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Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R988
Discovery Miles 9 880
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Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of
representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the
nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this
collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create
spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their
experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural
womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that
rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on
women's lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural
womanhood both reflect and shape women's experiences.
Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a
pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States
and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary
lions who had made their reputations before the gay liberation
movement—like Edward Albee, John Rechy, and Samuel R.
Delany—could mingle, network, and flirt with a new generation of
emerging queer writers like Tony Kushner, Alison Bechdel, and Sarah
Schulman.  This collection gives readers a taste of
this fabulous moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of
the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference, including
both keynote addresses and panel presentations. These talks are
drawn from a diverse array of contributors, including Allen
Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy
Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa,
Edmund White, and many more.  OutWrite offers
readers a front-row seat to the passionate debates, nascent
identity politics, and provocative ideas that helped animate queer
intellectual and literary culture in the 1990s. Covering everything
from racial representation to sexual politics, the still-relevant
topics in these talks are sure to strike a chord with today’s
readers.
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Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R2,411
Discovery Miles 24 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and
diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada
from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in
the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate multiple settings and address the complex
realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop
networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge
misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in
this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow
freedoms as well as impose constraints on women's lives, and
ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both
reflect and shape women's experiences.
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "If we ever forgot that sisterhood is
powerful, Julie R. Enszer's poetry reminds us--with frank wit,
grief, compassion, and a clear sense of the joy and burden of love.
Enszer is a poet of the body, of family, of 'the sighs and bellows
of the heart, ' of music, of travel, of breast cancer, of the
plague of AIDS, of black stockings worn to funerals. As the elegist
of her lost sister, Enszer writes, 'She should be telling this
story. / She was more descriptive than I.' As celebrant of the
revolution that opened our society to the pleasures and realities
of queerness, she writes of 'the look of defiance in our eyes' and
remembers, 'Once we were the match / Once we were the flames.'
SISTERHOOD gives off a good heat."--Alicia Ostriker
Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have
often negotiated an academic track that leads through
figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories
offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and
daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents
autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists
who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or
family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their
own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues
all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability,
the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside
events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and
expectations. Eye-opening and candid, Reshaping Women's History
shows how adversity, and the triumph over it, enriches scholarship
and spurs extraordinary efforts to affect social change.
Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio,
Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims,
Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette
Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie
Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie
Wilson.
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Avowed (Paperback)
Julie R Enszer
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R359
R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
Save R60 (17%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"Great essayists give gifts of reflection, contemplation, and
surprising revelations. Julie Enszer delivers essays like cool
drinks of water, sipping on community building, home-making, coming
out, sex, politics and change from 1994 to 2012. With a Midwestern
lesbian point of view, Julie shows us who are, who we can be, and
where we are going. Drink up her words and be refreshed for the
journeys to freedom, liberation and social justice." Sue Hyde
Author, Come Out & Win
Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have
often negotiated an academic track that leads through
figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories
offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and
daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents
autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists
who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or
family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their
own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues
all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability,
the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside
events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and
expectations. Eye-opening and candid, Reshaping Women's History
shows how adversity, and the triumph over it, enriches scholarship
and spurs extraordinary efforts to affect social change.
Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio,
Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims,
Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette
Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie
Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie
Wilson.
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