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This comparative study examines Scarlett O'Hara as a literary archetype, revealing critical prejudice against strong female characters.
There are two portrayals of Scarlett O'Hara: the famous one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell's more sympathetic character in the book. In A Study of Scarletts, Margaret D. Bauer examines both, noting that although Scarlett is just sixteen at the start of the novel, she is criticized for behavior...
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In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms. Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women's lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched...
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Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. "Memory" features prominently in the country's reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South...
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Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as self-perception,...
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Taking a chance on love is just the beginning...
All NEW from Bestselling Author Kate Frost.
When Harlow Sands arrives on an idyllic Greek island to work on a big budget movie, it should be the opportunity of a lifetime. But her uncertainty over the direction of her life and the high expectations of Maeve Fennimore-Bell, her domineering Hollywood producer mum, threatens to ruin her summer on beautiful Skopelos
Location manager Tyler Reed has his...
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Los humanos conformamos un grupo variado de convicciones, experiencias y moralidades. Los sistemas de opresión prosperan por nuestra incapacidad para reconciliarnos con la diferencia y dañan la relación que mantenemos con nuestros cuerpos.
El cuerpo no es una disculpa propone el concepto "autoamor radical" como bálsamo para sanar las heridas infligidas por estos sistemas violentos. Su autora critica la asimilación de la delgadez a lo deseable,...
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In a world full of messages about the joys of motherhood, ticking biological clocks, pronatalist ideologies, and socio-cultural imperatives for women to mother, what does the alternative look like? That is, what is the experience of women who choose, or find themselves without progeny, when they are deemed "other," instead of being a "mother"? This anthology of interdisciplinary work links to sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, religion,...
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This book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media—from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography—and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women's use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a piece of wide-scale mixed methods research that examines...
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An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward.
As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed, Friedman brings her sharp expertise and incisive observations on the state of sexual politics to the fore, sparking a culture-wide rethink about sex, power and what we accept.
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Fifteen-year-old Felise, an apprentice scribe in medieval France, is in a desperate situation. She yearns to find a way to become a writer and a book shop owner, but in order to achieve her dreams she must first escape from her cruel guardian, who is plotting an arranged marriage for her.
As the Hundred Years' War rages all around Felise, Joan of Arc blazes into history, claiming God-given powers to set France free from English control. Her courage...
591) One Winter's Night: The BRAND NEW feel-good, escapist romantic read from Kate Frost for winter 2023
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To look to the future, you first have to face your past…
With Christmas just around the corner, Molly Bliss has almost hit rock bottom.
After the heart-breaking loss of her parents, an escape to Iceland to spend the holidays with her sister Claudia is a chance for her to find solace and focus on her neglected relationship with her boyfriend Howard. But when Howard 'misses' his flight, Molly is forced to rethink her whole outlook on life.
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This collection considers how maternal regret, as it is conveyed in remorse, resentment, dissatisfaction, and disappointment, troubles the assumptions and mandates of normative motherhood and how it is explored and critiqued in creative non-fiction, film, literature, and social media. Maternal regret is also examined in relation to the estrangement of mother and child and the remorse and grief felt by both mothers and children caused by the abandonment...
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Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.
Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography, video storytelling, and theater. The contributors come from many disciplinary backgrounds, including theater, history, literature, sociology, feminist...
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Faith and Feminism brings together leading voices in biblical studies, inter-religious encounters, theology and ethics. Originally delivered as part of the Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at Wake Forest University School of Divinity (2003-2013), these essays demonstrate the breadth of feminist interpretation on compelling topics: interpretation of sacred texts; Judeo-Christian and Islamic perspectives; gender and sexuality; race and cultural identity;...
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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions....
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"A partir de la crítica hacia los falsos universales heredados de la teoría política liberal, Contraciudadanía y democracia feminista examina formas de impugnación que configuran la praxis de la contraciudadanía, claves en la puesta en ejercicio de una democracia feminista. Para Nicole Darat, tal objetivo implica preguntarse qué significa dicha democracia, cuál es su
relación con la institucionalidad y con las políticas afirmativas. A lo...
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For anyone who loved St Trinian's – old or new – or read Malory Towers as a kid. St Brides is the perfect read for you.
When Gemma Lamb takes a job at a quirky English girls' boarding school, she believes she's found the perfect escape route from her controlling boyfriend – until she discovers the rest of the staff are hiding sinister secrets:
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Hairnet, the eccentric headmistress who doesn't hold with academic qualifications
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598) Que todo el territorio se vuelva feminista. Las protagonistas de las tomas universitarias del 2018
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Testimonios de lxs actorxs directxs de las tomas universitarias feministas de 2018. Ola feminista que sacudió no solo las aulas universitarias, sino que se expandió a la sociedad toda.
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Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.
Historicizing Post-Discourses explores how postfeminism and postracialism intersect in dominant narratives of triumphalism, white male crisis, neoliberal and colonial feminism, and multiculturalism to perpetuate systemic injustice in America. By examining various locations within popular culture, including television shows such as Mad Men...
600) Bee Miles
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The untold story of the flamboyant and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her exploits.
Bee Miles was notorious for jumping in and out of taxis and trams without paying her fare, reciting Shakespeare in public, and sleeping on city monuments. But she was no ordinary vagrant.
Born into a wealthy Sydney family and highly educated, she was part of the city's literary and artistic circles in the 1930s. She was the subject...
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