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Book SynopsisThe stories of women who lived, worked and struggled in KurdistanTrade Review'For too long, Kurdish women have either been marginalized or portrayed as passive victims. In more recent years, we have also seen media representations exoticizing Kurdish women fighting against ISIS. This book, on the other hand, provides us with intimate accounts of everyday lives and resistances of different Kurdish women, showing us not only their hardships but their courage, resolve and complex humanity' -- Nadje Ali-Ali, Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University'Captivating ... Stories both intimate and insightful. The narratives are vivid and offer an evocative sense of chaotic politics and longing of Kurdish women for love and freedom' -- Dr. Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto'A call for hospitality towards what five generations of Kurdish women carry in them - absolute love, momentary death, irredeemable losses, survival, revolts and liberations' -- Fazil Moradi, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg.'The test of a great book is that it changes the way we see things. This collection of women’s experiences is profoundly moving and full of insight.' -- David McDowall, author of 'A Modern History of the Kurds''A fascinating, inspiring journey ... A real contribution to people's history and women's studies' -- Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State (Bellevue Literary Press, 2016)'Kurdish women have historically been subjected to all sorts of violence and erasure. Behind this backdrop, expressing their own truths is a politically radical stance. This book is a valuable contribution to Kurdish women's collective history-writing' -- Dilar Dirik, Kurdish activist and author of The Kurdish Women's Movement (Pluto, 2021)‘These are stories of defiance and bravery on the part of women who won’t let themselves be threatened or intimidated, even when everything they have is taken away’ -- ‘Buzzfeed News’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Houzan Mahmoud 1. For the Execution of My Son, I Did Not Cry; There was Smoke Coming from My Soul - Told by Mother Sabria and written by Amira Mohammed 2. The Last Cigarette Butt Before Execution - Told by Nazanin Hasan and written by Amira Mohammed 3. A Stolen Childhood - Bayan Saeed 4. Run Away: A Vision from a Woman's Perspective - Bayan Salman 5. There is a Sorrow in my Heart that I Cannot Console - Susan Shahab 6. The Prison Speakers Played Islamic Verses - Kobra Banehi 7. Breaking the Bars of Home and Becoming a Peshmerga - Farah Shareefi 8. Fighting an Islamic Regime - Nasrin Ramazanali 9. Fuchsia Flower of My Brother (Nasiri Khoshkalam) - Nahiya Khoshkalam 10. The Explorer Who Watched from a School Window - Bayan Nassih 11. The Lost Photos of Engagement - Shahla Yarhussein 12. My Story - Diba Alikhani 13. At the Red Prison, They Want Workers - Rozhgaar Mustafa 14. On Art, Womanhood, Being the 'Other' - Avan Omar 15. In Search of Kurdishness: Our History, My Life - Simal (Anonymous) 16. "To Be Ruken or not to Be Buket?" - Ruken Isik 17. Life is an Ongoing Struggle - Khanda Rashid Murad 18. A Woman of the Homeland of Rojava - Nafia Aysi Hasso 19. A Handful of Blood - Khanda Hameed 20. Except for Poetry, Nothing Else Shields Me - Hero Kurda 21. Once Upon a Time in Rojava - Deejila Haydar 22. A Day at Tel-Rafiat - Seveen Jimo 23. This is the Story of My Life - Lanja Khawe 24. I Struggle for Two Types of Liberation: Gender and Human Liberation - Dashne Nariman 25. What Motivated me to Write? - Zhala Hussein Index

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Book SynopsisThe first collection of scholarly essays on women and art in Canadian history.Trade Review" The essays in this collection provide a powerful and convincing entrypoint into a much needed conversation about the history of women' s cultural production and the values of art practice in Canada. This book would be a powerful addition to teaching and researching not just women' s history in Canada, but history in Canada more broadly, by highlighting what has been marginalized or rendered invisible in dominant narratives." Histoire sociale / Social History " The framework of professionalism allows for an exploration of women' s contributions in the cultural sphere that is far-reaching in scope. The real strength of this collection of essays is that it showcases a number of women who remain un(der)recognized in the history of Canadian culture." Canadian Woman Studies / Les cahiers de la femme " A compact tour de force, it provides a critical overview of the role of professionalism in writings on Canadian women artists and untangles the history of women, art, and professionalization in Canada to the mid-twentieth century. The selected essays form a tight-knit group. Such a critical study is long overdue." University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsContributors include Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Alena Buis (Queen's University), Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba), Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University), Kristina Huneault (Concordia University), Loren Lerner (Concordia University), Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta), Kirk Niergarth (Mount Royal University), Mary O'Connor (McMaster University), Sandra Paikowsky (Concordia University), Ruth B. Phillips (Carleton University), Jennifer Salahub (Alberta College of Art & Design), and Anne Whitelaw (Concordia University).

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Book SynopsisThe Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.

