Gender studies: women and girls Books
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Portraits of Holy Women: Selections from the Vita
Book SynopsisThe Vita Christi, written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work in Catalan to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It represents a fascinating re-evaluation of the role women played inthe life of Jesus Christ. The Life of Christ (Vita Christi), written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work to have been preserved in Catalan and to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It was composed to provide spiritual direction for the nuns within the community of Poor Clares which Sor (i.e. Sister) Isabel oversaw at the Convent of the Holy Trinity in Valencia. The work was only able to emerge from obscurity by accident. In 1497 Queen Isabel of Castile, the wife of Ferdinand of Catalonia-Aragon, who had heard news of the book's existence, asked Sor Isabel's successor for a copy. The new Abbess, Sor Aldonça, responded by bringing the work to press. Queen Isabel's interest in Sor Isabel's book was understandable. The former abbess had been the daughter of the refined and restless Marquess of Villena, and was herself educated at Court, a milieu with which she maintained very positive relations throughout her life. As an abbess, what's more, she carried out important reforms at the convent and became a valued and respected figure within the dynamic cultural world of the Valencia of her day. Isabelde Villena's Vita Christi has often been interpreted as a response, delivered from the serenity of the cloister, to the misogyny and satire against the female gender emanating from certain books written at that time. Sor Isabel's work is a re-evaluation of the role women played in the life of Jesus Christ, a role at variance with the subsidiary one ascribed to them by the majority of commentators. Published in association with Editorial Barcino, Barcelona.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the
Book SynopsisReconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists. The passing of Spain's Law of Historical Memory (2007) marked the official recognition of the need to confront a violent and painful past. Article 2 makes reference to specific groups who experienced discrimination including religious and ethnic communities; no reference is made to the gender repression endured by women, enforced by a patriarchal regime through its legislation and policies, with the active support of the Church and the Women's Section of the Falange. Revised narratives of the period that have emerged in recent decades have raised issues in relation to the reliability and selectivity of memory, and its ongoing mediation by intervening events. While documentarysources of the period are prejudicial, cotemporaneous post-war testimonial novels provide an invaluable resource in reconstructing the past, particularly the novels of women writers. This book draws on their narrative to reconstruct the female experience of the post-war years and in particular on the writings of novelists whose work has undeservedly been disregarded. Neither the experience of women under Franco nor the narrative of women writers of the period should be forgotten. Patricia O'Byrne lectures in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Dublin City University.Trade ReviewPatricia O'Byrne's study of five female Spanish novelists publishing in the 1940s and 1950s makes a most valuable contribution to our understanding of women's lives during these early decades of the Franco dictatorship. This highly recommended study fleshes out an overlooked chapter in postwar Spain's cultural histories and foregrounds the complexities, connections and divergences of a fascinating literary cohort that is undergoing an overdue revival in contemporary scholarship. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsPreface Spanish Women Novelists 1940-1960 Ángeles Villarta Tuñón Susana March Alcalá Carmen Laforet Rosa María Cajal Carmen Kurtz Afterword Works Cited
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Poder y escritura femenina en tiempos del
Book SynopsisMuñoz Pérez revela la importancia de las mujeres en la política y cultura de la corte española en tiempos de Olivares. Muñoz Pérez examines the importance of women in political and cultural life at the Spanish courtrough the case of Teresa Valle, spiritual counsellor of Olivares. Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Esta monografía revela la importancia de las mujeres en la política y cultura de la corte española pormedio del caso de Teresa Valle, consejera espiritual de Olivares, el favorito de Felipe IV. A través del análisis de fuentes originales como son cartas, escritos literarios e inquisitoriales, la autora demuestra que las relaciones entre poderosos nobles y religiosas fue también un elemento esencial de mecenazgo barroco. Se trataba, entre otros, de un medio de publicidad y poder para ellos y una vía de acceso a la cultura para ellas. Además, la autora analiza los escritos de Teresa, revelando su identidad literaria. El camino de la monja por los resortes literarios permite que se definan nuevos métodos de estudio de la escritura femenina y de las estrategias discursivas que utilizaron las religiosas de la época. This monograph reveals the importance of women in political and cultural life at the Spanish court through the case of Teresa Valle, spiritual counsellor of Olivares, the favourite of King Philip IV. Through an analysis of diverse primary sources such as letters, literary writings, and Inquisition records the author demonstrates how relations between noblemen and religious women formed a key aspect of Baroque patronage and exchange, forming an essential tool of publicity and power for the former, and a way of access to the literary domain for the latter. At the heart of this book there is a study of the writings that Teresa produced, revealing her emerging literary identity. The nuns path into literature also allows the author to define new ways of understanding female writing in Golden Age Spain and clarify the discursive strategies that religious women negotiated. Laura S. Muñoz Pérez is currently a Lecturer at the University of Oxford.Table of ContentsIntroducción Historia de una relación fallida: La correspondencia entre Teresa Valle y don Gaspar de Guzmán La dramática vida cotidiana de las monjas en la clausura de San Plácido La Inquisición entra en escena y Teresa comienza su incursión en la escritura semi-pública Las repercusiones del escándalo en la corte y el descrédito de San Plácido El último memorial de Teresa y la absolución de las monjas Y, ¿"acreditada triunfará Teresa"?: El futuro de una historia incierta Anejo I: Listado de documentos relacionados con el proceso de Teresa Valle importantes para su desarrollo como autora Anejo II: Los demonios Anejo III: Edición del Memorial apologético (1637): cuarto y último escrito de Teresa Valle de la Cerda Bibliografía
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica
Book SynopsisEste libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), prominente líder anarquista española en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. This book explores the figure of the modernwoman in the writings of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s. Este libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los ensayos y la ficción de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), líder anarquista española de gran prominencia en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. Se examinan en profundidad sus escritos sobre la cuestión de la mujer a la luz de las premisas filosóficas que sustentan el ideario del anarquismo. Además, su ficción mantiene un complejo diálogo con los discursos científicos y culturales de género que pn durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX. La mujer moderna de Montseny no consiste en una figura única, finalizada y estática, sino que se desplaza entre una diversidad de articulaciones a veces contradictorias, pero que reflejan por igual sus creencias anarquistas. Montseny, quien gozó de enorme popularidad en su época como escritora y política, elaboró y diseminó algunas de las propuestas sobre la emancipación de las mujeres más originales do, y este volumen es el primero en situar su pensamiento como una de las piezas fundamentales en la evolución del feminismo español. Nuria Cruz-Cámara es Profesora Titular en la Universidad de Tennesse. This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the essays and fiction of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s. It examines in depth the author's theories of genderin light of the basic principles of anarchist political thought and philosophy. In addition, Montseny's novels are shown to engage in an elaborate and critical dialogue with scientific and cultural discourses on women that proliferated during the first four decades of the 20th century. Montseny's ideal modern woman is not a static and definite figure; rather, she shifts across different and at times contradictory articulations that, nonetheless, all fall within her anarchist beliefs. Montseny, a popular politician and writer during her time, developed and disseminated some of the most original concepts dealing with women's emancipation and gender theory, and the present volume is the first to situate her thought as a key component within the evolution of Spanish feminism.. Nuria Cruz-Cámara is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee.Table of ContentsIntroducción Mujer moderna, anarquismo, feminismo ¿La masculinización de las mujeres? La Victoria: La mujer moderna a debate Pigmaliones y fierecillas Secualidad femenina La promiscuidad en La Novela Libre Las mujeres en la revolución Conclusiones Obras citadas Índice
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Aurora Bertrana: Innovación literaria y
