Gender studies: women and girls Books
Ohio University Press My Dearest Angel
Book SynopsisShe was the daughter of a circuit judge and state senator. He was the youngest son of Virginia’s Civil War governor and was a state legislator himself at the age of nineteen. Their courtship and marriage stands as a portrait of a bygone way of life unique to the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ohio University Press Power in the Blood
Book SynopsisPower in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.Trade Review“I think Power in the Blood is a remarkable memoir, honestly and beautifully written despite the painful nature of some of the material. This is a big, human, and entirely revelatory book: it shows us all just how these things can happen, and how they can continue to happen down through generations. Linda Tate doesn’t really lay blame or make judgments; she shows real wisdom and compassion throughout.““As memoir, and as a meditation on the meaning of memoir, history, and the restorative powers of both, Power in the Blood is as moving and profound as any life story I’ve encountered in quite a while…. It’s a wonderful read.” * Appalachian Journal *“Linda Tate’s gripping family history is an amalgam of scholarly sleuthing, richly imaginative embellishment, and sheer psychological grit that delves deep into family legend to produce a narrative both reflective and transcending of the Appalachian region.” * Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine *“I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a way to combine research with imagination to create complex, lifelike characters that will grip readers’ hearts from the get-go.…Tate provides an unflinching view of complicated, deeply flawed individuals, who inflict a great deal of pain on their families. At the same time, she maintains a tone of fairness and understanding, and in the end she shows how knowledge and honesty can heal the psyche.” * Memoir Mentor *“Yes, this is a family narrative, but it is suffused with the particularities of Appalachia and with telling universality as well.” * Appalachian Heritage *“An extraordinary family journey, highly recommended….” * Midwest Book Review *“(Tate) uses her imagination in the storying of these women’s lives, and she does a great job. But as an accomplished academic, she is no slouch when it comes to research, either. It is a unique talent to harness both the creative and the academic and make it sound as simple as stirring up a batch of cornbread.” * BookWomen *“Brutal honesty… Paragon of persistence… Blazing versatility… Role model for all family historians… These are a few of the cryptic notes I jotted as I read Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, by Linda Tate. I was struck by the impact of the basic story, and my appreciation deepened as I considered the craft and research involved in writing this gripping six generation tale.” * Story Circle Book Reviews *“Power in the Blood works its way through a maze of trouble engendered by displacement and war in border regions. You begin to better appreciate Kitty Wells singing “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tank Angels” and Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard Out of Carolina. * Asheville Citizen-Times *“Tate threads the story of her father by hanging her text on females in the family, especially her great-great grandmother, great grandmother, and grandmother. Through them she skillfully weaves personal memories and family recollections (including those gleaned from newly met relatives). The author melds her personal memories, interviews, and formal research into an engaging story.” * Appalachian History blog *“The writing is lively and compelling and at times (Linda Tate) is painfully honest about childhood events. But it is the spare beauty of that honesty that makes this book extraordinary.” * Feast *
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Ohio University Press Standing Our Ground
Book SynopsisStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.Trade Review“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *“Standing Our Ground will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *“(Standing Our Ground) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *“Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *
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Duke University Press An Improper Profession
Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process. This work offers a picture of this history by examining the work of these early women journalists and showing how their involvement helped to formulate public opinion in a variety of ways.Trade Review“[C]ompelling . . . . [A] welcome contribution to the fields of both Russian and women’s history. In addition to rescuing a number of intriguing figures from historical anonymity and casting a new light on Russian journalism at a critical juncture, An Improper Profession reminds scholars that women’s history is about more than just adding women into a pre-existing stagnant history. Through sound research and analysis the contributors add credence to the argument that in studying the role of women in the past, historians necessarily and continually redefine traditional fields of study.” - Lynne Hartnett, The Russian Review“[A] welcome addition to Russian gender studies and the history of Russian print culture. The scope of the volume is greater than the title suggests. . . . [A] fresh evaluation . . . . An Improper Profession will undoubtedly encourage further stimulating studies of women and gender in Russian journalism.” - Judith Vowles, Slavic Review"This impressive collection of essays fills an important lacuna in the study of late imperial Russia. . . . Using solid research methodologies, the authors reveal much new important information about the status of Russian women. . . . This collection is very coherent. Each essay flows into the next, following a loosely chronological structure. The choice of topics create a rich tapestry that does much to further our understanding of the complexities of both women and journalism in the period. . . . This volume is highly recommended for students not only of gender and journalism, but of Late Imperial Russian culture and society as well." - Paul du Quenoy, Canadian Slavonic Papers"[A]ccessibly and invitingly written. . . ." - Catriona Kelly, American Historical Review"[A] substantial and absorbing collection of articles. . . . An Improper Profession is a richly conceived and elegantly constructed interdisciplinary volume. . . . The collection will be good reading for several audiences—students in literature, history or area studies courses, specialists in the same fields, and anyone interested in gender studies, women’s studies, the history of journalism, or Russian history and culture." - Sibelan Forrester, Slavic and East European Journal"[A] valuable contribution to our understanding of Russian society. . . . These authors have tremendously extended our knowledge of the diverse and growing forms of women's participation in Russian journalism." - Harley D. Balzer, Journal of Social History“A major contribution to the field of Slavic studies. A work such as this gives scholars a place from which we can begin to rewrite and reconstruct women’s role in Russian politics and culture in prerevolutionary times. This is a prodigious work of scholarship.”— Adele Barker, editor of Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev“[A] welcome addition to Russian gender studies and the history of Russian print culture. The scope of the volume is greater than the title suggests. . . . [A] fresh evaluation . . . . An Improper Profession will undoubtedly encourage further stimulating studies of women and gender in Russian journalism.” -- Judith Vowles * Slavic Review *“[C]ompelling . . . . [A] welcome contribution to the fields of both Russian and women’s history. In addition to rescuing a number of intriguing figures from historical anonymity and casting a new light on Russian journalism at a critical juncture, An Improper Profession reminds scholars that women’s history is about more than just adding women into a pre-existing stagnant history. Through sound research and analysis the contributors add credence to the argument that in studying the role of women in the past, historians necessarily and continually redefine traditional fields of study.” -- Lynne Hartnett * Russian Review *"[A] substantial and absorbing collection of articles. . . . An Improper Profession is a richly conceived and elegantly constructed interdisciplinary volume. . . . The collection will be good reading for several audiences—students in literature, history or area studies courses, specialists in the same fields, and anyone interested in gender studies, women’s studies, the history of journalism, or Russian history and culture." -- Sibelan Forrester * Slavic and East European Journal *"[A] valuable contribution to our understanding of Russian society. . . . These authors have tremendously extended our knowledge of the diverse and growing forms of women's participation in Russian journalism." -- Harley D. Balzer * Journal of Social History *"[A]ccessibly and invitingly written. . . ." -- Catriona Kelly * American Historical Review *"This impressive collection of essays fills an important lacuna in the study of late imperial Russia. . . . Using solid research methodologies, the authors reveal much new important information about the status of Russian women. . . . This collection is very coherent. Each essay flows into the next, following a loosely chronological structure. The choice of topics create a rich tapestry that does much to further our understanding of the complexities of both women and journalism in the period. . . . This volume is highly recommended for students not only of gender and journalism, but of Late Imperial Russian culture and society as well." -- Paul du Quenoy * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Table of ContentsContributors List of Abbreviations Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Archival Citations Introduction / Jehanne M Gheith 1. “A Larger Portion of the Public”: Female Readers, Fiction, and the Periodical Press in the Reign of Nicholas I / Miranda Beaven Remnek 2. Redefining the Perceptible: The Journalism(s) of Evgeniia Tur and Avdot’ia Panaeva / Jehanne M Gheith 3. The Development of a Fashion Press in Late Imperial Russia: Moda: Zhurnal dlia svetskikh liudei / Christine Ruane 4. “Provid[ing] Amusement for the Ladies”: The Rise of the Russian Women’s Magazine in the 1880s / Carolyn R. Marks 5. Anna Volkova: From Merchant Wife to Feminist Journalist / Adele Lindenmeyr 6. Meeting the Challenge: Russian Women Reporters and the Balkan Crises of the Late 1870s / Mary F. Zirin 7. Writing for Their Rights. Four Feminist Journalists: Mariia Chekhova, Liubov’ Gurevich, Mariia Pokrovskaia, and Ariadna Tyrkova / Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild 8. Mariia Pokrovskaia and Zhenskii vestnik: Feminist Separatism in Theory and Practice / Linda Edmondson 9. Journalism as a Means of Empowerment: The Early Career of Ekaterina Kuskova / Barbara T. Norton 10. Sources for the Study of Russian Women Journalists: A Bibliographic Essay / June Pachuta Farris Appendix: Checklist of Women Journalists in Imperial Russia List of Contributors Index
£66.75
University of New Mexico Press A Woman in the Great Outdoors
Book SynopsisMelody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year-long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in a male-dominated agency; as an idealist, she attempted to champion the wise use of the national parks in a pragmatic political agency.
