Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisBasado en la extensa investigación de la autora Sarah Huff y su propia experiencia personal, Cómo fabricar a una feminista ofrece al lector una visión personal y cercana de la naturaleza extrema del verdadero feminismo, el impacto devastador que ha tenido en la sociedad, y cómo rescatar a la juventud de hoy de esta cosmovisión extrema.

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Book Synopsis"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!" -Valerie Bertinelli"My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat," writes Rabia Chaudry, who was raised with a lot of love. And that love looked like food. Delicious Pakistani dishes-fresh roti, chaat, pakoras, and shorba-and also Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, and an abundance of American processed foods, as her family discovered its adopted country through its (fast) food. In Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, Chaudry chronicles the dozens of times she tried and failed to achieve what she was told was her ideal weight. The truth is, she always loved food too much to hold a grudge against it.This memoir is at once an ode to Pakistani cuisine, including Chaudry's favourite recipes; a love letter to her Muslim family, both here and in Lahore; and a courageously honest portrait of a woman making peace with a body that gets the job done but refuses to meet the expectations of others.Trade Review“Yes, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is a book about food and Rabia’s relationship to food, how that relationship influenced her life and how she ultimately, as she says, becomes friends with her body. It’s also a profound act of generosity as Rabia invites us into her life with candor, humor, and kindness, for herself, her family and anyone who has reflected on their relationship to food. Not incidentally, it’s a terrific read and one you can appropriately plow through or savor. I cannot recommend Fatty Fatty Boom Boom highly enough. I can’t wait for my friends to read Rabia’s story, for my kids to try Rabia’s recipes and for the world to know more about this remarkable woman.”—Chelsea Clinton“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are. It’s such a relief to not treat food as the enemy any longer and start to learn how to love and nourish the body I have today. I absolutely loved it!”—Valerie Bertinelli“Beautifully weaving together stories of food, family, and self-discovery, Rabia Chaudry’s memoir Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is complex, rich, and revelatory. I was deeply moved by her vulnerability, delighted by her self-deprecating humor, and awe-struck by her honesty. Chaudry sets a grand table before us and invites us to join her as she presents readers with her struggles, triumphs, and insights as a young girl in Pakistan, an awkward middle schooler in Maryland, and a young wife, advocate, and activist. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is surprising, fiery, and heart-felt. Chaudry’s most important recipe contains the ingredients for loving and honoring who we were, who we are, and who we aspire to be.” —Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In“Engrossing…Chaudry refreshingly eschews conventional narratives about weight loss, as well as fat acceptance…Victory is sweet and savory in this ebullient tale of self-acceptance.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Chaudry eloquently portrays the role of food in love and friendship. At the same time, she doesn’t flinch from reporting the humiliations heaped on the overweight at every turn... The literary equivalent of chaat masala fries: spicy, heady, sour, and uniquely delicious.” —Kirkus (starred review)“Chaudry is totally engaging, a perfect host. And after her descriptions of food, readers will be very happy to see recipes included at the end. Utterly delicious!” —Booklist (starred)“…touchingly warm and intimate… Chaudry is an uplifting storyteller and her humor-laden anecdotes balance the underlying gravity of her story with grace and skill. A Pakistani American lawyer struggling with her weight chronicles with humor and sensitivity her path toward inner contentment and shares recipes for chai, ghee and the Pakistani dishes she loves.”—Shelf Awareness“Rabia Chaudry has given us the next chapter in the story of how food shapes self and how self shapes food. Here is an American, a South Asian woman writing at the intersection of food, tradition, gender, the body and pressures without and the journey within. This is an important and savory work.”—Michael W. Twitty, James Beard Award-winning author of The Cooking Gene“A delectable memoir that reads with the intensity of a novel. Devour it all at once, or savor it slowly—there’s no wrong way to enjoy this funny, heart-wrenching, and brutally honest journey of food, family, and learning to love yourself.”—Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywherist.com and author of All Over the Place“This unflinching and often humorous memoir of a Pakistani girl who struggles with her weight and also her family and culture’s reaction to it, shows us Rabia Chaudry’s resilience while highlighting her determination to celebrate the foods she loves. I was rooting for her as she learned to control food instead of food controlling her. The wonderful Pakistani recipes included will surprise anyone who thinks that Indian and Pakistani food are the same.”—Tung Nguyen, author of Mango and Peppercorns“Those who know Chaudry from the podcast Serial may be surprised to read this bighearted, hilarious, and brutally honest journey told with candor, charm, and wit about learning how to love yourself and your body unapologetically while navigating a roller-coaster of a life populated with eccentric and lovable Pakistani family members, delicious food recipes, awkward childhood crushes, failed diets, and Husky pants. I laughed at characters and scenes that seemed lifted from my own Pakistani home and winced at the colorism and fat-shaming that is often so prevalent but unchallenged in our communities. The big-hearted book takes on all of it with an invitation for all of us to be better, while enjoying a glorious, fried samosa along the way.”—Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on Becoming American

