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The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking has recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about segregated life of self-identified "Oriental" women Demetra Vaka Brown, Halide Edib, Zeyneb Hanum, Melek Hanum and Grace Ellison. Bringing her subjects vividly to life, Lewis uses these texts to challenge the Western orientalist stereotypes that have become commonplace within postcolonial theory. ... Read more

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Study of public and private life in classical Athens.
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This is the ninth volume in the series on English manuscript studies. It addresses writings by early modern women and contributors include: Jane Stevenson on "Women, Writing and Scribal Publication in the Sixteenth Century"; Frances Teague on "Princess Elizabeth's Hand in 'The Glass of the Sinful Soul'"; Anneke Tjan-Bakker on "Dame Flora's Blossom: Esther Inglis's Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts"; Georgianna Ziegler on "Hand Ma[i]de Books - The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early Modern Precursors of the Artists' Book"; Steven W. May on "Two Unpublished Letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke"; Victoria Burke on "Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's 'Motherlie Endeavours'"; Sylvia Brown on "The Approbation of Elizabeeth Jocelin"; and more. ... Read more

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"This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for subsequent scholars to ponder and pursue." -History of Education Quarterly The essays in this book contribute along several dimensions to the new scholarship on a profession and public service of vital importance for well over a century to American literacy, culture and invention. Their authors add to the individual and collective biographies of women who have founded and administered diverse institutions and taught succeeding generations of librarians. The worksites of influential women such as Anne Carroll Moore, Josephine Rathbone, and Grace Hebard, like the nameless paid and volunteer staff who have served as unrecognized catalogers and children's librarians, have varied. They range from the pioneering libraries and library schools of the settled East- including Brooklyn and the Harlem, Times Square, and Morningside Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan- the historically Black Howard University to the numberless small towns of the West. They include the raw "A&M" colleges of Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, and similarly neglected centers of local and regional enlightenment. ... Read more

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In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women--students, faculty, administrators, members of the community--persisted in collaborating to form women's studies. In doing so, they created a movement that altered curricula and teaching styles, and shifted paradigms and content across disciplines. Now, in an unprecedented volume that captures both the history of a pivotal era and the drama of personal risks, triumphs, and losses, 30 scholars and activists document their work to establish women's studies programs.

These original essays by "founding mothers" feature a diversity of voices: young graduate students or new Ph.D.s just beginning to teach and untenured; tenured professors in search of ways to improve their students' capacities to learn; older, veteran academics at last witnessing change; and even a few administrators. During the early years, they taught at more than 30 campuses, many changing jobs several times. Some taught at private institutions such as Spelman College and Cornell University, while the majority taught at large state universities such as Berkeley, Michigan, Kentucky, Arizona, and the City University of New York. In all of these programs, founders grappled not only with issues of gender, but with those of class, race, and sexuality, in a decade infused with political unrest and questioning, when civil rights and antiwar activism, as well as feminism, shaped academic worlds.

In engaging political memoir, these essays chronicle the exhilaration of building a new kind of institution, of constructing a new curriculum and unearthing a new body of knowledge. They also give voice to the pain of successive defeats in the face of sexist attitudes and structures. Few of these trailblazers were welcomed as agents of change, fewer still applauded for their work. Yet their stories remain both inspiring and instructive.

While each of these women's narratives has a life of its own, collectively, they tell an even more powerful story. The first volume in the Women's Studies History series, The Politics of Women's Studiespreserves an essential history that is in danger of sinking into obscurity and combating the amnesia afflicting many of those teaching and studying about women today.

The Politics of Women's Studies includes essays by:

Electa Arenal, Gloria Bowles, Marilyn J. Boxer, Mariam Chamberlain, Johnnetta Cole, Nona Glazer, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Nancy Hoffman, Elizabeth Kennedy, Annette Kolodny, Nellie McKay, Yolanda Moses, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Barbara Smith, Sheila Tobias, and others ... Read more

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This collection of commissioned essays re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art.The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women.

Dealing specifically with the relationships between women and images, the volume will be of interest to art historians, feminist scholars, and historians alike. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Library Trends, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 9244 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women's studies databases: a critical comparison of three databases for core journals in women and gender studies.(Table)
Author: Cindy Ingold
Publication: Library Trends (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 56Issue: 2Page: 449(20)

Article Type: Table

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Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between men's and women's participation in Chile's Agrarian Reform movement and considers how conflicts over gender and sexuality shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.

Tinsman restores women to a scholarly narrative that has been almost exclusively about men, recounting the centrality of women's labor to the pre-Agrarian Reform world of the hacienda during the 1950s and recovering women's critical roles in union struggles and land occupations during the Agrarian Reform itself. Providing a theoretical framework for understanding why the Agrarian Reform ultimately empowered men more than women, Tinsman argues that women were marginalized not because the Agrarian Reform ignored women but because, under both the Frei and Allende governments, it promoted the male-headed household as the cornerstone of a new society.Although this emphasis on gender cooperation stressed that men should have more respect for their wives and funneled unprecedented amounts of resources into women's hands, the reform defined men as its protagonists and affirmed their authority over women.

This is the first monographic social history of Chile's Agrarian Reform in either English or Spanish, and the first historical work to make sexuality and gender central to the analysis of the reforms. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Lucid and Insightful
In Partners in Conflict, Heidi Tinsman produces exactly the kind of feminist historical scholarship Joan Wallach Scott famously called for in the 1980s. Easily the best monograph on social struggle I've read. Highly recommended.

Scott's Review
All of the books I ordered have arrived and I would like to thank everyone for their efforts. ... Read more