£32.50
Aboriginal Studies Press Torres Strait Islander Women the Pacific War
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Goose Lane Editions What You Used to Wear
Book SynopsisCharmaine Cadeau''s intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wagon-wheels, rain-barrel planters, and suburban sprawl, she reveals a luminous spirituality. The encroachment that turns rural Ontario into cottage country becomes Cadeau''s unsentimental locus of truth and beauty. With skill that even experienced poets seldom possess, Cadeau evokes the intangibility of perception, its flickering contingencies. In What You Used to Wear, Charmaine Cadeau has achieved what all young poets wish for but almost none attain. Her poetry is so impressive that her first book appears unheralded, untested by journal publication, and with few of the other supports usually so essential to first collections. Ross Leckie, Goose Lane''s poetry editor and Cadeau''s former creative writing professor at the University of New Brunswick, says, This is very much a surprise book. I threw the manuscript into the mix
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Goose Lane Editions The Drunken Lovely Bird
Book SynopsisWinner, American Independent Publishers Poetry PrizeSue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of Canadian women''s poetry while still playing with some, if not all, of the same poetic vocabulary. The Drunken Lovely Bird, her accomplished third book of poetry, confirms her reputation as one of Canada''s most original young poets. A keen observer of the material world, from the Newfoundland coast to the streets of Toronto, she has a rare gift for epiphany, for exposing the numinous in the commonplace. Her poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our sense of experience goes to get sharpened and refreshed. That experience might involve the inner lives of clouds, the flourishing and passing of a tulip, the evocative scent of wolf willow, or the intricate arts of Bach and Virginia Woolf. Sinclair''s poems are deft, musical, and quick in the moment, alive to the sensuous su
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Goose Lane Editions Captured Hearts
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada RUFFLES ON MY LONGJOHNS SEQUEL TO RALPH EDWARDS
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Timeless Trails to the Yukon
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£14.39
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Mattie Wyatt Earps Secret Second Wife
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Wrong Highway The Misadventures of a Misplaced
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada The Bootleggers Lady Tribulations of a Pioneer
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University of Alberta Press The Grads Are Playing Tonight
Book SynopsisA sports-history gem! The Edmonton Grads dominated women's basketball from 1915-1940 across Canada and worldwide.Trade Review# 1 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on January 08, 2012".the team which holds the most victories in the history of North American sport. The Edmonton Grads were a women's basketball team that held North America's attention for 25 years as the team challenged preconceptions about gender and sport. Samantha Powers, VUE Weekly, January 19-25, 2012"Over the years, the feats of the amazing Grads faded from memory. Few remember a team once heralded for many years as world champions.... The wonderful new book by Ms. Hall, emeritus professor at the University of Alberta, provides an informative and richly detailed account of the women who were sports pioneers. It is authoritative and deserving of a wide readership." Tom Hawthorn, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/Aj34Al]"Three years before they were given the right to vote in Canada, a team of female basketball players in Edmonton started a 25-year journey of world-wide fame and victory, proving that women certainly had the mental and physical capacity to do more than stay prim and proper." Rebecca Medel, The Gateway, January 18, 2012 [Full article at http://thegatewayonline.ca/article/view/grads_basketball]# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on February 05, 2012# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on February 26, 2012"When a team wins 95% of its games, it earns a certain place in sports history. "The Grads are Playing Tonight! The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club" discusses the domination by the Edmonton Grads for a quarter century under the guidance of J. Percy Page. Not only winning championships, they traveled the world to continue their domination. "The Grads are Playing Tonight!" is a strongly recommended pick..." Wisconsin Bookwatch, February 2012Hall's fine book brings the Grads to life - fierce competitors who played with joyful élan. The book is also a compelling portrait of the rough-and-tumble prairie city whose civic pride was awakened by the Grads' exploits. Bruce Ward, Ottawa Citizen, February 19, 2012# 6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on April 23, 2012"Almost like a fairytale, this hard-to-believe story about an almost-invincible female basketball team and their committed coach, J. Percy Page (later Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta), comes alive in the pages of The Grads are Playing Tonight! Well-written and engaging throughout its ten chapters, the book focuses on not only the adventurous tales of the Grads, but also of Edmonton coming into its own as an important city in Western Canada. In this feel-good book there is something for everyone--sports fans, history buffs, feminists, educators, scholars, politicians, and readers who dare to dream the impossible. A story within many stories, The Grads are Playing Tonight! reaffirms a city is more than a place on the map--it is the people who live there and make it home. The Grads are Playing Tonight! will continue to play itself out in readers' heads long after they shut its covers." Jury comments, Trade Non-Fiction Book Award, BPAA.#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June 24, 2012."Imagine that a Canadian sports team won ninety-six per cent of all the games it ever played - over the course of twenty-five years; that it sawed through its competition, going undefeated as it captured four consecutive Olympic championships; that it was named the best to ever play its sport, by the sport's inventor, no less. Wouldn't that team be an icon in Canada? Well, there is such a squad, but, unfortunately, the team is virtually unknown outside its native Alberta. I'm talking about the Edmonton Grads - a women's basketball team that dominated the sport between 1915 and 1940. Fortunately, M. Ann Hall has set out to cure our collective national amnesia with her new book, The Grads are Playing Tonight!... Hopefully, Hall's book will help spread the story across Canada." Mark Reid, Canada's History Magazine, June-July 2012"Reading "The Grads Are Playing Tonight!" was a nostalgic experience for me.... M. Ann Hall's book is exactly how I remember the Grads: full of grit, enthusiastic about life, inspiring and proud. And they should be. The Grads were not simply amazing basketball players. They were transformative women of their time... They played in front of the largest sporting crowds of their time. Hall is a sportswriter, so her writing style is compelling, and she provides plenty of details on the team." Tracey Peter, Herizons, Fall 2012[The Grads Are Playing Tonight!] is the first comprehensive book about the club. In an extensively researched, accessible, yet detailed read, Hall reveals new insights into the team, the organization, the coach (J. Percy Page), and the lives of the players.... Hall also effectively places the story of the Grads organization within the history of basketball in North America and Europe, discussing the debates over gender-based rules, social and medical opinion during the 1920s and 1930s about the appropriate uses of women's bodies, and the international stage of women's sport during this period... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an important and long-awaited contribution to women's sport history scholarship." Carly Adams, Great Plains Quarterly, Fall 2012"Ann Hall's latest contribution to the cannon of sports history is a well-written all encompassing examination of the legacy of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team. The Edmonton Commercial Graduates team (the "Grads") maintains the most outstanding winning record in the history of basketball.... Hall's thoughtful examination is extensive in scope, eloquently bringing together primary and secondary resources to provide a masterful collection of statistics, oral histories, photographs, commentaries, and newspaper accounts. Her account is the first book to provide an in-depth examination of the importance of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team across several domains of study: sports history, the sport of basketball, women's sport history and sport organization/administration.... This book would be a welcome addition to both the avid sport history scholar and the general population. Hall's writing, explorations, and explanations are highly accessible across disciplines and to those wishing to simply learn more about this outstanding basketball team." Christiane Job, Sport History Review 2012"As might be expected from the pioneering author M. Ann Hall, this is an important book that will provide the template for the collective biography of many sports teams across a variety of codes.... The seminal achievement of this book is to give the individual Grads faces and voices. Although often based on secondary, family sources, we begin to see where sport fitted into their lives as young women. Just as importantly, we find out what happened to many of them once they ceased to play.... [T]he use of official photographs and snapshots; game programmes; player memorabilia and other artefacts as integral to the history of the team is what lifts this book above so many.... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an inspiring challenge to those of us who want to understand both elite sport and its broader participatory culture." Jean Williams, Sport in History, November 2013Table of ContentsForeword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.