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction PART I THE FIRST WAVE: SEEING WORK AND FAMILY ACROSS OPEN BORDERS 1 • “And They Go Silently:” Pioneering Family Migrations, 1890–1920 2 • From Revolution to Exodus: Going North in Times of Conflict, 1915–1929 PART II RETURN FLOW: FORCING REPATRIATION, KEEPING COMMUNITY 3 • The Great Depression and The Great Return: Coming Home, 1929–1936 4 • Good Presidents, Bad Husbands, and Dead Fathers: Trials of Binational Living, 1934–1940 PART III THE NEW WAVE: RECRUITING MEN, WOMEN KEEP COMING 5 • War and a New Migration Order: Nations Seek Braceros, Women Make Families, 1940–1947 6 • The Era of Policing: Women Beyond Control, 1945–1965 Epilogue. Fit to Be Migrants: Undocumenting Lives, 1965–1986 Appendix: Repatriation Train Statistics Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional stateslove, melancholy, grief, and madnesswith gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sourcesliterary texts, medical treatises, and archival documentsNuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (14281496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (14701498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (14791555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone mad as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (14511504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason.Through the lives and experiences of these royal women and the observations, judgments, and machinations of their families, entourages, and circles of writers, chronicles, courtiers, moralist

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Book SynopsisFeminist scholars from around the world on key debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, and family to media, technology, and medicine.This thought-provoking book is written by prominentfeminist scholars from around the world. It is engaging and accessible, distillingthe highest level of knowledge into fascinating but concise entries. This Is Not A Feminism Textbook offersa clear, straightforward overview of key feminist debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, work and family to media, technology, and medicine.This book is a must-read for everyone who is curious about the sex/gender distinction, and the relation between gender and other aspects of identity; and it tackles plenty more questions along the way. Are smart homes really smart? Will technology save the world?What does class have to do with feminism? And what does ?intersectionality? actually mean?The work of feminism to help create a more just and equal society is not yet done.This book provides a roadmap to inspire each and every reader to continue exploring, thinking about, discussing, and ?doing? feminism.ContributorsCelia Roberts, Amber Jamilla Musser, Simidele Dosekun, Sara R. Farris, Chiara Pellegrini, Cynthia Barounis, Suzanne Leonard, Yolande Strengers, Heather Berg

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Book SynopsisFirst book to detail women's roles in the Wars of the Roses.

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Book SynopsisClaire McGettrick is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests focus on adoption, so-called historical abuses, and related injustices in twentieth-century Ireland. She is cofounder of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). She jointly coordinates the multi-award-winning CLANN project with Dr Maeve O'Rourke, as well as the Magdalene Names Project (MNP), which has recorded the details of over 1,900 women who lived and died in Ireland's Magdalen laundries. Katherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, Ireland, and has published widely on the history of sexuality and gender and the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Ireland. She has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects, including gathering an archival and oral history of the Magdalen institutions funded by the Irish Research Council. Her teaching awards include the UCD President's Gold Medal for Teaching Excellence and the British Universities' Learning On-Screen Award. She has gained academic honours, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Prize for Prose. As a member of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR), she has shared in activist honours, including the Irish Labour Party's Thirst for Justice Award.Maeve O'Rourke is lecturer in human-rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, and a graduate of University College Dublin, Harvard Law School, and Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. She is also a barrister (England and Wales) and attorney-at-law (New York). Since 2009 she has provided pro bono legal assistance to Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and is currently co-director of the CLANN project, an evidence-gathering and advocacy collaboration between JFMR, Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA), and Hogan Lovells International, LLP. She was named UK Family Law Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2013.James M Smith is an associate professor in the English department at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Éire-Ireland, and ELH. His book, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment (Notre Dame UP), was published in 2007 and was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book by the American Conference for Irish Studies. With Maria Luddy, he coedited a double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2009) and the collection Children, Childhood, and Irish Society: 1500 to the Present (Four Courts Press, 2014). He recently coedited a double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2020) and the essay collection REDRESS: Ireland and Justice in Transition (forthcoming) on Transitional Justice and institutional abuse in Ireland. He is a member of the advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR).Mari Steed was one of more than 2,000 children exported from Ireland to the United States, and was born in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, where she also endured being part of the vaccine trials. Mari's mother spent time in a Magdalen laundry. She serves as U.S. coordinator with the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). In 2003 Mari cofounded Justice for Magdalens/Research (JFMR), an advocacy organisation that successfully campaigned for a state apology and restorative justice for survivors of Ireland's Magdalen laundries. She currently serves on the group's executive committee. She also serves as vice-president on the executive committee of U.S. adoptee-rights organisation Bastard Nation.Trade ReviewIn many ways, the book is a toolkit for any campaigner engaging with the political system. It exposes a political culture which can too often be frustrating, intransigent, and even cynical when faced with uncomfortable truths. * Dublin Review of Books *[A] significant, moving and powerful account ... The book is a model of social justice campaigning that uses academia, advocacy and activism. * Irish Legal News *Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice is rightly, lucidly and incisively critical of governmental investigations that have been inefficient and unethical. In short, this book is vital for anyhow interested in the historical arc of social policy in relation to pariah groups. It also highlights the enormous efforts of the JFMR and their continued struggle for justice. * Critical Social Policy *This is a challenging and powerfully repetitive book replete with narrative detail. By far the most compelling elements are where the authors rely on survivor experience to propel their verdict of the insouciance and imprudence of the Irish government. The authors succeed in their ambition of restoring power to the survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. * Irish Studies *Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice details the group's efforts to gain apologies to Magdalene survivors from both the Catholic Church and Irish state, financial redress and comprehensive health care for survivors, and access to church and state archives for survivors seeking their personal records. * National Catholic Reporter *This brave book is an archive of an unfinished movement, a survey of the continuing harms of so-called 'historical abuse', and a set of demands for law reform and political change. In places, it is also a love letter to those who survived Ireland's Magdalene laundries. In devastating detail, it shows how Irish politicians, professionals and members of religious orders have resisted demands that these women be recognised as victims of human rights abuse. More than a description of Justice for Magdalenes' campaigning and research, it is an important challenge to official histories and excuses that stubbornly carry undeserved weight in Irish public discourse. * Máiréad Enright, University of Birmingham *The campaign for justice for the girls and women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries is one of the greatest acts of truth-telling in the recent history of Ireland. The walls of institutional denial have had to be demolished slowly and painfully, brick by brick. The experiences of those most involved in this task, so vividly detailed in this vital book, tell us so much, not just about a history that was shamefully obscured, but about the imperative for every society to really know itself. In helping the survivors to reclaim their dignity, this indispensable book also helps the rest of us to reclaim the true meaning of shared citizenship and common humanity. * Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times Journalist and Orwell Prize winner *It is impossible to describe the toxic fog of shame, distortion and indifference these writers worked through so the truth of the Magdalen Laundries could be seen in a proper light. No one wanted to know. They are my heroes. * Anne Enright, Author and winner of the 2007 Booker Prize *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and the Lives Lived There Chapter 2: Survivors Begin to Be Heard Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Campaign: The Strategies Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Campaign: Developing a Human Rights and Justice Agenda Chapter 5: Publication of the IDC Report: The Campaign Within the Campaign Chapter 6: Never Tell, Never Acknowledge (…everyone knew, but no one said) Chapter 7: Ex Gratia ‘Redress’ Chapter 8: Bringing up the Dead: Burials and Land Deals at High Park Chapter 9: Conclusion: Who Do We Want to Be? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDespite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled.Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and Previously Published Material Introduction: Something in the Air 1. In a Violet Sillage 2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things 3. Confused Words? 4. The Osmazome of Literature 5. Perfumed Letters 6. Smelling (of) Iris 7. Decadent Perfuming Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAll She Lost is a courageous and essential piece of journalism. It is a documentation of one of the most scandalous disasters of this century so far, including the corruption and negligence of Lebanon's leadership, and the human stories of those most affected by grave wrongdoing, for which there has still been no justice. Mawad approached this book in a unique way: through interviews with only women and girls, but of every age and background. She is honest about her own emotions throughout and her connection to the crisis, while being thorough with her reporting. I've never seen recent history written like this before and I hugely admire it. -- Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned and journalist for the Irish TimesA poignant and compelling account of the collapse of a state. By putting the voices of women at the centre, Dalal Mawad has found a way of telling the tragic story of the Beirut blast and the failure of the Lebanese political class that will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power. -- Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of SandstormIn her essential and urgent book, Dalal Mawad bears testament to the collapse of Lebanon. Told through the voices of courageous women, this oral history is also warning to all nations that let impunity seep through their foundations. -- Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black WaveAll She Lost gives voice not just to the women who endured Lebanon’s catastrophic port explosion but reveals the burden they have carried for years. Their testimony is heartbreaking and horrifying, each story uniquely shocking. An important account by women of their country’s decline and collapse. -- Quentin Somerville, BBC Middle East CorrespondentThe hitherto untold stories of women in Lebanon expose the crisis-hit country's story of trauma upon trauma without respite. In this sensitive and striking collective memoir, Dalal Mawad gives a voice to those who bear the brunt of the economic and political implosion characterising their homeland's modern collapse. -- Anoosh Chakelian, Britain Editor of the New StatesmanA deeply important, compelling and moving account of a dark moment in Lebanon's history, beautifully told through gripping personal stories of Lebanese women. Dalal Mawad does not just tell the story of Lebanon, but the story of women and the Middle East. -- Ramita Navai, Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning journalist and author of City of LiesA beautiful new voice for the unheard. -- Janine di Giovanni, journalist and author of The Morning They Came For UsA painful but necessary book that recounts, with both great compassion and artistry, yet another fatal episode of Lebanon’s serial tragedies. No one has told HERstory better and deeper than Dalal Mawad. -- Joumana Haddad, author of I Killed ScheherazadeThis is a deeply reported and powerful account on the collapse of a country. The testimony that Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad has gathered is remarkable - and her empathy for all the woman she interviewed shines through on every page. This is a book that will stay with me long after I finished reading it. -- Martin Patience, Senior Producer at NPRDalal Mawad’s book on Lebanon is deeply personal– as a little girl, she was swept up in her country’s turmoil and later, as a journalist she covered a succession of cataclysmic events. While her own painful experiences vividly frame her writing, it is the astonishing accounts of the women she features that illuminate Lebanon’s dark history with their struggle for justice and dignity. An emotionally gripping and enlightening journey. -- Melissa Fleming, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, and author of A Hope More Powerful than the SeaA heart-wrenching portrait of endurance and perseverance [...] a nuanced and compassionate account of the deadly explosion on Aug. 4, 2020. -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisThis is a genuinely unique tale that only Liz could tell, which ends with her battling the memories that haunted her, long after she had left the battlefield.