Book SynopsisGanador del Premio de Monografía Crítica Victoria Urbano 2015 Winner of the 2015 Premio de Monografía Crítica Victoria Urbano Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan andSpanish, including: Ariatea (1960), "El pomell de les violes" (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). She studies her work, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertana's strong commitment to social issues reveals her association with the Modernist and Noucentists trends of her time. Bertrana's novels reveal a unique interest in non-Western cultures and lifestyles and her work undertakes controversial topics and socio-cultural issues, while she observes and draws special attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. This book is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect with consideration of gender, such as travel-and-gender and war-and-gender. Roig uses the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and Patrice Higonnet,Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana's engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into self-exile during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Silvia Roig is a Faculty Member, BMCC Department of Modern Languages, The City University of New York.Table of ContentsIntroducción - Silvia Roig Obras viajeras: Polinesia y Marruecos - Silvia Roig En torno a la II Guerra Mundial y la posguerra: Europa - Silvia Roig Regreso a Cataluña - Silvia Roig Obras de la intimidad en torno al "yo": Bildungsroman y memorías - Silvia Roig Conclusiones - Silvia Roig Bibliografía - Silvia Roig Índice - Silvia Roig
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd María de Zayas and her Tales of Desire, Death and
Book SynopsisWho doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? A pioneer of early modern feminism, María de Zayas y Sotomayor wrote poetry, drama and prose but is best known for two page-turning collections of short stories: Exemplary Tales of Love (1637) and Tales of Disillusion (1647). This book provides an engaging introduction to Zayas and her work. It begins by relating what we know of her life, placing her in her socio-political and economic context and addressing the issue of women's literacy. Following chapters examine her use of sexual desire, violence and humour in her tales; her narrative structures; and her oral style. The book then turns to identity construction in her tales and in society, analysing questions of gender, class, family and 'race', and to her treatment of religion, magic and the supernatural. The final chapters explore Zayas's status as a proto-feminist; her early modern reception in Spain and elsewhere; and various critical readings of her work.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter I: Zayas: Her Life and Times Chapter 2: Exemplary Tales of Love: A Contradiction? Chapter 3: Settings, Styles and Models: Zayas's Literary Context Chapter 4: Turning the Tables on Men in Exemplary Tales of Love Chapter 5: Bodies in Pain: Tales of Disillusion Chapter 6: Identifying the Subject Chapter 7: I Believe: Religion, Magic, the Supernatural Chapter 8: Zayas on Women Conclusion: Zayas's Afterlives Appendix: Plot Summaries
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Adam Smith’s Daughters: Eight Prominent Women
Book SynopsisThis new and expanded edition of a classic work draws our attention to the often neglected role women have played in the development of economics. The work and intellectual history of eight prominent women economists of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries are studied to reveal how they strove to become successful contributors to economic science.These women economists had vastly different lives and philosophies. Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau and Millicent Fawcett followed the goal of free enterprise and individualism and wrote on the subject when economics was still in its infancy. Rosa Luxemburg, Beatrice Webb and Joan Robinson were all believers in some form of collective government, and Barbara Bergmann and Irma Adelman concern themselves with income distribution, in both developed and developing countries. The authors examine the respective backgrounds and discuss the intellectual histories of these remarkable women to throw light on the development of economics since the time of Adam Smith.This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the contribution women have made to the advancement of economic science.Trade Review'Polkinghorn and Thomson's book leaves one with a clear sense of diversity in the history of female economic thought. . . . a useful introduction to the subject of female contributions to economics and a statement about the importance of this research topic. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Jane Marcet 2. Harriet Martineau 3. Millicent Fawcett 4. Rosa Luxemburg 5. Beatrice Webb 6. Joan Robinson 7. Irma Adelman 8. Barbara Bergman Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Women in the labor market
Book SynopsisThe rapid influx of women into the labour market has come to be recognised as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of those papers which have made the greatest contribution to our understanding of this development and its causes. The emphasis is on empirical work which has served either to support or undermine the theoretical foundations of this field, but also included are papers by sociologists who provide insights on economic issues not found in the work of economists.The opening section explores the causes of women's participation in the labour market. The following section investigates the nature of the work in which women are involved and the explanations for this occupational distribution. The question of earnings differentials between male and female occupations and the trends and explanations for this gender wage gap are addressed in the third section, while the penultimate section offers an exploration of the policies which have been proposed in order to improve the status of women in the labour market. In conclusion, the impact of women's work on their lives and families is evaluated.Trade Review'The articles reproduced here are among those that made the most significant contributions to knowledge of women's role in the labour market, and of how policies influence the outcome. . . . It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of these volumes, bringing together as they do such a wide range of empirical research on some of the most important issues in social policy at the end of the twentieth century.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Explaining Women’s Labor Force Participation Part II: Occupational Distribution Part III: The Male/Female Earnings Ratio Part IV: Policies to Improve Women’s Status in the Labor Market Part V: Impact of Women’s Labor Force Participation on the Family Name Index
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Reaktion Books Women, Islam, and Cinema
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema. Film critic and author Gonul Donmez-Colin explores the role of women as spectators, images and image constructors in the cinemas of the countries where Islam is the predominant religion, focusing on Iran and Turkey from the Middle East, drawing parallels from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the two Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union, and Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia, the prominently Muslim Asian countries with a challenging film industry. Some of the relevant films made in India by and for Muslim Indians are also explored. Donmez-Colin examines prevalent cinematic archetypes, including the naive country girl who is deceived and dishonoured, or the devious seductress who destroys the sanctity of marriage, and looks well at controversial elements such as screen rape, which, feminist film critics claim, caters to male voyeurism. She also discusses recurring themes, such as the myths of femininity, the endorsement of polygamy and the obsession with male children, as well as the most common stereotypes, depicting women as mothers, wives and daughters. Given the diversity of cultures, rather than viewing national cinemas as aspects of a single development, the author focuses on individual histories, traditions and social and economic circumstances as points of reference, which are examined in the context of social and political evolution and the status of women within Islam. "Women, Islam and Cinema" is a much-needed and timely work that will appeal to the curious reader as well as to the student of film.Trade Review'... presents a fascinating array of film narratives and characterizations. Her critical interpretations reveal how films can reflect socio-political transitions; the voices of filmmakers add authority to the text, as does her personal background in both Islamic and Western cultures. Donmez-Colin shows how cinema may serve either to protect cultural values or to contest them, describing a complex scenario where women's seemingly passive role in perpetuating traditions may be balanced by their courage in defying them ... underscores the dynamic interplay between cinema and real life in countries where, literally in some cases, women were once dying to go to the movies.' - Times Literary Supplement 'This is one of the few film books I actually want to read. A very necessary examination of Islamic cinema which praises its bolder spirits and doesn't hesitate to criticise those who censor and condemn them.' - Derek Malcolm, chief film critic, London Evening Standard 'The reader is referred to the excellent books that will provide some of this information and insights ... Women, Islam and cinema, and Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, both by Gonul Donmez-Colin, are wonderful resources.' - Javed Mohammed, Culture Wars
