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Moody Publishers Lies Women Believe
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Moody Publishers No Greater Love
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Moody Press,U.S. Jewel In His Crown A
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Moody Publishers Discerning the Voice of God
Book Synopsis OVER350,000 COPIES SOLD! Do you feel that the ability to hear God''s voice is for other people and not for you? Is it only for people who lived in Biblical times? Not at all! The God who loved you enough to die for you loves you enough to talk to you. And wherever you are in your spiritual walk, God will find a way to speak to you in a way you will understand. Become acquainted with the Voice that has spoken from a fire and a cloud, with visible signs and an invisible Spirit, through a burning bush and burning hearts. Hear from some of the most well known Christians in history about how God speaks to them, and discover for yourself how you can discern the voice of God. One of Priscilla?s bestselling titles, Discerning the Voice of God is now completely revised with updated content and reflection questions. Each section contains insights that will aid you in your desire to hear Him speak. Discover the treasure of recognizing how God keeps in touch with his beloved people.
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co An Odd Cross to Bear
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Remembering Antnia Teixeira
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University of Nebraska Press To Hell and Back The Life of Samira Bellil
Book SynopsisRelates Bellil's struggle to recover from gang rape, to create a new culture of support and compassion, and to offer hope to others who suffer in silence.Trade Review"Although Bellil died of cancer at 31 in 2004, her memoir has brought widespread attention to the increasing sexual violence within these French communities, and her words give a voice to other young women who are silently suffering abuse."—Leah Strauss, BooklistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Jaïd and K. 2. Alone 3. K. 4. "Cellar Sluts" 5. Two Families 6. The Charge 7. Mathieu 8. Runaways 9. The Grind 10. Shelter 11. Algeria 12. I remember . . . 13. Confrontation 14. That Damn Bag! 15. Swirling 16. Saint-Denis 17. My "Trial" . . . 18. The Fight 19. Grilled 20. Insaf, Barry . . . 21. Therapy 22. Let's . . . Drop It 23. "First, I Want to Thank the Honorable Judge . . ." Epilogue: My Book Postface to the First Edition Postface to the Second Edition
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University of Nebraska Press Louise Pound
Book SynopsisLouise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association. Readers of varied interests will find her story compelling.Trade Review"This well-written biography details all aspects of Pound's life as scholar, athlete, and advocate for women's sports."—J. C. Tucker, CHOICE"Cochran's straightforward biography is a pleasure to read."—William M. Clements, Journal of Folklore Research"Cochran's well-researched and well-written book places Louise Pound securely in her time and place and reveals much about the plight of women in higher education in a not-so-distant past. . . . It is an invaluable work on the history of women in the professions in the early twentieth century."—Shirley Anne Leckie, Journal of American History"Robert Cochran serves his subject well in this biography of Louise Pound."—Catriona Parratt, Annals of IowaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. "I have always been satisfied with Nebraska"2. "The iridescent glamor of life beginning"3. "A genuine Nebraska cyclone"4. "She's an athlete; she's a scholar"5. "Incapable of orderly thought"6. "There is always zest"7. "First woman again" NotesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Observations on the Real Rights of Women and
Book SynopsisFollowing in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primarily to persuade. Unlike those forebears, however, she did not begin her career as a published writer until well into middle age. The works collected here include previously unpublished poetry, drama, memoirs, sermons, and essays on American identity, education, and history.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextPart 1. Finding a Voice, 18121814Fast SermonThanksgiving SermonAn Humble Address to the Reason and Wisdom of the American NationAntiquarian Researches, Pleasant and EasyPart 2. Becoming an Advocate, 18151819A Series of Letters on Free MasonryThe School of Reform, or Seaman's Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good HopeObservations on the Real Rights of Women, with Their Appropriate Duties, Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common SenseThe Midnight BeauPart 3. Taking Stock, 18201829Selections from "Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, Being an Account of the Original Proprietors of That Town, the Manners and Customs of Its People"NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Writings from the Sand Volume 2
Book SynopsisShowcases the prose of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating female wanderers and includes previously unpublished stories and an unfinished novel. This volume exemplifies author's creation of identity in fiction as her writing explores the world of prostitutes, Bedouins, and French colonists in exotic tales of love and conquest.Table of ContentsTranslator’s AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChronological LandmarksIsabelle Eberhardt’s ItinerariesStoriesThe MirrorInfernaliaVision of the MoghrebDoctoratePer Fas et NefasAfrican Silhouettes, the OulemasThe MagicianThe Turco’s NovelThe ZaouïaYasminaOum-ZaharThe AnarchistThe Sacred IlluminatorSlaves of the SouthThe HandIn the DuneThe MajorBeneath the YokeThe FriendNostalgiasPortrait of the Ouled-NaïlTessaadithFreedThe SorcererThe North AfricanThe SeerTaalithThe Arrival of the SettlerFellahNights of Ramadan: In the DouarNights of Ramadan: The DerouïchaThe FooledLegionnaireCriminalNative ExploitsBlue JacketAïn DjaboubThe MaraboutOn the FringeThe WandererTears of Almond TreesThe MeddahAt DawnZoh’r and YasminaIn God’s PathM’TourniNightThe FoggaraEncampmentMériemaMourningThe VagabondThe Paradise of WatersBlack JoysNovelVagabondPart IPart IIPart IIIFragmentsHerostratusJudasCeresThe Age of NothingnessAppendicesWorks by Isabelle EberhardtWorks Dedicated to Isabelle EberhardtGlossary of Arabic WordsFrench Editors’ Acknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Southern Ute Women
Book SynopsisShows how Ute women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways that gave their lives meaning and bolstered personal autonomy.Trade Review“[Southern Ute Women] makes a useful contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Native American women.”—Sara H. Hill, American Historical Review“Historians of American Indians have devoted insufficient attention to the distinctive experiences of Native American women, although in recent years a number of scholars have made strides in reversing that trend. With Southern Ute Women, Katherine Osburn helps redress this gap in the historiography. . . . A thoughtful, incisive, and well-written monograph that does much to further our understanding of the dynamic lives of Native American women in the allotment era.”— Steve Amerman, Western Historical Quarterly“A well-researched, clearly written account that adds to our understanding of the power dynamic between a dominating federal government and a subordinate, but not completely coerced, reservation population.”— Sherry L. Smith, Agricultural HistoryTable of ContentsMapsTablesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER ONE - The People of the Shining MountainsCHAPTER TWO - Women and Public LeadershipCHAPTER THREE - Women and EconomicsCHAPTER FOUR - HomemakingCHAPTER FIVE - Sex and MarriageConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press From Colony to Nation
Book SynopsisThe first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism.Trade Review"Macpherson succeeds brilliantly... [Her] book is the first significantly new contribution to Belizean historiography in decades. Much as Bolland, Ashdown, and Shoman overturned an earlier model of official history, Macpherson has both built upon and revised interpretations received from them. Belizean women emerge in her account as central political actors in their own right, often taking up mobilizations abandoned by male workers or sustaining popular movements when male leadership was timid, compliant, or divided... One informant, in recounting her youthful confrontation with a British governor declared, "I was never a coward woman." Macpherson's history accords such steadfast determination a central role in Belize's emergence as an independent nation, and does so with meticulous research and profound empathy for her subjects."-American Historical Review American Historical Review "Macpherson brings an innovative, unapologetically revisionist perspective to her project, offering the first work to theorize the political subjectivities of women in Belize and thereby significantly raising the theoretical stakes of the historiography of Central America's understudied Caribbean coast."-Michael Stone, Hispanic American Historical Review -- Michael Stone Hispanic American Historical Review "Macpherson provides a voice to the women of Belize engaged in the twentieth-century struggle for independence, an underappreciated political struggle still underway a quarter century after the establishment of the nation-state of Belize."-Michael J. Pisani, Latin Americanist -- Michael J. Pisani Latin Americanist "With her grounded research and deep interest in the subject, Anne Macpherson provides detailed insight into the political life of actors and actresses of the Belizean national movement."-Dorothee Marie-Louise Dopfer, Iberoamericana -- Dorothee Marie-Louise Dopfer IberoamericanaTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: “Never a Coward Woman”1. The Making of a Riot: Women, Wages, and War on the Home Front, 1912-19192. A Fragile Peace: Colonial Reform, Garveyism, and the Black Cross Nurses, 1920-19303. Hurricane from Below: Popular Protests, the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and the Women’s League, 1931-19414. Modernizing Colonialism: Development, Discipline, and Domestication, 1935-19545. A New Paterfamilias: The Creation and Control of Popular Nationalism, 1949-19616. Negotiating Nationalist Patriarchy: Party Politics, Radical Masculinity, and the Birth of Belizean Feminism, 1961–1982Conclusion: Gender and History in the Making of Modern BelizeNotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern
Book SynopsisAn examination of queens in history, extrapolating their connections to each other, the perceptions of them by their constituents, and the fallacies of their historical reputations.Trade Review“There’s a little bit for everyone here, especially for those interested in Elizabeth I, whose acts of mercy, travels, international relations, and representations in various guises are all covered, among other topics. . . . Those interested in any of the queens here will find this a rewarding book.”—Susan Higginbotham, Historical Novels Review "These excellent essays are a joy to read. Together they question assumptions about pre-modern culture and offer new and interesting interpretations of queenship."—Retha Warnicke, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: It's Good to Be QueenRobert Bucholz and Carole Levin 1. "Greater by Marriage": The Matrimonial Career of the Empress MatildaCharles Beem2. Widow Princess or Neglected Queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English Public Opinion, 1533–1536Timothy G. Elston3. "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie": Queens' Mercy during the Reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth ISarah Duncan4. Princess Elizabeth Travels across Her Kingdom: In Life, in Text, and on StageCarole Levin5. Marriage à la Mode, 1559: Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the Changing Practice of Dynastic MarriageJohn Watkins6. Queen Solomon: An International Elizabeth I in 1569Linda S. Shenk7. The Virgin and the Widow: The Political Finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' MediciElaine Kruse8. Crafting Queens: Early Modern Readings of EstherMichele Osherow9. "Shine like an Angel with thy starry crown": Queen Elizabeth the AngelicAnna Riehl10. Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra: An Act of TranslationRichardine Woodall11. "She is the man, and Raignes": Popular Representations of Henrietta Maria during the English Civil WarsMichelle A. White12. Sex and the Single Queen: The Erotic Lives of Elizabeth Tudor in Seventeenth-century EnglandMarjorie Swann13. The "Stomach of a Queen," or Size Matters: Gender, Body Image, and the Historical Reputation of Queen AnneRobert Bucholz14. Two PoemsAmber Harris Leichner Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Empowerment of North American Indian Girls
Book SynopsisOffers overview of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls, featuring a look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review""Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies.""—Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Empowerment of North American Indian Girls
Book SynopsisProvides an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Psychologist Carol A. Markstrom reviews indigenous, historical, and anthropological literatures and conveys the results of her fieldwork to provide descriptive accounts of North American Indian coming-of-age rituals.Trade Review"Carol Markstrom's book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies."-Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Overview of Coming-of-Age Ceremonies2. Contemporary Youth Concerns in Historical Perspective 3. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Development4. Menstruation, Cosmology, and Feminism5. Historical Overview of Coming-of-Age Practices6. Description of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony7. Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Ceremony8. Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa Puberty Customs9. Broader Perspectives on Coming-of-AgeFootnotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Boots and Saddles or Life in Dakota with General
Book SynopsisThe honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. Her entreaties to be allowed to travel along set the pattern of her future life. This is the story of Elizabeth B. Custer (1842-1933), told in her own words. She was not only a housewife on the Plains; she was whatever the occasion demanded.Trade Review“This is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of women who accompanied their military husbands across the sage, up turbulent rivers, over the badlands of Dakota into the far reaches of the Western frontier, during the Indian troubles of the mid-1870s.”—Montana: The Magazine of Western HistoryTable of ContentsI. Change of StationII. A BlizzardIII. Western HospitalityIV. Cavalry on the MarchV. Camping among the SiouxVI. A Visit to the Village of "Two Bears"VII. Adventures during the Last Days of the MarchVIII. Separation and ReunionIX. Our New Home at Fort LincolnX. Incidents of Every-day LifeXI. The Burning of Our Quarters.--Carrying the MailXII. Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic LifeXIII. A "Strong Heart" Dance!XIV. Garrison LifeXV. General Custer's Literary WorkXVI. Indian DepredationsXVII. A Day of Anxiety and TerrorXVIII. Improvements at the Post, and GardeningXIX. General Custer's LibraryXX. The Summer of the Black Hills ExpeditionXXI. Domestic TrialsXXII. Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-FaceXXIII. Garrison AmusementsXXIV. An Indian CouncilXXV. Breaking Up of the MissouriXXVI. Curious Characters and Excursionists among UsXXVII. Religious Services.--Leave of AbsenceXXVIII. A Winter's Journey across the PlainsXXIX. Our Life's Last ChapterAppendix: With Extracts of General Custer's Letters
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University of Nebraska Press First Laugh
Book SynopsisConcerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the centre of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distil experience has drawn readTrade Review“[First Laugh] is a great contribution to the field of ‘new journalism’ and literary nonfiction. The essays are grounded in concrete experience as well as a lifetime of research. The style is exquisite, the prose of a skilled poet: spare, concise, and clear.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 “These essays come to us from the American Southwest, a terrain of rock, sand, and here and there a tree whose roots have found water. Margaret Randall is herself a weather-beaten survivor of revolutionary upsurge in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. She looks out across the American desert from a place that is close to the heart of reality.”—Staughton Lynd, coauthor of Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together"Randall is a sincere, poetic, and compelling narrator, and her latest collection offers something for everyone."—Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsA Few Words about These EssaysThe American PeoplePumping GasFlying BackwardsBigger, Better, BestRace and Racism: The 2008 ElectionThe Cell RemembersRolling EyesRemembering MotherFirst LaughPircing the WallsOñate's Right FootCan Poetry Matter?Words for El Corno EmplumadoThe Living Silence of a Place like Kiet SeelBetrayalCrystal's GiftThe Place Where Color SoundsMy Losses
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University of Nebraska Press Epistolophilia Writing the Life of Ona Simaite