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Book SynopsisRebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.Trade Review"The multiple perspectives offered by this collection of eminently readable and interesting papers make it a valuable resource for upper-division classes in women's studies, international relations, and international law." * Choice *"The book's embrace is gigantic. . . . Not only will Human Rights of Women appeal to a wide audience, it should be read by everyone who has any interest in human rights." * Gender and Development *"A brave, honest, and invigorating text." * Journal of Law and Society *"Impressive . . . an exemplary volume." * American Journal of International Law *"This volume is sure to become the standard text on the international law of women's rights." * International Journal *"The essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of various aspects of international law as these rights specifically apply to women. The book addresses multiple and overlapping agendas." * Studies on Women Abstracts *"The strength of the book lies not only in the extensive coverage of the theme and in its interdisciplinary approach but also in the fact that all the contributions are extremely well documented and the book contains informative appendices." * European Journal of International Law *

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Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women''s punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women.Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked eTrade 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 SynopsisRecovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.Trade ReviewAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ. * Publishers Weekly *A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ. * WomenÆs Review of Books *By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body. * DePauw Magazine *A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity. -- Claudia Tate * Princeton University *Table of ContentsFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell

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Book SynopsisA lively and accessibly written volume, this book highlights some of the women whom Washington knew. Women who admired and memorialized him, women who provided him love and solace, women who frustrated him, and women who worked for or against him - all of these women are chronicled through their own experiences and identities.Trade ReviewThis stunning collection of essays is a valuable study of George Washington and the women who inhabited his world. Based on the best work of contemporary historians and sound archival research, the book is also engagingly written. A substantial contribution to the field."- Barbara Oberg, Princeton University, author of Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

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Book SynopsisExamines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.

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Book SynopsisPresenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of color at its center, covers violence against women of color in its myriad manifestations, and maps strategies of movement building and resistance.Trade Review"Anyone who's complacent about the successes of the feminist movement should dip into this collection . . . about the women left behind, left out, or simply forgotten." * Publishers Weekly *"A powerful guide for activists, educators, community organizers, and anyone asking the question, 'What would it take to end violence against women of color?'" * WATER *"Color of Violence . . . boldly challenges conventional feminist thought and contemporary antiviolence initiatives. . . . [Its] contributors reveal necessary truths about the failures of traditional social service and criminal justice-oriented approaches to ending violence against women. . . . INCITE! challenges us to look beyond the conventional doctrine on violence against women that has influenced and sometimes hindered contemporary antiviolence organizing to establish a new framework for activism that acknowledges and incorporates our diverse, sometimes divergent, perspectives as women of color." -- Keidra Chaney * Bitch *"This anthology would serve as an invaluable classroom source on Third Wave feminism, antiracist social movements, and social justice movements in the United States in the twenty-first century." -- Sharmila Rudrappa * Journal of American Ethnic History *"These compelling essays are written by women who bring passion, energy, anger, and insight to an injustice that has taken a back seat to other social justice issues: violence perpetrated on women of color. The writings are impressively comprehensive in their global scope, historical insight, and unyielding passion. The book reminds readers that the antiviolence movement, although perhaps once at risk of fading, remains profoundly important, especially to women, and most especially to women of color. . . . These bold women occasionally shame, always inform, and often challenge readers to finish the book and embark on the cause of finally ending the violence that women of color have too long endured." -- D. A. Mathews * Choice *"A deeply thoughtful contribution to radical anti-violence activism . . . Colors of Violence engages a complex and diverse dialogue about forms of violence, resistance, and movement building. . . . [It] does a skilled job of instigating a thoughtful and complex discussion on a topic that has not received adequate attention even among radicals." -- Chloe Tribich * Against the Current *"Consistently, the articles discuss the importance of and strategies around movement-building among communities of color, specifically radical women of color, in their shared struggles for liberation. They also speak to a great need for activists to learn about intersecting forms of oppression that may be undervalued or ignored. . . . And lest we forget, the book does not stand alone. The women of Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology are not only writers, speakers, poets, and academics but also activists, concerned with bringing about the change that they write. We can be part of their liberation, and our own, by listening to their voices." -- Katie Seitz * Off Our Backs *"Every essay in this collection reveals another critical aspect of being a woman of color in the United States today. . . . It is an excellent starting point for understanding some of the issues today for women of color actively working for social change." -- Rachel Pepper * Curve *"Color of Violence . . . challenges every reader to recognize and fight the subtle and not so subtle forms of violence that manifests and is inflicted upon women of color." -- Vernetta K. Williams * Callaloo *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Reconceptualizing Antiviolence Strategies 1. Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women's Movement in Britain / Julia Sudbury 13 2. Disability in the New World Order / Nirmala Erevelles 25 3. Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime / Sarah Deer 32 4. Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy / Dorothy Roberts 42 5. The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice / Loretta J. Ross 53 6. Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pilars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing / Andrea Smith 66 7. A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color / Nadine Naber 74 II. Forms of Violence 8. The Color of Violence / Hauani-Kay Trask 81 9. Four Generations in Resistance / Dana Erekat 88 10. The War to Be Human / Becoming Human in a Time of War / Neferti Tadiar 92 11. The Forgotten "-ism": An Arab American Women's Perspective on Zionism, Racism, and Sexism / Nadine Naber, Eman Desouky, and Lina Baroudi for Arab Women's Solidarity Association, San Francisco Chapter 97 12. Relections in a Time of War: A Letter to My Sisters / Dena Al-Adeeb 113 13. Don't Liberate Me / S. R. 118 14. "National Security" and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border / Sylvanna Falcón 119 15. The Complexities of "Feminicide" on the Border / Rosa Linda Fregoso 130 16. INS Raids and How Immigrant Women are Fighting Back / Renee Saucedo 135 17. Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color / Andrea J. Ritchie 138 18. Crime, Punishment, and Economic Violence / Patricia Allard 157 19. Pomo Woman, Ex-Prisoner, Speaks Out / Stormy Ogden 164 20. The War Against Black Women, and the Making of NO! / Aishah Simmons 170 21. Medical Violence Against People of Color and the Medicalization of Domestic Violence / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 179 III. Building Movement 22. Unite and Rebel! Challenges and Strategies in Building Alliances / Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez 191 23. Sistas Makin' Moves: Collective Leadership for Personal Transformation and Social Justice / Sista II Sista 196 24. Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors within the Domestic Violence Shelter System / Emi Koyama 208 25. Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex / Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 223 26. Trans Action for Social and Economic Justice / TransJustice 227 27. "The Personal is the Private is the Cultural": South Asian Women Organizing Against Domestic Violence / Puneet Kuar Chawla Sahota 231 28. An Antiracist Christian Ethical Approach to Violence Resistance / Traci C. West 243 29. Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies / Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 250 30. poems on trying to love without fear / maiana minahal 267 Endnotes and Works Cited 270 Index 305 About the Contributors 321

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Book SynopsisIn documenting these events, Foster offers a broader understanding of the difficulties in sexually integrating any workplace, even when the organization approaches the situation with as positive an outlook and as strong a motivation as did NASA.Trade Review"This book is the first one to examine seriously how women finally joined the NASA astronaut corps... Rich in documentary sources and strengthened by oral histories, this book offers memorable stories illustrating the texture of this significant transition." (Margaret A. Weitekamp, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond Rosie the Riveter2. Wilma Deering Meets Captain Janeway3. ''The Damn Crazy Things!''4. Making Space5. ''The Strange Ones''6. Defying Gravity7. ''NASA Sutra''8. Uninvited HeroicsEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisUnsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.

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Book SynopsisDreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces the events of one harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout Stephanie Clare Smith's life, including her work with families in crisis and as a caregiver for the mother who abandoned her.Trade ReviewThis stunningly lyrical memoir is a profoundly insightful glimpse into the complex and frightening consequences of parental neglect. As Smith's voice naturally evolves from alienated to intensely present, the impressively concise narrative alternates between ethereal observations about everything from space to spiders and gut punches of pain, shame, revelation, and redemption . . . . A masterful literary memoir about caring for those responsible for our trauma."—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review)

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Book SynopsisHow and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politicsDonald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election shocked and dismayed many women, and motivated many to run for office at all levels of government. In The Pink Wave, Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons explore this inspiring phenomenon and its impact on women's representation. Drawing on national surveys and in-depth interviews of over 900 women, across almost every state, Matheson and Parsons show us why more women decided to run for state legislature during the Trump administration, the obstacles they faced on the campaign trail, and whether they ultimately succeeded or failed in their bid for office. Candidates share valuable lessons they learned from their recent campaign experiences, providing future insight for womenon both sides of the aislewho may be inspired to follow in their footsteps. Matheson and Parsons examine the impact Donald Trump had on women candidateTrade ReviewThe Pink Wave examines the current national political climate, as well as the barriers that have historically discouraged women from seeking office. Matheson and Parsons are thorough in their examination of women's decisions to run and their experiences as candidates....Easy and enjoyable to read. -- Dianne G. Bystrom, co-editor of Women in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Women as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders

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Book SynopsisIn the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as "sex tourism." These women have different experiences, but they share a similar desire to "escape" the social conditions of their lives in Brazil. Based on original ethnographic research and presented in graphic form, Gringo Love explores the hopes, dreams, and realities of these women against a backdrop of deep social inequality and increasing state surveillance leading up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. It touches on important contemporary issues, including sexual economics, transnational mobility, romantic imaginaries, gender representation, race and inequality, and visual methods.The graphic story is accompanied by analysis and contextual discussion, which encourage readers to engage with the narrative and expand their understanding of the broader sociaTrade Review"This graphic novel is a much needed addition to libraries. There are a lot of books out there that vilify people in this industry, and it is important for people to view this subject from another point of view." -- 2020 VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Committee"Gringo Love boldly does something less common in anthropology: it uses an experimental visual medium and a collaborative process based on generously shared time and stories to tell a reality-based tale that complicates and broadens the space in which a politicized and controversial practice can be understood. By visualizing those often made invisible in the mainstream discourse of sex tourism, Carrier-Moisan and her collaborators bring us into lives on the ground." -- Colin Willox, Maynooth University * Visual Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note to the Reader Lexicon Part I: Arrivals Field notes Part II: Gringo Love? Field notes Part III: Sair Dessa Vida Epilogue Appendix I: Reading Guide & Discussion Questions Appendix II: The Making of Gringo Love • The Creation Process • The Research Process Appendix III: The Context for Gringo Love • Sex Tourism • Ponta Negra • Gringo Love Appendix IV: Further Readings Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCaribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race, and trace the steps that women take to find safer ground from oppression. Taking Flight examines the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women's writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores.In the texts examined in Taking Flight, culturally sanctioned violence impacts the ability of female characters to be at home in their bodies or in the spaces they inhabit. The works draw attention to the historic racialization and sexualization of black women's bodies and continue the legacy of narrating black women's long-standing contestation of systems of oppression.Arguing that there is a clear link between trauma, shame, and migration, with trauma servi

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Book SynopsisThe Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.Trade Review"Pious Peripheries brings the reader into a diverse and opinionated world of Afghan women thrown together only because they all refused to abide by gendered social norms. Sonia Ahsan's willingness to step aside and allow these remarkable women to speak for themselves is a tremendous strength." -- Thomas Barfield * Boston University *"The extraordinary achievement of Pious Peripheries lies in Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's astute explanation of how Afghan women exercise agency despite their subjugation to often brutal male authority. In this stunning ethnography, she skillfully shows how courageous women navigate the dynamics of piety and promiscuity to achieve seemingly inaccessible freedoms." -- Michael Herzfeld * Harvard University *"Pious Peripheries offers a compelling challenge to the idea that Afghan women need 'saving.' Via a highly original and intrepid ethnography, Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi reveals how, from the margins of Afghan society, a community of formidable women is fashioning their own distinctive claims about Islam, Pashtun identity, sexuality, and the state." -- Robert D. Crews * Stanford University *"Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's Pious Peripheries disrupts conventional categories of piety and secularism to bring to light the immense resourcefulness of Afghan women living at society's margins. Erudite and deeply empathic, with lucid vignettes that will stick in your memory, this is a must-read for anyone interested in feminism, Islam, and the tormented history of Afghanistan." -- Julie Billaud * Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies *"Boldly and poetically defying patriarchy, the runaway women of Pious Peripheries become the surprising harbingers of an emancipatory politics in war-torn Afghanistan. Immortalized by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi's brave and soulfully crafted ethnography, these women's nomadic existence shatters myopic notions of religious identity and expands our sense of where reworlding comes from." -- João Biehl * Princeton University *"For practicing traditionally male-ascribed roles of hospitality, refuge, guest hosting, justice, friendship, love, and courage, Ahsan describes the women (through the Pashto poetic tradition of landay) as using their agentive action to reimagine what is legitimate and authorized and what could be. Most important, these women demonstrate that promiscuity is not the opposite of piety or morality but the potential basis for constructing new and different worlds for women. Recommended." -- B. Tavakolian * CHOICE *"Pious Peripheries is the model of engaged scholarship based on ethnographic research among marginalized groups... The diverse experiences of these runaway women reveal the confluence of concerns about subtle feminist and religious expressions and their yearning to reinvent a new sense of belonging inside the shelter system." -- Joseph Tse-Hei Lee * Acta Via Serica *