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Wits University Press Gaze Regimes: Film and feminisms in Africa
Book SynopsisGaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in fi lm, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women’s stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent?The interviews with Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Djo Tunda wa Munga, Rumbi Katedza, Katarina Hedrén, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film – from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners.The disciplines of gender studies, postcolonial theory, and film theory provide the framework for the book’s essays. Beti Ellerson, Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors who provide valuable context, analysis and insight into, among other things, the politics of representation, the role of fi lm festivals and the collective and individual experiences of trauma and marginality which contribute to the layered and complex fi lmic responses of Africa’s film practitioners.Trade ReviewThis intricately woven collection presents nuanced images - from the north to the south of the African continent - of the contemporary state of women's representation, roles and engagements in the film world. - Lindiwe Dovey, senior lecturer in African film, SOAS, University of London and honorary associate professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Foreword by Katharina von Ruckteschell, Goethe-Institut sub-Saharan Africa; Introduction - By way of context and content - Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann; African women in cinema: An overview - Beti Ellerson; 'I am a feminist only in secret' - Interview with Taghreed Elsanhouri and Christina von Braun by Ines Kappert; Staged authenticity: Femininity in photography and film - Christina von Braun; 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements - Interview with Jihan El-Tahri by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann; Aftermath - A focus on collective trauma - Interview with Djo Tunda wa Munga and Rumbi Katedza by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Shooting violence and trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work - Antje Schuhmann; Puk Nini - A filmic instruction in seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations - Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; I am Saartjie Baartman - Nobunye Levin; Filmmaking at the margins of a community: On co-producing Elelwani - Jyoti Mistry; On collective practices: Jeppe on a Friday - Interview with Shannon Walsh and Arya Lalloo by Jyoti Mistry; 'Cinema of resistance' - Interview with Isabel Noronha by Max Annas and Henriette Gunkel; Dark and personal - Anita Khanna; 'Change? This might mean to shove a few men out' - Interview with Anita Khanna by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Barakat means enough! - Katarina Hedren; 'Women, use the gaze to change reality' - Interview with Katarina Hedren by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Post-colonial film collaboration and festival politics - Dorothee Wenner; Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto - Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann.
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Missouri Historical Society Press More than Ordinary: Early St. Louis Artist Anna
Book SynopsisThe first complete catalog of work by Missouri’s earliest female artist provides a singular look at territorial life in the early nineteenth century. Anna Maria von Phul (1786–1823) was the earliest-known female artist working in what was then called the Missouri Territory. Born in Philadelphia and raised largely in Kentucky, she spent her last half-decade in and around St. Louis. Though von Phul never considered herself a professional artist, her sketches and watercolors provide a singular window into the early-nineteenth-century lower Midwest. Von Phul’s art depicts not only the landscape and natural world of the St. Louis area, but also its architecture, fashions, and social life, with a notable focus on the local Creole population. Hattie Felton’s More than Ordinary is the first complete catalog of von Phul’s existing work, all of which is part of the collections of the Missouri Historical Society. The book offers a valuable source of research for anyone interested in the histories of Missouri or Kentucky. More than that, it expands the story of American vernacular art and the role of women in that story. Felton’s opening essay examines von Phul's education and artistic influences and explores her time in St. Louis and neighboring Edwardsville, Illinois, alongside letters, newspaper clippings, and other materials from her life. Following the essay, a detailed catalog highlights examples of her watercolors, silhouettes, and copywork. Looking closely at von Phul’s life and work provides a firsthand perspective on the challenges that faced female artists in the early nineteenth century while simultaneously offering a rare look at Missouri on the cusp of statehood. Trade Review2022 Gold Medalist in regional nonfiction—Midwest * Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Dr. Frances Levine, President of the MHS; essay on von Phul; catalog raisonne of her work.
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Cornell University Press Kojiki-den
Book SynopsisMotoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's self-image was changed forever when Motoori's great commentary explicated its myth and song, thereby resurrecting an oral tradition which had been eclipsed by Chinese writing. Book 1 of the commentary outlines the nativist ideology and philological principles underlying the whole endeavor, and is key to understanding Motoori's contribution to literary theory, political thought, and linguistic investigation. The preface by Naoki Sakai grounds the significance of the work in the context of eighteenth century discouse, and Ann Wehmeyer's biographical introduction focuses on the development of Motoori's interest in the language of the Kojiki.
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Zone Books Secrets Of Women: Gender, Generation, and the
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AU Press A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah
Book SynopsisZarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to finda new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a greatimagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and youngmarried woman. Zarah and her family lived through the Depression, andshe learned to make ends meet in any way she could, even bending thelaw if necessary. Her son John writes this touching memoir, told in thefirst person, in Zarah’s own unique voice. Her remembrances aresometimes funny, sometimes sad but always entertaining.Trade Review"Zarah's free spirit and sharp intelligence animate the narrative at every turn, making it the kind of story that once begun, a reader is loath to leave unfinished. - Tamara Palmer Seiler, University of Calgary"
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Liverpool University Press Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement
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Liverpool University Press Jewish Socialists in the United States: The Cahan
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Liverpool University Press Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the
Book SynopsisWhat does feminism mean at the millennium? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists anymore, and, if so, in what form? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist; are we really post-feminism, or do we still need a woman-centered political discourse? And what might a feminist theory and practice capable of addressing the aspirations of all women look like? These are the fundamental questions about women's needs, experiences, and ideas explored in this volume. This powerful and empowering volume challenges conventional notions about differences of race, class and sexuality among women, bringing critical insights from the fields of anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, history, sociology, and literary studies. Examined in this collection are many aspects of exclusion in feminist thought, including women's use of masculinist theory, the processes of tokenism and erasure prevalent in educational institutions, and the status of women in erotic discourse.Trade Review"Mary Brewer homes in on controversial issues among women pornography, rape, mothering, domesticity and work, and debates about the butch/fem model and gender-bending among lesbians." -- Alan Sinfield, Professor of Literature, University of SussexTable of ContentsContents: Introduction by Mary Brewer; Practising Difference Differently: Cyborg Consciousness and Political Practice; Ivory Towers and Guardians of the Word: Language and Discourse in the Academy; TransForm/ando Women's Studies: Latina Theory: Re-Imagines America; Violating the Seal of Race: The Politics of (Post)Identity and the Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy; (Post)Colonial (Dis)orders: Female Embodiment as Chaos in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; "See, I've got my tit out!": Women's Performance Art and Punk Rock; Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Voice of Abjection; Theorising Feminisms: Breast Cancer Narratives and Reconstructed 'Women'; Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Women's Movement; Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialised Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism; Feminism and the Aesthetic; Bodily Transactions: Jean Genet in the Feminist Debate; 'Doing' Judith: Race, Mixed Race and Performativity; Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminist, Lesbian or Transgendered?; The Contributors; Index.
