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Originally published in England in 1934, this searing, timely novel offers and incisive critique of the sexual politics and militarism of England, and the West as a whole, in the post-World War I years. The novel is told from the perspective of a "Genuine Person" who has been hurtled thousands of years back in time from a future society whose citizens are peaceful, androgynous, self-fertilizing, vegetarian, and without national government and ...

Challenging the concepts of the "typical" family, the authors illustrate the diversity of household forms and kinship ties throughout history and in the present. Peeilng away layers of emotion and idealogy, they explore the social, political, emotional, and economic functions of the family as well as the importance of gender, class, race, and culture in shaping it. A variety of contemporary family forms-nuclear, single parent, communal-are des...

This latest entry in the acclaimed "Femmes Fatales: Women Writing Pulp" series builds on the spectacular 2003 launch, featured on NPR, "The New York Times" and more than twenty trade and consumer publications.Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York's Upper East Side. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. It's the first day of school when this story ...

The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer.

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Race and relationships during a decade of change in the 1970's by a critically acclaimed African writer.

Changes" explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of men's lives have not. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." "Aidoo writes with intense power in a novel that, in examining the role of women in modern African society, also sheds light on women's problems around the globe....

A novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans.

Seeds 2 documents economically viable projects borne from women's own initiatives and solidarity in Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Sudan, Thailand, the United States, and Zambia. These projects illustrate both the potential for and the difficulties of translating the rhetoric of economic development into meaningful lives for women. When the population of Port Sudan leapt from 50, 000 in 1956 to half a million in the 1980s, a smal...

Seeds 2 documents economically viable projects borne from women's own initiatives and solidarity in Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Sudan, Thailand, the United States, and Zambia. These projects illustrate both the potential for and the difficulties of translating the rhetoric of economic development into meaningful lives for women. When the population of Port Sudan leapt from 50, 000 in 1956 to half a million in the 1980s, a smal...

This powerful novel of a young Kenyan woman's journey is "a worthy winner of the Sinclair Prize"--The Independent.

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Diverse and often divergent, the voices in this oral history of four generations of New Mexican-Hispanic women challenge myths and stereotypes. Twenty-one women recall life experiences spanning a period from the time New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory to the present. Central to the women's lives are the shift from a rural to an urban environment, the struggle to preserve culture and traditions, changes in family relations, efforts to ...

A foul-mouthed Nancy Mitford for the Gawker generation.

Children-in what ways are they innocent or implicated in the construction of global economy, race, gender, and nation?

The son of Holocaust survivors promises he'll marry Jewish-but life intervenes when he meets Cleo, an African American activist.

Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have bee...

Follows the lives of two sisters in a wealthy Scots family. This novel reveals the power marriage and family hold in controlling the lives of talented, spirited women, but unlike other oppressed heroines of the period, the heroine and her feminism both survive. It includes an essay on marriage by Caird (1854-1932), a novelist and social critic.

Working-class history and literature are often ignored in traditional curricula, invisible in most texts, and unavailable to students and teachers. Janet Zandy, editor of Calling Home: Working Class Women's Writings and Liberating Memory, has brought together the voices in poetry, narrative, and song of working-class women throughout history, alongside critical essays placing this work in perspective for teacher and student. Scholars in the fi...

A unique psychological portrait of an urban working class teacher, and the dynamics of teaching itself.