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Reading Like a Girl
By examining the novels of critically and commercially
successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like
You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and
Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl:
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult
Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means
of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural
expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal
relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the
construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American
novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent
women.
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Fourth wave feminism in science fiction and fantasy
\"\"Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy films and television series. Wonder Woman, the Wasp, and Captain Marvel headline superhero films while Black Panther celebrates nonwestern power. Disney princesses value sisterhood over conventional marriage. This first of two companion volumes addresses cinema, exploring how, since 2012, such films as the Hunger Games trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, and recent Star Wars installments have showcased women of action. The true innovation is a product of the Internet age. Though the web has accelerated fan engagement to the point that progressivism and backlash happen simultaneously, new films increasingly emphasize diversity over toxic masculinity. They defy net trolls to provide stunning role models for viewers across the spectrum of age, gender, and nationality.\"-Provided by publisher\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Madness in black women's diasporic fictions : aesthetics of resistance
This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the \"madwoman\" as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach. The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women
who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the
1930s-a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the
political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven
writers-Black, Jewish, and white-who as young women turned to
communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national
crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that
provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary
Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted
similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair
labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental
devastation.
As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and
creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson
Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst,
Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is
sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to
maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity
of Black women's domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of
land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing
attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and
relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American
communism.
By tracing the attention these seven women pay to \"life-making\"
as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing-from Harlem to
the American South and Midwest- In the Company of Radical Women
Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the
political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for
justice.
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Our Bodies Ourselves and the Women’s Health Movement in the United States: Some Reflections
As a cofounder and past executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), formerly known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Inc., I offer a few reflections on the influence of second-wave feminism on health policy.
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Contemporary women's poetry and the urban space : experimental cities
\"If the urban imagination has been traditionally masculine, this book shifts attention to the role of the city and its processes of mutual transformation in poetry by women writers. By turns challenging, rebellious, utopian and sceptical, some of the most richly experimental poetry is currently being written by women. This book offers readings of their work informed by theorizations of the city, as well as looking at how their innovations in language and form enable new visions of urban space. It addresses key issues in the imagining of the contemporary city and its global relationships, including changing understandings of the body and embodied space in technologized urban environments and the role of cohabiting languages in creating new forms of polis. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Girls' series fiction and American popular culture
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America's tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls' series in some form, whether through books, television, or other media, suggests that this genre needs to be studied further and that the development of the heroines that girls read about have created an impact that is worthy of a fresh critical lens. Thus, this collection explores how series books have influenced and shaped popular American culture and, in doing so, girls' everyday experiences from the mid nineteenth century until now. The collection interrogates the cultural work that is performed through the series genre, contemplating the messages these books relay about subjects including race, class, gender, education, family, romance, and friendship, and it examines the trajectory of girl fiction within such contexts as material culture, geopolitics, socioeconomics, and feminism.
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