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Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus
Foundation Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award Winner
of the MAAH Stone Book Award A Pitchfork Best Music Book of the
Year A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year A Boston Globe
Summer Read "Brooks traces all kinds of lines...inviting voices to
talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer,
opening up new ways of looking and listening." -New York Times "A
wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie
Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyonce and Janelle Monae...Connecting
the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers."
-Rolling Stone "A gloriously polyphonic book." -Margo Jefferson,
author of Negroland How is it possible that iconic artists like
Aretha Franklin and Beyonce can be both at the center and on the
fringe of the culture industry? Daphne Brooks explores more than a
century of music archives to bring to life the critics, collectors,
and listeners who have shaped our perceptions of Black women both
on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the
Revolution offers a startling new perspective, informed by the
overlooked contributions of other Black women artists. We discover
Zora Neale Hurston as a sound archivist and performer, Lorraine
Hansberry as a queer feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline
Hopkins as America's first Black female cultural commentator.
Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music
recording, song collecting, and rock and roll criticism in this
long overdue celebration of Black women musicians as radical
intellectuals.
This comprehensive Handbook presents specially commissioned
original essays on the societal roles and contexts facing women in
business and management, the specific career and work-life issues
of women in these fields, organizational processes affecting women,
and the role of women as leaders in business and management. The
essays shed light on the extant structures and practices of society
and organizations that constrain or facilitate women's
representation, treatment, quality of life, and success. Despite
decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on
women in business and management remains a specialized field
without mainstream acceptance within business and management
disciplines. The Handbook presents the current state of knowledge
about women in business and management and specifies the directions
for future research likely to be most constructive for advancing
the representation, treatment, quality of life, and success of
women who work in these fields. It provides the foundations for
improved societal and organizational structures, policies, and
relational practices affecting all in business and management.
Thus, by enhancing the knowledge base that improves the work and
life situations of women, it suggests ways to elevate the societal
and organizational systems for all. The Handbook will be an
essential reference source for recent advances in research and
theory, informing both scholars of organization studies, gender,
diversity, and feminism; human resource specialists; and educators
of and consultants to business organizations and management.
Surveys the key figures in the development and evolution of LGBTQ
representation in contemporary US theatre. Aimed at the full
breadth of theatre and performing arts students in the USA. No
other book has the same breadth and depth of coverage in this
subject area, or a comparable roster of leading scholars.
* An accessible text giving an overview of contemporary depictions
of transgender men and women in film * Structured around film
genres including the costume drama, the musical and the action film
* films discussed are contemporary, popular, films from
Anglophonic, Asian, European and Latin American cinema
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers
to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a
specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine identity. This
book offers a uniquely psychoanalytic and phenomenological
perspective on masculinity. Karlsson considers masculinity and
traditional masculine ideals through a psychoanalytic lens before
taking phenomenological concepts to chisel out the relationship
between sex and gender. This perspective is developed throughout
the volume to inspire readers to further their understanding of
traditional gender assignment – female, male and intersex – in
light of gendered characteristics such as femininity and
masculinity. Chapters span topics such as the characteristics of
typical, so-called ‘phallic masculinity’, its allure and
psychogenetic explanation, as well as looking at what phallic
masculinity disregards. Throughout, Karlsson maintains that phallic
masculinity is unattainable, as it seeks to escape the existential
conditions of helplessness, vulnerability, and dependence. He makes
the case for the importance of considering the notion of
ego-identity in the field of sex/gender studies, encouraging a
liberation from gender stereotypes. Psychoanalytic and
Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity will be of great
interest to researchers, clinical psychoanalysts, and
psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in masculinity,
Gender Studies and the relationship between sex and gender.
Illustrated with examples from literature and the arts, including
Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras. Explores female subjectivity
and examines the complexities inherent to psychoanalytic work
realized by women analysts with women. Includes a critical study on
psychoanalytic theories on femininity but also a reflection on
social aspects concerning gender.
'Hill's advice is straightforward and no-nonsense' - The Guardian
'A life-transforming book... fascinating - Daily Mail 'Maisie Hill
has written a bloody brilliant book (pun intended). Everything you
need to know about periods and how they affect you and your life is
here. It's revolutionary' - Miranda Sawyer 'Thank GOODNESS for
Maisie Hill! Flipping open the lid on a vital conversation. It's
about time we claimed the power of our periods!' - Gemma Cairney,
broadcaster & co-founder of Boom Shakalaka Productions 'This is
such an important book. Maisie's insights and cycle strategy have
changed my life and my cycle. Period Power is written with such
intelligence, humour and a deep understanding of women's health. If
you have a period you need to read this book.' - Anna Jones, author
of The Modern Cook's Year A profound and practical blueprint for
aligning daily life with your menstrual cycle. Period Power is the
handbook to periods and hormones that will leave you wondering why
the hell nobody told you this sooner. The hormones of the menstrual
cycle profoundly influence our energy, mood and behaviour, but all
too often we're taught that our hormones make us unreliable, moody
bitches, or that it's our lot in life to put up with 'women's
problems'. Maisie Hill, a women's health practitioner, knows the
power of working with the menstrual cycle and refuses to accept
this theory. Instead, Maisie believes that our hormones are there
to serve us and, if utilized correctly, can be used to help you get
what you want out of life. Yes, we are hormonal, and that's a very
good thing. This revolutionary book reveals everything you need to
know about taking control of your menstrual cycle and outlines The
Cycle Strategy to help us perform at our best, throughout our
cycle. In Period Power you will discover how to: - maximise your
natural superpowers each month while making adjustments for the
darker days, and use Maisie's favourite tips to improve them -
identify your personal patterns, powers and pitfalls for each phase
of the menstrual cycle - plan your month to perform at your best in
all aspects of your life - figure out if you have a hormonal
imbalance and what to do about it. Period Power is a no-nonsense
guide with all the tools you need to improve your menstrual health.
The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of
maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the
mother's lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings
of hatred are both universal and have the capacity to stimulate and
enrich her maternal love. The book draws on the author's personal
mothering experiences, those of other women, and examples from film
to inspire new introspection about the everyday maternal
experience. Lowy takes a psychosocial approach to weave thinking
from selected psychoanalytic and contemporary accounts together
with personal stories to explore how maternal ambivalence operates,
and how mothering is sourced in psychic struggles between loving
and hating feelings in an atmosphere that is rife with social and
personal expectations and prohibitions. By reworking the experience
of maternal ambivalence, the book secures an understanding of the
mother's feelings of hatred as a catalyst for her love and allows
these maligned and taboo emotions to be named and reframed into
acceptable and transformative feelings. Brought alive by examples
from film and first-hand experience, this book is fascinating
reading for academics and students of psychology, maternal and
women's studies, and sociology, as well as practitioners in the
fields of psychology, social work, medicine and counselling.
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over
centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we
feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as
doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients,
women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Medicine's
history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women's
resistance, strength and incredible courage. In this
ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the
perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of
women's bodies, illness and pain. From the 'wandering womb' of
ancient Greece to today's shifting understanding of hormones,
menstruation and menopause, Unwell Women is the revolutionary story
of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical
misogyny. Drawing on Elinor's own experience as an unwell woman,
this is a powerful and timely expose of the medical world and
woman's place within it.
This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and
visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and
documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men
from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors
analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct,
reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so,
they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often
symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced,
complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men's embodied
subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers
such as Sean Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus
Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O'Brien, John Banville,
Colm Toibin, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and
Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as
well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural
expression.
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - November 2021 A deeply honest
investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from
Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our
time. _______________ 'This is the book for every woman trying to
place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every
woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much
changed' - Lena Dunham 'I read these pages, breathless with
recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like
it is' - Dani Shapiro 'Emily Ratajkowski's first essay collection
needs to be read by everyone [...] both page-turning and moving as
hell' - Amy Schumer 'A slow, complicated indictment of a profession
and the people who propel it [...] it will deliver a more nuanced
and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to
it with those surface interests might expect' - Vogue 'Dazzling' -
Observer 'Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about
empowerment versus commodification of women's bodies and sexuality.
