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What do the novelists Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose
Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D.
James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to
write fiction through their relationship with the Church of
England. This field-defining collection of essays explores
Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their
Anglicanism. These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors,
cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits
through social comedy, children's books and supernatural fiction.
Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century,
they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past
two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of
England and wider society.
In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive
Women, Molly Brost explores the various applications and
definitions of the term anti-heroine, showing that it has been
applied to a wide variety of female characters on television that
have little in common beyond their failure to behave in morally
"correct" and traditionally feminine ways. Rather than dismiss the
term altogether, Brost employs the term to examine what types of
behaviors and characteristics cause female characters to be labeled
anti-heroines, how those qualities and behaviors differ from those
that cause men to be labeled anti-heroes, and how the label
reflects society's attitudes toward and beliefs about women. Using
popular television series such as Jessica Jones, Scandal, and The
Good Place, Brost acknowledges the problematic nature of the term
anti-heroine and uses it as a starting point to study the complex
women on television, analyzing how the broadening spectrum of
character types has allowed more nuanced portrayals of women's
lives on television.
There has been an increase in women entrepreneurs participating in
the growth of local, regional, national, and global economies.
While these women showcase crucial skills for strategic leadership
and strategy that can advance companies, they face cultural,
educational, social, and political barriers that impede their
development and participation within the global economy. Women
Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy
is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on
understanding the value of women entrepreneurs and the strategies
they can use on the economy and examines gender impact on strategic
management and entrepreneurship. While highlighting topics such as
emotional intelligence, global economy, and strategic leadership,
this book is ideally designed for managers, entrepreneurs,
policymakers, academicians, and students.
Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook
examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and
Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from
public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to
priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as
musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors
have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as
inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not
previously been translated into English. The resulting compilation
is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through
this complex subject. Building on the third edition's appendix of
updates, the fourth adds many new and unusual texts and images, as
well as such student-friendly features as a map and chapter
overviews. Many notes and explanations have been revised with the
non-classicist in mind.
How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice
system Despite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated
women, Latina women and girls are often rendered invisible in
accounts of American crime and punishment. In Latinas in the
Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a
group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced
picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of
deportation. Featuring Cecilia Menjivar, Lisa M. Martinez, Alice
Cepeda, and others, this volume examines the complex histories,
backgrounds, and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice
system. Contributors show us how Latinas encounter a variety of
justice systems, including juvenile detention, adult court and
corrections, and immigration and customs enforcement. Topics
include Latina victims of crime and their perceptions of police
officers; the impact of the US "crimmigration" system on
undocumented Latina women; and help-seeking among Latina victims of
intimate partner violence. Additionally, key chapters highlight the
emergence of legal reforms, community mobilization efforts, and
gender-sensitive alternatives to incarceration designed to increase
equitable outcomes. Lopez and Pasko broaden our understanding of
how gender, ethnicity, and legal status uniquely shape the
experiences of system-impacted Latina girls and women. Latinas in
the Criminal Justice System is a timely and much-needed resource
for academics, activists, and policymakers.
Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been
fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women,
but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and
passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing
as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women
in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this
brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the
troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how
society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings,
painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes
fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas,
Rosa Faundez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder.
Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave
rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays,
songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last
century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of
events leading up to and following their killings, their
apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their
representation in the media throughout and following the judicial
process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony
are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zeran while she worked on her
research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as
she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.
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