Gender studies: women and girls Books
Bancroft Press Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret
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£15.15
Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Woman in Buddhism
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£6.33
Johns Hopkins University Press Female Genital Cutting
Book SynopsisShe concludes that while globalization may exacerbate such conflicts, it can ultimately lead to social change.Trade ReviewBrilliant and richly informative... This book deserves to become a standard text in courses on cultural globalization and the cultural politics of gender. -- Richard A. Shweder Amici 2003 Boyle uses qualitative and quantitative data at the international, national, and individual levels to demonstrate the complexities and conflict around changing institutionalized cultural practices such as female genital cutting. In doing so, Boyle provides both an in-depth understanding of anti-female genital cutting efforts, and a unique multilevel approach to evaluating global cultural conflict. -- Kammi Schmeer Social Forces Challenging and insightful. It raises many important questions in the perspectives of the international system, governments, and individuals. -- Evelyne Accad H-Gender-MidEast, H-Net Reviews 2004 Boyle has provided the reader with smart, complex, and sophisticated arguments about the contradictions and politics of global culture. I highly recommend it. -- Stanlie M. James African Studies Review 2004 A strong sociological analysis of institutional interaction around a controversial issue. -- Zachary Androus International Journal of Human Rights 2005 A helpful and balanced synthesis of the laws, policies and literature regarding a highly controversial topic, as well as insight into international institutional dynamics. -- Christine J. Walley Modern African Studies 2005Table of ContentsContents:PrefaceONE IntroductionTWO Understanding Female Genital CuttingTHREE The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital CuttingFOUR International MobilizationFIVE The Diffusion of National Policies against Female Genital CuttingSIX Variation in the Meanings of National PoliciesSEVEN Individual Response: A Clash of Alternative Meaning SystemsEIGHT Individual Frame Resonance: Explanations for Opposing Female Genital CuttingNINE ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£24.22
University of Nebraska Press Automatic Woman The Representation of Woman in
Book SynopsisContemporary feminist critics have often described Surrealism as a misogynist movement. This work addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses of works by a range of writers and artists, it develops a complex view of Surrealist portrayals of woman.
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press White Mother to a Dark Race
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. White Mother to a Dark Race examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies.Trade Review“An important work. . . . Jacobs’s thoroughness, breadth of comparative research, and fresh analysis of the removal of indigenous children have earned three awards for this book (2010 Bancroft Prize; 2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize; 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize).”—Christine Choo, American Historical Review"This study stands as an excellent model and should encourage further comparisons between federal Indian policy and other maternalist projects within the United States as well as intimate strategies in other colonial regimes."—Cathleen D. Cahill, Western Historical Quarterly"[White Mother to a Dark Race is] a monumental comparative study."—Cristina Stanciu, Studies in American Indian Literatures“A painstakingly researched and brilliantly written account of the key roles white women played in the removal policies of U.S. and Australian governments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . If you are ready to remove your blindfold, then this is a must read!”—Carrie Bourassa, Canadian Journal of Native Studies"[Margaret D. Jacobs] has produced a balanced, meticulously researched book filled with heartbreaking stories of loss and uplifting accounts of survival."—Lynette Russell, Great Plains Quarterly"[Jacobs] has taken the study of these nineteenth and early twentieth century institutionalizing policies in a rewarding new direction. . . . I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in indigenous studies, women's studies, and the history of intercultural relations in colonizing situations like the American West."—Nancy J. Parezo, Journal of Arizona History"This book deserves wide readership in U.S. western history, women's history, Indian history, and comparative ethnic studies."—Peggy Pascoe, Montana, the Magazine of Western History"Jacobs' focus on the role of white women, and specifically the function of maternalism, generates important insights into the interrelationship between race and gender in the creation of the modern white nation. Attention to the specificities of colonial regimes in the different locations of Australia and the American West—revealing the uncanny similarities as well as significant differences—can only enhance our critical understanding."—Trish Luker, International Journal of Critical Indigenous StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface: White Mother to a Dark Race Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Abbreviations 1. Gender and Settler Colonialism in the North American West and Australia 2. Designing Indigenous Child Removal Policies 3. The Great White Mother 4. The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal 5. Intimate Betrayals 6. Groomed to Be Useful 7. Maternalism in the Institutions 8. Out of the Frying Pan 9. Challenging Indigenous Child Removal Epilogue Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Coming Out Under Fire The History of Gay Men and
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations.
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Women and Feminism
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an emerging Indigenous feminist project.Trade ReviewA pioneering text…Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is a comprehensive, inclusive, heterogeneous, and valuable collection for anyone studying Indigenous issues or histories, feminisms, cultural studies and criticism, decolonization, or literary studies. -- Patricia Miranda Barkaskas, The Goose, Issue 10, 2012Table of ContentsIndigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl SuzackPart 1: Politics1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. LeePart 2: Activism5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist / Kim Anderson6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact / Jean Barman7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / Teresa Zackodnik8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise lewallenPart 3: Culture10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman / Julia Emberley13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia DemersIndex
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Harvard University, Asia Center Transgressive Typologies
Book SynopsisRebecca Doran offers a new understanding of major female figures of the Tang eraincluding Wu Zhao, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan'erwithin their literary-historical contexts, and delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction.