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Book SynopsisEver since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male driver. Women, in contrast, were relegated to the passenger seat and have been the target of stereotypes that portray them as uninterested in automobiles and, more perniciously, as poor drivers. In Women at the Wheel, Katherine J. Parkin illuminates the social implications of these stereotypes and shows how they have little basis in historical reality. With chapters on early driver's education and licensing programs, and on buying, driving, and caring for cars, she describes a rich cast of characters, from Mary Landon, the first woman ever to drive in 1899, to Dorothy Levitt, author of the first automotive handbook for women in 1909, to Margie Seals, who opened her garage, "My Favorite Mechanic . . . Is a Woman," in 1992. Although women drove and had responsibility for their family's car maintenance, twentieth-century popular culture was replete with humorous comments and judgmental critiques that effectively denied women pride in their driving abilities and car-related expertise. Parkin contends that, despite women's long history with cars, these stereotypes persist.Trade ReviewWomen at the Wheel is a remarkable tour de force. The book sweeps through the twentieth century and into current times to examine how American women have been associated with the car. The scale of the coverage is awesome, and the sources are both numerous and diverse . . . Katherine Parkin has combined the traditional diligence of the historian digging through archives and libraries with the technology of the internet to create an analysis which should appeal not only to academics, but to a much wider audience. * The Journal of Transport History *[T]ranscends historical narration, offering a meditation on gender roles and power relations . . . Women at the Wheel does a wonderful job of analyzing the relationship of women to automobiles. * Business History Review *Parkin challenges many of our historical notions about women and driving, especially in the early period, and her work adds greatly to the ongoing conversation about automobility in the United States . . . Woman at the Wheel adds depth to well-known stories and brings a fresh perspective to the table. * Technology and Culture *Now I understand why I so often end up in the passenger seat! Katherine Parkin has convinced me that driving-and all that surrounds it-is one of the most gendered experiences in American history. Women at the Wheel reads like a romp through American popular culture, but Parkin's claims are well worth taking seriously. * Beth Bailey, author of Sex in the Heartland *Buying, driving, and fixing cars has always been a highly gendered experience, as Katherine Parkin shows in this engaging and richly researched narrative. But when the focus is shifted from an experience overwhelmingly understood to be male to what it was like for women at the wheel, a deeper meaning is revealed: the ongoing power imbalance between women and men. * Susan Ware, author of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports *If you've ever wondered just what it was that drove Thelma and Louise over a cliff, you need to read this book. In her fascinating work of historical scholarship, Katherine Parkin uses twentieth-century popular culture-from lowbrow to high, from the front pages of newspapers to the poetry of e.e. cummings, from an interview with Newt Gingrich to the fiction in magazines-to demonstrate how American men tried to stop American women from discovering the empowerment possibilities that lay 'behind the wheel.' * Ruth Schwartz Cowan, author of More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave *Women at the Wheel takes a novel approach to exploring-and debunking-the tired but persistent clichés about women's ineptitude behind the wheel. Katherine Parkin's examination of archival and popular sources reveals how both cars and drivers have been gendered in fascinating and provocative ways. * Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown *

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum periodIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, South Carolina, in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries, including the library in the historic Aiken-Rhett House, once owned by William Aiken Jr., a successful businessman, rice planter, and governor of South Carolina. Her skill as a musicologist enables her to examine the collections as primary sources for gaining a better understanding of musical culture, instruction, private performance, cultural tourism, and the history of the music industry during this period.The bound and unbound collections and their associated publications show that international travel and music education in Europe were common among Charleston’s elite families. While abroad, the budding musicians purchased the latest music publications and brought them back to Charleston, where they often performed them in private and at semipublic events.Through a narrow exploration of the collections of these elite women, Bailey exposes the cultural priorities within one of the South’s most influential cities and illuminates both the commonalities and discrepancies in the training of young women to enter society. A noteworthy contribution to southern and urban history, Charleston Belles Abroad provides a deep study of music in the context of transatlantic values, interpersonal relationships, and stability and tumult in the South during the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisRichly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain’s national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768)—which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue—facilitated women’s gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country’s sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation’s perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux.Trade Review"Richly researched and elegantly argued, Political Affairs of the Heart recovers the complex contemporary resonances of eighteenth-century sentimental travel writing and demonstrates emphatically how women used the form to make a variety of interventions in political and moral debate."— Carl Thompson, author of The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination "Van Netten Blimke reveals the many ways in which women travel writers used the language and tropes of sensibility as they explored the lessons of the world-changing events of the French and American Revolutions. Her lively study will be of interest to anyone working in the eighteenth century as it excavates the complex intellectual milieus represented in these widely underrated books."— Katherine Turner, editor of A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy "In Van Netten Blimke’s impressively researched study, four writers from across the political spectrum use sentimental travel to intervene in debates about colonialism, war, and national or imperial identity, significantly advancing our understanding of women writers’ strategies for navigating gender constraints in a literary genre that women had just recently entered." — Elizabeth Bohls, coeditor of Travel Writing 1700-1830: An AnthologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler 1 “Altogether of a Different Cast”: The Development of the Sentimental Traveler Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution 2 “I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings”: Janet Schaw’s Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution 3 The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution 4 Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan’s Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven 5 “A Renovation of Existence”: Helen Maria Williams’s A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision Epilogue: “An Affair of the Heart” Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPerforming Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how Canada shapes these performances. Naila Keleta-Mae proposes that performance is part of the ontology of female blackness in the public and private spaces that constitute everyday life because people who are female and Black are constantly expected to perform fantasies - be it their own or, far more commonly, those insisted on by dominant culture. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, the author demonstrates how people who are read as female and Black in private and public settings, are figuratively on stage regardless of the cultural, political, or historical contexts in which they find themselves. Written in poetry, prose and journal-form and drawing from the author's own life and artistic works, Performing Female Blackness is ideal for scholars, educators, and students of race, gender, performance, and Black expressive culture.Trade Review“With elegant depth and breadth Naila Keleta-Mae brings together the most influential Black feminist thinkers as she masterfully adds her own distinctive and groundbreaking conceptualizations of performance, political economy, and metaphysics under past and present resonances of colonialism and chattel slavery. The insightful and theoretical depth of this book offers an elegant and absorbing exegesis on female blackness that is new, different, and profoundly relevant across multiple disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The author’s conceptualization of ‘perpetual performance’ is brilliantly illuminated against machinations of modernity, forced labor, and advanced capitalism as well as the generative strategies of language, silence, and performance.”—D. Soyini Madison, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, author of Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance “What I love most about this book is that even as a non-Canadian I can see myself in it. I would argue that even other minoritized people can relate to the idea of having to ‘perpetually perform’—to shift between being and being read by society. Like the best of DJs, Naila Keleta-Mae mixes and spins a deft, poetic, fluid, and moving collaged narrative of theory, lived experience, literary and performance analysis, and multiple performances to tell her own story. In the process, she also illustrates a diverse, global journey of female blackness borne out of the chattel slave trade.”—Rashida K. Braggs, Williams College, author of Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris <.i>

