Gender studies: women and girls Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Just the Funny Parts
Book SynopsisScovell knows what it’s like to put words in the mouths of President Barack Obama, Mark Harmon, Candice Bergen, Bob Newhart, Conan O’Brien, Alyssa Milano, and Kermit the Frog, among many others.Trade Review“This clear-eyed account of 30 years in a profoundly flawed industry is the funniest, most unflinching book I’ve read in a long time. I laughed out loud so many times. If you’ve ever watched TV, you should read this book. And if you’ve ever read a book, you should read this one, too.” — John Oliver “First things first. Just the Funny Parts is, like Nell Scovell herself, funny as hell. Laugh-out-loud chuckles, eye rolls, embarrassed (for Nell) giggles—it’s all there. But there’s a lot more, too. This is a smart, wise book about growing up, growing old(er), and most of all, what it means to be a woman in a man’s world. That’s no joke. (But it is, as I mentioned, funny.)” — Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress “Nell Scovell has finally written the book that everyone in the comedy world has been waiting for! Besides being one of the funniest people I know, she has not just survived, but she has thrived. How the hell did she do it?? Crack it open and find out!” — Bette Midler “This book is soooo good! Nell not only recalls her comedy writing career with wit but also transports us there to sit alongside her as witness. Just the Funny Parts could easily be called Just The Brave Parts.” — Larry Wilmore “Nell is an incredible writer, and this book is just as amazing as I would expect. I particularly liked page 213.” — Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee “In Just the Funny Parts, Nell Scovell offers readers an unvarnished look into a writer’s life. Through her unique lens, she bravely confronts some uncomfortable truths, and yet keeps you laughing the whole way through.” — George Lucas, yeah that George Lucas “I’ve known for a while that Nell is an unusually talented and funny writer, but I had no idea just how much she shaped the TV that I’ve watched for decades—or how much bias she faced along the way. Despite that (and sometimes because of it), this book was a delight to read. It’s full of jokes that made me laugh and sharp analyses that made me think.” — Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals, and co-author of Option B “In this illuminating memoir, Scovell details her career as a highly successful television writer over the last three decades, during which she was usually the only woman in the room… Scovell has repeatedly felt the sting of toiling in Los Angeles, “where rejection and failure are the bread and butter of this gluten-free, nondairy town,” and in an industry that continually looked for a cheaper, younger version of her. But in working with Sheryl Sandberg as the co-writer on Lean In, she was reminded of a timeless lesson: doing something that is meaningful to oneself might also have an impact on others. Scovell’s memoir is wonderfully entertaining and ultimately uplifting.” — Publishers Weekly “Scovell minces few words when skewering the toxic atmosphere for female talent in Hollywood….Her fearlessness was clearly evidenced when the David Letterman sex scandal broke and the author made a controversial and risky career move by speaking out about a marked lack of gender diversity in the late-night TV arena….A breezy, affably written amalgam of memoir, advice, and workplace survival guide from the front lines of the entertainment industry.” — Kirkus Reviews “A smart, energetic, determined woman, someone who is always shooting for greater success and who really hates it when she fails at something. A revealing and timely portrait of a professional writer and the industry in which she works.” — Booklist “Get ready to laugh out loud as writer, producer, and director Nell Scovell takes you behind the scenes of your favorite comedic shows, including The Simpsons, Murphy Brown, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and more in her hilarious and heartfelt memoir about making it in the male-dominated world of entertainment. Sharp and insightful, Just the Funny Parts is an wild romp through the world of TV that is as entertaining as it is inspiring.” — Bustle “An honest and demystifying glimpse into the world of men (and some women) behind the comedy curtain. Like Liz Lemon, Scovell is a wry and relatively grounded observer of the soaring self-regard and bottomless neediness that characterizes the professionally funny.” — Slate “Scovell’s laugh-out-loud account of her struggles in the male-dominated world of TV is a worthy read. […] Scovell’s compelling story of her life, leavened with much good humor, lets readers know the Hollywood world judged her often as a “woman writer” when she was seeking to be known as a writer, yet she never gives up. For all readers interested in Hollywood and how it works.” — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Womens Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Book SynopsisAlphabetically arranged entries offer a feminist perspective on mythology, anthropology, sexuality, and religion and trace major figures, myths, concepts, and symbols back to their pre-patriarchal origins.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fasten Your Seat Belts
Book SynopsisThe illuminating, comprehensive biography of Bette Davis, one of the most electrifying Hollywood stars ever to grace the silver screen.With a career spanning six decades and more than eighty films, Bette Davis is synonymous with Hollywood legend.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rebel Girl
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rural Diaries
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller The beloved actress and star of One Tree Hill, White Collar, and Lethal Weapon, Hilarie Burton Morgan, tells the story of leaving Hollywood for a radically different kind of life in upstate New York with her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan—a celebration of community, family, and the value of hard work in small town America.While Hilarie Burton Morgan''s hectic lifestyle as an actress in New York and Los Angeles gave her a comfortable life, it did not fulfill her spiritually or emotionally. After the birth of their first son, she and her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the star of The Walking Dead, decided to make a major change: they bought a working farm in Rhinebeck, New York, and began a new chapter in their lives.The Rural Diaries chronicles her inspiring story of farm life: chopping wood, making dandelion wine, building chicken coops. Burton looks back at her transition from urban to country living—discovering how to manage a farm while raising her son and making friends with her new neighbors. She mixes charming stories of learning to raise alpacas and buying and revitalizing the town’s beloved candy store, Samuel’s Sweet Shop, with raw observations on the ups and downs of marriage and her struggles with secondary infertility. Burton also includes delicious recipes that can be made with fresh ingredients at home, as well as home renovation and gardening tips.Burton’s charisma, wide eyed attitude, and fortitude—both internal and physical—propels this moving story of transformation and self-discovery. The Rural Diaries honors the values and lifestyle of small-town America and offers inspiration for anyone longing to embark on their own unconventional journey.