£23.39
Museum of New Mexico Press Immortal Summer A Victorian Womans Travels in the
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Sybylla Co-operative Press Quilt
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Sybylla Co-operative Press Second Degree Tampering Writing by Women
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Sybylla Co-operative Press Motherlode
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Mage Publishers Inside Iran
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Larson Publications Ancient Rage
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Te Papa Press Women Now
Book SynopsisTwelve dynamic essays by leading New Zealand thinkers mark 125 years since New Zealand won the right to vote
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Massey University Press Wild Honey
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Cambridge University Press Sisters in Arms
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women's auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces.Trade Review'Beautifully written, Sisters in Arms braids together policy matters with personal experience in a highly engaging manner. It will become the standard 'go-to' work on the subject, and should be read by absolutely anyone interested in the social or the military aspects of the British wartime experience.' S. P. MacKenzie, author of Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama'Crang's new history of militarised women in Second World War Britain shows us one of the ways that total war entails the remaking of society. Sisters in Arms tells both the stories of the women drawn into the military, and the wider story of how this reshaped wartime Britain.' Lucy Noakes, author of Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain'It's easy to forget the thousands of British women who volunteered for military service alongside the men in the Second World War. In this pioneering study, Jeremy Crang reconstructs in telling detail the life of the servicewoman in all three armed forces. This is a remarkably original story, scrupulously researched, and conveyed with humanity and intelligence.' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945'Jeremy Crang has produced a clear, wide-ranging and highly readable examination of the auxiliary women's services which draws on fascinating personal testimonies to reconstruct the experiences of members from recruitment through to demobilisation.' Juliette Pattinson, author of Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Nursing YeomanryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Revival; 2. Organisation and recruitment; 3. Training and selection; 4. Work; 5. Status and discipline; 6. Necessities of life; 7. Medical matters; 8. Off duty; 9. Overseas service; 10. Demobilisation and the creation of the permanent women's services; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of Works of Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Book SynopsisFor the first time in print, this complete, critical edition presents reconstructions of obliterated poems, alongside surviving plays of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This first volume provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books, including poems written under her pen name, Ardelia.Trade Review'With remarkable success and rigor, Jennifer Keith's and Claudia Kairoff's first volume of the Works of Anne Finch investigates and analyzes complex sets of evidence and revisions in manuscript and in print, providing an extensive scholarly apparatus and historical notes on the conditions of production, not just of Finch's own writing but of its reception and publication. Rivaling the best examples of traditional critical editions, the Works of Anne Finch offers fresh approaches to questions of variants and emendations while supplying a clean, readable text of Finch's extensive literary production.' Citation, Society for Textual Scholarship'… a major event in English literary studies … The literary world is fortunate that Finch's complicated canon met its match in the editorial skills and intellectual commitment of Jennifer Keith and the team of talented experts she assembled … Anne Finch's poetry is the expression of her heart, the expression of an age, and the expression of the general human condition. In other words, she is a major poet whose works are finally accorded in this edition the establishment of texts and contexts needed for literary history to begin to acknowledge that fact.' Elizabeth Kraft, The Scriblerian'Henceforth, no scholar of Anne Finch's poetry can write about her oeuvre without studying these two volumes.' Ellen Moody, The Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith; Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith; From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript); Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript); Some peices out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso; The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: a tragecomedy; Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: a tragedy; Aditional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral; Explanatory and textual notes; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Book SynopsisPresenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Wilchelsea, provides established texts of her later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript.Trade Review'One of the many virtues of the splendid new edition - the fullest ever presentation of Finch's oeuvre - is that it displays more clearly than ever before the extraordinary diversity, versatility, and virtuosity of her talents. The edition is beautifully printed, stoutly bound, and the pages are properly sewn in sections. The edition will be an essential purchase for all serious libraries …' David Hopkins, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff and Jennifer Keith; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith and R. Carter Hailey; From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions; The Wellesley Manuscript; Additional poems; Explanatory and textual notes; Correspondence; A reception and transmission history of Finch's work: illustrative cases from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries Rachel Bowman; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.
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Cambridge University Press A History of NineteenthCentury American Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Nineteenth-Century American Women''s Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women''s poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.Table of ContentsIntroduction: making history: thinking about nineteenth-century American women's poetry Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides; Part I. 1800–40, American Poesis and the National Imaginary: 1. Claiming Lucy Terry Prince: literary history and the problem of early African-American women poets Mary Louise Kete; 2. Before the poetess: women's poetry in the early republic Tamara Harvey; 3. The passion for poetry in Lydia Sigourney and Elizabeth Oakes Smith Kerry Larson; 4. Album verse and the poetics of scribal circulation Michael C. Cohen; 5. Presents of mind: Lydia Sigourney, gift book culture, and the commodification of poetry Elizabeth A. Petrino; 6. The friendship elegy Desirée Henderson; 7. Gendered Atlantic: Lydia Sigourney and Felicia Hemans Gary Kelly; Part II. 1840–65, Unions and Disunion: 8. Women, Transcendentalism, and The Dial: poetry and poetics Michelle Kohler; 9. Poets of the loom, spinners of verse: working-class women's poetry and The Lowell Offering Jennifer Putzi; 10. Women's transatlantic poetic network Páraic Finnerty; 11. Making and unmaking a canon: American women's poetry and the nineteenth-century anthology Alexandra Socarides; 12. 'What witty sally': Phoebe Cary's poetics of parody Faith Barrett; 13. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry of slavery and abolition Eric Gardner; 14. Fever-dreams: antebellum Southern women poets and the Gothic Paula Bennett; 15. The Civil War language of flowers Eliza Richards; 16. Poetry and bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; Part III. 1865–1900, Experiment and Expansion: 17. Women poets and American literary realism Elizabeth Renker; 18. Verse forms Cristanne Miller; 19. Braided relations: towards a history of nineteenth-century American Indian women's poetry Robert Dale Parker; 20. Frances Harper and the poetry of reconstruction Monique-Adelle Callahan; 21. (Hear the bird): Sarah Piatt and the dramatic monologue Jess Roberts; 22. Women writers and the hymn Claudia Stokes; 23. Women poets, child readers Angela Sorby; 24. Emma Lazarus transnational Shira Wolosky; 25. The creation of Emily Dickinson and the study of nineteenth-century American women's poetry Mary Loeffelholz.
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Cambridge University Press Female Singers on the French Stage 18301848
Book SynopsisThe study of singers'' art has emerged as a prominent area of inquiry within musicology in recent years. Female Singers on the French Stage, 18301848 shifts the focus from the artwork onstage to the labour that went on behind the scenes. Through extensive analysis of primary source documents, Kimberly White explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the French stage between 1830 and 1848, and reveals new perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural status of these women. The book attempts to reconstruct and clarify contemporary practices of the singer at work, including vocal training, débuts, rehearsals and performance schedules, touring, benefit concerts, and retirement, as well as the strategies utilized in publicity and image making. Dozens of case studies, many compiled from singers'' correspondence and archival papers, shed light on the performers'' successes and struggles at a time when Paris was the operatic centre of Europe.Trade Review'… [an] important contribution to the history of 19th century French music, to the history of musicians, and to the history of women, whose scientific impact is likely to be felt far beyond boundaries of historical musicology.' Catherine Deutsch, translated from Revue de musicologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. The debut and the debutante; 3. Working women; 4. La Vie Bourgeoise; 5. Creating the perfect ending; Envoi.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle on Female Animals
Book SynopsisAristotle''s account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising what he says females cannot do. Building on recent research, this book comprehensively revises such readings, setting out the complex and positive role played by the female in Aristotle''s thought with a particular focus on the longest surviving treatise on reproduction in the ancient corpus, the Generation of Animals. It provides new interpretations of the nature of Aristotle''s sexism, his theory of male and female interaction in generation, and his account of inherited features. It also discusses a range of more general issues which can and should be re-examined in light of Aristotle''s account of female animals: his methodology, hylomorphism, teleology and psychology. Aristotle on Female Animals will be valuable to all those interested in Aristotle''s philosophy and the history of gender.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Methodology in the Study of Aristotle on Female Animals: 1. Feminism, sexism and Aristotle; 2. Consistency in the Generation of Animals; Part II. Reassessing the Generative Role of the Female Animal in Aristotle: 3. Menstrual blood and female semen; 4. Matter; Part III. Reassessing the Generative Role of the Male Animal in Aristotle: 5. The male as efficient and formal cause of generation; 6. Interpretations of Aristotle on the male role in generation; Part IV. Generation in Lower Animals and Particular Instances: 7. Generation in lower animals; 8. Aristotle on sexual differentiation; 9. Aristotle on heredity; 10. Teleology and necessity in the Generation of Animals; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press A Quiet Revolution
Book SynopsisAn irreversible transformation is taking place in the lives of many thousands of university educated professional women in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Drawing on eight years'' participative research and extensive secondary sources, Nick Forster introduces the first extensive study to document this development in the Middle East. This book documents the emerging economic and political power of women, and how they are beginning to challenge ancient and deeply-held beliefs about the ''correct'' roles of men and women in conservative Islamic societies, and in public and private sector organisations. It also describes the vital role that women could play in the economic development and diversification of these countries, and the broader MENA region, in the future. It is an essential read for professionals, scholars and students, in fields as diverse as economic development, international management, gender studies, and Middle Eastern studies.Trade Review'A Quiet Revolution? is a great book for researchers, professionals and students of Middle East economy, policy, culture, and society … The author refers to the phenomenon taking place in three Gulf states - the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman - as an irreversible transformation in the lives of university-educated professional women in those countries. I cannot agree more … Forster's coverage of that phenomenon is deep and relevant. The book also outlines the fundamental role women are playing and the value they could add if afforded the opportunity to do more for their economies/countries.' Zeinab Karake, The Middle East JournalTable of Contents1. The contemporary Middle East and North Africa; 2. The United Arab Emirates; 3. The experiences of women in public and private sector organisations in the UAE; 4. The Sultanate of Oman; 5. The experiences of women in public and private sector organisations in Oman; 6. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 7. The experiences of women in public and private sector organisations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 8. The economic rationale and business case for increasing the participation of women in the labour markets of the Gulf States and the MENA region; 9. Creating a level playing field for women in private and public sector organisations in the Gulf States and the MENA region.