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Book SynopsisLucy Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, UK. She is the Editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), and a curator and artist. Her work has been published in Afterall, MIRAJ, Screen and Screendance. Her particular interests are questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice.Trade ReviewWomen Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image offers up a fascinating addition to theories that inform feminist film criticism as it applies to video art. Laura Mulvey, the éminence grise of feminist film studies, provides a preface, and for the collection itself Reynolds brought together essays, interviews, and even a lengthy poem. The contributors are diverse as well, including scholars, film curators, journalists, and artists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *This book productively brings together research happening across the History of Art, Film Studies, Visual Culture and Fine Art Practice and asserts the importance of practices that have too long remained peripheral. Each of the essays offers fresh, new perspectives, providing an excellent introduction to the recent developments in the study of moving image art. -- Amy Tobin, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard and Director of Studies in History of Art, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsForeword, Laura Mulvey (Birbeck, University of London, UK) Introduction: Raising Voices, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK) Introduction: Certain Measures, Lis Rhodes (Artist and filmmaker, UK) Part One: Acknowledgements In Conversation: MORE: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Irene Revell 1. In a tiny realm of her own: Lotte Reiniger’s light work, Elinor Cleghorn (Independent scholar, UK) 2. Returning to Riddles, Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 3. 'Being a together woman is a bitch': 'An African American woman's film' genealogy of Julie Dash's Four Women (1975), So Mayer (Freelance writer, UK) 4. Film Esperienza. The work of Marinella Pirelli, Lucia Aspesi (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Italy) 5. Prescient intersectionality: Women, moving image and identity politics in 1980s Britain, Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK) Part Two: Engagements and Negotiations In Conversation: Maria Palacios Cruz interviews Basma Alsharif 6. 'Overexposed, like an X-ray': The politics of corporeal vulnerability in Sandra Lahire's experimental cinema, Maud Jacquin (Art historian and curator, France & USA) 7. 'Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s': Penelope Spheeris's I Don't Know, Erika Balsom (King's College London, UK) 8. Aesthetics of potentiality: Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay films, May Adadol Ingawanji (University of Westminster, UK) 9. The art of maximal ventriloquy: Femininity as labour in the films of Rachel MacLean, Sarah Neely (University of Stirling, UK) & Sarah Smith (Glasgow School of Art, UK) Part Three: Situations and Receptions In Conversation: Club des Femmes, Helena Reckitt: An Interview on International Women's Day 2017 10. Strategies of exposure and concealment in moving image art by women; a cross-generational account, Cate Elwes (Video artist and curator, UK) 11. Choreographing women's work: Multitaskers, smartphone users and virtuoso performers, Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland) 12. Female solidarity as uncommodified value: Lucy Beech's Cannibals and Rehana Zaman's Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, Maria Walsh (Chelsea College of the Arts, University Arts London, UK) 13. Can we still talk about women artists? Melissa Gronlund (The National, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking Research Handbook, leading international researchers analyse how negotiators' gender shapes their behaviour and outcomes at the bargaining table, in both work and non-work contexts. World-class experts from the field of negotiation present cutting-edge research on gender and negotiation, highlighting controversies and generating new questions for consideration. The Research Handbook offers helpful insights to negotiators and forges a path for future research. The first section highlights how gender shapes negotiation within close relationships and identifies informal social rules for how women and men are expected to negotiate, exploring the socialization patterns and historical contexts that produced these norms and the implications for women at the bargaining table. Chapters discuss how underlying negotiation processes such as trust, emotion, communication and non-verbal behaviour are shaped by gender, as well as considering a number of pragmatic solutions to the obstacles women face as self-advocates. Offering insights for both practitioners and researchers, this Research Handbook will be invaluable to teachers and, also, female professionals who want to understand how to get better outcomes from negotiation. It will also be required reading for HR professionals who wish to understand how and why organizational policies regarding negotiation can level the playing field. Contributors include: E.T. Amanatullah, J.B. Bear, L. Berg, J.E. Bochantin, H.R. Bowles, T.H. Burns, A. Dickson, A.L. Elias, K.R. Gallagher, B.A. Gazdag, M.P. Haselhuhn, H. Jazaieri, J.A. Kennedy, S. Kesebir, D. Kolb, L.J. Kray, C.T. Kulik, S.Y. Lee, M. Liu, B.A. Livingston, S. Mor, M. Olekalns, J. Overbeck, M. Pillutla, T.L. Pittinsky, J. Qiu, L. Ramic-Mesihovic, I.Y. Ren, S.W. Ryu, A. Sabanovic, Z. Semnani-Azad, W. Shan, R. Sinha, A.F. Stuhlmacher, N.R. Toosi, C. Trombini, J. Wareham, L. ZervosTrade Review'This book makes a fabulous contribution to our understanding of the role of gender in negotiations, highlighting the contextual and situational forces that influence the negotiation process. A wonderful exploration of the burgeoning research in this field and a call to action for future inquiry.' --Linda C. Babcock, Carnegie Mellon University, US'This Research Handbook gathers research by top scholars across disciplines to provide a depth of insight that is unparalleled, shedding much needed light on the complex role of gender in personal and professional negotiations. By concurrently focusing on the social context, interpersonal dynamics, and individual characteristics of negotiators, the Research Handbook provides an agenda for future research and suggestions for what people and institutions can do to level the playing field. It will be the go-to resource for years to come.' --Laurie R. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University, US'Negotiation is an act of balancing between cooperating to create value and competing to claim it. In many negotiation contexts, being a female negotiator adds a second dimension to balance. If a female negotiator internalizes gender stereotypes, she may be less able to engage in the agentic competitive behaviors necessary to protect her interests and claim value. If she rejects gender stereotypes, she may face backlash. This Handbook reviews the research that identifies when and how female negotiators can adjust these balances in their favor.' --Jeanne Brett, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Linda Putnam Introduction 1. Spheres of Influence: Unpacking Gender Differences in Negotiation Mara Olekalns and Jessica A. Kennedy Friends, Families, Work: Negotiating in Long-Term Relationships 2. Keeping Our Friends Close: Friendship Maintenance Through the Roles of Gender and Negotiation Kaitlyn R. Gallagher, Tatem H. Burns, and Alice F. Stuhlmacher 3. Gender and Spousal Negotiation Beth Livingston and Seung Whan Ryu 4. Gender, Work-Family Negotiations, and Caregiving Ambition Julia Bear and Tod Pittinsky 5. “Superhero” Rhetoric versus Empathic Communication: How Male and Female First Responders Negotiate Work-Life Jaime Bochantin and Ashleigh Dickson Bounded Negotiations: Gendered Norms as Constraints 6. Deception in Negotiations: The Unique Role of Gender Hooria Jazaieri and Laura J. Kray 7. Same-Sex Peer Norms: Implications for Gender Differences in Negotiation Selin Kesebir, Sun Young Lee, Judy Qiu, and Madan Pillutla 8. Role Salience and Context: The Example pf Negotiation Dyad Gender Composition Alice F. Stuhlmacher and Lauren S. Zervos 9. Gender and Bargaining Power in Historical Context Allison L. Elias Behind-the-Scenes: Gender Differences in Underlying Processes 10. Gender and Trust Michael P. Haselhun 11. Anger and Anxiety in Masculine-Stereotypic and Male-Dominated (MSMD) Negotiating Contexts: Affect and the Study of Gender in Negotiation Chiara Trombini, Logan A. Berg, and Hannah Riley Bowles 12. The Unspoken Language of Power: Interpersonal Dynamics of Nonverbal Behaviour in Mixed-Gender Negotiations Justin D. Wareham and Jennifer R. Overbeck 13. Gender, Communication, and Negotiation Meina Liu and Isabelle Yi Ren 14. How Culture and Race Shape Gender Dynamics in Negotiation Negin R. Toosi, Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Wen Shan, Shira Mor, and Emily T. Amanatullah Stronger Self-Advocates: Persisting Despite Disruptions and Setbacks 15. Negotiating Political Agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina Deborah M. Kolb, Leyla Ramic-Mesihovic, and Anida Sabanovic 16. Women-Focused Negotiation Training: A Gendered Solution to a Gendered Problem Carol T. Kulik, Ruchi Sinha, and Mara Olekalns 17. What Does ‘Bouncing Back’ Mean? Defining the Role of Resilience in Gender and Negotiations Brooke A. Gazdag Conclusion 18. Shifting Directions in Gender and Negotiation: From Understanding Women toward Understanding their Counterparts Jessica A. Kennedy and Mara Olekalns Index

