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Book SynopsisThis anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.Trade Review"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréaliste Renée Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field... Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime... The Exquisite Corpses Denise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song... Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin... Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution Nadja The Blue Wind Fanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along Purity! Purity! Purity! Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an Inquiry My Passage in Surrealism Valentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties Claude Cabun Captive Balloon The Invisible Adventure Poetry Keeps Its Secret Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation From life I still expect that overwhelming experience Beware Domestic Objects! Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man? The Scottsboro Case A Trip to Harlem Simone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode Half-Season Greta Knutson Foreign Land Lise Deharme The Empty Cage The Little Girl of the Black Forest Denise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers Maruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My Work Meret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going? If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing... Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers... Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World Gisèle Prassinos Arrogant Hair The Ghost of Chateaubriand Toyen A Community of Ethical Views Alice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare Ground Despair Hourglass Lying Down Valentine Penrose There Is the Fire The Datura the Serpent To a Woman to a Path Sheila Legge I Have Done My Best For You Eileen Agar Am I a Surrealist? Mary Low Women and the Spanish Revolution Marcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains... When He Went Away... The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops... Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep... Leonora Carrington The Sand Camel Grace Pailthorpe What We Put in Prison The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism Surrealist Art On the Importance of Fantasy Life Hélène Vanel Poetry and Dance Ithell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture? Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow 3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945 Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings Suzanne Césaire André Breton, Poet Discontent of a Civilization 1943: Surrealism and Us The Domain of the Marvelous Mary Low Perchance to Dream Women and Love through Private Property Frida Kahlo I Paint My Own Reality From Her Journal Lucie Thésée Beautiful as... The Buckets in My Head... Where Will the Earth Fall? Leonora Carrington Down Below Régine Raufast Photography and Image Laurence Iché Scissors Strokes by the Clock... I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern... Unpublished Correspondence The Philosophers' Stone Gertrude Pape The Lake Eardrops from Babylon Susy Hare Complaint for a Sorcerer Sonia Sekula Womb Meret Oppenheim Round the World with the Rumpus God.... Ithell Colquhoun "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea" Water-Stone of the Wise Emmy Bridgwater On the Line Back to the First Bar The Journey The Birds Edith Rimmington The Growth at the Break The Sea-Gull Alice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars... Little Epidermis Sublimated Mercury The Appellants Ferns in a Hollow of Absence... The Sleeping Woman Eva Sulzer Butterfly Dreams Amerindian Art Jacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen The Earth Ida Kar I Chose Photography Ikbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany] 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959 Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s Thérèse Renaud I Lay My Head Françoise Sullivan Dance and Automatism Iréne Hamoir Pearl Aria The Procession Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most? Lise Deharme I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein Maria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon Art, Liberation, and Peace Helen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a Moment Vera Hérold The Big L Gisèle Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls Ithell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism Dorothea Tanning Legend Nora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face "Blacker Than Black. . ." About Cats and Magnolias Poetry, Freedom of Being On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Valentine Penrose I Dream Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter Jacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951 Alice Rahon Painter and Magician Jacqueline Senard Reason and Safety Factors Cat=Clover Polar Elisa Breton One in the Other Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door? Joyce Mansour Into the Red Velvet Lovely Monster Practical Advice for Waiting To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Meret Oppenheim Automatism at a Crossroads I Have to Write Down the Black Words Judit Reigl Points of Departure for a New Revolt Isabel Meyrelles Night Words Anneliese Hager Of the Poison of Dreams The Blue Spell Automatic Dream Drahomira Vandas Light Throws Shadows An Egg Hatches Out a Flame Rain Man Olga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf) Blanca Varela Dance Card Marianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms... Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Leonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996 Kay Sage Painter and Writer An Observation The Window Chinoiserie Fragrance Mimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Sonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face Remedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams 5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s Nora Mitrani In Defense of Surrealism Nelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner At the Women Warriors' Table Enough or Still More All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview Nicole Espagnol Female Socket Heartstopping The Conclusion Is Not Drawn The Wind Turns Annie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything! Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism? Baking Chocolate and Dialectics What Do I Know... Therapy Monique Charbonel It's a Wonder Unica Zürn Lying in Ambush Elisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany Today Automatic Text for Anne Ethuin Penelope Rosemont Passage Candle Rising Asleep Joyce Mansour A Mango Night in the Shape of a Bison Ten to One to No Wild Glee from Elsewhere Absolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966 Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist? Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an Inquiry While We Spend Our Lives Ironing... And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper... The Naked Truth Vampiro Nox Surrealism: Rising Sign Anne Ethuin Legend Isabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk... Tyger, Tyger Luiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy "Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst) Fable The Force of Gravity Sphericity: Ferocity Alejandra Pizarnik Caroline von Günderode In a Copy of Les Chants de Maldoror Leila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic Art My Love, I Speak to You of a Love Rikki Ducornet My Special Madness Necromancy Dark Star, Black Star Machete Clean Nancy Joyce Peters To the Death of Mirrors General Strike Nelly Kaplan's Néa: Woman and Eroticism in Film Alice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist Dance Jayne Cortez Consultation Feathers In the Line of Duty Make Ifa Say It Haifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins? A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi Hilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' Potlatch Hilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' Potlatch Valentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds Made Leonora Carrington What Is a Woman? The Cabbage Is a Rose Meret Oppenheim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and Tomorrow Silvia Grénier Salomé Signs Carmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt "Lady from Shanghai" Moi-Même (Myself) Eva Svankmajerová Emancipation Cycle Tactile Lids Stunned by Freedom I Don't Know Exactly Alena Nádvorn'ková Emila Medková's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of Detail Determination of Time Art History (Sandro Botticelli) Ivana Ciglinová The Old Crow's Story Mary Low The Companion Q.E.D. Where the Wolf Sings Encounter Hilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music Today Preface to I Am Rain Our Skin Is Paper Poem for Central America Marie-Dominique Massoni Two Seconds How Old Is the Old Mole? Haifa Zangana What Choice? Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's Paintings Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama Sacred Trees Penelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden Goose The Bad Days Will End Revolution by Chance Rikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi Manifesto in Voices Alice Farley Permutations of Desire Costumes: Vehicles of Transformation Gesture Irene Plazewska Newton's Descent Debra Taub A Dance in the Forest Exquisite Alchemy Secret Melodies Gina Litherland Imagination and Wilderness Ivanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of Revelation Nicole E. Reiss Divagations A Delirious Voyage inside a Circle Elaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and Love Sarah Metcalf A Game of Slight Disturbances Katerina Pinosová The Piece of Bone Lenka Valacbová The Sterile Dish Kajsa Bergh Desire Petra Mandal First-Hand Knowledge Nancy Joyce Peters Women and Surrealism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but “routine.” A series of errors by her clinicians led to a real-life nightmare: surgery without anesthesia. The ensuing mental and physical complications left her traumatized and searching for answers about how things could have gone so wrong.In the United States, one in three babies is born via C-section, a rate that has grown exponentially over the past fifty years. And while in most cases the procedure is safe, it is not without significant, sometimes life-changing consequences, many of which affect people of color disproportionately. With C-sections all but invisible in popular culture and pregnancy guides, new mothers are often left to navigate these obstacles on their own.Somerstein weaves personal narrative and investigative journalism with medical, social, and cultural history to reveal the operation’s surprising evolution, from its early practice on enslaved women to its excessive promotion by modern medical practitioners. She uncovers the current-day failures of the medical system, showing how pregnant women''s agency is regularly disregarded by providers who, motivated by fear of litigation or a hospital’s commitment to efficiency, make far-reaching and deeply personal decisions on behalf of their patients. She also examines what prevailing maternal and medical attitudes toward C-sections tell us about American culture.Invisible Labor lifts the veil on C-sections so that people can make choices about pregnancy and surgical birth with greater knowledge of the risks, benefits, and alternatives, with information on topics including: VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) and repeat c-section Pain and pain management during childbirth How C-sections can affect family planning The valuable role of midwives and doulas in the birth experience The myths behind “natural” childbirth How limitations put on reproductive rights impact pregnant people With deep feeling and authority, Somerstein offers support to others who have had difficult or traumatic birth experiences, as well as hope for new forms of reproductive justice.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen’s most insightful essays and poetic prose piecesTrade Review"Christensen’s scientific and sensuous language resonates with a cosmic vibrancy." -- Columbia Journal"One of Scandinavia’s finest experimental poets, Christensen’s probing, questioning, hopeful voice was an important one and is missed, but we can still hear it in this provocative book. A poet who was definitely not living in an ivory tower." -- Kirkus"What sets Christensen above other poets, moralists, mystics, and scientists is that she rarely instructs by telling how to see, but instead gets readers to experience an alternate way of seeing through the reading of her verse. From one essay to the next, her luminous prose (conveyed in graceful, intimate English by her longtime translator Susanna Nied) confirms what was already evident in the poems: that Christensen was one of the eminent visionaries of the 20th century." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Condition of Secrecy exudes—and induces—the same fugue-like state induced by the best poems, especially long poems, and particularly Christensen’s own." -- Michigan Quarterly Review"Christensen is at her most intriguing when posing questions, as when she wonders, 'Does art originate from the same necessity that gives rise to beehives, the songs of larks, and the dances of cranes?' and asking whether it is possible to write poetry that is compelling if read 'out loud to a cockroach?' These borderline silly yet profoundly imaginative questions make for a thought-provoking reading experience." -- Publishers Weekly"Like all Christensen's writing, The Condition of Secrecy aims to be a history of no less than everything: the origins of the stars and our souls, the beauty of fractals and of third-century Chinese poetry. It is a book about eating strawberries, witch-burning and the challenge that the soft, scumbled sides of clouds pose to geometry. It’s about standing in the garden and watching yellow slugs 'moving like slow flames' in sunlight. It’s a hectic kind of erudition that could easily seem showy, but in these essays we experience it as a kind of abundance, an outpouring of love for the world. Nied’s clean, musical translation helps. There is nothing knotty, nothing strained. The arguments radiate outward with the measured rhythm of ripples in water." -- Parul Seghal - The New York Times"Inger Christensen manages to make wit, passion and questioning, and astonishing design serve each other’s ends as one, and she does it in a way that is utterly her own." -- W. S. Merwin

