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Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse

Author	: Magali Cornier Michael
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1996-07-03
ISBN 10	: 0791430162
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse written by Magali Cornier Michael and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction.

Woman on the Edge of Time

Author	: Marge Piercy
Publisher	: Ballantine Books
Release Date	: 1997-06-23
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106018268091
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today.... From the Paperback edition.

Mother Without Child

Author	: Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 1997-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0520205782
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Mother Without Child written by Elaine Tuttle Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a conceptually innovative book which expands the meaning of motherhood to include mothers 'without child'; it is also a compassionate political book which refuses the boundary between 'good enough' and 'bad' mothers. Mother Without Child is an engaging, witty, and provocative literary study which should fascinate anyone who is interested in mothering or in looking for new ways to talk about motherhood without erasing some women's experience or dividing mothers from each other."--Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace "Hansen positions her study in a genuinely new space . . . taboo ground, which demands not only a great deal of courage to address, but also enormous intelligence and insight. Hansen is up to this task. . . hers is a pioneer study that will have a significant impact on the ways that non-procreative motherhood is discussed and understood." --Madelon Sprengnether, author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis "Since the beginnings of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, feminist scholars have been obsessed with motherhood. Mother Without Child takes us to the next stage in this fascinated and fascinating exploration. Through illuminating readings of contemporary stories of thwarted motherhood, Hansen challenges the persistent and constraining definitions of the good and even the good-enough mother. She enjoins us to listen to the moving, devastating, and often inspiring stories of mothers who survive the loss of their children and she urges us to find there not the angry voices of feminist daughters who cannot forgive their patriarchal mothers, but alternative stories of a different maternity that can lead us to alternative plots and visions of women's lives. We need this book."--Marianne Hirsch, author of The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism "A careful, committed, and freshly clarifying voice. Hansen's graceful prose and finely interwoven explorations are much needed at this time. Through readings of contemporary fiction, she enriches our vocabulary for discussing the overdetermined topic of motherhood and deepens our understanding of both its psychological and contemporary political dimensions. Mother Without Child is a book for historians and social scientists as well as literary scholars."--Laura Doyle, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Author	: Gary Westfahl
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0313329532
Pages	: 520 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.

Contemporary Women's Writing

Author	: Maroula Joannou
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0719053390
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women's Writing written by Maroula Joannou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.

The Dictionary of Alternatives

Author	: Martin Parker
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2008-02-29
ISBN 10	: 9781848130616
Pages	: 353 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Alternatives written by Martin Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

Constructing and Reconstructing Gender

Author	: Linda A. M. Perry
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1992-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0791410099
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (99 users)

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Download or read book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender written by Linda A. M. Perry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted analysis of gender.

The Task of Utopia

Author	: Erin McKenna
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 074251319X
Pages	: 196 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book The Task of Utopia written by Erin McKenna and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are utopian visions viable in the 21st century? Utopia has been equated, for many, with totalitarianism. Such visions are not acceptable. The loss of utopian visions altogether is also unacceptable. This book argues that American Pragmatism and Feminist theory can combine to provide a process model of utopia that pushes to build a flexible future that helps us deal with change, conflict, and diversity without resorting to fixed ends.

Feminism and Its Fictions

Author	: Lisa Maria Hogeland
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date	: 2016-11-11
ISBN 10	: 9781512804157
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book Feminism and Its Fictions written by Lisa Maria Hogeland and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating chapters on the relationship between fiction, the theoretical and political debates among women's and feminist groups, and the questions of sexuality . . . and race . . . merit broad readership and prove more culturally illuminating for their emphasis on popular fiction."—In Brief

I Am the Other

Author	: M. A. Almoster Ferreira
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0313320063
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (63 users)

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Download or read book I Am the Other written by M. A. Almoster Ferreira and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the topic of human cloning from literary, psychological, and philosophical points of view.

Subject to Negotiation

Author	: Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher	: University of Virginia Press
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN 10	: 0813917158
Pages	: 188 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book Subject to Negotiation written by Elaine Neil Orr and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the "subversive" model of feminist criticism and argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities, presenting an empirical method for a negotiating feminist criticism and demonstrating the model with analysis of the writing of five American women authors: Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and Marge Piercy. For scholars of feminist literary theory and 20th-century American literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Author	: Edward James
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2003-11-20
ISBN 10	: 0521016576
Pages	: 330 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Author	: Greta Claire Gaard
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 0252067088
Pages	: 270 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book Ecofeminist Literary Criticism written by Greta Claire Gaard and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.

Time Machines

Author	: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2001-04-20
ISBN 10	: 0387985719
Pages	: 674 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (19 users)

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Download or read book Time Machines written by Paul J. Nahin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

Reproducing the Womb

Author	: Alice Elaine Adams
Publisher	: Cornell University Press
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 0801481619
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (19 users)

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Download or read book Reproducing the Womb written by Alice Elaine Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice E. Adams crafts a subtle new response to the controversies surrounding reproductive freedom and the implications of medical technology. She explores a spectrum of competing visions of childbearing, from misogynistic nightmares of matriarchal control to feminist utopias. Firmly rooted in political reality, Adams offers innovative answers to the questions posed by the intimate interconnections, and the perceived conflicts, between fetus and mother, individual and collective.

The Writing on the Wall

Author	: Mary Elene Wood
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 0252063899
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (99 users)

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Download or read book The Writing on the Wall written by Mary Elene Wood and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gewaltphantasien

Author	: Arno Heller
Publisher	: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date	: 1990
ISBN 10	: 387808465X
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Gewaltphantasien written by Arno Heller and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: