Gender studies: women and girls Books
Beacon Press The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Book SynopsisA bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the “seven necessary sins” that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful. All the necessary “sins” that women and girls require to erupt.Eltahawy knows that the patriarchy is alive and well, and she is fed the hell up: Sexually assaulted during hajj at the age of fifteen. Groped on the dance floor of a night club in Montreal at fifty. Countless other injustices in the years between. Illuminating her call to action are stories of activists and ordinary women around the world—from South Africa to China, Nigeria to India, Bosnia to Egypt—who are tapping into their inner fury and crossing the lines of race, class, faith, and gender that make it so hard for marginalized women to be heard. Rather than teaching women and girls to survive the poisonous system they have found themselves in, Eltahawy arms them to dismantle it.Brilliant, bold, and energetic, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a manifesto for all feminists in the fight against patriarchy.
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Beacon Press Unashamed Musings of a Fat Black Muslim
Book SynopsisA Muslim woman’s searingly honest memoir of her journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope—and chooses to live her life unapologetically Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn’t any room for imperfection. ‘Good’ Muslim girls listened more than they spoke. They didn’t have a missing father or a mother with a mental disability. They didn’t have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw on TV. They didn’t have husbands who abused and cheated on them. They certainly didn’t have secret abortions. In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental health, domestic violence, sexuality, the millennial world of dating, and the process of findin
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Beacon Press Momfluenced
Book SynopsisHow momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothersOn Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating billions of dollars. The message is simple: we’re all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood.Linen-clad momfluencers hawking essential oils, parenting manuals, baby slings, and sponsored content for Away suitcases make us want to forget that the reality of mothering in America is an isolating, exhausting, almost wholly unsupported endeavor. In a culture which denies mothers basic human rights, it feels good to click “purchase now” on whatever a momfluencer might be selling. It feels good to hope.Momfluencers are just like us, except they aren’t. They are mothers, yes. They are also marketing strategists, content creators, lighting experts, advertising executives, and artists. They are
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Beacon Press Twice as Hard
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Beacon Press Invisible
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Beacon Press Intelligent Love
Book SynopsisWinner of the History of Science Society''s 2022 Davis PrizeHow one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parentsIn the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly.Refusing to accept this, Clara decided to document her daughter’s behaviors and the family’s engagement with her. In 1967, she published her groundbreaking memoir challenging the refrigerator mother theory and carefully documenting Jessy’s development.
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Beacon Press The Upstairs Wife An Intimate History of Pakistan
Book SynopsisA memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi—Bhutto’s birthplace and Pakistan’s other great metropolis—Rafia Zakaria’s family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death. In that moment these twin catastrophes—one political and public, the other secret and intensely personal—briefly converged. Zakaria uses that moment to begin her intimate exploration of the country of her birth. Her Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, escaping the precarious state in which the Muslim
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Louisiana State University Press Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s A Writers Life
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Paulist Press International,U.S. Women and the Church
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Woman from Spillertown
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Spitting Image
Book SynopsisKara van de Graaf's debut collection heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary poetry. Through poems that balance personal recollection with ekphrasis, science, and meditation, Van de Graaf searches for answers in the fluctuating relationship between the body and the self.
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Northwestern Publishing House Letters to the Expecting Mama
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Northwestern University Press The Dangerous Age Letters and Fragments from a Womans Diary
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Northwestern University Press Muriel Spark The Biography
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Northwestern University Press With or without Reading Postwar German Women
Book SynopsisWith or Without explores the role of German women's poetry in the contemporary literary discourse of the latter half of the twentieth century. Melin highlights the significant role that women played in the shaping of postwar German poetry as a whole and also their deep engagement with the broader issues of modernism, postmodernism, and related discourses about the relationship between individual experience, communal ideals, and interpersonal expression. Melin shows that for German writers poetry became the genre that had the capacity to project subjectivity, voice, and authenticity.
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Scarecrow Press Women and Medicine
Book SynopsisThe third edition of Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history, from early riots in medical schools when women tried to enroll, to women finally overcoming obstacles, making medical breakthroughs and enjoying brilliant medical careers.Trade ReviewThis third edition of Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history of the topic. * Hispanic Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 1 The Dinosaur Is Twitching: Famous Firsts Chapter 2 2 To Be a Doctor in America: Overcoming Obstacles Chapter 3 3 Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Surgeons General and Presidents' Doctors Chapter 4 4 Historical Perspectives: Midwives and Doctors around the Globe Chapter 5 5 Women on the March: Civil War Heroines Chapter 6 6 Pioneers, O Pioneers!: Then and Now Chapter 7 7 One University's Contributions: Those Remarkable Johns Hopkins Women Chapter 8 8 Oh, Brave New World: Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine Chapter 9 9 Women's Proper Place: Our Biological Selves Chapter 10 10 A Peaceful Revolution: The Fight for Birth Control Chapter 11 11 What Was the Doctor Wearing?: From White Coats to Space Suits
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Women Still at Work Professionals Over Sixty and
Book SynopsisThe fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work draws on national survey data and in-depth interviews to show the many reasons why women are working well past the traditional retirement age. The book is filled with profiles of real working women with a focus on women in the professional workforce.Trade ReviewFideler tells the stories of older working women, backing them up with comparisons to national data and the latest research. Her stories are particularly compelling as they document the lives of a group of women who have been rejecting social norms all along the way, with working in retirement being the latest iteration. Hers is just the kind of groundbreaking work that spawns more theory and research for a new stage of life that is yet to be fully delineated. -- Jacquelyn B. James, director of research, Sloan Center on Aging & Work; research professor, Boston CollegeIn exploring the phenomenon of older working women, Elizabeth Fideler weaves together substantive interviews and contemporary statistical data to create a very optimistic work. The strong, vibrant older women who shared their stories with Fideler are compelling examples of the benefits of staying on the job and 'off the shelf' in later life. Fideler’s evident empathy with her subjects allows her to unveil the 'personal truths' of their lives in an even-handed and comprehensive manner. While the high-powered women interviewed here are by no means typical, they provide wonderful examples of the importance of mentoring, persistence and positivity for women who have the opportunities to stay active and engaged in the workplace well beyond modern thresholds of old age. -- Susannah Ottaway, Carleton CollegeElizabeth F. Fideler has provided an extraordinary study on older women who continue to work in the labor force of this nation. The case studies of these women are beautifully written and presented, as if the author is having a conversation with the subjects and the readers. -- Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of EducationThanks to Liz Fideler for profiling ‘our’ cohort—middle class women over 65 still at work. It’s good to know that the graying of female professionals is no barrier to continued employment. I enjoyed reading about the interesting women Fideler introduces and learning how they manage their lives in and out of work. -- Sharon Feiman-NemserThis book challenges assumptions about why women work after the age of sixty, and thoughtfully explores how such women manage the boundaries between their professional and personal lives. Most importantly, the author’s research shows that women can have real agency in structuring long and productive careers, and can help institutions shape more responsive policies and environments for all older workers. -- Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts AmherstA book for every woman for whom traditional paradigms of work are falling away. Match the map in your head with those of different women depicted in the book and consider what's next for you. -- Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, provost emerita, Portland State UniversityEngagingly written, Fideler's book illustrates a relatively new and largely positive trend among older women in the workforce. The women Fideler profiles—many of whom have seen doors open to them in the second half of their lives that were closed when they came of age—offer examples for all of the necessary qualities to remain productive, vital, creative and fulfilled in their work lives at later and later ages. -- Tatjana Meschede, Brandeis UniversityFidler’s narrative is not the dry, ridged prose of a scientific article. It is, instead, lively, hopeful, and even emotional—she is speaking directly to women, particularly to us older women, sparking our confidence and encouraging us through the eyes of others. * Monthly Labor Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Realities of Work and Aging in America Chapter 3: Beyond Age Discrimination Chapter 4: The Employment Situation for Adult Workers in the United States Chapter 5: Over Sixty and On the Job Chapter 6: Where Older Women Work Chapter 7: Why Older Women Work Chapter 8: Personal Challenges and Concerns Chapter 9: And If There Is Time to Spare… Chapter 10: Women Still at Work Discussion Questions
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Informed Air Essays
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of “the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker) Trade Review"Witty, exacting, and wholly original. Muriel Spark’s writing is sui generis, her influence unquantifiable. These essays reveal in diamond-cut fragments the things that most amused and most touched her, each facet reflecting some new, surprising aspect of the deep inner workings of her mind." -- Maud Newton - Salon"Muriel’s sparky prose is the best way to start your day. Reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso." -- The Telegraph (London)
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New Directions Publishing Corporation H of H Playbook
Book SynopsisA gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox), H of H Playbook is a stunning re-creation of Euripides’s famous play, with illustrations by the authorTrade Review"An evocative, artful reimagining of the madness of an ancient hero." -- Kirkus"Anne Carson’s shape-shifting powers are epic." -- Elissa Schappell - Vanity Fair"Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigour, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life." -- Sam Anderson - New York Magazine"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag"Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice! From the iconic poet who penned Autobiography of Red comes a new retelling....Caron’s depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story." -- Lit Hub"A facsimile of Carson’s own personal playbook, “H of H” is a performance of thought, one that speaks not only to the heroic past but to the tragic present." -- Casey Cep - The New Yorker"Carson’s visual sense for the dramatic is put to good use in a play that bends towards irony and philosophical meandering. The muted colors?broken up by the intrusion of bright red or blue?are used effectively throughout, adding emotional overtones to large expanses of silence and negative space, to violence happening offstage." -- Cal Paule - Arkansas International
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Random House USA Inc Things Ive Been Silent about Memories of a
Book SynopsisAbsorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah MagazineIn this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).Praise for Things I've Been Silent About“Deeply felt . . . an affecting account of a family’s struggle.”
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Random House USA Inc Essential Feminist Reader Modern Library Classics
Book SynopsisIncluding: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi • Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia WoolfThe Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freedman brings decades of teaching experience and scholarship to her selections, which span more than five centuries. Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, this collection features primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers. Freedman’s cogent Introduction assesses the challenges facing feminism, while her accessible, lively commentary contextualizes each piece.
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Random House USA Inc My Life So Far
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words—and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.“To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years.”—Los Angeles Times America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently.” Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life.“In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men.”—From the IntroductionPraise for My Life So Far“[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A fearless book . . . fascinating.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Truly compelling.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Riveting.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Random House USA Inc Comfort Me with Apples
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Random House USA Inc Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake A Memoir of a
Book SynopsisINCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does for body image and Anne Lamott for spiritual neuroses, Quindlen achieves on the home front.”—NPR In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Considering—and celebrating—everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, loss, to all the stuff in our closets, and more, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen uses her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages. Quindlen talks about
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Random House USA Inc New Life No Instructions A Memoir
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Random House USA Inc We Band of Angels
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Women in Early Christianity Translations from
Book SynopsisThis sourcebook brings together translations of a variety of ancient Christian texts that elucidate how women were perceived and portrayed in the Greek literature written in the second to the sixth centuries. It includes church orders and proceedings, the novelistic apocryphal acts, biographies of saints, and theologies on virginity and marriage.
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The Catholic University of America Press Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women
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The Catholic University of America Press The Profession of Widowhood Widows Pastoral Care
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Rutgers University Press Literary Sisters Dorothy West and Her Circle a
Book SynopsisExplores Dorothy West's struggle for recognition outside of the traditional literary establishment, and her collaborations with talented African American women writers, artists, and performers who faced these same problems.Trade Review"Simply put, this is a deliciously engaging book. The authors weave a rich and well-paced narrative of a network of 'literary sisters,' determined to write despite only dribbling support from the literary establishment. But more than that, the book broadens and deepens our knowledge of the Harlem Renaissance, while correcting so many misconceptions surrounding its fabled artists." -- Deborah E. McDowell * University of Virginia *"With this biography, Mitchell and Davis complete a trilogy of studies of the novelist Dorothy West, poet Helene Johnson, and the women they wrote with, traveled with, performed with, and slept with during the Harlem Renaissance. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. "Nothing So Broadening as Travel": Porgy, 19292. The Benson Family Comes to Boston3. Pauline Hopkins and African American Literature in New England4. Boston Girlhoods, 1910-19255. The Youngest Members of the Harlem Renaissance, 1926-19316. The Russian Interlude, Literary Salons, and ChallengeEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Treacherous Texts US Suffrage Literature 18461946
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This exciting anthology has no competitors. With an impressive historical range and a great diversity of primary documents and useful reference materials, Treacherous Texts offers an original contribution to scholarship and an important classroom teaching tool." -- Ann Ardis * University of Delaware *"Treacherous Texts highlights diversity and contestation within the U.S. suffrage movement by mining activists' innovative use of literature and print culture. This rich and varied collection addresses critical issues in the suffrage campaign in ways that will engage history and literature students and scholars alike." -- Nancy A. Hewitt * Rutgers University *"Treacherous Texts is an invaluable resource, one that reminds twenty-first-century readers of the richness, complexity, innovation, and experimentation of the American suffrage movement and makes a strong argument for the continued study of this burgeoning field." * Legacy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chronology of the U.S. Woman Suffrage Campaign xi Introduction 1PART I Declaring Sentiments, 1846–1891 Introduction 10 “Petition for Woman’s Rights” (1846) Eleanor Vincent, Susan Ormsby, Lydia Williams, Amy Ormsby, Lydia Osborn, and Anna Bishop 18 “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and others 20 Speech at Akron, Ohio, Woman’s Rights Convention (1851) Sojourner Truth 24 Christine, or, Woman’s Trials and Triumphs (1856) Laura J. Curtis [Bullard] 26 “Independence” (1859) “Shall Women Vote?” (1860) Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton] 41 “Woman and the Ballot” (1870) Frederick Douglass 43 “Aunt Chloe’s Politics” (1871) “John and Jacob—A Dialogue on Woman’s Rights” (1885) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 47 My Wife and I; or, Harry Henderson’s History (1871) Harriet Beecher Stowe 51 “Cupid and Chow-Chow” (1872) Louisa May Alcott 62 “Trotty’s Lecture Bureau” (1877) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 74 “How I went to ’lection” (1877) Marietta Holley 77 Fettered for Life, or, Lord and Master (1874) “A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future” (1885) Lillie Devereux Blake 86 “Another Chapter of ‘The Bostonians’” (1887) Henrietta James [Celia B. Whitehead] 100 Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Sophia Alice Callahan 108PART II Searching for Sisterhood: Two Case Studies of Transnational Feminism, 1907–1914 Introduction 114 Interactions between U.S. and British Campaigns 119 Votes for Women (1907) Elizabeth Robins 120 “The March of the Women” (1911) Dame Ethel Smyth and Cicely Hamilton 133 “The Diary of a Newsy” (1911) Jessie Anthony 135 Julia France and Her Times (1912) Gertrude Atherton 138 “How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed” (1914) Djuna Barnes 148 Interactions between U.S. and Chinese Campaigns 152 “The Inferior Woman” (1910) Sui Sin Far [Edith Maude Eaton] 153 “The Oppression of Women” (1915) “In All Earnestness, I speak to all my sisters” (1915) Anonymous 163 “Catching Up with China” Banner (1912) New York Suffrage Party 165 “Heathen Chinee” Cartoon (1912) Anonymous 167PART III Making Woman New! 1897–1920 Introduction 170 “Women Do Not Want It” (1897) “The Anti-Suffragists” (1898) “The Socialist and the Suffragist” (1911) Charlotte Perkins Gilman 177 “The Australian Ballot System” (1898) Mabel Clare Ervin 182 Portia Politics (1911–1912) Edith Bailey 186 “Disfranchisement” from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912) “Taffy” from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912) New York Woman Suffrage Party 190 “Women March” (1912) Mary Alden Hopkins 193 “The Arrest of Suffrage” (1912) Ethel Whitehead 200 “Brother Baptis’ on Woman Suffrage” (1912) Rosalie Jonas 206 “Mirandy on ‘Why Women Can’t Vote’” (1912) Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer] 207 Hagar (1913) Mary Johnston 211 “The Parade: A Suffrage Playlet in One Act and an After-Act” (1913) Mrs. Allan Dawson [Nell Perkins Dawson] 220 “The Woman with Empty Hands: The Evolution of a Suffragette” (1913) Anonymous [Marion Hamilton Carter] 225 “How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette” (1914) Anonymous 231 “Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons” (1914) “Representation” (1914) “The Revolt of Mother” (1915) “A Consistent Anti to Her Son” (1915) Alice Duer Miller 235 “A Plea for Suffrage” (1915) Miss M. M. [Marianne Moore] 239 “The President’s Valentine” (1916) Nina E. Allender 241 Fanny Herself (1917) Edna Ferber 243 The Sturdy Oak, chapter 7 (1917) Anne O’Hagan 254 For Rent—One Pedestal (1917) Marjorie Shuler 263 “President Wilson says ‘Godspeed to the Cause’” Cartoon (1917) “Come to Mother” Cartoon (1917) Nina E. Allender 270 “President Wilson’s War Message” Banner (1917) Anonymous [National Woman’s Party members] 273 “Telling the Truth at the White House” (1917) Marie Jenney Howe and Paula Jakobi 275 “We Worried Woody Wood” (1917) Anonymous [Jailed members of the National Woman’s Party] 280 “Prison Notes, Smuggled to Friends from the District Jail” (1917) Rose Winslow [Ruza Wenclawska] 282 “Switchboard Suffrage” (1920) Oreola Williams Haskell 284PART IV Carrying the Suffrage Torch, 1920–1946 Introduction 290 Jailed For Freedom (1920) Doris Stevens 294 “Upon this marble bust that is not I” (1923) Edna St. Vincent Millay 298 “The Suffrage Torch: Memories of a Militant” (1929) Louisine W. Havemeyer 300 The Mother of Us All (1946) Gertrude Stein 306 Notes 311 Selected Bibliography of U.S. Suffrage Literature 321 Index 325
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Rutgers University Press Searching for Sycorax Black Womens Hauntings of