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Book SynopsisLady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional path to the top. How does a self-professed 'girly swot' get ahead in a profession dominated by men? Was it a surprise that the perspectives of women and other disadvantaged groups had been overlooked, or that children's interests were marginalised? A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, who took as her motto 'women are equal to everything', her landmark rulings in areas including domestic violence, divorce, mental health and equality were her attempt to correct that. As President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale won global attention in finding the 2019 prorogation of Parliament to be unlawful. Yet that dramatic moment was merely the pinnacle of a career throughout which she was hailed as a pioneering reformer. Wise, warm and inspiring, Spider Woman shows how the law shapes our world and supports us in crisis. It is the story of how Lady Hale found that she could overcome the odds, which shows that anyone from similar beginnings will find that they can cope too.Trade ReviewBrenda Hale is a superhero who embodies Parker's law that great power brings equivalent responsibility. Her wise, accessible memoir is essential, entertaining and inspirational reading for all lovers of freedom, equality and justice -- Shami ChakrabartiWhat a life, what a story... Spider Woman is restrained, warm, dryly funny ... and an inspiration to all women to aim high... Whatever her title, Brenda Hale rocks -- Melanie Reid * The Times *Inspirational and iconic -- Philippe SandsA feminist icon... Her success story is an inspiration for men and women both - showing that law matters -- Baroness Helena Kennedy QCThis book is not only essential reading for anyone who is in the Law or interested in the Law but it is also a fascinating personal story -- Cherie Blair