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University of Toronto Press Disruptive Power
Book SynopsisDisruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic. Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminTrade Review"Disruptive Powers deals with a myriad of themes in a complex, ambitious narrative based to a great degree on primary sources from numerous state and church archives…O’Sullivan gives us much to ponder in his thought-provoking, challenging work." -- Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College * Contemporary Church History *"O’Sullivan’s wonderful study of early-twentieth-century German Catholic miracles, Disruptive Power, keeps social structures, clerical and lay leadership and institutions in view while also illuminating forms of popular piety and their political impact both within the Catholid community and at regional and national levels…Michael O’Sullivan has written a richly descriptive and carefully argued book that makes a serious and important contribution to a vibrant and expanding field." -- Monica Black, University of Tennessee * German History *"O’Sullivan aptly demonstrates the ways in which power from below – grassroots movements as well as localized individual efforts – can influence and shape figures and events at regional and national levels. While his book will be of most interest to German studies scholars, his subject also has broad appeal to social and cultural historians of modern Europe." -- Lauren Faulkner Rossi * German Studies Review *"O’Sullivan offers a compelling argument for reconfiguring the conventional narrative about piety and secularization in modern Germany." -- Lauren N. Faulkner Rossi * Journal of Modern History, Vol.92, No. 4 *"O’Sullivan’s book is fascinating reading, meticulously researched, and well written." -- Stephen Bevans, SVD, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Michael E. O’Sullivan’s deeply researched, equally imaginative and provocative book Disruptive Power tells the fascinating story of Therese Neumann (1898–1962)." -- Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield * American Historical Review *"This beautifully written monograph deserves wide readership, especially by students and scholars of Europe and sexuality. Employing the case of Catholic mystic Therese Neumann, Michael O’Sullivan challenges conventional narratives about German history to argue for ‘the central place of Catholic miracles to the politics of modern Germany.’" -- Maria Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Germany between Apocalypse and Salvation: Bloody Images and Miraculous Cures 2. The Rise of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth during the Weimar Republic 3. Saving Souls and Making Enemies: The Struggle over Konnersreuth and the Downfall of Political Catholicism 4. Between Feminine Agency and Moral Utopia: Gender and Sex in Konnersreuth 5. Disruptive Potential: Catholic Miracles under the Third Reich 6. Miraculous Times in West Germany: Marian Apparitions during the Early Federal Republic 7. Therese Neumann between Catholic Traditionalism, Cold War, and Economic Miracle Conclusion Bibliography Index
£51.00
MW - Rutgers University Press PostBorderlandia Chicana Literature and Gender
Book SynopsisPost-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory. Trade Review"Cuevas’s invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies." -- Richard T. Rodríguez * author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics *"Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Post-Borderlandia interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text." -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty * author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity *"Spring Arts 2018 Books: Fact, fiction and beyond" by Will Owen * Washington Blade *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Post-Borderlandia indeed creates an archive showing that gender variance is central to Chicana literature. Further, it shows that such intersectional non-normativity is, in the words of Rosario Castellanos quoted by Cuevas, “Otro modo de ser humano y libre” ‘Another way of being human and free’" * Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature *"Post-Borderlandia is a necessary read for scholars of both Latinx literature and queer/trans studies, offering exciting new takes on classic texts and drawing attention to lesser-known cultural artifacts." * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. *"Post-Borderlandia is a valuable book for scholars in the fields of Hispanic and Chicanx cultures and those who study gender and queer theory; this work combines all in a way that is both insightful and fascinating for the reader....Cuevas takes Anzaldua’s work and expands upon it beautifully, bringing her ground-breaking work of the 1980s into a more contemporary context that will be of interest to many scholars." * Hispanic Research Journal *"Cuevas makes a critical intervention into the body of scholarship concerning Chicana/o/x LBGTQ literature....Readers will certainly find value in Cuevas’s analytical acumen [and] some may wonder which other Chicanx texts could have been brought under this lens: how might a gender variant critique be marshalled to examine Chicanx and non-Chicanx characters and open new possibilities within Chicana/o/x cultural productions? In this way, Cuevas has done the significant work of illuminating what had long been ignored." * Feministas Unidas *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands 1 Chicana Masculinities 2 Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies 3 Transing Chicanidad 4 Brokeback Rancho Conclusion: From a Long Line of Marimachas Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Brave
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Edinburgh University Press Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World
Book SynopsisGender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender.
£90.25
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Lady Rancher
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£13.49
Farrar, Straus and Giroux West with the Night
Book SynopsisA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham''s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrixshe became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Letters to Her Sons 14471470 46 493 Other Voice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAt long last, this treasure trove of seventy-three letters written by Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi to her exiled sons is now fully available to Anglophone readers. Scholars of Renaissance Italy and early modern women have long recognized the importance of Strozzi’s letters, but until now only selections have been published in translation. Given the growing interest in women’s epistolary practices as well as the continuing fascination with Renaissance Florence, this translation makes an especially welcome contribution to the Other Voice series, and will almost certainly enlarge Strozzi’s historical footprint for students and scholars alike. Sharon Strocchia Professor, Department of History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences"At long last, this treasure trove of seventy-three letters written by Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi to her exiled sons is now fully available to Anglophone readers. Scholars of Renaissance Italy and early modern women have long recognized the importance of Strozzi’s letters, but until now only selections have been published in translation. Given the growing interest in women’s epistolary practices as well as the continuing fascination with Renaissance Florence, this translation makes an especially welcome contribution to the Other Voice series, and will almost certainly enlarge Strozzi’s historical footprint for students and scholars alike." -- Sharon Strocchia, Emory College of Arts and SciencesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xvIntroduction1. The Other Voice 12. The Life of Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi: The Intersection ofPrivate and Public Domains 63. Alessandra and the Genre of the Familiar Letter 164. Writing as a Mother 185. The Afterlife of the Letters 236. A Note on the Translation and Edition 25Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi: Letters to Her Sons 29Abbreviations 245Weights and Measures 246Currency 247Times of Day 248Florentine Dating 248Bibliography 249Index 269
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Hodder & Stoughton Fed Up
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking exploration of feminism's most buzzy topic.