Book SynopsisA giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem's honoured Righteous Among the Nations) and yet so little known.Trade Review"A remarkable work of research, translation, and recovery that tells the story of an unlikely, long-overlooked heroine."—Ned Stuckey-French, Fourth Genre"Epistolophilia is not a typical biography, and Šimaitė was not a typical World War II hero. For readers looking for an unconventional account of the World War II and post-war eras, as well as those interested in women's life writing, Epistolophilia is a nuanced and compelling work."—ForeWord Reviews"Sukys draws liberally from thousands of pages of correspondence and numerous diaries to create a portrait of a deeply thoughtful woman trying to make sense of history and her own life by putting it all to paper. Also of Lithuanian descent, Sukys's own meditations on the power of letters and writing make this a powerful testament to the confluence of history and individual lives and passions."—Publishers Weekly"Sukys is to be commended for providing us with this testament and story of a little known hero, who might otherwise have been overlooked."—Abe Novick, Baltimore Jewish Times"A startling paradox that while Simaite died at 76 before completing her memoirs, Sukys is able to capture Simaite's story while successfully writing an unexpected memoir of her own."—Meredith Wood Bahuriak, PLOP! Review"Sukys is to be commended for providing us with this testament and story of a little known hero. . . . The writing is done with care and precision bringing to life a woman who we might have otherwise overlooked."—Jerusalem Post "A mosaic of Šimaitė’s life, Epistolophilia enables readers to create a three-dimensional person with the little information available."—Mélanie Grondin, Montreal Review of Books “An intelligent, humane, and noble book that rescues from obscurity an intelligent, humane, and noble woman. It stands as a testament to the power of reading, writing, compassion, and extraordinary courage.”—David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World“With this searching, nuanced biography, Julija Šukys introduces the English-speaking world to a genuine heroine of the Holocaust, while at the same time raising vital questions about the role of trauma, poverty, and ill health on women’s literary production.”—Susan Olding, author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays“This is an important new take on the legacy of the Holocaust. Eloquent and elegantly written, it reads like a Sebald text but with a voice profoundly its own.”—Laura Levitt, professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Place Names Part One1. The Woman in the Park 2. Vilnius 3. Correspondence 4. Ona Šimaite's Letters to Marijona Cilvinaite, 19571958 5. Caregiving and Letters Part Two6. A Childhood Tale 7. Russian Letters 8. Everyday Writings Part Three9. Ghetto 10. Mowszowicz 11. Letters to Kazys Jakubenas, 19411943 12. Destruction of the Ghetto Part Four13. Kazys 14. Kazys's Death 15. Alfonsas's Theory Part Five16. Catholicism, Sex, and Sin 17. Mothering Part Six18. Ludelange 19. Freedom 20. Toulouse 21. Letters to New York 22. La Courtine Part Seven23. The Ghetto Library 24. Librarians 25. Writing a Woman's Life Part Eight26. Aldute 27. Family Letters 28. Soviet Schizophrenia 29. Death in Vilnius 30. Paris 1968 31. Single and Crazy Part Nine32. Cormeilles 33. October Works Cited
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University of Nebraska Press Modernism and Mildred Walker
Book SynopsisOffers a western interpretation of Modernism as a critical tool and proposes a variety of readings and interpretations designed to emphasize the relationship between cultural production in the West and modernism. This book encourages readers to reappraise Walker's work and to undertake further studies of their own.Trade Review"Admirably accessible, this volume and Walker's novels should be in collections supporting study of American literature."—J. J. Wydeven, CHOICETable of ContentsNote to ReadersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Mildred WalkerChapter 2: A Working Definition of ModernismChapter 3: The Aesthetics of Postmodern ModernismChapter 4: The Economics of ModernismChapter 5: Mildred Walker's WarsChapter 6: The Mothers of ModernismChapter 7: American Modernists and the Language of MovementWorks CitedBibliography of Mildred Walker
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University of Nebraska Press Westerns A Womens History
Book SynopsisAt every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation, yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s Historydebunks this myth once and for all by recovering women writers of popular westerns active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Trade Review"Westerns does far more than add women and stir; it is a tremendous gift to scholarship, restoring women's contributions to American literary history and laying a more accurate and inclusive foundation for future work."—Jennifer S. Tuttle, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"Compelling. . . . A valuable read for all those interested in the intersections of gender and culture in early twentieth century America."—Michigan Historical Review"Westerns: A Women's History is a readable excursion into female authors, their experiences, and their perspectives, within an important genre. In unmasking and then undoing female erasure from the beginnings of the American Western novel, Lamont makes important points and deftly defends them. Her book is enjoyable and significant."—Thomas E. Simmons, Journal of American Culture"Westerns: A Women’s History introduces a whole new set of woman authors and texts to be included in the study and teaching of Western American literature as well as a new and compelling origin narrative of the Western literary genre."—Randi Tanglen, English: Journal of the English Association"In recovering legacies among western women writers, Lamont herself achieves major stature as a feminist scholar of the West."—Cathryn Halverson, Western American Literature"Westerns is recommended reading not only for fans of classic Westerns and of feminist literary recovery, but indeed for all readers interested in the history of the American West and the origins of contemporary feminisms."—Emma Morgan-Thorp, Canadian Literature"For more than a century, the mythic western cowboy has been consistently hypermasculine. Victoria Lamont's Westerns: A Women's History prods the boundaries of this image while debunking the myth that literary westerns were consistently written by men."—Cynthia Culver Prescott, South Dakota History"Lamont's work rests upon an impressive amount of archival work in little-known ephemera. . . . [Westerns] introduces a new group of works that may be taught on courses focused on the West or inserted into other contexts and critical discussions, causing us to reorganize, question, and revise our existing frameworks."—Nicole Tonkovich, Legacy"Westerns: A Women's History resurrects the work of well-known western women authors during an era when their stories of strong female characters in the frontier West enjoyed popular readership."—Renee M. Laegreid, Western Historical Quarterly"Westerns: A Women’s History proves to be an immense pleasure: an essential, revelatory rewriting of the early history of the western novel."—Scott Simmon, Pacific Historical Review“Lamont’s authoritatively written, engrossing book has much to reveal about the wider history of American feminist discourse in general, bound up in the western genre.”—Gerri Kimber, Times Literary Supplement “Lamont’s discoveries can be quite startling. . . . [Her] project tackles many contemporary academic issues, from gender fluidity and sexual violence to colonialist iterations of Native narrative to class-based social justice. None of these topics is imposed upon the texts: they emerge organically from Lamont’s close reading of context and narrative. . . . [An] important contribution to the literary history of the West.”—Jennifer L. Jenkins, The Journal of Arizona History “Lamont has done some wonderful research recovering the complex an important role that women writers played in the beginning of the western.”—Maria O’Connell, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling3. Women's Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women6. The Masculinization of the WesternConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press A Law Unto Herself
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Renfroe introduces readers to one of Davis's lesser-known texts, inviting new directions in Davis scholarship, and by reading the text through a legal lens, she adds a new dimension to our understanding of Davis's work and the breadth of her knowledge regarding the legal issues of her day."—Robin L. Cadwallader, Resources for American Literary StudyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditor's IntroductionA Note on the TextA Law Unto HerselfNotes
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University of Nebraska Press Bright Epoch
Book SynopsisTells the story of female students' early mixed-gender encounters at four institutions: Iowa Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College, and Utah State Agricultural College. This work illuminates the diversity of other courses of study available to female students, including the sciences, literature, and law.Trade Review"Bright Epoch is an engaging work that puts to rest the idea that coeducational land grant education somehow stifled, rather than empowered, western women. . . . Well worth reading."—Pamela Riney-Kehrberg , Kansas History"Bright Epoch is overall an important, well-conceived and well-developed study of women's coeducation experiences at several early land grant colleges. . . . This is a must read for historians of women, education, rural life, and the Midwest and West."—Ginette Aley, Nebraska History"The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of women's higher education. This examination of western land-grant institutions sheds light on a heretofore underrepresented area of scholarship."—Lisa R. Lindell, South Dakota History"Radke-Moss has mined the universities' special collections to provide both written descriptions and illustrative photographs. . . . Ultimately, her well-told story should encourage others to unearth similar experiences buried in untapped college archives."—J. H. O'Donnell III , CHOICE"This long-overdue study of coeducational land-grant colleges fills an important niche in several areas of social and regional history. As a result, Bright Epoch provides a solid foundation onto which historians of both women and the West can build further analyses."—Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Great Plains Quarterly"Bright Epoch is an excellent history because it tells of a past that reminds readers that universities should not be just domestic skill shops but rather places of debate, discourse, and great educational opportunities for all students."—Brian S. Collier, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of Contents List of IllustrationsList of Tables and GraphsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making a Welcome for Women Students: The Discourse of Coeducational Inclusion by Administrators and Students2. The Place of Women Students: Reading the Language and Practices of Gender Separation3. The Early Practice of Coeducation: Literary Societies as Laboratories for Separation and Inclusion4. Women Students' Sociality: Building Relationships with Men and Women5. Women's Course Work: Farm Wives, Finished Ladies, or Functioning Scientists?6. Under the Gaze: Women's Physical Activity and Sport at Land-Grant Colleges7. "The American Eagle in Bloomers": "Student-Soldieresses" and Women's Military Activity8. Challenging Political Separation: Women's Rights Activism at Land-Grant Colleges and UniversitiesConclusion: Bright Epoch: When the Fair Daughters Joined the RanksNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Working Women Entrepreneurs and the Mexican Re