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Book SynopsisAdopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties, while working as a ranger in Grand Canyon National Park, she embarked on a journey to discover where she came from and, ultimately, who she was. After many missteps and dead ends, Ross uncovered her heartbreaking and inspiring origin story and began navigating the complicated turns of reuniting with her birth parents and their new families. Through backcountry travel in the American West, she also came to understand her place in the world, realizing that her true identity lay not in a choice between adopted or biological parents, but in an expansion of the concept of family.Trade Review"Andrea Ross’s soul-stirring memoir takes readers on her quest to find her birth parents. . . . Ross writes with the keen observation of a naturalist, the wisdom of an outdoor guide, and the purity of a poet, blending the raw beauty and sacredness of nature with the prevailing human spirit. Unnatural Selection will remind you of the times you were lost and searching and the peace of finding something greater than you expected." -- Daina Olseen Collins * Diamonds and Rocks *"With clarity, grace, and humor, Andrea Ross guides us through the terrain of her life. She is not new to guiding newcomers through the wilderness, and she does so expertly with engaging anecdotes of her life in the canyons and mountains of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and along the icy road to Alaska. She weaves these with the poignant and powerful story of finding her birth parents, one that left me in tears. Read this for the stories of wild places and wild people and, in the end, the moving story of family." * David Gessner *“Ross has written a fascinating book, the subtitle of which is A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness.. It is a wonderfully told adventure of guiding others into the natural wonders of climbing mountains, descending into canyons, crossing deserts, and fording rivers. At the same time it is the weaving together the wilderness of adoption with its traumatic loss of the first mother, living with genetic strangers, the roadblocks in the way of being able to connect with biological relatives, and finally finding her birth parents and her roots. It is a journey of discovering the meaning of family, our relationship with all humanity, and with Mother Earth. Beautifully written. A must-read!” * Nancy Verrier, author of 'The Primal Wound' and 'Coming Home to Self' *Table of ContentsPart OneChapter 1: EarthquakeChapter 2: InflamedChapter 3: Non-IdentifiedChapter 4: SlappedChapter 5: "Lady Ranger" at the CanyonPart TwoChapter 6: Ruins and LaddersChapter 7: Crumbling StepsChapter 8: Double VisionChapter 9: White Courtesy TelephoneChapter 10: Dancing in QuicksandChapter 11: Participate in Your Own RescueChapter 12: Empty ShoesChapter 13: Post-holingChapter 14: Facts and ArtifactsChapter 15: IntermediaryPart ThreeChapter 16: First WordsChapter 17: The Navel of the WorldChapter 18: The Here and NowChapter 19: Half SisterChapter 20: Effects of the EdgeChapter 21: Front Range

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Book SynopsisThis cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces to question, challenge, and re-conceptualize mothering through the lens of affect, and affect through the lens of mothering. The collection also aims to explore less examined mothering experiences such as failure, disgust, and ambivalence in order to challenge normative paradigms and narratives surrounding mothers and mothering. The authors in this collection demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities opened up by a simultaneous consideration of affect and mothering, thereby broadening our understanding of the complexities and nuances of the always changing experiences of world-making.