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n astonishing and discipline-changing piece of scholarship. Interested in black feminist theory, gender, sexuality, slavery, and the urban Caribbean, [Fuentes'] interdisciplinary deep dive into the archives collides with so-called conventional understandings of historical methodology, historiography, knowledge production, and especially historical archival research . . . scholars can no longer rationalize the absence of marginalized figures like the women in this book because the archival documents do not explicitly reveal them. Moreover, one will be hard pressed to tread heavily ever again over those documents-or their already fragment-rendered subjects-after reading this incredibly important work." * Journal of Early American History *"Dispossessed Lives reflects the tremendous complexity embedded in projects that attempt to extricate the histories of enslaved women from an archive seemingly bent on their erasure. Through artful discussions of the bondwomen who comprise her chapters, reading into silence as well as sound, Fuentes encourages historians to assess the limits of enslaved agency, highlighting the real, violent strictures that shaped the lives and afterlives of enslaved women residing in eighteenth-century Bridgetown. In doing so, Fuentes demonstrates what is possible when we approach familiar evidence with fresh eyes and innovative strategies." * Journal of African American History *"Dispossessed Lives is an impassioned and meticulously researched call to rethink how history, as a discipline, can approach the absence of archival evidence concerning enslaved women's lives in the Americas . . . [Fuentes] makes a compelling argument about the practice of history as a discipline itself, in addition to mapping new archival territory." * Textual Cultures *"Dispossessed Lives exemplifies the best new historical scholarship on slavery and gender. Marisa Fuentes's compelling study of women's lives in and around Bridgetown leaves the reader with a clear sense of who these women were and how they navigated the terrain of a Caribbean slave society. At the same time, Fuentes's engagement with the problems of the archive testifies to the powerful entanglements that constitute the afterlife of slavery. This is an important study that fundamentally reshapes the questions we are compelled to ask about the histories of slavery in the Atlantic world." * Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University *"Original in both content and structure, Dispossessed Lives offers a nuanced interpretation of race, gender, sexuality, and the power of the archive in the eighteenth-century urban British Atlantic. Marisa J. Fuentes is masterful with her use of extremely scarce primary source material, forcing us to rethink methodology and teaching us how to understand what is not present in the archives." * Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware *"Dispossessed Lives is an important and complex work that demonstrates how historians can employ a range of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to tease out, in sensitive and thoughtful ways, the hidden corporeality of enslavement, or, put another way, the lives, deaths, and bodies of enslaved women that are buried in the archive." * Melanie J. Newton, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women Slaveowners and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMost of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French women, using rich source material to show what they thought about their lives, menfolk, friendships, faith, and sex.Trade Review...it would be unwise to deny our pleasure, as works about women, families and sexuality are scarce concerning the Protestant Midi on the second half of the 16th century. The book, furthermore, demonstrates the current dynamism of Early Modern gender studies, both in French and British historiography--and we can but rejoice of it. * Review of modern and contemporary history of Nîmes & du Gard *[An] elegant and against-the-odds readable journey into women's lives in southern France during a period of social change and religious turmoil. It's a humane and brilliantly told story. * Dan Jones, Waterstones Favourite History Books of the Year 2019 *An exhaustive study ... constitutes a substantive display of scholarly acumen ... The women of Lipscomb's narrative are less devious and more direct about their needs. They have been lucky to find such a gifted chronicler. * Kate Maltby, The Financial Times *This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc...This work is essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France. * Linda Briggs, Queen Mary University of London, French Studies *Lipscomb's painstaking study ... offers new insights into everyday life and popular morality in Reformation France. A finely wrought and colourful mosaic ... the overall result is ... richly satisfying. * Alexandra Walsham, Literary Review *[R]eaders of The Voices of Nîmes will come away with a vivid sense of women's daily life in a sixteenth-century French town and will learn much from the book. * Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg Univeristy, H-France Review *This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France * Linda Briggs, French Studies *The Voices of Nîmes is a work of meticulous archival research that not only presents [...] past conversations but breathes them into vivid life. It takes a proficient, passionate and witty storyteller like Lipscomb to detail these stories in a way that transports and moves the reader. * Joanne Paul, History Today *This is a splendid read. The author has not overplayed her stories. She has not needed to. This is scholarly writing at its readable best. * G. R. Evans, Church Times *This is a beautiful book, grippingly written, and destined to be a classic of social history * Professor Sir Simon Schama *Fascinating book... exceptional fresh insights into gender relations, social life, and religious belief among first generations of protestants in the French Midi * Robin Briggs, All Souls College, Oxford *Essential reading for all those interested in the hidden stories of the Reformation and hearing the everyday voices so often left out of history books * Kate Mosse, Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and The Burning Chambers *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Landscape 2: The Pursuit of Morality 3: Belief 4: Social Relations 5: Marriage and Love 6: Sex 7: The Trials of Marriage Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPolitical Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir''s surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir''s analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir''s leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the 'two-state solution' in Israel.Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir''s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context Trade Review"Rich and illuminating. . . . A fascinating chart of a brilliant mind struggling to bridge the divide between rarified abstract thinking and concrete social engagement."--Publishers Weekly"Political Writings likely will shed new light on aspects of de Beauvoir's political thought for those who are familiar with her only through The Second Sex. . . . Recommended."--Choice "This remarkable collection will be most surprising and provocative for thinkers yearning for a political philosophy to accompany Beauvoir's feminist and ethical philosophies. These essays, many of them appearing for the first time in English, make clear Beauvoir's turn away from the abstract philosophical thought and toward political engagement."--Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human"This remarkable volume demonstrates how Simone de Beauvoir, through her writings, made compelling contributions to the ongoing struggle against ignorance, deception and injustice."--H-France Review"An accessible and worldly series of papers . . . . for readers of Beauvoir, this compilation provides ample opportunity to find ties to her other work, to illustrate parts of her philosophical writing that are overly abstract or opaque, and to reflect on how thinking is, necessarily, and importantly, situated."--Philosophy in Review"This unique contribution to Beauvoir scholarship displays the range and depth of her political activism and thought on behalf of women and the oppressed worldwide. This fantastic volume took my breath away and left me more than ever in awe of Beauvoir."--Claudia Card, author of Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide"Political Writings is a carefully selected and newly translated compilation of some of Beauvoir's essays that reflect the eclectic nature of the writer's thoughts, the depth of her analysis and the sheer literary and aesthetic force of her language. . . . Not only are the introductions a pleasure in themselves to read, they also provide the politico-historical context in which the essays were written, allowing the reader to appreciate them all the more."--Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

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Book SynopsisA celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century ParisTrade ReviewDenver Art Museum (10/22/17–01/14/18) * Denver Art Museum *Speed Art Museum (02/17/18–05/13/18) * Speed Art Museum *Clark Art Institute (06/09/18–09/03/18) * Clark Art Institute *

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Book SynopsisHighlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women's health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The women's health movement in the United States, beginning in 1969 and taking hold in the 1970s, was a broad-based movement seeking to increase women's bodily knowledge, reproductive control, and well-being. It was a political movement that insisted that bodily autonomy provided the key to women's liberation. It was also an institution-building movement that sought to transform women's relationships with medicine; it was dedicated to increasing women's access to affordable health care without the barriers of homophobia, racism, and sexism. But the movement did not only focus on women's bodies. It also encouraged activists to reimagine their relationships with one another, to develop their relationships in the name of personal and political change, and, eventually, to discover and confront thTrade Review“A well-researched, eye-opening book about the evolution of the women’s health movement. Highly recommended for readers interested in feminist theory and activism. It’s also a must for people frustrated with and angered by the prevalent biases within the medical system.” * Library Journal *“At a moment when reproductive and bodily autonomy are under threat more than ever, Houck tells a timely story of women’s health movement activists who demystified and transformed reproductive medicine to establish liberatory health practices and institutions. Houck’s protagonists also grappled with intersectional marginalization, leading many to demand healthcare that embraced the particular needs and demands of lesbians, trans people, and women of color.” -- Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands“Looking through the Speculum is a gripping account of the women’s health movement and the institutions women’s health activists built and ran from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. Houck chronicles how feminist health activists established women’s health clinics to offer an alternative to the patriarchal model of medicine in which male physicians controlled procedures, information, and medications central to women’s intimate lives. Houck takes us inside the clinics to illustrate how feminist activists put into practice ideas about feminist health care and feminist leadership models. Over time, as the patient population became less white, less heterosexual, and less cisgender, clinics had to deliver more expansive services and adjust to new leadership models to appeal to poorer and less privileged women, women of color, and patients seeking trans care. This is a book not only about women’s attempts to take control of their intimate health care needs, but also about struggles for democracy and leadership these changes brought. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how political ideals were negotiated and renegotiated as women’s health activists struggled to adjust to the changing needs of their clients and the health care field at large.” -- Johanna Schoen, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the Speculum to the Clinic 1. With a Flashlight and a Speculum: Envisioning a Feminist Revolution 2. Feminist Health Services: Moving beyond the Speculum 3. Creating a Feminist Politics of Abortion 4. “Will We Still Be Feminist?”: Abortion Provision at the Chico Feminist Women’s Health Center 5. Lesbian Health Matters! Lesbians and the Women’s Health Movement 6. A Clinic of Our Own: Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services 7. “Any Sister’s Pain”: Forging Black Women’s Sisterhood through Self-Help 8. “The Challenge of Change”: Feminist Health Clinics and the Politics of Inclusion Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPatsy Rodenburg OBE is a world expert on teaching voice, speech and presentation skills to individuals and companies across corporate and creative industries, as well as working with actors in theatre, film and television. Currently, she is Professor of Text and Poetry at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK, after serving as Head of Voice from 1981 until 2016. Over the past 40 years, she has been pioneering the only existing MA in Training Actors (Voice) and has sat on the board of directors for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2020, she established The Patsy Rodenburg Academy, which provides a safe and creative space for teachers, leaders, actors and all others to explore storytelling, while developing leadership, theatre and voice skills.She has coached some of the world's leading business figures, including CEOs and board-level executives at leading global institutions such as the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, The Royal BritishTable of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1 – The Beginnings Chapter 2 – Cages Chapter 3 – Brilliant Women Chapter 4 – Whole Presence, Whole Voice Chapter 5 – The Unquestionably Equal Woman Chapter 6 – Equal? Chapter 7 – Mother Margaret and Nanna Winifred Chapter 8 – Winnie Chapter 9 – My Father Chapter 10 – Education Chapter 11 – Vocation Chapter 12 – Voice and Rhetoric Chapter 13 – The Fading Memory of Women’s Power Chapter 14 – John Chapter 15 – Scarls Chapter 16 – Focusing on Voice Chapter 17 – Handmaidens Chapter 18 – Breaking Free – Going Deeper – Demanding More Chapter 19 – 2006: Moving On – The Revolution of Thriving, not just Surviving Chapter 20 – Facing the Inevitable Chapter 21 – Where is your Voice? Chapter 22 – Masks of Survival Chapter 23 – Form and Content Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisHekmat Al-Taweel (1922–2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships. Her stories about life in Gaza highlight shared history, vibrant culture, and cherished traditions. Al-Taweel continued her education after marriage, sought community volunteer work, worked as a teacher and supervisor, and committed to activism throughout her life, all of which contradicts widespread Western orientalized stereotypes of Arab women. She also shares insights into life in Gaza during the British Mandate period as well as the 1948 Nakba and its aftermath. This is the third book in the Women’s Voices from Gaza Series, which honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. Foreword by Ilan Pappe.Trade Review“The Women's Voices From Gaza series is exceptional, offering insights into modern Gaza’s social history. It will attract a wide readership in Palestine studies and gender studies, as well as individuals interested in the Palestine question.” Rema Hammami, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Birzeit UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Introducing Women’s Voices from Gaza ix Foreword, Ilan Pappe xv Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction xxv Come My Children 1 / Childhood: Growing Up in Gaza 3 2 / The British Mandate and School Days 21 3 / Marriage and Relations with Palestinian Muslims 39 4 / Business and Life Before and After the 1948 Nakba 51 5 / Palestinian Resistance Against the British Mandate 59 6 / The Egyptian Administration and the Israeli Occupation 71 7 / Yusuf, the United States, and Palestine 85 Chronology of Events in Palestine 107 Notes 127 Glossary 145 Bibliography 149

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Book SynopsisOften condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women's sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness. A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.Trade Review"A fascinating and accessible examination of fashion and feminism throughout history." --Ms. Magazine "Thought-provoking. . . . Recommended." --Choice "Rabinovitch-Fox provides an engaging and accessible history of American fashion and its relationship to feminism across the twentieth-century. . . . A highly readable and pacey book that will deservedly find a wider readership outside the academy. " --Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsintroduction. Beyond Bloomers: The Feminist Politics of Women’s Fashion in the Twentieth Century1. Fashioning the New Woman: Gibson Girls, Shirtwaist Makers, and Rainy Daisies2. Styling Women’s Rights: Fashion and Feminist Ideology3. Dressing the Modern Girl: Flapper Styles and the Politics of Women’s Freedom4. Designing Power: The Fashion Industry and the Politics of Style5. This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: Fashion in the Era of Women’s LiberationEpilogue. The Fashionable Legacies of American FeminismNotesIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisSecond Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis.Trade ReviewNancy Fraser is among the very few thinkers in the tradition of critical theory who are capable of redeeming its legacy in the twenty-first century. -- Axel HonnethFor more than a decade, Nancy Fraser's thought has helped to reframe the agenda of critical theory. -- Etienne BalibarNancy Fraser challenges us to reactivate the audacious spirit of second-wave feminism. Analyzing an imaginary aimed at eradicating exploitation as well as subjugation, she offers a rousing conclusion as to how we might mobilize feminism's best energies against the perils of the neoliberal present. -- Lynne SegalNancy Fraser is one of the most creative social philosophers and critical theorists of her generation. -- Cornel WestFortunes of Feminism goes a long way in bringing together Fraser's substantial body of work on redistribution and recognition . Scholars interested in these themes will find this invaluable - or at least they should. -- Gwendolyn Beetham * THES *Fraser asks: What became of feminism in the wake of the neoliberal turn?.This book is required reading for feminists of all persuasions, and for a broader audience of left readers who want to get an overview of feminist political and philosophical debates.[Fraser] helps us think about the crucial question of where the women's movements in all of their varieties are going. Equally crucially, she helps us to ask what the relationship of such movements is, should be, or could be, to the left broadly defined, in an era in which war and austerity threaten all of the modest social justice gains of the Golden Age. -- Hester Eisenstein * Science and Society *

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Book SynopsisWomen have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi Delta to the home of electric blues, Chicago, to becoming the vibrant global musical movement it is today. In addition, there are exclusive interviews with dozens of the women leading the Blues today. With an introduction by acclaimed music writer Zoe Howe, this book explores the pioneers who created the blues from the 1920s onwards, as well as providing exclusive interviews with around 30 extraordinary women who take the blues to new heights today.Trade Review"Jennifer Noble is an insightful blues enthusiast whose wealth of knowledge of blues music is second to none. Through this rare book about women in blues, the reader encounters many of the talented ladies Jennifer has met on her photographic journey - from Irma Thomas to Ivy Ford - illuminated with wonderfully informative dialogue from the artists themselves to complement her photos. This is not just another coffee table book: it is a must read for all blues aficionados!" -Blues Matters Magazine; "Jennifer Noble's photographs make you fall in love with these Blues Women. She captures the essence of their soul. I have fallen in love with them as well and was so inspired that I started Women of the Blues Foundation. Thank you, Jennifer Noble for bringing me into a world of extraordinary women." -Lynn Orman Weiss, Founder Women of the Blues Foundation and Women of the Blues Records; "Jennifer Noble has been photographing blues in Chicago for more than 30 years so she knows a thing or two about the scene. In 50 Women in the Blues, she highlights-you guessed it-50 women of the blues-from the legendary trailblazers like Memphis Minnie, Big Mama Thorton, Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith to present day blues queens such as Shemekia Copeland, Joanna Connor, Thornetta Davis, Mary Lane, Sister Cookie and many, many more. Even I, who likes to think I know everything there is to know about the women who sing the blues, met a few women I didn't know in this delightful book." -Chicago Blues News; "50 Women in the Blues is a worthy addition to the crop of blues music titles vying for attention out there. Indeed, its format and integrity make it an essential introduction and potential reference work for blues fans everywhere. More than a typical coffee-table book, this is a dip-in whenever you fancy book that holds the power to interest, grip, entertain and inform, and that can't be bad!" - Iain Patience, Elmore Magazine; "...the book is produced in hardback, and as the notes say 'The book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi delta to Chicago to the global music it is today'. So for all of us who love the blues this book is a must have. One of the best produced books on the blues you'll ever find." - Peta Clack, Blues in Britain magazine; "Given the times we live in, it's a little surprising there haven't been more books focusing on blueswomen. Whether this book of photographs and (relatively brief) essays and interviews, featuring the work of photographer Jennifer Noble, with assistance from British author and freelance writer Zoe Howe, represents part of a larger movement to correct that oversight remains to be seen, but it's a tantalizing prospect. Noble's photographs are straightforward and unpretentious, she's not a high art photographer but a portraitist, interested in capturing the spirit of the moment and in these cases the spirit and brio of her subjects - appropriately the dominant mood is joyful: this music is a celebration - of life, of womanly power, of perseverance and survival. In recent years, authors such as Angela Y. Davis (Blues Legacies and Black Feminism)... have produced important works that have focused on the social significance of women's voices and performance styles in the blues, and although it does not aspire to the scope of such works, this collection of photographs should nonetheless be recognized as another, in what one hopes is an ongoing initiative, scholarly and otherwise, to recognize, study and celebrate this vital facet of living blues history. After all, in a very real sense, the history of the blues is women's history as well - or as Zoe Howe reminds us in her introduction: "Years of oppression couldn't stop them. Violence couldn't cow them. Religion didn't suppress them and social conditioning couldn't inhibit them... a woman is the blues and the blues is a woman." - David Whiteis, Living Blues Magazine.

