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Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780674955202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.
Author: Tuula Gordon
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1994-03
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0814730647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe single woman is mistakenly seen to be a product of the twentieth century. Drawing on figures as diverse as Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, and the Amazons, Gordon brings to light a powerful tradition of single womanhood and calls the "marginality" of single women into question.
Author: Rose L. Chou
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Published: 2018-06
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781634000529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Josefina Figueira-McDonough
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1560239719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents analysis and perspectives on the status of women n various aspects of public and private welfare systems in the United States, as well as instances of women resisting this marginalization.
Author: Natalie J. Sokoloff
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0813535700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprints of the most influential recent work in the field as well as more than a dozen newly commissioned essays explore theoretical issues, current research, service provision, and activism among Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, and lesbians. The volume rejects simplistic analyses of the role of culture in domestic violence by elucidating the support systems available to battered women within different cultures, while at the same time addressing the distinct problems generated by that culture. Together, the essays pose a compelling challenge to stereotypical images of battered women that are racist, homophobic, and xenophobic.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1137085150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnography as vehicles for women s rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures. This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston. Ranging across cultural, historical, literary, and class dimensions of travel writing, these essays give voice to women writers who have been silenced, ignored, or marginalized.
Author: Margaret A. Eisenhart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-11-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0226195457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre there places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years document a gender gap in science and engineering, showing women's interest in these fields declines from grade school to adulthood. WOMEN'S SCIENCE expands our conception of scientific practice as it reconfigures both women's role in science and the meaning of science in contemporary society.
Author: Serena Cosgrove
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010-07-23
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0813550408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen have experienced decades of economic and political repression across Latin America, where many nations are built upon patriarchal systems of power. However, a recent confluence of political, economic, and historical factors has allowed for the emergence of civil society organizations (CSOs) that afford women a voice throughout the region. Leadership from the Margins describes and analyzes the unique leadership styles and challenges facing the women leaders of CSOs in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Based on ethnographic research, Serena Cosgrove's analysis offers a nuanced account of the distinct struggles facing women, and how differences of class, political ideology, and ethnicity have informed their outlook and organizing strategies. Using a gendered lens, she reveals the power and potential of women's leadership to impact the direction of local, regional, and global development agendas.
Author: Susan Fraiman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-01-10
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0231543751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.
Author: Cheryl Jeanne Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780830819973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCheryl Sanders shows how ministry might be carried out by historically marginalized groups like women, minorities and children. She argues that missions can be revitalized by a theology of inclusion in a multicultural world.