Book SynopsisSearching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory.Trade Review"Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks’ excavation of Black women’s presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike." -- Susana M. Morris * author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature *"As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions *Author Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in The Cut on a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled "Beyoncé Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram." -- Emilia Petrarca * TheCut.com *"A deep exploration how Black women create horror that spawns a new knowledge of the genre that worries the intersections of race and gender to gain a better understanding, and continue the ongoing conversation as well as activity in the Black Women's Horror Renaissance." * Graveyard Shift Sisters *"BOOK CORNER: Author highlights influence of black women in horror" by Marissa Wells * LA Wave *"Discusses black women of the Americas and Britain as creators and characters in the horror genre." * Chronicle *"Students tap into popular culture to explore theories of race and gender" Searching for Sycorax mention * UTSA Today *"Why Are There So Many Bunnies in Scary Movies?" by Cady Lang - interview with Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks * Time *"Us Makes Us Look in the Mirror—What If We Don't Like What We See?," by Kinitra D. Brooks * Elle *Mention in "#StokersSoWhite: 2016-2018, the fall of tokenism at the HWA" https://sfbayview.com/2019/10/stokerssowhite-2016-2018-the-fall-of-tokenism-at-the-hwa/ * San Francisco Bay View *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror 1 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity 56 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror 95 Conclusion. Sycorax’s Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women’s Counternarratives 127 Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133 Notes 167 Index 195
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John Wiley & Sons Lost Miscarriage in NineteenthCentury America
Book SynopsisThe first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Shannon Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.Trade Review"Lost is a delight to read. Withycombe provides smart readings of vivid and compelling stories, which she shares in graceful detail. Lost is well-researched, insightful, and compelling.” -- Lara Freidenfelds * Princeton Research Forum *"Shannon Withycombe has found wonderful, intimate stories about 19th-century women’s pregnancies and the end of their pregnancies that can only be found through difficult, painstaking research in personal papers as well as the scientific and clinical thinking of physicians about miscarriage found in medical publications and hospital records. This is a unique book that brings together questions from both the history of science and the history of medicine and from the perspectives of both patients and practitioners." -- Leslie Reagan * University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *"This amazing book analyzes how women and physicians understood miscarriage in the 19th century, a time without early pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, or legal reproductive control. Withycombe spent years sifting through archives searching for women’s conversations about pregnancy loss to gain an understanding of how women felt about their miscarriages. Lost is an important and timely book." -- Johanna Schoen * author of Abortion After Roe *"[Lost] shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today." * Slate *"Chronicle of Higher Education 'new scholarly books' weekly book list," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Throughout Lost, Withycombe outlines a comprehensive yet incredibly accessible history about the shift in the narrative. She provides detailed accounts from the letters of women, includes excerpts from medical journals, and uses the larger historical context to situate this ongoing negotiation between women and doctors to dictate the terms of what pregnancy was and wasn’t." * The Smart Set *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Extensively researched and compellingly written, Lost is an excellent history of miscarriage in the nineteenth century, and its contribution to medical history goes beyond its immediate subject matter. Connecting the history of miscarriage to broader history of childbirth and motherhood, on the one hand, and to developments in the history of obstetrics gynecology, and medical research, on the other, Withycombe has written an important and timely book that will be of interest to historians of medicine and practitioners alike." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Extensively researched and compellingly written, Lost is an excellent history of miscarriage in the nineteenth century, and its contribution to medical history goes beyond its immediate subject matter. Connecting the history of miscarriage to broader history of childbirth and motherhood, on the one hand, and to developments in the history of obstetrics gynecology, and medical research, on the other, Withycombe has written an important and timely book that will be of interest to historians of medicine and practitioners alike." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Lost gives us something different and long absent from the historiography: a historical account of miscarriage constructed from women’s own personal narratives. To do so is no easy endeavor: locating references to miscarriage and pregnancy loss in the archival record requires profound dedication, patience, and skill. We should all be glad Withycombe embodies these qualities in spades, as her study provides us with novel understandings of nineteenth-century pregnancy and miscarriage from the perspective of the women who lived through these experiences. Lost provides a needed reminder that women’s lived experiences transcend the polemics of law, culture, and medicine, though they are indeed influenced by them." * H-Net *"Withycombe’s book adds an important new piece to the history of medicine and childbearing, and her book could be an excellent teaching tool for undergraduate or graduate courses in the history of women, gender, and medicine." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture: Describing the Nineteenth-Century Miscarriage 13 2. Enveloped in Mystery: Pregnancy and Miscarriage in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 42 3. Before Its Due Time: Setting Standards in Miscarriage, 1830–1860s 59 4. Dr. Taylor Went Up in the Uterus: Miscarriage Treatment and Intrusive Interventions, 1860–1900 93 5. The Body in the Clot: Medical Interest in Miscarried Tissues, 1870–1912 125 Conclusion 162 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Index
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Rutgers University Press Others Milk The Potential of Exceptional
Book SynopsisBreastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others' Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be.Trade Review“Beautifully written, historically informed, and full of surprising stories about breastfeeding from the margins of mainstream, this book nurtures a more diverse set of breastfeeding practices and a language to speak them. It is a riveting read.” -- Alison Bartlett * author of Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding * “With rich detail, Others’ Milk demonstrates how breastfeeding is a process, an identity, and a performance that is not simply about nourishing children, but one that reveals larger meanings of gender, sexuality, race, inequality—and the limiting ways we imagine bodies can and should be used.” -- Jennifer Reich * author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System and Calling the Shots: Why P *“With rich detail, Others’ Milk demonstrates how breastfeeding is a process, an identity, and a performance that is not simply about nourishing children, but one that reveals larger meanings of gender, sexuality, race, inequality—and the limiting ways we imagine bodies can and should be used.” -- Jennifer Reich * author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System and Calling the Shots: Why P *"Breastfeeding As A Spectrum Of Forms And Identities" interview with Kristin J. Wilson * "8 O'Clock Buzz," WORT *WAMC "51%" interview with Kristin J. Wilson * WAMC "51%" *Interview with Kristin J. Wilson on Jefferson Public Radio's "Jefferson Exchange" * Jefferson Public Radio, "Jefferson Exchange" *"Recommended." * Choice *Interview on KHSU's "Through the Eyes of Women" with Kristin Wilson, "Exceptional Breastfeeding" * KHSU "Through the Eyes of Women" *"Breast-feeding is a 5.5 year old isn’t creepy, it’s hilarious," by Liz Monroy * Washington Post *Radio Health Journal "Exceptional Breastfeeding" show interview with Dr. Kristin Wilson * Radio Health Journal "Exceptional Breastfeeding" show *Table of Contents1 Nursing in Public 2 Cleavages: Negotiating Challenges 3 The Mother of Invention: Persisting with Exceptional Breastfeeding 4 Milking the System: Expressing the Politics of Breastfeeding 5 Busting Binaries: Embodying Otherhood and Motherhood 6 Fluidity of the family: Making Kin 7 “Outpouring of support”: Embodied solidarity Acknowledgements Appendix References About the Author
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Ohio State University Press Advertising to the American Woman 19001999
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The University of Alabama Press Panic Fiction Women and Antebellum Economic
Book SynopsisPanic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women's writing that illuminates women's relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class. Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels and stories depicting the effects of financial panic on the home and proposing solutions to economic instability. This unique body of antebellum American women's writing, which integrated economic discourse with the language and conventions of domestic fiction, is what critic Mary Templin terms panic fiction.In Panic Fiction: Antebellum Women Writers and Economic Crisis, Templin draws in part from the methods of New Historicism and cultural studies, situating these authors and their texts within the historical and cultural contexts of their time. She explores events surrounding the panics o
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