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Book SynopsisThe miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection of MacKinnon’s speeches and other writings covers a roughly 40-year period and shows the process of attempting to hammer law into a tool that could be used for social change to address the inequality of women. This was something of a tall order, given, as MacKinnon says, ‘The legal system that we have was not designed by women or so that women could make it work for women.’ Yet here she is, doing it, and the book provides a rare and quite intimate window on how it is done, in both theory and practice. -- Michele Dauber, Stanford Law SchoolWhat comes together here—and what is fascinating about all of MacKinnon’s work—is a deep respect for aspects of the conventional world (the law, the value of scholarship) and an equally profound fury at the way in which these aspects also uphold many of the assumptions about the world that she takes to task. In this, it could be said, she is not unlike many of us. All respect to her for trying to find a way through this maze. -- Mary Evans * Times Higher Education *MacKinnon [is] radical, passionate, incorruptible and a beautiful literary stylist…Butterfly Politics…is a devastating salvo fired in the gender wars. A fierce and lucid anthology of essays on subjects ranging from torture to pornography, this book has a single overriding aim: to effect global change in the pursuit of equality…Butterfly Politics is her call for humanity to rise to its feet. -- Antonella Gambotto-Burke * The Australian *Small actions can have highly complex and large impacts, and Catharine MacKinnon uses this concept, the ‘butterfly effect,’ to explain how critical interventions can produce radical transformation in the gender system. She exposes through 40 years of her legal battles an emerging global normative system confronting sexual inequality…MacKinnon is a 21st-century thinker, one of the few proposing global software that could run on the old national hardware. She is encouraging multidimensional political thinking, precise engagement, principled creativity, imagination, instinct and adaptability: small actions in a collective context producing systemic changes. -- Luis Moreno Ocampo * Lawfare *[MacKinnon’s] theoretical understanding of concepts of power, privilege and intellectual freedom isn’t just universal, but also prophetic in the ways it holds weight in 2018… The book offers a comprehensive understanding of MacKinnon’s legal scholarship through over four decades. Her work asks tough questions, and clearly set some theoretical precedents in our modern-day, Tumblr and ‘social justice warrior’ era understanding of sexism, power dynamics and inequality. -- Sabah Azaad * The Print *MacKinnon adapts a concept from chaos theory in which the tiny motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away. Under the right conditions, she posits, small actions can produce major social transformations. * New York Times *Sometimes ideas change the world. Catharine MacKinnon is a visionary, and this astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School, and former Administrator, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Book SynopsisLively and delightfulzooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women's suffrage movement. Some women went to jail. Others climbed mountains. Visual artists, dancers, and journalists all played a partFar from perfect, they used their own abilities, defects, and opportunities to build a movement that still resonates today.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make HistoryAn intimate account of the unheralded activism that won women the right to vote, and an opportunity to celebrate a truly diverse cohort of first-wave feminist changemakers.Ms. Demonstrates the steady advance of women's suffrage while also complicating the standard portrait of it.New YorkerThe story of how American women won the right to vote is usually told through the lives of a few iconic leaders. But movements for social change are rarely so tidy or top-heavy. Why They Marched profiles nineteen womensome famous, many unknownwho worked tirelTrade Review[Ware] places 19 women who've been overlooked because of race, class or sexuality back on the front lines of the fight for the ballot. Their stories provide readers with an intimate account of the unheralded activism that won women the right to vote, and an opportunity to celebrate a truly diverse cohort of first-wave feminist changemakers. * Ms. *Her cast of characters usefully illustrates the geographic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic range of the suffrage movement. Ultimately, though, the diversity of the voting-rights advocates is less shocking than the diversity of voting rights themselves…Demonstrates the steady advance of women’s suffrage while also complicating the standard portrait of it: the right to vote is less a switch than a dial, one that can be turned up or dimmed down. -- Casey Cep * New Yorker *Looks at 19 activists from around the country, from a variety of races and backgrounds, revealing that the movement was made up of a wider and much more diverse group than is typically noted in the history books…It comes at a potent moment as the nation next year will see the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which deals with women’s suffrage, and a presidential election that has drawn a record number of women candidates. * Boston Globe *A smart, eclectic collection of 19 mini-biographies of Americans who worked for women’s suffrage…Ware’s excellent compendium expertly shows there are new ways to tell the suffrage story. This is a must-read for those interested in women’s and American history. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Ware does a wonderful job of highlighting people and subjects often passed over when exploring the fight for women’s rights…[She] does not shy away from some of the controversies often hidden when studying suffragism, namely racism, and is able to give both a broad and detailed look at the movement. * Library Journal (starred review) *Refreshingly, Ware…focuses on many of the lesser-known but equally audacious, talented women who joined the fight, profiling 19 courageous individuals…Important American history that is also timely given recent attempts at voter suppression. * Kirkus Reviews *A complete historical portrait of the suffrage movement. Ware delves into the racism and Eurocentrism of the suffrage movement, as well as portraying suffragists from the South and West, Mormon suffragists, and pockets of suffrage history just brought to light. A tremendous work…this is my newest favorite history book. -- Nancy Snyder * Book Riot *As we see abortion rights attacked so fiercely in the U.S., this book is a reminder that winning the vote was not the end of the fight. It was the beginning of a continuing battle for real equality. -- Jan Nielsen * Socialist Worker *One woman can refuse to pay taxes. A dozen can issue a manifesto. But it takes a multitude to mount a parade. Susan Ware’s lively and delightful book zooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women’s suffrage movement. Some women went to jail. Others climbed mountains. Visual artists, dancers, and journalists all played a part. Suffragists tangled with each other as well as with opponents. Far from perfect, they used their own abilities, defects, and opportunities to build a movement that still resonates today. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make HistoryThis entertaining and lively history of the women’s suffrage movement is full of surprises, featuring accounts of people and events that are not well known and highlighting women from minority groups and from regions other than the Northeast. What a fresh take on the traditional narrative that begins with Seneca Falls and ends with the victory in 1920. I found myself looking forward to each new section. -- Marjorie J. Spruill, author of One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman’s Suffrage MovementSusan Ware’s book should be required reading for anyone who cares about our democracy and has forgotten how hard women had to fight for their right to participate in building a better future. She reminds us how far we’ve come—and how far we have yet to go. -- Tanya Selvaratnam, author of The Big LieAn endlessly readable ode to lesser-known—but equally important—women from a variety of backgrounds, all dedicated to the cause of women’s suffrage…Ware is intentional in naming the racism of white suffragists and not backing away from shining a long-overdue light on the imperfections and inequities of the movement…While meticulously researched to satisfy the most seasoned suffrage scholar, the book is written most prominently for the enjoyment of armchair historians. -- Karla J. Strand * Canadian Journal of History *A wonderful use of material history, which students will find engaging and entertaining…A thoroughly researched and fascinating read on a diverse suffrage movement that will help spur interest in the movement well after the Anthony Amendment’s centennial. -- Rachel Gunter * H-Net Reviews *Moving, inspiring, and empowering, this is a testament to political action, the bond between women, and the power of raising your voice. * A Mighty Girl *In this history of women’s suffrage, Ware spends time with the individuals who never received recognition for their efforts in the cause…Ware explores the thousands of ways that the idea of universal suffrage circulated and identifies who allowed it to circulate. We see minds changing, which would eventually lead to laws changing too. -- Gal Beckerman * The Atlantic *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“However revealing Union is on her feed, she’s even more so on the page. Blurring the line between public and private, many chapters in You Got Anything Stronger? hinge on the very act of disclosure, the moments where Union relatably brings social media more in line with real life” — New York Times “You Got Anything Stronger? continues the project of unshackling. It’s soul-baring work.” — Washington Post "Heartfelt, vulnerable, witty, and sincere." — CNN “Union deftly writes about the life-changing diagnosis that led her to surrogacy as a path to moth­erhood; the impact of cracking open her family’s life for all to see; and how she discovered who she is beyond others’ projections. . . She makes you wish she were your best friend, her number saved in your favorites—a kindred spirit always ready to share real talk over a round of shots.” — Essence “In so many ways, You Got Anything Stronger? is about digging deeper into the genre of celebrity memoir—literally giving us something more potent—because Union is honest without crossing her own boundaries of privacy, passionate about social issues without being condescending, and owns up to her own mistakes and struggles while maintaining a really radiant and admirable self-love throughout the book.” — Shondaland "In her follow-up to her debut memoir, We’re Going to Need More Wine, actor and writer Gabrielle Union picks up where she left off, delving deep into her journey to conceive daughter Kaavia, her experience as a stepmom, and the rest — ugly, beautiful, and in-between. Break out the liquor, folks, because you’re going to want a stiff drink to go with this dish." — Bustle “You Got Anything Stronger? is a boundary-pushing, self-discovery inducing lesson on vulnerability” — Parade Even more open and relatable than her first. This time around the actor and author is opening up about her surrogacy journey, fighting against racial inequality in Hollywood, and her iconic Bring It On character, Isis. Grab a glass of your drink of choice and settle in, because reading Union's essays is every bit as satisfying as a nice, long chat with your best friend. — Popsugar Funny, tender, and so good. — Mindy Kaling, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me? These essays are brimming with veracity, humor, and daring sincerity that becomes contagious. In depictions of motherhood, Hollywood, and even the most devastating realities, Union keeps a remarkably steady hand; she speaks with the warmth of a late night phone call. — Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age This is an absolute must-read. Gabrielle doesn’t just open up—she opens up conversations we need to be having. — Sunny Hostin, New York Times bestselling author of Summer on the Bluffs and I Am These Truths Here is that rare book that will not only touch your heart, but also send you back out there to stand up for yourself and others. — Meena Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ambitious Girl This book is a masterclass in authenticity and vulnerability, and I loved it! I drank up the words on the pages because this is Gabby’s heart wide open in print. It is a stunning read that is deeply humanizing and I’m inspired by the courage and humor in it. It’s just so DAMB GOOD! — Luvvie Ajayi Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual Gabrielle Union has written another wonderful book that pulls no punches. The searing honesty of You Got Anything Stronger? is a gift to readers. Union faces head-on the different ways women become mothers and partners in an emotionally resonant and universal way. Her voice is relatable, warm, and sharp. You owe it to yourself to curl up with this book and to pass it along to a friend. — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Professor and MacArthur Fellow Gabrielle Union is serving us another stellar memoir. . . She gets even deeper in this series of essays that detail what her life is like now, including her experience with surrogacy and racism in the entertainment industry. — Cosmopolitan, "15 Compelling Fall 2021 Books to Add to Your Reading List" The star actor and producer demonstrates her dedication to empowering young Black women and other marginalized people. As these essays ably show, Union is a dynamic role model for young Black women in all walks of life. — Kirkus Reviews Union returns with more wise, intimate personal stories. . . The respect with which she writes about the people in her life is a true testament to her character. Always smart, inviting, and generous with emotion, Union's second exquisite memoir reads like a conversation with your most enlightened, thoughtful friend. — Booklist (starred review)