£14.24
Whitford Press,U.S. An Act of Woman Power
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Seal Press Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the
Book SynopsisWhen we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy. Women lie about orgasms. Women lie about being virgins. Women lie about who got them pregnant, about whether they were raped, about how many people they've had sex with and what sort of experiences they've had - the list goes on and on. Over and over we're reminded that, on dates, in relationships, and especially in the bedroom, women just aren't telling the truth. But where does this assumption come from? Are women actually lying about sex, or does society just think we are?In Faking It, Lux Alptraum tackles the topic of seemingly dishonest women; investigating whether women actually lie, and what social situations might encourage deceptions both great and small. Using her experience as a sex educator and former CEO of Fleshbot (the foremost blog on sexuality), first-hand interviews with sexuality experts and everyday women, Alptraum raises important questions: are lying women all that common - or is the idea of the dishonest woman a symptom of male paranoia? Are they trying to please men, or just trying to trick and trap them? And what affect does all this dishonesty - whether real or imagined - have on women's self-images, social status, and safety? Through it all, Alptraum posits that even if women are lying, we're doing it for very good reason--to protect ourselves ("My boyfriend will be here any minute," to a creep who won't go away, for one), and in situations where society has given us no other choice.
£12.34
Fragile X Association of GA My eXtra Special Brother
£15.50
Little, Brown & Company Ungovernable
Book SynopsisThe wickedly funny feminist historian who brought you Unmentionable: A Victorian Lady''s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners is back, to educate you on what to expect when you''re expecting . . . a Victorian baby.Twenty-first century parents are drowning in theories and advice and guilt, with maybe one in a hundred managing some façade of success. What can we learn from our foremothers? Is it possible that the rather draconian methods of Victorian childrearing worked? Better than the ones we bend our backs to today?Ungovernable will address parents'' concerns about raising a model Victorian child, advising you on:- How much lager to consume while pregnant- How to select the best peasant teat for your child- How to choose an appropriately homely governess- Which toys are most likely to turn your child into a sexual deviant- And moreConsulting actual advice manuals from the 19th century, Oneill takes
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McGraw-Hill Education THE GIRLS GUIDE TO POWER AND
Book SynopsisEven now, in the 21st century, women continue to be paid less than men, are still notably absent from the executive suites, and among entrepreneurs, receive only a tiny fraction of venture capital. The struggle for equality is not yet over -- and it's up to women to take positive action for change.Table of Contents "1. The Power of Expectations 2. The Power of a ""Go for It"" Attitude 3. The Power of 20/20 Vision 4. The Power of Communicating Like a Pro 5. The Power of Pizzazz: Creating Personal Charisma 6. The Power of a Blended Leadership Style 7. The Power of Planning 8. The Power of a Turbocharged Career 9. The Power of Balance 10. The Power of Advocacy 11. The Power of Money 12. A Vision for the Future"
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press From Virile Woman to WomanChrist Studies in
Book Synopsis"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book... From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."-Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical ReviewTrade Review"Barbara Newman has written the most wide-ranging and throughly researched study to date of women's religious literature of the Middle Ages. Ranging across time . . . regional and linguistic borders . . . and genres, Newman provides enough examples to sink an armada of skeptics who would dismiss medieval female piety as somehow unrepresentative of high medieval culture. The range of examples is itself dazzling, and students of religious and feminist history will treasure this book. . . . But to prodigious learning and careful scholarship Newman adds . . . a writer's gift for being both clear and engaging. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist is not only good scholarship but a good read." * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *"Newman skillfully searches out explicit and implied attitudes toward the female sex. She uncovers, in addition to expected differences, a key contrast in what is meant by formation for each sex. . . . This book makes splendid contributions to religious and literary studies on more than one front. . . . The sheer comprehensiveness of the texts, themes, and persons integrated into this study recommends it to a wide readership." * Speculum *"In this engaging, informative work, Barbara Newman intends to explore 'women's gender-specific dilemmas, choices, and ways of being Christian during the period from approximately 1100 through 1500.' . . . The important work of Newman certainly helps us to understand the background of the emergence of this still very 'intricate web' . . . of religious and intellectual teachings by women." * The Journal of Religion *"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. Drawing on and in many ways surpassing the flood of work on medieval religious women produced in the past fifteen years . . . , she gives us a set of learned, thoughtful, and interrelated essays, written in lucid and beautiful prose. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course-for its method, its substance, and its prose." * Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women 5. La Mystique Courtoise: Thirteenth-Century Beguines and the Art of Love Excursus 1. Hadewijch and Abelard Excursus 2. Gnostics, Free Spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's Daughter" 6. WomanSpirit, Woman Pope 7. Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 Appendix B: Glossary of Religious Women Works Cited Index
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John Murray Press Cracking Complexity: NOW - The Breakthrough
Book SynopsisComplexity has met its match! Today, every leader and organisation grapples with unprecedented complexity. Some thrive in these situations while the vast majority do not. Now updated for a post-Covid world, David Benjamin and David Komlos share their cutting-edge, highly-engaging step-by-step formula for rapidly cracking incredibly knotty and important challenges, by involving and mobilizing all the right people-no matter where they are-to co-create solutions.Filled with compelling stories and advice distilled from years of experience applying the Complexity Formula across a broad range of sectors, Benjamin and Komlos have delivered the defining handbook for current and future leaders.Fully updated to include highly successful and proven virtual methods and practices that have been used to solve real problems. This book serves up the mindset, steps and skills that you and your team will need to crack complexity, wherever you are in the world, so that you can find clarity and build momentum even in the most uncertain of times.
