Gender studies: women and girls Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Telenovelas in PanLatino Context
Book SynopsisThis concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take up key issues of race, class, sexual identity and violence, interweaving stories with melodramatic romance and quests for identity. June Carolyn Erlick examines the social implications of telenovela themes in the context of the evolution of television as an integral part of the modernization of Latin American countries.Trade Review"Erlick is quite persuasive in her contention that the popularity of telenovelas has combined with their mobility to create a quietly subversive force in socially conservative Latin America." - Glenn Garvin, television critic, the Miami Herald, in ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, Winter 2018. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Discovering Telenovelas Change Agents: Beyond the Melodrama Beyond Betty: Gender and Sexuality Gay Love, Gay Kisses Black, White and Brown: Telenovelas and Race Narconovelas: Beyond the News Conclusions : Looking Backward and Going Forward
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WW Norton & Co Think Like a Feminist
Book SynopsisAn audacious and accessible guide to feminist philosophy—its origins, its key ideas and its latest directionsTrade Review"Think Like a Feminist has opened my eyes in ways I had not known they were closed. It is a timely and deeply important book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough, especially for those who yearn for justice for all human beings, no matter their sex, gender, or race." -- Andre Dubus III
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WW Norton & Co Free Thinker
Book SynopsisA story of transgression in the face of religious ideology, a sexist scientific establishment and political resistance to securing women's right to voteTrade Review"Free Thinker is as vivid and arresting as its subject. And Helen Hamilton Gardener’s insistent argument, that American women were ‘self-respecting, self-directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own,’ still feels as urgent and as radical as it did a century ago." -- Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University"Free Thinker is an incredible biography of far more than a fascinating woman…A must read for anyone looking for a nuanced view of the complicated legacy of the suffrage movement." -- Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America and South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"Suffragist Helen Hamilton Gardener is someone we need to know…Kimberly A. Hamlin’s careful research, unflinching eye, and storytelling gift reveal how Gardener’s path to the ballot was paved with ideas that ran from free thought and the science of ‘heredity’ to white supremacy. Free Thinker makes plain how suffragists like Gardener left a legacy on voting rights that was uneven at best. We live with its vestiges until today." -- Martha S. Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
£12.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fat Fashion
Book SynopsisPaolo Volonté is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology, at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he teaches the Sociology of Fashion and is Vice-Dean of the PhD Programme in Design. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Size Conversion Table 1. The Paradox of Nonexistent Fat Fashion 2. Dress and the Body 3. Fashion Discourse: The Tyranny of Slenderness 4. Fashion Practice: The Persistence of the Thin Ideal 5. Fashion Technology: The Sizing System 6. Fashion Politics: The Segregation of Non-Thin Bodies 7. Outlook References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Suffrage and the Arts
Book SynopsisMiranda Garrett is Exhibitions Manager at the Bank of England Museum, UK.Zoë Thomas is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Wider World at the University of Birmingham, UK.Trade ReviewThis insightful edited collection extends and enhances our understanding of the relationships between artistic endeavour, commercial enterprise and political activism ... An invaluable contribution to understandings of visual and material culture and art and business history, as well as to suffrage and women's studies. * History Today *I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which has been beautifully produced. In a series of engaging chapters the authors contribute significantly to our knowledge about the suffrage movement covering aspects of the campaign that have been often overlooked. It also gives a voice to the many women artists who are often lost in political histories or histories on women’s art. * Women's History Review *[The book's] careful curation presents an insightful study of the multiform ways in which art and politics intersected in the suffrage campaign, both harmoniously and problematically, giving a holistic and rounded impression of the intricate landscape that suffrage artists had to navigate. Furthermore, after celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act last year, it once again places art and artists at the centre of a reinvigorated scholarship on British women and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. * Twentieth Century British History *A fascinating collection of engaging and informative essays that extend our knowledge about the centrality of the arts to the women's suffrage movement. * June Purvis, Emerita Professor of Women's and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK *This collection transforms our understanding of artistic contributions to the women’s suffrage campaign by detailing the experiences of artists, consumers, campaigners and propagandists. A genuinely pioneering work, it illuminates how women balanced their professional lives as artists with their feminist activism, as well as bringing to life the variety of visual culture designed and made during this period across Britain and Ireland. This innovative and timely collection should find a wide and appreciative audience. * Senia Paseta, Professor of Modern History at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry Introduction by Miranda Garrett and Zoë Thomas Part One: Institutional politics Chapter One: Zoë Thomas, ‘I loathe the thought of suffrage sex wars being brought into it’: Institutional conservatism in early twentieth-century women's art organizations Chapter Two: Liz Arthur, The artistic, social and suffrage networks of Glasgow School of Art's women artists and designers Chapter Three: Tara Morton, ‘An Arts and Crafts society, working for the enfranchisement of women’: Unpicking the political threads of the Suffrage Atelier, 1909–1914 Part Two: Enterprise and Marketing Chapter Four: Miranda Garrett, Window smashing and window draping: Suffrage and interior design Chapter Five: Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Our readers are careful buyers’: Creating goods for the suffrage market Chapter Six: Kenneth Florey, English suffrage badges and the marketing of the campaign Part Three: Paintings on display Chapter Seven: Rosie Broadley, Painting suffragettes: Portraits and the militant movement Chapter Eight: Krista Cowman, Suffrage attacks on art, 1913–1914 Part Four: Representing suffrage Chapter Nine: Joseph McBrinn, The spectacle of masculinity: Men and the visual culture of the suffrage campaign Chapter Ten: Janice Helland, An Irish harp and sleeping beauty: The politics of suffrage in the textile art of Una Taylor and Ann Macbeth Chapter Eleven: Chloe Ward, Images of empathy: Representations of force feeding in Votes for Women
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Old Mistresses
Book SynopsisWhy is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as ''feminine''? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock''s critique of Art History''s sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists'' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today.In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology,Table of ContentsPreface by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock A Lonely Preface to the New Edition by Griselda Pollock Acknowledgments 1 Critical Stereotypes: the essential feminine or how essential is femininity 2 Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts 3 ‘God’s little artist’ 4 Painted ladies 5 Back to the twentieth century: femininity and and feminism Conclusion Notes Select bibliography and further reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women Defying Hitler
Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices beinTrade ReviewWomen Defying Hitler is a thorough volume that tackles the historiographical imbalance against women’s rescue activities and provides guidance for how we can remember these sacrifices and apply them to the modern day. * Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire *A major contribution to Holocaust studies, Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis brings together leading international scholars to illuminate the myriad of different roles played by women in resisting Nazism. It will be invaluable for scholars and essential reading for anyone interested in war, women’s history, and the increasingly important field of feminist studies of the Holocaust. * Zoe Waxman, Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford, UK *Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis is essential reading for anyone interested in women and women's studies, Jewish history, the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany. While many contributions provide new perspectives on prominent incidents of resistance such as the "Red Orchestra" or the Rosenstrasse protests in Berlin, many hitherto little-known women's groups and individual heroes in a variety of countries are also covered. Moreover, this volume is important not just for the rich empirical detail, but also for advancing theories regarding what constitutes resistance, what is unique about women's agency in such a context, and the complicated ways that women (and men) tried to push back and delegitimize a genocidal regime. Finally, the integration of several survivors' and descendants' testimonies adds to the import of this cutting-edge collection. * Eric Langenbacher, Teaching Professor of Government, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword, David Gill (New York German Consul-General, USA) Women Defying Hitler: An Introduction, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) and Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 1. Cumulative Radicalization: Intermarriage under Hitler and Remembrance, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 2. Whoever Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World: The Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 3. Resisting Obliteration: Learning about the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women during the Holocaust Judy Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University and the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Israel) 4. Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class and Generation, Volker Berghahn (Columbia University, USA) 5. The Women's Protest on Rosenstrasse between Commemoration, Idealization and Debate, Susanne Heim (Freiburg University, Germany) 6. Rescue through Intervention in the Nazi Decision Making Process: Protest in Goebbel's Berlin, Nathan Stoltzfus and Chris Osmar (both Florida State University, USA) 7. Gariwo's Philosophy: Educate to Optimism and Responsibility through the Memory of the Righteous, Gabriele Nissim (Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Organization (GARIWO), Italy) 8. Women and Resistance: New Perspectives on Germany and France, Anne Nelson (Columbia University, USA) 9. Jewish Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecia Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 10. Is Food Protest Political? Women's Demonstrations in Occupied France, Paula Schwartz (Middlebury College, USA) 11. Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an Excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives -- A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945, Ruth Wiseman (Rita Kuhn's daughter) 12. The Mischlinge Expose: Stories of Assimilation and Conversation, Carolyn Enger (descendant of an intermarried couple Epilogue, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) Appendix Select Bibliography Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Queen Victorias DaughtersinLaw
Book SynopsisRecounts the lives of the four women who married into the Victorian royal family: Alexandra of Denmark, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Louise of Prussia and Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Most Maligned Women in History
Book SynopsisThroughout history women, from the lowliest of the working classes to the highest echelons of society have been accused of crimes ranging from witchcraft and vampirism to treason and mass murder. Such accusations stuck particularly when it came to women who held power the names that we most associate with maligned women today include those that we will all have heard of. The infamy of women such as Lucrezia Borgia and Elizabeth Bathory have come down to us throughout the centuries and even in the modern world, many women are needlessly and falsely vilified. But just how true were these accusations? _The Most Maligned Women in History_takes a look at the lives of a number of women whose crimes have been seen as some of the most heinous, just how true the rumours were and whether their reputations are deserved.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd 19th Century Female Explorers
Book SynopsisIt uses original archival sources to give the reader a chance to hear a first-hand historical account of exploration in the nineteenth century, and the challenges that were faced by women specifically.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The History of Womens Football
Book SynopsisA complete history of women's football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022, this book demonstrates how women's football began as a professional sport, and has only recently returned to these professional roots in the UK. This is because there was a fifty-year Football Association ban' on women playing on pitches affiliated to the governing body in England. The other British associations followed suit.Why was women's football banned in 1921? Why did it take until 1969 for a Women's Football Association to form? Why did it take until 1995 for England to qualify for a Women's World Cup? Answers to these key questions are supplemented across the chapters by personal accounts of the players who defied the ban, at home and abroad, along with the personal costs, and rewards, of being footballing pioneers.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Political Women
Book SynopsisThe lives of women changed immeasurably during the twentieth century, not just because of technological and economic advances, but as a result of a multiplicity of small and large, local, national and international political campaigns by women. The activities of the Edwardian suffrage campaigns are the most well-known example of this, but in less well-known, political struggles women fought with equal tenacity, sacrifice, and inventiveness, to demand, for example, equal pay, analgesics for women and childbirth, an end to virginity testing at airports or wages for housework. This book focuses on 15 such campaigns and the thousands of women who sought to influence decision making, exercise and challenge power in the twentieth century. These political activities were sometimes small-scale and short-lived or seemingly unsuccessful but together they helped to bring about immeasurable changes in women's lives during the twentieth century.With limited financial resources and hefty domestic re
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Secret Missions of the Suffragettes
Book SynopsisOver two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London.The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager glass-breaker and Kent working maid, Ethel Violet Baldock, whilst the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square.These two evenings would later become known asthe Women's Social and Political Union's window smashing Great Militant Protest. The protest, driven by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, was against the government and their refusal to include women in their reform bill, which would give women the right to vote. Secret Missions of the Suffragettesexamines these two evenings in great detail, before going on to explore ''behind the scenes'' of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together wi
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Great Miss Lydia Becker
Book SynopsisExtensive use of the unpublished papers of Lydia Becker, other suffragists and suffrage societies.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ladies of Magna Carta
Book SynopsisLadies of Magna Carta examines the impact and influence that women had on the Baron's Rebellion and the production of the Magna Carta.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Women Who Saved Catholic England
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the historical persecution of Catholics. Priests in particular became prime targets during the heightened tensions of the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. But those whom they relied on for shelter have received little attention until now. The underground network of lay supporters, the Catholic Resistance, mostly comprised courageous women of the great (and sometimes not so great) families of England, and their houses riddled with priest holes. These women fought a cat-and-mouse game with spymasters like Walsingham and Cecil and their spider's web of clandestine informants, knowing that one slip might lead to arrest, torture and execution. The indomitable Anne Vaux and her sister Eleanor provide the focus of this story but there were others, including their niece Frances, who as an 11-year-old boldly confronted armed raiders in search of priests; and Margaret Clitherow of York, arrested during a similar search and ultimately pressed to death. To escape t
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Kingmakers Women
Book SynopsisThe story of the Earl of Warwick's wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Women and Warfare in the Ancient World
Book SynopsisWomen and Warfare in the Ancient Worldpresents a broad view of women and female figures involved in war in the ancient world, incorporating mythological, legendary, archaeological, and historical evidence for women in a military setting. Within this context are found not only fighters but also strategists, trainers, and leaders who may not have been on the actual battlefield. Exploring women and war within the Indo-European and Near Eastern worlds, this title seeks to challenge the view that women do not fight and that war is completely a male occupation a view expressed as early as Xenophon and as late as the end of the 20th century.Karlene Jones-Bley begins her study by defining Virgins, Viragos, and Amazons, going on to explore war goddesses, legendary, and historical women giving insights into different cultures, their attitudes towards women and how these have developed over time. Recent archaeological evidence supports her conclusions that women have always been a part of warfar
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ada Lovelace
Book SynopsisThis book brings into focus the life of Ada, Countess of Lovelace; it explores how she became credited as being the world's first computer programmer.
£17.00
Hodder & Stoughton Chess Queens
Book Synopsis''Like The Queen''s Gambit, this isn''t really about chess, but power ... Shahade is up for the fight''Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic highs and excruciating losses.Chess Queens invites us behind the scenes of this ultra male-dominated sport. We meet today''s elite, as well as the pioneering female players in history who fought against the odds to get to the top. An essential guide for all aspiring chess queens, Jennifer''s story reveals what it takes to break through the glass ceiling.''Jennifer Shahade is a brilliant, insightful thinker who never fails to entertain and engage''Maria Konnikova ''An astoundingly intimate, thoughtful and inspirational book by a person wh
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bitch Doctrine
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018''A blast, in all senses'' Financial TimesIncludes a new preface and extra essaysSmart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous observations provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Featuring a new preface and nine new revelatory, revolutionary essays, Bitch Doctrine will give readers tools for change from one of today''s boldest commentators.Trade ReviewBitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny, one of the most accomplished and acerbic of the new, young journalists emerging from the protest movements of the 2010s, takes you to the front trench of the gender war and keeps you there longer than anyone should really stay * Paul Mason, Guardian *Laurie Penny is a polemicist – and her book is a largely data-free stream of consciousness – but she writes with verve and humour. It is a blast, in all senses * Financial Times *Laurie Penny is the tits. Witty and brazen, a force for both decency and revolution, she’s a swashbuckling rhetorician, a daring reporter and an all-around fabulous broad. Bitch Doctrine provides an invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and lies * Emily Nussbaum *If you've followed Penny’s work, you'll know that the thing that sets her apart from other enraged columnists is her empathy. She understands exactly what her opponents are thinking, and why, precisely, they are full of shit. This is a delight of a book. Penny’s essays are righteous ones * Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother *The feminist writer Laurie Penny gives us short essays on everything from the trials of being trolled to why exactly she calls herself polyamorous and genderqueer ... Precise and rational ... Provocative * Vogue *It’s spiky, but that’s no bad thing. She’s angry, she won’t spare your feelings and cripes, she’s clever. Dig out your dictionary, a reference book on identity politics and concentrate * Stylist *A provocative rallying cry, she confronts social issues from love, gender and violence, pitching them against a backdrop of Trump and the rise of the right * Red *A dizzyingly clever, warm and witty compilation of essays covering topics which range from the 2016 US presidential election, to writing which explores the notion of gender: it looks at the nature of relationships and examines the current culture we find ourselves in … Passionate, interesting, thoughtful * Cherwell *A writer and polemicist, a bad-ass, contrary, angry, bisexual troublemaker who is never happier than when she’s upsetting someone, or preferably everyone … We need her * The Times *An insightful, provocative and bold commentator. She is always relevant without slavishly following a supposedly 'topical' agenda set by others. Most importantly, she never compromises her compassion and humanity * Irvine Welsh *Sometimes enraging, sometimes enchanting, often both at once … A raw, bright, urgent voice … Like Caitlin Moran, another compulsive and essentially self-taught writer, she went to places others didn’t and brought back things they had missed * Guardian *Forget Sex and the City, Penny doesn’t give a damn about the politics of waxing or how small your pants are. She’s more interested in analysing the battles we face around gender under late capitalism ... We are dealing with a new world order * Observer *Penny is one of the first feminist writers to grow up within, and so instinctively understand, both the possibilities and the dangers of this relatively new cyber world * New Statesman *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Suffrage at 100
Book SynopsisSuffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senatea record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly foTable of ContentsIntroduction. From Voting Power to Political PowerStacie Taranto and Leandra ZarnowChapter 1. A History of Women in American Politics and the Enduring Male Political Citizenship IdealStacie Taranto and Leandra ZarnowPart I. Voting Rights Real and Imagined: Women's Political Engagement in the Decades after Suffrage, 1920s-1950sChapter 2. Commemorating the History of the Nineteenth Amendment: The National Woman's Party and the Politics of Memory in the 1920sClaire DelahayeChapter 3. After the "Century of Struggle": The Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American Women, and the Problem of Female Disfranchisement After 1920Liette GidlowChapter 4. "My Money's on the Mare": Lessons from the 1930 US Senate Campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormickJohanna NeumanChapter 5. "A Dead Husband Is a Better Ticket to Congress Than a Log Cabin": The Public Discourse of Widows in Office, 1920-1940Katherine ParkinChapter 6. Beyond the New Deal Network: Mary Elizabeth Switzer at the Federal Security Agency, 1939-1945Dean KotlowskiChapter 7. Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and Indigenous Women's Activism, 1943-1947Holly Miowak GuiseChapter 8. "These Men Have Such Dominant Positions": The Women's Committee for Educational Freedom and the Gendered Battle for Liberalism in the 1940sNancy Beck YoungChapter 9. "I Have Talked to You Not as Women but as American Citizens": The Gender Ideology of Presidential Campaigns, 1940-1956Melissa Estes BlairPart II. Women's Political Leadership Takes Shape: Reform and Reaction, 1960s-1980sChapter 10. From Suffragist to Congresswoman: Celebrating Political Action, Women's History, and Feminist Intellectuals in Ms. Magazine, 1972-1984Ana StevensonChapter 11. "You Know Where I Stand": Louise Day Hicks and the Politics of Race, Class and Gender, 1963-1975Kathleen Banks NutterChapter 12. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail: The Legacy of Suffrage and Citizenship EngagementBarbara WinslowChapter 13. Envisioning the National Women's Conference: Patsy Takemoto Mink and Pacific FeminismJudy Tzu-Chun WuChapter 14. Married Congresswomen and the New Breed of Political Husbands in 1970s Political CultureSarah B. RowleyChapter 15. Madame Ambassador: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Global DiplomacyBianca RowlettPart III. Looking Toward a New Century for Women in Politics, 1990s-2010s Chapter 16. Palin versus Clinton: Feminism, Womanhood, and the 2008 Presidential ElectionEmily Suzanne JohnsonChapter 17. Tribute Politics: How Feminist History Became a Reference Point in the 2016 ElectionNicole EatonChapter 18. Rooted in Community: The Scholarship of Chicana Leadership and ActivismMarisela R. ChávezChapter 19. Pave It Blue: Georgia Women and Politics in the Trump EraEllen G. RafshoonChapter 20. Putting Women on a Pedestal: Monument Debates in the Era of the Suffrage CentennialMonica L. MercadoChapter 21. Toward a New New Deal . . . and the Women Will LeadEileen BorisAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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BroadStreet Publishing Prayers Promises for Women
Book SynopsisPrayers & Promises for Women incorporates more than 70 themes that help you connect with your Creator in all the different areas of your life. This beautifully designed book gives you easy access to God's promises about faithfulness, trust, wisdom, worth, beauty, strength, and much more, with uplifting prayers and journaling space for deeper reflection. By staying connected to God, and believing the promises of his Word, you can live a fulfilling, blessed life in close relationship with your heavenly Father.
