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  • Holding the Reins of the Future

    Child-Rearing Experts and Female Novelists, 1860–1940

    by Jackie E. Stallcup ...
    How women novelists reshaped the rules of motherhood and claimed authority over the future.Debates about how to raise children have always been debates about power, authority, and the future. In Holding the Reins of the Future, Jackie E. Stallcup examines the vigorous nineteenth- and early twentieth-century arguments over child-rearing and shows how four influential novelists—Martha Finley, Louisa ... Read more

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  • The Dialectic of Freedom

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    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

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  • American Cool

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    "Compels us to rethink our . . . understanding of the American character. . . . [S]hould be read by all . . . concerned about the current crisis in American values." —Kevin White, University of Sussex, author of The First Sexual RevolutionCool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts ... Read more

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  • Racial Innocence

    Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

    by Robin Bernstein ...
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  • The Prime of Life

    A History of Modern Adulthood

    by Steven Mintz ...
    "By drawing on 400 years of social and economic history . . . [the book] presents a thoughtful and thorough guide through the life stages." ( Library Journal)Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescents but still lack the ... Read more

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  • Katie's Canon

    Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community

    Edited by Katie Geneva Cannon ...
    Katie's Canon is a selection of essays written for a variety of occasions throughout Cannon's celebrated career. This new edition contains three additional essays and a new foreword by Emilee Townes. The volume weaves together the particularities of Cannon's own history and the oral tradition of African American women, African American women's literary traditions, and sociocultural and ethical ... Read more

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  • The Weight of Whiteness

    A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

    by Alison Bailey ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    “Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. ... Read more

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  • Scare Tactics

    Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary ... Read more

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    Black Women, Food, and Power

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    Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food ... Read more

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  • Growing up Absorbed

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  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the "color-line," in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the "command performance" scene in these texts, in ... Read more

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