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Book SynopsisA reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought. Orthodox opinion is that in the `long' eighteenth century women, especially of the middle classes, had very little involvement with business affairs and enterprises, and that as a group they were more usually characterised by their domestic roles. This book takes issue with this view, arguing that the major factors which supposedly prevented women's economic activity in this period had much less impact than has previously been thought. It demonstrates thatdespite the pressure of gendered cultural expectations, financial barriers and legal disabilities, many women participated extensively in entrepreneurial activity as integrated members of trading networks, exchanging money, credit, property and goods with male traders on a regular basis throughout the period. The author examines how women in business engaged with the tangled legal systems of common law, borough customs and equity, showing that the legal doctrine of coverture did not in practice curtail married women's ability to trade on their own account; she goes on to look at women's business practices, partnerships and credit networks, including their involvement in the insurance business and newspaper advertising. Finally, she considers the impact of domestic ideology, particularly on women in the feminine trades of millinery and dressmaking, and the languages women used to express their commercial interests.Trade ReviewA valuable addition to the burgeoning literature on women's business activities. * BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW *[Succeeds] in significantly revising the persistent image of the limited role of lower-middle-class women in business. * IRSH *A work that will be of great interest to both early modernists and modernists, not only to those who study women but also legal, economic, family, and social historians. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *A valuable addition to the growing body of literature that is currently examining the role of women in the history of economic enterprise. * HISTORY *A dense, absorbing study. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *Should be of considerable interest not only to the specialists in women's and gender history, but to those interested in the economic and social developments of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. * H-ALBION *A solid, in-depth treatment of predominantly London-based female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, which is thoroughly au fait with its historiographical context. * EH.NET *A welcome addition to the historical field of women's work. Presents a complex and fascinating picture of female enterprise during the longue durée that makes an important contribution to our understanding of women's work and the urban middling sorts. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *

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Book SynopsisA bestseller for decades, this classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors and a whole new chapter.

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Book SynopsisFor eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Madeleine Albright was an active participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time-from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. This title tells the story of former Secretary of State.Trade Review"One of the most diverting political bios in recent memory." -- Entertainment Weekly "Her portraits of foreign leaders are lively and evocative... The result is a book that creates a sense of policy made by real people." -- The New Yorker "Madeleine Albright has written a different kind of memoir... It's Albright unplugged." -- USA Today "Albright is frank, assertive... straight-shooting." -- The New York Times "The fascinating story of a remarkable person who has served her country well." -- The Dallas Morning News