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Book SynopsisMisogyny is a hot topic, yet it''s often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics, by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it''s primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the bad women who challenge male dominance. And it''s compatible with rewarding the good ones, and singling out other women to serve as warnings to those who are out of order. It''s also common for women to serve as scapegoats, be burned as witches, and treated as pariahs.Manne examines recent and current events such as the Isla Vista killings by Elliot Rodger, the case of the convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, who preyed on African-American women as a police officer in Oklahoma City, Rush Limbaugh''s diatribe against Sandra Fluke, and the misogyny speech of Julia Gillard, then Prime Minister of Australia, which went viral on YouTube. The book shows how these events, among others, set the stage for the 2016 US presidential election. Not only was the misogyny leveled against Hillary Clinton predictable in both quantity and quality, Manne argues it was predictable that many people would be prepared to forgive and forget regarding Donald Trump''s history of sexual assault and harassment. For this, Manne argues, is misogyny''s oft-overlooked and equally pernicious underbelly: exonerating or showing himpathy for the comparatively privileged men who dominate, threaten, and silence women.Trade ReviewKate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny combines traditional conceptual analysis and feminist conceptual engineering with critical exploration of cases drawn from popular culture and current events in order to produce an ameliorative account of misogyny, that is, one that will help address the problems of misogyny in the actual world. The result is a timely, engaging, and relatively accessible account of a phenomenon that, in a variety of ways, structures the lives of millions. * Nora Berenstain, Mind *Manne's elucidation of misogyny's logic is interesting and illuminating ... [her] extensive use of real-world examples to illustrate and argue for her understanding of misogyny is laudable and exemplary of good philosophising. * Mari Mikkola, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *In Down Girl, Kate Manne does a jaw-droppingly brilliant job of explaining gender and power dynamics which have always been purposefully muddied, but which shape how and to whom sympathy and presumptions of full humanity accrue. Manne's work has been invaluable to me and so many others fighting to make sense of the world and who has power within it. You will understand our current moment far better and more easily after having read Down Girl. Perceptive, bold, stylishly written and bracingly clear eyed, Down Girl is one of the best books I have ever read on gender and power; I will never stop learning from it. * Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad *Down Girl leaves the reader wanting more, and Manne eagerly invites both scholars and her general audience to fill in those gaps. Rich conversations and literatures will surely follow in this book's wake. * Thomas E. Randall, Hypatia Reviews *Manne's book is a forensic and clever analysis which provides the cogs and wheels of how the system of patriarchal policing works, in our minds, as well as in our world. ... For the ordinary thinker concerned about societal oppression, Down Girl offers a sharply cut prism through which to view our everyday experience. * Afua Hirsch, Times Literary Supplement *Kate Manne has written a deeply moving and powerful book. It is politically engaged philosophical analysis at its best. * Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley *Persuasively defining "misogyny" as hostile, demeaning, shaming, and punitive treatment of women, Down Girl brings out the misogynist logic of contemporary culture with wit and urgency. In this book "misogyny" emerges as the law enforcement branch of patriarchy, and thus as a concept that fully deserves a place alongside "patriarchy" and "sexism" as a fundamental tool for feminist analysis. Combining conceptual clarity with passionate commitment, Down Girl is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand the ugly strand of hostility to women that has surfaced in recent years in our so-called advanced Western societies. * Toril Moi, Duke University *Despite its somber topic, Kate Manne's Down Girl made me very happy, exhilarated indeed by its insight, analytical clarity, and committed engagement with a major issue of justice. I've been thinking and teaching about sexism and misogyny for a long time, but this book opened up fresh perspectives, for example in its convincing distinction between sexism as a set of beliefs and misogyny as an enforcement strategy. Each thoughtful person will have her own sense of where to locate the root of injustice to women, but Manne's cogent argument that misogyny is primarily about the demand that women give support, service, and care is surely at least one big part of the story of our turbulent times. * Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago *Kate Manne's brilliant Down Girl is a welcome antidote to the view that philosophy is - or should be - detached and otherworldly. In it, philosophy meets reality and the stakes are nothing less than life and death. Drawing on literature, television, film, social media, current events, and scientific research, Manne's unflinching and bracingly original account defines misogyny in terms of what it does: it polices and punishes women for not fulfilling their time-honored role of catering to men's needs and desires. Among its many other virtues, her analysis explains why, even as women are achieving greater equality, misogyny's stranglehold doesnt show signs of loosening anytime soon. A must-read for all who struggle to make sense of contemporary culture and politics. * Susan J. Brison, Dartmouth College *Manne's important new book deploys the tools of analytic moral philosophy to construct an arresting account of the logic of misogyny. It is sure to become a key reference point for future discussions of this vital, but hitherto sadly neglected, topic. * John Tasioulas, King's College London *Manne offers us a deep, insightful, and thought-provoking - if depressing - account of misogyny in America. This is a path-breaking book. It couldn't come at a more auspicious time. * Ruth Chang, Rutgers University *Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny is excruciatingly well-timed, providing a theoretical framework for a phenomenon baring itself before us, perverse and pervasive... Down Girl reminds us that while revealing individual misogynists is hard, uprooting misogyny is much harder. * Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post *Manne brings a fresh analysis to our assumed understanding of misogyny and the related term sexism. As a feminist and moral philosopher... not a single book or article-length treatment [in the field] had been devoted to unpacking what it is and how it works. Historians, pay attention. Manne has stepped up to fill this gap... Manne as a feminist philosopher breaks new ground in a field that is in need of new perspectives...Having fought for recognition for the legitimacy of their method, feminist philosophers are firmly committed to excavating the political, epistemological, and moral aspects of gender relations. Down Girl should encourage historians who trace changes in the meaning and the context of language to revisit some of the old standby terms of feminism. * Lilian Calles Barger, Society for US Intellectual History *Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by feminist philosopher Kate Manne... argues that misogyny pits women against each other: the good wife vs. "feminazis." At a time when high-profile sexual predators have been exposed, I can't imagine a more relevant read. * Carrie Tirado Bramen, Times Higher Education *Kate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny provides an important and compelling analysis of a phenomenon that's everywhere. Out of Manne's thoughtful analysis, of not just much-debated high-profile events but also everyday experiences, emerge insight after insight into the what, why, when, and how of misogyny. Manne also gifts us a marvelous neologism to capture the exculpatory and even empathic attitudes sometimes expressed towards misogynistic men: "himpathy." * Cordelia Fine, The Big Issue *This new book from Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University, makes a compelling argument for treating misogyny as a culture-wide system, not just a matter of individual bigotry. * Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, The New York Times' The Interpreter Newsletter *It is difficult to imagine a more timely moment for Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Manne is a professor of philosophy at Cornell University, and she uses the abstract tools of her discipline to parse current events. Her guiding question is as troubling as it is straightforward-to quote the comedian John Oliver: "Why is misogyny still a thing?" Within the parameters that Down Girl sets for itself, the account of misogyny it provides is compelling. * Moira Weigel, The Guardian *Cornell University philosophy professor Kate Manne is on a mission to define "misogyny." While we're culturally familiar with sexism, Manne argues in her forthcoming book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny that misogyny has been woefully conflated with sexism though they have different uses. Misogyny, in Manne's estimation, is about "controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the 'bad' women who challenge male dominance." Through the lens of the 2016 election as well as the 2014 Isla Vista killings, the case of serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, Rush Limbaugh's "slut" rant against Sandra Fluke, and other news events, Manne outlines the danger of misogyny, and explains how we can collectively resist it. * Evette Dionne, Bitch Magazine *Down Girl is a must-read and should be in every feminist's library...[L]ong after reading it, I've found myself going back to it, quoting from it and rereading sections. Her analogies used to explain misogyny's many forms, provide much needed clarity; Manne also parses the difference between sexism vs. misogyny. In my opinion Down Girl is destined to become a feminist literary classic alongside the likes of The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf or Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. * Jennifer Taylor Skinner, The Electorette podcast *In her new book, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne examines an unfortunately ubiquitous reality through an intriguing lens. Manne, who teaches philosophy at Cornell, looks at misogyny from the perspective of power: rather than focus on whether individual men are misogynists or feel deep hatred for women, we would do well to spend more time wrestling with the power structures that not only allow for endless sympathy and space for men's poor behavior, but also-most crucially-help teach men that women are supposed to behave in certain ways. * Isaac Chotiner, "Punishment is Not Enough," Slate *What We're Reading: A compelling conversation [by Isaac Chotiner, Slate, see above] with Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University and the author of a new book on structural misogyny, may change the way you think about the #MeToo moment. She makes a case for treating the wave of revelations as an opportunity to re-examine a culture-wide system of discrimination, not just individual instances of bigotry and harassment. * Amanda Taub, The New York Times *What is misogyny? How is it different from sexism? And why does the male-dominated status quo seem to persist? A new book by Cornell philosophy professor Kate Manne has answers. She argues that misogyny is not about male hostility or hatred toward women-instead, it's about controlling and punishing women who challenge male dominance. Misogyny rewards women who reinforce the status quo and punishes those who don't...This book calls attention to the roles we all play in society, roles that we're assigned at birth and rarely question, and how we punish people-especially women-when they defy those roles. * Sean Illing, Vox *In the fiercely argued and timely study Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford), the philosopher Kate Manne makes a consonant argument [with anthropologist Alan Fiske and psychologist Tage Rai] about sexual violence. "The idea of rapists as monsters exonerates by caricature," she writes, urging us to recognize "the banality of misogyny," the disturbing possibility that "people may know full well that those they treat in brutally degrading and inhuman ways are fellow human beings, underneath a more or less thin veneer of false consciousness...There has always been something optimistic about the idea that our worst acts of inhumanity are based on confusion. It suggests that we could make the world better simply by having a clearer grasp of reality... The truth may be harder to accept: that our best and our worst tendencies arise precisely from seeing others as human. * Paul Bloom, The New Yorker *Kate Manne has written an urgently relevant, brilliant but accessible analysis of how patriarchy functions within our context...Brilliant discussions of "himpathy," victim blaming, and other related subjects follow...Manne's analysis is unflinching and, as things stand right now, there is little room for hope that the big picture is going to improve any time soon. This is very highly recommended reading. Hands down, one of the best books of the year. * Journeying with Those in Exile *This timely work of practical philosophy argues that misogyny is not defined by any private emotion or motivation-such as hostility or hatred toward women-but rather by a social function-controlling and punishing women who challenge male dominance while rewarding women who reinforce the status quo. * Adil Ahmad Haque, Just Security *Kate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny is the most important book I've read this year... While Manne doesn't solve the problem or give us a neat or hopeful answer, understanding misogyny is an important first step, so we can recognize it and break the silence that enables it. * Skye Cleary, The Reading Lists *Manne is a superb philosopher. Her feminist critiques are not just compelling but plainly stated. In this study, which I've been eagerly waiting for all year, she analyzes the systematic misogyny and sexism built into our culture and politics. It is a vital work demonstrating just how women are policed and silenced...it is one of the best books I've read this year. * Misanthropester *A big, ambitious and engrossing book, Down Girl raises the questions we should all be asking...Manne's equanimity and epistemological delicacy further the debate, closing in on predators such as Weinstein and bullies such as Trump with more than good intent. She comes at the problem of misogyny from all angles, tearing it apart. * The Australian *This is the type of book that should be required reading for everyone. It uses historical and statistical evidence to prove that misogyny has woven its way into the very thread of society. The book illustrates how it's so ingrained in our culture that people of both genders rarely seem aware of it, much less critical of it. Often, it becomes such a norm in our society, that we fail to recognize its extensive effects on our everyday lives. Which is exactly why this book is so needed...if you're looking for a book to start off your year with, "Down Girl" is an awesome choice. It's informative, eye-opening, and necessary. Leave 2017 behind. Take on 2018 head first with a real knowledge of how our world is currently working, and a better understanding of what you can do to change that. * Lipstick & Politics *Table of ContentsPreface: Wronging Him Introduction: (Eating) Her Words Chapter 1: Threatening Women Chapter 2: Ameliorating Misogyny Chapter 3: Discriminating Sexism Chapter 4: Taking His (Out) Chapter 5: Humanizing Hatred Chapter 6: Exonerating Men Chapter 7: Suspecting Victims Chapter 8: Losing (To) Misogynists Conclusion: The Giving She

