolais, born ca. 1947, interviewed at age 60Publican of the Seven Stars, Carey Street, London, EnglandTeresa Sayward, born ca. 1944, interviewed at age 64State Assemblywoman, Retired Farmer, Willsboro, New York, USALeslie Caron, born 1931, interviewed at age 70Actress, Paris, FranceDr. Fathia Al Sulimani, born 1950, interviewed at age 60Nephrologist, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMarilynn Preston, born 1946, interviewed at age 60Journalist, playwright and Emmy Award winning TV producer, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Jacqueline Délia Brémond, born 1936, interviewed at age 70Publisher, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Fondation Ensemble, Paris, FranceFatma Doufen, born ca 1945, interviewed at age 62Tuareg nomad in the Sahara - 36 k from Tamanrasset, Southern AlgeriaFrancoise Simon, born ca. 1930, interviewed at age 76Portrait Painter, Paris, FranceLuisah Teish, born ca 1948, interviewed at age 60Shaman, Teacher of Transformation, Spiritual Anthropologist, San Francisco, California, USAPerla Servan-Schreiber, born ca. 1944, interviewed at age 62Publisher, writer, Founder of Psychologie magazine, Paris, FranceIrene Carlos, born ca 1900, interviewed at age 107 Retired Cook, Antigua, West IndiesNi Ketut Takil, born ca. 1935, interviewed at age 75A Jero Balian (Sacred Healer), Banjar Baung Sayan, Ubud, Bali, IndonesiaBokara Legendre, born 1940, interviewed at age 70Actress, Writer, Artist, TV presenter, New York and South Carolina, USASalama Ba Sunbol, born ca. 1957, interviewed at age 53Embroidery Specialist and Trainer, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaTamasin Day-Lewis, born 1953, interviewed at age 55Documentary Filmmaker, Food Critic, Chef and AuthorSomerset, EnglandGeorgia Nikitara, born ca 1932, interviewed at age 74Farmer, Patmos, GreeceGiuliana Camerino, born 1920, interviewed at age 86Founder of the design firm Roberta di Camerino, Venice, ItalyAda Gates, born 1943, interviewed at age 67Farrier, First Woman Licensed to Shoe Thoroughbred Horses in the USA and Canada, Pasadena, California, USAMa Thanegi, born 1946, interviewed at age 65Journalist, Author, Ang San Suu Kyi’s Personal Assistant who went to jail with her, Yangon, MyanmarFlora Biddle, born 1928, interviewed at age 80Writer, past Chair of the Board of The Whitney Museum, Granddaughter of the Founder, New York City, USA Elizabeth Jane Howard, born 1923, interviewed at age 84Author, Bungay Bay, Suffolk, EnglandModestine Brown, born ca.1931, interviewed at age 76Retired Cook, Antigua, West IndiesCristina Loring de Saavedra, born ca 1947, interviewed at age 61Retired Flamenco Dancer, Madrid, Spain Christine Ockrent, born 1944, interviewed at age 62First women TV anchor in France, Paris, FrancePeggy Elliott, born ca. 1943, interviewed at age 64Manicurist, Fishers Island, New York and West Palm Beach, Florida, USALady Elizabeth Longman, born 1924, interviewed at age 82 Wife of the last head of Longman’s Publishing Company, Bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth, London, EnglandLali Al Balushi, born ca 1950, interviewed at age 60Housewife, Muscat, OmanTullia Zevi, born 1919, interviewed at age 89Musician, Journalist, President of the Italian Jewish Communities, Vice President of European Jewish Communities, Rome, ItalyLama Yeshe Drolma, born ca 1945, interviewed at age 61 Buddhist Lama, Lubeck, GermanyLulu Balcom, born 1908, interviewed at age 98 Artist, Fishers Island, New York and Palm Beach, Florida, USADodie Rosecrans, born 1919, interviewed at age 88 American art collector who divides her time between San Francisco, Paris and VeniceElo Papasin, born 1946, interviewed at age 60Housekeeper and Cook, Manila, Philippines. Currently lives in Paris, FranceMonika Kochs, born ca. 1946, interviewed at age 61Artist, Salzburg, AustriaMarina Ma, born ca. 1923, interviewed at age 85Mother of Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, and Dr. Yo-Chen MaLong Beach, New York, USACharlotte Mosley, born 1952, interviewed at age 55Journalist, Publisher, Editor of the letters of the Mitford SistersParis, FranceMarilyn Nelson, born 1946, interviewed at age 74Poet, Translator, Author, Former Poet Laureate of ConnecticutEast Haven, Connecticut, USABlanche Blackwell, born 1912, interviewed at age 95Ian Fleming’s last great love, mother of Chris Blackwell who founded Virgin Records, London, EnglandOlivia de Havilland, born 1916, interviewed at age 92Actress, Paris, France