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University of Minnesota Press Herlands Exploring the Womens Land Movement in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"No foggy remnant of a dying era, lesbian (and women’s) lands continue to provide meaning and solace to many women who are dissatisfied with and alienated from the dominant U.S. culture and its heterosexism. Herlands documents a particular moment in history in which a radical movement of primarily white women imagined and crafted a different world. There are few instances cross-culturally in which women have taken such dramatic steps to remake the world in their own image, which is why this story, an empathetic view of a group of women continuing to define themselves and live independently, is a must read."—Evelyn Blackwood, Purdue University"Herlands is an accessible and sympathetic ethnography of the lesbian back-to-the-land movement. Going well beyond caricatures of landdykes, Keridwen N. Luis shows the promise of feminist intentional communities—their enactment of utopic ideals of collectivity, feminist embodiment, and ecofeminism—without sidelining how the animating logic of women’s nature/nature-as-woman also reproduces transphobia, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. What emerges is a complex reading of gender, race, and nature in a rural lesbian culture."—Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality "The book is an ethnography rooted in the methods and language of Anthropology. It’s refreshing to see women's lands positioned as the saving remnants that we always hoped they might become!"—Duluth News Tribune "For urban, landscape, and community planners, a careful read of Herlands can shake loose the biases and banalities that inform our current assumptions about who is included in our sanitized visions of future communities. Landscape architecture and planning practices are grappling with intersecting threads of systemic racism and segregation, income inequality, and new perspectives on gender and identity, all within the context of climate change. Women’s communities have been facing these issues head-on, grappling with them in all the conflict and messiness required in utopian work, and they offer clues for alternative practices. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space. She is able to interact with others less carefully, and to experience a sense of self-possession and awareness."—Full Stop "Herlands makes important points about the cultural dynamics of social movements, the politicization of everyday life, current debates within feminism, and the persistence of inequality within social movements."—Mobilization "The book is deeply enmeshed in cutting-edge contemporary academic arguments about identity politics."—American Journal of Sociology "The relevance of the collectives, in addition to their reach into mainstream and left-of-mainstream culture, is their creation of a space to debate and examine and critique. In some of the most refreshing sections of the book, Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space."—Full Stop Reviews Supplement "Luis’s depiction of real women necessarily provides a much more nuanced narrative of complex lives, identities, and motives."—H-Net "This book beautifully illustrates the possibilities that can become realities when people collectively re-imagine ways of building community, creating homes, and living outside of traditional societal structures."—Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Women’s Land, Here Is Your Umbrella1. The Political Is Personal: From the Peace Camp and Women’s Music Festivals to Women’s Land2. Are the Amazons White? Race and Space on Women’s Land3. “Now My Neighbors and Friends Are the Same People”: Community, Language, and Identity4. The Giving Tree: Gift Economies Planted in Capitalist Soil5. The Mountain Is She: Gender as Landscape, Landscape as Gender6. Primally Female: Agency and the Meaning of the Body on Women’s Land7. We Have Met the Enemy and She Is Us: Scapegoating Trans Bodies8. The Hermit and the Family: Aging and Dis/Ability in CommunityAfterword: Women’s Lands, Women’s LivesAcknowledgmentsBibliography
£19.79
MIT Press Ltd Women and Leadership
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The History Press Ltd A Tangled Web Mata Hari
Book SynopsisIn this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; a woman whose adult life was a fantastical web of lies and half-truths.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Women Writers of the Beat Era Autobiograhy and
Book SynopsisThe Beat Generation defined an experimental zeitgeist that endures to today. Yet left out of this picture are the Beat women, who produced a large body of writing from the 1950s through the 1970s and beyond. In Women Writers of the Beat Era, Mary Paniccia Carden gives voice to these female writers and demonstrates how their work redefines our understanding of “Beat”.
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University of Nebraska Press Religious Feminist Activist
Book SynopsisIn Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their activities reveal about the public significance of religion in the pluralistic context of North America and in our increasingly globalized world. Zwissler’s ethnographic interviews with feminist Catholics, Pagans, and United Church Protestants reveal radically different views of religious and political expression and illuminate how individual women and their communities negotiate issues of personal identity, spirituality, and political responsibility. Political activists of faith recount adventurous tales of run-ins with police, agonizing moments of fear and powerlessness in the face of global inequality, touching moments of community support, and successful projects Trade Review"Zwissler's book gives a unique insight into the ways activists of faith create new communities and practices in imagining and bringing about a better world, based on a cosmology of interconnection that goes beyond individualism and recognizes every person's ethical responsibility for the well-being of others. It deserves to be widely read by scholars of religion, politics, and the complex interaction between the two."—Kim Knibbe, Political Theology"Bringing together ideas that are often thought to be incongruent, Zwissler . . . discusses individuals who have deep commitments to religion but also to feminism and activism. . . . Offering a wealth of information, this accessible book is well suited to classroom use as well as secondary reading."—M. M. Veeneman, Choice"Based on their worldview of interconnection, activists come together in communities that provide support, encourage patience and compassion, and connect people. With this ethnography of groups rarely studied with such depth, Zwissler provides an important contribution to scholarship on social movements and feminist and religious studies."—Sharon P. Doetsch-Kidder, Reading Religion"Laurel Zwissler centers her analysis around case studies of three women in Canada from the Catholic, United Church, and Pagan traditions. Both micro perspectives and macro investigation provide readers with insights into important differences among the subjects but equally important commonalities of spirit, politics, and action."—Water Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual"More often than not, the attention given to religious activism focuses on the influence of right-wing evangelical Christians in contemporary North American politics. Less often are we made aware of the ways in which other religious groups (Christian or non-Christian) have advocated for progressive policies that tend to fall on the left side of the political spectrum. The stories told by Laurel Zwissler in her book, Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection fills this void not only by providing a unique perspective on left-leaning religious activism in North America, but her work is imperative to understand the variety of ways in which religious women actively participate in the public and political spheres."—Stacy Keogh George, Religion and Gender“A valuable window into the complex but important role of religion in many progressive feminist groups. Zwissler’s volume helps us to better reflect on the challenging dance of religion and feminism, within the all-important context of activist work. Focusing on cultural and religious resources, rituals, and discourses that shape and constrain movement activity, this is a beautifully written, thoughtfully argued, and timely contribution.”—Courtney Bender, professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University“The most effective way to understand activist religion is [through] finely tuned ethnographic work. Laurel Zwissler asks perceptive questions, listens to complex responses, and observes the multiple layers of women engaged in progressive public enactments in Toronto. The result is a convincing, compelling book.”—Ronald L. Grimes, director, Ritual Studies International and professor emeritus of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University“Laurel Zwissler’s comprehensive and up-to-date summary and synthesis of matters pertaining to religious, spiritual, and political uses of ritual, ceremony, and action are critical to every large scale protest movement of our time.”—Mary Keller, assistant academic professional lecturer for the Department of Religious Studies at the University of WyomingTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Changing Rituals, Changing Worlds 2. “The Shrine Was Human Rights”: Pilgrimage and Protest 3. “Spirituality” as Feminist Third Choice: Gendering Religion and the Secular 4. Self, Community, and Social Justice Conclusion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Canongate Books Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Book SynopsisFrom the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.Trade ReviewFiercely erudite, freewheeling and sex-drenched . . . The Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got [. . . Paglia is] a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever * * New York Times * *Paglia's vision is always fresh . . . A fascinating and challenging reading companion * * The Times * *Dazzling . . . Compulsively readable * * Salon * *Polemical, thought-provoking, enraging, funny, and brave * * VICE * *She flies as high as you can go * * New York Times * *Remarkable . . . at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant * * Washington Post * *A compilation of Paglia's best, and most incendiary, previously published essays . . . At times infuriating, at times glittering, Paglia's prose is always biting and relentless * * Huffington Post * *An essential work by an essential public intellectual * * VICE * *Feminist and culture critic Paglia is at her feisty, full-throated best in this series of short manifestos that spans her career * * Publishers Weekly * *Paglia is a brilliant thinker on culture and human nature . . . Inspirational in its tone and its message that freedom belongs to both sexes -- Helen Smith * * The New Criterion * *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd How Women Can Save The Planet
Book SynopsisHere's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women--especially poor women of colour--are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental policy, are the voices of elderly European women dying in heatwaves? Of African girls dropping out of school due to drought? Our highest-profile climate activists are women and girls; but, at the top table, it's men deciding the earth's future. We're not all in it together--but we could be. Instead of expecting individual women to save the planet, what we need are visionary, global climate policies that are gender-inclusive and promote gender equality. Anne Karpf shines a light on the radical ideas, compelling research and tireless campaigns, led by and for women around the world, that have inspired her to hope. Her conversations with female activists show how we can fight back, with strength in diversity. And, faced with the most urgent catastrophe of our times, she offers a powerful vision: a Green New Deal for Women.Trade Review'Inspiring [...] Karpf writes with a strong and invigorating moral purpose – and also warmth. She is not interested in exploring what women can and should do about the climate crisis, but rather seeks to draw attention to how the politics of gender is intermingled with it.' -- The Guardian'Karpf's rousing call for a coalition of hopers, initiators and enablers, united to create a healthy planet with climate, racial and gender justice at its heart, is one we must not only listen to, but act on. Fast!' -- Caroline Lucas MP'Eye-opening, overtly polemical, admirably angry. Often staggering, and ultimately unputdownable.' -- Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, author of 'Peak Inequality''A book for women who want to change the world. Karpf writes with engaging warmth and conviction about the many conflicts faced by women from both the Global North and South.' -- Ann Pettifor, author of 'The Case for the Green New Deal''This book makes an important point. Women have long been at the absolute forefront of the climate movement, and they need to be equally well represented in climate policymaking. Climate feminism is a crucial force for the future.' -- Bill McKibben, author of 'The End of Nature' and founder of 350.org