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Book SynopsisWritten over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women''s lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combine theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of gender for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Young''s classic essay, Throwing Like a Girl, is reprinted here, along with a comment of the impact of that essay twenty years later. Newer essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home, and the need for privacy in old age residences. Other essays analyze aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention even in feminist theory--such as the sexuality of breasts, or menstruation as punctuation in a woman''s life story. Young describes the phenomenology of moving in a pregnant body and the tactile pleasures of clothing. While academically rigorous, the essays are also written with engaging style, incorporating vivid imagery and autobiographical narrative. On Female Body Experience raises issues and takes positions that speak to scholars and students in philosophy, sociology, geography, medicine, nursing, and education.Trade ReviewNot only does it group together essays representative of Young's on-going thinking about female embodiment and her engagement with phenomenological and feminist philosophers over the span of her career- thus of interest to scholars- this collection also provides a thematically cohesive work that can be read as an introduction to questions of lived bodily experience from a feminist perspective, hence representing a valuable resource for teaching. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of Contents1: Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjectivity 2: Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality 3: Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation 4: Women Recovering Our Clothes 5: Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling 6: Menstrual Meditations 7: House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme 8: A Room of One's Own: Old Age, Extended Care, and Privacy

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEach Chapter ends with a Conclusion and Notes Preface PART I: WOMEN IMPACTING POLITICS 1. Women and Institutional Politics Women and Voting The Expansion of Suffrage Women's Political Participation Paths and Barriers to Political Office The Impact of Female Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Executives Women in Legislatures, Parliaments, and Cabinets Women as Executives Advancing Women's Equality 2. Women and Noninstitutional Politics Defining Social Movements, Interest Groups, and Women's Movements Why Do Women's Movements and Organizations Form? Why Do Women Join Women's Movements and Organizations? Strategies and Tactics The Impact of Women's Movements The Rise of Extremist Nationalist and Religious Fundamentalist Movements 3. Women and Revolutionary Movements Defining Revolutions Why Do Women Join Revolutionary Movements? Marxist Revolutionary Movements Liberal/Democratization Movements Religious Fundamentalist Movements Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics The Revolution's Impact on Women Political Impact Economic Impact Social Impact PART II: GENDERING PUBLIC POLICY 4. Women and Employment The Debate over Equal Employment Policies Policy Areas Equal Pay Equality in Hiring, Promotion, and Firing Sexual Harassment Retirement Income Advancing Women's Equality 5. Women, Work, and Family The Debate over Reconciliation Policies Policy Areas Maternity, Parental, Paternity, and Family Leaves Family Allowances Early Childhood Education and Care Advancing Women's Equality 6. Abortion Politics The Debate over Abortion Ireland The United States The Netherlands General Themes Advancing Women's Equality PART III: PARTICIPATION AND PROTEST IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY 7. Gender, Development, and International Organizations The Evolution of Gender Equality in Theory and Practice Measuring Gender Equality International Development: Designing Policy to Promote Gender Equality International Norms and Law Designing Policy: Development Conferences, Programs, and Research 8. Women and the Global Economy Women and Work Globalization Women in the Global Assembly Line Women and Migration Rural Women, the Environment, and Sustainable Development Women and Economic Crisis Advancing Women's Equality 9. Women and Health The Status of Women's Health Women and Reproductive Health The Problem of Boy Preference Women and HIV Advancing Women's Equality 10. Women and Education The Status of Women and Education Advancing Women's Equality 11. Women and Sexual Violence During War The Intent of Sexual Violence Incidents of Sexual Violence The Former Yugoslavia The Congo Sierra Leone Tanzania The Impact of Sexual Violence on Women Addressing Sexual Violence Against Women Women as Combatants What Happens to the Boys? 12. Women and Physical Autonomy Female Genital Cutting Virginity Tests Women's Bodies as Whipping Posts Addressing Women's Physical Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this accessible, fascinating book, Rottenberg brilliantly captures the contemporary discursive politics of feminism. This text should be widely read. * D. J. Mattingly, San Diego State University, CHOICE *[Rottenberg] imbue[s] the analysis with acuity and wit... For a relatively short book, there's a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. * Times Higher Education *Written with energetic sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices." - Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyAn incisive critical intervention."-Rosalind Gill, author of Gender and the MediaCatherine Rottenberg has created an indispensable resource for those working in feminist theory, media studies, cultural studies and communication. Incisively critiquing a new, highly visible version of feminism, Rottenberg demonstrates through careful analysis and theoretical rigor that feminist messages of 'having it all' and 'leaning in' need to be carefully interrogated for who, and what, these messages and practices exclude. In a popular and media context where feminist messages abound and circulate with ease and alacrity, Rottenberg's voice is a crucial caution for all of us about the limitations of neoliberal feminism, as well as an urgent call to reclaim feminism as a social justice movement."-Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular MisogynyThis is a remarkable and important book demonstrating with fine attention to detail the ways in which feminism has found itself appropriated and seemingly comfortably installed as part of the neoliberalization process to complement and indeed 'motivate' women in work and family life. In a wonderfully well-written account, Rottenberg unsettles the terms and conditions which underpin 'neoliberal feminism'."- Angela McRobbie, author of The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social ChangeWritten with energetic, sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices."- Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyFor a relatively short book, there is a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. Rottenberg turns her analytical eye to a range of cultural products, from the "have it all" privileged musings of Ivanka Trump to "mommy blogs" and popular TV shows such as CBS' The Good Wife and the Danish series Borgen, in which it becomes painfully apparent that in order to maintain the moral high ground in the future, "Brigitte will have to do a better job balancing family and work." It is an all too familiar pattern." - Emma Rees Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism in Neoliberal Times Chapter One: How Superwoman Became Balanced Chapter Two: The Neoliberal Feminist Chapter Three: Neoliberal Futurity and Generic Human Capital Chapter Four: Back from the Future: Turning to the "Here and Now" Chapter Five: Feminist Convergences Chapter Six: Reclaiming Feminism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. It also ponders Zenobia''s legacy in light of the contemporary human tragedy in Syria.Trade ReviewOf far greater consequence, especially for the educated public, are the appendices and bibliography: the destruction of monuments, the nature of Palmyrene Aramaic, original language version of inscriptions detailing Zenobia's household (Aramaic in transliteration). These and the bibliography illustrate the multinational and lengthy careers [of] those building upon intelligent assumptions in the recreation of an ancient site. * Michael Weiskopf, Berkeley, CA, Ancient West & East *Andrade has done a worthwhile job of collecting physical and literary evidence that will interest scholars of ancient history. * J.A.S. Evans, CHOICE *interesting and informative - in particular for an undergraduate course on gender history * James Corke-Webster, Kings College London, Greece & Rome *Admirable and well-articulated ... Andrade's book, intended both for the specialist and the educated reader in general, analyses each of these events with objectivity and rigour, and presents a highly fitting approximation to the attractive figure of this singular woman. We should congratulate ourselves on its publication and congratulate the author on his work. * Gustavo A. Vivas Garcia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Zenobia's Likenesses Chapter 2: Urban Landscape Chapter 3: Social Landscape Chapter 4: Social World Chapter 5: Coming of Age Chapter 6: Marital Household Chapter 7: Widowhood Chapter 8: Dynasty Chapter 9: Civil War Chapter 10: Legacy and Likenesses