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HarperCollins Just Kids Illustrated Edition
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HarperCollins Persephone Rising Awakening the Heroine Within
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Girl with the SelfEsteem Issues La Latina Con
Book SynopsisCada vez que una mujer se atreve a contar su verdadera historia y a mostrar en carne viva sus heridas permite que otras cicatricen las suyas. Estoy segura de que este libro sanará muchas heridas. Y que las vidas de muchas tendrán un final feliz tras leerlo. ¡Gracias, Rosie! — Luz María Doria, autora de La mujer de mis sueños y Tu momento estelarLa vida de Rosie Mercado ha sido todo menos fácil: ¿cómo es posible que haya tenido tres relaciones fallidas y dado a luz a tres hijos a solas? ¿Qué había hecho ella para merecerlo? En su peor momento, llegó a pesar más de ciento ochenta kilos tras toda una vida con baja autoestima y de comer emocionalmente. Pero Rosie decidió cambiarla por completo y dejar de ser la víctima. Ideó un plan, aceptó sus defectos, y descubrió el tipo de amor más importante y esencial: el amor propio.Estas revelaciones no sólo la llevaron a alcanzar sus sueños como maquillista, empresaria, modelo de talla grande y presentadora de televisión, sino a mejorar su calidad de vida por ella y sus hijos. La latina con baja autoestima son las inspiradoras memorias de una mexicoamericana de talla grande que se dejó finalmente guiar por su intuición, fe y ambición. Rosie nos cuenta los jugosos detalles de cómo llegó a convertirse en la superestrella y life coach que es hoy, regalándonos importantes y poderosos consejos de vida en el camino.ROSIE MERCADO es modelo mexicoamericana y una de Las 25 mujeres más poderosas del 2019 de People en Español. Además de haber participado como copresentadora del programa Face The Truth, producido por el célebre Dr. Phil, es una life coach cuyo propósito es inspirar, motivar y abogar por el amor propio y la aceptación corporal tras sus propias vivencias como empresaria y modelo de talla grande. Rosie ha abierto camino a las latinas de talla grande en la televisión hispana como presentadora ocasional para Telemundo y Univisión. Vive en Los Ángeles con su esposo y sus cuatro hermosos hijos.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Essential Labor
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Angela Garbes has given us the definitive explanation for something we all share: the sense that something is not right about our society’s treatment of parenting. Essential Labor is a beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and courageously personal book. Garbes reveals the way systems exploit caregiving and shows us how the essential work of mothering can fix not just family life, but society. A timely and unforgettable book.”—Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of UsFrom the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers—and the lack of a social safety net to support them—writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family''s complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context—the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. Garbes contends that while the labor of raising children is devalued in America, the act of mothering offers the radical potential to create a more equitable society. In Essential Labor, Garbes reframes the physically and mentally draining work of meeting a child''s bodily and emotional needs as opportunities to find meaning, to nurture a deeper sense of self, pleasure, and belonging. This is highly skilled labor, work that impacts society at its most foundational level.Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative, Essential Labor is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everything I Know about Love
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ordinary Girls Muchachas Ordinarias Spanish
Book SynopsisPara las muchachas que fuimos, para la muchacha que fui, para las muchachas de todo el mundo que son como nosotras solíamos ser. Para las muchachas que nunca se vieron reflejadas en los libros. Para las muchachas ordinarias.Jaquira Díaz siempre se encontró entre extremos en lugares permeados por la violencia. A pesar de añorar tener una familia unida y un hogar seguro, éstos eran difíciles de conseguir viviendo bajo los niveles de pobreza en el caserío Padre Rivera en Puerto Rico y en Miami Beach, sobre todo tras el diagnóstico de esquizofrenia de su madre y la subsiguiente ruptura familiar. El amor y apoyo de sus panas la mantuvieron a flote al encontrarse ante otra disyuntiva: su identidad y orgullo como puertorriqueña no dejaba cabida para su nueva identidad sexual.Cada página de Muchachas ordinarias brilla por su lirismo, crudeza y sensibilidad. Desde su lucha contra la depresión y el tortuoso camino que debió recorrer como sobreviviente de agresión sexual, pasando por el estado colonial actual de Puerto Rico, Díaz narra sus vivencias con increíble lucidez y brutal honestidad, trazando la ruta que la alejó de la desesperanza y la llevó hacia el amor y el deseo de convertirse en la muchacha que siempre quiso ser.Jaquira Díaz nació en Puerto Rico y se crió en Miami Beach. Su obra ha sido publicada en Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The New York Times Style Magazine e incluida en la antología The Best American Essays 2016, entre otros. Ha sido galardonada con el Whiting Award, la medalla de oro del Florida Book Awards y ha sido finalista de los Lambda Literary Awards. Divide su tiempo entre Montreal y Miami con su espose, le escritore Lars Horn.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Off with Her Head
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt, honest, and refreshing? Would she have won the election?Imagine Hillary Clinton as a man. Howard Clinton says and does the exact same things as Hillary. Would Howard Clinton have been portrayed in a thousand Pinterest images as a witch, stirring a cauldron or riding a broomstick? Would he have been called a bitch on countless T-shirts? Would his thoughtful, circumspect answers to media questions have been seen as inauthenticity, secretiveness, and untrustworthiness?There is a particular kind of rage—let’s call it unadulterated bloodlust—usually reserved for women, especially women in power or vying for it. From the ancient world, through the European Renaissance, up to the most recent U.S. elections, the Misogynist’s Handbook, as Eleanor Herman calls it, has been wielded to put uppity women in their place.In a story that is shocking, eye-opening, and a powerful force for change, Eleanor Herman’s signature wit and humor explores the patterns that have been operating for more than three thousand years—and are still operating today—against powerful women across the globe, including Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and more.Each chapter analyzes a tried-and-true misogynistic method to keep women down, including: Her Overweening Ambition, Why Doesn’t She Do Something About Her Hair?, The Dangers of Female Hormones, The Alarming Shrillness of Her Voice, The Mysterious Unlikability of Female Candidates, She’s a Bitch and Other Animals, She’s a Witch and Other Monsters, and Her Sexual Depravity. Herman ends the book by looking forward, examining ways to rip up the Misogynist’s Handbook once and for all.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc America the Beautiful
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year —NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&NAmerica the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could''ve tagged along in the back seat. — Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You. and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.The author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men examines Americans’ obsession with freedom, travel, and the open road in this funny, entertaining travelogue that blends the humorous observations of Bill Bryson with the piercing cultural commentary of Jia Tolentino.For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before you to
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set
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HarperCollins Without Consent
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc All in Her Head
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HarperCollins Normal Women
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc ADHD for Smart Ass Women
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery. ADHD is one of the most common neurological disorders in the United States?yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gender gap in medical research, which does not account for symptoms manifesting differently in women?leading to increased problems with anxiety, depression, working memory, sleep, energy, and concentration?many ADHD women are left to navigate a society that fails to understand their struggles and gifts. But what if every woman had the resources and support to uncover the hidden wonders of her neurodivergent brain?Enter certified ADHD coach and podcast host Tracy Otsuka. Armed with her experience coaching thousands of women, cutting-edge medical research, and personal insights from her own diagnosis, she presents a revelatory guide tailored specifically for girls and women with ADHD. In it, Otsuka offers an entirely new set of tools, systems, and strategies to access a world of boundless productivity, focus, and confidence.With her signature wit and levity?in entertaining chapters designed for ADHD readers?Otsuka explores the unique challenges that ADHD women face and illuminates the extraordinary qualities that set them apart: overflowing creativity, laser-focused attention, deep empathy, and fearless entrepreneurial spirit. Even without an official diagnosis, readers will be equipped with the tools to conquer any to-do list and to tap into their true purpose, personally or professionally.By dismantling the long-standing stereotypes and misinformation surrounding women with ADHD, Otsuka offers a beacon of hope for any woman looking to transform her symptoms into strengths. Comprehensive, lively, and long overdue, ADHD for Smart Ass Women is the key to unlocking unparalleled potential and to understanding your truly magnificent and brilliant brain. Are you ready to discover your superpower?
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Good Daughtering
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Penguin Publishing Group Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality Penguin Classics S
Book SynopsisBiographies, poetic compositions, works that are mystical, prophetic, visionary, or meditative: the selections here reflect the developments in medieval piety, particularly in the link between female spirituality and the body. Included are the dramatic visionary writings of Hildegard of Bingen; letters and poems by Hadewijch expressing passionate love for God; and Marguerite Porete's allegorical poem The Mirror of Simple Souls, a dialogue between Love and Soul that was condemned as heretical. Also included are biographies written by male ecclesiastics of women such as Christine the Astonishing, whose extraordinary behavior included being resurrected at her own funeral; revelations received by Bridget of Sweden, the first woman to found a religious order; and excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe, in which Margery imagines herself as a servant caring for the Virgin Mary in her childhood.This volume, edited by Elizabeth Spearing, who also prepared some of the translTable of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Elizabeth SpearingIntroduction by Elizabeth SpearingSuggestions for Further ReadingAcknowledgments and a Note on the TextsAbbreviationsHildegard of BingenExtracts from the Vita (translated by Peter Dronke)Extracts from a Letter to Guibert de Gembloux (translated by Peter Dronke)Extracts from Scivias (translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop)Christina of MarkyateExtracts from The Life of Christina of Markyate (translated by C.H. Talbot)HadewijchExtracts from the Letters (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Extracts from the Poems in Stanzas (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Extracts from the Visions (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Christine the AstonishingThe Life of St. Christine the Astonishing (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Mary of OigniesExtracts from The Life of St. Mary of Oignies (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Elizabeth of SpaalbeekThe Life of St. Elizabeth of Spaalbeek (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Marguerite PoreteExtracts from The Mirror of Simple Souls (translated by A.C. Spearing)Bridget of SwedenExtracts from the Liber Celestis (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Julian of NorwichExtracts from Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text) (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Extracts from Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text) (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)AnonymousA Revelation of Purgatory (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Margery KempeExtracts from the The Book of Margery Kempe (Book I) (translated by B.A. Windeatt)Notes
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Penguin Publishing Group Coffee Tea or Me The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses
Book SynopsisRemember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from the captain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to the passenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upper berth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve (and some surprising notables on the bad guy list) to the origins of some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards are the best lovers, actors the most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-age journal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes from the high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty, adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as stews.Trade Review"The kind of book that's a nuisance to own. Everyone wants to borrow it." (Look)
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Penguin Putnam Inc Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Puffin
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C.A. Press Find Your Inner Red Shoes
Book SynopsisARE YOU STRUGGLING TO ADVANCE IN YOUR CAREER?HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? In Find Your Inner Red Shoes, bestselling author, motivational speaker and founder of the Red Shoe Movement, Mariela Dabbah teaches us that personal and professional success is a journey and not a destination point. In fact, it’s only by discovering ourselves and what gives us greatest satisfaction that we can defne what success means for each one ofus. Based on Dabbah’s own life and thorough research, as well as the careers of dozens of other successful women, this book will help you fulfll your goals whatever you decide those to be.Chapter by chapter you’ll identify your strengths as well as the areas in which you might need to make adjustments to advance in the professional world. Dabbah will also show you how to break free from any childhood fears or family pressures that may be holding you back. Only when you recognize who you are can you then tap into yo
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Penguin Publishing Group Seductress Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love By Prioleau Elizabeth October 2004
Trade ReviewPrioleau is almost incapable of writing a dreary sentence... Delightful philosophy and wickedly wonderful advice. (USA Today)Prioleau has gathered together historyÆs sexiest vixens and given them a delicious voice. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiPreface x1. Seductress: The Women and the Art 12. The Seductress Archetype 253. Belles Laides: Homely Sirens 494. Silver Foxes 835. Scholar-Sirens 1196. Sorcières: Siren-Artists 1557. Machtweiber: Seductresses in Politics 1958. Siren-Adventurers 2339. Goddess-Trippin’: Into the Future 277Notes 294Suggested Reading 353Index 355
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Penguin Putnam Inc In Order to Live
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Penguin Random House LLC Joan of Arc
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Penguin Publishing Group Julia Child A Life Penguin Lives
Book SynopsisAuthor of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation’s culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child’s unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole, Shapiro’s Julia Child personifies her own most famous lesson: that learning how to cook means learning how to live.