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Wallflower Press Women′s Cinema
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Liverpool University Press Jewish Women in Enlightenment Berlin
Book Synopsis National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies, 2013.The encounter of Jews with the Enlightenment has so far been considered almost entirely from a masculine perspective. In shifting the focus to a group of educated Jewish women in Berlin, this engaging study makes an important contribution to German Jewish history as well as to gender studies. Natalie Naimark-Goldberg's study of these women's letters, literary activities, and social life reveals them as cultivated members of the European public. Their correspondence allowed them not only to demonstrate their intellectual talents but also to widen their horizons and acquire knowledge—a key concern of women seeking empowerment. Her descriptions of their involvement in the public sphere, a key feature of Enlightenment culture, offer important new insights: social gatherings in their homes served the purpose of intellectual advancement, while the newly fashionable spas gave them the opportunity to expand their contacts with men as well as with other women, and with non-Jews as well as Jews, right across Europe. As avid readers and critical writers, these women reflected the secular world-view that was then beginning to spread among Jews. Imbued with enlightened ideas and values and a new feminine awareness, they began to seek independence and freedom, to the extent of challenging the institution of marriage and traditional family frameworks. A final chapter discusses the relationship of the women to Judaism and to religion in general, including their attitude to conversion to Christianity—the route that so many ultimately took. ‘A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies . . . It becomes clear that . . . Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way . . . [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.’ Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University ‘This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg’s approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women’s history and Jewish culture as a whole.’ Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin CollegeTrade ReviewReviews 'A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies ... It becomes clear that ... Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way ... [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.' Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University 'This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg's approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women's history and Jewish culture as a whole.'Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin College'Ably demonstrates that women played a significant role within the history of enlightenment thinking and activity within the Jewish community . . . The author argues that there is more to the history of the Jewish Enlightenment than the male-dominated Haskalah. Naimark-Goldberg posits that the female-centred Enlightenment of the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted another legitimate strand of the Jewish Enlightenment, despite its difference in focus.'David Tesler, AJL Reviews‘Fascinating, in-depth analysis . . . important, comprehensive, and engaging.’ Yemima Chovav, NashTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on the Translation of Sources and the Use of NamesNote on TransliterationIntroduction1 Private Letters: An Alternative Sphere for Cultural Discourse2 Jewish Women and the Reading Public3 Going Public: Jewish Women in the Field of Literature and Publishing4 Sociability and Acculturation in German Spas5 Social Gatherings in Private Homes6 Female Emancipation7 Between Acculturation and Conversion8 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Watkins Media Limited Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video
Book SynopsisIn Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and gender in one of the most widely consumed art forms of our age — the music video. Through an autobiographical reckoning with the author’s life in a band and collaboration with past lovers, and a close analysis of the erotic iconography of music videos, Justify My Love tells the subversive history of this medium, from the inception of MTV in 1981 through to the 2010s. Covering everything from Lady Gaga and Beyonce to Nine Inch Nails and George Michael, Justify My Love shows how subversion became mainstream, and how marginalized voices shaped some of the biggest music videos of the last thirty years.Trade Review"A tender and corporeal autobiography of what it means to express yourself as a female musician when everything feels bound by the playful but taut restrictions of love, sex and power... a (very good) Girl In A Band story and a theory book." — Hannah Ewens, Noisey
£10.99
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Saberes americanos: Subalternidad y epistemología
Book SynopsisLa obra de Sor Juana muestra un interés muy marcado por el saber y por la descripción de los procesos de adquisición de conocimiento y el desarrollo de la capacidad intelectual humana en un contexto muy particular; una sociedad colonial que intenta acceder a una serie de debates oficiales sobre la educación y modos de saber legítimos de la época. Esta obra estudia este tema en los escritos de Sor Juana en un deseo de contextualizar su tratamiento del conocimiento en una reflexión sobre el modo en que sus textos postulan la creación de una subjetividad intelectual femenina, colonial y americana. Desde principios de siglo, la lectura epistemológica de Sor Juana ha interpretado a la autora y a su obra dentro del modelo de Descartes, Platón o Aristóteles pero su condición femenina y colonial ha sido completamente excluida del análisis, dejando a un lado uno de los aspectos fundamentales de estos textos: quién habla y qué estrategias utiliza para autorizarse. Estudios más recientes de varias autoras ya han comenzado a explorar el entrecruce entre la epistemología y la condición femenina. Al mismo tiempo, la reciente reconfiguración del campo de estudios coloniales ha desencadenado un enriquecimiento en los estudios de la escritura colonial. Esta obra pues, se centra en cómo el sujeto femenino, colonial y criollo intenta autorizarse para entrar en un discurso tradicionalmente masculino y eurocéntrico. ~ Sor Juana's work shows a very marked interest in knowledge and the description of the processes of knowledge acquisition and the development of human intellectual capacity in a very particular context; a colonial society that tries to access a series of official debates on education and legitimate ways of knowing of the time. This work studies this theme in Sor Juana's writings in a desire to contextualise her treatment of knowledge in a reflection on the way in which her texts postulate the creation of a female, colonial, and American intellectual subjectivity. Since the beginning of the century, the epistemological reading of Sor Juana has interpreted the author and her work within the model of Descartes, Plato or Aristotle, but her feminine and colonial condition has been completely excluded from the analysis, leaving aside one of the fundamental aspects of these texts: who is speaking and what strategies they use to authorise themselves. More recent studies by various female authors have already begun to explore the intersection between epistemology and the female condition. At the same time, the recent reconfiguration of the field of colonial studies has triggered an enrichment in colonial writing studies. This work, then, focuses on how the female, colonial and Creole subject tries to authorise herself to enter a traditionally masculine and Eurocentric discourse.
£35.00
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Mujer y cultura en la Colonia hispanoamericana
Book SynopsisLa mujer colonial ha sido el material primario de mitos ancestrales, un personaje secundario en las gestas heroicas de la resistencia americana, un oscuro objeto de deseo y de las proyecciones imaginarias de los conquistadores que sigue ocupando un espacio en gran parte impenetrado por el discurso crítico e historiogràfico latinoamericano. El espacio vital y discursivo de la mujer colonial fue siempre un ámbito acotado y controlado por estrategias y retóricas que le asignaron valores y funciones precisas e inapelables destinadas a confirmar y fortalecer el lugar del Poder. El presente volumen intenta presentar una imágen de esta mujer distinta a la que ofrecen las versiones tradicionales del período que comienza el América con el descubrimiento de Europa (sus adelantados, misioneros y burócratas, de sus libros, sus pestes y sus mitos) y se extiende hasta la fundación de los estados nacionales. Los trabajos reunidos en este libro recorren un periplo que va desde las primeras imágenes rescatadas en crónicas, relaciones e iconografías coloniales hasta las que se acercan a las etapas que preparan la Independencia. Estos estudios, en su variedad, coinciden en el objetivo de recuperar, a través de la investigación de documentos y la interpretación textual, los rasgos que definen un sujeto social siempre en huida, multifacético y reticente, que casi nunca se revela en una primera lectura y que habita primordialmente en los márgenes y en las entrelíneas de los discursos masculinos. ~ The colonial woman has been the primary source of ancestral myths, a secondary character in the heroic deeds of the American resistance, an obscure object of desire and of the imaginary projections of the conquistadors that continues to occupy a space largely impenetrable by the Latin American critical and historiographic discourse. The vital and discursive space of the colonial woman was always an area limited and controlled by strategies and a rhetoric that imposed on her specific and unquestionable values and functions destined to confirm and strengthen the established powers. This volume tries to present an image of this woman different from the one offered by the traditional versions of the period that America begins with the discovery of Europe (its advances, missionaries and bureaucrats, its books, its plagues and its myths) and extends to the founding of the national states. The works gathered in this book cover a journey that goes from the first images of women rescued in chronicles, colonial relations and iconographies to those that approach the stages that prepare for Independence. These studies, varied as they are, have the common goal of recovering, through the investigation of documents and textual interpretation, the features that define a social subject always on the run, multifaceted and reticent, which is almost never revealed in a first reading and that lives primarily in the margins and between the lines of masculine discourses.