Blending cultural criticism and personal stories, My Body is smart
and powerful' - Time Magazine 'Raw, nuanced and beautifully
written. A moving and enlightening experience to join a woman
openly exploring such deep parts of her physical self via the
written word. A truly impressive debut' - Emma Gannon 'Excellent
[...] Ratajkowski writes with curiosity, intellect and acute
awareness' - Harper's Bazaar 'Superb [...] it feels revolutionary'
- Telegraph 'I admire and envy her artistry' - Guardian
_______________ Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and
actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable
entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer.
Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both
praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an
unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent
evolution in her thinking about our culture's commodification of
women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal
exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment
of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment.
These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski's life while
investigating the culture's fetishization of girls and female
beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women's sexuality, the
perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey
area between consent and abuse. Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive,
My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage
and intelligence.
This monograph uses the life and work of ground-breaking female
classicist, Wilmer Cave Wright, to examine several questions about
the rise of women in that discipline. First, what went into the
creation of a classics scholar under circumstances that would seem
to preclude that? Second, why was it arguably Wright's time in
Chicago that was her formative experience and period? Third, why
did Wright want so desperately to leave Bryn Mawr, and then stay
and pour herself into her students? Fourth, through what lens did
she approach the evidence of classical literature, and did it make
a difference? Fifth, how did Wright survive the Thomas years at
Bryn Mawr? Sixth, why did she abruptly abandon her long-term
project on Libanius of Antioch? Seventh, what led her to suddenly
switch from classical Greek literature to translating medieval
Latin medical texts? Wright's journey from Mason College to Girton
College, Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and Bryn Mawr
College is placed into historical context. Throughout, the
significance of Wright's work, particularly on the life of the
Emperor Julian, is assessed. The author is a research fellow at the
University of St Andrews, and the author of Julian and Christianity
(Cornell) as well as numerous articles in Harvard Studies in
Classical Philology, Classical Quarterly, and Classical Philology.
Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes, Never Shaken,
Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and
Laura Charteris, who made marrying well an art form. While Laura
eventually became the Duchess of Marlborough, Ann became Mrs Ian
Fleming, and the antics and attitudes of the two women inspired the
writer to create the famous 'Bond Girl'. Along the way there were
marriages, and affairs, with some of the biggest names of the
twentieth century. Counting seven marriages between them, the
sisters' collective husbands included a duke, four peers, Jackie
Kennedy's brother-in-law and the alleged illegitimate son of the
Queen's uncle. There were also passionate affairs with two Labour
leaders, two press barons and a cluster of film stars. Indeed, the
lives of the Charteris sisters are almost too extraordinary to
believe, as they bagged husbands, bedded men, threw parties and
travelled to some of the most glamorous destinations in the world,
all at a time when such behaviour by aristocratic society women was
unthinkable.
Each chapter is written in accessible language and will contain
minimal tables, graphs, and figures – therefore, this volume
should also be of interest to non-academic readers, the media, and
to practitioners who are involved in various aspects of American
politics. This edition includes chapters on salient topics such as
reproductive justice, queer of color politics, and social
movements. Features original authors as well as other notable and
up and coming scholars in our field in order to represent the
diverse and innovative scholarship being conducted in our field.
The book is clearly well-written and easy for undergraduate and
postgraduate students to read and follow. The incorporation of
intersectionality stands out from other books on gender and
politics because it doesn’t only focus on gender. Black feminism
and intersectionality in particular are theoretical frameworks that
other scholars across the globe use to study minoritized women’s
politics in their localized context, we expect the theories and
frameworks used in studies of international scholars will draw from
this text.