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Penguin Publishing Group Juliette Gordon Low
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Faraway Nearby
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Oxford University Press Integrative Womens Health Revised Weil Integrative Medicine Library
Book SynopsisIntegrative Women''s Health remains the only in-depth, broad-based reference on integrative women''s health written for health professionals. It helps providers address not only women''s reproductive health, but also conditions that manifest differently in women than in men, including cardiovascular disease, arthritis, HIV, depression, and cancer. The text presents the best evidence, in a clinically relevant manner, for the safe and effective use of herbs, vitamins, diet, and mind-body strategies alongside conventional medical treatments. As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, going beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing. In managing the patient, alternative therapies are never seen as substitutes for mainstream medical care, but always integrated into the overall regimen, and always subjected to the best available evidence. New to this second edition are chapters on environmental medicine and women''s reproduction, thyroid health, and lesbian health.Trade ReviewFeatured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018The book is a beautiful synopsis of the medical options available to treat women's body/mind/spirit at all stages of life while incorporating the most current evidence in medicine. . . It is one of the most comprehensive and nonjudgmental collections of medical information that I've seen to date. * Barbara J. Gosse, MSOM (Northwestern Health Sciences University), Doody's Notes *Table of ContentsI. Lifestyle ; 1. Integrative Approach to Women's Health ; 2. Nutrition ; 3. Dietary Supplements ; 4. Physical Activity ; 5. Mind-Body Therapies ; 6. Healthy Aging ; II. Systems and Modalities ; 7. Traditional Chinese Medicine ; 8. Ayurveda ; 9. Energy Medicine ; 10. Homeopathy ; 11. Manual Medicine ; III. Reproductive Health ; 12. Premenstrual Syndrome ; 13. Vaginitis ; 14. Preconception Counseling and Fertility ; 15. Pregnancy and Lactation ; 16. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome ; 17. Endometriosis ; 18. Chronic Pelvic Pain ; 19. Menopause ; 20. Prevention of Cervical Dysplasia and Cancer ; 21. Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment ; IV. Common Conditions in Women ; 22. Hypothyroidism ; 23. Anxiety ; 24. Depression ; 25. Urinary Tract Infections ; 26. Irritable Bowel Syndrome ; 27. Headaches ; 28. Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue ; 29. Rheumatoid Arthritis ; 30. Eating Disorders ; 31. Cardiovascular Diseases in Women ; 32. Osteoporosis ; V. Special Topics in Women's Health ; 33. Sexuality ; 34. Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health ; 35. Environmental Exposures and Women's Health ; 36. Women, Soul Wounds and Integrative Medicine ; 37. Women's Health: Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Hidden Lives Public Personae Women and Civic Life in the Roman West
Book SynopsisRoman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban society in the Roman Principate. Drawing on epigraphy and archaeology, and to a lesser extent on legal and literary texts, women''s civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses and patronesses or ''mothers'' of cities and associations (collegia and the Augustales) are brought to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which was dominated by the imperial family, wealthy women in the local Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity to leave their mark on the city. Their motives to spend their money, time and energy for the benefit of their cities and the rewards their contributions earned them take centre stage. Assessing the meaning and significance of their contributions for themselves and their families and for the cities that enjoyed them, the book presents a new and detailed view of the role of women and gender in Roman urban life.Trade ReviewAnyone engaged in research on the civic lives of women in the Roman West must consult this book, for it is the most comprehensive examination in this field of study and corrects certain misguided views on Roman women based mainly on literary sources. * Rachel Meyers (Iowa State University), T he Journal of Roman Studies Vol.107 *Hemelrijks study helps to redefine both our notions of the roles of Roman women in their local communities and our perceptions of gender at work in the economic and political environments of Roman cities. This is a must read for classicists working on gender in the Roman empire, and especially for teachers of courses on women and gender in the Roman world. * Elizabeth F.Mazurek (University of Notre Dame), Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada. *Table of ContentsContents ; Preface ; A Note on Translations ; Abbreviations ; Maps ; Introduction ; 1. A World Full of Cities ; 2. Civic Priesthoods ; 3. Civic Benefactresses ; 4. Social Networks and Civic Associations ; 5. Civic Patronage and 'Motherhood' of Cities and Associations ; 6. Public Honour ; Conclusions ; Appendix: Tables to Chapters 2-6
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Oxford University Press Disorientation and Moral Life
Book SynopsisThis book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action. Disorientations are human experiences of losing one''s bearings, such that life is disrupted and it is not clear how to go on. In the face of life experiences like trauma, grief, illness, migration, education, queer identification, and consciousness raising, individuals can be deeply disoriented. These and other disorientations are not rare. Although disorientations can be common and powerful parts of individuals'' lives, they remain uncharacterized by Western philosophers, and overlooked by ethicists.Disorientations can paralyze, overwhelm, embitter, and misdirect moral agents, and moral philosophy and motivational psychology have important insights to offer into why this is. More perplexing are the ways disorientations may prompt improved moral action.Ami Harbin draws on first person accounts, philosophical texts, and qualitative and quantitative research to show that in some cases of disorienTrade ReviewBy setting out to find moral fruit growing in the disorderly cracks of unsettling phenomena, Harbin contributes to the growing and vital field of non-ideal theory in ethics. There's great and urgent value in her argument against treating practical disorientation as an abject defect... For insisting that we pay close attention to those who wrestle viscerally with problems of how to go on, Harbin's book is a vital intervention in moral philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Ami Harbin's first book, Disorientation and Moral Life, is a much-welcomed contribution to the field of feminist philosophy. Drawing on a rich tradition of thought in moral psychology, philosophy and feminist theory, as well as on first-person accounts of the disorientations of migration, trauma, queerness, illness and feminist and anti-racist consciousness-raising, Harbin provides readers with a compelling and conceptually astute reading of the moral significance of disorientations. * Hypatia *The book demands that we attend to a feature of ordinary human lives curiously neglected by moral theory. Most of us will eventually find ourselves in a situation that staggers our normal expectations: a serious illness, the end of a career, the