£35.00
Three Pines Press Women in Daoism
Book SynopsisDaoism is the indigenous higher religion of traditional China. Growing from a philosophical root and developing through practices of longevity and immorality, it has found expression in communal organizations, ritual structures, and age-old lineages. A multifaceted tradition, Daoism in the 2,500 years of its history has related to women in a number of different ways matching the complexity of other religions, where the relationship to the female is often ambiguous and ambivalent. They commonly see motherhood, sexuality, fertility, esoteric knowledge, and secret powers as closely linked with the feminine and evaluate these aspects positively. But many religions also relegate women to inferior status, considering them of a lower nature, impure and irresponsible, and often suppressing them with greater or lesser severity.The complexity of women's positions is particularly poignant in the Daoist case, since the religion is caught between its ideal cosmological premise of the power of yin and the realities of a strongly patriarchal society following the Confucian model. That is to say, cosmologically Daoism sees women as expressions of the pure cosmic force of yin, necessary for the working of the universe, equal and for some schools even superior to yang. Daoism also links the Dao itself, the force of creation at the foundation of the cosmos, to the female and describes it as the mother of all beings. Within the religion there is a widespread attitude of veneration and respect for the feminine, honouring the cosmic connection as well as the productive and nurturing nature of women.Trade ReviewThis book is awesome. It reads clearly and fluently. The topics of the chapters make sense; the arguments are convincing and well-supported. The authors are thoroughly conversant with the fields of Daoist studies, Chinese history, and women's studies.... This book has no rival. It should instantly become a standard. - Susan Cahill, University of California, San Diego
£33.20
CavanKerry Press Eleanor
Book SynopsisIn Eleanor, Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure has much to say. This collection includes poems about Eleanor’s husband Franklin, her children, her mother-in-law, her intellectual mentors, and her most passionate and intimate friendships. Other poems focus on Eleanor’s evolving relationship to servants, issues of class and human rights, as well as her service to the world community. Jacobik’s monologues constitute a sustained imaginative work that embodies Eleanor Roosevelt’s emotional experience, moral conflicts, fears, losses, desires, and aspirations. Eleanor Roosevelt was a bold and outspoken advocate for issues that are still relevant today: social justice, economic security, freedom from war and violence, and the rights of workers and immigrants. Modern readers will find much to admire, and much that resonates, in the themes of this collection. Publishing one hundred years after the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, this collection reminds us how far we have come, and how much further we have yet to go.
£13.00
Salish Kootenai College What I Know About the Old Ways : The Life and
Book SynopsisAgnes Vanderburg was a widely respected Salish elder on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was born at the dawn of the twentieth century when horses provided transport. Her elders taught her many of the traditional ways of the Salish people. With her knowledge of Salish culture and language, she was an invaluable source of knowledge for the younger generation of tribal members. As a young woman Vanderburg competed in horse races and traveled around the country sharing the Salish culture and language. Working with her husband Jerome, and later by herself, she created a cultural camp on the reservation to share her knowledge with young tribal members, students of tribal culture, and visitors from around the world. Vanderburg shared her life story and wisdom in interviews during her later years. “What I Know About the Old Ways” is a compilation of a few of these interviews which allows her to speak to tribal members and others in the twenty-first century. Her message of the importance of preserving Salish culture and language is especially important for tribal members and all Americans today.
£12.34
Salish Kootenai College Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and
Book SynopsisAgnes Oshanee Kenmille (1916–2009) was a Salish Indian elder and master craftswoman from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was a hard worker who struggled to raise her children and survive during a century of cultural and economic change on the reservation. Despite being orphaned at the age of thirteen and widowed three times, she was always able to cope and be an inspiration to those around her. For years she taught hide tanning and traditional crafts at the Salish Kootenai College and Two Eagle River School in Pablo, Montana. Through her hard work and craft work, she supported herself and her children. As Tony Incashola, former director of the Salish–Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee, remembered her: “She was like a magnet—she drew people to her. She put her heart into her work, and that’s why it was in such demand—people wanted a part of her, and owning something she made was a way to have that.” This book is compiled from interviews with Kenmille and a portfolio of color photos of her craft work.
£14.24
George F. Thompson Finding Justice: A History of Women Lawyers in
Book SynopsisAlthough women were not officially permitted to practice law in Maryland until 1902, the history of women acting as lawyers in Maryland is storied, going back to the earliest decades of colonial America. Today, of course, women serve not only as lawyers but also as judges, professors, and elected officials, and anywhere from in local government to the U.S. Senate. Finding Justice tells the remarkable story of how women overcame historical obstacles—legal, social, and economic—to enter the legal profession and how their pioneering work has influenced the practice of law and society at large. The volume contains a CD with the first-evercompiled list of the nearly 25,000 women who have been admitted to the bar in Maryland.Distributed for George F. Thompson Publishing in association with the Maryland Women’s Bar Association Foundation and the University of Baltimore Foundation.
£50.40
New Growth Press Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: Life After Shock
£6.83
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department The Art of the Jewish Family – A History of Women
Book SynopsisIn The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance; a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses; an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York; a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai; and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles—both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women’s lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity. While much of the available history was written by men, the objects that Leibman studies were made for and by Jewish women. Speaking to American Jewish life, women’s studies, and American history, The Art of the Jewish Family sheds new light on the lives and values of these women, while also revealing the social and religious structures that led to Jewish women being erased from historical archives.
£22.80
University of Cincinnati Press Maria Longworth Storer – From Music and Art to
Book SynopsisWhile the adage may go, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” the story of Maria Longworth Storer necessitates a new adage—at the front of every great city is a great woman. After being shunted into the biographies and history books of other people, Longworth Storer is now finally given center stage on the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of her birth.Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents is the most comprehensive biography of this one of a kind Cincinnatian. Known as the founder of the first female-run manufacturing company in the United States, Rookwood Pottery, Longworth Storer was passionate about women’s rights, her city, and issues of poverty and the arts. She owned Rookwood pottery for nine years, and then transferred ownership after earning recognition at the Exhibition of American Art Industry in Philadelphia and receiving a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Aside from her success with Rookwood, Longworth Storer was central to making the Queen City the major cultural landmark it is today. Although the rest of her life was no less remarkable as the wife of notorious diplomat Bellamy Storer, later embroiled in the famous Roosevelt-Storer scandal, little has been written about her contributions and exploits in diplomatic relations and her powerful influence on turn-of-the-twentieth-century political leaders. Featuring new archival research, and never before seen photos of the Storer family, authors Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann have compiled a portrait of Maria Longworth Storer that is rich in detail, fitting to both the wide, often eclectic, breadth of Longworth Storer’s projects, and to the depth of her impact on leaders from Washington D.C. to Europe. Moving through major moments in both American and Cincinnati history, and intersecting with significant historical figures including Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Moore and Broermann expose the broader historical narrative of Longworth Storer’s life without letting her unique spirit and individual accomplishments become overshadowed by them. Through thoughtful, balanced narrative, readers get to know a remarkable woman whose fascinating and dramatic life as a political figure, women’s rights advocate, and patron of the arts has had a long lasting legacy on the Queen City and the Shaping of our nation’s diplomatic policies.