The Handbook on Gender in World Politics serves as a compendium of
cutting-edge scholarship on gender in world politics across a
number of academic disciplines. It encompasses the key research
areas in the field to provide readers with a gateway to further
study. Featuring leading experts writing from diverse perspectives,
this Handbook focuses on women as a category of analysis,
masculinities, sexualities, LGBT rights and transgender identities.
The topics discussed include statecraft, citizenship and the
politics of belonging, international law and human rights, media
and communications technologies, political economy, development,
global governance and transnational visions of politics and
solidarities. Students and scholars of gender and international
relations and gender in world politics will find this Handbook to
be an indispensible guide to the subject. It will also be of
interest to practitioners in the field looking to pave the way for
new policies and regulations. Contributors include: A.M.
Agathangelou, N. Al-Ali, K. Alexander, D.K. Barker, A. Biricik, E.
Boris, K.E. Brown, C. Brunner, D. Buss, G. Caglar, T. Carver, H.
Charlesworth, C. Chinkin, A.K. Darkwah, A. den Boer, P. Drumond,
A.C. Drury, R.C. Eichenberg, C. Eschle, E.A. Foster, J. Freedman,
P. Griffin, C. Harrington, J. Hearn, P. Higate, C. Hoskyns, V.M.
Hudson, T.A.M. Johnson, J. Joachim, R. Jacobson, J.S. Jaquette, J.
Kantola, H.M. Kinsell, P. Kirby, E. Kofman, B. Maiguashca , C.
Masters, L. McLeod, S. Parashar, D. Peksen, Z. Pflaeger Young, N.
Pratt, E. Prugl, S.M. Rai, B.M. Read, A. Roberts, C. Rowley, J.
Russel, A. Sisson Runyan, L.J. Shepherd, L. Sjoberg, N. Smith, J.
Steans, M. Stern, D. Tepe-Belfrage, J. True, H.M. Turcotte, T.P.
van der Weide, H. Weber, A.T. Wibben, G. Youngs, M. Zalewski, S.
Zimmermann, S. Zwingel
A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art A Land
With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which
elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions.
Eloquently framed with a foreword by the dynamic Palestinian legal
scholar and activist, Noura Erakat, this book began as a
storytelling project of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City and
subsequently transformed into a theater project performed
throughout the New York City area. Stories touch hearts, open
minds, and transform our understanding of the "other"--as well as
our comprehension of own roles and responsibilities-- and A Land
With a People emerges from this reckoning. It brings us the
narratives of secular, Muslim, Christian, and queer Palestinians
who endure the particular brand of settler colonialism known as
Zionism. It relays the transformational journeys of Ashkenazi,
Mizrahi, queer, and Palestinian Jews who have come to reject the
received Zionist narrative. Unflinching in their confrontation of
the power dynamics that underlie their transformation process,
these writers find the courage to face what has happened to
historic Palestine, and to their own families as a result.
Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline
charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism,
this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and
point to a more hopeful, loving future--one in which
Palestine/Israel is seen for what it is in its entirety, as well as
for what it can be.
This book will appeal to scholars and general readers who are
interested in Byzantine History, Society, and Culture, the History
of Masculinity, and the History of Sexuality / This book challenges
contemporaty views by placing at centre stage Byzantine men's
desiring relations with one another / This book transforms our
understanding of Byzantine elite men's culture and is an important
addition to the history of sex and desire between men.
Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us is a groundbreaking series of books
which introduces you to the powerful stories of South African women
who have all made their mark and cleared a path for women and
girls. These books recognise, acknowledge and honour our heroines
and elders from the past and the present. South African women are
silent no more on the roles that we have played in advancing our
lives as artists, storytellers, writers, politicians and
educationists. The title 'Imbokodo' was been chosen as it is a Zulu
word that means "rock" and is often used in the saying 'Wathint'
Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo!', which means "You Strike a Women, You
Strike a Rock!" These books were made possible with the support of
Biblionef and funding from the National Arts Council. In 10
Extraordinary Leaders, Activists & Protesters you will read
about women who fought against colonialism and oppression. Here are
the stories of women heroes through history, whose stories are
connected because of a shared passion for equality and justice.
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