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81) Burqa of Skin
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Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and her preoccupations with such recurring themes as our culture's vertiginous obsession with youth, and its reverse: the draw of death. Now beyond the ripples of scandal Arcan's work has caused, here are the last echoes...
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Contributors detail what it means to be an academic mother and to think about academic motherhood, while also exploring both the personal and specific institutional challenges academic women face, the multifaceted strategies different academic women are implementing to manage those challenges, and investigating different theoretical possibilities for how we think about academic motherhood.
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Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.
Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept of the "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.
Neither totemic nor complete, the non-fiction...
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To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays' landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays' concept of "intensive mothering" as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays' original work, she spoke of "intensive mothering" as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children's needs with methods informed by experts, which are labor-intensive and costly...
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Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands' work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men's domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be, portrayed as normative wifely behavior rather than as joint work. Forgotten Wives examines the ways in...
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Kimberly, a beautiful narcissist, commits a murder of passion and ends up in an insane asylum. Her father agrees with the doctor's recommendation for her cure. Riley Nacht is a criminal psychopath whose heinous crimes lands him in the same institution. When Kimberly was a child, she had watched one of Riley's murders. Eddie Fisk, a hospital assistant working in the asylum, knows both patients and is drawn into their circumstances to his own demise....
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In April 2011, a team of five people put together SlutWalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus "safety," Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized." The sentiment of those in the over 3000 person crowd that day were shared by folks around...
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Las claves esenciales para conocer el movimiento de lucha por la emancipación de la mujer: sus raíces, las estrategias de lucha, sus conflictos y contradicciones, sus heroínas y pensadoras, sus aliados y enemigos, sus tópicos y prejuicios, su evolución y su futuro. Atrévase a saber y sentir que el feminismo no es una cuestión de mujeres, sino de derechos humanos; una revolución activa que sigue cambiando la sociedad.
– El movimiento feminista...
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The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face-social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth-are specific to women's role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers' concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic...
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Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations, creative manifestations, and embodiments of mothers without their children. In her 1997 book, entitled Mother Without Child: Contemporary...
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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism...
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This edited volume explores how and why immigrant/refugee mothers' experiences differ due to the challenges posed by the migration process, but also what commonalities underline immigrant/refugee mothers' lived experiences. This book will add to the field of women's studies the much-needed discussion of how immigrant and refugee mothers' lives are dependent on cultural, environmental and socio-economic circumstances. The collection offers multiple...
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Nuestra cultura tiende a situar la "edad de la madurez" en un lugar de invisibilidad que poco a poco se desliza hacia la marginación. Vivimos una época en la que los cambios no piden permiso para instalarse y la realidad, que se impone independientemente a nuestros deseos, ha puesto en evidencia que ya no existen garantías de que se pueda recorrer la madurez de acuerdo a lo previsto y cumpliendo lo que la sociedad consideraba previsible.
Son los...
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Producto de más de diez años de docencia, este libro ofrece una sistematización analítica de las herramientas teórico-metodológicas que posibilitan la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en el campo de las políticas públicas, así como su evaluación y ejecución por parte de funcionarios gubernamentales o miembros de organizaciones de la sociedad civil abocadas a este trabajo.
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"Somos lo que nos han hecho, lentamente al correr los años", escribió María Teresa León.
El problema es que la sociedad, al correr los años, solo valora un tipo de poder: el político que va unido, o busca, al económico. El feminismo ha pasado de enarbolar la bandera del pacifismo y de la defensa de los derechos civiles que caracterizó a las sufragistas... a considerar la toma del poder como objetivo principal y necesario para alcanzar la igualdad....
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Un aullido de exasperación provocado por una especie concreta de hombres: la especie macho, los Supermen, como les gusta verse a sí mismos.
Este no es un manifiesto contra los hombres en general. Ni tampoco un manifiesto contra los hombres árabes en particular. Se trata, sin embargo, de un aullido de exasperación provocado por una especie concreta de hombres: la especie macho, los Supermen, como les gusta verse a sí mismos. Pero Superman es una...
97) Looking for Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mother
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The 2007 death by self-induced strangulation in prison of nineteen year old inmate Ashley Smith drew a great deal of public attention. The case gave rise to a shocking verdict of homicide in the 2013 inquest into the cause of her death. In this book, I inquire into questions about of what social problem or phenomenon Ashley Smith is a "case," and what governmental work is done by prevalent constructions of her as an exemplar. This book performs a...
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He-Yin Zhen (1886-1920) was a female theorist who played a central role in the birth of Chinese feminism. Editor of a prominent feminist-anarchist journal in the early twentieth century and exponent of a particularly incisive analysis of China and the world. Unlike her contemporaries, He-Yin Zhen was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global...
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Laboring Positions aims to disrupt the dominant discourse on academic women's mothering experiences. Black women's maternity is assumed, and yet is also silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, racist, antifamily, and increasingly neoliberal work environment of academia. This volume acknowledges the salience of the institutional challenges facing contemporary caregiving academics; yet it is centrally concerned with expanding the academic mothering...
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"Las gallinitas", un grupo de amigas integrado por seis mujeres, se reúnen en el bar para comentar sus vivencias y experiencias. Durante una semana completa, Paula, Tote, Laura, Ada, Mercedes y María José irán explorando temas clave que afectan de forma clara y directa a las mujeres y su convivencia en una sociedad fálica y machista.
Pablo Martín Tharrats, el autor de este ensayo novelado, completa las reflexiones de las protagonistas con datos...
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