£26.25
Association for Asian Studies Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a
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Business Expert Press Finding Your Career Niche: Conversations About Women & Business
Book SynopsisThis book is a conversation—not a lecture—for women. If women are wondering how to approach their careers at any age and how to decide when the time is right to have children, there are questions to help make the decision. Chapters in this book provide women additional perspectives on deciding the type of career, taking advantage of opportunities, networking, surviving in the corporate environment, and when it is time to become an entrepreneur.
£23.70
Gallaudet University Press Miriam Hearing Sister – A Memoir
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Gallaudet University Press Agatha Tiegel Hanson – Our Places in the Sun
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£24.00
Myers Education Press Women and Gender in Higher Education: Looking
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£115.20
Myers Education Press Women and Gender in Higher Education: Looking
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£39.90
Rutgers University Press Mothering from the Field: The Impact of
Book SynopsisThe heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research. Trade Review“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction1 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY AND BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMADPart I Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know? 9 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY1 Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11 KELLY WARD, LISA WOLF-WENDEL, AND LINDSEY MARCO2 Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27 STACEY L. CAMPPart II The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers 43 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD3 Malaria and Spider-Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three-Year-Old 47 KELLEY SAMS4 Birthing in the Field 62 LYDIA ZACHER DIXON5 Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76 CECILIA VINDROLA-PADROSPart III Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support 89 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD6 Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MUNTAQUIM MUHAMMAD7 Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student-Mom and Her Support Community 108 GRACE KARRAM STEPHENSON, JOHN STEPHENSON, AND JOANNE FLORENCE KARRAM8 Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124 BRIAN C. WOLFPart IV This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood 135 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY9 Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY10 Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155 ANNE HARDGROVE11 Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171 KIMBERLY GARLAND CAMPBELLPart V What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies 181 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY12 Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185 SARAH KELMAN13 “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201 MARYLYNN STECKLEY14 Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222 DEIRDRE GUTHRIE15 Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239 APRILLE ERICSSON, DAWN ERICSSON PROVINE, ARIELLE ERICSSON WHITE, MIKAE PROVINE, PIERRE ERICSSON, BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD, AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLYPart VI Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! 251 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD16 “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative That Presumes That Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253 RYANNE PILGERAM17 Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD Conclusion 272 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY Acknowledgments 281 Notes on Contributors 283 Index 293
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Rutgers University Press Mothering from the Field: The Impact of
Book SynopsisThe heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research. Trade Review“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction1 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY AND BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMADPart I Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know? 9 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY1 Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11 KELLY WARD, LISA WOLF-WENDEL, AND LINDSEY MARCO2 Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27 STACEY L. CAMPPart II The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers 43 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD3 Malaria and Spider-Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three-Year-Old 47 KELLEY SAMS4 Birthing in the Field 62 LYDIA ZACHER DIXON5 Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76 CECILIA VINDROLA-PADROSPart III Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support 89 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD6 Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MUNTAQUIM MUHAMMAD7 Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student-Mom and Her Support Community 108 GRACE KARRAM STEPHENSON, JOHN STEPHENSON, AND JOANNE FLORENCE KARRAM8 Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124 BRIAN C. WOLFPart IV This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood 135 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY9 Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY10 Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155 ANNE HARDGROVE11 Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171 KIMBERLY GARLAND CAMPBELLPart V What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies 181 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY12 Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185 SARAH KELMAN13 “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201 MARYLYNN STECKLEY14 Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222 DEIRDRE GUTHRIE15 Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239 APRILLE ERICSSON, DAWN ERICSSON PROVINE, ARIELLE ERICSSON WHITE, MIKAE PROVINE, PIERRE ERICSSON, BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD, AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLYPart VI Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! 251 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD16 “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative That Presumes That Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253 RYANNE PILGERAM17 Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD Conclusion 272 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY Acknowledgments 281 Notes on Contributors 283 Index 293
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Rutgers University Press Carrying On: Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Book SynopsisIn the twenty-first century, expecting parents are inundated with information and advice from every direction, but are often strapped for perspective on how to think through it. Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel available to them by shedding light on where it all came from. How and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist? Carrying On investigates the origin stories of prevailing prenatal health norms by exploring the evolution of issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. When did women start taking prenatal vitamins, and why? When did the notion that pregnant women should “eat for two” originate? Where did exercise guidelines come from? And when did women start formulating birth plans? A learning project with one foot in the past and the other in the present, Carrying On considers what history and medicine together can teach us about how and why we treat pregnancy–and pregnant women–the way we do. In a world of information overload, Carrying On offers expecting parents the context and background they need to approach pregnancy and prenatal health from a new place of understanding.Trade Review"Carrying On dives deep into science to clarify all of the open questions around pregnancy. Clair's writing is clear, personal, and relatable....Carrying On is an original concept that is well written, well researched, much needed, and offers indigenous and midwifery perspectives alongside the traditional 'science.'" -- Tina Cassidy * author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born *"Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines: Where Did They Come From, Anyway?," by Brittany Clair * Pregnant Chicken *"The Truth About the 'Right' Pregnancy Diet," by Brittany Clair * Amara *"This book is part-science, part-history, a dash of memoir, and it lives in the weeds. It’s nine chapters that follow some sort of rough chronological logic, but all stand in relative isolation (i.e., you could jump around, skip a chapter, or read in whatever order suits you) and dive into one key question or topic. For example: How has medicine (not) managed morning sickness over time? When did we start using obstetric ultrasound, and what is it doing for us? When the hell — and why — did prenatal weight gain recommendations gain any traction? What about exercise guidelines? " * Lucie's List, The Best Pregnancy Books *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: On Carrying On 1 Provide 2 Endure 3 Grow 4 Eat 5 Watch 6 Move 7 Sleep 8 Plan 9 Commence About the Author Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe
Book SynopsisAlthough she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations between these roles and the acting skill that went into the creation of Monroe’s public persona. Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s star persona resonated with audiences precisely because it engaged with the era’s critical debates regarding femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism. Furthermore, she explores how Monroe drew from the techniques of Method acting and finely calibrated her performances to better mirror her audience’s anxieties and desires. Drawing both from Monroe’s filmography and from 1950s fan magazines, newspaper reports, and archived film studio reports, Some Kind of Mirror considers how her star persona was coauthored by the actress, the Hollywood publicity machine, and the fans who adored her. It is about why 1950s America made Monroe a star, but it is also about how Marilyn defined an era. Trade Review"Written with passion and verve, this meticulously researched and well-argued book is a valuable entry into our ongoing conversations about movie stars and their meanings in their original contexts as well as our own." -- Adrienne McLean * author of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom *"Konkle brings fresh understanding to the Marilyn Monroe phenomenon, shedding light on her journey from sexpot to star, and revealing the complex construction and development of the Monroe image." -- Lucy Bolton * Queen Mary University of London *"Some Kind of Mirror is a fascinating study, a must-read for connoisseurs of Monroe's career, and a choice pick for public and college library Film Studies shelves. Highly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Amanda Konkle has managed to add a fresh new angle to this ever-expanding topic area. From the outset, it is apparent that Konkle knows her subject extremely well and is committed to showing both Monroe’s underappreciated skills as an actress and how her constructed star persona reflected the timeframe in which she worked. The vast amount of research Konkle has employed to both her study of Monroe and American culture at the time is abundantly evident throughout." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Table of ContentsContents 1 Introduction: Playing Marilyn Monroe 2 Becoming a Star: The Publicity Buildup and Early Performances 3 Mrs. America: Marilyn Monroe and Marriage Anxiety 4 “It’s Kinda Personal and Embarrassing, Too”: Monroe, the Kinsey Reports, and the Double Standard 5 The Actress and Her Method: Resisting Playing Marilyn Monroe Conclusion: A Marilyn Monroe Type Filmography Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£27.20
Rutgers University Press Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and
Book SynopsisMediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime’s effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria’s uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic. Trade Review“A huge accomplishment, Mediating the Uprising combines smart readings of Syrian television miniseries with detailed ethnographic analysis. Joubin reveals the strategies of artists--both oppositional and regime-supporters--who are testing the limits of social and political expression, and the workings of an industry navigating seven years of civil war. The book is an invaluable addition to media studies and Syrian studies.” -- Edward Ziter * author of Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising *“Mediating the Uprising expertly reveals how Syria’s most successful transnational media products have fared during and responded to the current conflicts. Rebecca Joubin displays uncommon dexterity in how she interlaces a wealth of detail, from knowledgeable insight into sociopolitical contexts to illuminating interviews with the musalsalat’s creative personnel. This approachable book will appeal just as much to specialized scholars as to a general readership wishing to learn more about how devastating geopolitical events take their toll on our media industries and their representations of gender.” -- Kay Dickinson * author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond *“A huge accomplishment, Mediating the Uprising combines smart readings of Syrian television miniseries with detailed ethnographic analysis. Joubin reveals the strategies of artists--both oppositional and regime-supporters--who are testing the limits of social and political expression, and the workings of an industry navigating seven years of civil war. The book is an invaluable addition to media studies and Syrian studies.” -- Edward Ziter * author of Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising *“Mediating the Uprising expertly reveals how Syria’s most successful transnational media products have fared during and responded to the current conflicts. Rebecca Joubin displays uncommon dexterity in how she interlaces a wealth of detail, from knowledgeable insight into sociopolitical contexts to illuminating interviews with the musalsalat’s creative personnel. This approachable book will appeal just as much to specialized scholars as to a general readership wishing to learn more about how devastating geopolitical events take their toll on our media industries and their representations of gender.” -- Kay Dickinson * author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Series Foreword List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration A Chronology of the Syrian Uprising Introduction: New Directions in Television Drama Amid an Uprising Chapter One: Mediating the Uprising Chapter Two: Socio-Political Satire in the Multi-Year Syrian Sketch Series Buq‘at Daw’ (Spotlight): Artistic Resistance via Gender and Marriage Metaphors, 2001 to 2017 Chapter Three: The Rise and Fall of the Qabaday (Tough Man): (De)constructing Fatherhood as Political Protest Chapter Four: The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian and Transnational Arab Television Drama Chapter Five: The Politics of Queer Representations in Syrian Television Drama Past and Present Conclusion Appendix 1: Charts of Miniseries for Ramadan 2011-2018 (Miniseries that touch on the uprising are in bold) Appendix 2: Table of Percentages of Miniseries 2011-2018 Appendix 3: Chart of Miniseries for Ramdan 2019 (Miniseries that touch on the uprising are in bold) Appendix 4: Table of Percentages of Miniseries 2019 Acknowledgments Bibliography/Filmography Index
£37.60
Rutgers University Press Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North
Book SynopsisInquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape. Trade Review“Courting Desire offers an unusual mix of ethnographic perspectives, exploring the pursuit of love and the critical role played by legal institutions in changing times. Srinivasan presents a rich canvas of messy human realities, while making a persuasive argument for the stable yet transformative value of law.” -- Ann Grodzins Gold * author of Listening to the Heron's Words: Reimaging Gender and Kinship in North India *“With captivating stories of love and elopement, Rama Srinivasan offers readers a refreshing new view of shifting paradigms on marriage and consent in North India. While elopement challenges both patriarchy and kinship, the courtroom offers young couples a legal validity and a new sense of personhood. This richly woven account mixes the interplay of changing gender roles, political economies, Bollywood films, and the democratic state for a delightful, intimate read into modern India.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * author of Gender, Law, and Resistance in India *New Books Network: New Books in Gender interview with Rama Srinivasan * New Books Network: New Books in Gender *Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India Part 1. Localizing Marriage 1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future 7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? Acknowledgments Appendix
£30.40
Rutgers University Press Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North
Book SynopsisInquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape. Trade Review“Courting Desire offers an unusual mix of ethnographic perspectives, exploring the pursuit of love and the critical role played by legal institutions in changing times. Srinivasan presents a rich canvas of messy human realities, while making a persuasive argument for the stable yet transformative value of law.” -- Ann Grodzins Gold * author of Listening to the Heron's Words: Reimaging Gender and Kinship in North India *“With captivating stories of love and elopement, Rama Srinivasan offers readers a refreshing new view of shifting paradigms on marriage and consent in North India. While elopement challenges both patriarchy and kinship, the courtroom offers young couples a legal validity and a new sense of personhood. This richly woven account mixes the interplay of changing gender roles, political economies, Bollywood films, and the democratic state for a delightful, intimate read into modern India.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * author of Gender, Law, and Resistance in India *New Books Network: New Books in Gender interview with Rama Srinivasan * New Books Network: New Books in Gender *Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India Part 1. Localizing Marriage 1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future 7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? Acknowledgments Appendix
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and
