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| 1. |  | Title: Ambiguous angels: gender in the novels of Galdós  Author: Jagoe, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, argui . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish Communist Author: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London Author: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | European History | Urban Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Berthe Morisot Author: Higonnet, Anne 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman. She reached a pinnacle of artistic achievement despite the restraints society placed on her sex, adroitly combining her artistic ambitions with a rewarding family lif . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith Author: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast Asia Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewife Author: LeBlanc, Robin M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Birth as an American rite of passage Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensely technolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel Author: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminism Author: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The caregiving dilemma: work in an American nursing home Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Social Problems | Medicine | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Who are the people who will care for us or for our relatives? Nancy Foner provides a major study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, who are the backbone of American nursi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectives Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Cinderella dreams: the allure of the lavish wedding Author: Otnes, Cele Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Women's Studies | Consumerism | United States History Publisher's Description: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The color of gender: reimaging democracy Author: Eisenstein, Zillah R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Gender Studies | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law , Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Similar Items |