Book SynopsisAnalyses the interrelationships between Córdoba’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s.Trade Review"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."—Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review"Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the Córdoba district of Veracruz."—Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in Córdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Weeds
Book SynopsisIn Thomas Jefferson’s day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since they married in 1957. Against that landscape of loss, Funda explores her family’s three-generation farming experience in southern Idaho, where her Czech immigrant family spent their lives turning a patch of sagebrush into crop land.The story of Funda’s family unfolds within the larger context of our country’s rich immigrant history, western culture, and farming as a science and an art. Situated at the crossroads of American farming, Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament offers a clear view of the nature, the cost, and the transformation of the American West. Part cultural history, part memoir, anTrade Review"I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed Weeds. Such a truthful book. Your book made me admire Evelyn Funda, yearn to become a farmer, wish to live out West, and love the real America all at once! "—Alexander Theroux"A moving look back at a lost way of life."—Leigh Newman, New York Times Sunday Book Review"The result of Funda's lyrical merging of metaphor and landscape ecology is an unforgettable portrait of the hybrid landscape where her farm family lived and loved in a temporary community of hopes and weeds. . . . It is a remarkable book that any child of the West should read, no matter how old and sage."—Max Geier, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"This book stands among the best works in the genre, and it should attract the attention of those interested in narrative scholarship, agriculture, and theories of place."Tyler Nickl, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"Funda ranges over subjects as diverse as seed hybridization, ex-urbanites, early-20th-century Idaho, storytelling, postwar exile and mutable family mythologies. The resounding theme is her search for home."—Kirkus"Part cultural history, part memoir, and part elegy, Weeds reminds us that in losing our attachment to the land we also lose some of our humanity and something at the very heart of our identity as a nation."—Tom Williams, Utah Public RadioTable of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface: "In Dirt We Trust"DodderLoosestrifeWild OatsSageCheatgrass"The True Point of Beginning"NotesAcknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press Travels with Frances Densmore
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Looking at and listening to Densmore's research again is a new starting point for how we understand anthropology, ethnography, indigenous societies, and the gender and other dimensions of our own society."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review DatabaseBy providing this rich account of Densmore's life, times, and thought, the volume contributes more than just a biography of a single scholar. A thoughtful meditation on how intertwined lives are made, remembered, and forgotten, it deserves to be read by anyone interested in the history of anthropology or museum studies."—Alex Golub, Museum Anthropology Review“Frances Densmore’s archive of Native American music, photographs, and material culture is indispensable to scholars. Yet she remains an elusive figure. Travels with Frances Densmore takes us into her world. It is a moving, engrossing record of a woman’s self-professionalization and devotion to science at the turn of the twentieth century.”—Sally Cole, professor of anthropology at Concordia University and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Traveling with Frances Densmore Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonPart 1. Frances Densmore’s Life and Work1. She Always Said, “I Heard an Indian Drum” Michelle Wick Patterson2. Becoming Two White Buffalo Woman Michelle Wick Patterson3. By Train, by Boat, by Model T Joan M. Jensen4. Getting the Depression Blues Joan M. Jensen5. Cut, Paste, Delete, Preserve Michelle Wick Patterson6. Gone but Not Quite Forgotten Joan M. JensenPart 2. Conversations7. Miss Densmore Meets the Ojibwes: Frances Densmore’s Ethnomusicology Studies among the Grand Portage Ojibwes in 1905 Nancy L. Woolworth8. Songs of Healing: Music Therapy of Native America, a Medical Ethnomusicology Study Stephanie Thorne9. Familiar Faces: Densmore’s Minnesota Photographs Bruce White10. Collection with a Mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Artifacts Carolyn Gilman11. An Archival Dilemma: The Densmore Cylinder Recording Speeds Judith Gray12. Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Music Thomas J. Vennum Jr.Conclusion: A Picture Is Worth Deconstructing Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick PattersonNote on Sources: How to Continue Traveling with Densmore Index
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University of Nebraska Press Words Like Daggers Violent Female Speech in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly “Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth ITable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Make a Beautiful Way
Book SynopsisSeeks the recovery of women's traditions in the analysis of Native American history, society and culture.Trade Review“[Make a Beautiful Way] goes beyond women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women’s traditions provides essays which examine Indian lifestyles and history through women’s lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues.”—BookwatchTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. Does Euro-Think Become Us? Paula Gunn Allen2. Decolonizing Native Women Lee Maracle3. Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy Kay Givens McGowan4. Slow Runners Barbara Alice MannBibliographyContributors' BiographiesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press When Montana and I Were Young
Book SynopsisMargaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker. Bell was seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. This memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada.Trade ReviewWinner of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies 2002 Handcart Award "Young Margaret (Peggy) displayed a dignity and resourcefulness that rank her among even fictitious literary heroines. Indeed, her very survival was amazing... Both riveting and important, her book is a valuable addition to frontier narratives." Booklist "Bell practiced self-reliance and stoicism from an early age, and her memoir never lapses into self-pity. This powerful account belongs on the shelf of every student of pioneer history or women's history." Publishers Weekly "An unforgettable story that gives meaning to the term 'true survivor.'" ForeWord Magazine
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University of Nebraska Press Queering Kansas City Jazz Gender Performance and