realization that we are the target of oppression. Harbin asks us to think carefully about these situations, and especially to see how they might be harnessed to contribute positively to our moral choices...Disorientation is a part of many human lives, and in highlighting its capacity to foster moral improvement, Harbin has done a good thing for both ethical theory and the pursuit of social justice. * Regina Rini, Hypatia Reviews Online *Exciting, challenging, and innovative thinking is found in recent feminist and critical race theory, and Ami Harbin's new book, Disorientation and Moral Life is an example ... this book is enlightening and would be a good textbook in both philosophy and psychology courses. Clearly, it makes an invaluable contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy and psychology. * Nancy Nyquist Potter, Metapsychology Online Reviews *Table of ContentsTable of contents Preface: Life Beyond What One Has Concepts For Acknowledgments Chapter One: Being Disoriented 1.1 Contextualizing the concept 1.2 Disorientation and family resemblance 1.3 Methodologies for interpreting disorientations and their effects 1.3 (i) Claims about what disorientations are 1.3 (ii) Claims about what disorientations do 1.3 (iii) Implications of this account for moral motivation and agency 1.3 (iv) Implications of this account for understandings of oppression 1.4 Conclusion Chapter Two: Moral Motivation beyond Moral Resolve 2.1 Identifying moral resolve 2.2 Legacies of resolvism 2.2 (i) Resolvism in accounts of moral development 2.2 (ii) Resolvism in accounts of moral judgment 2.2 (iii) Resolvism in accounts of moral failure 2.2 (iv) Resolvism in accounts of moral growth 2.3 The disorientations of grief 2.4 Contesting resolvism Chapter Three: What is Disorientation in Thinking? 3.1 Disorientations of life under racism 3.1 (i) Double consciousness and awareness of oppressive norms 3.1 (ii) White ambush and awareness of oppressive norms 3.2 Disorientations of learning about oppression and privilege 3.2 (i) Consciousness raising and awareness of political complexity 3.2 (ii) Critical classrooms and awareness of political complexity 3.3 The power of awareness without moral resolve 3.3 (i) Prompting epistemic humility 3.3 (ii) Prompting resistant re-identification 3.3 (iii) Prompting different relations to felt power 3.4 Conclusion Chapter Four: Tenderizing Effects and Acting Despite Ourselves 4.1 Disorientations of interruption 4.1 (i) Illness, sensing vulnerability, and living unprepared 4.1 (ii) Trauma and living unprepared 4.2 Disorientations of ill fit 4.2 (i) Queerness and in-this-togetherness 4.2 (ii) Migration and living against the grain 4.3 The power of tenderizing effects 4.4 Conclusion Chapter Five: Injustice and Irresoluteness 5.1 Resolute and irresolute action against injustice 5.2 Both/and actions, heterosexism, and mass incarceration 5.3 Doubling back actions, implicit bias, and colonialism 5.4 Building without blueprints and post-industrial poverty 5.5 Conclusion Chapter Six: Disorientation and Habitability 6.1 Dismissing disorientations 6.2 Responding to disoriented others 6.3 Responding to oneself as disorientable 6.4 Back to the rough waves References
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
Book SynopsisAs a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies. Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science. The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.Trade ReviewThe editors of Oxford University Press's Handbook of Gender and Politics have provided the field with an essential research and teaching gem. The tome is global, timely, thoughtful, theoretical, and thorough. We should tip our sun bonnets, hijabs, hats, helmets, and veils to these editors for the hard work aforethought, careful and sensitive planning for and accomplishment of an inclusive wisdom which went into this stellar Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics. * Asian Women *This text, from the first, takes an academically rigorous, socially aware and culturally enlightened approach to a rather ambiguous title, and in so doing, makes a significant contribution to the rapidly developing field, of not just political science as a discipline, but to every discipline, and, outside of academia, every person, to whom the issues discussed are relevant and therefore life affecting. * London School of Economics EUROPP blog *Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors ; Introduction: Gender and Politics: A Gendered World, a Gendered Discipline ; Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola, Georgina Waylen, and S. Laurel Weldon ; Part I Gender and Politics: Concepts and Methods ; Section Introduction ; 1 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: From Naturalized Presumption to Analytical Categories ; Mary Hawkesworth ; 2 Intersectionality ; Patricia Hill Collins and Valerie Chepp ; 3 Feminisms ; Rita Kaur Dhamoon ; 4 Power, Politics, Domination, and Oppression ; Moya Lloyd ; 5 Methods and Methodologies ; Brooke Ackerly and Jacqui True ; Part II Body Politics ; Section Introduction ; 6 The Body and Politics ; Diana Coole ; 7 Heteronormativity and Sexuality ; Amy Lind ; 8 Reproductive Rights ; Veronique Mottier ; 9 Gender Violence ; R. Amy Elman ; Part III Gendered Political Economy: Production and Reproduction ; Section Introduction ; 10 Gender and (International) Political Economy ; Shirin M. Rai ; 11 Households, Families, and Social Reproduction ; Shahra Razavi ; 12 Gender, Care, and Welfare ; Diane Sainsbury ; 13 Gender, Work, and the Sexual Division of Labor ; Lucy Ferguson ; Part IV Civil Society ; Section Introduction ; 14 Sex, Gender and Civil Society ; Dara Z. Strolovitch and Erica Townsend-Bell ; 15 Organizing Around Gender Identities ; Kelsy Kretschmer and David S. Meyer ; 16 The Comparative Study of Women's Movements ; Karen Beckwith ; 17 Feminist Organizing: What's Old, What's New? History, Trends, and Issues ; Christina Ewig and Myra Marx Ferree ; 18 Local-Global-Local: Women's Global Organizing ; Jutta Joachim ; Part V Participation and Representation ; Section Introduction ; 19 Political Representation ; Sarah Childs and Joni Lovenduski ; 20 Political Systems and Gender ; Aili Mari Tripp ; 21 Party Politics ; Miki Caul Kittilson ; 22 Electoral Institutions ; Mona Lena Krook and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer ; 23 Judicial Politics and the Courts ; Rachel Cichowski ; Part VI The State, Governance, and Policymaking ; Section Introduction ; 24 The State and Governance ; Louise Chappell ; 25 Gender, Institutions and Multilevel Governance ; Kate Bedford ; 26 Women's Policy Agencies and State Feminism ; Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur ; 27 Policy Making ; Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo ; 28 Policy Outputs ; Merike Blofield and Liesl Haas ; Part VII Nation, Citizenship and Identity ; Section Introduction ; 29 Equality and Universalism ; Judith Squires ; 30 Citizenship ; Birte Siim ; 31 Multiculturalism and Identity ; Baukje Prins and Sawitri Saharso ; 32 Gender, Nations, and Nationalisms ; Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert ; 33 Security, Conflict, and Militarization ; Lene Hansen ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Women at War