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Book SynopsisDespite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Beauvoir''s philosophical work suffers from a lack of English-language translation or, worse, mistranslation into heavily condensed popular versions. Philosophical Writings provides an unprecedented collection of complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir''s career, including a number of recently discovered works. Ranging from metaphysical literature to existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings together diverse elements of Beauvoir''s work while highlighting continuities in the development of her thought. Each of the translations features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction explaining its larger sigTrade Review"A valuable addition to collections of philosophy, feminism, and modern French literature. Recommended."--Choice"What emerges from the essays Philosophical Writings collects will neither shock nor surprise Beauvoir scholars but is sure to delight. . . . The editors and contributors to Philosophical Writings have crafted an engaging text that is sure to encourage a deeper interest in the study of Beauvoir and her place in the philosophical canon."--Hypatia"This work is a treasure. Now, English-speaking readers who are not fluent in French will have the opportunity to read these selections for themselves. Each piece is preceded by a very helpful introduction and commentary by a well-known Beauvoir scholar, who places the piece in context and notes how it relates to one or more of Beauvoir's better-known works that have long been translated into English. Each selection also has its own translator (distinct from the commentator). The translations read beautifully, and they also have appropriately detailed scholarly notes, which make the selections even more accessible to students. . . . There is no other book to compete with this one."--Claudia Card, editor of Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir"I am amazed by this volume, which alone makes it clear that Beauvoir's philosophy informs rather than is derived from Sartre's. Philosophical Writings is an outstanding gem. This series will change the history of philosophy."--Kelly Oliver, author of Witnessing: Beyond Recognition

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time.

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Book SynopsisAn astonishing memoir that explores how far we will go to protect ourselves, and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share our stories?A beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to face the truth of one?s past.??Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the ScoreFor decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something?a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. ?You?re here, but you?re not here,? her daughter said to her one night. ?Where are you, Mom?? So began Amy?s quest to solve a mystery trapped in the deep recesses of her own memory?a journey that would take her into theburgeoning field of psychedelic therapy, to the limits of the judicial system, and ultimately, home to the Texas panhandle, where her story began.In her search for the truth, to understand and begin to recover from buried childhood trauma, Griffin interrogates the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so many women, asking, when, in our path from girlhood to womanhood, did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation? What kind of freedom is possible if we accept the whole story and embrace who we really are? With hope, heart, and relentless honesty, she points a way forward for all of us, revealing the power of radical truth-telling to deepen our connections?with others and ourselves.

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Book SynopsisZinaida Poliakova (1863–1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines in Imperial Russia. For more than seventy-five years, Poliakova kept detailed diaries of her world, giving us a rare look into the exclusive world of Jewish elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society through their intimate friendships and patronage of the arts and philanthropy. And they did it all without converting—in fact, while staunchly demonstrating their Jewishness. Poliakova’s life was marked by her dual identity as a Russian and a Jew. She cultivated aristocratic sensibilities and lived an extraordinarily lifestyle, and yet she was limited by the confessional laws of the empire and religious laws that governed her household. She brought her Russian tastes, habits, and sociability to France following her marriage to Reuben Gubbay (the grandson of Sir Albert Abdullah Sassoon). And she had to face the loss of almost all her family members and friends during the Holocaust. Women’s voices are often lost in the sweep of history, and so A Jewish Women of Distinction is an exceptional, much-needed collection. These newly discovered primary sources will change the way we understand the full breadth of the Russian Jewish experience.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ashwini Tambe’s Defining Girlhood in India is eloquently written, empirically grounded, and persuasively argued." --Journal of Women's History"By employing a transnational feminist lens to investigate sexual maturity laws that informed the idea of girlhood, this book represents a significant contribution to the field of girlhood studies." --Contemporary South Asia "Defining Girlhood weaves an otherwise rich and extensive tale of the 'girl child' as a rapidly morphing but always potent signifier in Indian and international politics." --Journal of Asian Studies "Defining Girlhood in India emerges as a well-timed and much-needed genealogy of the girl child as a political subject. . . . Beautifully written and organized." --Progress in Development Studies

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book illuminates the need for innovative research to better understand womenâs roles in entrepreneurship and family firms. Underscoring the importance of using diverse methodologies to accurately capture real-world experiences, it explores the corporate challenges women face, such as gender bias and balancing work with family.