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Ever since the centuries of burning women healers as witches, because they taught women how to govern our own bodies, thus to control reproduction—the medical world hasn’t included all of humanity. Doing Harm shows what is left to be done, and directs both women and men toward healing.” — Gloria Steinem “Maya Dusenbery’s exhaustively researched book is equal parts infuriating and energizing. No woman will see the medical establishment, and perhaps even more profound, her own body, the same way after reading it. In a just world, it would be required reading in medical schools from this day forward.” — Courtney E. Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters “Maya Dusenbery brings new life to one of the most urgent yet under-discussed feminist issues of our time. Anyone who cares about women’s health needs to read this book.” — Jessica Valenti, author of Sex Object “Dusenbery challenges a new generation of women and practitioners to fight for medical equity—shinning a harsh light on the sex bias that pervades every level of medicine. It’s outrageous that such malignant neglect exists more than two decades after the government acknowledged the gaps in knowledge about women’s health.” — Leslie Laurence, co-author of Outrageous Practices “In this groundbreaking book, Maya shows how the same forces that hold women back in society more broadly lead to sub-par medical care and inadequate attention to health issues that impact women. Every doctor, scientist, health care provider and researcher should read this book. And so should every woman.” — Jill Filipovic, author of The H-Spot “Doing Harm is a deeply researched and very readable exploration of the systematic mistreatment of women in our medical system—and how even those with the best intentions perpetuate it. This book is an eye-opener; may it also be a call for real, sustained change.” — Kate Harding, author of Asking For It and co-editor of Nasty Women “An intensive, timely spotlight…Within an organized, well-balanced combination of scientific and social research and moving personal stories, Dusenbery makes a convincing case for the need for drastic industry reform and clinical refinement.” — Kirkus “Dusenbery’s excellent book makes the sexism plaguing women’s health care hard to ignore…skillfully interweaving history, medical studies, current literature, and hard data to produce damning evidence that women wait longer for diagnoses, receive inadequate pain management, and are often told they are imagining symptoms that are taken seriously in men.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review “Editor’s Choice by the New York Times” — “As seen on FRESH AIR” — “an antidote to the isolation and maddening self-doubt that this all-too-common dismissal can impose. Her careful evidence answers the uncomfortable question that so often niggles in the doctor’s office: ‘Am I getting lesser care because I’m a woman?’” — Ms. Magazine “well researched, wonderfully truculent…” — NYT Daily “Doing Harm methodically and thoroughly lays out an indictment of the medical systems that still largely discount the experiences of women both individually and collectively. Doing Harm demands nothing short of system-wide change, starting with a call to providers at the most basic level” — Rewire “Dusenbery, who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, masterfully takes down the wide-reaching systemic gender bias in science and medicine that prevents doctors from truly hearing female patients.” — Health.com “In her new book, Dusenbery provides a comprehensive and much-needed look at how sexism in the medical field is hurting women. Much of the discrepancy in treatment stems from the “knowledge gap,” which Dusenbery writes about in depth” — Pacific Standard “Doing Harm demonstrates persuasively that subconscious gender-bias in medicine is very real and pervasive for women of all backgrounds, as doctors continue to apply a “one-size-fits-all” method of diagnosis and medical evaluation to their women patients.” — Pacific Standard “Dusenbery peels back the sick layers of America’s paternal healthcare system. She plays both patient and journalist, seamlessly combining history, research, and interviews into an easily digestible must-read. 5/5” — Bust Magazine “Dusenbery digs deeper into the issue, exploring the way gender bias in medicine often leaves women struggling for proper care.” — Tonic - VICE “the medical establishment has a poor history of taking women’s health issues seriously —a history that Feministing editor Dusenbery takes on with full force in her new book” — Harpers Bazaar “Through interviews with patients, doctors, and experts as well as a deep cultural analysis, Dusenbery presents a horrifying picture of what it means to be a woman who’s dismissed by her doctors.” — Bitch Media “Dusenbery’s book, based on two years of research into a host of conditions, exposes the systemic causes of these disparities and provides critically relevant information for the public—and for those in medicine, psychology, and the research sciences.” — Greater Good Science Center “In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores how biases and sexism in medicine lead to harmful outcomes for women.” — Popular Science “Dusenbery says these experiences fit into a larger pattern of gender bias in medicine. Her new book, Doing Harm, makes the case that women’s symptoms are often dismissed and misdiagnosed” — NPR - FRESH AIR “Her new book is all about how women receive sub-par medical care because the medical community knows comparatively less about their bodies and diseases and too often doesn’t trust women’s reports of their own symptoms” — WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show “Maya Dusenbery explores how medicine often leaves women on the periphery of real medical advancement. She explores the horrific reality of how medical practitioners and academic researchers completely dismiss women.” — Marie Claire “Dusenbery writes about women’s pain and illnesses being overlooked because of their menstrual cramps, menopause, even entering motherhood.” — Dame Magazine “In her book, Dusenbery traces how women are overlooked in every corner of illness, from autoimmune diseases to chronic pain (which disproportionately affects women and includes everything from irritable bowel syndrome to migraines to arthritis).” — The Cut “Maya Dusenbery’s book, Doing Harm, explains how women’s health issues have historically been dismissed—and what we can do about it now.” — Broadly “Doing Harm is a fearless account of the incompetence of our culture when it comes to treating women properly. Dusenbery writes about the institutional systems that are against women—from philosophy to pharmacy to popular culture—in an accessible, engaging, and organized narrative.” — The Rumpus “Maya Dusenbery has added immensely to the literature on women’s health.” — NY Journal of Books

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Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated and with a new Introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Her Place at the Table draws on extensive interviews with women leaders to help all women negotiate their path to leadership success. A Woman''s Guide to Taking Her Place at the Leadership Table It''s time for women to take their places at the leadership tables alongside men. Why? Because the skills we developed at the foot of the tablebringing people together, building bridges across differences, and thinking outside the boxare in great demand. But to use this time and these skills to the greatest advantage, read this book. The authors have set a great meal for you...just devour it. Marie C. Wilson, president and founder, The White House Project Does she have the right stuff? That question follows women whenever they are promoted to visible leadership positions. Her Place at the Table lays out the pragmatic moves that can help any woman in bTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Your Place at the Leadership Table—Questions Will Be Asked 1 1 Drill Deep 19 Negotiating the Intelligence for Informed Decisions 2 Mobilize Backers 55 Negotiating for Critical Support 3 Garner Resources 97 Negotiating Key Allocations 4 Bring People On Board 127 Negotiating Buy-In 5 Make A Difference 169 The Big Challenge Appendix A 201 A Road Map to Negotiating the Five Challenges Appendix B 206 What Organizations Can Learn from How Women Leaders Negotiate the Five Challenges Notes 209 Bibliography 219 Acknowledgments 229 About the Authors 231 Index 235