£26.60
Brandeis University Press Canine Pioneer – The Extraordinary Life of
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the life and legacy of a pioneer cynologist between Europe and Israel. Rudolphina Menzel (née Waltuch, 1891–1973), was a Viennese-born, Jewish scientist whose pioneering research on canine psychology, development, and behavior fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be trained, cared for, and understood. Between the two world wars, Menzel was known throughout Europe as one of the foremost breeders and trainers of police dogs and served as a sought-after consultant at Kummersdorf, the German military dog training institute in Berlin. She was also a fervent Zionist who was responsible for inventing the canine infrastructure in what came to be the State of Israel and for training hundreds of dogs to protect Jewish lives and property in pre-state Palestine. Teaching Jews to like dogs and training dogs to serve Jews became Menzel’s unique kind of Zionist mission. Detailed and insightful, Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel brings to light an important piece of history. Trade Review“Consistently eye-opening.” * Jewish Review of Books *"[Canine Pioneer] chronicles Menzel’s life and career, exploring her seminal role in the development of cynology (the scientific study of domestic dogs) and modern Jewish, European, and Middle Eastern history. . . . Kahn details how and why Menzel transformed her love of dogs into a serious professional undertaking that enabled her to investigate scientific questions and solve societal problems." * Jewish Boston *“The book provides a fascinating and much-needed introduction to the monumental role that Rudolphina played in making the field of cynology such a respected and important field, as well as entwining dogs into the fabric of Israeli society. . . .” * Jerusalem Post *“This superb book explores, in fascinating detail, the remarkable story of Rudolphina Menzel. In engaging and accessible prose, Susan Kahn and her fellow contributors tease out the complexities and contradictions of Menzel and her remarkable accomplishments in the mid-twentieth century world of dog breeding and training. Always alive to the context in which she lived and worked, this book expertly weaves together animal history and Jewish history to shine a light on an overlooked aspect of human-canine relations.” -- Chris Pearson, Department of History, University of Liverpool, and author of Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris“This book gives a fine picture of the extraordinary career and personality of Rudolphina Menzel, an Austrian cynologist who emigrated to British Mandate Palestine in 1938, and emerged as a foremost world expert on canine psychology, development and training. Applying what she had learnt in Austria, she organized canine training for police and military uses in the newborn State of Israel, and eventually sired the development of a new breed, the indigenous Canaan dog. For decades her major theoretical and practical contributions to the field went unrecognized. This volume – beginning with Susan Kahn's well-rounded, introductory biography – goes a long way to correcting this oversight.” -- Benny Morris, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev"... a deeply contextualized account of Menzel's life, from her childhood as a thoroughly assimilated Austrian Jew, through her awakening commitment to Zionism, her training and early career as a scientist, and her career as an eminent dog trainer and breeder both in Europe and in Israel. It is a fascinating story--unusual from the perspective of Menzel's expertise, although not from the perspective of her experience of the darkening political atmosphere of Austria and Germany and of the need to become a refugee." -- Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Emeritus Professor of History, MIT"We have waited a long time for a heroine like Menzel. As thoughtful as she was daring, as courageous as she was kind. Driven by curiosity, Menzel straddled the different worlds