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Cambridge University Press Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
Book SynopsisIn this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China''s most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan,ZhengPingru and LiuHulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentation of these women and their accomplishments has evolved in line with China''s shifting political values and circumstances over the past one hundred years. Written in a lively and accessible style with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically in the past and in China today.Table of Contents1. Women warriors and wartime spies of China; 2. The archetypal woman warrior, Hua Mulan: militarising filial piety; 3. Qiu Jin: transitioning from traditional swordswoman to feminist warrior; 4. Xie Bingying opening public spaces to women – fighting patriarchy and fighting militarists; 5. Aisin Gioro Xianyu: 'Joan of Arc of the Orient' or 'Mata Hari of the East'?; 6. Guerrilla resistance leader, Zhao Yiman: warrior teacher and sacrificing CCP mother; 7. Negotiating sexual virtue: the glamorous honey-trap spy, Zheng Pingru; 8. Ding Ling and Zhenzhen: female chastity and good communist governance; 9. Mobilising and militarising rural China through the girl martyr, Liu Hulan; 10. Women warriors and wartime spies as tools for 'total militarisation': The Red Detachment of Women; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Muslim Womens Quest for Justice
Book SynopsisThis book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India. These organisations work to carve out spaces that allow for the articulation of alternative experiences and conceptions of religion and justice that challenge Islamic orthodoxy as well as the monopoly of the Indian state in the domain of family law. While most analyses on reform efforts within Muslim family law in India have focused on women''s protection within the state legal system, this book offers the rare opportunity to understand how organised groups of Muslim women''s rights activists contest marginalising forces present in the family and criminal courts, Shariat courts, local mosques, workplace, legislature and legal documents. It pushes against troubling assumptions that Islam is incompatible with ideas of women''s rights and that the State is the only dispenser of justice, and offers new directions for studies on the dispersed nature of women''s identities in Islamic family law.Trade Review'Muslim Women's Quest for Justice is a highly significant, timely, and rigorous intervention that challenges modernist accounts of law and liberal categories of women's rights and justice through a nuanced and sophisticated ethnographic analysis of gender justice. The study not only challenges the dichotomy between state and non-state law, but also how Islam is invariably set up as an obstacle to the pursuit of gender justice in liberal accounts. Hong Tschalaer uncovers the layered and polycentric legal landscape that structure Muslim women's activist's pursuit of socio-legal reform outside of state legal systems and in the process fragments and pluralises the categories of Islam and gender justice. This book marks a vital contribution to critical feminist and anthropological literature that examines the complex and contradictory terrain of justice, law and rights in a ideologically and political fragmented world.' Ratna Kapur, Queen Mary University of London'Mengia Hong Tschalaer's book presents a very rich and unique ethnographic account of Muslim women's activist organizations in urban north India that provide informal dispute resolution options for women experiencing domestic violence, dowry harassment, spousal neglect or desertion and other marital problems. One strength lies in its many extended case studies of litigants who were interviewed personally and/or observed while seeking justice, not only in such venues but also in a local qazi's court and in the official Family and Magistrates Courts. But equally impressive is the way in which the author places her empirical research findings within a theoretical context, showing their relevance to current debates in India over whether non-state quasi-judicial institutions are beneficial or harmful for Muslim women or should even be permitted to continue to operate. Her work will be required reading for anyone concerned with issues of gender and the law, not only with respect to Indian Muslim women but for those living in other countries characterized by pluralistic legal systems.' Sylvia Vatuk, University of Illinois, Chicago'A timely, sophisticated, and refreshing intervention in debates about the uniform civil code in India. This richly detailed ethnography of legal spaces in Lucknow provides a multidimensional account of Muslim women's activism, captures the constraining and transformative aspects of litigants' quest for justice, and powerfully illuminates the significance of legal pluralism as a resource for gender equality in Muslim family law.' Gopika Solanki, Carleton University, Canada'Carefully historicized and brimming with nuanced analysis, this book shows the discursive and political strategies through which overlapping and at times competing women's organizations navigate a contested and complicated public sphere, as they seek to curate a gender emancipatory understanding of Islam. The major strength of this book is the way it presents a vivid picture of the quest for gender justice on the ground, leavened by such critical processes as the composition of gender-just nikah-namas. This important book will engage the interests of a range of scholars and courses on Islam, gender, South Asia, and Islamic law and society.' SherAli Tareen, New Books Network (www.newbooksnetwork.com)Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. From legal binaries to configurations: Muslim women's rights activism in South Asia; 2. A multidimensional approach to Muslim women's activism: mapping the legal landscape in the city of Lucknow; 3. Destabilising gendered proprieties: Muslim women's visibility within the public space; 4. Vying for a gender just Islamic marriage contract: women's legal spaces; 5. Legal realities: doing gender justice from below; 6. Muslim women's quest for justice: theoretical implications and policy suggestions; Appendices: model-nikahnamas; Glossary; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Laboring for the State
Book SynopsisContrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state. Drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories, Hynson reveals that by 1961, and increasingly throughout this decade, revolutionary citizenship was earned through labor. While men were to work outside the home in state-approved jobs, women found their citizenship tied to affording the state control over their reproduction and sexual labor. Through all four campaigns examined in this book - the projects to control women''s reproduction, promote marriage, end prostitution, and compel men into state-sanctioned employment - Hynson shows that the state''s progression toward authoritarianism and its attendant monopolization of morality were met with resistance and counter-narratives by citizens who sTrade Review'Brilliantly argued and meticulously researched, Rachel Hynson's Laboring for the State represents a breakthrough in understanding how Cuba's Communist state established direct connections between the grand patriarchal project of national salvation and the intimate lives of citizens. Her analysis of the rehabilitation of sexual transgressors such as pimps, prostitutes as well as average citizens who questioned the merits and values of Communist-led redemption is as unique and refreshing as it is fascinating and convincing.' Lillian Guerra, University of Florida'Laboring for the State elevates the literature on the early years after the 1959 Cuban revolution to a new level of sophistication and complexity. Based on a rich tapestry of sources, Hynson uncovers the 'unintended consequence' of previously understudied revolutionary campaigns. Significantly, Hynson provides a genuine intersectional analysis of Cuban history that never forgets or downplays that the island's push toward European heterosexual gender norms - the New Family - often came at the expense of black and mulato bodies.' Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College, North Carolina'Rachel Hynson's Laboring for the State is essential reading for anyone interested in how Cuba's revolutionary state established hegemony. In rich and engaging detail, Hynson tracks the state's systematic intervention into even the most intimate levels of society. We learn how conservative visions of the nuclear family, women's reproductive roles, and sexual deviance were central to the attempts to regulate and control citizens. This is an important and impressive book that will reshape how we think about revolutionary Cuba's origins.' Lorraine Bayard de Volo, University of Colorado, Boulder'Rachel Hynson's new book, Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971, is an excellent addition to this growing body of literature that challenges both the chronology and the content of the Cuban government's own narrative of its revolution … Drawing on varied and fascinating sources, Hynson has written a social history of the first twelve years of revolutionary Cuba, and explained to her audience how those years shaped Cuba today.' Anasa Hicks, H-LatAm'… cogently conceptualized and painstakingly researched … an ambitious book that will shake scholarship on Cuba out of its complacency.' Michelle Chase, Hispanic American Historical Review'Rachel Hynson has crafted a sophisticated study that highlights the Cuban revolutionary government's limited reach into the intimate lives of its citizens … this is a richly researched and well-crafted study.' Tiffany Sippial, New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsIntroduction: socialist morality, the nuclear family, and state labor; 1. In the hands of physicians: abortion, birth control, and claims to women's labor; 2. 'The husband must protect the wife and the latter obey the husband': operation family, wedding palaces, and nuclear families; 3. From the streets to the home: the re-education and resistance of female prostitutes; 4. The elasticity of truth: creating male heads of household through forced labor; Epilogue: the erasure and legacies of four early revolutionary campaigns.
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Cambridge University Press Female Islamic Education Movements
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, movements aimed at giving Muslim women access to the serious study of Islamic texts have emerged across the world. In this book, Masooda Bano argues that the creative spirit that marked the rise and consolidation of Islam, whereby Islam inspired serious intellectual engagement to create optimal societal institutions, can be found within these education movements. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Pakistan, northern Nigeria and Syria, Bano questions the restricted notion of agency associated with these movements, exploring the educational networks which have attracted educated, professional and culturally progressive Muslim women to textual study, thus helping to reverse the most damaging legacy of colonial rule in Muslim societies: the isolation of modern and Islamic knowledge. With its comparative approach, this will appeal to those studying and researching the role of women across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, as well as the wider Muslim world.Table of Contents1. Understanding knowledge creation: a re-reading of female Islamic education movements; Part I. The Power of Dispersed Knowledge: 2. Incentivising creative outcomes: historical patterns; 3. Knowledge production and student profiles; Part II. Incentivising the Mixing of Knowledge: 4. Institutional shifts: facilitating emergence; 5. Institutional shifts: facilitating expansion; 6. Institutional shifts: the rise of Western feminism; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Incentivising creative outcomes: looking forward.
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Cambridge University Press Catechisms and Womens Writing in SeventeenthCentury England
Book SynopsisCatechisms and Women''s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women''s literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examines original works composed by women - both in manuscript and print, as well as women''s copying and redacting of catechisms - and construction of these materials from other sources. By studying female catechists, McQuade shows how early modern women used the power and authority granted to them as mothers to teach religious doctrine, to demonstrate their linguistic skills, to engage sympathetically with Catholic devotional texts, and to comment on matters of contemporary religious and political import - activities that many scholars have considered the sole prerogative of clergymen. This book addresses the question of women''s literary production in early modern England, demonstrating that reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women''s literary engagements during this time.Trade Review'… Paula McQuade's delightful book, a work of literary scholarship which is not only for literary scholars. Like many of her authors - women whose humanity she never forgets - her professed aims are modest: to add half-a-dozen more minor entries to the emerging canon of early modern women's writing in English, and in the process to persuade us that catechesis deserves to be taken seriously as a literary genre. As it happens, the significance of her work extends a little further than that.' Alec Ryrie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction. 'Milk for babes': catechisms and female authorship in early modern England; Part I. Domestic Catechesis and Female Authorship: 1. 'Mother bare me': catechisms and maternity in early modern England; 2. 'A tender mother': domestic catechesis in the household devotional of Katherine Fitzwilliam, circa 1603; Part II. Female Witness and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: 3. 'At Magdalin's house': maternal catechesis and female witness in the manuscript miscellany of Katherine Thomas (b. 1637); 4. Catholicism, catechesis, and coterie circulation: the manuscript of Barbara Slingsbury Talbot (b. 1633); Part III. Print and Polemic: 5. 'A knowing people': catechizing and community in Dorothy Burch's A Catechisme of the Severall Heads of the Christian Religion (1646); 6. Prophecy, catechesis, and community in Mary Cary's The Resurrection of the Witnesses (1648; reprint 1653); Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Unforgettable Queens of Islam
Book SynopsisIn this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political systems of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging imperatives of dynastic succession, electoral competition and the stunning success they achieved in medieval Yemen and India, and modern Pakistan and Indonesia. The written history of Islam and the Muslim world is overwhelmingly masculine, having largely ignored women and their contributions until well into the 20th century. Religious and legal justifications have been systematically invoked to justify Muslim women''s banishment from politics and public domains. Yet this patriarchal domination has not gone on without serious challenges by women - sporadic and exceptional though their participation in the battle of succession has been. The Unforgettable Queens of Islam highlights lives and legacies of a number of charismatic women engaged in fierce battles of sucTrade Review'Most women rulers in Islamic states succeeded their fathers or husbands, and Shahla Haeri shows that they cultivated an image as tolerant and caring 'mothers' of their nations. Her fascinating and original study concludes that an emerging generation of female politicians may represent a more democratic and inclusive force in Muslim societies, precisely because their very identity is a challenge to military and theocratic establishments.' Adam Kuper, British Academy'Haeri harvests decades of work on women political leaders in the Islamic world, from the Queen of Sheba in the 10th century B.C.E. to the contemporary Pakistani Benazir Bhutto and Indonesian Megawati Sukarnoputri. By performing fine-tuned ethnographic and historical research, Haeri brilliantly answers the question of why only in modern times have religious/political establishments begun to apply the suspect hadith against accepting a woman as ruler.' Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University, California'The written history of the Muslim world is still typically told in a manner that sidelines the experience of Muslim women. In this beautifully written and important book, Shahla Haeri corrects that imbalance, creating the finest book I have ever read on women leaders across the Muslim-majority world. This is a 'must read' for everyone interested in Islam and gender today and across the span of history.' Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, Massachusetts'This pioneering book offers a riveting account of women who have achieved political power across a range of Muslim majority cultures and down the centuries. Today the issue of women and power is a highly contested one in Muslim majority countries - as indeed elsewhere. Offering a sustained, reasoned and well-grounded overview and analysis of the topic and its underpinnings, this book constitutes an invaluable resource.' Leila Ahmed, Harvard University, Massachusetts'The Unforgettable Queens of Islam presents a fascinating set of comparative biographies of Muslim women leaders … engaging and thought-provoking.' R. A. Miller, Choice'I thoroughly enjoyed each story, learning how these very different women acquired and maintained their power and authority, and what their gender brought to their challenges and opportunities … For those interested in the relationship between religion and politics, and the nature of gender and authority in the modern world, this book is a great place to start! …fascinating and timely …' Diane C. Perlov, California Science CenterTable of ContentsIntroduction. Games of succession: patriarchy, power, gender; Part I. Sacred Sources of Authority: The Quran and the Hadith: 1. Queen of Sheba and the mighty throne; 2. Aisha Bint Abu Bakr: battle of the camel, battle for succession; Part II. Medieval Queens: Dynasty and Descent: 3. Sayyida Hurra Queen Arwa of Yemen: 'the little Queen of Sheba'; 4. Razia Sultan of India: 'Queen of the world Bilqis-I Jihan'; Part III. Contemporary Queens: Institutionalization of Succession and Leadership: 5. Benazir Bhutto: a queen 'without parallel'; 6. Megawati Sukarnoputri: 'Limbuk becomes Queen'; Conclusion. Patriarchal paradox?
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Cambridge University Press Injustice and the Reproduction of History
Book SynopsisDemands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, understanding when and why an unjust history matters for considerations of justice in the present is not straightforward. Alasia Nuti develops a normative framework to identify which historical injustices we should be concerned about, to conceptualise the relation between persistence and change and, thus, conceive of history as newly reproduced. Focusing on the condition of women in formally egalitarian societies, the book shows that history is important to theorise the injustice of gender inequalities and devise transformative remedies. Engaging with the activist politics of the unjust past, Nuti also demonstrates that the reproduction of an unjust history is dynamic, complex and unsettling. It generates both historical and contemporary responsibilities for redress and questions precisely those features of our order that we take for granted.Trade Review'This is a major contribution to our thinking about historical injustice, and especially innovative in taking the position of women as a paradigmatic example. By putting gender at the centre of her analysis, Nuti is able to make compelling new arguments about the normative significance of the unjust past.' Anne Phillips, author of The Politics of the Human'Arguing that discussions about historical injustice wrongly conceptualises history, Alasia Nuti reframes the debate by developing a structural account of history. This new account of history, alongside a focus on women, allows us to see historical injustices in new and important ways. This is a provocative and insightful book that is a major contribution to the literature on historical injustice.' Jeff Spinner-Halev, Kenan Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'In this path-breaking book, Alasia Nuti develops a new way to combine reflections on historical and structural injustice. Taking us beyond reified notions of time, agency or social groups, she suggests a powerful account of political and social justice that speaks to the past, the present and the future.' Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am MainTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. De-temporalising (historical) injustice; 3. The structural reproduction of unjust history; 4. History, injustice and groups; 5. Defining women as a group; 6. Women and the reproduction of unjust history in egalitarian contexts; 7. The policy of the unjust past; 8. The politics of the unjust past; 9. Conclusion: responsibility and the process of redress; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Seeking Legitimacy
Book SynopsisAili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women''s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption of women''s rights in Muslim-majority countries. Based on extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, this accessible study analyzes how women''s rights are used both instrumentally and symbolically to advance the political goals of authoritarian regimes as leverage in attempts to side-line religious extremists. It shows how Islamist political parties have been forced to dramatically change their positions on women''s rights to ensure political survival. In an original contribution to the study of women''s rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Tripp reveals how women''s rights movements have capitalized on moments of Trade Review'Tripp's scientific method, rich case studies, and critical engagement make Seeking Legitimacy a valuable contribution to the literature on women in the Middle East. It certainly deserves a place on syllabi across departments and courses that tackle the thorny questions of gender inequality and women's rights in the MENA region.' Nada Matta, Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Comparing the Maghreb and the Middle East: 1. Women's rights: comparing the Middle East and the Maghreb; 2. Setting the stage for gender reforms; 3. Legislative and constitutional women's rights reforms in Arab countries; Part II. Case Studies: 4. Morocco; 5. Algeria; 6. Tunisia; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Party Institutionalization and Womens Representation in Democratic Brazil
Book SynopsisBrazil''s quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women''s Representation in Democratic Brazil theorizes the connections across those problems, explaining how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties interact to undermine descriptive representation in Brazil. This book draws on an original multilevel database of 27,653 legislative candidacies spanning six election cycles, over 100 interviews, and field observations from throughout Brazil. Wylie demonstrates that more inclusive participation in candidate-centered elections amidst raced-gendered structural inequities relies on institutionalized parties with the capacity to support women, and the will, heralded by party leadership, to do so. The book illustrates how women leaders in Brazil''s more institutionalized parties enable white and Afro-descendant female aspirants to navigate the masculinized terrain of formal politics. It enhances our understanding of how parties mediate electoral rules, as well as institutional and party change in the context of weak but robustly gendered institutions.Trade Review'Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil dismisses the conventional wisdom about women's underrepresentation in Brazil. Wylie then masterfully demonstrates that the combination of candidate-centric elections with weakly institutionalized political parties keep women out of elected office. Her mixed-methods approach uses an impressive longitudinal dataset of nearly 28,000 legislative candidacies as well as over 100 interviews with politicians, activists, and experts. This book is striking for both its theoretical and methodological rigor, and will stand as a landmark work in the study of women's political representation.' Magda Hinojosa, Arizona State University'Kristin N. Wylie's impressive, multi-method study of Brazil handily disproves commonly held theories about women's political representation. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil establishes once and for all that political parties - and not cultural norms, economic development or electoral rules - are primarily responsible for shaping women's candidacies and election. In arguing that weakly institutionalized parties lack the will and the capacity to incorporate, support, and promote women, this book constitutes required reading for those seeking to understand the causes and consequences of democracies in crisis.' Jennifer M. Piscopo, Occidental College, Los Angeles'Wylie's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the quality of the democratic process, party politics, gender politics and Latin American politics. She provides a compelling argument for the role of political parties in facilitating gender equality in elected office. Wylie's work further advances the field of political representation by carefully and thoughtfully considering the intersection of race and gender in Brazilian politics.' Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University'Wylie's book is a tour de force, presenting a nuanced and detailed account of a perplexing case, with implications for reigning paradigms in the comparative gender and politics literature, as well as the study of Brazilian politics.' Mona Lena Krook, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of Contents1. A crisis of representation: the puzzle of women's underrepresentation in Brazil; 2. Willing and able: party institutionalization, party leadership, and women's representation; 3. Brazil's quota law and the challenges of institutional change amidst weak and gendered institutions; 4. Overcoming gendered obstacles: voters, electoral rules, and parties; 5. Electoral rules, party support, and women's unexpected successes in elections to the Brazilian Senate; 6. Supermadres, Lutadoras, and technocrats: the bounded profiles of Brazil's female politicians; 7. Intersections between race and fender in Brazil's 2014 Chamber of Deputies Elections; 8. Theoretical implications and comparative perspectives.