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Book SynopsisA beautiful visual representation of personal growth and healing based around striking affirmations, mantras, and ancient wisdom, from Lao Tzu to Rumi and beyondWhen it seems that you have been left behind, in a moment of stillness you might realize that the infinite stars, the restless sea, and the patient moon are all traveling along with you. In this beautiful collection, artist Iulia Bochis pairs visual storytelling with timeless wisdom to take you on a voyage of self-discovery through the seasons of life. Following a traveler as they face the changes of fall, the loneliness of winter, the hopeful nature of spring, and the happiness of summer, these pages capture the grief, transformation, healing, and growth we all experience on the journey toward self-love. Guided by Iulia’s insightful words and punctuated with Zen proverbs and quotes from prominent thinkers from Lao Tzu to Rumi, this vibrantly illustrated book will inspire you to trust th

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Book SynopsisGoddesses often are labelled as one-dimensional forces of nature or fertility. In examining a number of goddesses whose primary role is sovereignty, this volume reveals the rich diversity of goddess traditions. Drawn from a variety of cultural and historical settings, the goddesses described here include Inanna of ancient Sumer; Oshun of Nigeria; and Cihuacoatl of pre-historical America.Trade ReviewAn interesting survey of regiocultural understandings of goddesses' relationship to human authority. * The Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

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Book SynopsisThe gripping memoir of a Moroccan human rights and women’s rights activist.Table of Contents Author's Dedication Translators' Introduction Chronology Chapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: "Or the Narrative of Suffering" Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes Prison Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: "Imposed Violence" Chapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou Prison Chapter 11. Trial Day Chapter 12. The Inseparable Twosome Chapter 13. An Incredible Visit Chapter 14. "The Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber" Chapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and Happiness Chapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free Person Chapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed Grief Chapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman Prisoner Chapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without Spring Chapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi Kacem Chapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation in Police Stations: Testimony of Widad Bouab Chapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers: Testimony of Latifa Jbabdi Notes

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Book SynopsisA proven blueprint to accelerate career success and fast track into leadership roles â especially for women who are underrepresented in their fields.If you're a woman, especially a woman of color, you know this already: You face unique challenges and obstacles as you work to scale the corporate ladder. From not seeing other faces in the room that look like you to dealing with the stereotypes and (often unconscious) biases in the workplace, you may know what to do to succeed, but not how to get it done in this environment. Show Your Worth shows you how.In pages that are both inspirational and practical, Shelmina Babai Abji speaks directly to professional womenâespecially women of colorâabout how the power of being intentional and strategic can help transform the headwinds you face into much-needed tailwinds.Show Your Worth takes you on a deep dive into the 8 Intentional Strategies that will help you achieve success, including:Succ

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Book SynopsisIn order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, Madame Alexandra David-Neel used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. This title presntes her intensive study and daring adventure in mysterious territories of the East.Trade Review"David-Neel was indisputably a fearless traveler, a rogue's rogue. Her account has the power to awe even today." -- Outside magazine

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Book SynopsisBeing a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. A 1950s Housewife collects heart-warming personal anecdotes from women who embarked on married life during this fascinating post-war period, providing a trip down memory lane for any wife or child of the 1950s.

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Book SynopsisWhen Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked. Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to 'have it all,' Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take 'me-time' or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss - and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.Trade ReviewCandid and engaging. [Calhoun] is a funny, smart, compassionate narrator... I admired her insistence on taking women's concerns seriously. -- Curtis Sittenfeld * New York Times Book Review *An engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage, pop culture analysis, and statistics... it aspires to something larger than memoir. * New Republic *Calhoun speaks directly to her own generation, peppering the book with so many specific cultural touchstones... that I found reading Why We Can't Sleep to be a singular experience - driving home her point that Gen X is so often overlooked. * Minneapolis Star Tribune *An assured, affable guide, Calhoun balances bleakness with humor and the hope inherent in sharing stories that will make other women feel less alone. * Booklist *Ada Calhoun's soulful investigation into the complex landscape women in midlife face today is downright stunning... You will recognize yourself in these pages, breathe a sigh of relief, and think, I'm not alone. -- Susannah Cahalan, author of BRAIN ON FIRETable of Contents1: Possibilities Create Pressure 2: The Doldrums 3: The Caregiving Rack 4: Job Instability 5: Money Panic 6: Decision Fatigue 7: Single, Childless 8: After the Divorce 9: Perimenopause 10: The Very Filtered Profile Picture 11: New Narratives Appendix: A Midlife Crisis Mixtape

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