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Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanMultiple Authors Ritual and gender : critical perspectives / Angeliki Tzanetou -- Sources and methodology -- The scandal of womenís ritual / Deborah Lyons -- Gender and agency -- Looking for the images : representations of girlsí rituals in ancient Athens / Jenifer Neils -- Improvising on the Athenian stage : womenís ritual practice in drama / Barbara Goff -- Sanctissima femina : social categorization and womenís religious experience in the Roman Republic / Celia E. Schultz -- Threat and hope : womenís rituals and Civil War in Roman epic / Vassiliki Panoussi -- Performance -- Folk songs as ritual acts : the case of work-songs / Andromache Karanika -- The rise of the demon womb in Greco-Roman antiquity / Christopher A. Faraone -- Thesmophoria and eleusinian mysteries: the fascination of womenís secret ritual / Eva Stehle -- Appropriations and adaptations -- Worshipping demeter in ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Maryline Parca -- Nuptiarum sollemnia? : girlsí transition to marriage in the Roman jurists / Lauren Caldwell -- Maidens and manhood in the worship of Diana at Nemi / Eve DíAmbra -- Male improvisation in the "womenís cult" of Eileithyia on Paros / David D. Leitao -- Early Christian antipathy toward the Greek "women gods" / Kathy L. Gaca. 
Granuaile : Irelandís pirate queen, c.1530-1603Anne Chambers "Over 400 Years ago Granuaile became a legend. As both Pirate Queen and Gaelic Chieftain, Granuaile or Grace O'Malley, challenged the accepted ideas of sixteenth century Ireland. She manipulated the turbulent political environment, ignoring cultural conventions, to become one of the most powerful leaders in the country. The Invading English also talked about this '...most famous feminine sea captain'. The meeting of the two Queens, Granuaile and Elizabeth I, ensured that the legend grew until Granuaile became celebrated as one of the most notorious Irishwomen in Elizabeth England. Using State Papers and manuscripts of the period, Anne Chambers reveals the woman behind the legend and the unique contribution Granuaile made to Irish history. This new edition coincides with the 400th anniversary of Granuaile's death". Book Jacket. 
Feminist Rhetorical TheoriesEdited by Christine L. Harold and Stephen H. Browne. "Part I : Classical and medieval -- Kairotic encounters / Debra Hawhee -- The price of art in Isocrates : formalism and the escape from politics / Andrew Ford -- Platoís view of rhetoric / Edwin Black -- The rhetoric of Aristotle / Forbes I. Hill -- Reflections on Cicero in nineteenth-century England and America / Mary Rosner -- Narration and rgumentation : Quintilian on Narratio as the heart of rhetorical thinking / John D. OíBanion -- Saint Augustine and the debate about Christian rhetoric / James J. Murphy -- Christine de Pisan and The treasure of the city of ladies : a medieval rhetorician and her rhetoric / Jenny R. Redfern -- Part II : Renaissance and Enlightenment -- Renaissance humanism : the pursuit of eloquence / Hanna H. Gray -- Bacon and rhetoric / Brian Vickers -- John Locke and the new rhetoric / Wilbur Samuel Howell -- George Campbell and the classical tradition / Douglas McDermott -- Philosophical assumptions underlying Hugh Blairís Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres / Vincent M. Bevilacqua -- The democratic critics : an alternative American rhetorical tradition in the nineteenth century / Christine Oravec -- Nietzsche and the aesthetics of rhetoric / Steve Whitson and John Poulakos -- Part III : Twentieth century -- The rhetorical situation / Lloyd F. Bitzer -- The myth of the rhetorical situation / Richard E. Vatz -- Rhetoric and its situations / Scott Consigny -- Kenneth Burke and the "new rhetoric" / Marie Hochmuth -- Rhetoric as a way of being / Thomas W. benson -- Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser -- Michel Foucault andthe question of rhetoric / Barbara A. Biesecker -- On reading differently : through Foucaultís resistance / John Muckelbauer -- Towards a transactional view of rhetorical and feminist theory : rereading HÈlËne Cixousís The laugh of the Medusa / Barbara A. Biesecker -- Introduction to Orientalism / Edward W. Said -- Selections from Subculture : the meaning of style / Dick Hebdige." 