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Book SynopsisCatching Fire narrates how women's health activism in Ireland became a model for future activist movements with enduring lessons for achieving greater gender equity across the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Cervical Cancer Prevention Chapter Two: Contraception Chapter Three: Abortion Chapter Four: Pregnancy Chapter Five: Childbirth Chapter Six: Obstetric Violence: Symphysiotomies and Hysterectomies Conclusion References Resources and Further Information

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women''s critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history.Rebuilding Community tells the story of how Ismaili Muslim women who fled East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s recreated religious community (jamat) in North America. Drawing on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts, Khoja-Moolji illuminates the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Khoja-Moolji situates these activities within the framework of ethical norms that more broadly define and sustain the Ismaili sociality. Jamat--and religious community more geTrade ReviewWith this monograph, Khoja Moolji fills a gap in the existing literature and moves the trajectory of her own work in compelling directions. It constitutes appropriate reading for graduate level or advanced undergraduate courses, and selections would enhance syllabi in a range of introductory level courses. The book will, no doubt, garner an enthusiastic audience among Ismailis who see their histories reflected with such care and precision. For all its academic and theoretical value, the most enduring impact may be the service, the seva, that Khoja Moolji performs in capturing so keenly and tenderly an era in Ismaili women's history. * Celene Ibrahim, Reading Religion *A Landmark study. Exploring the lives of Shia Ismaili Muslim women in the North American diaspora, Rebuilding Community illuminates many themes of our day - displacement, flight, migration (sometimes repeatedly from one country to another) followed by the work of recreating home and community in new spaces. Documenting the minutiae of their experience with brilliance and exquisite sensitivity, Khoja-Moolji also compellingly develops a theory of the ethics of care pertinent to any community of faith. * Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard University *In this brilliantly conceptualized work, Khoja-Moolji argues for how the deeply ingrained ethic of care among migrant Ismaili women illustrates the critical role played by women in creating a vibrant symbolic, imagined, and living community, turning displacement into emplacement. Her careful research destabilizes understandings of migratory and refugee populations as solely victimized and traumatized, pointing instead to how the placemaking practices of such women draw upon shared spiritualities, ritual practices, traumatizing dislocations, and cultural traditions to forge connections across generations and geographical locations. We are drawn into a richly textured world in which mundane activities take on much greater significance when seen as threads in an intergenerational tapestry that tell the stories of loss, relocation, resilience, and regeneration. * Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College *A pioneering study that sensitively explores the experiences of migrant Ismaili women in North America and the crucial role they have played in community formation through the ethic of care that is so central to their religious and spiritual lives. This compelling book will be of great interest to scholars in many intersecting fields, including religious studies, Islamic studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, migration and refugee studies. * Ali S. Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University *A book of rare power. Theoretically sophisticated and historically imaginative. The life stories and voices of Muslim women we encounter in this book offer new ways of thinking about and making visible the vital role of feminist ethics of care inside religious communities, and about the enduring power that practices of placemaking by women have in shaping and preserving religious identities. The book is written with an exemplary ethics of care and will itself become a cherished 'place' for honouring and celebrating the remarkable journeys of contemporary Ismaili Muslim communities. * Farouk Mitha, Institute of Ismaili Studies and University of Victoria *An insightful scholarly work that provides a rare, nuanced analysis of the experiences of Ismaili Muslim women...here is no doubt that [Khoja-Moolji's] book is a decolonial intervention within anthropology of religion that aims to engage with what is beyond the gaze of the ethnographer. * Shahana Munazir, Anthropology Book Forum *A powerful reminder of the importance of women to the forging of community. * Kirkus *The sharp theorisation of sacred spaces (jamatkhanas), the consideration of how care work informs religiosity, the focus on Muslim women's stories and the ethnographic methodology combine to render this book a worthy intervention into the fields of religious and Islamic studies. * Merin Shobhana Xavier, LSE Review of Books *Shenila Khoja-Moolji's eloquent and accessible book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on lived Islam, and is written with special attention to the role of migrant women's ordinary ethical pursuits in cultivating spiritual intimacies in new spaces. Her book makes an especially important contribution to the anthropology of Islam, moving beyond paradigms of ethical self-cultivation to properly account for divine presence in an innovative and creative manner. * Anika Kabani, Journal of Gender, Place and Culture *Table of ContentsNote on Translation Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community 2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970 Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972 3. Fostering Sacred Spaces 4. Storying Divine Intervention 5. Culinary Placemaking 6. Placemaking in the Second Generation 7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind.

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Book SynopsisConsidering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a particularly compelling and yet problematic subject of literary speculation; and in the responses of different cultures to the challenge the poet presents, DeJean finds evidence of the standards imposed on female sexuality through the ages. She focuses largely though not exclusively on the French tradition, where the Sapphic presence is especially pervasive. Tracing re-creations of Sappho through translation and fiction from the mid-sixteenth century to the period just prior to World War II, DeJean shows how these renderings reflect the fantasies and anxieties of each writer as well as the mentalite of his or her day.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the language and symbols of reform, Fineman argues that by advocating measures based on equality of treatment rather than of outcome, liberal feminists disregarded the socioeconomic factors that simultaneously place women at a disadvantage in the market and favor their taking on primary domestic responsibilities.

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Miriam Van Waters moves beyond the controversy of her life to reveal a woman whose success rested upon the power of her own charismatic leadership. Her story reveals many of the realities of life in the early decades of this century for a single mother of an adopted daughterTable of ContentsPrologue Part I: 1887-1917 1. The Family Legacy 2. An Educated Woman 3. A Graduate Degree in Life 4. A New Career Part II: 1917-1932 5. Surrogate Mother 6. A Colony of Reformers 7. In Conflict 8. In Love with a Child 9. Most Precious Possession Part III: 1932-1949 10. Building the Framingham Symphony 11. Mother of Us All 12. Guardian Angel 13. Storm Center in Framingham 14. The Van Waters Case 15. In the Matter of the Removal of Dr. Miriam Van Waters Part IV: 1949-1974 16. End of an Era 17. Lifeline Epilogue: The Superintendent's House Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIs romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive culture of romance on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.

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Book SynopsisThis work examines one of the most critical questions of welfare policy: how can a United States government programme help teen mothers - one of the most needful groups of all welfare recipients - move from welfare dependency to employment, independence and responsible citizenship?Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Issues in Program Development 1: Getting to Know Project GED 2: Contested Organizational Cultures: Helping and Authority Pt. 2: Social Service Providers and Teen Mothers 3: Social Service Providers' Problems of Social Identity 4: Social Distance as a Strategy of Compliance 5: Classroom Failure without Redress 6: Sex and Boyfriends: Your Dirty Laundry or Dramatic Dreams 7: Motherhood: Authenticity and the Context of Suspicion 8: Changing Welfare from Stigma to Scholarship: The Arbiters versus the Mediators Pt. 3: Is Welfare Reform Possible? 9: Backstage Links to Public Empowerment 10: The Embodied Reason of Welfare Reform References Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the writings of 19th-century German women, the text explores their social and cultural milieu along with the interpretation that informs their writing. Included are topics on canon formation, the relationship between gender, class and popular culture, and professionalism and technology.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Adrienne Rich: "Heroines" Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Preface: Locations and Stories Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Of Writing, Knitting, Labeling, Representation, and Other Activities Ch. 2: The Literary Canon, Representations, and the Ambivalence of Desire Ch. 3: Radicality, Gender, and the Ambiguity of Representation Ch. 4: Influence, Intertextuality, and Feminist Analysis Ch. 5: The Authority of Representation: Class, Gender, Professionalism, Technology, and the Conflicts of Change Ch. 6: Die zweite Frau, Popular Culture, and the Analytical Categories of Gender and Class Ch. 7: Orderly Ideologies and Disorderly Realities: Approaching the Borders of Public and Private Spheres Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy do women join book clubs? What do the women discuss when they meet? to answer questions like these, Long spent years observing and participating in women's book clubs in the Houston area. She discovered that members find reading a crucial way for them to reflect on their lives.