of canines and humans at a time driven by violent division. Her biographer Kahn has done a masterful job providing us with a fascinating image of an important historical figure whose message resonates especially today - sometimes the characteristics that make us different are less important than the experiences we share." -- Brian Hare, Duke University, coauthor of The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think“Rudolphina Menzel devoted much of her life to help our four-legged companions find their place in modern society. Her pioneering effort bears fruit in the present day to improve human-dog partnership.” -- Ádám Miklósi, Eötvös Loránd University, author of Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and CognitionTable of ContentsPrefacePART I: THE MARVELOUS DR. MENZEL - SUSAN KAHNPART II: PERSPECTIVES ON RUDOLPHINA MENZEL’S LEGACYRudolphina Menzel: The Austrian Years - Monika BaárRudolphina Menzel’s Invention of the Modern Dog Culture in Israel - Rachel KoriatCanine Zionism: Rudolphina Menzel and Working Dogs in Mandate Palestine - Brian BlumRudolphina Menzel’s Contributions to the British War Effort - Lea LehaviPersonal Recollections of Rudolphina Menzel and her Canaan Dog Breed - Myrna ShibolethRudolphina Menzel in Israeli Culture and Historiography - Tammy Bar-JosephAcknowledgmentsAppendix: List of Menzel’s PublicationsNotesIndex
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Brandeis University Press Frankly Feminist – Short Stories by Jewish Women
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine, and does what no other collection has done before in its geographic scope, its inclusion of twenty-first-century stories, and its Jewish feminist focus. This collection showcases a wide range of stories offering variegated cultures and contexts and points of view: Persian Jews; a Biblical matriarch; an Ethiopian mother in modern Israel; suburban American teens; Eastern European academics; a sexual questioner; a Jew by choice; a new immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop; a Black Jewish marcher for justice; in Vichy France, a toddler’s mother hiding out; and more. Organized by theme, the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content, and our hope is that in reading you’ll appreciate the liveliness of the burgeoning self-awareness brought to life in each tale, and the occasional funny, call-your-friend-and-tell-her-about-it moment. Skip around, encounter an author whose other work you may know, be enticed by a title, or an opening line. We hope you’ll find both pleasure and enlightenment—and sometimes revelation—within these pages. Trade Review“Original, entertaining, thought-provoking, Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine will prove to be of special appeal to readers with an interest in Jewish themed literature and short story fiction. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Jewish literature fiction and short story collections, it should be noted that Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine is also available in a digital book format.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionThe Stories1. TRANSITIONSThe New WorldEsther Singer Kreitman (translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav)In Every Girl’s HeartMyla GoldbergIn Vegas That YearAdrienne SharpA Wedding in PersiaGina NahaiNews to Turn the WorldKatie SingerSylvia’s SpoonMichelle BrafmanMax’s Mom Goes to CampJudith ZimmerMy Daughter’s BoyfriendsPenny JacksonUnveilingRacelle Rosett2. INTIMACIES1919: At the Connecticut ShoreJane LazarreThe Curiosa SectionHarriet GoldmanGlassDiana SpechlerThe Wedding Photographer’s AssistantIlana Stanger-RossThe List of PlaguesAudrey FerberRoad KillMiryam SivanProbabilitiesElizabeth EdelglassSound EffectsMichele RubyTake the A Train to ScotlandEllen Umansky3. TRANSGRESSIONSLot’s WifeMichal LembergerPaved with GoldBeth KanterDriving LessonKate SchmierLittle HenEmily Alice KatzThe Proper Care of SilverEmily FranklinBoundariesIlene Raymond RushFace MeElena Sigman ZhidYona Zeldis McDonough Deep in the ValleyCherise Wolas4. WARLa PoussetteRachel HallThe Fronds of KnivesRebecca Givens RollandStreet of the DeportedAnca L. SzilágyiFacts on the GroundRuchama King Feuerman5. BODY AND SOULThe Lives Under the StonesAmy BittermanDo Not Punish UsChana Blankshteyn (translated from the Yiddish by Anita Norich)Working the MikvehAmy GottliebIroningSarah SeltzerWhat Was CutBeth KanellFlash FloodHila Amit (translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Kurshan)All That Remains of EttaErica W. JamiesonThe Neowise Comet Listens InCarolivia Herron6. TO BELONGFlightPhyllis Caron AginsThe MiscreantsTamar Ben-Ozer HomeZeeva Bukai The Woman Who Lost Her NamesNessa RapoportRaised by JewsNaomi SeidmanAuthors and EditorsQuestions For DiscussionAcknowledgements
