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  • Letters to the Editor

    Comparative and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Allison Cavanagh, John Steel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides an account of current work on letters to the editor from a range of different national, cultural, conceptual and methodological perspectives. Letters to the editor provide a window on the reflexive relationship between editorial and readership identities in historical and international contexts. They are a forum through which the personal and the political intersect, a space ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Women Writing Nature

    A Feminist View

    by Alex Hunt, Susan A. C. Rosen, Barbara J. Cook, Sarah E. McFarland, Mary Kate Azcuy, Heidi Hutner, H Louise Davis, Allison Steele, Joan E. Maloof, Rosemarie Rowley ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Misogyny

    The World's Oldest Prejudice

    by Jack Holland ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?The result takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents and civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Little Locksmith

    A Memoir

    by Katharine Butler Hathaway, Nancy Mairs ...
    This early 20th century memoir of a woman's faith in the face of debilitating disease is a "remarkably un-self-pitying book remains poignant and truthful" ( Publishers Weekly)."You must not miss it . . . It is the kind of book that cannot come into being without great living and great suffering and a rare spirit behind it." — The New York TimesIn 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine ... Read more

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  • Undoing Gender

    by Judith Butler ...
    Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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  • Silences

    by Tillie Olsen ...
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us ... Read more

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  • Women of Will

    Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays

    by Tina Packer ...
    From one of the country’s foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and master teacher Tina Packer offers an exploration—fierce, funny, fearless—of the women of Shakespeare’s plays. A profound, and profoundly illuminating, book that gives us the playwright’s changing understanding of the feminine and reveals some of his deepest insights. Packer, with expert grasp and ... Read more

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  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Read more

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  • Grace Paley

    Illuminating Dark Lives

    by Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor ... Read more

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  • Conceived in Modernism

    The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control

    by Dr. Aimee Armande Wilson ...
    Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political positions surrounding birth control have roots in literary concerns, specifically those of ... Read more

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  • Eugenic Feminism

    Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India

    by Asha Nadkarni ...
    Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic project—sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of ... Read more

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  • Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

    by Anna Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir ... Read more

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