Book SynopsisThe Jazz Age coincided with the growth of Kansas City from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space.Trade Review"Clifford-Napoleon offers a taste of how much queerer Kansas City's jazz scene was than historian have previously recognized. She shows, too, how intertwined race and class were with gender experimentation. Her study invites readers to dig deeper into this nearly lost history of a jazz scene that historians thought they knew."—Robin C. Henry, Middle West Reviews"This narrative rights the historical record and adds nuance to our understanding of the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and space in Jazz Age Kansas City."—Kathleen A. Kelly, Kansas History"Clifford-Napoleone reframes the Kansas City jazz scene as one shaped by otherness, and she focuses on the non musical foundations of jazz. While that is one obvious strength of this slender volume, its greatest contribution entails the resurrection of the marginalized cultural pioneers of scene-making-the gender and sexual nonconformists, the working-class Kansas Citians, women, and the plethora of journeyman entertainers, all of whom nourished this scene. In that regard, Queering Kansas City Jazz is an example of the opportunities that intersectionality provides for the reimagination of cultural phenomena."—Aaron Bachhoffer, Journal of Southern History“Queering Kansas City Jazz offers a new and exciting perspective on the jazz scene that accompanied the growth of Kansas City from frontier town to metropolitan city during the early twentieth century. It will potentially change the way in which we understand regional identity and recognize those who were pushed into the margins of our social histories.”—Tammy Kernodle, professor of musicology at Miami University and author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou WilliamsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Rethinking Kansas City’s Jazz Story 2. Kansas City’s Jazz Scene 3. The Myth of the Wide-Open Town 4. Sissy Nights at the Spinning Wheel 5. Crib Girls to Criminals 6. Queering Dante’s Inferno 7. Remembering KC Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Cora Du Bois Anthropologist Diplomat Agent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book, Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, deserves wide readership."—Laura Nader, Los Angeles Review of Books"In the heavens of women in early anthropology, Cora Du Bois is generally eclipsed by the more famous Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, but both her work and her life deserve our attention and admiration, and Susan Seymour gives her the biography that she merits."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database"Seymour is a fine biographer and writer who makes the most of extraordinary sources to bring this intrepid woman to life in a readable book that belongs in all libraries."—R. Berleant-Schiller, CHOICE"Seymour's meticulously researched biography on Cora Du Bois skillfully weaves together threads from a myriad of often obscure, intensely personal documents, to produce a magnificent reconstruction of the life and personality of this major anthropological figure."—Carol Mukhopadhyay, Association for Feminist Anthropology"This biography of Cora Du Bois will be of interest to those concerned with the beginnings of the personality and culture school in early American anthropology; with the notable women anthropologists in this school; with the broader history of this anthropology, its central figures and its impact on theory and on fieldwork on both the west and east coasts; and with the history of science most generally of all."—Naomi Quinn, Ethos"This book gives an excellent picture of a life, a time, and a profession."—Alice E. Schlegel, American Anthropologist“This biography is a page-turner, with writing that is lively and vivid, and Cora’s own correspondence, journal entries, and poetry give the book a very ‘first-person’ feel. There’s a lot to learn here.”—Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and past president of the American Anthropological Association“Susan Seymour has produced a captivating, extremely well-written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent gay woman who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare.”—David H. Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin’s University and the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Preface Resources and Acknowledgments Prologue: Cora and Me Chapter 1. Tomgirl Chapter 2. Escape and Resolve Chapter 3. Becoming an Anthropologist Chapter 4. Culture and Personality Chapter 5. A Pioneer in Culture and Personality Research Chapter 6. World War II and the OSS Chapter 7. Disillusionment in the Cold War Era Chapter 8. Harvard, Crown of Roses or Thorns? Chapter 9. Sociocultural Change in India Chapter 10. Looking Inward Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Opening Acts
Book SynopsisIn the beginning there was...the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the field of narrative theory."—Marilyn Edelstein, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature“The field of feminist narratology is growing, but none of these theory-driven books offers the kind of rich, in-depth study of one historical-geographical collocation of texts that Opening Acts does. Any teacher or student of literary theory, of the history of the novel, or of feminist and ethnic approaches to literature would find something of great interest in this book.”—Margaret Homans, professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University and author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing“The subject of narrative beginnings is important to literary criticism in several different fields: national literary traditions as well as comparative literature. . . . Romagnolo seeks to right the course of the early studies in this area by emphasizing feminist and ethnic-studies-inflected readings. Opening Acts contributes an overview of the existing literature, an assessment of what is lacking in that corpus, and an extrapolation of concepts to include often-neglected subjects in this field . . . expanding the established theoretical frame for narrative beginnings.”—Carlos Riobó, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York and author of Cuban Intersection of Literary and Urban Spaces Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. No Place for Her Individual Adventure: Motherhood, Marriage, and New Beginnings in Summer2. Waves of Beginnings: The Ebb of Heterosexual Romance in Paint It Today3. Moving in Lofty Spirals: Circularity and Narrative Beginnings in The Bluest Eye4. Circling the History of Slavery: Multilayered Beginnings in Beloved5. Swan Feathers and Coca-Cola: Authenticity and Origins in The Joy Luck Club6. Bordering Yolanda García: Recessive Origins in How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Married or Single
Book SynopsisMarried or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary formsincluding the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fictionand provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick'Trade Review"A classic that is at once both an engrossing read and an erudite champion of women's rights, Married or Single? is highly recommended especially for public and college library literature and women's studies shelves."—Midwest Book Review“A modern edition of Sedgwick’s final novel is long overdue, and Deborah Gussman is its ideal editor. Gussman’s introduction will reflect and forward current scholarly concerns.”—Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic“This is a very teachable and useful book and should appeal to scholars, libraries, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.”—Martha Cutter, author of Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor’s Introduction A Note on the Text Married or Single? Notes
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University of Nebraska Press Colonial Metropolis The Urban Grounds of
Book SynopsisTells the story of the interactions and connections of black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.Trade Review“The excellent analysis of race and gender is a noteworthy strength of this book. . . . Highly readable.”—Jeffrey H. Jackson, American Historical Review“Methodologically innovative and skillfully researched, Colonial Metropolis supports the author’s contention that the grand European city itself had become colonized. In demonstrating the profoundly complex, intertwined, and shifting roles that gender and race played in this colonization, Boittin’s work recasts our understanding of the metropole and its place in the empire during this period.”—Carolyn J. Eichner, French Politics, Culture, and Society "Examining performers such as Josephine Baker, black and feminist print culture, and police records about anti-imperial activists, the author connects diverse threads regarding race, gender, and colonialism."—Choice"Jennifer Anne Boittin's Colonial Metropolis represents a bold assertion of the centrality of colonial relationships to the political and cultural history of interwar Paris."—Ian Germani, H-Urban"[Colonial Metropolis] offers insightful and original analysis of the links between the vogue nègre and anti-imperial politics, and of the important role of the city of Paris in facilitating such a nexus."—Kate Marsh, H-France Review"Colonial Metropolis should be required reading for any scholars of French empire in the twentieth century, as well as for graduate students working on twentieth century European imperialism. This book is consciously in dialogue with the richer literature on gender and race in the British Empire, so its value goes beyond specialists of France."—Jeremy Rich, ItinerarioTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Josephine Baker: Colonial Woman 2. Dancing Dissidents and Dissident Dancers: The Urban Topography of Race 3. A Black Colony? Race and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism 4. Reverse Exoticism and Masculinity: The Cultural Politics of Race Relations 5. In Black and White: Women, La Dépêche Africaine and the Print Culture of the Diaspora 6. “These Men’s Minor Transgressions:” White Frenchwomen on Colonialism and Feminism Conclusion NotesBibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Native Womens History in Eastern North America