Book SynopsisIn the very first text of its kind, Women at War brings together all the available information and experience on Women''s health and mental health under one cover to enlighten the practitioners caring for them. 2.5 million US service members have deployed since September 11th, 2001 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; with over 300,000 of these soldiers being women. While the available information on the medical and mental health needs of women in deployment and combat is sparse and hard to find, this new volume brings together the literature that exists on female active duty service members and veterans.Women at War reviews topics such as epidemiology, deployment health, reproductive and genitourinary issues, mothering, sexuality, PTSD and other psychological effects of war, wounds and disability, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and suicide. It provides health care providers with insight that can help treat and prevent illness in the female military population by bringing together researchers, clinicians and service member experience and knowledge and presents the information in a practical, actionable format. It also highlights areas where data is lacking and more study is demanded.Trade ReviewFeatured in- Clinical Psychiatry NewsTable of ContentsForeward Contributors Introduction Section I: Background and Introduction Chapter 1 Comparative Morbidity and Mortality of Women Serving in the U.S. Military during a Decade of Warfare Chapter 2 Female Soldiers and PTSD Chapter 3 Women at War in Australia Section II: Women at War Chapter 4 Medical Issues for Women Warriors on Deployment Chapter 5 Reproductive Health Chapter 6 Issues in the Prevention of Malaria among Women at War Chapter 7: Women, Ships, Subs & the U.S. Navy Chapter 8: Female Combat Medics Section III: Women Home from War Chapter 9: Human Sexuality and Women in the Area of Operations Chapter 10: Women Home From War Chapter 11: Mothers in War Chapter 12: Building the Framework for Successful Deployment Reunions Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Women in the Military Section IV: Psychological Issues for Active Duty Women Chapter 14: Suicide-Related Ideation and Behaviors in Military Women Chapter 15: Intimate Partner Violence, Military Personnel, and Veterans Section V: The Female Veteran Experience Chapter 16: The Woman Veteran Experience Chapter 17: Mental health of women warriors: the power of belonging Chapter 18: The Veterans Health Administration Response to Military Sexual Trauma Chapter 19: Compensation, Pension, and other Benefits for Women Veterans with Disabilities
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Oxford University Press Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
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Oxford University Press Intimate Justice
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Oxford University Press How to Be Childless
Book SynopsisIn How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessness, putting this often-overlooked legacy in conversation with the issues that childless women and men face in the twenty-first century. Eschewing two dominant narratives, that the childless are either barren and alone, or that they are carefree and selfish, How to Be Childless instead argues that the lives of childless individuals from the past can help all of us expand our range of possibilities for the good life. In uncovering the voices and experiences of childless women from the past five hundred years, Chrastil demonstrates that the pathways to childlessness, so often simplified as choice and circumstance, are far more complex and interweaving. Balanced, deeply researched, and richly realized, How to be Childless will empower readers, parents, and childless alike, to navigate their lives with purpose.Trade ReviewThis masterful book will engage, fascinate, and challenge readers whether they are childful or childless. To understand childlessness, Chrastil takes the reader through a deeper underlying analysis of human flourishing. She uses this concept as the instrument for assessing the choice to have children, examining essential questions, such as what does it mean to live a good life and to be a good citizen? * Michael D. Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History, Vanderbilt University *How to Be Childless is wonderfully engaging and thoughtful. Chrastil takes on the most talked-about aspects of life without children, as well as the most profound issues, and offers something new and important each time. The book is an intellectual treat. * Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: How to Talk about Childlessness Chapter 1: Delay Chapter 2: Whispers Chapter 3: Interlude: The Baby Boom Chapter 4: Shouts Chapter 5: Flourishing Chapter 6: Regret Chapter 7: Home and Hearth Chapter 8: A Better World Chapter 9: Old and Alone Chapter 10: Legacy Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Women and Leadership
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Oxford University Press Womens Activism Feminism and Social Justice
Trade ReviewThe book moves us to rethink definitions of feminism and social justice. Feminism is not just a fight for gender equality. In societies, where forms of oppression are interlinked, a sole battle for gender equality is futile. The book raises critical questions that will motivate every feminist researcher, practitioner, educator, and activist to rethink and reconceptualize their own work through a feminist social justice lens. * Anindita Bhattacharya, Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Margaret A. McLaren's book Women's Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice is a valuable contribution to the discussion of transnational feminism...Readers who are interested in global justice, transnational feminism, and feminist theories and practices in India will find this book informative and thought-provoking." -- Radical Philosophy Review"...excellent...McLaren's book brings together many often-disconnected threads of philosophy: abstract and pragmatic, analytic and political, systemic and small scale, global and local... I found this book well-structured, -written, and -argued. McLaren's critiques of the shortcomings of existing models are very effective, and her conception of relational cosmopolitanism is very provocative, an important concept that is greatly needed in the debates over globalization, worthy of future research and debate. I used this book in a mixed under/graduate seminar in feminist theory last spring and they found the argument provocative and engaging, and the book enjoyable to read. Highly recommended. * American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy *The book moves us to rethink definitions of feminism and social justice. Feminism is not just a fight for gender equality. In societies, where forms of oppression are interlinked, a sole battle for gender equality is futile. The book raises critical questions that will motivate every feminist researcher, practitioner, educator, and activist to rethink and reconceptualize their own work through a feminist social justice lens. * Anindita Bhattacharya, University of Washington-Tacoma, Journal of Women and Social Work *Margaret A. McLaren's monograph is a fabulous addition to the growing body of work in Oxford's Studies in Feminist Philosophy ... I highly recommend this book as a supplemental text for undergraduate classes in social philosophy, women's and gender studies, economics, and other social sciences. It is also accessible for a general audience, for organizers and policy analysts, as well as graduate students and experts in the field. It provides a rich overview of pressing political and economic global issues by using two outstanding case studies from India. * Mechthild Nagel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *This rich and important