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The hero of this novel, a rational, rural Maine physician, finds herself courted by a patient whose bones she has patched together after an accident. He is a Boston lawyer who insists that marriage will not end her career. Through the story of Dr. Zay, Phelps takes on a subject unusual for 1882: the conflict, for women, between marriage and career. And as with all of Phelps’s novels, this one is both entertaining... (more)

Paul, Women, and Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul

Paul, Women, and Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul

by Craig S. Keener

Paul's letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far. Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously, and recognizing that Paul's letters arose in a... (more)

Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America (Engendering Latin America, V. 5)

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America (Engendering Latin America, V. 5)

by Donna J. Guy

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. What the essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family, and the rise of increasingly interventionist nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina. Donna J. Guy first looks at Latin American women... (more)

The Untamed Heiress

by Julia Justiss

Untutored, Untouched, Until . . . Imprisoned as a child by her spiteful father, Helena Lambarth vowed upon his death to never again live under a man's rule. But to honor her mother's last wish, she journeys to London to enter society -- and finds herself a reluctant houseguest of the dashing Lord Darnell. Adam, Lord Darnell, has little time to oversee the bedraggled hoyden he's agreed to sponsor. Saddled... (more)

Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse

Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse

by Ellen Messer-Davidow

How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and social activism, feminism in the academy, the author argues, is now entrenched in its institutional structures and... (more)

Women and Globalization

Despite promises from Western policy makers and financial institutions that capitalist globalization will eventually improve the economic welfare of all nations, overwhelming evidence thus far indicates that it has not only succeeded in enriching the few at the expense of the many. It has also created an international division of labor in which a female proletariat, composed primarily of women of color, is... (more)

The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass

The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass

by Myron Magnet

Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today's underclass-overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority-into existence. Lifestyle experimentation among the white middle class produced often catastrophic changes in attitudes toward marriage and parenting, the work ethic and dependency in those at the bottom of the... (more)

Lifesaving: A Memoir

by Judith Barrington

In 1963, when poet Barrington was 19, an event sliced her life in two: the cruise ship Lakonia departed Southampton, England, with her parents aboard. Three days later, north of Madeira, a fire broke out, and 131 passengers, including her parents, were left stranded without lifeboats and drowned. (Her mother had often predicted she would die at sea, yet Barrington's father had been fond of egging his wife into... (more)

Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women

Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women

Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections (for a total of 20 stories) published after 1960 by and about black women, this collection features the work of today's most celebrated black women writers.

Scandalous Lovers

by Robin Schone

With a seductive style all her own, Robin Schone captures the erotic imagination as she explores the deepest hungers of a woman's soul in a story that breaks all the rules... DESIRE AWAKENED Married at fifteen and widowed at forty-nine, country-bred Frances Hart has only known the duties of a wife and mother, and never the joys of a woman. Determined to... (more)

Alice in Bed

by Susan Sontag

Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination.

Double Game

by Sophie Calle, Paul Auster

This is the first major publication in English on the work of French artist Sophie Calle, yet this volume is in no way an ordinary monograph. In fact, it takes the form of a "double jeu", a "double game," between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. Representing an imaginative interplay of fact and fiction, "Double Game" creates a publication of endless intrigue and layers: part novel, part... (more)

Alone of All Her Sex

by Marina Warner

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

by Vicki Ruiz

For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community associations--efforts that solidified the community and helped Mexican... (more)

Captive Heart: Book 3

The Bodyguard

by Joan Johnston

Sworn to protect her, he was forbidden to touch her.... Joan Johnston is a masterful creator of unforgettable characters and stories that make you feel as if you're falling in love again. Now she sweeps you back to Regency-era Scotland, where a determined young woman challenges a man's world--even as she embraces the outsider who protects her life and steals her heart.... When the tall, rugged stranger stepped out... (more)

Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight from EqualityWendy Kaminer

Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight from Equality

by Wendy Kaminer

Unlike egalitarian feminists who demand full economic equality, "protectionist feminists," those who appeal for special maternity benefits and child-care laws, would settle for less, according to Kaminer, a jounalist and lawyer who teaches writing at Tufts. She believes such preferential treatment traps women in a cycle of institutionalized discrimination. A self-described egalitarian feminist, she demolishes the... (more)

Baby Love

by Rebecca Walker

From the bestselling author whom Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty. Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. A young woman's future was limitless, their mothers' generation told them. A child could rob one of... (more)

Return of the Great Goddess

by Burleigh Muten

From Sappho to Judy Chicago, from the late Egyptian era to Audrey Flack, this anthology of fine art reproductions and literary excerpts proclaims the strength and majesty of the feminine experience. The images and messages, based on the award-winning Return of the Goddess Engagement Calendars, remind women of their spiritual heritage, their innate wisdom, the integrity of the female body and its rites of passage,... (more)

Lady of the Northern Light: A Feminist Guide to the Runes

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Doctor Zay

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps