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Book SynopsisHighly Commended International Business Book from the 2021 Business Book Awards Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner from the Nonfiction Authors Association Winner of CompTIA''s 2020 Diversity Technology Leader Spotlight Award Winner of a Technology Rising Star Award from the 2020 Women of Color in STEM Conference Break through barriers to achieve a rewarding future in tech Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators will help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent women of color from pursuing and staying in tech careers. Contrary to popular belief, tech careers are diverse and funand they go far beyond just coding. This book will show you that today''s tech careers are incredibly dynamic, and you''ll learn how your soft skillscommunication, public speaking, networkingcan help you succeed in tech. ThisTrade Review"Solid guidance from a woman who has made her mark in a technical role." —Kirkus Reviews"Tedrick provides an excellent overview of the challenges many women of color face when trying to enter into and stay in the technology industry. The mix of real-world advice, personal experience, and industry stories combine to form a comprehensive resource for anyone in technology or looking to enter the field." —Tech Book of The Month Club"This step-by-step guide informs readers of various tech positions, pros and cons of working in this field, revenue potential, and the value of having a support system in place--in any career field. The author does an excellent job of laying the foundation for what women can expect should they choose a career in tech." —Morgan Lee, LitPick"All those engaged in serious job seeking, especially the target group anticipating a tech career, will learn a great deal from the frank, factual, and extensively gathered information she presents here."—Barbara Bamberger Scott, US Review of Books"This compelling work of nonfiction is a key example of how women are capable of using their minds to leave indelible impacts upon both the modern world and life in very general terms." —Nonfiction Authors Association Book Awards ProgramTable of ContentsForeword xxiii Introduction xxv Chapter 1 The Current State of Women of Color in Tech 1 The Realities 1 What’s Going On? 3 Early Childhood 4 Primary, Middle, and High School 5 College 6 The Workplace 8 Why You Should Be Here 10 My Journey to Tech 10 It’s (Slowly) Getting Better 12 Support 13 Number of Job Opportunities 14 Pay 15 It’s Fun 15 Opportunities to Help Others 16 We Need You! 16 Tech Career Misconceptions 17 Tech Careers Require Constant, Hands-On Programming 18 All Tech Careers Require a Four-Year Degree 18 All Tech Careers Require Studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Another Specific Field 18 All Tech Careers Pay a Ton of Money 19 Tech Careers Exist Only at Top Tech Companies 20 Tech Careers Are Only for People with Certain Backgrounds, Grades, Etc. 21 Creating a Blueprint 25 Summary 26 Chapter 2 The Different Flavors of Tech Careers 27 Business Analysis 29 What They Do 29 Top Skills Needed 31 Educational Requirements 31 For Additional Information 32 Consulting 32 What They Do 33 Top Skills Needed 34 Educational Requirements 35 For Additional Information 35 Computer Networking 36 What They Do 37 Top Skills 37 Educational Requirements 38 For Additional Information 38 Data Science 39 What They Do 40 Top Skills 40 Educational Requirements 41 For Additional Information 41 Information Security 42 What They Do 42 Top Skills 44 Educational Requirements 44 For Additional Information 45 Product Management 45 What They Do 46 Top Skills 46 Educational Requirements 47 For Additional Information 47 Project Management 47 What They Do 48 Top Skills 49 Educational Requirements 49 For Additional Information 50 Software Development and Engineering 50 What They Do 51 Top Skills 52 Educational Requirements 53 For Additional Information 53 Technical Sales 53 What They Do 54 Top Skills 54 Educational Requirements 55 For Additional Information 55 Technical Support 55 What They Do 56 Top Skills 56 Educational Requirements 57 For Additional Information 57 User Experience Design 57 What They Do 58 Top Skills 59 Educational Requirements 60 For Additional Information 60 Web Design 60 What They Do 61 Top Skills 61 Educational Requirements 61 For Additional Information 62 Where Do You Fit In? 62 What Are Your Strengths and Your Weaknesses? 62 What Do You Value? 63 What Are Your Interests? 65 Summary 65 Chapter 3 Industry and Other Options 67 Advertising and Marketing 68 Civics and Public Interest 69 Construction and Manufacturing 71 Education 73 Finance 75 Healthcare 77 The US Government 79 On Your Own: Entrepreneurism 82 What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur 83 Getting Started 84 Research Your Market 84 Write a (Solid) Business Plan 85 Estimate Initial Costs 86 Determine Sources of Initial Funding 86 Keep Going or Stop? 88 Summary 89 Chapter 4 Emerging Technologies 91 What is an Emerging Technology? 91 The Future of Work 92 Artificial Intelligence 93 The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning 94 Why Does It Matter? 95 Where Can I Learn More? 96 Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality 97 Why Does It Matter? 98 Where Can I Learn More? 99 Blockchain 99 Why Does It Matter? 101 Where Can I Learn More? 102 Cloud Computing 102 Service Models 104 Deployment Models 106 Why Does It Matter? 106 Where Can I Learn More? 107 Internet of Things 108 Why Does It Matter? 109 Where Can I Learn More? 110 3D Printing 110 Why Does It Matter? 111 Where Can I Learn More? 112 Keeping Up with Technology Trends 112 Information Sources 113 Tools 114 Summary 115 Chapter 5 Building Your Network 117 The Importance of Building Your Network 117 Where to Network 119 Mentoring 121 Where to Find Mentors 121 Blueprints for a Beneficial Mentoring Relationship 121 You’ve Found a Mentor—Now What? 124 Listen, This Isn’t Working Out 125 You Need a Sponsor, Not a Mentor 126 Overcoming Social Anxiety 127 Strengthening Your Connections 129 Summary 130 Chapter 6 Building Your Skills 131 Skills Gap Analysis: Where Do You Need to Be? 131 Exception 1 133 Exception 2 133 Formal Education (Is It Worth It?) 133 Trade Schools 135 Massive Online Open Courses 137 Boot Camps 138 Hackathons 139 Conferences and Seminars 140 Internships, Externships, and Co-ops 141 Volunteering 143 Certifications 144 Do You Need Certification? 145 How to Pay for Skills Training 146 Loans 146 Student Loans 146 Personal Loans 147 Credit and Charge Cards 147 Use Credit Responsibly and Sparingly 148 Grants and Scholarships 148 Tuition Reimbursement 149 Deferred Tuition Plans and Income Share Agreements 150 Crowdfunding 151 Summary 152 Chapter 7 Demonstrating Your Skills 153 Building Your Resume(s) 153 Chronological 154 Functional 155 Combination 156 What Every Resume Must Have 157 The Heading 158 The Body 158 What You Can Leave Out 162 First Impressions Matter 165 Additional Tips and Resources for Resume Writing 166 LinkedIn 169 The Difference between LinkedIn and Your Resume 170 Creating a LinkedIn Profile 171 Essential Elements of a LinkedIn Profile 171 Additional LinkedIn Tips 174 Writing 175 Online Publishing Platforms 175 Academic and Professional Journals 176 Public Speaking 177 Public Speaking Misconceptions 178 Public Speaking Basics 178 Where to Find Speaking Opportunities 180 Other Creative Ways to Show What You Know 181 GitHub 181 Personal Websites 182 Building Your Interviewing Skills 184 Becoming a Better Interviewee 185 Summary 187 Chapter 8 Job Offers and Negotiating Compensation 189 A Cautionary Tale (or, Don’t Do This!) 189 Understanding Compensation and Salary 191 Compensation 191 Salary 192 The Job Offer Process 193 Evaluating a Job Offer 194 Do You Like the Job and This Company? 195 Are Your “Must Haves” Addressed? 196 Is the Salary Offered Fair? 197 Why Negotiate Your Job Offer? 199 More of What You Want, Now 199 Solidify Your Negotiation Skills 199 Show Employers You Know Your Value 199 There Are Few Downsides to Asking 199 You May Not Get as Much Later 200 You’ll Hurt Your Finances in the Long Run 201 Preparing to Negotiate 201 Negotiation Dos and Don’ts 202 You Didn’t Negotiate! Is It Too Late? 205 Additional Resources 205 Final Thoughts—It’s Okay to Want (and Ask for) Money 206 Summary 207 Chapter 9 When Times Get Tough 209 The Need for Grid 209 The Problem with “Twice as Good” 212 Failure 213 Impostor Syndrome 216 Bias 218 Tokenism and Being “The Only” 221 Bullying 222 Lack of Support and Help 223 The Importance of Mental Health 226 Allies and When They Fall Short 228 The Need for Allyship 228 Allies Are Human 229 Summary 230 Chapter 10 The Importance and Joy of Giving Back 233 Why Give Back 233 You Make a Difference 233 Helping Others See and Know What’s Possible 234 Great Rewards 235 Building Relationships 237 Coping with a Bad Day 237 You’ve Been in Their Shoes 238 How to Give Back 239 Summary 241 Index 243

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Book SynopsisFor too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that ‘sex work’ is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Prostitution Narratives refutes the lies and debunks the myths spread by the industry through the lived experiences of women who have survived prostitution. These disturbing stories give voice to formerly prostituted women who explain why they entered the sex trade. They bravely and courageously recount their intimate experiences of harm and humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers and reveal their escape and emergence as survivors. . Essential reading for Women’s Studies.Trade ReviewWhatever your stand on prostitution, its the first-hand stories of women that have to be listened to first. These accounts are among the most unsettling you will ever read, dispelling in just a few pages the comforting fairytales our society has built around sex work. Steve Biddulph, author of Raising BoysAs you read, be prepared to feel both grief and rage. Prostitution Narrativesforces us to face the routine cruelty of the sexual-exploitation industries and go beyond the diversionary arguments of those who glorify sex work. Most importantly, this book asks men to choose: What do we value more, our own sexual pleasure or the humanity of women? Our answer reveals whether we believe in our own humanity. Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin, author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.One of the women who shared their story in Prostitution Narratives went on to share it in the Daily Mail online. Her article can be read in full using the link below.

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Book SynopsisAbandonment, loss, endless transitions, self-reliance, continued persistence, and fierce beauty all coexist in this compelling collection of stories of ten women who journey from victims of the child welfare system to survivors, and beyond. These women face endless challenges, oppression, and trauma but discover their power through: creativity, advocacy, self-awareness, education, motherhood, and extreme empathy. They decipher their personal stories looking back through the lens of their lived experience to contribute to changing the narratives of how people who grew up in the child welfare system see themselves, and how society sees them. These stories create compassion and understanding, breaking down biases. They also illustrate the direct and multi-faceted relationships between residential schools, the breakdown of Indigenous families, the perpetuated systemic racism of the child welfare system, and oppression through other societal systems. Many of these women are the voices of those who could have been murdered and missing Indigenous women or girls but have lived to tell their stories.Trade Review"ThIS collection of 10 womens stories is not an easy read, but it is a necessary one." - Winnipeg Free Press

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Book SynopsisOverpower. Overtake. Overcome. – Serena WilliamsThroughout history, every woman pulling on spikes, lacing up boots and picking up a racquet has been a rebel – and this explosive book aims to uncover the often hidden histories behind 50 of these incredible pioneers.From the first Black woman to be a professional softball player, Betty Chapman, to the iconic 'Battle of the Sexes' match won by Billie Jean King, and from trans trailblazer Laurel Hubbard to Emma Raducanu's unforgettable US Open win, award-winning sports journalist Suzanne Wrack celebrates sporting giants at the absolute top of their games.Table of ContentsBetty Chapman - USA • Ann Glanville - UK • Sam Kerr - Australia • Hélène de Pourtalès - USA • Lily Parr - UK • Alice Milliat - UK • Babe Didrikson Zaharias - USA/Norway • Fanny Blankers-Koen - Netherlands • Althea Gibson - USA • Katherine Switzer - USA • Pat Gregory - UK • Cheryl White - USA • Mia Hamm - USA • Billie Jean King - USA • Junko Tabei - Japan • Nadia Comaneci - Romania • Ann Bancroft - USA • Steffi Graf - Germany • Hassiba Boulmerka - Algeria • Brandi Chastain - USA • Béatrice Hess - France • Cathy Freeman - Australia • Serena Williams - USA • Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani - Saudi Arabia • Nicola Adams - UK • Trischa Zorn - USA • Christine Sinclair - Canada • Rachel Blackmore - Ireland • Elisabeta Lipă - Romania • Amélie Mauresmo - France • Kiran Gandhi - USA • Caster Semenya - South African • Ada Hegerberg - Norway • Megan Rapinoe - USA • Suzann Pettersen - Norway • Brigid Kosgei - Kenya • Sahar Khodayari - Iran • Naomi Osaka - Japan • Allyson Felix - USA • Becky Hammon - American/Russian • Laurel Hubbard - New Zealand • Tatyana McFadden - Russia • Stephanie Frappart - France • Simone Biles - USA • Khalida Popal - Afghanistan • Emma Raducanu - UK • Hilary Knight - USA • Kaiya McCullough - USA • Sun Wen - China • Rachael Hayhoe-Flint - UK.

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Book SynopsisJanice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women including the Greek hetairai, the sisterhood of medieval nuns and the marriage resisters of China. Thousands of women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship. She also examines the contemporary women's movement and its networks and friendships – as well as the forces operating against friendship between women. A tough and clear-sighted analysis, and a book to read again and again.

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Book SynopsisIn medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.

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Book SynopsisHow organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the morality and the profitability of including people of diverse and underestimated backgrounds in the workplace, why don’t we do it? Because, explains Ruchika Tulshyan in this eye-opening book, we don’t realize that inclusion takes awareness, intention, and regular practice. Inclusion doesn’t just happen; we have to work at it. Tulshyan presents inclusion best practices, showing how leaders and organizations can meaningfully promote inclusion and diversity.  Tulshyan centers the workplace experience of women of color, who are subject to both gender and racial bias. It is at the intersection of gender and race, she shows, that we discover the kind of incl

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Book SynopsisIn What We See, open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens.Trade Review“What We See brings together an astonishing array of work from places as varied as conflict zones to backyards. The quality of the work is impressive. It is, indeed, a combination of voices that should never be repressed. We are all the better for a more inclusive view of the world, and this book puts a sharp finishing point on that." * The Washington Post *"A simply fascinating and richly illustrated study." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Kat Chow Introduction by Daniella Zalcman 01 Identity 02 Place 03 Conflict 04 Reclamation The 100 Photographers: Adam, Rhiannon Addario, Lynsey Agusti, Luján Al-Arashi, Yumna Al-Asaker, Maha Aliaga Ticona, Sara Alsultan, Tasneem Arévalo Gosen, Ana Maria Báez, Gabriella N. Barbutes, Tracy Beal, Endia Berman, Nina Bhaskar, Gabriela Blast, Delphine Brinson, Kendrick Bronstein, Paula Carballo, Koral Cárdenas, Verónica G. Chor, Laurel Cruz Bacani, Xyza Dass, Angélica de Middel, Cristina Dhaliwal, Meghan Dörr, Luisa Dugan, Jess T. Duong, Yen Effendi, Rena Eid, Kholood Eldalil, Rehab Emezi, Yagazie Fabián, Citlali Fezehai, Malin Flanagan, Annie Flash, Lola Fondriest, Terra Garcia, Mariceu Erthal Ghanbari, Mojgan Golden Guzy, Carol Habjouqa, Tanya Harib, Nada Hayashi, Noriko Hayeri, Kiana Inruh, Irina Ireland, Susannah Irvine, Tailyr JEB (Joan E. Biren) Johnson, Lynn Kang, Mary Keyssar, Natalie Khan, Gulshan Khandelwal, Saumya Kosofsky, Isadora Koyoltzintli Larsen, Erika Laub, Gillian Laula, Nyimas Locher, Olivia Matar, Rania McGarvey, Maddie Meiselas, Susan Mokri, Clara Mollenkof, Bethany Morris-Cafiero, Haley Morton, Rosem Muirhead, Nicola Naccache, Natalie Pabst, Sarah Parafeniuk, Oksana Philomène, Laurence Pixley, Tara Plunkett, Suzanne Poh, Charmaine Rago, Rozette Rajaonary, Miora Reyes Morales, Hannah Romero, Cara Rosella, Raphaela Sadurni, Sumy Sakaguchi, Haruka Schmitz, Charlotte Seaman, Camille Sharma, Smita Sim, Chi Yin Skovranova, Michaela Spitzer, Kali Sulakauri, Daro Taylor-Lind, Anastasia Tung, Nicole Vera, Alicia Villasana, Danielle Vitale, Ami Waguih, Asmaa Waiswa, Sarah Willis, Deb Yoon, Arin Yoon, Hannah Yvonne, Etinosa Zalanga, Patience Zehbrauskas, Adriana

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated, inspirational celebration of women of colour from around the world.Trade Review'Women and girls worldwide will find inspiration and strength in the pages of this beautiful book.' Malala YousafzaiTable of ContentsPreface 1. Aishopan Nurgaiv 2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 3. Ama Ata Aidoo 4. Amal Clooney 5. Amanda Gorman 6. Amna Al Qubaisi 7. Angela Davis 8. Aretha Franklin 9. Asima Chatterjee 10. Autumn Peltier 11. Ava Duvernay 12. Benazir Bhutto 13. Berta Caceres 14. Beyonce Knowles-Carter 15. Calypso Rose 16. Claudia Jones 17. Clemantine Wamariya 18. Deepika Padukone 19. Elif Safak 20. Esra'a Al Shafei 21. Esther Afua Ocloo 22. Esther Mahlangu 23. Fairuz 24. Fatema Mernissi 25. Fatima al-Fihri 26. Faye Simanjuntak 27. Felicitas Mendez 28. Frida Kahlo 29. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti 30. Germaine Acogny 31. Guo Jianmei 32. Hanan Ashrawi 33. Hayat Sindi 34. Heidy Quah 35. Ibtihaj Muhammad 36. Isabel Allende 37. Jaha Dukureh 38. Jameela Jamil 39. Josephine Baker 40. Junko Tabei 41. Katherine Johnson 42. Leandra Medeiros Cerezo, a.k.a. Lea T 43. Lee Tai Young 44. Leymah Gbowee 45. Linda Sarsour 46. Loujain Al Hathloul 47. Mae C Jemison 48. Malala 49. Margaret Busby 50. Maria Da Penha 51. Maria Walanda Maramis 52. Marjane Satrapi 53. Mary Golda Ross 54. Mary Jane Seacole 55. Mary Kom 56. Maya Angelou 57. Maya Lin 58. Mazlan Othman 59. Mercedes Sosa 60. Michaela Coel 61. Michelle Obama 62. Mindy Kaling 63. Miriam Makeba 64. Misty Copeland 65. Na Hye-sok 66. Nadia Murad 67. Naomi Osaka 68. Nawal El Saadawi 69. Negin Khpalwak 70. Noor Jehan 71. Oprah Winfrey 72. Oumou Sangare 73. Parveena Ahanger 74. Princess Sophia Duleep Singh 75. Prudence Mabele 76. Razia Sultan 77. Rigoberta Menchu 78. Rosa Parks 79. Sanmao 80. Serena Williams 81. Shirin Ebadi 82. Shirin Neshat 83. Shirley Coleen "Mum Shirley" - aboriginal activist 84. Simone Biles 85. Sonia Sotomayor 86. Sylvia Tamale 87. Tawakkol Karman 88. Taytu Betul 89. Tebello Nyokong 90. Tererai Trent 91. The Mirabal Sisters 92. Theresa Kachindamoto 93. Tu Youyou 94. Umm Kulthum 95. Wangari Maathai 96. wangechi mutu 97. Wilma Mankiller 98. Yayoi Kusama 99. Yusra Mardini 100. Zaha Hadid About the Author Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisUnique anthology celebrating British women writers from a Muslim heritage. Writers include literary heavyweights such as Adhaf Soueif, Leila Aboulela and Kamila Shamsie, as well as young emerging artists leading the way on the UK's spoken word scene. Extensive PR campaign planned for publication.Trade ReviewEmma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 choice for her online feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf; A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2017; 'A lively, varied anthology...Strong, impassioned voices speak out from the pages.' The Guardian; 'There is a strong sense of empowerment within these pages, empowerment of womanhood and individual identity...This anthology is strikingly relevant today. Not only that, it is one that is sorely needed...I recommend this book most highly.' The Bookbag , 5 star review. '...a beautiful and haunting collection, with its evocative and sharp writing...The Things I Would Tell You provides a vital but fleeting glimpse into the lives of the unheard and is the perfect place to start for those looking to diversify their reading list.' For Book's Sake, 4 star review; 'Outstanding collection...The scope of the book is vast: in setting, style and experience. The facts, alternative perspectives, harsh realities and the breadth of geography within the collection doesn't just expose the extreme limitation of the depiction of British Muslims, it depicts and voices their multicultural, multifaceted identity.' The List, 4 star review; 'Like last year's successful essay collection The Good Immigrant, The Things I Would Tell You gives a platform to people who don't find it easy to get published. Ranging from poetry to essays to short stories to a play, this collection showcases the variety of work British Muslim women are producing, touching on identity, belonging, religion, mental health, memory, love and more. My personal favourites include short stories Cutting Someone's Heart Out With a Spoon and Noor, by Chimene Suleyman and Kamila Shamsie respectively, and Imtiaz Dharker's poem The Right Word.' Stylist Magazine, Best Books of April; 'Exploring love, politics, violence, home, history, family, war, occupation, patriarchy, Brexit - this rich collection paints a vivid and complex picture of the lives, concerns, creativity and realities of Muslim women living in the UK today. The book is indeed important, and timely.' openDemocracy; 'At times sensual, humorous, piercing and heartbreaking, The Things I Would Tell You is an absorbing read. It is also important, and never more relevant than now.' The Skinny, 4 star review; 'The Things I Would Tell You is fiercely independent. It hasn't kowtowed to expectation; allowing Muslim women the space to tell their own stories in whichever way they wish. Like many Muslim women I know, it resolutely stands on its own two feet.' The Asian Writer; `The first story I read moved me to tears, the poems made me up my game and the essays were a much needed education' Hollie McNish, Guardian Best Book of the Year 2017; `With a title like Don't Panic, I'm Islamic, how can you resist? Using short stories, cartoons, photography and more, 34 contributors from around the world answer the essential questions ... provocative, subversive and creative.' Phoenix MagTable of ContentsIntroduction 7; Fadia Faqir, Under the Cypress Tree 15; Amina Jama, Home, to a Man and other poems 30; Chimene Suleyman, Cutting Someone's Heart Out with a Spoon 37; Us 44; Aliyah Hasinah Holder, Sentence and other poems 48; Kamila Shamsie, The Girl Next Door 55; Imtiaz Dharker, The Right Word and other poems 74; Triska Hamid, Islamic Tinder 81; Nafeesa Hamid, This Body Is Woman 85; Ahdaf Soueif, Mezzaterra 96; Seema Begum, Uomini Cadranno 114; Leila Aboulela, The Insider 117; Shazea Quraishi, Fallujah, Basrah and other poems 154; Shaista Aziz, Blood and Broken Bodies 161; Miss L, Stand By Me 166;Aisha Mirza, Staying Alive Through Brexit: Racism, Mental Health and Emotional Labour 170; Hibaq Osman, The Things I Would Tell You and other poems 175; Azra Tabassum, Brown Girl and other poems 185; Selma Dabbagh, Take Me There 191; Last Assignment to Jenin 196; Asma Elbadawi, Belongings and other poems 205; Samira Shackle, My Other Half 209; Sabrina Mahfouz, Battleface 218; Hanan al-Shaykh, An Eye That Sees 238; Biographies 247; Credits 255

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Book SynopsisIn February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set up was the Labour Representation Committee; six years later when 29 of its candidates were elected to the House of Commons, it changed its name to the Labour Party. No women took part in that first meeting, but several watched from the public gallery. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an active socialist and trade unionist who would have been familiar to most of the men assembled below. She had been asked by her friend, Millicent Fawcett, to attend and report back on what happened. A few years later she would become the first woman to speak at a Labour Party conference, moving a resolution on votes for women but, at the Party's inception in 1900, she and every other woman in the hall was silent.ThroughTrade ReviewA truly worthy, long-overdue and brilliantly written tribute to the women who helped drive the rise of British socialism. * New Statesman *[W]hen Sloane can muster sufficient detail to weld the personal to the political, her story is fascinating. ... Heartening as such stories may be, Sloane is also an unsparing chronicler who never glorifies her campaigners as a seamless sisterhood. * The Telegraph *[...] Sloane succeeds throughout in offering a fresh and engaging account of the complex of organizations, debates and initiatives that contributed to Labour politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. * TLS Reviews *[A] detailed history ... By 1918 some of the women who had worked with untiring commitment had died, others lived on to occupy high profile positions in the labour movement. Sloane’s account successfully repositions their efforts and achievements. * Socialist History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements One: Trade Unionists Two: Socialists Three: Foundations Four: ‘The Men’s Party’ Five: Women’s Work Six: Breakthrough Seven: Suffrage and Sweating Eight: Changes Nine: The Great Unrest Ten: War and Peace Epilogue Timeline The Women in the Room Organisations and Acronyms Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBuy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.Trade Review"The book's clear, accessible prose and pop culture subject matter will appeal to both lay readers and scholars who want to explore Black joy, creativity, and entrepreneurship in American culture. . . . Recommended." --Choice"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. " --Business Insider "Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. " --Ms. Magazine“Buy Black offers an important and well-argued consideration of the Black women cultural producers who, in an effort to subvert a misogynoiristic system, sometimes traffic in the very stereotypical practices they wish to upend. Halliday’s concept of ‘embodied objectification’ helps to make clear our own investments in consumer capitalism and prompts us to be more circumspect about our participation as a means to some ultimately unsatisfying end.”--Moya Bailey, author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance ​"Halliday's courageous and informative concentrations will help shape a new understanding of underrepresented Black women and girls. She has much to offer as a powerful thinker and scholar." --New York Amsterdam News​"A brilliant and meticulously researched exploration of how ideas about representing blackness have been essential to the story of American consumerism and popular culture. In uncovering how Black women have transformed corporate discourses of multiculturalism and diversity by inserting their own imaginations, capabilities, and desires, Buy Black provides an extraordinary feminist reading of the role of race, gender, and class in the American consumer product industry. Aria Halliday’s book is essential reading."--Mireille Miller-Young, author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography ​"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. " --Business Insider"Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. " --Ms. Magazine "In focusing on Black women as culture-makers, the book provides a uniquely important view as to the ways that Black women's ingenuity and entrepreneurship have been largely overlooked in understanding these questions. I was consistently impressed with the author's ability to cast a wide net that moves across many topics, while keeping it all held together so that the shape and fit seem right."--Elizabeth Chin, author of My Life with Things: The Consumer DiariesTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Making of Black Womanhood 1 1. Theorizing Black Women’s Cultural Influence through Consumption 17 2. From Riots to Style: The History of Black Barbie 47 3. From Bootstraps to Glass Slippers: Black Women’s Uplift in Disney’s Princess Canon 79 4. A Black Barbie’s Moment: Nicki Minaj and the Struggle for Cultural Dominance 111 Coda: The Stakes of Twenty-First-Century Black Creativity 143 Notes 153 Bibliography 165 Index 181

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Book SynopsisIn This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women's prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the state in an enduring tension between freedom and constraint, this book speaks to the quest for dignity and light against the backdrop of mass incarceration, state surveillance, and American inequality.Trade Review"This book is highly valuable as an experience that helps readers build a mental schema of some of the women inmates’ realities of incarceration." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work * "Ellis’ piercing study, beautifully written, vividly demonstrates the double-edged sword of religion in prison – its capacity to liberate and its equal power to subjugate." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Ellis’ contributions are significant to a plethora of academic fields, while her writing style is easily digestible as she recalls the lived experiences of the women at Mapleside Prison." * Gender and Society *"Ellis develops three-dimensional, nuanced portrayals of the interiority of women’s lives, recognizing women’s full and complex humanity in ways neither the carceral nor religious discourses that are the object of her study do. Ellis is an exceptionally skilled, ethical, and transparent ethnographer. Her methodological appendix should be required reading in sociological research methods classes." * Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Thou Shalt Not: A Day in Prison 2. Let There Be Light: Religious Life Behind Bars 3. The Lord Is My Shepherd: Protestant Messages of God’s Redemptive Plan 4. Blessed Is The Fruit Of Thy Womb: Gender, Religion, and Ideologies of the Family 5. For Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen: Status and Dignity in the Prison Church Conclusion Epilogue: Out of the House of Bondage Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The Asian Women's Conference developed a new political strategy, demanding that women from occupying colonial nations contest imperialism with the same dedication as women whose countries were occupied. Bury the Corpse of Colonialism shows how activists and movements create a revolutionary theory over time and through strugglein this case, by launching a strategy for anti-imperialist feminist internationalism. At the heart of this book are two stories. The first describes how the 1949 conference came to be, how it was experienced, and what it produced. The second follows the delegates home. What movements did they represent? Whose voices did they carry? How did their struggles hone their praxis? By exTrade Review"Armstrong explains the theory of women’s anti-imperialist praxis that conference attendees developed: women in both colonized and colonizing countries must join the fight, and motherhood links all women via a common interest in saving husbands and sons from oppressing and being oppressed. Quotations from the memoirs of participants enliven the account." * CHOICE *"An extremely important addition to both feminist and left history." * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. The 1949 Asian Women's Conference in Beijing (People's Republic of China) 2. The Journey to the Conference 3. An Anatomy of Revolutionary Women's Praxis 4. To Save the World Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Sources and Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisEquity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing millions of scientific papers, the authors show that women are undervalued for their labor in science as measured through publications and citations. The data also reveal how the scientific community can promote equity.Trade ReviewThe empirical analysis of disparities in funding, impact indicators, and institutional mobility provide rigorous evidence for the obstacles that continue to hamper women scientists. The result is a scathing indictment of scientific institutions’ failure to promote gender equity. * Publishers Weekly *Equity for Women in Science succeeds in providing fresh insights into where women scientists' work is systematically devalued and underrecognized. -- Mary Blair-Loy * Science *Are gender inequities slowly disappearing in the natural and social sciences?…Equity for Women in Science is a convincing reply to those who advance such arguments. Less overt—all but invisible—gender gaps are still with us…Besides copious amounts of data, the book provides revealing vignettes of the experiences of women in science, along with telling examples of institutional practices, both past and present. -- Virginia Valian * Nature *With such extensive documentation of the gendered nature of scientific production, labour, and reward, Equity for Women in Science is important. It should be seen as a definitive account of trends to 2020, and can inform institutional priorities and action. It will be an instructive baseline to gauge the pandemic’s impact on women’s work in research and publishing and how it was valued and credited. -- Jocalyn Clark * The Lancet *Details the many ways that scientists, policy-makers, funders of research and science communicators can help to close [the gender] gap. * New Scientist *This is the book I’ve always wanted. Full of statistics, anecdotes, and evidence-based suggestions that will transform the way the world understands the underrepresentation of women in science. -- Jess Wade, physicist and author of Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) SmallIn this illuminating portrait of the place of women in science today, Sugimoto and Larivière combine rigorous quantitative analysis with vivid human stories to describe the hurdles still to be overcome if women are to achieve both parity and equity. A lively and informative read with a compelling agenda for change. -- Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard UniversityTaking a precise and elegant scientometric approach, Sugimoto and Larivière reveal the mechanisms gendering science production, labor, and reward. They bring to light the parity paradox, where equal numbers often do not result in equal credit, and show that the people most acclaimed for doing science ultimately determine how science is done. -- Londa Schiebinger, coeditor of Gendered Innovations 2Science is one of humankind’s greatest achievements but it has a dispiriting legacy of male dominance. This rigorous and insightful book digs into the numbers to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of the manifold inequities that diminish the participation and recognition of women in science. With the data as their guide, Sugimoto and Larivière name the problem that has dogged science for far too long and map out a solution. -- Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London

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Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "Mahmood's book is a tour de force that provides an alternative prism through which we may understand the women's mosque movement in Egypt."--Cynthia Nelson, Middle East JournalTable of ContentsPreface to the 2012 Edition ix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv Note on Transcription xxix CHAPTER 1: The Subject of Freedom 1 CHAPTER 2: Topography of the Piety Movement 40 CHAPTER 3: Pedagogies of Persuasion 79 CHAPTER 4: Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions 118 CHAPTER 5: Agency, Gender, and Embodiment 153 Epilogue 189 Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms 201 References 205 Index 225

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Beautifully written and a delight to read. . . . Garcia’s book is a fascinating provocation for contemporary feminism that deserves a broad readership."---Ellie Anderson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Garcia works diligently to refute the myth of the ‘eternal feminine,’ or that women are submissive by nature." * Kirkus Reviews *"[A] good book to include in your studies of lived experiences shaped around the patriarchy."---Gabby Cisneros, Porchlight

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers"

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Book SynopsisA major work of feminist critical theory challenging the masculinist politics of digital media forms, practices and study.Trade Review'Furious rips beyond the vanity of know-it-all analysis to offer long-awaited new ways of thinking, feeling, and writing. Cunningly crafted by an authorial trio, it bewitches with performative feminist energies. I dare you to read it' -- Sally-Jane Norman, Founding Director of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex'A rare gem of a book, Furious makes a sharp, critical feminist intervention in digital media research demonstrating the power of thinking together, going against the conventions of academic writing, and creating good trouble' -- Susanna Paasonen, co-author of 'NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media''This wide-ranging and imaginative book makes a compelling case for a feminist techno-politics which challenges to the core the masculinist grip of computational culture and science. It's also a book which pays fine attention to the process of writing' -- Angela McRobbie, author of 'Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries''A passionate guidebook to feminist theorising that refuses data as self-evident patterns and theory as beautiful abstractions, while insisting on the generative power of writing, fabulation, and future making' -- Lucy Suchman, author of 'Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial''Combining clarity with rational ire, Furious insists on the power of insurgent, intersectional feminist epistemologies to disrupt, inspire, and transform. This collective feminist tour de force writes us a new course, away from the technophilic belief that technology will fix what ails the contemporary world and toward a critical and temperate utopianism' -- Carol Stabile, author of 'The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist'Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Preface 1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital 2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects 3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions 4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How? 5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTo Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.

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Book SynopsisThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896)—at once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children.Trade ReviewClara Schumann was one of the remarkable women of the nineteenth century, and she deserves this well-documented biography.... This is the best modern study of Clara Schumann available in English. * New York Times Book Review *Foremost among the strengths of this book is the delineation of Schumann's character. While pointing out the overwhelming challenges and devastating losses that dogged her entire life, Reich makes no attempt to paint her as a saint or hero.... The first edition of this book has gained acceptance as a standard resource on Clara Schumann. This revised edition preserves the strengths of the first edition while adding additional information and a fine-tuning of the presentation, assuring that Reich's work will remain central to the subject for the foreseeable future. * Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association *In addition to telling us the story of Clara Schumann's life, Nancy B. Reich... includes chapters on Clara Schumann's children, her work as editor, performing artist, and teacher, and her relationships with Brahms, Joachim, Liszt, and other major figures of the era.... There is also a list and analysis of Clara Schumann's compositions.... Reich has written an eminently readable, well-researched, and thoughtful book that gives historical and psychological insights into one of the major artists of the nineteenth century. * Classical Music Guide Forums *Reich's first edition contributed to the increase in interest in Clara Schumann and in the performances and recordings of her music. The publication of this revised edition will continue to stir interest with the availability of new documents, letters and the extensive list of newly published music; further, this new edition offers a much more detailed look at Clara Schumann's life and music. * Journal of the International Association of Women in Music *The marvelous originality of Reich's book lies in the way she places the marriage and the celebrated friendship with Brahms in perspective among other critical factors in Clara's life. Reich's painstaking, scholarly detail and feminist insight recover not merely the events in the life, dramatic as they were, but its major themes, movements and connecting threads. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments to the First EditionPart I. The Life of Clara Schumann 1. Prelude: The Wiecks of Leipzig 2. Career Begins 3. Robert Schumann and the Wiecks 4. The Break with Wieck 5. Marriage 6. The Dresden Years 7. Düsseldorf and the Death of Robert Schumann 8. The Later YearsPart II. Themes from the Life of Clara Schumann 9. Schumann and Johannes Brahms 10. Friends and Contemporaries 11. Clara Schumann as Composer and Editor 12. The Concert Artist 13. Clara Schumann as Student and TeacherCatalogue of WorksNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDeveloped out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their ‘war stories’.

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Book SynopsisIn this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.Trade Review“Byfield has written a meticulously documented history of women’s political activities during the first half of the twentieth century. The women of Abeokuta played a leading part in the history of economic change, nationalism, and eventual independence in colonial Nigeria, and Byfield’s study is a welcome addition to scholarly analysis of political and economic transformation in Nigeria and Africa in general during this crucial period.”“The Great Upheaval is a brilliant historical sociology of the gendered struggle for ‘a new philosophy of life’ in a colonial context. Judith Byfield reminds us that the erasure of women and gender in nationalist histories of emancipation in Africa diminishes our understanding of the complexity of ‘nation-building,’ including the contradictions of gendered notions of agency and freedom. The author seamlessly interweaves gender and nation with colonial history and political economy in the analysis of how Abeokuta women expanded the vistas of human possibilities in early- to mid-20th century Nigeria.”“Competent, coherent, and captivating, Judith Byfield combines the values of deep research with deep thinking to extend the frontiers of knowledge on gender politics in postwar Nigeria’s late colonial period. City, national, and global ideas converge in The Great Upheaval to locate Yoruba women in complex intersections of economy, politics, and race.”“Judith Byfield has not only shown that women in Abeokuta played important parts in struggles against colonialism and for better social conditions, but that focusing on gender forces us to rethink histories of kingship, urban life, trade, taxation, religion, protest movements, and memorialization—indeed, the entire history of the region and its relationship to Nigeria.”“[A] brilliant book…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini) shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident.Trade Review“An honest, sensitive portrayal of a complex, determined woman who deserves recognition.” * Library Journal *“Joel Cabrita’s Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala is that extraordinary work of restoration that restores not just the historical subject herself, but Twala’s entire social milieu. This then allows us to contemplate the vicissitudes of her life and the processes by which she came to her life choices in great and intimate detail. Cabrita has given us an exemplary historical biography that will have ramifications well beyond the boundaries of African history itself.” -- Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and professor of English at Stanford University“A marvelously clever biography. Cabrita tells the story of Regina Twala’s life while simultaneously writing the tale of her erasure. What a bold, ambitious, and necessary project. Twala’s life is rendered in technicolor and so too are the processes that almost buried her bright, shining light. An important and beautifully told tale of ‘sanctioned forgetting,’ and glorious remembering.” -- Sisonke Msimang, author of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela“Joel Cabrita has written a deeply compelling narrative that gives Regina Gelana Twala, a pioneering twentieth-century South African intellectual, the honor and recognition that she deserves. Twala incisively intervened in the leading questions raised by a racist and patriarchal society, such as gender relations, the role of custom, mass protests, among many, despite being marginalized and often abused for her status as a woman and outsider.” -- Pamela Scully, author of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf“This is a gem of a story. Joel Cabrita has pulled Regina Twala out of obscurity, showing us a life lived publicly and vigorously. In doing so, she provokes a conversation about what kinds of figures are rendered important in the writing of histories. She upends the notion that women are ignored because their works are obscure. Here, we have a full-blooded tale of a public figure who has, puzzlingly, been forgotten. Read the book to understand why.” -- Shireen Hassim, author of The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics“An intriguing work of historical investigation. . . . [Joel Cabrita] tells Twala’s life story in a compelling narrative woven from a rich archive of details drawn from interviews with relatives, a captivating and extensive collection of letters, as well as official sources. She deftly layers the personal and the political dimensions of Twala’s life in ways that make for a deeply moving read. But she goes a step further. She brings Twala’s history to light within the context of her erasure, addressing the archival blind spots that produce these kinds of omissions in the first place. Written Out is a significant contribution to African feminist scholarship and intellectual history. The book is not just a biography. It is an archaeology. In telling Twala’s story, Cabrita lays bare the underlying forces of racism and sexism that conspire to silence black women in history." -- Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of Brittle PaperA stunning achievement. Cabrita’s powerful rendering of Regina Gelana Twala deserves to be widely read and taught in courses on African history, intellectual history, and gender studies. -- Lynn M. Thomas * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

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Book SynopsisBorn in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria E Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. Providing a sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldua produced, this book demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work.Trade Review“The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” - Liliana Valenzuela, Texas Observer“Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’sinterests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” - George Hartley, Southwestern American Literature“This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” - WATERwheel“The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” - Xiumei Pu, Feminist Formations“AnaLouise Keating’s compilation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘early,’ ‘middle,’ and ‘later’ writings provides a service to scholars; additionally, it is a joy to read Gloria’s voice seeped in ‘shaman aesthetics’ that impel and move us to radical action. Undoubtedly, Anzaldúa’s impact on various levels—including academic fields such as border studies, women’s studies, and American studies—is long-lasting and profound.”— Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa“Gloria Anzaldúa was a courageous participant in late-twentieth-century decolonial movements. Throughout this reader she insists that academic knowledge must take into account the spirit-body-emotions-mind matrix. Such an accounting would transform academic knowledge, she believed, and make way for emancipatory modes of knowing and for brave, new subjects of history. The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader samples the bold lifework of a woman whose aims were to relieve suffering and to envision a decolonizing social affinity capable of uniting humanity in love.”—Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed“Keating collects poems, essays, prose and commentaries by Anzaldúa, revealing the public figure the pathbreaking queer Chicana writer as well as a sensual and deeply spiritual iconoclast. Anzaldúa’s voice emerges defiant, mercenary, passionate and unapologetic. . . . . The book is punctuated by Anzaldúa’s simple drawings, exercises in deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. Her writings capturing her relentless fight to avoid being stereotyped and to empower women of color within and without academia are rich and various, exploring everything from gender, memory and oppression to sex in the afterlife.” * Publishers Weekly *“The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” -- Xiumei Pu * Feminist Formations *“Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’s interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” -- George Hartley * Southwestern American Literature *“The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” -- Liliana Valenzuela * Texas Observer *“This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” * WATER *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, Reading Ourselves . . . Complex Intimacies, Intricate Connections 1 Part One. "Early" Writings TIHUEQUE 19 To Delia, Who Failed on Principles 20 Reincarnation 21 The Occupant 22 I Want To Be Shocked Shitless 23 The New Speakers 24 Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers 26 The coming of el mundo surdo 36 La Prieta 38 El paisano is a bird of good omen 51 Dream of the Double-Faced Woman 70 Foreword to the Second Edition (of This Bridge Called My Back) 72 Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Body: An Interview with Linda Smuckler 74 Part Two. "Middle" Writings Enemy of the State 97 Del Otro Lado 99 Encountering the Medusa 101 Creativity and Switching in Modes of Consciousness 103 En Rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras 111 The Presence 119 Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman 121 Haciendo caras, una entrada 124 Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar, or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas 140 Ghost Trap/Trampa de espanto 157 To(o) Queer the Writer—Loca, escritora y chicana 163 Border Arte: Nepantla, El Lugar de la Frontera 176 On the Process of Writing Borderlands / La Frontera 187 La vulva is una herida abierta / The vulva is an open wound 198 The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement 203 Part Three. Gallery of Images 217 Part Four. "Later" Writings Foreword to Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit 229 How to 232 Memoir—My Calling; or, Notes for "How Prieta Came to Write" 235 When I write I hover 238 Transforming American Studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson Prize Acceptance Speech 239 Yemayá 242 (Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces 243 Healing wounds 249 Reading LP 250 A Short Q&A between LP and Her Author (GEA) 274 Like a spider in her web 276 Bearing Witness: Their Eyes Anticipate the Healing 277 The Postmodern Llorona 280 Speaking across the Divide 282 Llorona Coyolxauhqui 295 Disability & Identity: An E-mail Exchange & a Few Additional Thoughts 298 Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 303 Appendix 1: Glossary 319 Appendix 2: Timeline: Some Highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life 325 Bibliography 337 Index 351

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Book SynopsisBridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.Trade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175

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Book Synopsis Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin actTrade ReviewNot only will readers find some of the finest music writing in the business here, but they’ll also learn how the musicians’ evolution influenced each essayist’s own creative process. The result? Incredibly empowering writing about what it means to be an artist and a human being. . . .Woman Walk the Line will touch readers to their cores — reminding them of their first musical loves and the difference between a musician and a star. * Nashville Scene *Each of the 27 essays focuses on the experience of when music was a savior, an inspiration or an acknowledgment of a deep and personal truth. * New York Times *A rhapsodic, moving look at music's transformative power. * People *...truly stunning... * PASTE *...a new collection of personal essays on the transformative impact of women in country music aims to change the narrative. * The Washington Post *Best Music Books of the Fall * Publisher's Weekly *30 Must Read Music Books This Fall—The deeply personal pieces often feel like the authors are cracking open a secret chest, sharing treasured glimpses into their true selves. * Salon.com *Much has happened to shape the national discourse in the 18 months since Holly Gleason began working on Woman Walk The Line...Much has happened in the last 18 days to make it essential reading. * Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel *The essays in Woman Walk the Line are multidimensional, living, breathing cases for the importance of each of these female country artists, including aurally and visually. As an edited anthology of multiple authors, this book is surprisingly cohesive. * Pop Matters *Table of Contents Introduction Maybelle Carter: The Root of It All (Caryn Rose) Lil Hardin: That's How I Got to Memphis (Alice Randall) Wanda Jackson: When She Starts Eruptin' (Holly George-Warren ) Hazel Dickens: The Plangent Bone (Ronni Lundy) June Carter Cash: Eulogy for a Mother (Rosanne Cash) Brenda Lee: Rare Peer (Taylor Swift) Bobbie Gentry: Let the Mystery Be (Meredith Ochs) Loretta Lynn: The Pill (Madison Vain) Dolly Parton: Long Island Down Home Blues (Nancy Harrison) Emmylou Harris: Common Ground in an Uncommon Love (Ali Berlow) Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the Rearview Mirror (Shelby Morrison) Tanya Tucker: Punk Country and Sex Wide Open (Holly Gleason) Rita Coolidge: A Dark-Eyed Cherokee Country Gal (Kandia Crazy Horse) Linda Ronstadt: Canciones di Corazon Salvage (Grace Potter) Rosanne Cash: Expectations and Letting Go (Deborah Sprague) The Judds: Comfort Far from Home (Courtney E. Smith) k.d. lang: Flawless, Fearless (Kelly McCartney) Lucinda Williams, Flesh & Ghosts, Dreams + Marrow (Lady Goodman) Mary Chapin Carpenter: Every Hometown Girl (Cynthia Sanz) Patty Loveless: Beyond What You Know (Wendy Pearl) Shania Twain: But the Little Girls Understand (Emily Yahr) Alison Krauss: Draw Your Own Map (Aubrie Sellers) Terri Clark: Better Things to Do (Amy Elizabeth McCarthy) Taylor Swift: Through the Eyes of a Critic, of a Mom (Elysa Gardner) Kacey Musgraves: Follow Your Arrow (Dacey Orr) Rhiannon Giddens: A Gift Past the Songs (Caroline Randall Williams) Patty Griffin: Remembering to Breathe (Kim Ruehl) Thank Yous Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault’s notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how “confidence culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women—along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups—are responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture’s remaking of feminism along individualistiTrade Review“Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill’s brilliant study of the intersections within and between ‘confidence culture’ and neoliberal capitalism makes a vital contribution to how we think about gender, the body, and media. Complicating analyses on both the media representation and the user applications of the contemporary confidence movement, this crucially important book will appeal to media studies, American studies, and feminist scholars as well as a wide public audience.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of * Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny *"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- M. M. Ferree * Choice *"Confidence Culture offers critical feminist insight into the conditions shaping our existence, experiences and our feelings. . . . An absolute necessity for scholars of gender, media studies, sociology and other interdisciplinary areas." -- Ipsita Pradhan * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Confidence Imperative 1 1. Body Confidence 29 2. Confidence at Work 56 3. Confident Relating 76 4. Confident Mothering 100 5. Confidence without Borders 124 Conclusion: Beyond Confidence 143 Notes 163 Bibliography 203 Index 229

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Book SynopsisWomen war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about war and about women. Biases about women as peaceful and innocent prevent us from "seeing" women as war criminals—and prevent postconflict justice systems from assigning women blame. Women as War Criminals argues that women are just as capable as men of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. In addition to unsettling assumptions about women as agents of peace and reconciliation, the book highlights the gendered dynamics of law, and demonstrates that women are adept at using gender instrumentally to fight for better conditions and reduced sentences when war ends. The book presents the legal cases of four women: the President (Biljana Plavšić), the Minister (Pauline Nyiramasuhuko), the Soldier (Lynndie England), and the Student (Hoda Muthana). Each woman's complex identity influenced her treatment by legal systems and her ability to mount a gendered defense before the court. Justice, as Steflja and Trisko Darden show, is not blind to gender.Trade Review"Feminists don't imagine all women are angels. What they do know is that diverse women are analytically interesting. In their careful dig into these four war crimes trials, Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden underscore this in neon."—Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link"Women commit atrocities. The study of women who become human rights abusers, however, remains fraught with stereotype, taboo, and denialism. These distortions occlude the careful study of gender and violence and, what is more, marginalize the victims. Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden's courageous book responds to these gaps by providing a humanistic, grounded, and rigorous study of four women enmeshed in criminality. Justice for atrocity hinges upon recognizing gender in all aspects—perpetration, suffering, and rebuilding. Women as War Criminals brilliantly advances the accountability project."—Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University, author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law"Through a profile of four women war criminals, this concise book shines a spotlight on women who perpetrate or incite heinous acts of violence and on the ways in which gender stereotypes influence the interpretation of their behavior. Bold and clear, Women as War Criminals stands as a crucial corrective to assumptions about women in war and as an accessible analysis from which students and experts alike will learn."—Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa"[Women as War Criminals] stands as an important corrective to former approaches that enshrine women as nurturing and innocent, thus assigning them a lenient sentence; instead the book treats women as responsible, independent offenders... [Women as War Criminals] is bound to inspire further fascinating debates on the relationship between gender and justice." —Haoliang Zhang, Feminist Legal StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Chapter 1: The President 3. Chapter 2: The Minister 4. Chapter 3: The Soldier 5. Chapter 4: The Student 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisReexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their abusers publicly—from well-known celebrities to politicians and high-profile business leaders. Not surprisingly, conservatives quickly opposed this new movement, but the fact that “sex positive” progressives joined in the opposition was unexpected and seldom discussed. Why We Lost the Sex Wars explores how a narrow set of political prospects for resisting the use of sex as a tool of domination came to be embraced across this broad swath of the political spectrum in the contemporary United States.To better understand today’s multilayered sexual politics, Lorna N. Bracewell offers a revisionist history of the “sex wars” of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Rather than focusing on what divided antipornography and sex-radical feminists, Bracewell highlights significant points of contact and overlap between these rivals, particularly the trenchant challenges they offered to the narrow and ambivalent sexual politics of postwar liberalism. Bracewell leverages this recovered history to illuminate in fresh and provocative ways a range of current phenomena, including recent controversies over trigger warnings, the unimaginative politics of “sex-positive” feminism, and the rise of carceral feminism. By foregrounding the role played by liberal concepts such as expressive freedom and the public/private divide as well as the long-neglected contributions of Black and “Third World” feminists, Bracewell upends much of what we think we know about the sex wars and makes a strong case for the continued relevance of these debates today. Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a history of feminist thinking on topics such as pornography, commercial sex work, LGBTQ+ identities, and BDSM, as well as discussions of such notable figures as Patrick Califia, Alan Dershowitz, Andrea Dworkin, Elena Kagan, Audre Lorde, Catharine MacKinnon, Cherríe Moraga, Robin Morgan, Gayle Rubin, Nadine Strossen, Cass Sunstein, and Alice Walker.Trade Review"Why We Lost the Sex Wars is a fascinating read. It provides a gripping social history of both feminist movement and of feminist political theory, including archival research into interviews and writings that current feminist ‘legends’ did as graduate students. This is intertwined with incisive and creative theoretical analysis of the arguments offered in courts, conferences, and publications. Lorna N. Bracewell shows that the so-called ‘sex wars’ were not warlike, nor a clear-cut duality, but rather multiple and complex, and that these debates and arguments still influence feminism and feminist theory today. In Bracewell’s account of the central role that feminists of color played, which is often overlooked, is particularly insightful and important. This book is essential reading for all of us interested in the history of late twentieth-century feminism and in understanding how we got to where we are today."—Nancy Hirschmann, author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory"Lorna N. Bracewell’s careful treatment of the feminist sexuality debates of the 1980s demonstrates how their framing in terms of liberal philosophies of the eighteenth century contributed to a reductive misunderstanding of key questions about freedom and sexuality that continue to resurface decades later. This is a timely and important work."—Judith Grant, Ohio University"Thoroughly researched, yet immensely readable, Why We Lost the Sex Wars provides a clear, illuminating, and utterly engaging account of antipornography feminism and sex radical feminists’ consequential encounters with liberalism. It details how liberalism remade both and, in that remaking, helped to foreclose feminist imaginations regarding damage and reparation and worked to lead us to our carceral present. It, rightly, highlights the oft-overlooked interventions of Black and ‘Third World’ feminists who critiqued the ‘monism’ of white antipornography and whose analysis helped to clarify that pornography could do far worse than simply objectify women. The book skillfully and seamlessly combines historical accounts and close textual reading. Among the latter method, the author's convincing illustration of the impact of antipornography feminism on one of liberalism's most revered feminist critics, Carole Pateman, stands out, as it demonstrates how the feminists, who we too often understand to have lost their fight ultimately, helped to shape her understanding of male power. An important contribution to feminist political theory."—Shatema Threadcraft, author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic "A timely revisionist scholarly history certain to spark debate."—Kirkus Reviews "Why We Lost the Sex Wars is incredibly detailed, well-researched, and well-organized."—Kara Reviews "An illuminating retelling of this period of American feminist history."—The New Yorker "A thorough, thoughtful account of the multiple and evolving constellations of perspectives and interactions that composed the so-called Sex Wars."—Gender & Society Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the Sex Wars1. “Pornography Is the Theory. Rape Is the Practice”: The Antipornography Feminist Critique of Liberalism2. Free Speech, Criminal Acts: Liberal Appropriations of Antipornography Feminism3. Ambivalent Liberals, Sex Radical Feminists4. Third World Feminism and the Sex WarsConclusion: The Liberal Roots of Carceral FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themTrade Review"Her book offers a refreshing view of the politics on the ground, where people matter more than identities and the ideologies embedded within them." Ms. Magazine "Collins' lucid observations form the backdrop of her sustained engagement with nationalism, feminism, and racism in a collection that includes signature essays on topics as diverse as American national identity, the contemporary relevance of Afro centrism, and women's agency in black community politics." - Signs "Collins's work is always a pleasure to read. She deftly weaves historical analyses, popular culture, literature, and theory to produce a complex portrait of ongoing and systematic racism, relentlessly highlighting the interconnected dynamics of gender inequality as well as other systems of oppression. Each of these essays makes clear that any political response to racism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Gender and Society "The book can serve as good primer...Hill Collins' writing is always composed with a synthesis of historical analyses, popular culture, literature and theory that is often lacking in other academics' social scientific treatises. Any of the six essays within the text makes a clear case that either an organized-collective or individual response to racism, sexism, or capitalism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society "The six essays in this volume explore the political realities of the period from the end of Black Power to the ascendancy of hip hop. They focus on the relationship between new racial formations and on political responses to them...A theme of the volume is Hill's endeavour to theorise intersectionality, and she focuses on the intersections between race, nation, and gender, to a lesser extent, social class. The aim of this book is to make a case for anti racist group based political struggles that respect individual and human rights which embrace a global analysis of how our lives are interconnected, and are informed by feminism and nationalism." Sage Race Relations Abstracts "In her new book Patricia Hill Collins reminds us why she is one of the most prolific and insightful sociologists to diagnose contemporary racial and sexual politics."-The African American Review, Spring 2008

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Book SynopsisWide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however, argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also often exercised professional or communal leadership. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views: firstly, the still-prevalent idea that women's intellectual accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric and jewelry) for evidence of women's advanced capabilities. But in doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic view that women's accomplishments were somehow limited to the vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue. Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring thinkers in any language; they engage readily with women's learnedness wherever it can be found.Trade ReviewThe team of scholars who pulled this collection together have rendered us a great service. . . . Each contributor is a gifted and concise writer. Younger scholars will find much here to expand their own research and thinking; so will graduate students in many fields. The book is especially valuable in its modeling of effective collaboration among interdisciplinary fields. * Magistra *The readers will find it helpful to have the introductory sections focus on the wider methodological framework and scholarship for each of the approaches taken, while the didactic setup makes this book an ideal tool for teaching purposes. The overall introduction and epilogue are superb in setting the scene, warning of pitfalls, and identifying new avenues of research. Above all, they remind the reader that the women discussed in this volume constitute probably only the tip of an iceberg and for this reason they encourage us to continue digging in archives and libraries to identify more of them. * Church History *Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages is an impressive volume of essays that ranges across academic disciplines, countries, time periods, and sources in order to contribute to key debates about women's history and role in intellectual life throughout the medieval period. The editors, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen, set out to "tak[e] early women intellectuals and leaders seriously," as the title of Kerby-Fulton's introduction puts it, and in this aim it absolutely succeeds. * Journal of British Studies *Table of Contents"Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton "Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women" - Ruth Karras "Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World" - Asma Afsaruddin "The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps Towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets" - S.J. Pearce "Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court" - Adrienne Williams Boyarin "Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores" - David Wallace "Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France" - Sean L. Field "Catherine of Siena, Auctor" - F Thomas Luongo "Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune" - Thelma Fenster "Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage" - Gemma C.J. Simmonds "New Solutions to Old Problems" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton "A Woman Author? The Middle-Dutch Dialogue between a 'Good-willed Layperson' and a 'Master Eckhart'" - John Van Engen "Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France" - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne "The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15)" - Nicholas Watson "Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's Authorship and Agency" - Nicholas Watson "Written with Her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography" - Leanne MacDonald "The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany" - Anna Siebach-Larson "Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London" - Amanda Bohne "Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture" - John Van Engen "Bede's Abbesses" - Sarah Foot "Women's Latinity in the Early English Anchorhold" - Megan J. Hall "The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women in the Early Middle Ages" - Gary Macy "Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated Sainthood" - Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski "Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages" - K.A. Bugyis "Laywomen as Leaders" - Dyan Elliott "Women Donors and Ecclesiastical Reform: Evidence from Camaldoli and Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150" - Maureen C. Miller "Laywomen's Leadership in Medieval Miracle Cults: Evidence from Britain, ca. 1150-1250" - Rachel Koopmans "Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta: A Study in Literary Influence" - Barbara Newman "Positioning Women in Medieval Society, Culture, and Religion: An Epilogue" - John Van Engen

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Book SynopsisThe first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and selling their work in unprecedented numbers. Many rose to the top of their nations’ artistic spheres and earned substantial incomes from their work, regularly navigating institutional inequalities expressly designed to exclude members of their sex. In the first collective, critical history of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era, Paris Spies-Gans explores how they engaged with and influenced the mainstream cultural currents of their societies at pivotal moments of revolutionary change. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of the experiences of these narrative painters, portraitists, sculptors, and draughtswomen, this book challenges longstanding assumptions about women in the history of art. Importantly, it demonstrates that women built profitable artistic careers by creating works in nearly every genre practiced by men, in similar proportions and to aesthetic acclaim. It also reveals that hundreds of women studied with male artists, and even learned to draw from the nude. Where traditional histories have left a void, this generously illustrated book illuminates a lively world of artistic production. Featuring an extensive range of these artists’ paintings, drawings, sculptures, and writings, alongside contemporary prints, satires, and works by their male peers, A Revolution on Canvas transforms our understanding of the opportunities and identities of women artists of the past. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Revelatory.”—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post“Exhaustive, groundbreaking research. . . . [A] beautifully produced book.”—Jacqueline Riding, Art Newspaper, “Top Art Books of 2022”“By making its points compellingly and driving the agenda forward, A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to the field.”—Tabitha Barber, Art Newspaper“This publication, which might be one of the most anticipated art history books of the year, draws heavily on new research and statistical analysis on the subject of women artists during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”—Sothebys.com“A wave of women pursued public recognition and commercial reward for their art at this time. It was a surge of activity, as Spies-Gans thoughtfully charts, hitherto unprecedented in history.”—Royal Academy Magazine“A Revolution on Canvas is an important contribution to our understanding of the history of art in the 18th century.”—WSG BulletinWinner of the 2023 Stansky Book Prize, sponsored by NACBSShortlisted for the 2023 Berger Prize, sponsored by The British Art JournalReceived Honorable Mention from the Louis A. Gottschalk Prize, sponsored by American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesName One of the Top Art Books of 2022 by The Art NewspaperOn the 2022 Top Art Books List by The Conversation

