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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others. What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra...
Author
Publisher
Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Combining feminist readings of familiar texts with personal stories, this book helps students question their assumptions about the Bible, develop their own interpretive abilities, learn some of the Bible's big theological ideas, and connect the Bible with their personal faith journey"--
Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven't looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers." "A Mother's Work...
1711) Land Marks: A Novel
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tired of watching Michigan's forests devastated by fracking as leaders refuse to act on climate change, four eco-minded students, a few seasoned activists, and some wildly creative locals stand together to say, "No more!"
Author
Publisher
The Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece ... and an introduction to outstanding women in history. Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women's history to light on the national stage when it was completed in 1979. Published to coincide with Chicago's 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features newly commissioned photography...
1718) Adèle
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An erotic novel on Adele, a high-class, bisexual prostitute in 1930s Paris. The story is told through the eyes of a modern-day English feminist who is researching her life. A study of the difference in attitude to love between men and women. By a British writer, author of Rose Reason.
1720) The question of Max
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
English professor and part-time sleuth Kate Fansler takes on the tangled estate of a famous English novelist whose executor is her formidable colleague, Max Reston, and whose legacy includes the body of one of her graduate students.--From fantasticfiction.co.uk.
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