Gender studies: women and girls Books
The University of Chicago Press Gender the Politics of Welfare Reform Mothers
Book SynopsisExploring the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families in Chicago in 1911. This revealing study shows how assumptions about women's roles have historically shaped public policy.Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Defining the Problems of "Dependent Motherhood" 2: The Structure of Public Provision: Gender and Race in Chicago's Welfare System 3: Gender and Social Policy: The Origins of Mothers' Pension Policy in Illinois 4: The Politics of Welfare Reform 5: The Economies of Mothers' Pensions Conclusion Appendix: Legislative and Judicial Changes in the Illinois 'Aid to Mothers' Law Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter The Other
Book SynopsisThis English translation of the Discourse is the first version published in any form since 1586. It displays an incredibly far-sighted view of women's education, with advice on spirituality, morality, health and beauty required by a well-bred lady-in-waiting.
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The University of Chicago Press Royal Representations Queen Victoria British
Book SynopsisExamining Queen Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, this text looks at the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. It explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical and visual sources.Table of ContentsFigures Forward, by Catharine R. Stimpson Introduction: The Queen's Agency 1. Queen Victoria's Sovereign Obedience "The Queen Has No Equal": The Problem of a Female Monarchy Privacy on Display: The Queen as Wife and Mother The Queenly Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett Photographic Realism's Abject Queens 2. Queen Victoria's Widowhood and the Making of Victorian Queens The Invisible Queen Domestic Queens: Miss Marjoribanks Making Queens: "Of Queens' Gardens" and the Alice Books 3. The Widow as Author and the Arts and Powers of Concealment Bagehot's The English Constitution The Queen's Books: The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort The Queen's Books: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands The Reform Bill and the Queen's Footnotes 4. Queen Victoria's Memorial Arts Albert Memorials Tennyson's Idylls of the King as an Albert Memorial Cameron's Photographic Idylls: Allegorical Realism and Memorial Art Epilogue: Empire of Grief Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Gender Impact of Social Security Reformed
Book SynopsisCompares the gendered outcomes of social security systems in Chile, Argentina, and Mexico, and presents findings from Eastern and Central European transition economies as well as several OECD countries. This book asks economists and policy makers to reexamine the features that enable social security systems to achieve desirable gender outcomes.Trade Review"The cross-national nature of this study, along with the way in which the authors conduct their analysis and discuss the results, will allow readers to draw many useful conclusions about how policy choices affect pension outcomes for women and men. The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform has important lessons for analysts, policy makers, and interested lay people in all countries that have enacted or are considering enacting reforms." - Courtney Coile, Wellesley College"
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The University of Chicago Press Respectability Deviance NinteenthCentury German
Book SynopsisExamining the writings of 19th-century German women, the text explores their social and cultural milieu along with the interpretation that informs their writing. Included are topics on canon formation, the relationship between gender, class and popular culture, and professionalism and technology.
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The University of Chicago Press Tigers of a Different Stripe
Book SynopsisTigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York among musicians, fans, and patrons of merengue tipico not to mention her own experiences as a female instrumentalist Hutchinson details a complex nexus of class, race, and artistic tradition that unsettles the typical binary between the masculine and feminine. She sketches the portrait of the classic male figure of the tiguere, a dandified but sexually aggressive and street-smart tiger, and she shows how female musicians have developed a feminine counterpart: the tiguera, an assertive, sensual, and respected female figure who looks like a woman but often plays and even sings like a man. Through these musical figures and studies of both straight and queer performers, she unveils rich ambiguities in gender construction in the Dominican Republic and the long history of a unique form of Caribbean feminism.
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The University of Chicago Press Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the
Book SynopsisKirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time, as a girl visiting the region, that she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health all benefits of the everyday creativity she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable portraits of creative individuals, this unique work draws on an association across forty years, and brings the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the incredible powers of music in our lives. With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle ba
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The University of Chicago Press Reading the East India Company 17201840 Colonial
Book SynopsisBetty Joseph offers an account of how archives - and the practice of archiving - shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The University of Chicago Press Reading the East India Company 17201840 Colonial
Book SynopsisBetty Joseph offers an account of how archives - and the practice of archiving - shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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University of Chicago Press Special Delivery Epistolary Modes in Modern
Book SynopsisThough letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity culture have shaped the meaning of desire. Kauffman first considers male writers whose works, testing the boundaries of genre and gender, imitate love letters: Viktor Shklovsky's Zoo, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, and Jacques Derrida's The Post Card. She then turns to three novels by women who are more preoccupied with politics than passion: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. By juxtaposing these women's productions with the men's production of Woman, Special Delivery dismantles the polarities between male and female, theory and fiction, high and low culture, male critical theory, and feminist literary criticism. Kauffman demonstrates how all seven texts mercilessly expose the ideology of individualism and romantic love; each presents alternate paradigms of desire, wrested from Oedipus, grounded in history and politics, giving epistolarity a distinctively postmodern stamp.
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University of Chicago Press Demonizing the Queen of Sheba Boundaries of
Book SynopsisShows how Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening gender boundries. Successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate cultural transmission.
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University of Chicago Press Abandoned Women Poetic Tradition Women in
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University of Chicago Press Against Marriage The Correspondence of La Grande
Book SynopsisIn 17th century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. The Duchesse de Montpensier was one of the few exceptions, as this collection of her letters demonstrates.
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The University of Chicago Press A Rule for Children Other Writings The Other
Book SynopsisThis work presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women.
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University of Chicago Press Hannah Ryggen Threads of Defiance
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University of Chicago Press Speaking of Abortion Television Authority in
Book SynopsisA study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, the authors watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. Here are the results of that research.
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The University of Chicago Press Bitter Choices Paper BlueCollar Women in and out
Book SynopsisEllen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the double day. The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether to work, but the availability and quality of jobs. Rosen argues that deindustrializationplant closings and job displacementconfronts blue-collar women factory workers with a bitter choice between work at lower and lower wages or no work at all. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do unskilled factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationsh
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The University of Chicago Press Investment in Womens Human Capital Phoenix
Book SynopsisThis text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Sections cover: the experiences of high-income countries; health; education; household structure and labour markets; and measurement issues in low-income countries.Table of ContentsIntroduction by T. Paul Schultz I: Overview and Experience of High-Income Countries 1: Investments in the Schooling and Health of Women and Men: Quantities and Returns T. Paul Schultz 2: Obstacles to Advancement of Women during Development Ester Boserup 3: The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History Claudia Goldin 4: Public Policies and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Comparison of Sweden, West Germany and the Netherlands Siv Gustafsson II: Labor Markets, Uncertainty, and Family Behavior 5: Women, Insurance Capital, and Economic Development in Rural India Mark R. Rosenzweig 6: Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Low-Income Rural Areas Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig. III: Health 7: Gender and Life-Cycle Differentials in the Patterns and Determinants of Adult Health John Strauss, Paul J. Gertler, Omar Rahman, Kristin Fox. 8: Quality of Medical Care and Choice of Medical Treatment in Kenya: An Empirical Analysis Germano Mwabu, Martha Ainsworth, Andrew Nyamete. IV: Education 9: Daughters, Education, and Family Budgets: Taiwan Experiences William L. Parish, Robert J. Willis. 10: Gender Differences in the Returns to Schooling and in School Enrollment Rates in Indonesia Anil B. Deolalikar 11: Educational Investments and Returns for Women and Men in Cote d'Ivoire Wim P. M. Vijverberg V: Household Structure and Labor Markets in Brazil 12: Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Brazil Ricardo Barros, Louise Fox, Rosane Mendonca. 13: Gender Differences in Brazilian Labor Markets Ricardo Barros, Lauro Ramos, Eleonora Santos. References Index
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University of Chicago Press Parité
Book SynopsisFrance is in the throes of a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In this book, the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.
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The University of Chicago Press The Last Word Women Death and Divination in Inner
Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of emotions and the senses on a landscape of persons, things, and places. These practices compose the empowering poetics of the cultural periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis liberates the analysis of gender from reductive binary models and pioneers the alternative perspective of self-reflexive native anthropology in European ethnography.
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The University of Chicago Press Ambition Accommodation How Women View Gender
Book SynopsisCombining data from both telephone surveys and in-depth focus groups, this book provides a detailed portrait of how Americans - in particular American women - think they are faring in today's society. It finds that women's perceptions of gender relationships are complex and often contradictory.
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The University of Chicago Press Lost Property The Woman Writer English Literary
Book SynopsisExamining the history of the representations of women writers from Margery Kemp and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this volume shows how the woman writer came to embody alienation from tradition.
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University of Chicago Press Women Strike for Peace Traditional Motherhood and
Book SynopsisA historical account of the Women Strike for Peace movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the record a chapter on American politics and women's studies. She traces WSP's triumphs, its problems, and its legacy for the women's movement and American society.
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The University of Chicago Press The Difference Women Make The Policy Impact of
Book SynopsisWhat if there were more women in congress? Michele L. Swers demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making.Trade Review"In the first systematic, quantitative examination of the impact of women in the House of Representatives, Michele Swers provides a basis for evaluating the potential impact women might have were they in more influential positions. The Difference Women Make is an important contribution to the literature on women in politics and on Congress." - Barbara Sinclair, author of Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress
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University of Chicago Press Selected Writings of an EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence.
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The University of Chicago Press Downtown Ladies Informal Commerical Importers a
Book SynopsisThe Caribbean market woman is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export an array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.Trade Review"Gina Ulysse is the first anthropologist to zoom in on the far-ranging internationalization of Caribbean market women, and her analysis clearly and compellingly illuminates the historical depth, cultural intricacies, and political and economic stakes involved in their work and their self-making. There is no other synthesis and original research like this on socioeconomic agents who have emerged in response to historical shifts in Jamaica's place within the global economy in the past thirty years." - Faye Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age"
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The University of Chicago Press The Comforts of Home Prostitution in Colonial
Book SynopsisThis history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement.Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read.Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical Review
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University of Chicago Press Charming Cadavers Horrific Figurations of the
Book SynopsisIn this study of sexuality, desire, the body and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature.Table of ContentsForeword Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Note on Terminology Introduction 1: Celibacy and the Social World 2: "Like a Boil with Nine Openings": Buddhist Constructions of the Body and Their South Asian Milieu 3: False Advertising Exposed: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Pali Hagiography 4: Lead Us Now into Temptation: Countering Samsaric Duplicity with Dharmic Deceptions 5: Seeing Through the Gendered "I": The Nun's Story Conclusion Appendix: The Post-Asokan Milieu Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Panaceias Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in
Book SynopsisProvides the study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. In this title, the author demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies.Trade Review"This is a beautifully crafted, solid, and imaginative piece of historical research, which sheds new light on the role of women in early modern medicine and on their participation in the early modern culture of experimentation and empiricism." (Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Dirt and Desire
Book SynopsisThe story of southern writing runs along an iron path; an official narrative of a literature about community, place and past, miscegenation, white patriarchy and the epic of race. This text provides an entirely different set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture.
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MO - University of Illinois Press White Slave Crusades
Book SynopsisDuring the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum launched a sustained effort to eradicate forced prostitution, commonly known as "white slavery." This book offers a study to focus on how these anti-vice campaigns also resulted in the creation of a racial hierarchy in the United States.Trade Review"This interesting book deserves wide readership."--Journal of Social History "White Slave Crusades offers not only an engaging contribution to the history of moral reform movements in American history but also a sophisticated addition to the sociology of culture and the new cultural history."--Christian Scholar's Review"Interesting and provocative. The study covers an important topic in social and political history."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "Donovan provides an extremely well-documented account of antivice activism at the turn of the 20th century, and this book will surely be a useful resource for scholars of immigration, race, gender, sexuality, and culture."--American Journal of Sociology "This close textual analysis offers an insightful look at rhetorical strategies underlying the formation and adaptation of racial and gender ideologies at the turn of the last century."--Choice
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Womens Joint Congressional Committee and the
Book Synopsis The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouseJan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women''s reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women''s organization of its time, the Women''s Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women. Critics and supporters alike came to recognize it as 'the most powerful lobby in Washington.' Examining the WJCC''s most consequential and contentious campaigns, Wilson traces how the group''s strategies, rhetoric, and success generated congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. But the committee''s early achievements sparked a reaction by big business that challenged and ultimately limited the programs these women envisioned. Using the WJCC as a lens, Wilson analyzes women''sTrade Review "A important addition to our understanding of how 'alliances and divisions among women coexisted and were continually renegotiated, contested, and reconstructed through changing historical and social circumstances'. We see the strength of political connections through the WJCC and the failings of that strength when society turned against any group with a hint of Communist or social leaning,"--Journal of American History "Wilson's account of the forces arrayed to counter progressive women's organizations constitutes a deeply satisfying rebuttal to recent 'rational choice' models of electoral and organizational politics after women won the vote. Recommended."--Choice “The arguments are clearly articulated and all of the evidence is properly marshaled. . . . Scholars interested in early twentieth-century women’s political history will find a wealth of information.”--Historian "Significantly contributes to the growing literature on powerful undercurrents of women's activism between the two "waves" of feminism, the fight for suffrage and the modern women's liberation movement."--Feminist Teacher"Focusing on the robust social justice agenda of the suffrage movement that lived on in the Women's Joint Congressional Committee in the 1920s, Wilson's pathbreaking book shows us how aggressive attacks from opponents like the National Association of Manufacturers scuttled that agenda and shifted American political culture substantially to the right. A compelling and important story."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900"As the first systematic examination of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, this book provides a meticulous description of how the committee worked—the conversation and debates within the organization, the ways the larger political context affected the WJCC's agenda, and how subcommittees focused on particular issues and pieces of legislation. It provides a vivid sense of the connections between the WJCC and its allies in Congress and convincingly shows that the WJCC's agenda was highly consistent with and supportive of the agendas of progressive members of Congress."--Kristi Andersen, author of After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal
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MO - University of Illinois Press Reproductive Restraints
Book SynopsisProvides an investigation of elitist initiatives to limit population growth in India. This book traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States.Trade Review"An essential source... This book is a solid contribution to the field of discourse analysis."--American Historical Review "Represents a major breakthrough not only in feminist studies but also in the studies of subaltern groups in general."--Technology and Culture "Ahluwalia's historical instincts are keen... Accessibly written, skillfully organized, and wonderfully researched."--Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "A comprehensive historical study... Will certainly be very useful for any student or scholar of contemporary India."Moussons "A major breakthrough in feminist studies and also in the studies of subaltern groups in general... Reproductive Restraints deserves serious recognition for presenting the voices from below, and providing a scathing critique of the western, imperialist, racist, elitist, feminist, liberal, nationalist and Subalternist projects from above."--Environment and History
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MO - University of Illinois Press Feminist Coalitions
Book Synopsis Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women''s movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but the contributors to this volume remind readers that feminists in the 1960s and 1970s also formed many strong partnerships, often allying themselves with a diverse range of social justice efforts on a local grassroots level. These essays focus on coalitions and alliances in which feminists and other activists joined forces to address crucial social justice issues such as reproductive rights, the peace movement, women''s health, Christianity and other religions, and neighborhood activism, as well as alliances crossing boundaries of race, class, political views, and sexual identity. The contributors bring fresh perspectives to feminist history by calling attention to how women struggled to include and represent diverse women without minimizing the difficulties of conceptualizing a singular feminism. Contributors are Maria BevTrade Review"These fascinating and vivid essays complicate and expand our view of the coalitions that were able to come together and fight for common goals. Scholars and students in women's history, women's studies, and sociology will surely find this an invaluable reference as it introduces new histories of the women's movement and second-wave feminism."--Ruth Rosen, author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America “[Feminist Coalitions] does well in calling attention to the many identities of second-wave feminisms and the movement’s successful initiatives in work, health, reproductive, peace, and civil rights campaigns.”--The Journal of American History “An important new dimension to the ongoing scholarship, revisioning the history of second-wave feminism.”--Oral History Review "The most exciting work on the American women's movement to appear in years. Combining wisdom and hope, this paradigm-altering and agenda-setting volume is exactly what we need to meet the challenges of the new millennium. Its message is distinctive, invigorating, and vitally important for students of history to understand how change occurred in the past, and for citizens concerned with how to make changes in the present. A profoundly important intervention in feminist scholarship."--Nancy MacLean, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
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MO - University of Illinois Press Talking with Television Women Talk Shows and
Book SynopsisTalking back to TV--women viewers' participation with TV talk showsTrade Review"A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce far-reaching insights into the practice of television viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural studies, and gender studies."--Ann Gray, author of Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Transcription Conventions xi Introduction 1 1. Talk Is Not So Cheap 13 2. Making Talk Talk in Media Studies 31 3. Daytime Talking 56 4. Method: Texts-in-Action 100 5. Talking about Daytime Talk 118 6. Talking Back: The Mediated Conversational Floor 147 7. Texts, Subjects, and Modern Self-Reflexivity 180 Conclusion: Media, Mechanics, and the Politics of Self-Reflexivity 199 Appendix: Biographies of the Women 211 Notes 215 Bibliography 223 Index 235
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MO - University of Illinois Press Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne
Book SynopsisThe dynamic lives of three diverse women, fighting for and against slavery in antebellum MarylandTrade Review"A good read. Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating book."--Multicultural Review"The contributions ... to the studies of enslavement, gender politics, and the importance of place are substantial."--The Journal of Southern History"A fascinating, intellectually stimulating, and enlightening sociohistorical analysis."--The Journal of African American History"Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne is such an original and sophisticated examination across race and class boundaries of the lives of three antebellum women. It is illuminating, informative, provocative, and intellectually stimulating."--Darlene Clark Hine, coauthor of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America"This significant work represents an innovative, thoughtful, and creative consideration of intersections between gender, region, and slavery. I cannot overly stress this book's unique and important contributions to women's studies, African American studies, history, and cultural studies."--Walter Allen, coeditor of Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and ExcellenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Monster's Handsome Face 19 2. Maryland, My Maryland 43 3. Harriet Tubman, Called Moses of Her People 69 4. Political Economy and Marginalization 106 5. Rules, Laws, and the Rule of Law 123 6. The Mantle of Domesticity; Living within a Woman's Place and Space 139 7. Beginnings at the End 156 Notes 173 Index 201Illustrations begin after page 122
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University of Illinois Press Womens Movements in TwentiethCentury Taiwan
Book SynopsisThe first book in English to consider feminist movements and discourses in modern TaiwanTrade Review"An authoritative summary of a century of activism."--The China Quarterly"A well-researched and highly readable account of an important aspect of modern East Asian history.--Pacific Affairs"A welcome and needed introduction to the emergence of feminism in Taiwan."--American Historical Review"Chang has helped restore a record of how the women's movements have grown into such a hothouse of progressive thought."--Taiwan Review"Chang paints a vidid portrait of Taiwan in flux."--Women: A Cultural Review"A compelling, significant contribution to both Asian studies and women's studies, this book should be the standard treatment of women's movements in Taiwan for years. Nothing else matches Chang's comprehensiveness."--Barbara E. Reed, coauthor of Culture and Customs of Taiwan"A thoughtful and carefully researched intellectual history, and more. Chang gives us a strong narrative of the Taiwanese feminist movement and a vivid and knowing account of the path of women's activism on the ground in the day-to-day world as well as in the worlds of the mind and the written word in the present day Republic of China/Taiwan."--Murray A. Rubinstein, editor of Taiwan, A New History"With clear prose and insightful analysis, Doris T. Chang uncovers the varied historical roots of Taiwanese feminisms: Japanese-era social movements, Cold War KMT mobilization of women, and the long struggle for democracy. She also explains the contemporary diversity of the Taiwanese women's movements and the various social issues they must address. As a rare history of feminisms in a non-western context, this book is a must-read for both Taiwan studies and women's studies."--Scott Simon, author of Sweet and Sour: Life Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisA transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout EuropeTrade Review"A rich and rewarding collection of essays."--Renaissance Quarterly"Complex and intriguing portraits of female sovereigns. . . . a de-idealized, yet non-misogynistic picture of female sovereignty in the early modern era."--Feminist Formations"This valuable collection of theoretically engaged and empirically grounded essays greatly broadens scholarly understanding of late medieval and early modern women and rulership in Europe, shifting the focus from the masculinist political-religious discussion to a feminine perspective."--Theresa Earenfight, editor of Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern SpainTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko SuzukiPART 1: THE RULE OF WOMEN: THEORIES AND CONSTRUCTION 1. Notions of Late Medieval Queenship: Christine de Pizan's Isabeau of Bavaria 13 Tracy Adams 2. "Satisfaite de soy en soy mesme": The Politics of Self-Representation in Jeanne d'Albret's Ample déclaration 30 Mary C. Ekman 3. Tanto monta: The Catholic Monarchs' Nuptial Fiction and the Power of Isabel 1 of Castile 43 Barbara F. Weissberger 4. Sword and Wimple: Isabel Clara Eugenia and Power 64 Magdalena S. Sánchez 5. "Princeps non Principissa": Catherine of Brandenburg, Elected Prince of Transylvania (1629-30) 80 Éva Deák PART II: SOVEREIGNTY AND REPRESENTATION 6. Juana of Austria: Patron of the Arts and Regent of Spain, 1554-59 103 Anne J. Cruz 7. Elizabeth I as Sister and "Loving Kinswoman" 123 Carole Levin 8. Fashioning Monarchy: Women, Dress, and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603 142 Catherine L. Howey 9. Thrice Royal Queen: Katherine de Valois and the Tudor Monarchy in Henry V and Englands Heroicall Epistles 157 Sandra Logan 10. Warning Elizabeth with Catherine de' Medici's Example: Anne Dowriche's French Historie and the Politics of Counsel 174 Mihoko Suzuki 11. History, Power, and the Representation of Elizabeth I in La Princesse de Clèves 194 Elizabeth Ketner Selected Bibliography 205 Index 217
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MO - University of Illinois Press A Great Big Girl Like Me
Book SynopsisA captivating study of one of classic Hollywood's most fascinating bodiesTrade Review“An eminently good read.”--The Bay Area Reporter“[An] excellent, superbly detailed and illustrated book. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler--the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood--Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the very idea that stardom is simply an 'industry of desire.'"--David Desser, coeditor of Hollywood Goes Shopping"Rich with archival materials, this marvelous study of Marie Dressler's film career deranges the norm, questions critical assumptions, and challenges our historical comprehension of the period."--Jennifer M. Bean, coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early CinemaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Tillie's Punctured Romance: Genre and the Body 1 2. Breaking Boundaries: The Unruly Body 30 3. Politics and Prosperity: The Body Politic 60 4. Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie: The Mythic Body 93 5. Emma and Christopher Bean: The Sexual Body 126 Conclusion Dinner at Eight: The Unclosed Body 161 Notes 173 Filmography: Dressler's Feature Films 185 Index 187
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MO - University of Illinois Press Wanted Cultured Ladies Only
Book SynopsisCharting the rise of the film star in early Indian cinemaTrade Review"A brilliant, groundbreaking study that illuminates a heretofore little known era of Indian cinema. Its combination of rich historical research, rigorous analysis, and sophisticated critical insight marks the best, most effective film criticism." Corey K. Creekmur, co-editor of Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia "This enjoyable study is the only work of its kind on female stardom and Indian cinema. Majumdar examines a crucial turning point in Indian film history with the decline of the studio system, the rise of the star, and the coming of playback singing." Rachel Dwyer, author of Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema
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MO - University of Illinois Press Flawed Light American Women Poets and Alcohol
Book SynopsisWomen poets who found both inspiration and isolation at the bottom of the glassTrade Review"Recommended."--Choice"A skilled critic and biographer, Brett C. Millier makes a convincing case for the way these poems engage, often in veiled forms, with both the allures of alcohol for women writers and the consequent dangers of alcoholism. An intelligent and captivating work."--Thomas Travisano, editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell"An extraordinarily important, groundbreaking book that moves the study of women's poetry forward by great leaps. Millier offers precious new information about women poets and focuses on their shared life-frustrations as well as their shared aesthetic strategies."--Annie Finch, author of The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic SelfTable of ContentsCredits . vii Preface . xi Acknowledgments . xv INTRODUCTION Women Poets and Alcohol . 1 1 "JUST A LITTLE ONE" Dorothy Parker as Archetype . 17 2 THE ALCHEMIST Louis Bogan . 14 3 "I MUST NOT DIE OF PITY" Edna St. Vincent Millay's Addictions . 60 4 "HOLD TO OBLIVION" Elinor Wylie's Intolerable Life . 78 5 "THOUGHT'S END" Leonie Adams and the Life of the Mind . 93 6 "WORDS FROM THE PIAZZA DEL LIMBO" Isabella Gardner as Fallen Woman . 111 7 THE PRODIGAL Elizabeth Bishop's Exile . 128 8 JEAN GARRIGUE An Epilogue . 150 AFTERWORD . 161 Notes . 167 Bibliography . 181 Index . 193
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MO - University of Illinois Press Echoes of Chongqing Women in Wartime China
Book SynopsisThe voices of ordinary women in China's War of Resistance against JapanTrade ReviewHong Kong Book Prize (for Chinese translation), 2014. "Prefaced with thoughtful analysis and commentary by the author, transcripts of interviews with twenty subjects feature a range of voices that together weave a multilayered and gendered narrative of China's wartime history, while offering refreshing insights into the nature of suffering, survival, and resistance during times of war and national crisis."--The Historian"A fascinating glimpse into a long-neglected aspect of Chinese history and the history of World War II."--Asian Affairs: An American Review"The contributions of Echoes of Chongqing are so substantial that it is sure to be a foundational text for future studies of gender and the war, state and society in wartime China, and the history of Chongqing."