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Book SynopsisHome Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.Trade Review"The survival of these women and their joy makes Home Girls very satisfying." * Essence *“A provocative and important collection.” * Ms. *"Pungent and varied, full of questions, convictions, and insights." * The Nation *"It is fitting that Home Girls also reflects and celebrates the difference, among the [thirty-three] Black feminist writers, critics, and theorists assembled from the United States and the Caribbean, among Black women of all colors, classes, and cultures. More importantly, it reflects and celebrates our connections." * Women's Review of Books *"Home Girls is a book that has been saving lives and freeing communities for my entire lifetime. The Black Feminist revolutionary ethic and aesthetic that this book founds, documents and forwards is the best hope for survival and well-being that our species has. Read or re-read this book as if everything depends upon it. It does." -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs * author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals *“Groundbreaking…Though written years ago, Smith’s words are as valid today as they were then.” * Shondaland *“There is a profound need for those in communities that are taken for granted (or taken advantage of) to give voice to their joy, pain, and ambitions. Home Girls is a must-read for those who wish to understand, to grow, and to learn.” * Black Lesbian Literary Collective *“Considered by many to be the essential book on feminism, Home Girls is a selection of profound essays penned by intriguing feminists as well as lesbian activists.” * VIBE *"Home Girls is a repository of Black lesbian and feminist life, an animate archive that holds the breadth and depth of Black women’s intellectual and political acuity. Home Girls expands the episteme of Black Studies, offering a method to examine the simultaneity of oppression, a vision of freedom that eclipses captivity. Forty years later, this autopoietic text renews the life of Black Feminism, supplying us with incisive language for living." -- Briona Simone Jones * editor of Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought *"With its warm, inviting and endearing title, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, this still classic work became foundational as it helped to develop a whole field in which generations of scholars learned the politics of coalition building, organizing, writing responsively and creatively about the Black woman’s experience in global contexts. The 'simultaneity of oppressions' logic which is its theoretical framework still provides an analytical model for assessing how these structures of power are even more clarified today but also how Black women have constantly challenged enforced locations." -- Carole Boyce Davies * author of Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power *Table of Contents Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition Preface to the first Rutgers University Press Edition Introduction Poem, Akasha (Gloria) Hull I. The Blood--Yes, the Blood For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love, Toi Derricotte The Damned, Toi Derricotte Hester's Song, Toi Derricotte The Sisters, Alexis De Veaux Debra, Michelle T. Clinton If I Could Write This in Fire, I would Write This In Fire, Michelle Cliff The Blood--Yes, The Blood: A Conversation, Cenen and Barbara Smith Something Latino Was Up With Us, Spring Redd "I Used to Think", Chirlane McCray The Black Back-Ups, Kate Rushin Home, Barbara Smith II. Artists Without Art Form "Under The Days": The buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké, Akasha (Gloria) Hull The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview, Ann Allen Shockley Artists Without Art Form, Renita Weems I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands, Patricia Jones A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women, Jewelle L. Gomez What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Akasha (Gloria) Hull III. Black Lesbians--Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us? Tar Beach, Audre Lorde Before I Dress and Soar Again, Donna Allegra LeRoy's Birthday, Raymina Y. Mays The Wedding, Barbara Smith Maria de las Rosas, Becky Birtha Miss Esther's Land, Barbara A. Banks The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community, Cheryl Clarke Where Will You Be? Pat Parker IV. A Home Girls' Album V. A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution Among the Things That Used to Be, Willie M. Coleman From Sea to Shining Sea, June Jordan Women of Summer, Cheryl Clarke The TIred Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman, Kate Rushin Shoes Are Made for Walking, Shirley O. Steele Billy de Lye, Deirdre McCalla The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River Collective Black Macho and Black Feminism, Linda C. Powell Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation, Tania Abdulahad, Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed For Strong Women, Michelle T. Clinton The Black Goddess, Kate Rushin Women's Spirituality: A Household Act, Luisah Teish Only Justice Can Stop a Curse, Alice Walker Coalition Politics: Turning the Century, Bernice Johnson Reagon Acknowledgments Information on Contributors

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Book SynopsisBring greater satisfaction to your relationship in every way--emotionally, spiritually, and physically--whether you''re preparing for your honeymoon or are empty nesters looking for a new spark.Are you wondering if there''s more to your sex life than the status quo? Or maybe you have questions about your upcoming marriage that aren''t exactly appropriate for the rehearsal dinner? This edition of The Good Girl''s Guide to Great Sex from tell-it-like-it-is blogger and speaker Sheila Wray Gregoire has been completely updated and expanded to include new research from surveys of more than twenty-five thousand people. With humor, stories, and highly practical ideas, Sheila helps you: See how God intends sex to unite couples physically, emotionally, and spiritually--and how to overcome roadblocks in each area Understand more about your two bodies and how they were meant to go together

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.Trade ReviewSexual Fluidity is the most important book on sexuality in many years. The scholarship is impeccable and the writing lucid. Exploring issues that have political, scientific, and personal ramifications, Diamond answers the tough questions: Do women have a sexual orientation? Do women choose their sexuality? Can a heterosexual woman fall in love with a woman? Can a lesbian fall in love with a man? Are women really sexually changeable? Are men? Diamond challenges both traditionalists and radicals—if you want to understand female sexuality, listen to what women say. -- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, author of The New Gay TeenagerThe book raises fundamental questions about women's sexuality. Lisa Diamond's comprehensive analysis of the scientific evidence illuminates the interconnections of love, sex and sexual identity in women's lives. Her analysis of sexual fluidity is both original and compelling. -- Anne Peplau, University of California, Los AngelesFascinating and certain to be controversial… Diamond says traditional labels for sexual desire are inadequate; for some women even 'bisexual' does not truly express the protean nature of their sexuality. Diamond details in accessible and nuanced language her own study of 100 young women (by her own admission not 'fully representative') over a period of 10 years. She says that she is 'calling for an expanded understanding of same-sex sexuality' that could radically affect both LGBT activists who hold that sexual identity is fixed and antigay groups who believe sexuality is chosen. * Publishers Weekly *Freud once asked: 'What do women want?' He did not really know. In this beautiful and scholarly book, Diamond has attempted to answer his question. In her study of 100 young women growing up in the postmodern era, she has found that what women want is far more complex than was previously thought and cannot easily be answered with a simple theory. This book will be read by students and scholars across the social and biological sciences. It is a gift to be cherished. -- Ken Zucker, University of TorontoCaptivating, nuanced, and rigorous… Diamond's work is vital precisely because sexual fluidity is not a new concept—Freud called his version 'polymorphous perversity'—but merely one that is typically dismissed. Nor is it news to women, particularly not to a generation for whom a nonspecific 'queer' affiliation, or no affiliation at all, is increasingly common. What is so important is not that this fluidity exists, but that someone has finally paid it systematic attention and found that it is in fact not the exception, but may well be the rule. -- Hanne Blank * Ms. *Traditionally, female sexuality has been presumed to work in the same way and by the same rules as male sexual identity, but Diamond argues that for women, sexual identity isn't fixed in the same categories. -- Temma Ehrenfeld * Psychologies *Setting out to prove the theory that, for some women, love is truly blind where gender is concerned, Diamond presents her evidence in a fascinating, anecdotal fashion—by tracking over the span of a decade the relationships of nearly 100 women who at one point or another had experienced 'same-sex attractions.' The women move from men to women and back again (or vice-versa), their sexual identity as changeable as their desires. Additionally, she delves into the brain science behind lust, love and infatuation, revealing that what draws women toward a particular partner is as much a function of biology as it is anything else. To her credit, Diamond avoids scripting her arguments in obtuse academese. With her compassionate, understated approach, she has stepped up the business of gender research. -- Lily Burana * Washington Post Book World *A fascinating read. * Times Higher Education *The book has many riveting accounts by women of their own experiences of sexual attraction and distraction… Diamond has written a fascinating book. -- Adam Phillips * London Review of Books *[Diamond] did something unique, following 100 female subjects with same-sex attractions for 10 years… Her book is worth reading. -- Sheela Lambert * Examiner.com *Diamond's study has the potential to lead to more acceptance of variety within sexual orientation. With young women leading the way, everyone will become less fearful of diverse sexual experiences. Sexual Fluidity can take us beyond the divisive language of 'phases' and 'denial' as we speak the truth of our lives to each other. -- Ellyn Ruthstrom * Women's Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Will the Real Lesbians Please Stand Up? 2. Gender Differences in Same-Sex Sexuality 3. Sexual Fluidity in Action 4. Nonexclusive Attractions and Behaviors 5. Change in Sexual Attractions 6. Attractions to "the Person, Not the Gender" 7. How Does Fluidity Work? 8. Implications of Female Sexual Fluidity References Notes Acknowledgments Index

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