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An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of
the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's
most celebrated and fabled women.
Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody
battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed,
beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world.
Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of
wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find
it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley,
and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she
writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young
Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De
Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski,
who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney
Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life.
Now, in an irresistible memoir that is at once ruthlessly
forthright, supremely stylish, full of fascinating details, and
deeply touching, Gloria Vanderbilt writes at last about the subject
on which she has hitherto been silent: the men in her life, why she
loved them, and what each affair or marriage meant to her. This is
the candid and captivating account of a life that has kept gossip
writers speculating for years, as well as Gloria's own intimate
description of growing up, living, marrying, and loving in the
glare of the limelight and becoming, despite a family as famous and
wealthy as America has ever produced, not only her own person but
an artist, a designer, a businesswoman, and a writer of rare
distinction.
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Won by Love
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Norma McCorvey; As told to Gary Thomas
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In this autobiography by Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe of Roe v.
Wade," you have the opportunity to read the behind-the-scenes
report of one of this century's most surprising and public
confessions of faith.
The presence of women in the practice of medicine extends back to
ancient times; however, up until the last few decades, women have
comprised only a small percentage of medical students. The gradual
acceptance of women in male-dominated specialties has increased,
but a commitment to improving gender equity in the medical
community within leadership positions and in the academic world is
still being discussed. Gender Equity in the Medical Profession:
Emerging Research and Opportunities delivers essential discourse on
strategically handling discrimination within medical school,
training programs, and consultancy positions in order to eradicate
sexism from the workplace. Featuring research on topics such as
gender diversity, leadership roles, and imposter syndrome, this
book is ideally designed for health professionals, doctors, nurses,
hospital staff, hospital directors, board members, activists,
instructors, researchers, academicians, and students seeking
coverage on strategies that tackle gender equity in medical
education.
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Finding Me
(Hardcover)
Inocencia Tupas Malunes; Contributions by Sandra Lee, Fermin Rodriguez
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R651
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This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of
an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly
conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three
great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been
seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of
gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy
have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its
ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in
exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature
afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects
and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings
of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and
relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by
experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and
critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and
provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models
of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic
form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather
than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings
showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new
vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force
of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical
frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years
deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist
poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the
social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource
for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model
of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current
interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and
reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the
center of the interpretive act.
Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the
Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights
utilizes an intersectional Chicana feminist approach to analyze
reproductive and gendered violence against women in the Americas
and the role of feminist activism through case studies including
the current state of reproductive justice in Texas, feminicides in
Latin America, raising awareness about Ni Una Mas and
anti-feminicidal activism in Ciudad Juarez, and reproductive rights
in Latin America amidst the Zika virus. Each of these contemporary
contexts provides new insights into the relationships between and
among feminist activism; reproductive health; the role of the
state, local governments, health organizations, and the media; and
the women of color who are affected by the interplay of these
discourses, mandates, and activist efforts.
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to
badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their
characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in
Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs,
dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially
marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They
commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative
events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular
contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation,
religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book
draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and
sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and
sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based
dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the
hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status
and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial
practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans
performance.
For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had
survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps.
Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children
any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350
letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them.
Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present
them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann
wished to ask.
When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at
the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five
years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of
her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.
"Sala's Gift" is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival
and love amidst history's worst nightmare.
This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social,
economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of
Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of
women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the
Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it
examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active
in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how
they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were
excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman
women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious
life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and
occupations of women taking part in public life as textile
producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as
enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the
social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and
aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary
literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in
translation. Provides students of classical or women's history with
a chronologically and thematically oriented introduction to the
demography, legal and social status, life stages, social and public
roles, occupations, and leisure activities of women in Roman
society Emphasizes primary literary and documentary sources and
provides accessible references to further reading and research
Focuses on the diversity of Roman women's experiences across the
social hierarchy Discusses both the limitations that women faced
(e.g., in Roman law and custom) and how they negotiated or
transcended these limitations Includes visually interesting images
that enhance the text
In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn
to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war
as a means of furthering military or political goals. The ongoing
issue of comfort women has been debated not only among Asian
countries including Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and the
Philippines but also in numerous international forums.This book
examines the system of military comfort women in Asia and the
Pacific created and maintained by Japan during World War II. It
uses the comfort women system as a lens for exploring the ways in
which body, sexuality and identity are deployed in the creation of
patriarchal relations, ethnic hierarchies, and colonial/nationalist
power. This book analyzes the role and nature of the comfort women
system as a mechanism of social control by the colonial state. This
requires the examining of sexuality and body politics, the social
background of the victims, wartime working conditions, and
regulation of soldiers' sexuality.This book aims to contribute to
both the academic community and the community of civic groups
through a work that spans the dimensions of history, theory and
activism.
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