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Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring CycleJean Shinoda Bolen

Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Acclaimed author and Jungian analyst Bolen reveals the archetypal truths and liberating insights in Wagner's ever-popular Ring Cycle operas. Bolen's interpretations evoke the reader's associations, memories, and emotions to prompt insight and healing for both the psyche and society caught in the "Ring Cycle" of destruction and dysfunction.

Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor

Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor

by Annie Sprinkle, Jill Posener, W. Chapkis

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but... (more)

The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

by Jeff Mariotte

"I'm the Slayer. Slay-er. Chosen One? She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? Ask around. Look it up: 'Slayer comma The.'" -- Buffy, "Doomed" As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. Dig into it: all--new character profiles, episode guides, quotables, and... (more)

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front

by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

This final volume in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar`s landmark trilogy argues that twentieth-century women of letters-from Virginia Woolfe and Marianne Moore to Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison to Margaret Atwood and Zora Neale Hurston and H.D.-have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and have responded by dispatching "missives" on the profound changes in the roles and rules that govern sexuality.

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize

Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

by Cheris Kramarae, Paula A. Treichler, Ann Russo

Formerly titled The Feminist Dictionary, Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones now sports a rich, descriptive title much like the words defined within. This colorful and wealthy dictionary examines, explains and redefines many ideas and terms pertaining to women and patriarchal society. Each word is placed within the context of its evolving meaning-dating back to its origin and weaving through the years into... (more)

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Women's Source Library)Ann Russo

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Women's Source Library)

by Ann Russo

In 1853, Paulina Wright Davis, editor of a women's periodical, called the women's movement the greatest feat in the entire history of public opinion. This collection contains critical works from six radical periodicals of the 1850s. The editors and many of the contributors to the newspapers (including Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances D.Gage and many others who should be well known writers and... (more)

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present

by Various

This landmark work is the most complete compilation of its kind, offering an enlightened view of a diverse and long-neglected genre. Arranged in thematic sections are a generous and wide range of selections--fiction, poetry, and essays from writers past and present, including Emily Dickinson, Carson McCullers, Christina Rossetti, and Rita Mae Brown.

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

by Guerrilla Girls

We were Guerillas before we were Gorillas. From the beginning, the press wanted publicity photos. We needed a disguise. No one remembers, for sure, how we got our fur, but one story is that at an early meeting, an original Girl, a bad speller, wrote 'Gorilla' instead of'Guerilla.' It was an enlightening mistake. It gave us our mask-ulinity . Ever wonder about the abundance of naked male statues in the Classical... (more)

The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

by BROWN. JOHN COMBIE

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Naming Ourselves, Naming Our Children: Resolving the Last Name DilemmaSharon M. G. Lebell

Naming Ourselves, Naming Our Children: Resolving the Last Name Dilemma

by Sharon Lebell

Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman

by James J. Lopach

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, stands tall among American icons. The representative from Montana won her seat at a time when women didn't have the right to vote in most states. Her firm stances inspired both admiration and fury across party lines, and she gained nearly canonical status among feminists and pacifists. In Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman, University of Montana professors... (more)

Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish LesbiansIrene Zahava

Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians

by Irene Zahava

Annoyingly redundant, these 18 tales feature a number of Jewish lesbians who are constantly confronting a hostile straight society, both Jewish and Gentile, including parents who can't cope with their daughters' sexual preferences. Indeed, many of the stories are so strident, self-righteous and self-absorbed that they read like diatribes; women here have persecution complexes that go beyond lesbianism. A case in... (more)

Chick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Were One

Chick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Were One

by Fiona Giles

What would you do if you suddenly woke up a woman? The bestselling Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? was an unprecedented crossover phenomenon, tickling humor fans, impressing gender studies buffs, and winning over readers of all ages. Now, in the interest of equality and fairness, editor Fiona Giles turns the tables, recruiting a varied stable of Y-chromosomed word-smiths to wax playful,... (more)

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

by Diane di Prima

In Recollections of My Life as a Woman , Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a... (more)

A Different Beat: Writing by Women of the Beat Generation (High Risk Books)

A Different Beat: Writing by Women of the Beat Generation (High Risk Books)

by Richard Peabody

This anthology gathers the Beat-period writings of 26 women who were often overshadowed by their male contemporaries, but whose art both shaped the Beat aesthetic and laid the cornerstone for the outlaw female artists of today. Among the featured writers are Jan Kerouac, Joan Haverty Kerouac, Eileen Kaufman, Diane Di Prima, Ruth Weiss, and many others.

The Quilt & Other Stories

by Ismat Chughtai, Tahiri Naqvi, Syeda Hameed

tr Tahira Naqvi & Syeda S. Hameed, North India

Born for Liberty

by Sara Margaret Evans, Sara M. Evans

The most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women--from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times--this book brings American womanhood to center stage, exploring the lives of pioneers and slaves, immigrants and factory workers, executives and homemakers. of photos.

Biological PoliticsJanet Sayers

Biological Politics

by Janet Sayers

Wisdom of Daughters

Between 1975 and 1994, the Christian feminist magazine Daughters of Sarah published women's poetry, articles on feminist theology, personal essays and art. In The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism, Reta Halteman Finger and Kari Sandhaas offer what they consider to be the best contributions from the magazine's two decades in print. The collection's "best of" format and relatively... (more)

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