Te Ata: Chickasaw storyteller, American treasureRichard Green "Chickasaw performance artist Te Ata (nee Mary Frances Thompson, 1895-1995) built a dance and dramatic repertoire from American Indian folklore, molding unique performances that inspired Chautauqua audiences and became her entree into the upper-class salons of Manhattan. Billed as 'Princess Te Ata', she mastered the works of 'Indianist' composers/poets of the 19th and 20th centuries (Cadman, Lieurance, et al.), dramatized Native stories, gathered illustrative artifacts, and dressed in beads and buckskins; she gave one-woman shows throughout the US and Europe, including at the White House and command performances before European royalty. Mentors included high school teacher Muriel Wright (Choctaw author of Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, 1951) and drama professor Frances Dinsmore Davis. Te Ata was the artistic contemporary of Chickasaw singer Ataloa, Penobscot actress/dancer Molly Spotted Elk, and Cherokee humorist Will Rogers. She married Clyde Fisher, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History; together they traveled extensively, documenting subjects as diverse as live volcanoes, solar eclipses, and Native American religious ceremonies, while hobnobbing with international intelligentsia such as Albert Einstein. Chickasaw tribal historian Green has presented a thoroughly researched and highly readable book pertinent to the fields of drama, women's studies, natural history, and Native American studies. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/collections." CHOICE 
Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions and ImplicationsTK Logan, Robert Walker, Carol Jordan and Carl Leukefeld "Seeking a broader picture than provided by the many accounts written from the perspective of a single discipline, Logan, Robert Walker, Carol E. Jordan, and Carl G. Leukefeld (all U. of Kentucky) integrate research from many disciplines on factors that contribute to partner violence and sexual assault victimization, mental health, and substance use among adult women; provide conceptual and research background on why women may interpret and respond to interpersonal victimization very differently; and identify implications for future research and implications for interventions". (booknews.com) 
Bad girls : Cultural Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive WomenA. Susan Owen;
Leah R. Vande Berg;
Sarah R. Stein "Bad Girls rides the cutting edge of new feminist scholarship. This engaging and important volume brings the study of how women are represented in media into the twenty-first century. Bad Girls is an indispensable book for rhetorical scholars and others interested in women’s issues." - Book Jacket 
Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be PresidentJill Norgren "Long before Hillary Clinton, there was Belva Lockwood: two-time presidential hopeful, Lockwood campaigned in 1884 and 1888 on a platform of women's suffrage. In the first full-length biography of this feminist pioneer, legal historian Norgren has meticulously researched what little has remained of Lockwood's papers, most of which were destroyed after her death. Lockwood was, in a word, tenacious: one of the first female lawyers in the country, she was the very first woman to be admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, an episode that Norgren recounts in moving detail. Glimpses of Lockwood's less- heroic side emerge as well, and it's to Norgren's credit that Lockwood's controversial views on Mormons, Native Americans and freed slaves are placed in their proper historical context, but aren't necessarily forgiven. Indeed, fights with other suffragists and a seemingly inexhaustible well of self-regard are featured alongside Lockwood's many strengths and accomplishments. Norgren never reaches beyond the facts of the record, rarely speculating on Lockwood's intentions, thoughts or purpose-a plus for those who like their biography embellishment-free, but a definite minus for more casual readers, who may find Lockwood too distant to rouse sympathy. Illustrations." - Publishers Weekly 
Burning Women: a Global History of Widow Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the PresentJoerg Fisch "Burning Women explores how the Indian Hindu custom of sati, or widow burning, has existed in various forms in most parts of the world. The practice of widow-burning combines strong spiritual beliefs in the hereafter with the more secular power struggles of this world, both between the sexes and social groups. Widow burning in India has long been hotly debated, but its practice in other parts of the world has been neglected. Burning Women is the first history of the anthropological, religious, social and political contexts of widow-burning across the world. " - Book Jacket 
Development with women : selected essays from Development in practiceDorienne Rowan-Campbell Development with women / Dorienne Rowan-Campbell -- Targeting women or transforming institutions? : policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts / Naila Kabeer -- Women in the informal sector : the contribution of education and training / Fiona Leach -- The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot / Sarah Hlupelike Longwe -- Participatory development : an approach sensitive to class and gender / Dan Connell -- Sanctioned violence : development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar / Puja Roy -- Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh : undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes? / Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed M. Hashemi and Shamsul Huda Badal -- Domestic violence, deportation, and women’s resistance / Purna Sen -- Women entrepreneurs in the Bangladeshi restaurant business / Mahmuda Rahman Khan -- Empowerment examined / Jo Rowlands -- The Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network / Hope Chigudu -- Dealing with hidden issues : trafficked women in Nepal / Meena Poudel and Anita Shrestha -- Power, institutions and gender relations : can gender training alter the equations? / Ranjani K. Murthy --Soup kitchens, women and social policy : case studies / Luiba Kogan. 
Discarded pages : Araceli Cab Cumí, Maya Poet and PoliticianKathleen Rock Martin "Araceli Cab Cumi is a contemporary Maya writer, grassroots leader, and political party activist from Mexico. She is also the only indigenous woman to have been elected to the State Congress of Yucatan, serving two terms of office." "Discarded Pages is Cab Cumi's life narrative accompanied by her essays, poems, personal narratives, and political and public policy papers. Titled in honor of Cab Cumi's earliest writings, which she had thrown away, thinking them of little value, Discarded Pages showcases her expressions and thoughts within the context of her eventful and unusual life. In addition to translations of her work, Cab Cumi's original Spanish and Yucatec Maya writings are included in the book." "Gramsci's theoretically innovative concept of the "organic intellectual" is used to analyze Cab Cumi's life and career. The book expands on Gramsci's original concept to include discussions of gender, new social movements, and the social context in which organic intellectuals labor as activists and thinkers. Throughout Discarded Pages Cab Cumi represents the worldview of a Maya woman seeking to represent other Maya women."--BOOK JACKET. 
Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved ItKimberly Jarvis "This book profiles fourteen of New England's most rare and endangered flora and fauna - mammals, birds, insects, plants, and fish - by following the biologists who are researching, monitoring, and protecting them. Each chapter includes a first-person account of the author's experience with these experts, as well as details about the species life history, threats, and conservation strategies."-BOOK JACKET 
Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900Leslie Brubaker Introduction : Gendering the early medieval world / Julia M.H. Smith -- Gender and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages / Walter Pohl -- Clothes maketh the man : power dressing and elite masculinity in the later Roman world / Mary Harlow -- Social transformation, gender transformation? The court eunuch, 300-900 / Shaun Tougher -- Sex, lies and textuality : the Secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker -- Romance and reality in the Byzantine bride shows / Martha Vinson -- Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society / Julia Bray -- Gender and politics in the harem of al- Muqtadir / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- Dressing conservatively : women’s brooches as markers of ethnic identity? / Bonnie Effros -- Gendering courts in the early medieval west / Janet L. Nelson -- Men, women and liturgical practice in the early medieval west / Gisela Muschiol -- Gender and the patronage of culture in Merovingian Gaul / Yitzhak Hen -- Genealogy defined by women : the case of the Pippinids / Ian Wood -- Bride shows revisited : praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the empress Judith / Mayke de Jong -- ’What is the Word if not semen?’ Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis / Lynda Coon -- Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c. 600-950 / Dawn Hadley. 