Book SynopsisJunctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book’s theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.Trade Review“Kudos to O’Dowd and Charbonneau for identifying outstanding women leaders to compile these case studies that both humble and inspire the reader. These lessons remind us it takes one person, using both the adversity of their lives and the talents they have acquired, to improve the health of both communities and the world. Never has there been a more important time in healthcare history to extend ourselves to apply both intellect and persistence to leave our mark.“ -- Amy B. Mansue * President and CEO, Inspira Health *“This is a motivating collection of stories about exceptional leaders. Women of diverse backgrounds, and bound by specific attributes: passion about the well-being of the people they serve and commitment to improving the social and structural forces that shape their health. An important reminder that one’s legacy can be defined by one major accomplishment, or by many smaller achievements over time.” -- Jewell Mullen * Associate Dean for Health Equity, Dell Medical School *"Mary O’Dowd examines the stress and mental health issues healthcare workers face and the impact of misinformation about COVID." * State of Affairs with Steve Adubato *“Kudos to O’Dowd and Charbonneau for identifying outstanding women leaders to compile these case studies that both humble and inspire the reader. These lessons remind us it takes one person, using both the adversity of their lives and the talents they have acquired, to improve the health of both communities and the world. Never has there been a more important time in healthcare history to extend ourselves to apply both intellect and persistence to leave our mark.“ -- Amy B. Mansue * President and CEO, Inspira Health *“This is a motivating collection of stories about exceptional leaders. Women of diverse backgrounds, and bound by specific attributes: passion about the well-being of the people they serve and commitment to improving the social and structural forces that shape their health. An important reminder that one’s legacy can be defined by one major accomplishment, or by many smaller achievements over time.” -- Jewell Mullen * Associate Dean for Health Equity, Dell Medical School *"Mary O’Dowd examines the stress and mental health issues healthcare workers face and the impact of misinformation about COVID." * State of Affairs with Steve Adubato *Table of ContentsForeword to the Series New Foreword to the Series Preface Katsi Cook: “Research and Ceremonies and Healing Are an Empowerment Process”—a Mohawk Midwife Brings the Needs of Women into Environmental Health Research Elizabeth Hoover Mona Hanna-Attisha: Using Her Voice to Advocate for Environmental Justice in the City of Flint Colleen Blake and Mary E. O’Dowd Katharine Dexter McCormick: Examining an Advocate’s Path—Advancing Women’s Reproductive Rights through Philanthropic Support for Oral Contraception Development Mary Wachter and Erica Reed Mary Engle Pennington: Transforming Food Safety with the Power of Persuasion and a Steadfast Commitment to Good Science and the Public’s Health Akanksha Arya and Christina Tan Florence Schorske Wald: Standing by Her Principles—Not by a Title—to Bring Hospice to the United States Patricia A. Findley, Suzanne Willard, and Jacqueline Hunterton-Anderson Virginia Apgar: Focusing on Prevention, She Structurally Transformed Maternal and Child Health for Generations Mary E. O’Dowd and Colleen Blake Marilyn Gaston: Changing the Face of Healthcare through Research, Public Service, and Community Health Denise V. Rodgers and Grace Ibitamuno Jane E. Brody: Using Journalism to Impact Personal Health, One Column at a Time Dawn Thomas and Christina Chesnakov Risa Lavizzo-Mourey: Leading the Nation to Adopt a Culture of Health Raquel Mazon Jeffers and Christina Chesnakov Marilyn Tavenner: From Crashing Patients to Crashing Websites Heather Howard and Carson Clay Ruth Williams-Brinkley: Facing Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of Community and Healthcare Elizabeth A. Ryan, Ruth Charbonneau, and Alexander M. Bartke Suerie Moon: Shaping the Governance of a Complex Global Health System to Achieve Equity Alexander M. Bartke and Ann Marie Hill Acknowledgments Contributors Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism
Book SynopsisTo Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state’s co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of “multicultural dispossession.” This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state. Trade Review"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *Table of ContentsPreface: An Unexpected Uprising? Introduction: Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times Part I: Genealogies 1 Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia 2 Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution Part II: Multicultural Dispossession 3 Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era 4 Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights Part III: Resisting State Violence 5 “See how de blood dey run”: Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity 6 From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn Conclusion: Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.Trade Review"Activism or slacktivism?In a chat with Nandita Bose, author Pallavi Guha states that social media spaces have empowered voices against sexual abuse but the sustainability of these movements has been an issue," By Nandita Bose — Deccan Herald "The book’s strengths lie in its contextualization of the feminist movement in India in a scenario that is being speedily digitized. Guha does not shy away from talking about gatekeeping within organizations working in women’s rights and how it impeded her access to activists. Her frank delving, in designing this research, and self-reflexivity makes this an excellent text not just for those interested in digital feminist activism in India but also for global scholars of qualitative research methodology."— International Journal of Communication "Sexual offenders and academia: The great debate," an excerpt from Hear #MeToo in India — Hindu Business Line "New Books Network: New Books in Gender podcast" interview with Pallavi Guha— New Books Network: New Books in Gender "The author’s careful treatment of a very difficult subject allows the reader to consider the stories they don’t hear and, in fact, may never hear. To do so was no easy task. But the result is an important addition to interdisciplinary studies in sexual violence and feminist perspectives worldwide."— South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies KOOP Radio's People United interview with Pallavi Guha and Amy Wu— KOOP Radio's "People United" "Beach reads: The top “beach books” for your summer vacations," by Mary Carole McCauley— The Baltimore Sun "In this excellent work, author Pallavi Guha examines shifts in media landscapes and journalism in relation to social media and the reporting on rape and violence against women in India. She looks carefully at issues around access and visibility of marginalized feminist activists and how they are reported on and characterized. She notes how social media shifts the ways in which feminist activist groups and journalists similarly or differently reach out to larger publics to create awareness and contribute to social justice movements nationally and transnationally. She holds herself accountable to feminist principles of research throughout her writing. Importantly, she is clear about her own social location and her approach to this research project. This book is a very important contribution to the growing amount of published work around Indian feminists and new media"— Radhika Gajjala, author of Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics "Nothing is more important than understanding how social media promote activist goals in our new media environment. In this important new study, Pallavi Guha demonstrates the power of social media to promote progressive social change. Examining the #metoo movement in India, Guha interviews both feminist activists and journalists, examining the intricate interconnections between media, social media, and activism in the context of the Global South. The work will be an important reference for generations of feminist media scholars to come." — Andrea L. Press, co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meanings Across Pla "It can be challenging to find a single volume that is rigorously researched, endlessly readable and undoubtedly useful in the fight against rape and sexual harassment, but this one does it."— Ms. Magazine The Cārvāka Podcast interview with Pallavi Guha— The Carvaka Podcast "By contextualizing women’s stories — and emphasizing the similarities among sexual-assault victims everywhere — the media, as well as authors like myself, can build a stronger, more accurate narrative around sexual assault, one that is respectful of victims regardless of where they live."— Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction and Historical Background Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes The Heart Doesn’t Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements Moving Forward: Learning from Anti-Rape Feminist Movements References
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Rutgers University Press Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent
Book Synopsis2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University MalaysiaDamsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.Trade Review"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Pola Negri and Romance: “Ah Love! It’s Not for Me” 2 Pola Negri as the Vamp: “Temptatious Pola Assailed Picture Citadel by Storm” 3 Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: “The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English Than the English” 4 Vilma Bánky as the Leading Lady: “Bedecked in Flowing Gowns . . . and Layers of Pearls and Jewels” 5 Vilma Bánky and Marriage: “My Mother Brought Me Up to Be a Wife” 6 Jetta Goudal and Exoticism: “She Looks Like a Beautiful Cossack. She Looks Like an Oriental Princess” 7 Jetta Goudal and Mystery: “A Riddle in the City of Eager Autobiographies” 8 Jetta Goudal and Temperament: “The Most Temperamental Actress” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
£30.40
Rutgers University Press Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent
Book Synopsis2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University MalaysiaDamsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.Trade Review"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Pola Negri and Romance: “Ah Love! It’s Not for Me” 2 Pola Negri as the Vamp: “Temptatious Pola Assailed Picture Citadel by Storm” 3 Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: “The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English Than the English” 4 Vilma Bánky as the Leading Lady: “Bedecked in Flowing Gowns . . . and Layers of Pearls and Jewels” 5 Vilma Bánky and Marriage: “My Mother Brought Me Up to Be a Wife” 6 Jetta Goudal and Exoticism: “She Looks Like a Beautiful Cossack. She Looks Like an Oriental Princess” 7 Jetta Goudal and Mystery: “A Riddle in the City of Eager Autobiographies” 8 Jetta Goudal and Temperament: “The Most Temperamental Actress” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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