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Cambridge University Press Gender Equality and Public Policy
Book SynopsisDespite formal UN and European Commission commitments to improve gender imbalances, progress towards gender equality in wealth and pay has progressed at a discouragingly slow pace in recent decades. European countries have been more proactive in their support for corrective policies, such as family leave and gender quotas for corporate boards, yet measuring the effectiveness of these policies has proven difficult. This book offers a close comparative analysis of gender-targeted policies in Europe, providing an in-depth overview of how public policy is shaping gender equality, and how the presence of women in the economy and decision-making positions is itself shaping public policy. Paola Profeta bases her analysis on new data and an innovative interdisciplinary perspective for understanding the relationship between gender, equality and public policy, and their final impact on the European economy and society, with lessons that resonate beyond Europe.Trade Review'This ambitious project draws upon insights including from economics, public management, political science and gender theory to interrogate critical questions about gender equality in politics and the workplace. What is the impact of public policy in terms of promoting gender equality? What difference for public policy does it make if there are women leaders in politics and business? Paying particular attention to gender equality in Southern Europe, Paola Profeta argues that a greater understanding is needed of the relationship between public economics (policies) and political economy (policymakers and shapers) in order to analyse the slow and uneven progress of gender equality to date – and the ever present dangers of stalling and regression. This book will be of great interest to both feminist scholars and mainstream scholars concerned with the relationship between public policy and gender equality.' Fiona Mackay, University of Edinburgh'Decades after equality before the law between women and men had been reached in most European countries, gender inequities in areas such as education, the labor market, and caring for family members continue to persist. In this deeply researched and accessible book, Paola Profeta summarizes the state of gender equality in Europe today and explains the role that public policy can play in shaping gender differences. Drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence and state-of-the-art methods, Profeta's impressive study also draws a link between gender inequality and global challenges such as population aging, mass migration, and sustainability. A must-read not just for researchers and policymakers, but anyone who wants to learn more about the forces behind gender inequality today and the way forward to a more equal future.' Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University'Women have broken many glass ceilings (or glass cages) in recent decades. But not all and certainly not universally. Along with democratic spontaneous movements, effective political action is still required, both in terms of reaffirmation of human rights and in terms of measures to realize a true level playing field in which women can prove their competences and inspire positive social change. This book by Paola Profeta represents a valuable addition to the literature on the relationships between public policies and real gender equality. Worth to be read and studied by all those who care about a more balanced society.' Elsa Fornero, University of Turin'This excellent book offers a novel perspective on the study of gender and public policy with an approach developed at the intersection of public economics and political economics. The focus is on Europe, which is certainly an interesting laboratory of analysis with studying and comparing policies to promote gender equality. This book is extremely useful for graduate students and professionals but readable also by policy makers.' Daniela Del Boca, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto'With an economist's eye, Paola Profeta deftly analyzes the reciprocal effects of gender equality and public policies in contemporary Europe. From taxation to maternity leave to childcare provision, Profeta shows how states' policy choices profoundly shape economic gender gaps. This book makes the case for why gender inequality matters not only for women and their families but for sustainable growth in the 21st century.' Mary Brinton, Harvard University'The topic of gender (in)equality is of fundamental importance for our societies. This timely analysis form one of the leaders in the field is comprehensive, careful, balanced and passionate. A must read.' Alberto Alesina, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The scenario: gender gaps in education, the labour market and politics; 3. From public policy to gender equality: theory and evidence; 4. How women affect public policy; 5. How women affect firms' outcomes; 6. Global challenges, gender and public policy; 7. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Feminist Judgments Reproductive Justice Rewritten
Book SynopsisReproductive justice (RJ) is a pivotal movement that supplants the language and limitations of reproductive rights. RJ''s tenets are that women have the human rights to decide if or when they''ll become pregnant, whether to carry a pregnancy to term, and to parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments. Recognizing the importance of the rights at stake when the law addresses parenting and procreation, the authors in this book re-imagine judicial opinions that address the law''s treatment of pregnancy and parenting. The cases cover topics such as forced sterilization, pregnancy discrimination, criminal penalties for women who take illegal drugs while pregnant, and state funding for abortion. Though some of the re-imagined cases come to the same conclusions as the originals, each rewritten opinion analyzes how these cases impact the most vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities, poor women, and women of color.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction Kimberly Mutcherson; Part II: The Feminist Judgments; 1. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) Jasmine E. Harris and Kim Hai Pearson; 2. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942) Radhika Rao and Thomas Williams; 3. Wyman v. James, 400 U.S. 309 (1971) Michele Gilman and Priscilla Ocen; 4. Maher v. Roe, 432 US 464 (1977) Ederlina Co and Michele Goodwin; 5. In Re Madyun, 114 Daily wash. Law. Rptr. 2233 (D.C. Super Ct. 1986) Farah Diaz-Tello and Maya Manian; 6. Johnson v. Calvert, 5 Cal. 4th 84 (1993) Cathy Sakimura and Melanie Jacobs; 7. Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2000) Lisa Crooms-Robinson and Margo Kaplan; 8. State v. Oakley, 245 Wis. 2d 447 (2001) Aziza Ahmed and Solangel Maldonado; 9. Sojourner A. v. N.J. Dep't of Human Servs., 177 N.J. 318 Ann Cammett and Cynthia Soohoo; 10. K.M. v. E.G., 37 Cal. 4th 130 (2005) Nancy Polikoff and Melissa Murray; 11. Reber v. Reiss, 42 A.3d 1131 (2012) Kevin Maillard and Dara Purvis; 12. Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 570 U.S. – -, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) Rose Cuison Villazor and Nancy Dowd; 13. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. __ (2014) Suzanne A. Kim and Anthony Michael Kreis; 14. Young v. UPS, 575 U.S. __ (2015) Mary Ziegler and Meredith Harbach; 15. Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt Myrisha Lewis and David Cohen; Index.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
Book SynopsisThere is a growing knowledge base in understanding the differences and similarities between women and men, as well as the diversities among women and sexualities. Although genetic and biological characteristics define human beings conventionally as women and men, their experiences are contextualized in multiple dimensions in terms of gender, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity, and other social dimensions. Beyond the biological and genetic basis of gender differences, gender intersects with culture and other social locations which affect the socialization and development of women across their life span. This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to understand the intersectionality of gender differences, to dispel myths, and to examine gender-relevant as well as culturally relevant implications and appropriate interventions. Featuring a truly international mix of contributors, and incorporating cross-cultural research and comparative perspectives, this handbook will infTrade Review'This fascinating handbook clearly lays out international perspectives and presents a variety of women's experiences across multicultural contexts. It also challenges mainstream psychology and its traditional assumptions of the universality in psychological theories. This volume is a must-have!' Christine Roland-Lévy, President, International Association of Applied Psychology'This is a timely volume that pierces the invisible ceiling in psychology, where the majority are women but men – the minority – tend to dominate in every sphere. It contributes significantly to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal #5 of gender equality in a skewed discipline, enabling the empowerment of women and encouraging girls to enter psychology.' Saths Cooper, Past President, International Union of Psychological Science, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa'The book touches upon many layers of the 'psychology of women', creating opportunities to connect these discussions that empower the reader to explore and develop their own understanding of topics covered in an excellent way. It is a great achievement.' Gülsün Sağlamer, President of the European Women Rectors Association, and Former Rector of Istanbul Technical University, TurkeyTable of ContentsPart I. The Underpinnings of Sex and Gender and How to Study Them: 1. International and intersectional perspectives on the psychology of women; 2. Feminist theory and methodologies: Crossing disciplinary boundaries; 3. The contents and discontents of the nature-nurture debate; 4. Sex, gender, and sexuality; 5a. Sex differences on the brain: A networking perspective; 5b. Sex/gender differences in the brain and their relationship to behavior; Part II. Developmental Perspectives of the International Psychology of