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Human Kinetics Publishers Winning Ways of Women Coaches
Book SynopsisWe’ve entered a new era of women in coaching. Women coaches across the globe have triumphed, using their expertise, experience, and sustained success to break down barriers and establish new standards of excellence in their coaching roles.Winning Ways of Women Coaches reflects this new era. Some of the most exceptional women coaches in the world have contributed to this groundbreaking book, each examining a different coaching topic from her unique viewpoint. Representing 15 different sports—including professional football and baseball—and earning more than 50 national championships and dozens of world and Olympic titles, these coaching pioneers provide the acumen and inspiration to succeed in the coaching profession: Lonni Alameda Rachel Balkovec Becky Burleigh Denise Corlett Melody Davidson Kelly Inouye-Perez Roselee Jencke Valorie Kondos Field Melissa Luellen Teri McKeever Missy Meharg Felecia Mulkey Carla Nicholls Carol Owens Carolyn Peck Ellen Randell Nancy Stevens Tara VanDerveer Amber Warners Jen Welter Edited by volleyball coaching legend Cecile Reynaud, PhD, the book equips current and aspiring women coaches with innovative strategies and real-world insights to address common coaching challenges, build and maintain successful sport programs, foster player engagement and growth, and further their coaching careers. In addition, contributing coaches weave a common thread throughout the chapters by discussing the importance of building team chemistry and their own approaches to fostering a team culture.Whether you’re searching for proven coaching techniques, creative new approaches, or sage troubleshooting advice, Winning Ways of Women Coaches will prove to be your most valuable resource. After reading this book, you’ll discover that it’s your ability to instruct, develop, and care for your athletes—not just your knowledge of Xs and Os—that will propel your career and separate you from the rest.Showcasing women coaches who have reached the top of their profession and embodying the idea of “If she can see it, she can be it,” Winning Ways of Women Coaches will reinvigorate current coaches and inspire would-be coaches to make the leap into coaching.Table of ContentsPart I. Coaching Career Path and ConsiderationsChapter 1. Checking Your Coaching CompetenciesValorie Kondos FieldChapter 2. Getting a Coaching Position, Growing as a CoachRachel BalkovecChapter 3. Changing Coaching Roles, Advancing Your CareerCarol OwensChapter 4. Thriving as an Assistant CoachDenise CorlettChapter 5. Coaching and Raising a FamilyEllen RandellChapter 6. Managing YourselfRoselee JenckePart II. Program Development and ManagementChapter 7. Working With AdministratorsMelissa LuellenChapter 8. Building and Sustaining a Winning ProgramAmber WarnersChapter 9. Establishing a High-Performance CultureCarla NichollsChapter 10. Developing and Implementing a StrategyMelody DavidsonChapter 11. Recruiting, Organizing, and Mentoring a StaffTara VanDerveerChapter 12. Planning, Scheduling, and DelegatingFelecia MulkeyChapter 13. Selling Your ProgramCarolyn PeckPart III. Athlete Engagement and GrowthChapter 14. Recruiting Athletes to Your ProgramMissy MehargChapter 15. Defining and Adjusting Athletes’ RolesKelly Inouye-PerezChapter 16. Leading Effectively and Coaching People UpJen WelterChapter 17. Taking an Athlete-Centered ApproachNancy StevensChapter 18. Strengthening Coach–Athlete RelationshipsTeri McKeeverChapter 19. Growing Athletes HolisticallyBecky BurleighChapter 20. Keeping It Fun While Instilling the ValuesLonni Alameda
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