book offers nothing less than a new philosophical approach to justice and injustice. Against a trenchant critique of rights based accounts of justice, liberal and neoliberal theories of economic justice, and ideas of justice based in a transnational cosmopolitanism, McLaren develops a social justice feminism that makes a feminist transnational solidarity possible. Recognizing the need for both a critique of structural inequity or systems of power and attention to social location, she shows that cultural difference is not an impediment to transnational justice, but a resource and a basis for solidarity. Valorizing interdependence, intersectionality, and imagination over individuality, identity, and interest, McLaren maps a better way of thinking about justice, as well as concrete norms for action and collaboration. * Mary C. Rawlinson, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Stony Brook University *In this timely book, Margaret McLaren deftly weaves the threads of scholarship and activism together into a rich tapestry informed by over a decade of work with SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) and MarketPlace India. The theoretical centerpiece of the book -- a feminist social justice framework -- explores the complexity of gender oppression in ways both lucid and incisive. Her multi-layered approach to transnational feminism is ambitiously designed to address oppression and injustice as they function on individual, institutional, and structural levels and the possibilities of empowerment of an ethical, social, and political nature... This is important reading for feminist scholars of many disciplinary stripes. * Sarah Clark Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University *Women's Activism, Feminism and Social Justice theorizes global feminism(s) as intersectional and interdependent by engaging with both Western and Indian feminists. It argues for a responsive and responsible framework of feminist agency that addresses socio-economic oppression in culturally specific contexts. McLaren's pioneering explorations on decolonizing feminism promise to inform and enrich endeavors of transnational solidarities integrating theory and activism. * Kanchana Mahadevan, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai *
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Oxford University Press Disorderly Conduct
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the sweeping changes in male-female relations, in family structure, sex, and social custom that took place in 19th-century America as its colonial world was supplanted by the rapidly-evolving industrial society.Trade Review"This eagerly awaited book is sure to become a classic...It's the most comprehensive, elegant, and persuasive account to date of the relationships between gender, class, and culture in nineteenth-century America."--Elaine Showalter, Princeton University "These essays are among the most carefully informed, well-balanced, and informative sources available to readers interested in women's history."--Bram Dijkstra, Los Angeles Times "A vital historical backdrop for students."--Gertrude Fraser, Cornell University "Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is unquestionably the most quoted and cited feminist historian in America today. It is a boon to all serious scholars that her works now appear in one major, accessible volume."--Susan Brownmiller "A splendid book...A provocative collection of essays...Few historians have used the streams of myth and history so productively."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times Book Review "Carroll Smith-Rosenberg has left an enduring mark on women's history...She ranks among the most exciting, original voices of the consciously feminist historians."--The Women's Review of Books "One of those rare books that sets off explosion after explosion in a reader's mind; connection after connection leaps into consciousness from Smith-Rosenberg's richly suggestive tapestry."--Signs "An excellent, challenging book for upper division students."--April Bullock, Santa Clara University
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Oxford University Press The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
Book SynopsisBorn into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the anti-slavery movement, her eighteen months teaching the contraband slaves of the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War, and her later work as poet and essayist. Thanks to her keen observation amd meticulous accounts of the people and events that shaped her life, her journals provide a unique and personal view of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.Trade ReviewCharlotte Grimke 1837-1914 was such a keen observer and meticulous recorder of the events of her day, her journal survives as an important chronicle of one woman's struggles and accomplishments during this most important era in U.S. history. * Brenda Stevenson, in her Introduction *
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Oxford University Press A Voice from the South
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays (1891) is an unparalleled statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts of the black feminist movement. Cooper came of age in a period of conservatism in the black community, a time when Afro-American intellectual and political ideas were dominated by men. At the heart of her work is a belief that the status of black women, the most oppressed group of all, is the only true measure of collective racial progress.Trade ReviewAn excellent book....Highly complex but not complicated. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *So glad to have this important text available for my course. * Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College *A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters. * Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska *
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Oxford University Press Inc Six Womens Slave Narratives
Book SynopsisThe History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a ninety-seven-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A. Delaney''s From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave''s achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton also describe their successes in the post-war North while eulogizing black motherhood in the ante-bellum South.Trade Review"Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs."--Roma Johnson, Tufts University "Excellent."--Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name) "Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs."--Roma Johnson, Tufts University "Excellent."--Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name)
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Oxford University Press Desire and Domestic Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignoring the political domain over which women hold authority, which includes courtship practices, family relations, and the use of leisure time. To remedy this, Armstrong provides a dual analysis, tracing both the rise of the novel and the evolution of female authority as part of one phenomenon.Trade Review`The provocative thesis Armstrong....develops challenges traditional descriptions of the rise of the novel...The result is a genuine contribution to the growing shelf of feminist criticism.' Choice `Armstrong offers a complicated scholarly feminist view of literary history just when you thought this burgeoning academic industry was running out of steam.' Library Journal
