Reconstructing Gender

Reconstructing Gender

Author: Estelle Disch

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780767410021

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This anthology of provocative readings forces the reader to face the complexity of gender and its varied relationships to power. Themes include: social contexts of gender; gender socialization; embodiment; communication; sexuality; families; education; and paid work and unemployment.


Unsettling America

Unsettling America

Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1994-11-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1101573899

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A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rita Dove Louise Erdich Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Garrett Hongo Li-Young Lee Pat Mora Naomi Shihab Nye Marye Percy Ishmael Reed Alberto Rios Ntozake Shange Gary Soto Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nellie Wong David Hernandez Mary TallMountain ...and many more.


Women

Women

Author: Amy Vita Kesselman

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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Talking Visions

Talking Visions

Author: Ella Shohat

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9780262692618

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This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices.


Comfort Woman

Comfort Woman

Author: Maria Rosa Henson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-09-22

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1442273569

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From Comfort Woman: “We began the day with breakfast, after which we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all naked, and they laughed at us, especially me and the other young girl who did not have any pubic hair. “At two, the soldiers came. My work began, and I lay down as one by one the soldiers raped me. Every day, anywhere from twelve to over twenty soldiers assaulted me. There were times when there were as many as thirty; they came to the garrison in truckloads.” “I lay on the bed with my knees up and my feet on the mat, as if I were giving birth. Whenever the soldiers did not feel satisfied, they vented their anger on me. Every day, there were incidents of violence and humiliation. When the soldiers raped me, I felt like a pig. Sometimes they tied up my right leg with a waist band or a belt and hung it on a nail in the wall as they violated me. “I shook all over. I felt my blood turn white. I heard that there was a group called the Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women looking for women like me. I could not forget the words that blared out of the radio that day: 'Don't be ashamed, being a sex slave is not your fault. It is the responsibility of the Japanese Imperial Army. Stand up and fight for your rights.'” In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a “comfort woman.” In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had held close for fifty years. Now in a second edition with a new introduction and foreword that bring the ongoing controversy over the comfort women to the present, this powerful memoir will be essential reading for all those concerned with violence against women.


Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

Author: Lynda Van Devanter

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 1991-05-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780446392518

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Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs.


All about Skin

All about Skin

Author: Jina Ortiz

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 029930194X

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A short fiction anthology of work by award-winning, multicultural, women writers, All about Skin captures the reality of harsh media pressures, difficult family relationships, racial prejudices, and other problems that face women of color around the world.


Women in the Trees

Women in the Trees

Author: Susan Koppelman

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781558614871

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A new edition of the groundbreaking anthology.


Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology

Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology

Author: Amy Kesselman

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13:

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This best-selling anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. It presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and fostering change.


Women

Women

Author: Amy Kesselman

Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780767410571

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