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Crossway Books Enough about Me
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Crossway Books Luke
Book SynopsisThis 10-week study explores the theme of joy in the book of Luke, showcasing how the message Jesus proclaimed to the downtrodden, the hurting, and the outsider is still good news to the world today.
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Amberley Publishing Heroines of the Medieval World
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - The stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history.Trade Review‘As Connolly ably demonstrates, knowing about these fascinating women is essential to fully understanding medieval Europe’ -- Publishers Weekly
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Amberley Publishing Women of the Anarchy
Book SynopsisThe story of the Anarchy from the unique perspective of the two women at the centre of the struggle for the crown.Trade Review'This is a fascinating story that will appeal to anyone with an interest in the power plays of the medieval world.' -- All About History Magazine, February 2024'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It gives an in depth account of The Anarchy, with background - the sinking of the White Ship is described in the prologue - and chapters on the next generation and the founding of the Angevin dynasty, so all in all this is a rounded study of the period, but always the emphasis is on the women and the parts they played. Couple this with the author's readable style, and it's a book which informs and entertains.' -- Reads, Writes, Reviews, January 2024'This book is rich in details and is so well written as Connolly takes the time to distinguish between the Matildas, which there are quite a few in this book, and explain how the conflict started and finally how it was concluded. I think if you want a fabulous book about the Anarchy and the women who defined this period, I highly recommend you check out, “Women of the Anarchy” by Sharon Bennett Connolly.' -- Adventures of a Tudor Nerd, January 2024'Connolly's writing is both engaging and informative, making this book a compelling read for anyone interested in the Anarchy and the remarkable women who defined this pivotal era in English history.' -- Medieval Latin, January 2024
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Pan Macmillan The Bridge Ladies
Book SynopsisFor the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies. A card table with four folding chairs (and one dummy seat). A plate of homemade cookies or brownies on the kitchen counter somewhere, largely untouched. And once they begin the game, hours of silence, punctuated only by the sound of cards being plucked up or snapped down. As a child, Betsy Lerner thought the Bridge Ladies were fascinatingly chic, with their frosted hair-dos and shiny nylons. To the teenage Betsy, they seemed hopelessly square. As an adult, working in New York City, they were a relic of her past. But when her husband accepted a job in New Haven, she found herself right back where she started.Suddenly, the Bridge Ladies came hurtling back, their Monday lunch and Bridge Club still ongoing. They had accepted their lot in life and were, mostly, grateful. They didn't talk about their problems, much less those inTrade ReviewThrough the alchemy of a grand game, Betsy Lerner has woven a universal coming of age story for both mother and daughter. A poignant, humorous and often painful struggle through the pageantry of playing cards; a woman's face on every one. -- Patti Smith, author of Just Kids and M TrainThis is the best book about mothers and daughters I've read in decades, maybe ever. I just loved it, related to it viscerally, kept calling up my daughters to read passages aloud to them. It's about - in addition to bridge of course - mother-daughter conflict, the desire to love and be loved, aging and loss, discovery and renewal. Betsy Lerner is a beautiful, achingly honest writer, and The Bridge Ladies is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, uplifting and profound -- Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple PackageThe Bridge Ladies reminded me of Tuesdays With Morrie, except that it takes place on Mondays and it has five Morries. In this exquisitely written book, there's humor, candor, no-nonsense wisdom - and portraits of five women whose like we won't see again. I devoured it in one greedy sitting, and started re-reading as soon as I finished. -- Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book ClubBetsy Lerner's ladies--her Rozs and Rhodas, Bettes, Beas and Jackies--are our ladies, our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts. Betsy's ladies survived broken dreams, social change and families who didn't always stop to understand them, but as they cooked, cleaned and helped put the greatness in the greatest generation with their strength and spirit. Betsy Lerner takes us back to their tables, capturing her own complicated relationship with her mom and etching an entertaining portrait of a group of wonderful American women, growing older now and braving new battles, with sweetness, humor and sharp perceptiveness. This is a book with heart and feeling. -- George Hodgman, author of BettyvilleThe Bridge Ladies is a funny, tender, sometimes sad account that is often painful but always honest. * Jewish Chronicle *[Betsy's] laughter-filled memoir of rediscovery and reconciliation is a delicious delight. * Saga *Highly distinctive . . . a thoughtful, affectionate study. -- Ysenda Maxtone-Graham * Spectator *The Golden Girls meets The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants for a game of bridge and a plate of fishballs. I loved this memoir about a mother and daughter putting their differences aside -- Sara Manning * Red *In the end what we want from our mothers - and what they want from us - is acceptance. "Our mothers have been always trying to fix us, which has given us the message that we're not OK," says Betsy Lerner. Meanwhile, we daughters have been trying to fix them. Betsy's book says, stop trying to fix one another. You're both OK as you are. -- Joanna Moorhead * Guardian *Heart-warming * Sunday Express *
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Bristol University Press Women and Welfare Conditionality
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence, this book casts light on women's lived experiences of welfare and work. It uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms.Table of Contents1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women? 2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice 3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms 4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic 5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality 6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms 7. Conclusions Appendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality Study Appendix 2: Sanctions Overviews
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Bristol University Press Social Support and Motherhood
Book SynopsisAnn Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support is undertaken. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others interested in the experiences of mothers, and the relations between social research, academic knowledge and public policy.