Book SynopsisHow can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This is a guide to the significance, experiences, and histories of Native women. It features essays that describe a range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Searching for Cornfields – and Sugar Groves” by Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside) and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark) Section I: Theory What Native Women Were NOT1. Rayna Green (National Museum of American History), “The Pocahontas Perplex”2. David D. Smits (College of New Jersey), “The ‘Squaw Drudge’: A Prime Index of Savagism,” ExcerptWhat Native Women WERE3. Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma), “Indian Women as Cultural Mediators”4. Jennifer S. H. Brown (University of Winnipeg, Manitoba), “Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Métis Communities”Equality and Feminism5. Eleanor Leacock (Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and City University of New York), “Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution,” Excerpt6. Kathryn Shanley (University of Montana), “Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History,” Excerpt Section II: Method Biography7. Helen Tanner (Newberry Library, Chicago), “Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman”8. Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Roverside), “Leadership within the Women’s Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe”Central Theme: The Kinship of Religious Affiliation9. Carl Ekberg (Illinois State University), with Anton J. Pregaldin, “Marie Rouensa-8canic8e and the Foundations of French Illinois” 0in 0pt 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.25in"10. Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), “Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade”Central Question: Did Native Women Loose Power After Colonization?11. Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina), “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears”12. Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut), “The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women”Using Gender as a Tool of Analysis: Economics13. Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “Divorced from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England”14. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), “To Live Among Us: Accommodation, Gender, and Conflict in the Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832”Oral History15. Nancy Lurie, ed., Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder, Excerpts16. Michelene E. Pesantubbee (University of Iowa), “Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension Between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism”
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University of Nebraska Press Queen of the Fall
Book Synopsis Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston's Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in the larger culture, Livingston weaves together strands of memory with richly imagined vignettes to explore becoming a woman in late 1980s and early 1990s America. Along the way, the award-winning memoirist brings us face-to-face with herself as an inner-city girltrying to imagine a horizon beyond poverty, fearful of her fertility and the limiting arc of teenage pregnancy. Livingston looks at the lives of those she's known: friends who've gotten themselves into trouble and disappeared never to be heard from again, girls who tell their school counselor small lies out of necessity and pain, and a mother whose fruitfulness seems, at times, biblical. Livingston interacts with fiTrade Review “Livingston writes with a fierce strength and intelligence that not only makes for compelling reading but an absolutely unforgettable voice.”—Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden “Queen of the Fall harvests the rich fruits of memory to explore the virtues and vulnerabilities of childhood, of the feminine body, and of lives filled with longing and aspiration. In this simply beautiful collection, Sonja Livingston serves up gorgeous prose and unswerving honesty to map the awakening of an essayist’s heart.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire “Much more than a touching portrayal of an American Roman Catholic girlhood of the 1980s. . . . This is a book that sheds light.”—Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk “Deft, evocative, mysterious, heartfelt, swirling, lyrical, with lines that pop off the page and essays that shimmer in your head for days after you finish reading them—or thought you did.”—Brian Doyle, author of Mink River Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Memory of Trees I. Land of the Lost Our Lady of the Lakes The Lady with the Alligator Purse World without End Mythology Capias The Last American Virgin Peace Our Lady of the Carpeted Stairs II. A Party, in May What the Body Wants Our Lady of the Roses Sybil III. Flight One for Sorrow Brick House Klotilde’s Cake Mock Orange The Lonely Hunters Something Like Joy Coda: This River A Thousand Thanks Source Acknowledgments Notes
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University of Nebraska Press Second to None
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 20th century it was still necessary for women to ask lawmakers, 'Are women persons?' The rights and treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were issues that men often preferred to ignore. But women refused to remain silent. This volume looks at women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims.Trade Review"This is a superb collection. The editors have amassed an unusually wide-ranging set of documents... extremely strong and valuable. I recommend it."-Sarah J. Deutsch, Yale University -- Sarah J. Deutsch
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University of Nebraska Press Indigenous American Women
Book SynopsisOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others.Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. She then illuminates the pervasive impact of colonialism and patriarchal thought on Native women's traditional tribal roles and on their participation in academia. Mihesuah considers how relations between Indigenous women and men across North America continue to be altered by Christianity and Euro-American ideologies. Sexism and violence against Indigenous women has escalated; economic disparities and intratribal factionalism and culturalism threaten connections among women and with men; and many women suffer from psychological Trade Review"Particularly insightful, thought-provoking, [and] well-researched."-Rodney Frey, Journal of American Ethnic History -- Rodney Frey Journal of American Ethnic History "Well worth reading to learn how a perceptive insider views the current state of Native affairs."-Lillian Ackerman, Montana, The Magazine of Western History -- Lillian Ackerman Montana, The Magazine of Western History "As many of these issues relate to decolonization, the legacy of colonialism, and feminism, the essays speak to a larger audience than just American Indian women or people involved with American Indian Studies. Thos whose work spans both activism and scholarship are likely to find something of interest between these covers. The book may also help those who have little experience with activist-scholarship such as Milhesuah's work come to a better understanding of what she and others like her are trying to do."-Stacy Schlegel, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History -- Stacy Schlegel Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "A powerful book about the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America... These essays should be required reading in every research seminar... And they clearly establish Milhesuah as a leading indigenous intellectual."-Theda Perdue, Great Plains Quarterly -- Theda Perdue Great Plains Quarterly "Her observations on research and writing about Native women are valuable reminders to other scholars in the field... scholars whose research deals with Native women will find Mihesuah's Indigenous American Women a worthy resource."-Patrice Hollrah, Western American Literature -- Patrice Hollrah Western American Literature "Native and non-Native feminist scholars will find much to debate in this collection, which accomplishes its primary purposes-contributing to a growing body of scholarly literature by Indigenous women, confronting difficult topics frankly and directly, demonstrating ethical research, and providing catalysts for much-needed converstaions about the complex nature of feminisms and activist agendas."-Amanda J. Cobb (Chickasaw), New Mexico Historical Review -- Amanda J. Cobb New Mexico Historical Review
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University of Nebraska Press The Mayans Among Us Migrant Women and