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Oxford University Press A Voice from the South
Book SynopsisConsidered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper criticizes black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny women access to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the white women''s movement. Passionately committed to women''s independence, Cooper espoused higher education as the essential key to ending women''s physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men.Trade ReviewAn excellent book....Highly complex but not complicated. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published.Robert Carr, George Mason University *A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *So glad to have this important text available for my course. * Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College *A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters. * Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska *
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Oxford University Press Discovering Eve
Book SynopsisThe biblical image of Eve has powerfully influenced ideas about women for the past two millennia. Yet, as Carol Meyers argues in Discovering Eve, the image of the first of women as subservient and dependent does not represent some irreducible historical truth. Rather, it represents the androcentric constructions of a group of urban elite males (including, most notably, the Apostle Paul and Rabbi Yohannan) who had a decisive effect on the founding of Judaeo-Christian traditions. Meyers produces convincing evidence, archaeological, scriptural, and sociological, that ancient Israelite woman fulfilled a role very different from that of the biblical Eve. The real Eve, she demonstrates, was a figure of some social substance, a strong and important figure in the social and familial milieux.Trade Review'The author has made a special effort to avoid technicaljargon; thus, this book should be accessible to the general reader. Though it will be of special interest to those concerned with biblical history, archaeology, anthropolgy and women's studies, this book will also hold special appeal to women, men, and their relationshiop to one another. Time Outlook
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Oxford University Press Female Quixotism Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon Early American Women Writers
Trade Review"Splendid edition."--D. Van Leer, University of California, Davis "Very useful to have this text available and so intelligently edited."--E.N. Feltskog, University of Wisconsin "This series is quickly becoming indispensable to teachers and scholars of earlier American literature. Female Quixotism is not only a worthy book in its own right, but a marvelous tool for debunking commonly held assumptions about the limits of women's voices and literary visions in the eighteenth-and early nineteenth centuries. This book is a multi-layered treasure!"--Liahna Babener, Montana State Univ. "It is good to see an edition of this significant text in print. I intend to use it in both undergraduate and graduate courses this Fall semester."--John Samson, Texas Tech University "Invaluable for getting early American literature into focus."--Paul Kane, Vasser College "The book has merit as an intriguing early example of American comic writers dealing with sentimentality in a realistic world. Students of American humor will wish to read this book and its brief but informative introduction."--To Wit, James Madison University "A wonderful book . . . can be used well in a variety of English courses."--Dr. Marion Perry, Erie Community College-South "I used this last year in my early American lit. course and I will use it again next quarter. The students loved it. It really works well in dialogue with Franklin and Brown, as well as other women novelists from this era. I'm glad this text is available."--David W. Newton, West Georgia College
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Oxford University Press Inc Divided Houses
Book SynopsisHistorians Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber have edited a collection of essays that deal with the question of women and the Civil War, as well as relat4ed problems. Divided Houses demonstrates that the abolitionist movement was strongly allied with ninetheenth-century feminism, and shows how the ensuring debates over sectionalism and, eventually, secession, were often couched in terms of gender.Through the course of the book many fascinating subjects are explored, such as the new manly responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers; the effect of war on Southern women''s daily actions on the homefront; the essential part Northern women played as nurses and spies; the war''s impact on marriage and divorce; women''s roles in the guerilla fighting; even the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. There is also a rare look at how gender affected the experience of freedom for African-American children. In addition, there is an interoduction by Pulitzer Prize winninTrade Review"Excellent--exactly what I was looking for."--Gretchen Green, Rockhurst College "Offers a broader, more diverse view of the Civil War than previous volumes."--The Journal of Mississippi History "Excellent collection--more of the same needs to be published!"--Mort Stewart, Western Washington University "The essays make us think, provoke us to question. In a class of neo-Confederate Virginians, what better book to use! I love it."--John Herbert Roper, Emory and Hery College "Excellent"--K. M. Startup, Williams Baptist College "An excellent example of social history and its many possibilities. A major void in Civil War history has now been admirably filled."--William R. Wantland, Northwest Nazarene College "[A] highly original and pathbreaking collection of essays...[T]he essays are especially valuable because they treat the experiences of ordinary people--black and white, male and female--in both North and South...The editors' introduction and epilog and an extensive bibliography make this an especially useful source for scholars and teachers."--Library Journal "Finally the study of gender is out of the Civil War closet. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber have collected the latest and best historical essays of the emerging scholarship on the social history of the Civil War. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War ranges from issues of masculinity and femininity to the effect of war on African-American children. This is a thoroughly useful, entirely readable, historically notable volume stitched together by the perceptive commentary of the author-editors."--Jean H. Baker, Goucher College "Wonderful to have information both men and women, black and white, north and south, masculinity and feminity, individuals and households--all in one place."--Marilyn Dell, Virginia Wesleyan College "Divided Houses should be required reading for all interested in how gender influences historical events, not just for students of the Civil War...[It] proves that exhaustively-mined evidence can still yield new insights when carefully considered."--Wanda Ellen Wakefield, Southern Historian "An excellent job."--American Academic Review "Divided Houses should be required reading for all interested in how gender influences historical events, not just for students of the Civil War. Proves that exhaustively-mined evidence can still yield new insights when carefully considered."--Wanda Ellen Wakefield, SUNY-Buffalo
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