Women: 6. Sex differences in early life: A cross-cultural perspective; 7. Gender and adolescent development across cultures; 8. Fertility, childbirth and parenting: defining sexual and gender relations; 9. Three ways that ageing affects women differently from men: Menopause, changes in physical appearance and caregiving; Part III. Cognitive and Social Factors: 10. Sex, gender and intelligence: Does XX = XY for intelligence?; 11. At the crossroads of women's experience: Insights from and intersections between motivation, emotion, gender, and culture; 12. Gender and personality research in psychology: The need for intersectionality; 13. Selfhood and self-construal; 14. Cultural influences on body image and body esteem; 15. The not so subtle and status quo maintaining nature of everyday sexism; 16. A gendered light on empathy, prosocial behavior, and forgiveness; 17. The impact of gender and culture in consumer behaviour; 18. Evolutionary roots of women's aggression: Causes, contexts, and consequences; Part IV. Work and Family Issues: 19. Career development of women: An international perspective; 20. The psychology of women in entrepreneurship: An international perspective; 21. Women's leadership across cultures: Intersections, barriers, and leadership development; 22. Occupational health psychology and women in Asian contexts; 23. Work-family interface and crossover effects: Exploring for the effects of gender; 24. Intimate relationships; 25. Contextualizing the many faces of domestic violence: A focus on the global south; Part V. Inequality and Social Justice: 26. Girls, boys, and schools: On gender (in) equalities in education; 27. Understanding gender inequality in poverty and social exclusion through a psychological lens: Scarcities, stereotypes, and suggestions; 28. Understanding women's antisocial and criminal behavior: A global review; 29. Sexual assault; 30. Intercultural relationships, migrant women, and intersection of identities; Part VI. Health and Well-being: 31. Subjective well-being; 32. Women under pressure: The intersection of stress and trauma with aspects of gender; 33. Gender and women's sexual and reproductive health; 34. Physical health: Women's sexual embodiment after cancer; 35. Women and suicidal behavior: Paradigm-shift lessons from China; 36. Sex and gender in psychopathology; 37. Women and psychotherapy; Epilogue – Some Final Thoughts and Take-Home Messages: 38. Parting thoughts.
£56.04
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
Book SynopsisThere is a growing knowledge base in understanding the differences and similarities between women and men, as well as the diversities among women and sexualities. Although genetic and biological characteristics define human beings conventionally as women and men, their experiences are contextualized in multiple dimensions in terms of gender, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity, and other social dimensions. Beyond the biological and genetic basis of gender differences, gender intersects with culture and other social locations which affect the socialization and development of women across their life span. This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to understand the intersectionality of gender differences, to dispel myths, and to examine gender-relevant as well as culturally relevant implications and appropriate interventions. Featuring a truly international mix of contributors, and incorporating cross-cultural research and comparative perspectives, this handbook will inform mainstream psychology of the international literature on the psychology of women and gender.Trade Review'This fascinating handbook clearly lays out international perspectives and presents a variety of women's experiences across multicultural contexts. It also challenges mainstream psychology and its traditional assumptions of the universality in psychological theories. This volume is a must-have!' Christine Roland-Lévy, President, International Association of Applied Psychology'This is a timely volume that pierces the invisible ceiling in psychology, where the majority are women but men – the minority – tend to dominate in every sphere. It contributes significantly to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal #5 of gender equality in a skewed discipline, enabling the empowerment of women and encouraging girls to enter psychology.' Saths Cooper, Past President, International Union of Psychological Science, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa'The book touches upon many layers of the 'psychology of women', creating opportunities to connect these discussions that empower the reader to explore and develop their own understanding of topics covered in an excellent way. It is a great achievement.' Gülsün Sağlamer, President of the European Women Rectors Association, and Former Rector of Istanbul Technical University, TurkeyTable of ContentsPart I. The Underpinnings of Sex and Gender and How to Study Them: 1. International and intersectional perspectives on the psychology of women; 2. Feminist theory and methodologies: Crossing disciplinary boundaries; 3. The contents and discontents of the nature-nurture debate; 4. Sex, gender, and sexuality; 5a. Sex differences on the brain: A networking perspective; 5b. Sex/gender differences in the brain and their relationship to behavior; Part II. Developmental Perspectives of the International Psychology of Women: 6. Sex differences in early life: A cross-cultural perspective; 7. Gender and adolescent development across cultures; 8. Fertility, childbirth and parenting: defining sexual and gender relations; 9. Three ways that ageing affects women differently from men: Menopause, changes in physical appearance and caregiving; Part III. Cognitive and Social Factors: 10. Sex, gender and intelligence: Does XX = XY for intelligence?; 11. At the crossroads of women's experience: Insights from and intersections between motivation, emotion, gender, and culture; 12. Gender and personality research in psychology: The need for intersectionality; 13. Selfhood and self-construal; 14. Cultural influences on body image and body esteem; 15. The not so subtle and status quo maintaining nature of everyday sexism; 16. A gendered light on empathy, prosocial behavior, and forgiveness; 17. The impact of gender and culture in consumer behaviour; 18. Evolutionary roots of women's aggression: Causes, contexts, and consequences; Part IV. Work and Family Issues: 19. Career development of women: An international perspective; 20. The psychology of women in entrepreneurship: An international perspective; 21. Women's leadership across cultures: Intersections, barriers, and leadership development; 22. Occupational health psychology and women in Asian contexts; 23. Work-family interface and crossover effects: Exploring for the effects of gender; 24. Intimate relationships; 25. Contextualizing the many faces of domestic violence: A focus on the global south; Part V. Inequality and Social Justice: 26. Girls, boys, and schools: On gender (in) equalities in education; 27. Understanding gender inequality in poverty and social exclusion through a psychological lens: Scarcities, stereotypes, and suggestions; 28. Understanding women's antisocial and criminal behavior: A global review; 29. Sexual assault; 30. Intercultural relationships, migrant women, and intersection of identities; Part VI. Health and Well-being: 31. Subjective well-being; 32. Women under pressure: The intersection of stress and trauma with aspects of gender; 33. Gender and women's sexual and reproductive health; 34. Physical health: Women's sexual embodiment after cancer; 35. Women and suicidal behavior: Paradigm-shift lessons from China; 36. Sex and gender in psychopathology; 37. Women and psychotherapy; Epilogue – Some Final Thoughts and Take-Home Messages: 38. Parting thoughts.
£173.85
Cambridge University Press Gender in American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisGender in American Literature and Cultureintroduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism.Itoffers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present andmoves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding toa sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, itilluminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.Trade Review'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies … Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Gender Criticism in the Age of Trump Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis; Part I. Intimacies: 1. The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America Anna Mae Duane; 2. Post-Reproductive Female Sexuality and the Early American Novel Marion Rust; 3. The Effeminate Man in Nineteenth-Century America Travis Foster; 4. Rereading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory Ivy Schweitzer; 5. 'Unbounded Grief': Black Maternal Sorrow and the Literature of Slavery Shermaine M. Jones; 6. Rethinking Reproductive Freedom through Transpacific Narratives Yu-Fang Cho; 7. Slow Emergency: Life Writing, Dementia, Gender, and Care Rachel Adams; Part II. Aggressions: 8. Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) Theresa Strouth Gaul; 9. Intergenerational Memory and the Making of Indigenous Literary Kinships Susan Bernardin; 10. US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance Catherine Keyser; 11. Gender, Violence, and Accountability in Contemporary Queer Latina Writing Lourdes Torres; 12. The Literature of Racial Uplift and White Feminist Failure Brigitte Fielder; 13. Black Male Studies and Contemporary African American Writing Seulghee Lee; 14. Representations of White Masculinity in Veteran-Authored Iraq War Fiction Hamilton Carroll; 15. What a Doctor Should Look Like: Queer Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress in the Nineteenth Century Christine 'Xine' Yao; 16. Genderqueer: Literary and Gender Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Jaime Harker; 17. Fanfiction, Transformative Works, and Feminist Resistance in Digital Culture Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; 18. Vulnerable States: Immigration and Gender in American Literature Sigrid Anderson; 19. The Mahjar: Arab Women's Literary Culture in America at the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Claire Saylor; 20. Disabled Women's Life Writing and the Problem with Recovery Clare Mullaney; 21. Feeling, Memory, and Peoplehood in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry Mark Rifkin.