£26.09
Bristol University Press Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison
Book SynopsisThis timely book addresses an overlooked area of criminal justice by focusing on the reality of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison. Based on the experiences of women in mother and baby units, it passionately argues the case for minimising harm, making key reading for criminology and midwifery students and researchers.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Context and Landscape of Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison Chapter 2. How We Came To Be Here: 100 Years of Criminalised Motherhood Chapter 3. The ‘Journey’ to Incarcerated Motherhood Chapter 4. Motherhood Confined Chapter 5. The Persisting Pain of Incarcerated Pregnancy and New Motherhood Chapter 6. Personal Experiences of Pregnancy and Motherhood in Prison and the Value of the Voluntary Sector in Challenging the System By Samantha Harkness, Michelle Wright and Kirsty Kitchen Chapter 7. ‘Learning Lessons’: Discussion, Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
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Bristol University Press Menstrual Myth Busting
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rebel Writers The Accidental Feminists
Book Synopsis''Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy'' ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism. After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional concepts of woTrade ReviewWriters who changed lives. Rebel Writers is a startling new approach to literary criticism - not just what was done, but why it had to be done - mingled with astute social history. All sorts of things we should know but don’t know about the sixties, all smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting! -- Fay WeldonMake this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it’s Oprah’s Book Club worthy. * Vice *Brayfield's equally illuminating book homes in on the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing that (Shelagh) Delaney wasn't the only one showing that female experience was about more than just falling in love... Brayfield offers us perceptive analysis of the writing and ratifies these women's position in the canon in the process. Perfect companion volumes, Tastes of Honey and Rebel Writers make for entertaining, edifying and important reading. * Financial Times Weekend *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Seven Writers 1. Innocence and Experience 2. A Man’s World: Sexism 3. Forbidden Kisses: Class 4. All False: Love 5. ‘I Wish I Had a Career’: Aspiration 6. The Great Unmentionable: Sex 7. Drowning in Delight: Motherhood 8. A Rotten Bargain: Marriage 9. Good Old John: Race 10. Before the Urban Family: Friendship Part Two: Out into the World 11. ‘Where is your Baby?’ 12. Losing It at the Movies: Screen Adaptation 13. A Stain Upon Womanhood 14. The Angry Young Men: The Literary Movement That Never Was 15. Backwards in High Heels: Success And After 16. We Were Pioneers Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rebel Writers The Accidental Feminists
Book SynopsisThe first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world.Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it''s Oprah''s Book Club worthy.--ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women''s writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women''s lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism. After Delaney came Edna O''Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; Trade ReviewWriters who changed lives. Rebel Writers is a startling new approach to literary criticism - not just what was done, but why it had to be done - mingled with astute social history. All sorts of things we should know but don’t know about the sixties, all smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting! -- Fay WeldonMake this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it’s Oprah’s Book Club worthy. * Vice *Brayfield's equally illuminating book homes in on the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing that (Shelagh) Delaney wasn't the only one showing that female experience was about more than just falling in love... Brayfield offers us perceptive analysis of the writing and ratifies these women's position in the canon in the process. Perfect companion volumes, Tastes of Honey and Rebel Writers make for entertaining, edifying and important reading. * Financial Times Weekend *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part one: Seven Writers 1. Innocence and Experience 2. A Man’s World: Sexism 3. Forbidden Kisses: Class 4. All False: Love 5. ‘I Wish I Had a Career’: Aspiration 6. The Great Unmentionable: Sex 7. Drowning in Delight: Motherhood 8. A Rotten Bargain: Marriage 9. Good Old John: Race 10. Before the Urban Family: Friendship Part two: Out into the World 11. ‘Where is your Baby?’ 12. Losing It at the Movies: Screen Adaptation 13. A Stain Upon Womanhood 14. The Angry Young Men: The Literary Movement That Never Was 15. Backwards in High Heels: Success And After 16. We Were Pioneers Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
£12.34
Edinburgh University Press Women in Mongol Iran
Book SynopsisThis book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335.
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Orion Publishing Co Raising the Skirt
Book Synopsis''A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood'' OBSERVER''An empowering and enlightening book'' IRISH TIMESThe vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm. For too long, though, the true extent of vaginal power has been ignored, hidden and misrepresented. Raising the skirt: the unsung power of the vagina reveals this revolutionary view of female genitalia and points the way to a new understanding of what it means to be female. An inspiration for millennia, the vagina is actually a muscular marvel of engineering - sensitive and strong, fluid and flexible. Far from being a passive vessel, female genitalia control the most important role of all: the survival of the species.Originally published as THE STORY OF V: OPENING PANDORA''S BOXTrade ReviewA meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood * OBSERVER *Reveals the ancient and newfound powers of the vagina ... if we only knew what we had under our skirts. Learn the story - read this book -- Eve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUESA serious and well-researched look at how attitudes and information have changed over the centuries ...This would be a great book to give to your man for his birthday. If you've got a girlfriend, well, read it together. It is completely fascinating -- Jeanette WintersonA persuasive and exhaustive study of the history, culture and reproductive power of female genitalia ... the author is a phenomenal researcher and movingly enthusiastic about her special subject * GUARDIAN *Sings of the triumphant vagina that may have its detractors in the West but elsewhere - and in nature - is heroic, honoured and revered ...The West gets it wrong * TLS *Her quest moves from the mythic to the scientific, presented in a lively, accessible style - well-researched, convincingly argued - an empowering and enlightening book * IRISH TIMES *The book that changed my mind... It turns out the female orgasm is the biggest news on the planet. News that stays news -- Lucy Ellman * GUARDIAN *Sings of the triumphant vagina that may have its detractors in the West but elsewhere - and in nature - is heroic, honoured and revered.... The West gets it wrong * TLS *
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McFarland & Co Inc Ballet Matters
Book Synopsis Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet''s power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women''s agency, and spiritual experience. The author knows that dance relates to life in powerful individual and communal ways, reflecting culture and embodying new ideas. Although ballet can appear (and sometimes is) elite and exclusionary, it also has revolutionary potential.