Gender, Water and DevelopmentAnne Coles "A close analysis of current policy and practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how in different environmental, historical and cultural contexts gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa and the challenges of taking gender into account in large water projects in India and Nepal." - Book Jacket 
Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up LatinaRosie Molinary "Growing up in two cultures, children are usually the ones 'who bring America home' while their parents 'just want the guest to go away.' Molinary was the only Puerto Rican girl in her South Carolina high school, and her lively, honest narrative captures the immigrant conflicts of trying to fit in at home and feeling a stranger outside. She combines her personal experience with commentary drawn from more than 80 Latinas she interviewed and more than 5,000 who answered her Web-based questionnaire. They talk frankly about prejudice, family tensions, body image, skin color, sexuality, faith, social norms, and much more. Throughout, the young women are candid about ignorance from all sides, and they are fiercely critical both of the stereotype that Latinas are all 'Mexican and illegal' and of the exotic, sexy roles Latinas play on television. Rooted in clear details, the strong, upbeat message celebrates the traditional and the contemporary sides of today's Latinas. A final section includes the survey, interview questions, and an up- to-date bibliography and a resource guide." Hazel Rochman - Booklist 
Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early IrelandLisa Bitel "It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement 
Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the United StatesJill Denner Latina girls transforming cultures, contexts, and selves / Jill Denner and Bianca Guzmán -- Los papas, la familia y la sexualidad / Bianca L. Guzmán, Elise Arruda, and Aida Feria -- Confianza, consejos and contradictions : gender and sexuality lessons between Latina adolescent daughters and mothers / Jennifer Ayala -- La casa : negotiating family cultural practices, constructing identities / Angela Gallegos-Castillo -- Promoting values of education in Latino mother-adolescent discussions about conflict and sexuality / Laura F. Romo ... [et al.] -- Resistance to race and gender oppression : Dominican high school girls in New York City / Nancy López -- La escuela : young Latina women negotiating identities in school / Melissa Hyams -- Latina adolescents’ career goals : resources for overcoming obstacles / Wendy Rivera and Ronald Gallimore -- 
Liberating Method: Feminism and Social ResearchMarjorie L. DeVault Becoming a feminist scholar: a second-generation story -- What is feminist methodology?. Talking back to sociology: distinctive contributions of feminist methodology -- Institutional ethnography: a strategy for feminist inquiry -- Excavation. Talking and listening from women’s standpoint: feminist strategies for interviewing and analysis -- Ethnicity and expertise: racial-ethnic knowledge in sociological research -- The self as resource. Novel readings: the social organization of interpretation -- Whose science of food and health? narratives of profession and activism from public health nutrition -- Writing and rhetorical strategy. Women write sociology: rhetorical strategies -- Metaphors of silence and voice in feminist thought -- Speaking up, carefully: authorship and authority in feminist writing -- Craft knowledge of feminist research. From the seminar room: practical advice for researchers. 
Matilda Coxe Stevenson : Pioneering AnthropologistDarlis Miller The first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis A. Miller challenges older interpretations of her subject's life and work as she traces one woman's quest for professional recognition in the face of social constraints." "Stevenson worked for more than a quarter century with the Bureau of American Ethnology and was the only professional woman to hold a full-time position there. When refused admission to the all-male Anthropological Society of Washington, she organized the Women's Anthropological Society. Despite the obstacles posed by gender bias, she earned recognition for her pioneering ethnographies of the Zia and Zuni Indians - and for a manuscript on the Tewa that mysteriously disappeared. Miller discloses the close relations Stevenson developed with her Indian consultants, especially Zuni priests, and the importance of her Tewa work." "Miller also examines Stevenson's field techniques in the context of the anthropology of her day, as well as the personal traits that contributed to her professional success but caused some colleagues to focus more on her personality than her accomplishment. Along the way, Miller debunks many of the anecdotal tales about Stevenson promulgated by male colleagues who seemed to delight in pointing out perceived flaws in her character. She also offers previously little-known details regarding the legal battles of Stevenson's later years." "Few of the many male southwestern anthropologists who have been subjects of biographies were as involved in the field for as long. And as Miller shows, Stevenson's work fostered a better understanding of Pueblo cultures and helped to undermine racial stereotypes. This book gives her due recognition, lending compelling insight into a remarkable career while offering new views of the earliest field studies of Puebloan peoples."--BOOK JACKET. 
Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head HomePamela Stone The dream team -- Family matters -- Home alone -- Gilded cages -- The choice gap -- Half-full, half-empty -- Mothers of re-invention -- Cocooning: the drift to domesticity -- Dreams and visions: getting there -- Appendix. Study methodology. 
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black WomenT. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Sex, power, and punanny -- Pimpin’ ain’t easy, but somebody’s got to do it -- "I see the same ho" : video vixens, beauty culture, and diasporic sex tourism -- Too hot to be bothered: Black women and sexual abuse -- "I’m a hustla, baby" : groupie love and the hip hop star -- Strip tails: booty clappin’, p-poppin’, shake dancing -- Coda, or a few last words on hip hop and feminism. 
Proving Woman : Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle AgesDyan Elliott "In this provocative and forceful book, Dyan Elliott considers the impact of an institutional procedure on the phenomena it was used to assess. Proving Woman examines sacramental confession, the inquisition of heretics, and the discernment of spirits as parallel cases of a growing medieval concern with the "proving" of spirituality, especially that of women, by an increasingly skeptical clergy. Elliott carefully sifts through primary sources in diverse genres, including many little-known texts, in her characteristically sharp and lucid prose." - Amazon 
Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsJill Bystydzienski Sustaining gains : reflections on women in science and technology in the twentieth-century United States / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- From "engineeresses" to "girl engineers" to "good engineers" : a history of women’s U.S. engineering education / Amy Sue Bix -- Using POWRE to ADVANCE : institutional barriers identified by women scientists and engineers / Sue V. Rosser -- Telling stories about engineering : group dynamics and resistance to diversity / Cynthia Burack and Suzanne E. Franks -- The gender gap in information technology / Mo-Yin S. Tam and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. -- African American women in science : experiences from high school through the post-secondary years and beyond / Sandra L. Hanson -- African women pursuing graduate studies in the sciences : racism, gender bias, and third world marginality / Josephine Beoku-Betts -- Gendered experiences in the science classroom / Molly J. Dingel -- The construction of sexual bimorphism and heterosexuality in the animal kingdom / Kirsten Smilla Ebeling -- Feminism and science : mechanism without reductionism / Carla Fehr -- Across the language barrier : gender in plant biology and feminist theory / Dana A. Dudle and Meryl Altman -- The graduate experience of women in STEM and how it could be improved / Anne J. MacLachlan -- How can women and students of color come to belong in graduate mathematics? / Abbe H. Herzig -- Designing gender-sensitive computer games to close the gender gap in technology / Anna M. Martinson -- Making sense of retention : an examination of undergraduate women’s participation in physics courses 
Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare WomenCaryl Rivers Introduction : read all about it! women are a mess! -- Superwomen and twitching wrecks -- Too tired for sex, too late for babies? -- Divorce and disruption -- Suffer the little children -- The mommy diaries -- The muted voice -- Hating Hillary, trashing Teresa, and mauling Martha -- Ladies of the Right -- News as poli- porn -- Brainpower -- The war on birth control -- Conclusion : against forgetting. 
Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of HappinessDiane Maples "Most popular media portrayals depict single women in one of two states: single-and-loving-it or single- and-desperate. Single women strike back in this compilation of essays, edited by author and freelance writer Maples, "How to Date in a Post-Dating World", in which they discuss with candor and courage their own experiences outside of the domestic partnership paradigm. Unfortunately, for every poignant, well- written highlight-such as Chelsea Handler's "Thunder," Sasha Cagen's "How I Dodged a Reality Show Bullet" and Kay Trimberger's "Can a Single Woman Really Be Happy Without a Soulmate?"-there are two or three pieces that grate, either through self-indulgence or sheer volume. In one particularly edit-worthy tale, a sex-columnist debates the merits of her single life versus her married life in a manner not unlike a rambling 'confessional' on braindead reality series "The Real World": unstoppable and irrelevant. The myriad states of singularity-secure-in-your-fluxing, single-for-life, widower, etc.-that the book brings to light are interesting but, in these essays, fail to intrigue; overall, the collection reads more like excerpts from a support group meeting than a collection of professional work." - Publishers Weekly 
Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum AmericaJoerg Fisch Introduction : the power of association -- Antecedents, 1760-1831 : influences and organizations -- Organizational beginnings, 1832-1837 : networks and spheres -- United amid differences, 1836-1837 : conventions and petitions -- Internal divisions, 1837-1840 : debates and choices -- Transition and transformation, 1841-1855 : morality and politics -- Conclusion : Civil War and emancipation, 1861-1870 : ironies and legacies. 
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists Jean Baker The martyr and the missionary : Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell -- In the blessed company of faithful women : Susan B. Anthony and the sisters -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the solitude of self -- Mothering America : the feminist ambitions of Frances Willard -- Endgame : Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson. 
The Psychology of WomenMargaret Matlin Introduction -- Gender stereotypes and other gender biases -- Infancy and childhood -- Adolescence -- Gender comparisons in cognitive abilities and attitudes about success -- Gender comparisons in social and personality characteristics -- Women and work -- Love relationships -- Sexuality -- Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood -- Women and physical health -- Women and psychological disorders -- Violence against women -- Women and older adulthood -- Moving onward. 
The Sea Captain's Wife: a True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth CenturyMartha Elizabeth Hodes A story and a history -- A carpenter’s wife -- Yankee in the deep South -- Servant and washerwoman -- From widow to bride -- The sea captain’s wife -- Hurricane -- Searching for Eunice. Women at Geneseo State Normal School, 1900-1925Claire Ruswick 
Worlds of gender : the archaeology of women's lives around the globeSarah Milledge Nelson "In Worlds of Gender, ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings together the totality of the evidence to make it possible to compare sexual roles and identities from far-flung cultures of vastly different time periods. Worlds of Gender is an excellent resource for comparative cultural studies and gender studies, as well as a useful examination of how gender roles affect social structures." --BOOK JACKET. 
Writing African American Women: an Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of ColorElizabeth Ann Beaulieu "Following closely on the heels of the five-volume "Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature" (2005), this set not only overlaps the coverage of that work but also strongly resembles it in outward appearance and format. Beaulieu, who also edited "The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia" (2003), concentrates on writings by black women from the antebellum period to the present, noting that "Writing African American Women" is the first reference work to focus specifically on feminist and womanist approaches to African American literature." - Booklist 
Writing Women in Central America: Gender and the Fictionalization of HistoryLaura Barbas-Rhoden "During the last third of the 20th century, revolutionary movements in Central America coincided with a boom of publications by Latin American women. Barbas-Rhoden (foreign languages, Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. Carolina) examines the work of four of these female authors: Claribel Alegria, Gioconda Belli, Rosario Aguilar, and Tatiana Lobo. She explores ways in which they have reclaimed the traditions, oral histories, and cultural legacy of the isthmus in their prose and poetry, producing texts that respond to political injustices, point out the continuing legacy of patriarchal rules, and interpret history from a female perspective." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Violence in the city of women : police and batterers in Bahia, BrazilSarah J. Hautzinger "Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. Sarah J. Hautzinger's vividly detailed, accessibly written study explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia. Hautzinger brings together distinct voices--unexpectedly macho policewomen, the battered women they are charged with defending, indomitable Bahian women who disdain female victims, and men who grapple with changing pressures related to masculinity and honor. What emerges is a view of Brazil's policing experiment as a pioneering, and potentially radical, response to demands of the women's movement to build feminism into the state in a society fundamentally shaped by gender." Amazon.com |
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