Book SynopsisExamines the unique experiences of the Central American indigenous immigrants who are often overlooked in media coverage of Latino and Latina migration to the Great Plains. The Mayans Among Us poignantly explores how Mayan women in rural Nebraska meatpacking plants weave together their three distinct identities: Mayan, Central American, and American.Trade Review"[The Mayans Among Us] is an essential read to understand modern Mayan women and issues they face. All students and experts of Latin America and Mayan civilization must read it."—Washington Book Review“This book makes for a fascinating read. Sittig and González help us understand the points of view of an almost invisible population. The stories of the Mayans, huge and heartbreaking stories, increase our moral imaginations. I wish this were required reading for all our politicians and policy makers. I recommend it to all who yearn to understand the America we live in today.”—Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community “Ann L. Sittig and Martha Florinda González offer an instructive and significant depiction of the changes of work, religion, place, and life in small-town Nebraska.”—Elaine Carey, associate professor of history at St. John’s University and author of Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Guatemala: Life before Emigration2. Guatemalan Civil War and Postwar Rebuilding3. The Journey to El Norte4. Religious Practice and Community Life in Nebraska5. Mayans and Meatpacking in NebraskaConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Undesirable Practices
Book SynopsisExamines both the intended and the unintended consequences of “imperial feminism” and British colonial interventions in “undesirable” cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, prostitution, and “illicit” adoption, as well as the hesitation to impose punishments for the slave dealing of females.Trade Review"Cammaert's book is well-written and, most importantly, sheds light on the so-called undesirable practices, revealing more than policy-oriented studies alone. . . . This book gives a voice to a localized group of Africans in Northeastern Ghana and focuses on specific issues the inhabitants had to deal with during the colonial and early post-colonial periods. This is an important contribution to the studies related to female genital mutilation, nudity, human trafficking, and prostitution."—Aliou Ly, African Studies Review“What a powerful project! . . . This volume reframes and complicates the arguments and practices in new and significant ways. . . . [This is] a unique and welcome contribution to the literature.”—Beth Blue Swadener, coeditor of Children’s Rights and Education: International Perspectives “As a cultural anthropologist, I find [Cammaert’s] work especially useful for providing a deeper (in time) understanding of how African culture and gender socialization has been reshaped over the decades.”—Angela R. Bratton, associate professor of anthropology at Georgia Regents University and the author of An Anthropological Study of Factors Affecting the Construction of Sexuality in GhanaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on “Customs Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa,” ca. 19302. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in Northern Ghana3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930–19334. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late-Colonial Bawku, 1941–19485. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the Nkrumah Era, 1958–19666. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After Nkrumah, 1965–1972Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male GazeNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Romance with Voluptuousness
Book SynopsisUsing personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States.Trade Review“This book will be attractive to courses in sociology, women and gender studies, Caribbean studies, and migration studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. . . . The author’s conception of ‘embodied cultural citizenship’ and the way in which she demonstrates how this works are quite convincing.”—Winnifred Brown-Glaude, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of New Jersey and author of Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The “Thick Black Woman”: Racialized Body Politics and the Marginalization of Black Women 2. Constructing Diasporic Identity: Black Caribbean Women’s Self-Representation and Cultural Citizenship 3. Unrequited Romance: Black Caribbean Beauty Ideals and Discontent in the United States 4. Transgressive Discourses: Negotiating the Thin Hegemony and Negative Physical Capital 5. Embodying Diaspora: Centering Thick Bodies in Black Women’s Diasporic Experiences Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press Deco Body Deco City Female Spectacle and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deco Body, Deco City delivers a new lexicon that will undoubtedly become standard in modern Mexican historiography."—Elena Jackson Albarrán, Hispanic American Historical Review"Deco Body, Deco City is a much needed addition to the existing literature on modern Mexican history."—Washington BookReview"Deco Body provocatively combines the aesthetic, urban planning, and architecture and suggests new avenues of research that promise to productively expand the field of Mexican cultural history."—Laura Isabel Serna, Pacific Historical Review"Sluis's study is one of the most original studies of women in Mexican culture since the publication of Jean Franco's Plotting Women in 1989. But while Franco—and other scholars after her, such as Vicky Unruh—have focused on women writers and artists, Sluis turns her eye to a group of women who have for the most part gone unnoticed by cultural historians: popular actresses, vaudeville girls, prostitutes, working-class women, and other female subjects who inhabited the lower tiers of urban culture between 1920 and 1950."—Rubén Gallo, Latin American Research Review“Ageeth Sluis has opened the history of the Mexican Revolution to the gendered gaze of urbanization, art, theater, and modernity. . . . A fascinating study.”—Donna Guy, emerita professor of history at Ohio State University and author of Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina “Deco Body, Deco City offers cutting-edge analysis and a sweeping look at subjects never before studied in twentieth-century Mexican history: markets, opera performers, urban parks, and how women navigated a revolutionary regime.”—James Garza, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City “This is a great book. It enriches our understanding of the postrevolutionary decade and brings together social, gender, theater, and architectural history in the way that only the best cultural historians of Mexico can.”—Victor Macías-González, professor of history and women’s gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin–La CrosseTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: City, Modernity, Spectacle1. Performance: A City of Spectacles2. Bataclanismo: From Divas to Deco Bodies3. Camposcape: Naturalizing Nudity4. Promis-cuidad: Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity5. Planning the Deco City: Urban Reform6. Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez7. Palacio de Bellas ArtesConclusion: Deco Bodies, Camposcape, and RecurrenceNotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Words Like Daggers
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly “Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth ITable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
SAGE Publications Ltd Globalization and Inequalities
Book SynopsisHow has globalization changed social inequality?Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others?In this groundbreaking book, Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future.The book re-thinks the nature of economy, polity, civil society and violence. It places globalization and inequalities at the centre of an innovative new understanding of modernity and progress and demonstrates the power of these theoretical reformulations in practice, drawing on global data and in-depth analysis of the US and EU.Walby analyses the tensions between the different forces that are shaping global futures. She examines the regulTrade ReviewIn this wide-ranging book, Sylvia Walby deploys her vast knowledge and wealth of research to break from inherited paradigms and to tackle the major challenges of globalization. -- Michael BurawoyWhat an important book this is! By using the tools complexity theory offers, Walby dismantles the conservative versions of systems theory and provides a new way of approaching the dynamics of intersectional change. Her view of system environment interactions with both stabilizing and destabilizing feedback loops is itself theoretically rich. Walby then uses this model to generate significant insights into the contested nature of modernity and the diverse ways that social democratic and liberal states have constructed equality and inequality. Her theoretical model will prove to be an essential resource for researchers concerned with understanding and steering social change. -- Myra Marx FerreeThough as critical about the feminist critiques of social theory as she is about social theory itself, in this landmark work Sylvia Walby does not stop at outlining the mistakes in both. Aside from unpacking the conflations that hinder our understanding of the social and political world, she presents an intricate, comprehensive new social theory and explains its major premises and innovations carefully and precisely. She focuses on the dynamics and complexities of social relations, integrating in these dynamics the role of complex inequalities (class, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation). Then, as a grand dessert, the book not only delivers a convincing first empirical test to Walby′s new theory, but also dares to take a normative position, all without resorting to hegemony... Enabling innovative understandings of age-old complexities through brand-new empirical and normative questions and answers, this book will and should affect all research in social sciences. -- Mieke VerlooHaving read her book, one can′t help but see what was thought to be clear in new ways. Globalization and Inequalities is an impressive example of creativity realized on the one hand and a provocation to further creativity on the other... A major accomplishment. -- Devorah Kalekin-FishmanAn ambitious and complex book, in which Walby proposes solutions for some enduring problems in sociological theory; in particular, problems in theorizing large complex systems, such as whole societies. -- Joan AckerThis book is complex, stimulating and insightful and should be read by any scholar who is interested in multiple inequalities on a global scale. It can, at times, seem a little overwhelming, but this is a reflection of its complexity. The book makes an enormous contribution not only to the intersectionality debate, but also encourages the reader to question whether we are yet ‘fully modern’ and what counts as ‘progress’. As Walby argues, we are not yet modern when most states have not yet fully criminalized and delegitimized violence against women and minorities. -- Susan DurbinA tour de force that spans social theory and empirical research, seeks to persuade readers of the explanatory powers of complexity theory for the global era and places gender firmly at the centre of the analysis... Sylvia Walby’s impressive study of complex inequalities in our globalized world offers not only a new set of concepts, propositions and empirical evidence, but a vision of the future based on a commitment to equality and justice. For that, we are in her debt. -- Val MoghadamWalby’s book offers both an original theory and a discussion of indicators and findings on the basis of which the theory could become fruitful for empirical research. -- Anja WeißTable of Contents1. Introduction: Progress and modernities What is Progress? More money or longer life? Progress as a contested project Economic development Equality Human Rights Human development, well-being and capabilities Competing projects: neoliberalism and social democracy Contesting conceptions of progress Multiple Complex Inequalities Multiple and intersecting inequalities Complex inequalities: difference, inequality and progress Modernity? Postmodernity? Not yet Modern? Varieties of Modernity? Modernity or postmodernity? Late, second or liquid modernity? Multiple modernities? Not yet modern? Varieties of modernity Defining modernity Globalization Globalization as the erosion of distinctive and separate societies Resistant to globalization Already global Coevolution of global processes with trajectories of development Implications of globalization for social theory Complexity Theory 2. Theorising multiple social systems Multiple Inequalities and Intersectionality Regimes and Domains System and Its Environment: Over-Lapping, Non-Saturating, Non-Nested Systems Societalisation not Societies Emergence and Projects Bodies, Technologies and the Social Path Dependency Co-evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems in Changing Fitness Landscapes 3. Economies Redefining the Economy Domestic Labour as Labour State Welfare as part of the Economy What are Economic Inequalities? What is Progress in the Economy? From Pre-Modern to Modern: The Second Great Transformation Global Processes and Economic Inequalities What global processes? Country Processes Varieties of Political Economy Varieties of employment relations Varieties of Welfare Provision Critical turning points into varieties of political economy 4. Polities Reconceptualising Types of Polities States Nations Nation-States? Organised religions Empires Hegemon Global political institutions Polities Overlap and do not Politically Saturate a Territory Democracy Democracy and modernity Redefining democracy The development of democracy 5. Violence Developing the Ontology of Violence Modernity and Violence Path Dependency in Trajections of Violence Global 6. Civil societies Theorising Civil Society Modernity and Civil Society Civil Society Projects Global Civil Societies and Waves Examples of waves 7. Regimes of complex inequality Beyond Class Regimes Gender Regimes Ethnic Regimes Further Regimes of Complex Inequalities Disability Sexual orientation Intersecting Regimes of Complex Inequality 8. Varieties of modernity Neoliberal and Social Democratic Varieties of Modernity Path Dependency at the Economy/Polity Nexus? Welfare provision Conclusions on welfare Employment regulation Inequality Conclusions on political economy Path Dependency at the Violence Nexus Modernity and path dependency Indicators Development, inequality and violence Gendered violence Path dependency of the violence nexus in OECD countries Violence, economic inequality and the polity/economy nexus Conclusions on violence Gender Regime Public and domestic gender regimes Development and the public gender regime Domestic and public gender regimes and gender inequality Varieties of public gender regimes Democracy and Inequality 9. Measuring progress Economic Development Equality Economic inequality Global economic inequality Beyond the household Economic inequalities and flows Economic inequalities in summary Inequalities in non-economic domains Democracy Human Rights Human Development, Well-Being and Capabilities Key Indicator Sets: What Indicators; What Underlying Concepts of Progress? Extending the Frameworks and Indicators of Progress: Where do Environmental Sustainability and Violence Fit? Environmental sustainability Violence Achievement of Visions of Progress: Comparing Neoliberalism and Social Democracy Economic development: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Equality: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Human rights: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Human development, well-being and capabilities: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Trade offs or complementary? 10. Comparative paths through modernity: neoliberalism and social democracy Political Economy Violence Gender Transformations: The Emergence of Employed Women as the New Champions of Social Democracy Employed women as the new champions of social democracy Dampeners and Catalysts of Economic Growth: War and Gender Regime Transformations Conclusions 11. Contested futures Financial and Economic Crisis 2007-9 Contesting Hegemons and the Future of the World 12. Conclusions The Challenge of Complex Inequalities and Globalization to Social Theory
£52.25
Ohio University Press Sarah the Priestess
Book SynopsisThe only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis, which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic stories dealing with her.Trade Review“This is a valuable piece of original research, one which makes a considerable contribution to an understanding of the obscure origins of the role women play in the Genesis narratives.” * author of The Jewish Mind and The Arab Mind *“First we had Merlin Stone’s When God Was a Woman and now we have Savina Teubal’s Sarah the Priestess. Teubal re-examines our Biblical foremothers in light of the cultural context from which they came, the ancient Mesopotamian art work, tablets, codification and legends. In her fresh, far-reaching, controversial and playful study, Teubal has altered our vision, explained mysterious references, and has produced an enormously important work.” * author of Her Mothers and A Weave of Women *“This is one of the most original and stimulating studies of patriarchal religion and traditions that has been presented to the scholarly and general public in our time. The central idea is so startling that most readers are likely to dismiss it as sheer speculation. However, the book requires the most careful and serious reading and will repay those who invest the time and effort manyfold.” * director, Studies in Religion, University of Michigan *
£17.99
MJ - Ohio University Press Klondike Women
Book SynopsisKlondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared to act on the American dream.Trade Review“‘Profiles in courage’ may be an overworked phrase, but it fits this story exactly. Melanie Mayer has assembled a group of remarkable women and she uses many of their own words in chronicling their experiences in the last great trek of the nineteenth century. The book is not only enlightening about the various trails to the Klondike—the Chilkoot, the White Pass, the Edmonton, and the Stikin-Teslin—but it is great armchair adventure as well.”
£37.86
Ohio University Press Klondike Women True Tales of the 18971898 Gold
Book SynopsisKlondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared to act on the American dream.Trade Review“‘Profiles in courage’ may be an overworked phrase, but it fits this story exactly. Melanie Mayer has assembled a group of remarkable women and she uses many of their own words in chronicling their experiences in the last great trek of the nineteenth century. The book is not only enlightening about the various trails to the Klondike—the Chilkoot, the White Pass, the Edmonton, and the Stikin-Teslin—but it is great armchair adventure as well.”
£20.69
MJ - Ohio University Press Ancient Sisterhood
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating piece of scholarly detective work, biblical scholar Savina J. Teubal peels away millenia of patriarchal distortion to reveal the lost tradition of biblical matriarchs.Trade ReviewTeubals lost tradition rejects victimization in favor of female empowerment, reevaluates social values and shows how both Sarah and Hagar merit prestige in their own right, not merely as receptacles of Abrahams seed. * Bible Review *
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