--Nan Nü"The stories of how women struggled and suffered in order to survive and support their families in Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan rewrites historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and highlights the voices of women which, until now, have been largely neglected in scholarship on the war."--H-HistGeog"Danke Li's remarkable collection ... is a timely and welcome contribution to the fast-growing field of the study of wartime China."--The China Quarterly"An excellent source through which to understand how warfare affected the lives of ordinary people in East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. Highly recommended."--Choice"This insightful study reveals the complex nature of the changes brought by war not only on gender relations, but also on Chinese society, culture, politics, and economics. A major contribution to the study of Chinese history."--Christina Kelley Gilmartin, author of Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920sTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: History, Women, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; Part I: The War and Gender's Social Roles; Prologue; Students; A Xiajiang Woman; A Doctor's Wife; A Girl of the ZZEB; A Teacher of the ZZEB; A Woman from a Rich and Powerful Family; Women from Poor Peasant Families; Part II: The War and Gender's Economic Impact; Prologue; Daughters; A Tailor's Wife; An Abandoned Housewife; A Minsheng Employee; A Yuhua Textile Factory Worker; A Woman of the Songji Experimental Zone; Part III: The War and Gender's Political Impact; Prologue; A Communist Woman Working for the XYCZFZW; A Student Revolutionary; A Jiuguohui Woman; An Underground CCP Member; Part IV: Women, Memory, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Taking French Feminism to the Streets Fadela Amara dn the Rise of Ni Putes Ni Soumises
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking overview of the French civil rights movement Ni Putes Ni SoumisesTrade Review"Murray and Perpich have done valuable work introducing, compiling, and translating documents from Ni Putes Ni Soumises(NPNS), one of the most influential French feminist groups of the last decade. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Through this interesting combination of primary and secondary sources, the reader gains a fundamental understanding of NPNS goals and strategies as well as insight into the complex set of values and beliefs held by the group's founders. . . . Provides a treasure trove of material for students of social movements."--H-France Review"This timely book brings to American readers an understanding of a new French feminist movement originating with Muslim women in the ghettos of France. Through translation of primary texts by Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi, a working relationship with the organizers of the Ni Putes Ni Soumises movement, and extensive interviews with activists, the editors transform our understanding of the movement."--Margaret A. Simons, editor of Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime DiaryTable of ContentsIntroduction. Mapping the Terrain: Ni PUtes Ni Soumises in Context 1 Part I. Breaking Ground: The Special Assembly of Women of the Quartiers Women of the Quartiers: A Call to Action 23 The White Book of the Women of the Quartiers 26 The Manifesto of the Women of the Quartiers 58 The Petition: Ni Putes NI Soumises! 61 Part II. Taking a Stand: Selections from Scum of the Republic by Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi Fadela's Origins 65 Mohammed's Origins 92 Immigration 98 Integration 108 Discrimination 112 Equality 117 Laws of the Projects 122 Social Violence 134 The Future 141 Part III. Reflecting on the Path: Resistance and Controversy An Interview with Fadela Amara 147 Index 167
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MO - University of Illinois Press Maithil Womens Tales Storytelling on the
Book SynopsisConstrained by traditions restricting their movements and speech, the Maithil women of Nepal and India have long explored individual and collective life experiences by sharing stories with one another. This book examines how storytellers weave together their own life experiences - the hardships and the pleasures - with age-old themes.Trade Review"Davis provides a useful contextual analysis of Maithil folktales as told by the women who live along a border zone between India and Nepal. In her reader-friendly analysis she demonstrates that stories often have lives of their own, illuminating not only the nature of the cosmos, but also the relationship between the self and the worlds in which we live. The study provides valuable data on a region and narrative tradition understudied in the scholarly literature on South Asia." --Frank J. Korom, author of South Asian Folklore: A Handbook"Davis's engagement with the tales related to Maithil women provides a counterpoint to the usual engagement with their Mithila paintings, the better known of Maithil women's expressive arts. Here we also learn not only the tales, but Maithil women's interpretations of them, not only in oral comments but in newly created paintings that highlight what they think are the key components of these tales. A must read for scholars of South Asian oral traditions and a major addition to women's expressive traditions more generally."--Susan S. Wadley, author of Wife, Mother, Widow: Exploring Women's Lives in Northern India"This well-grounded, thoroughly researched study should appeal to a wide audience interested in oral narrative performance and interpretation, not only in South Asia, but more generally in disciplines ranging from folklore and cultural anthropology to narrative theory and gender studies. It shows convincingly how traditional folktales told by Maithil women of Nepal can mount socially effective critiques as resistance to patriarchal social principles that otherwise marginalize these women. It offers much for readers with interest in the dynamics of gender, in oral narrative performance and strategies of its interpretation in social context."--Margaret Mills, co-editor of South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia "The most vaulable aspect of Davis' book is what she hopes it will deliver: attention to women's narrative and expressive agency when life circumstances and societal constraints disallow the free play of that creativity. . . . Written most accessibly, Maithil Women's Tales would work well in undergraduate and graduate courses on Hinduism, gender, narrative, and Himalayan cultures."--Journal of American Folklore "Davis creates a momentous conversation between herself, her storytellers, and her audience. The part of the brain that enjoys a good story looks forward to getting lost in the next episode, while the social scientist can still pause between stories to wrestle with Davis over the deeper meanings of the plot and characterization... This book is an incredibly creative combination of intriguing story and extensive ethnographic research that serves both as personal entertainment and as an addition to the social science of folkloric studies. In a world where primary orality and secondary orality are ever colliding, stories--and stories about stories--have become the common language."--Journal of Folklore Research"Clearly a labor of love, and so welcome a feast of tales... Maithil Women's Tales commendably forges an honest balance between pointing to oppressive gendered circumstances and celebrating women's diverse strategies to attain some kind of agency, not only in the story worlds, but in their everyday lives."--Western Folklore"This well-grounded, thoroughly researched study should appeal to a wide audience interested in oral narrative performance and interpretation, not only in South Asia, but more generally in disciplines ranging from folklore and cultural anthropology to narrative theory and gender studies. It shows convincingly how traditional folktales told by Maithil women of Nepal can mount socially effective critiques as resistance to patriarchal social principles that otherwise marginalize these women. It offers much for readers with interest in the dynamics of gender, in oral narrative performance and strategies of its interpretation in social context."--Margaret Mills, co-editor of South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia
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University of Illinois Press My Friend Julia Lathrop
Book SynopsisAs one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for more than fifty years. This biography reveals the influence of Hull-House on the social and political history of the early twentieth century. It provides an account of women's work in voluntary associations.
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University of Illinois Press Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that women have long played important roles in different facets of Iranian society. This volume includes essays from various disciplines by scholars who examine women's roles in politics, society, and culture and the rise and development of the women's movement before and during the Islamic Republic.Table of ContentsMarriage in the Qajar period Guity Nashat; Reflection in the mirror - how each saw the other: Women in the nineteenth century Shireen Mahdavi; The origins and development of the Women's Movement in Iran, 1906-1941 Mansoureh Ettehadieh; The Women's Organization of Iran: Evolutionary politics and revolutionary change Mahnaz Afkhami; The role of women Members of Parliament, 1963-1988 Haleh Esfandiari; Women and the labor process in the Islamic Republic of Iran Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam; Labor-force participation of women in contemporary Iran Amir Mehryar, Gholamali Farjadi & Mohammad Tabibian; Sexuality, rights and Islam: Competing gender discourses in post-revolutionary Iran Ziba Mir-Hosseini; Rural women's history: A case study from Boir Ahmad Erika Friedl; Qashqa'I women in post-revolutionary Iran Lois Beck
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MO - University of Illinois Press Good Hearts Catholic Sisters in Chicagos Past
Book SynopsisDescribes and analyzes the activities and contributions of Catholic nuns in Chicago. Beginning with the arrival of women-religious in 1846 and ending with the sisters' social activism in the 1960s, this work traces the development and evolution of the sisters' work and ministry that included education, health care, and social services.Trade ReviewReceived the 2007 Certificate of Excellence Award from the Illinois State Historical Society.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Memories and Migrations Mapping Boricua and
Book SynopsisShaping a new understanding of Latina identity formationTrade Review"First rate... Both general readers and scholars should read this excellent collection, which ... contributes to a more nuanced understanding of United States history."--Hispanic American Historical Review "By reframing immigration through the multiple perspectives gained from studying 'regionalities,' the collection facilitates new understandings of diasporic subjectivities and their lived experiences."--Western Historical Quarterly "This anthology represents the rich variety of scholarship that has emerged in the field of Latina history."--Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContributors include Gabriela F. Arredondo, John R. Chavez, Marisela R. Chavez, Yolanda Chavez Leyva, Maria E. Montoya, Lydia R. Otero, Vicki L. Ruiz, Elizabeth Salas, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, and Carmen Teresa Whalen
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