This work aims to show how women around the world since 600 B.C. have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes which should be of interest to contemporary readers, this genuinely global, multicultural anthology presents women from some 30 countries, speaking from their vivid, diverse life experiences.
This work aims to show how women around the world since 600 B.C. have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized aroun...
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked struggles to control their labor and education; their work reshaping representations of gender; and their varied translations of knowledge into power. Extensive introductions combine a broad theoretical perspective on gender and resistance...
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and...
Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself--in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies--as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure--how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?--are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates about the nature of material substance. French materialisms of the Enlightenment are crucially invested not only in the development of a...
Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself--in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies--as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous P...