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Duke University Press Second World Second Sex
Book SynopsisKristen Ghodsee recuperates the lost history of feminist activism from the so-called Second World, showing how women from state socialist Bulgaria and socialist-leaning Zambia created networks and alliances that challenged American women's leadership of the global women's movement.Trade Review"An engaging narrative of feminist movements during the Cold War. . . . [Ghodsee's] work is vital in documenting a neglected component of feminist history while illuminating a new resource for feminist theorists and activists interested in thinking about the political project of gender justice outside the confines of dominant, Western, liberal feminism. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- C. E. Rasmussen * Choice *"Second World, Second Sex is a must read for anyone hoping to understand the complexities of a global women’s rights movement that goes beyond the boundaries of Western, liberal feminism." -- Tony Pecinovsky * People's World *"A powerful reminder that ultimately structural conditions are of prime importance if women’s emancipation is to succeed. . . . Ghodsee’s book ultimately reminds as, through the often moving testimonies of former activists she has collected, that women’s activism, also when attached to or even dominated the state, can be effective and progressive." -- Tanja R. Müller * Twentieth-Century Communism *"Interrogating why the activities of women in countries with strong states promoting gender equality should be deemed inauthentic vis-à-vis those in democracies that perpetuate patriarchal norms, alongside rendering the Cold War as a battle between not just capitalism and communism but also competing visions of feminism, Second World, Second Sex is essential reading for anyone in any field interested in women’s activism in the twentieth century." -- Christine Varga-Harris * Slavic Review *“Besides offering a masterful reconstruction of Cold War women’s activism and East-South alliances, Second World, Second Sex provides its readers with extensive and previously uncovered historical documentation, together with important methodological reflections on feminist knowledge production. The book will be of great interest for historians of gender, transnationalism, and the Cold War, and will undoubtedly expand the scope of scholarly research on transnational women’s and feminist history.” -- Chiara Bonfiglioli * American Historical Review *“The Cold War’s end has seen the vision and achievements of the socialist women’s activists marginalized, devalued, and almost forgotten, the neoliberal consensus quickly undoing in the East and South many of the rights which had been so dearly won. Ghodsee articulates a concern that powerful forces in the West still conspire to suppress or delegitimize histories that take state socialist women’s activism seriously…. Ghodsee’s persistence and peerless scholarship have ensured that it will not be allowed to disappear from the mainstream narratives of feminism.” -- Dominic Martin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Second World, Second Sex has to be strongly recommended not only to scholars in Slavic studies, feminist, gender and postcolonial studies, as well as international relations, but to all those who have high expectations of the current trend of re/connecting the feminist and the climate change movements, as well as the new global actions combating inequality, racism and violence against women and girls, as necessary actions to restore the political relevance to transnational women’s organizing efforts, as was the case in the 1970s and 1980s.” -- Renata Jambrešic Kirin * Wagadu *“Ghodsee beautifully describes the relationships that she established with women’s activists throughout the course of her research.... This is why her book is so important: it challenges hegemonic accounts of both Cold War politics and the international Decade for Women.” -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *“Ghodsee makes her argument skillfully and with clarity. . . . This is an impressively ambitious book with an undeniably original topic and a bold argument.” -- Alexandra Ghit * International Review of Social History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms viii Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Erasing the Past 1 Part I. Organizing Women under Socialism and Capitalism 1. State Feminism and the Woman Question 31 2. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 1: Bulgaria 53 3. Emancipated Women and Anticommunism in the American Political Imagination 76 4. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 2: Zambia 97 5. Sandwiched between Superpowers 121 Part II. The Women's Cold War 6. The Lead-Up to International Women's Year 135 7. Historic Gatherings in Mexico and the German Democratic Republic 146 8. Preparing for the Mid-Decade Conference 160 9. The Third Week in July 174 10. School of Solidarity 186 11. Strategizing for Nairobi 198 12. Showdown in Kenya 207 Conclusion. Phantom Herstories 221 Appendix. A Few Reflections on the Challenges of Socialist Feminist Historiography 244 Notes 249 Selected Bibliography 283 Index 301
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New York University Press The Partisan Gap
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective officesFrom Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running inand winningelections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades. In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women's representation exists, and why it's only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of rTrade Review"Laurel Elder's excellent book authoritatively shows how structural forces and the realignment of the parties along racial, ideological, and regional lines both promotes the advancement of Democratic women in office and hinders such opportunities for Republican women. Her approach also teaches us much about the state of the two parties in America today and makes a convincing case for why the voices of all women are needed in government. A must-read!" -- Melissa Deckman, author of Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right"The Partisan Gap is a most comprehensive, insightful and historical exploration of partisanship and women’s quests for political office in the United States. Laurel Elder describes and explains the growth in the partisan gap in women’s election to state legislative and congressional office, with Democratic women advancing their numbers and representation while Republican women ‘s numbers have stagnated. This book expertly explains the structural forces that have reshaped the American party system resulting in this contemporary partisan gender gap." -- Barbara C. Burrell, author of The Women of 2018: The Pink Wave in the US House Elections ... and Its Legacy in 2020"In this book, Laurel Elder shines a light on a phenomenon that hasn’t received enough attention. Her meticulous documentation of the partisan gender gap in political representation establishes a new standard of scholarly excellence. It serves as a stark reminder of how much gender equality is hindered in the U.S. by the struggles of women to win elected office as members of the Republican Party." -- Brian Frederick, author of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective"Elder’s careful analysis clarifies that the expansion of elected female Democrats is likely to be self-perpetuating and that Republicans are likely to continue electing men. An illuminating read for anyone concerned for the future of women in US electoral politics." -- T. Marchant-Shapiro, Southern Connecticut State University * Choice *
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New York University Press Women in Christian Traditions
Book SynopsisUncovers women''s participation and impact on defining historical moments and themes of Christian traditionsWomen in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in church history to help us to realize a richer and fuller understanding of Christianity.This text provides an overview of the complete sweep of Christian history through the lens of feminist scholarship. Yet it also departs from some of the assumptions of that scholarship, raising questions that challenge our thinking about how women have shaped beliefs and practices during two thousand years of church history. Did the emphasis on virginity in the early church empower Christian women? Did the emphasis on marriage during the Reformations of the sixteenth centurTrade ReviewA very useful introductory book to women's roles in Christian history. It provides a solid overview of feminist scholarship from the beginnings of Christianity to the present. It will play a key role in courses on this history. -- Rosemary Radford Ruether,Claremont School of Theology and Graduate UniversityA major contribution to the literature on women in Christianity. Moore effectively synthesizes the last thirty years of scholarship. . . . Using the template of saints, seers and scholars, she has managed to bewonder of wondersboth comprehensive and brief. Both readable and informative, this book will inform undergraduates in courses on the history of Christianity and in women's and gender studies classes. And some might want to buy it for a religious leader who should be better informed on the issues! -- Nadia Lahutsky,Texas Christian UniversityThe book would be an excellent source in an introduction to Christianity or a class on women in religion. * Religious Studies Review *An excellent conversation starter and would be a wonderful addition to any course syllabus looking to inspire classroom dialogue. * Reading Religion *Women in Christian Traditionsdirects a feminist lens at what would be, in less skilled hands, an unmanageable corpus of topics and source materials, and achieves a work that surveys the breadth and depth of its topic in a way that is informative, fresh, and engaging. * Sociology of Religion *Women in Christian Traditionsis a work that will be indispensible in course on gender and religion. Indeed, this work is essential reading for anyone interested in gender or religion. Its scope provides historians, scholars of religions, sociologists, and feminist theorists, as well as clergyand those interested in gender and religion outside of academia or religiona resource that is at once brief and thorough, concise and comprehensive. * Sociology of Religion *The scope is impressive, and this overview would serve as a valuable text in an introductory womens studies course. * Anglican and Episcopal History *Moore accomplishes a seemingly incredible feat: she tells the story of women in Christianity through 2,000 years of history...Noteworthy for itsbreadth and depth, Moores projectwill encourage smart conversations about women and Christianity. * Choice *What a pleasant surprise to find a book on women and Christianity that is not a rant against the evil inherent in this misogynistic religion. Rebecca Moore presents a balanced narrative of womens well-earned place in the history of Christianity, and a significant place it is indeed. Written with students in mind, it probably will succeed in making the reading list of many college courses. This is a good thing; it may be the best choice now available. * Catholic Historical Review *Moores volume is a thoroughly enjoyable book thateffectively outlines the continuous and significant role that women have played in the historical development of the Christian tradition. She provides an accessible sweep of Christian history with special attention to the way that women have affected its development by incorporating engaging narratives focused on the lives of influential women. * Catholic Book Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Study Women in Christian Traditions? 1 1. In the Beginning ... Eve 19 2. The Women Disciples in the Kingdom of God 27 3. Women and the Conversion of an Empire 47 4. Saints, Seers, and Scholars in the Middle Ages 67 5. Women Reformed, Women Resistant 87 6. Spirit-Filled Women in the Nineteenth Century 107 7. Churchwomen on the Margins and in the Mainstream 129 Conclusion: The Church of Martha and Mary 153 Questions for Discussion 157 Notes 159 Works Cited 181 For Further Reading 195 Subject Index 197 Index to the Bible and New Testament Apocrypha 207 About the Author 209
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Tyndale House Publishers The Lifegiving Home Experience
Book SynopsisIt's time to plan some unforgettable moments with your family! Containing sections for each month of the year, this companion resource to The Lifegiving Home is a planner full of creative ideas that will help you be intentional about creating times and spaces for your family to relax, celebrate, and simply enjoy one another all year long. You'll learn how to cultivate special times that will speak to your family's hearts . . . and inspire cherished memories that you will all treasure.
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University Press of Mississippi Subversive Spirits
Book SynopsisThe supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the female ghost. Inherently liminal, often literally invisible, the female ghost has nevertheless appeared in all genres. Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture brings this figure into the light, exploring her cultural significance in a variety of media from 1926 to 2014. Robin Roberts argues that the female ghost is well worth studying for what she can tell us about feminine subjectivity in cultural contexts.Subversive Spirits examines appearances of the female ghost in heritage sites, theater, Hollywood film, literature, and television in the United States and the United Kingdom. What holds these disparate female ghosts together is their
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University Press of Mississippi Marginalized
Book SynopsisIn contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to recons
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Pregnancy Test
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologiststhe majority of whom were mencontrol over information about women's bodies.However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Object LesTrade ReviewA new gem from Object Lessons. . . . A quick and quirky read. * Zoomer Magazine *Karen Weingarten illuminates the fascinating history, politics, and culture of the pregnancy test in this kaleidoscopic and entertaining volume. It’s all in there: life and death, feminist empowerment and patriarchal coercion, scientific discovery and sci-fi dystopia. Weingarten shows how a seemingly modest yet ingenious technology has profoundly shaped—and even brought into being—some of our most intimate, vulnerable, and meaning-filled moments. * Lara Freidenfelds, Ph.D., author of The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America *As anyone who has anxiously shut a bathroom door to take one knows, the home pregnancy test is a riveting plot in and of itself: within its pages, lives are made and unmade. Karen Weingarten’s Pregnancy Test tells the fascinating story of how this intimate technology came to be with insight and compassion, suggesting that the strange mix of reproductive agency and reproductive surveillance the home pregnancy test has enabled in US culture will be of central importance as these private dramas become ever more encroached upon by the state. * Sarah Blackwood, Associate Professor of English, Pace University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: History 1. Designing the Home Pregnancy Test 2. Hormones 3. Urine and Blood 4. The Stick Part Two: Culture 5. Tell Me Doctor 6. The Psychological Torture of a Beautiful Young Woman 7. There is No Pregnancy Without the Pregnancy Test 8. The Science Fiction of Pregnancy Testing Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women Aging and Art
Book SynopsisThe dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very absence of these old women in certain settings also reveals both a discomfort with the aged and an ease in their invisibility. This is true in writing about art and often in the art itself. The physical markers of aging, even implications of death or the nearness of death, make many of these images of old women, haunting; in the 16th and 17th centuries, they become emblems of anger and avarice, though portraits of known elderly women are often created with a sense of awe, and in some cases, authority. This book provides a frank examination of old women, from medieval old wives to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied represeTrade ReviewIt reveals as much insight into the at times conflicting and contrasting approaches to art historical method as it provides material for comparative analysis from a global and largely decolonized perspective. * Woman's Art Journal *Drawing on innovative new research, the authors fearlessly tackle controversial issues, find humor in surprising places, and convincingly argue that aged women can, and should, be viewed as wise, powerful, creative, and—yes, beautiful. * Nancy G. Heller, Professor of Art History, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA *A fascinating exploration of a little discussed subject … The book is a revelation, one that opens up new vistas for both art history and age studies. * Julia Twigg, Professor of Social Policy & Sociology, University of Kent, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Frima Fox Hofrichter (Pratt Institute, USA) and Midori Yoshimoto (Jersey City University, USA) 1. Alchemy’s Old Wives M.E. Warlick (University of Colorado at Denver, USA) 2. Anger, Avarice and Aging: Transgressive Old Women Jane Kromm (State University of New York at Purchase, USA) 3. Silenced, Sidelined, and Even Undressed: Old Women in Seventeenth-Century Religious Art Zirka Filipczak (Williams College, USA) 4. Frans Hals’s Portrait of an Older Judith Leyster Paul Crenshaw (Providence College, USA) 5. Old Maids: Images of Elderly Servants in Early Modern Europe Diane Wolfthal (Rice University, USA) 6. Paetini and Vaekehu: Change and Aging in the Portraits of Two Nineteenth-Century Marquesan Matriarchs Carol Ivory (Oregon State University, USA) 7. Portraits of Power: Depictions of Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast Matriarchs Megan A. Smetzer (University of British Columbia, Canada) 8. Old Women/New Vision: Lucia Moholy’s Photographs of Clara Zetkin Vanessa Rocco (University of New Hampshire, USA) 9. Sculptor, Hostess, Witch: Unpacking Louise Nevelson’s Boxes Johanna Ruth Epstein (Independent Scholar, USA) 10. To Honor or Condemn: Museums and the Women of Sande Susan Kart (Lehigh University, USA) 11. Women and Aging in Contemporary Japanese Art: The Case of Yanagi Miwa Midori Yoshimoto (Jersey City University, USA) 12. Aging and Feminist Art: Semmel’s Visible Bodies Rachel Middleman (University of California at San Diego, USA) List of Contributors Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Jane Eyre in German Lands
Book SynopsisLynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and effects thereof, 1848-1918. Engaging with scholarship on the romance novel, she presents an historical case study of the generative power and protean nature of Brontë's new romance narrative in German translation, adaptation, and imitation as it involved multiple agents, from writers and playwrights to readers, publishers, illustrators, reviewers, editors, adaptors, and translators. Jane Eyre in German Lands traces the ramifications in the paths of transfer that testify to widespread creative investment in romance as new ideas of women's freedom and equality topped the horizon and sought a home, especially in the middle classes. As Tatlock outlines, the multiple German instantiations of Brontë's novelfour translations, three abridgments, three adaptations for general readers, nine adaptations for younger readers, plays, farces,Trade ReviewLynne Tatlock’s new book is a monumental achievement. Her analysis of the German reception of Jane Eyre breaks new ground in the study of the novel and the history of world literature. She follows Charlotte Brontë’s work from England to the Continent and shows how it was translated and adapted countless times for new audiences. Making judicious use of digital tools and archival research, combining literary sociology with astute textual analysis, Tatlock shows how literature moved and why it mattered to generations of predominantly female readers. * Todd Kontje, Distinguished Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego, USA *Lynne Tatlock‘s Jane Eyre in German Lands is a highly innovative study of the German-language dissemination of Charlotte Brontë’s novel in the second half of the long 19th century. Combining research on Jane Eyre’s translation and distribution on the German book market with data about its reception and adaptation, the book culminates in a powerful reading of E. Marlitt’s novels as Jane Eyre surrogates, highlighting not only the enormous influence of Jane Eyre among German writers, but also the emancipatory potential the romance plot held for female readers. Tatlock’s masterful study exemplifies literary and cultural studies in the 21st century at their very best. * Daniela Richter, Professor of German, Central Michigan Univerity, USA *Lynne Tatlock’s innovative book on the reception and adaptation of Jane Eyre in the German context provocatively argues that the dissemination of “Jane Eyrish” elements through popular romantic plots built around a spirited, bookish female protagonist allowed German women readers to imagine new vocational possibilities and modes of intimacy. Tatlock’s work is a model for feminist scholars, for scholars of translation, object culture, and the history of the book, and for digital humanities scholars who acknowledge the benefits of distant reading but who firmly believe that close reading is indispensable. * Jill Suzanne Smith, Associate Professor of German, Bowdoin College, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Jane Eyre-Effects: The Survival and Diffusion of Romance 2. Looking for Sympathy and Intelligibility 3. “Upended Priority”: The Orphan on Stage 4. The “Erotics of Talk” 5. Anger and Sadness: Unsanctioned Emotion, Articulate Feeling 6. Goldelse (1866): “A Lighter-Tinted Jane Eyre in Somewhat Different Circumstances” 7. Mixed Messages: Marlitt’s Little Moorland Princess (1871) 8. The Purchase of Romance: The One and the Many Coda “Relations stop nowhere”: The Purchase of Romance in a Time of Inequality Notes Bibliography German Editions and Adaptations of Jane Eyre Editions, Adaptations, and Spoofs of Charlotte-Birch Pfeiffer Die Waise aus Lowood Editions and Adaptations of the Fiction of E. Marlitt Works Cited
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Pan Macmillan Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Book SynopsisPart manifesto, part how-to, Eat Sweat Play is a hugely inspirational call to arms for women to take back sport for themselves. Long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.Sport's for everyone . . . isn't it?Society has led us to believe that women and sport don’t mix. But why? What happens to the young girls who dare to climb trees and cartwheel across playgrounds? In her exploration of major taboos, from sex to the gender pay gap, sports journalist Anna Kessel discovers how sport and exercise should play an integral role in every sphere of our modern lives.Covering a fascinating range of women, from Sporty Spice to mums who box and breastfeed, Eat Sweat Play reveals how women are finally reclaiming sport, and by extension their own bodies, for themselves – and how you can too.'Anna Kessel's book should inspire a whole generation of women. It ought to be on the school curriculum.' - Hadley Freeman'I’d go as far to say that this book was a life changer for my health and fitness.' - Estée LalondeTrade ReviewAnna Kessel's book should inspire a whole generation of women. It ought to be on the school curriculum. -- Hadley FreemanFascinating, compelling and thought-provoking -- Lauren Laverne * The Pool *This book is a plea to reclaim tracks, pitches and pools for women, and to ensure that the next generation grows up appreciating - and enjoying - all that their bodies are capable of. -- Emma John * The Guardian *A piercing call to arms, [Anna] argues that if women and girls embrace being active, it will lead to a sea change for women's bodies, self-image and outlook. It is brilliant. * Stylist *I’d go as far to say that this book was a life changer for my health and fitness. -- Estée LalondeThis is an impassioned manifesto for why sport can change your life * Health & Fitness *No topic is off limits - cringe worthy school PE, the gender pay gap, parenthood, women as fans, menopause, disability and even her own miscarriage are explored, telling a cradle-to-grave story of our vexed relationship with moving our own bodies. She also lays bare the systemic issues: sports science, for example, is based overwhelmingly on studies of male bodies, as if pregnancy and menstruation simply did not exist. This is a book for parents, sports lovers, and anyone who wants to be on the right side of history. -- Moya Dodd * Australia Financial Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: How to bunk a PE lesson: a rough guide Chapter - 2: Sweating is so hot right now! Why our twenty-first-century obsession with exercise is all wrong Chapter - 3: Why sport will make you sucessful Chapter - 4: Sports and taboos Chapter - 5: How to avoid the pregnant pause Chapter - 6: The marathon of motherhood Chapter - 7: 'Are you the tea lady?' and other common questions Chapter - 8: What does a woman's voice in sport sound like? (And when can we stop pretending to be blokes?) Chapter - 9: Women's sport: changing the game Section - ii: Epilogue Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Acknowledgements - iv: Permission Acknowledgements Section - v: Notes
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Graphic Arts Books A Voice From the South
Book SynopsisThe first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well as economic progress. It’s a forward-thinking narrative that highlights many disparities hindering the African American community. Anna J. Cooper was an accomplished educator who used her influence to encourage and elevate African Americans. With A Voice From the South, she delivers a poignant analysis of the country’s affairs as they relate to Black people, specifically Black women. She stresses the importance of education, which she sees as a great equalizer. Cooper considers it a necessary investment in not only the individual but the community. She also criticizes the depictions of African Americans in literature by some of the day’s most popular authors. She calls for more realistic portrayals that are both honest yet positive. Cooper provides an unflinching critique of mainstream America as it relates to the Black population. A Voice From the South broaches pivotal topics such as women’s rights, segregation and the need for higher education. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Voice From the South is both modern and readable.
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