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Dayspring Prayers to Share: 100 Pass-Along Notes for
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Daimon Verlag Female Ancestors of Christ
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Crossway Books Help Im Married to My Pastor
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Flatiron Books Drop the Ball
Book SynopsisTiffany Dufu''s Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women''s leadership movement that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that to have it all, they must do it all, Dufu began to feel that achieving her career and personal goals was an impossibility. Eventually, she discovered the solution: letting go. In Drop the Ball, Dufu recounts how she learned to reevaluate expectations, shrink her to-do list, and meaningfully engage the assistance of othersfreeing the space she needed to flourish at work and to develop deeper, more meaningful relationships at home. Even though women are half the work
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Columbia University Press Extreme Domesticity
Book SynopsisSusan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.Trade ReviewIn Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman continues to perform the crucial task of challenging—in lucid, fervent prose—the "habitual, unthinking" conflations and repudiations that keep women, or the feminized, at the bottom of hierarchies of value. Using a refreshing range of sources, which includes queers, immigrants, and the homeless alongside the more usual "domestic" suspects, Fraiman sets forth a rethinking of domesticity's nature, purpose, location, and creators. It's a timely rethinking that we truly need now. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsExtreme Domesticity brilliantly explores the homemaking practices that provide sustenance and shelter for the fierce and fragile lives of gender rebels and queer pioneers (even during times of homelessness). It is a lesson in how people find the tools for life-making amongst the ordinary and disregarded materials that surround them; and it is a dazzling excursion across dissident domesticities -- Ben Highmore, author of Ordinary Lives: Studies in the EverydayThis spirited book rescues housekeeping from its presumed ideological trappings by bringing a host of marginalized subjects back into view. Susan Fraiman demonstrates domesticity's strong creative pull for many working-class, immigrant, queer, divorced, or homeless subjects. Carefully probing a diverse array of homemaking experiences, along with the distinct challenges, comforts, and compensations domestic life can bring, Fraiman honors the rich meanings of home for those too often denied it. A surprising and welcome book. -- Diana Fuss, author of The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped ThemExtreme Domesticity is a startlingly original work that not only offers a contemporary updating of feminist studies on domestic and sentimental fiction, but also establishes provocative new frameworks for understanding modern gender formations. A brilliant and important book! -- Thomas Foster, author of Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at HomeAn imaginative and eye-opening reconceptualization of the idea of home. . . . Fraiman’s close readings of detailed descriptions of housework give ordinary daily operations both dignity and value. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *While amply acknowledging domesticity’s historic constraints on women . . . Fraiman advocates for the empowering potential of homemaking for those who struggle to attain a home or who find it healing after trauma. * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *A fresh view of domesticity . . . that comes out of dispossession and precarity, a domesticity carefully made out of wreckage and loss by those cast away or cast out. * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *Fraiman’s nuanced readings reveal that domesticity can be, and has been, 'reconfigured as a language of female self-sufficiency, ambition, and pleasure.' * 4Columns *Insightful and lively. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *Highly recommended. * Choice *In spirited and welcoming prose, Fraiman makes us rethink the ideological baggage the domestic realm carries. . . . She leaves us contemplating how we—and various others—value, occupy, and adorn both real and imagined dwelling places. * ALH *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Doing Domesticity1. Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye2. Behind the Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton3. Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce4. Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart5. Undocumented Houses: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction6. Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the UnshelteredConclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-DwellingNotesBibliographyIndex
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Multnomah Press For Women Only (Revised and Updated Edition):
Book SynopsisDiscover the truth he wants you to know in this revised and updated edition of the landmark bestseller that reveals what every woman?single or married?needs to know about the important man in her life. More than 2 million copies sold in the series! ?Meaningful information for any woman wanting to understand men at a profound level.??Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, authors of Love TalkMen carry important feelings so deep inside they barely know they?re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to ?get? him?to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what he wishes he could tell you.Based on rigorous research with thousands of men, For Women Only delivers one eye-opening revelation after another, including:? Why your respect means more to him than your love.? How he feels deep inside about his role as provider.? What it means for a man to be so visually ?wired.?? Why sex for him is primarily emotional, not physical.? What he most wishes he could say to you.Now, in this expanded and updated edition, you?ll find insights from the latest brain research plus an all-new chapter that shows what?s really going on when he seems to ?check out.? (You?ll be surprised and pleased.)Millions worldwide have experienced dramatic change in their relationships because of the ?aha? moments and practical ideas in For Women Only. Discover how to love your man for who he really is.
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University of California Press Harassed
Book SynopsisResearchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, andharassmentas they conduct fieldwork.These experiences are often left out of ethnographers' tales from the field and remain unaddressed within qualitativeliterature.Harassedargues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographicmethodology contribute to the silence surrounding sexualharassmentand other forms of violence. Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards challenge readers to recognizehow these attitudes put researchers at risk, further the solitude experienced by researchers,lead others to question the validity of their work, and, inturn, negatively impact the construction of ethnographic knowledge. To improve methodological training, data collection,and knowledge produced by all researchers,Harassedadvocates for an embodied approach to ethnography that reflexively engages with theways in which researchers' bodies shape the knowledge they produce. By challenTrade Review"Harassed is an important, insightful text that should become a staple for research methods classes in anthropology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. . . . This is a must-read for anyone conducting or supervising ethnographic research. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"One of this book’s major contributions is to lay bare the gendered character of ethnography as practical endeavor and intellectual pursuit. Interview extracts vividly convey how prevailing conventions create pernicious traps and impossible binds for female researchers, for whom the very act of entering a field site alone and unknown frequently contravenes prescribed norms of feminine conduct and so renders them vulnerable to overtures and advances. . . . While positioned as a challenge to institutional silence, Harassed could instead be seen as throwing down the gauntlet, providing a comprehensive appraisal of the problem and setting out clear-headed proposals for change." * Times Higher Education *"One of this book’s major contributions is to lay bare the gendered character of ethnography as practical endeavor and intellectual pursuit. Interview extracts vividly convey how prevailing conventions create pernicious traps and impossible binds for female researchers, for whom the very act of entering a field site alone and unknown frequently contravenes prescribed norms of feminine conduct and so renders them vulnerable to overtures and advances. . . . While positioned as a challenge to institutional silence, Harassed could instead be seen as throwing down the gauntlet, providing a comprehensive appraisal of the problem and setting out clear-headed proposals for change." * Times Higher Education *"Harassed should be required reading for any class on ethnography or in-depth interviewing, for any researcher conducting ethnography or interviews, and for any faculty member who is advising students conducting such work. Armed with this book, researchers will not only be better able to protect themselves but they will also gain a model for how to learn and teach from their own embodied experiences in the field." * Gender & Society *"When my friends and I faced gendered issues during fieldwork, we viewed it as an anomalous problem to manage as best we could. Hanson and Richards move beyond individual-level suggestions on how to handle risks; they challenge academic assumptions about the very nature of ethnography. Their vision of an embodied ethnography should inform ongoing conversations about how we produce knowledge as well as how to appropriately train and support our students and colleagues." * Social Forces *"Harassed should be required reading for any class on ethnography or in-depth interviewing, for any researcher conducting ethnography or interviews, and for any faculty member who is advising students conducting such work. Armed with this book, researchers will not only be better able to protect themselves but they will also gain a model for how to learn and teach from their own embodied experiences in the field." * Gender & Society *"The book is an essential read for any student and/or researcher using and/or teaching ethnography as a methodology, as it is a much-needed point of departure for a discussion about the roles of our bodies, gender, and sexuality in our interactions with other people and in the construction of ethnographic knowledge. Moreover, it is an essential read for anyone engaged in international development research as it complements calls within the wider research governance framework for increased safeguarding, accountability, and transparency." * Anthropology in Action *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Ethnographic Fixations 2 • Gendered Bodies and Field Research 3 • Sexual Harassment in the Field 4 • The Costs 5 • Constructing Knowledge 6 • Moving Forward Notes References Index
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University of Minnesota Press No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses. Through website transmissions and satellite phone calls, Ann and Liv, two former schoolteachers, were able to broadcast their expedition to more than three million students in sixty-five countries to teach geography, science, and the importance of following your dreams. Trade Review"If you think you know the story of the first female crossing of Antarctica, think again. More hard work, more sweat and tears went into this historic expedition than any of us realized. Their accomplishment proves that nothing is beyond our wildest dreams."—Billie Jean King"Ann and Liv’s historic polar expedition is an awesome accomplishment but, as this book shows, their work as teachers has also had profound impact: they inspire young girls and boys to follow their dreams."—Will Steger, world-famous polar explorer and best-selling author of North to the Pole"Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen’s crossing of Antarctica will go down in history as a great expedition because it was a first for women and because they set a distance record. But the uplifting story of No Horizon Is So Far shows why Ann and Liv will be remembered for much more: their generosity of spirit transcends their bravery and tenacity. Through this powerful account, these women will inspire readers for generations to come."—David Breashers, author of High Exposure, expedition leader and codirector of the IMAX film Everest"The new paperback edition calls attention to their ongoing work in raising awareness of water pollution and scarcity, but the core text is a testimonial to the resilience of the explorers in vividly descriptive prose."—Shepherd Express"What makes this book interesting goes beyond the hard environment . . . it’s the spirit with which this particular expedition was run."—National Geographic
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the
Book SynopsisJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women''s shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin''s finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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University Press of Florida Dixies Daughters
Book SynopsisEven without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox's history of the UDC shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Not a Novel
Book SynopsisA collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny ErpenbeckTrade Review"Erpenbeck has emerged as one of the most original voices in contemporary European letters. Not a Novel is not just autobiographical. There are fascinating reflections on German literature — Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Hans Fallada, Thomas Mann and Walter Kempowski’s war novel All for Nothing — as well as exquisite descriptions of the writing process." -- Guy Chazan - Financial Times"An ideal introduction to the life and work of an exceptional artist." -- Kirkus"This collection of essays, memoirs and critical pieces forms an intellectual biography of Europe’s most history-obsessed writer. Beginning with her childhood in East Berlin in the early ‘60s and ‘70s, the book moves in concentric circles, from the intimate and understatedly moving to the moment History collides with her life. A powerful voice singing the past into the present’s melody." -- John Freeman - Lithub"To read Erpenbeck’s musings on the majesty of folk tales or on life in the shadow of the Stasi is to begin to understand the forces that propelled her to become the deft, fearless author she is today." -- New Statesman"Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique" -- Rachel Seiffert"These essays, lectures and musings from the ever-elegant German writer Jenny Erpenbeck cover life, art and society. Jumbled together are thoughts on language, history and freedom, a moving piece – in the shape of an inventory – on her mother’s death, and finally, on Germany’s treatment of refugees. Clear-eyed and perceptive, Erpenbeck’s writing packs an emotive punch." -- Tatler"As this collection makes clear, hers is a life (and writing-life) well worth examining." -- The Complete Review"Erpenbeck’s anger is palpable and this collection reveals both her creative process and the injustices that drive her to write." -- Lucy Popescu - The Guardian"In this attentive prose, in her desire to map stories that are suppressed and rhythms of the heart that keep being forgotten, Erpenbeck is one of the most vital writers working today." -- Natasha Walter - The Guardian"Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating—ferocious as well as virtuosic." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books"Erpenbeck is a virtuoso whose eye for detail depends entirely on a refusal to write what’s easy or straightforward. It’s a perspective conditioned by losing one identity and watching an entire country disappear in the name of freedom." -- Lauren LeBlanc - The Observer"The texts collected here come from many eras and many moments and seem to fall around the reader like bits of glass....There is something terrifying but liberating about seeing a person construct herself and her history in a way that feels so opposite to everything we are told." -- Hasan Altaf - The Paris Review"The impact is of a master at work—Erpenbeck ought to be considered for the Nobel." -- John Domini - The Washington Post"Not A Novel is a collection of the sort of pieces – some profound, others incidental – that naturally arise as part of a professional writing career. Many are concerned with growing up in the GDR and the experience of having the society that formed your worldview disappear.... At a time when former East German states vote in increasing numbers for the right-wing party Alternativ für Deutschland, Erpenbeck’s voice is all the more important for its ability to draw attention to a parallel world, one that sought to call a new future into being, rather than harking back to a darker past." -- Peter Frederick Matthews - Times Literary Supplement"One of the pleasures of reading Not a Novel is just that—it’s not a novel. Each piece stands on its own and is dense and lucid, demanding pause and reflection....Her words stay with you." -- World Literature Today"Erpenbeck’s writing is a lure that leads us—off-center as into a vortex—to the most haunted and haunting territory." -- Anne Michaels"The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times. Forget the nombrilistes writing about themselves who have taken up so much of the conversational space. Jenny Erpenbeck is where it is all happening. She watches, notes, records, and interprets the world, not just herself in it. This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative." -- Neel Mukherjee"Her restrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming." -- Nicole Krauss
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Break the Habit Press For the Lives of All Women
Book Synopsis`It is a woman's right. It is the expression of her autonomy to claim uncompromising power over her own body and the determination of her own future. It is overcoming motherhood as a biological destiny.' `Pela Vida das Mulheres' was the chant that Brazilians took to the streets to fight for reproductive rights. Just like those protests, this book is a call to action for activists and lawmakers around the world. For over two years, Camila Cavalcante travelled around Brazil meeting women who have had or who have witnessed illegal abortions. She photographed fifty women who shared their stories with her. The collection of portraits is both deeply personal and deeply political. Cavalcante uses the naked female form to challenge the dangerous reproductive laws of Brazil. She exposes her body and identity on behalf of these women in an act of solidarity, as well as subversion. Within this context, For the Lives of All Women/Pela Vida das Mulheres is an act of rebellion in itself.
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Catapult Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse
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Moody Publishers Holy Hygge
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Picador USA Isak Dinesen
Book SynopsisJudith Thurman's brilliant, National Book Awardwinning biography of Isak Dinesennow with a new foreword by the authorA brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen's magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have beenas Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a talea pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other. Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
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Rutgers University Press Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around
Book SynopsisWomen around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.Trade Review"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion." -- Janet Carsten * co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense *"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaIntroduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah HannafordPart I. Never Married1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway3. Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb4. Single Women’s Invisibility in South Korea’s First Decades by Laura C. NelsonPart II. Outside of Marriage5. Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters6. Respectability & Black Brazilian Women’s Decisions to ‘Opt Out’ of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna DavidsonPart III. Within Marriage9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama10. “What’s Wrong with These Mens?”: Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G’Sell11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford12. “Not a normal wife”: Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla JonesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyContributorsIndex
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Stanford University Press Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In Remnants, these tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. With this book, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist reading of the Armenian Genocide. She explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments, she writes a deeply personal history, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory. Traces of women and children rescued during and after the war are reconstructed to center the quietest voices in the historical record. This daring work embraces physical and archival remnants, the imprinted negatives of once living bodies, as a space of radical possibility within Armenian prosthetic memory and a necessary way to recognize the absence that remains.Trade Review"Remnants is a rich cultural history of the Armenian Genocide and a powerful investigation of patriarchal assault on the female body. An original work with broad meaning for all histories of mass violence and genocide, and their traumatic aftermaths."—Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate"Elyse Semerdjian has authored a brilliant book. Remnants is at once powerful, moving, engaging, and convincing. Its turn to bodies and voices, remnants and fragments—away from the traditional archive—restores the stories of those most silenced and forgotten, and shows how gender is pivotal to genocidal thinking. A real tour de force."—Beth Baron, author of The Orphan Scandal"Remnants is the book we've all been waiting for—breathtaking plot, methodological novelty without any accompanying conceit, theoretically and factually grounded. Elyse Semerdjian's work will prove regenerative in the best possible way."—Lerna Ekmekcioglu, author of Recovering Armenia"A very ethical book, demonstrating to all of us how one can recover a violent past with professionalism and grace instead of rhetoric and partisanship. Remnants recovers and gives agency to women who were silenced in history."—Fatma Muge Gocek author of Denial of ViolenceTable of Contents1. Zabel's Pen: Gender, Body Snatching, and the Armenian Genocide 2. Weaponizing Shame: Dis-memberment of the Armenian Collective Body 3. Rescuing "Kittens" in the Desert: The Armenian Humanitarian Relief Effort 4. Recovering Survivors in Aleppo, Replanting Bodies in Syria's Armenian Colonies 5. "Changelings" and "Halflings": Finding the Armenian Buried inside the Islamized Child 6. Aurora's Body, Humanitarianism, and the Pornography of Suffering 7. What Lies beneath Grandma's Tattoos? Traumatic Memories of Inked Skin 8. Wounded Whiteness: Branded Captives from the Old West to the Ottoman East 9. Removing the "Brand of Shame," Rehabilitating Armenian Skin 10. Counternarratives of Tribal Tattoos and Survivor Agency 11. If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to Dayr al-Zur 12. Feeling Their Way through the Desert: Affective Itineraries of "Non-Sites of Memory" 13. Bone Memory: Community, Ritual, and Memory Work in the Syrian Desert
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Hay House Business Be the Calm or Be the Storm
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