£32.29
Cambridge University Press Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisDuring the Italian Renaissance, laywomen and nuns could take part in every stage of the circulation of texts of many kinds, old and new, learned and popular. This first in-depth and integrated analysis of Italian women''s involvement in the material textual culture of the period shows how they could publish their own works in manuscript and print and how they promoted the first publication of works composed by others, acting as patrons or dedicatees. It describes how they copied manuscripts and helped to make and sell printed books in collaboration with men, how they received books as gifts and borrowed or bought them, how they commissioned manuscripts for themselves and how they might listen to works in spoken or sung performance. Brian Richardson''s richly documented study demonstrates the powerful social function of books in the Renaissance: texts-in-motion helped to shape women''s lives and sustain their social and spiritual communities.Table of Contents1. Publishing texts; 2. Making and selling books; 3. Women as scribes; 4. Access to texts.
£79.79
Cambridge University Press Women as ConstitutionMakers
Book SynopsisThat a constitution should express the will of ''the people'' is a long-standing principle, but the identity of ''the people'' has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recently occurred. Women''s participation in constitution-making is now recognised as a democratic right. Women''s demands to have their voices heard in both the processes of constitution-making and the text of their country''s constitution, are gaining recognition. Campaigning for inclusion in their country''s constitution-making, women have adopted innovative strategies to express their constitutional aspirations. This collection offers, for the first time, comprehensive case studies of women''s campaigns for constitutional equality in nine different countries that have undergone constitutional transformations in the ''participatory era''. Against a richly-contextualised historical and political background, each charts the actions and strategies of women participants,Table of ContentsIntroduction Ruth Rubio-Marín and Helen Irving; 1. Women's movements and the recognition of gender equality in the constitution-making process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011–14) Sara Borrillo; 2. Women and constitution-making in post-Communist Romania Elena Brodeala and Silvia Suteu; 3. Re-living yesterday's battles: women and constitution-making in post-Saddam Iraq Noga Efrati; 4. Women's participation in peace-building and constitution-making in Somalia Sakuntala Kadirgamar; 5. Feminist legalism: Colombian constitution-making in the 1990s Julieta Lemaitre; 6. Women and constitution-making in Turkey: from Ottoman modernism to a constitutionalism of women's platform Bertil Emrah Oder; 7. Egypt's tale of two constitutions: diverging gendered processes and outcomes Mariz Tadros; 8. Dialogic democracy, feminist theory, and women's participation in constitution-making Susan H. Williams.
£99.90
Cambridge University Press Mobility as Capability
Book SynopsisThis book highlights accounts of women workers to capture the domains of gendered mobility, which challenges the exalted status conferred on women in the Kerala model of development. It contests and deconstructs the development discourse which considers women''s work mobility as an indicator of autonomy and agency using Capability Approach. The concept of ''transformational mobility'' and its measurement introduced in the book advances the understanding of mobility, autonomy and agency and the intersectionality in the context of gender and work. Through an in-depth exploration of lived experiences of informal women workers the author illustrates how patriarchal structures are shaped and reinforced by work places, markets and the state. The central question is - can we steer development policies to facilitate collective capabilities for women where informal work arrangements are becoming the norm?Trade Review'Menon questions prevailing assumptions that women's mobility, their freedom and ability to move beyond their households into paid work, necessarily enhances their autonomy and empowerment. She draws on Sen's capability approach to theorize her innovative concept of 'transformational mobility' to assess whether women's work mobility is empowering. Her inter-disciplinary analysis is applied to a fascinating comparison of informal women working in seafood processing versus self-employed fish vendors in Kerala, India. Her findings demonstrate that paid work outside the household is not sufficient to enhance women's agency and autonomy. Transformational mobility is more likely under circumstances where women have greater collective agency and ability to bargain over their working conditions. Menon's book is essential reading for all researchers, practitioners and policy makers focusing on women's work in domestic and global production. It advances an insightful analysis of transformational mobility applicable to assessing a range of occupations. It provides a challenging contribution to current thinking on constraints and potential for women's social and economic empowerment.' Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester'Menon's book shatters the myths regarding the exalted status of women in Kerala by drawing attention to the deprivation, segregation in low skilled work, gender gaps in wages and poor working conditions suffered by women engaged in informal work in fisheries. Drawing attention to the constraints imposed on women by patriarchal social structures in Kerala, she questions the prevailing arguments that translate mobility into autonomy and agency. She compares this constrained state with what she calls 'Transformational mobility' or freedom in the real sense, a state of non-domination. The pathways to autonomy of women are fraught with several challenges which can be addressed with better understanding of the underlying gender norms, which this book attempts to unravel. The book is a must-read for anyone working in the field of development and gender.' Aasha Kapur Mehta, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi'The work on Mobility as Capability reflects on a wide range of issues, enhancing our understanding of mobility, autonomy, and agency, and the intersectionality in the context of gender and work. Situating informal work by women in some of the dynamic activities in Kerala the volume envisages women's work mobility as an indicator of autonomy and agency in terms of capability approach. The work displays commendable originality and innovative thinking, which will stir our reasoning and encourage future research in this direction to help policy initiatives happen in an effective manner.' Arup Mitra, Institute of Economic Growth, New DelhiTable of ContentsList of Tables; List of Figures; 1. Transformational Mobility as Capability; 2. Reflections on Transformational Mobility, Autonomy and Women's Work; 3. Women in 'Kerala Model': Myths and Realities; 4. Situating Informal Work by Women in Fisheries in Kerala; 5. 'Measuring Mobility' of Women: Unravelling the 'Explicit' and the 'Implicit'; 6. Pathways to Transformational Mobility of Women Workers: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis; 7. 'Subordinating Self': 'Maneuvering Patriarchy' among Women Workers; 8. Self Categorisation, Group Identity and Agency among Women Fish Vendors; 9. Transformational Mobility: From Individual to Collective Agency of Informal Women Workers; Bibliography; Index.
£71.25
Cambridge University Press Women Religion and the State in Contemporary Turkey
Book SynopsisTracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epitomize a pious, modern and highly educated woman whose role in society has been raised to prominence. Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, and drawing on a rich ethnography of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul, Chiara Maritato disentangles the state''s attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. In using the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, she casts light on a broader reformulation of religious services for women and families in Turkey, and pinpoints how this pervasive moral support has been able to penetrate and reshape even secular spaces.Trade Review'Combining detailed ethnographic observations with an impressive number of in-depth interviews, Maritato's analysis provides insights into the complex dynamics of the feminization of the religious sphere in Turkey and shows how a discourse on modern and learned female religiosity can go hand in hand with policies reinforcing Islamization in the daily work of the female preachers of the Diyanet.' Sevgi Adak, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, The Aga Khan University'Maritato provides a fascinating and insightful analysis of the role of female preachers of Diyanet in reconstructing the relation between the state and religion in contemporary Turkey. This book is an invaluable resource for those interested in multifaceted relationships between women, religion and state in Turkey.' Hakkı Gűrkaş, Department of History and Philosophy, Kennesaw State University'A fascinating analysis of religion as bureaucracy and the professionalization of traditional religious activity. Turkey's female preachers are civil servants in a state agency that historically managed religion in order to protect secularism, but now insinuates Islamisation from above. Yet in their everyday activities, the female preachers are forging a new religious identity, one that combines piety with a modern working life and redefines the boundaries between state and religion. A must read for anyone who wishes to understand recent enormous changes in Turkish society.' Jenny White, Institute for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University'This is a must-read work on religion, religiosity, society, and the state in contemporary Turkey. Maritato (Univ. of Turin, Italy) provides unique insight into these complex dynamics through in-depth interviews and observations. Highly recommended.' B. A. Yesilada, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Transitivities: Women, Religion and Turkish Secularism: 2. Religion, a state affair; 3. Pious women and the secular state; Part II. Women in the Diyanet: Forms and Meanings: 4. The Diyanet's policies towards women; 5. Vaizeler's invitation: the mosque as a place for women; 6. Achieving public piety through the Vaizeler's sessions; 7. Religious counselling and moral support for women and families; Part III. Reassessing Women, Religion and the State: 8. Listen to the battlefield: female preachers within a secular state; 9. Concluding remarks.
£85.50