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Book SynopsisWords matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise and blame, bearing an outsize influence on women's lives-to say nothing of our moods.No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word" and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words and how they can limit our worlds - or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them - stories it's time to examine, re-imagine and change.

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Book SynopsisExplores the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women's cooperative in central Ecuador. Using archival and ethnographic methods, Jill DeTemple shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative and places their stories in the larger context of both the cooperative and the community.Trade Review“One of the most important contributions of Making Market Women is to place issues of gender and religious identity at the heart of its analysis of this economic development project.” —Randall Styers, author of Making Magic“DeTemple’s thoughtful case study illuminates how global projects like liberation theology, charismatic Catholicism, and neoliberalism are understood, enacted, transformed, and resisted in a local context. Making Market Women offers an important and nuanced case study that will be invaluable for researchers and students interested in religion, anthropology, and economic development.” —Laurie A. Occhipinti, author of Making a Difference in a Globalized WorldThrough the lens of the cheese cooperative women, DeTemple demonstrates the dissonance of the new world order, weaving the processes of liberation theology and its economic nemesis, neoliberalism, through a story that is at once both universal and particular." —The Americas"DeTemple’s study remains accessible to a readership beyond think-tanks or anthropologists. By applying evidence from over a hundred interviews, she enlivens her scholarly narrative. In five chapters, DeTemple uses the rise and fall of the local cheese factory to illustrate how religious praxis and economic development competed rather than cooperated, from 1998 to 2006." —Reading Religion

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Book SynopsisA light but provocative collection of personal essays about celebrating real and make-believe princesses, and all things girly.Trade Review"The book serves as a reminder that feminism should provide women with the freedom to be anything they want--including princesses. Parents on all sides of the princess debate will find food for thought in this entertaining and provocative book." --Booklist "I love counterintuitive theories--they not only keep us on our toes and keep smugness at bay, but they provide truths hiding in plain sight. Jerramy Fine shows us--with personal insight and wit--what we kind of already knew: there's power, not weakness, in the princess fantasy." --Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us and The News Sorority

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Book Synopsis“Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life.”—The Washington Post Book World An “insightful and compelling” (USA Today) biography of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens, from the New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” (The Boston Globe) Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella’s political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, “the She-Wolf of France.”The newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward II’s mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, they deposed Edward and ruled in his stead as co-regents for Isabella’s young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover.A work of extraordinary original research, Queen Isabella strips away centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and gives a groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella, a truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in which she lived and the history of western Europe.

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Book SynopsisExamines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. This title provides an intimate account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazare da Silva.Trade Review"A book outside of the box that will evoke the Pomba Gira in all its readers." Nacla/Report On The Americas "A clearly written and exciting book, filled with major insights, which will inspire further scholarship." -- Frank A. Salamone Missiology

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Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. This book reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development.Trade Review"This is the 7th of a 14-volume comprehensive history of the United Nations (UN). The book begins with the UN's founding in 1945, when only 4 of the 160 signatories were women, from the Dominican Republic, Brazil, China, and the US. For gender scholars, political scientists, and academics, this is a detailed account of how women used their social capital, power, and networks to measure and highlight women's status around the world. Many familiar concepts and measures of gender inequality are traced to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a subcommittee established within the UN's first year. Equality, political suffrage, child marriage, widow rights, and all aspects ofwomen's visible and invisible work are a few of the measures and studies stemming from the commission. The book details the four global women's conferences (Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing). Surely, the impact on women's lives-particularly those of the south-is one of the UN's greatest accomplishments. Summing Up:Recommended. Most levels/librarie" -A. S. Hunter, Idaho State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of Boxes and TablesSeries Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. WeissForeword Amartya SenAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Women, Development, and Equality: History as Inconclusive Dialogue1. Setting the Stage for Equality, 1945–19652. Inscribing Development into Rights, 1966–19753. Questioning Development Paradigms, 1976–19854. Development as if Women Mattered, 1986–19955. Lessons from the UN's Sixth Decade, 1996–2005NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the AuthorAbout the United Nations Intellectual History Project

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nisei Radicals is an important addition to Asian American history texts and creates likable heroes out of Yasutake and Yamada." * International Examiner *"All in all, Nisei Radicals is not only a book well worth reading as a joint biography of two remarkable Nikkei, but I hope will act as a springboard for larger discussions of social justice." * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Nisei Radicals offers a model for historical biography…The lives [Fujino] portrays offer a model of how to make activism sustainable, most notably, by staying in community and partnering with like-minded others to fight for justice." * Pacific Historical Review *

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