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Flirting with Danger
How young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate
conflicting messages on female sexuality and sexual agency
In Flirting with Danger , Lynn M. Phillips explores
how young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting
cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression,
and desire. How do women develop their ideas about sex, love, and
domination? Why do they express feminist views condemning male
violence in the abstract, but often adamantly refuse to name their
own violent and exploitive encounters as abuse, rape, or
victimization? Based on in-depth individual and collective
interviews with a racially and culturally diverse sample of
college-aged women, Flirting with Danger sheds
valuable light on the cultural lenses through which young women
interpret their sexual encounters and their experiences of male
aggression in heterosexual relationships. Phillips makes an
important contribution to the fields of female and adolescent
sexuality, feminist theory, and feminist method. The volume will
also be of particular use to advocates seeking to design prevention
and intervention programs which speak to the complex needs of women
grappling with questions of sexuality and violence.
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When Mothers Kill
Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences Michelle Oberman and Cheryl
L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative
television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same
fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a
clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned
from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children.
Readers will be shocked and outraged-as much by the violence the
women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they
engaged in-but they will also be informed and even enlightened.
Oberman and Meyer are leading authorities on their subject. Their
2001 book, Mothers Who Kill Their Children, drew from hundreds of
newspaper articles as well as from medical and social science
journals to propose a comprehensive typology of maternal filicide.
In that same year, driven by a desire to test their typology-and to
better understand child-killing women not just as types but as
individuals-Oberman and Meyer began interviewing women who had been
incarcerated for the crime. After conducting lengthy, face-to-face
interviews with forty prison inmates, they returned and selected
eight women to speak with at even greater length. This new book
begins with these stories, recounted in the matter-of-fact words of
the inmates themselves. There are collective themes that emerge
from these individual accounts, including histories of relentless
interpersonal violence, troubled relationships with parents
(particularly with mothers), twisted notions of romantic love, and
deep conflicts about motherhood. These themes structure the books
overall narrative, which also includes an insightful examination of
the social and institutional systems that have failed these women.
Neither the mothers nor the authors offer these stories as excuses
for these crimes.
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Women of the street : why female money managers generate higher returns (and how you can too)
\"Why would an investor care whether you wear Louboutins or loafers when managing their money? It has been proven that women invest differently than men. Collectively, their approach has proven profitable and reliable, and it outperforms the industry at large. Deploying and more widely disseminating some of the techniques that women instinctively use can be beneficial to investors, male and female. This book celebrates the steady and consistent execution of an investment strategy that results in long-term out-performance. The portfolio managers interviewed (Leah Zell, Thyra Zerhusen, Fran Tuite, and more) exemplify the best traits that women investors tend to exhibit. Their example will help urge the next generation of women portfolio managers forward, and their wisdom can inform your investment decisions, no matter what your gender. After reading this book, the author hopes you learn from them and start investing a little more like a girl. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Inner lives : voices of African American women in prison
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences within the criminal justice system.
Inner Lives provides readers the rare opportunity to intimately connect with African American women prisoners. By presenting the women's stories in their own voices, Paula C. Johnson captures the reality of those who are in the system, and those who are working to help them. Johnson offers a nuanced and compelling portrait of this fastest-growing prison population by blending legal history, ethnography, sociology, and criminology. These striking and vivid narratives are accompanied by equally compelling arguments by Johnson on how to reform our nation's laws and social policies, in order to eradicate existing inequalities. Her thorough and insightful analysis of the historical and legal background of contemporary criminal law doctrine, sentencing theories, and correctional policies sets the stage for understanding the current system.
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