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Changing the Story

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253116543
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Changing the Story written by Gayle Greene and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Changing the Story... gives an excellent and well-informed account of the differences between the American, Canadian, British, and French attitudes towards feminism and feminist fiction and literary theory.... a very readable book... which reminds us that literature can change us, and that through it we can change ourselves." -- Margaret Drabble "A distinctive contribution -- clear, elegant, precise, and well-read -- to the feminist discussion of narrative, of Anglo/Canadian/white North American novelists, and to contemporary fiction. Greene tracks how feminist novelists draw upon, and negotiate with traditional narrative patterns, and how their critical approach implicates, and provokes, social change. The book brings us to an intelligent post-humanism which does not scant the social meanings of metafictional critique. And, in addition, this book remembers hope." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis "Changing the Story is an invaluable guide to the feminist classics of the last three decades. This is cultural criticism at its best: engaged, re-visionary, and politically astute." -- Nancy K. Miller "Greene tells a very good tale about how feminist fiction emerged, developed, made changes in the world, and now threatens to wane." -- The Women's Review of Books "Her probing analysis... should captivate general readers as well as academics." -- WLW Journal "Changing the Story is an important work of feminist criticism certain to spark controversy within the feminist community." -- American Literature The feminist fiction movement of the 1960s--1980s was and is as significant a movement as Modernism. Gayle Greene focuses on the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence to trace the roots of this feminist literary explosion. She also speculates on the future of feminist fiction in the current regressive period of "post feminism."

Norma Jean, the Termite Queen

Author : Sheila Ballantyne
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140065510
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Norma Jean, the Termite Queen written by Sheila Ballantyne and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mediating Moms

Author : Elizabeth Podnieks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773586881
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Mediating Moms by : Elizabeth Podnieks

Download or read book Mediating Moms written by Elizabeth Podnieks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist, psychoanalytic, sociological, literary, and cultural studies perspectives, the twenty chapters in this book examine an array of current and relevant contemporary topics related to maternal identities such as working, stay-at-home, ambivalent, absent, good, bad, single, teen, elder, celebrity, and lesbian mothers; and issues such as the mommy wars, self-care, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, infanticide, adoption, sex and sexuality, breastfeeding, post-partum depression, fertility, genetics, and reproductive technologies. Contributors from Canada, the United States, Britain, and Australia engage critically and theoretically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture media, and chart some of the provocative and liberating ways that we can use and interpret this media to encourage and promote alternative and transformative maternal readings, identities, and practices. Mediating Moms looks at mothers as imaged by and in the media; how mothers mediate or negotiate these images according to their historical, corporeal, and lived personhoods; and how scholars mediate the popular and academic discourses of motherhood as a way of registering, strengthening, and alleviating the tensions between representation and reality. Mediating Moms engages critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, while mapping some of the provocative and liberating ways that mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities. Contributors include Jennifer Bell (Alberta), H. Louise Davis (Miami), Irene Gammel (Ryerson), Nicola Goc (Tasmania), Fiona Joy Green (Winnipeg), Latham Hunter (Mohawk), Joanne Ella Johnson, Hosu Kim (Staten Island), Beth O'Connor (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Debra Langan (Wilfrid Laurier), Sally Mennill (British Columbia), Stuart J. Murray (Ryerson), Kathryn Pallister (Red Deer), Maud Perrier (Bristol), Lenora Perry (Texas), Dominique Russell, Jocelyn Stitt (Minnesota), Stephanie Wardrop (Western New England), Imelda Whelehan (Tasmania).

Pulling Our Own Strings

Author : Gloria J. Kaufman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253202512
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Pulling Our Own Strings written by Gloria J. Kaufman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects political cartoons, comic strips, humorous essays and songs that satirize male chauvinism and society's stereotypes of women.

The Feminist Bestseller

Author : Imelda Whelehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230211828
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Feminist Bestseller written by Imelda Whelehan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing over the past 30 years and suggests that even so-called 'post feminist' writing owes an enormous debt to feminism's second wave.

Blood Magic

Author : Thomas Buckley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520063501
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Blood Magic written by Thomas Buckley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-06-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sets the stage for an ethnography of menstruation beliefs and will, I predict, be viewed as the opening work of a whole ethnographic tradition . . . will be widely cited."—Anna Meigs, Macalester College "Provides a concise and complete critique of the literature and thinking on menstrual practices and introduces new analyses and concepts with regard to previously unknown material."—Ann L. Wright, University of Arizona

More Book Lust

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570616558
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book More Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available. In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists. For the friend wanting to leave her job: "Living Your Dream" offers good armchair dreaming books about people who have left stodgy jobs to do what they love. Are you a budding chef? "Fiction For Foodies" includes books that sneak in a recipe or two along with a tantalizing plot. For the James Bond wannabe: "Crime is a Globetrotter" features crime novels set in various locations around the world such as Tibet, Sweden, and Sicily. In the book’s introduction, Pearl jokes, “If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, ‘Hi, I’m Nancy P., and I’m a readaholic.” Booklist magazine plays off this obsession while echoing a sentiment of Nancy Pearl’s fans everywhere: “A self-confessed ‘readaholic,’ Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery.” Indeed.

“All-Electric” Narratives

Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501367374
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book “All-Electric” Narratives written by Rachele Dini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies “All-Electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the “all-electric” home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to “give back” time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or “return” them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.

New Gender Agenda

Author : Anna Coote
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
ISBN 13 : 9781860301209
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book New Gender Agenda written by Anna Coote and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I: The Blair effect:

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840523
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics written by Christos Hadjiyiannis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics

Author : Bryan Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516482
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics written by Bryan Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.

Doris Lessing

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047208433X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Gayle Greene and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure

Conversational Style

Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725381
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Conversational Style written by Deborah Tannen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others. Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a 'high-involvement style' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book's place in the evolution of her work. Conversational Style is written in an accessible and non-technical style that should appeal to scholars and students of discourse analysis (in fields like linguistics, anthropology, communication, sociology, and psychology) as well as general readers fascinated by Tannen's popular work. This book is an ideal text for use in introductory classes in linguistics and discourse analysis.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women, Science, and Technology

Author : Mary Wyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415926065
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Women, Science, and Technology written by Mary Wyer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.

Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl

Author : Lindsay Reade
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0859658759
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl written by Lindsay Reade and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic tale of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, this heartfelt and searingly honest memoir details the relationship between Tony Wilson (the legendary impresario behind Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays) and his first wife, Lindsay Reade.

Postfemininities in Popular Culture

Author : Stéphanie Genz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234410
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Postfemininities in Popular Culture written by Stéphanie Genz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female and feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking perspective on femininity and the modern female self.