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Book SynopsisA collection of seven of Antonia Pulci's plays, translated into English. The plays focus closely on the concerns of women, exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life.Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction to the Series Acknowledgments Antonia Pulci and Her Plays The Play of Saint Francis The Play of Saint (Flavia) Domitilla The Play of Saint Guglielma The Play of the Prodigal Son The Play of Saint Anthony the Abbot The Play of Saint Theodora The Play and Festival of Rosana The Second Part of the Festival of Ulimentus and of Rosana Index

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Book SynopsisCombining data from both telephone surveys and in-depth focus groups, this book provides a detailed portrait of how Americans - in particular American women - think they are faring in today's society. It finds that women's perceptions of gender relationships are complex and often contradictory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Conceptualizing Gender 2: Methodology 3: Perceptions of Discrimination 4: Anger over Discrimination 5: Resentment and Political Involvement 6: Minority Consciousness and Politics 7: The Male Perspective 8: Coping with Change Epilogue Appendix A The Interview Schedule Appendix B Research Procedure References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a comparative study of the way United States and Canada have responded to the hysteria over 'girl crime' and how it has affected the treatment of both girls and boys. This title traces the evolution of approaches to the treatment of young offenders. It is suitable for those working with troubled youths.Trade Review"This heartbreakingly beautiful book troubles the terrain, unforgettably challenging our stereotypes of 'bad girls' who become delinquent. Sprott and Doob persuasively make the case that the justice system treats girls differently, and that the treatment - for those who enter the system - is unfair, damaging, and unsuccessful. But they also present a remarkably hopeful constellation of opportunities to do less harm." - Bernadine Dohrn, Northwestern University School of Law"

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's body of religious poems. Ranging from lyrics on the Nativity to dialogues between Christ and the sinner who kneels before him, the nine poems of praise included here are among the few such poems known to have been written by the woman.

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Book SynopsisThe New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. Trade Review"Hagelin and Silverman adeptly analyze a set of highly regarded, well-watched, and much talked about television series, setting a high standard of originality, soundness, and rigor throughout. It is difficult to write about television as clearly, effectively and efficiently as they do here."-- "Diane Negra, University College Dublin" "If you love television's bad women more than you should, you'll love The New Female Antihero, which opens up this topic in exciting and original ways. Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman rethink this edgy character through race as well as gender, upping the stakes on why television's transgressive women are important. By including the hit comedies Broad City and Girls alongside series about killers and assassins, Hagelin and Silverman reveal the larger implications of these unruly women as threats to traditional femininity. You'll never watch TV's difficult women in quite the same way again."-- "Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University"Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction: The New Female Antihero—The What, the Why, the How Part 1: Ambition TV 1. The Limits of the Female Antihero in Game of Thrones 2. The Impossibility of the Marriage Plot in The Americans 3. Scandal and the Failure of Postracial Fantasy 4. Homeland and the Rejection of the Domestic Plot Part 2: Shame TV 5. Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in Girls 6. Liberation and Whiteness in Broad City 7. The Difference That Race Makes in Insecure 8. Working-Class Identity and Matriarchal Community in SMILF Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis broad-ranging collection brings into focus a set of approaches--techno-scientific, personal, and global-that add to the ever-compelling topics of identity, rootedness, mobility, and return. With its fascinating new perspectives, this book demonstrates the importance of memory studies for a better understanding of the future. -- Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller 1 Tangled Roots and New Genealogies 1. The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy Alondra Nelson 2. Jews-Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition Nadia Abu El-Haj 3. The Web and The Reunion: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 4. Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora Jarrod Hayes 5. Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives Rosanne Kennedy 2 Genres of Return 6. Memoirs of Return Saidiya Hartman, Eva Hoffman, Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Nancy K. Miller 7. Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine Lila Abu-Lughod 8. Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon Jay Prosser 9. Off-Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory Svetlana Boym 10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of Hope Susan Meiselas 3 Rights of Return 11. Between Two Returns Amira Hass 12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies Margaret Homans 13. Foreign Correspondence Sonali Thakkar 14. "O Give Me a Home" Patricia J. Williams, with Images by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick 15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites Elazar Barkan 4 Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness 16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism Liz Sev?enko 17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony Nancy K. Miller 18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites Diana Taylor 19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism Marita Sturken Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis''I love India and her no-nonsense, honest and utterly hilarious guide to navigating the post-45 years'' Marian Keyes, Mail on Sunday''A route map for the midlifer woman. Knight tackles every issue - beauty, menopause, laser eye surgery . . . she is not held back by the fear of laying down the law'' The TimesHappy, confident, in control, ready to do and enjoy everything that comes your way - you''re definitely In Your Prime. But too many of us allow mid-life''s little nuisances to dictate how and who we are. So let India Knight tell you how to deal with the obstacles while living life to the full.Whether it is coping with ageing parents, divorce, dating, teenagers, wavering libidos or your saggy bits, India dispenses perfect tips. She''ll instruct you how to drink, dress and party gracefully (or disgracefully), but above all she''ll show that happiness is the one thing you deserve.This is the book that will Trade ReviewFunny, feisty and invaluable * Good Housekeeping *Refreshingly upfront...What a relief to have sorted out my Christmas list for all my older, wiser and happier girlfriends. Thank you. * Evening Standard *India Knight tackles aging with wit...[reads like] a funny, informative conversation...often made me laugh out loud. -- Kate Kellaway * The Observer *Knight's words feel like you're speaking with that friend who always gives you the best advice...an entertaining and informed read. * Stylist *Knight is tremendously opinionated, but there is something strangely comforting about her robust certainty. Reading her book is like having a conversation with a fearfully bossy but beloved old chum * Daily Mail *Brad Pitt at 50 acts as if he believes the best is yet to come. Women should feel entitled to the same belief and the contents of this book make it seem possible. * The Times *Joyous advice on how to age wisely, happily and with grace. * Prima Magazine *I read India Knight's In Your Prime last week, with an air-punch of solidarity at its acknowledgement of the pleasures of middle age. -- Tracey Thorn * New Statesman *I love India and her no-nonsense, honest and utterly hilarious guide to navigating the post-45 years. -- Marian Keyes * Mail on Sunday *India Knight has all bases covered, with great good wit and wisdom. * Daily Mail, ‘Summer Reads’ *Blissful and unputdownable. -- Nina Stibbe

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Book SynopsisIn The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first. Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands' careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these histTrade Review"While athletes' own navigation of family life has received some attention, how does this arrangement affect their partners who are tasked with an array of visible and invisible labor to make their family work? This is the focus of Steven M. Ortiz's The Sport Marriage. . . . The Sport Marriage opens up many new avenues to interrogate the interweaving of gender, work, and family in the world of professional sports." --Symbolic Interaction”In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury. He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”In this insightful book, Steven Ortiz unveils the heretofore hidden realities of the lives of women who marry male pro athletes. Beneath the veneer of public glory and fortune the general public may assume makes for a perfect life, Ortiz reveals the stresses and strains of women’s emotional and managerial labor as 'marriage workers' in a high-pressure, career-dominated marriage. Through sensitive interviewing and deft observation, Ortiz shows both the oppressive costs of these women’s subordination within the sport marriage, and their creative, and even sometimes resistant, strategies to assert and meet their own and their children’s needs.”—Michael A. Messner, coeditor of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Sex Testing is the first comprehensive account of the various sex and gender tests that sports authorities have devised from the 1930s on for female athletes. It offers great documentation of significant developments, well-written throughout, accompanied by incisive, penetrating insights as to what is going on below the surface in the world of women's sports. It is a stellar, informative read that public libraries should acquire. It is certainly, above all, a scholarly resource that colleges and universities should purchase."--ARETE, publication of the Sport Literature Association."Sociology of gender scholars will find the book of interest given its historical evidence of the ways in which sex testing reflected 'larger cultural perceptions of womanhood' in the twentieth century."--Gender and Society"Pieper's well-written and carefully crafted narrative and analysis provides enormous insight into a topic previously unexplored at such depth."--Sport History Review"Pieper does an exceptional job of detailing the history and methods of sex/gender testing and of connecting the phenomenon to larger sociological issues about appropriate physical activity for women. . . . Essential."--Choice"Chock full of terrific research from primary sources. . . . Pieper's message comes through loud and clear: sex testing is a political act. It is about enforcing gender norms, not ensuring fair play."--Women's Review of Books"Pieper takes on the complex and infinitely important topic of sex testing in women's sport with fresh insight and a measured hand. In the process, she deftly unpacks how attempts to 'control' sex are continually fraught with elements of sexism, gender anxieties, and geopolitical tensions. This is an enlightening and necessarily disturbing analysis."--Jaime Schultz, author of Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport"For the first time, someone is pulling together the complete history of sex testing in sport. A very important book that makes a significant and unique contribution."--Alison M. Wrynn, former editor, Journal of Sports History"A timely and important book, the first in-depth history of its kind. Rich in detail and thorough in research, it is a must read for understanding the multiple layers of politics and ideology that inform gender policing in sport."--Kathryn Henne, author of Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport

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