Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on ...
The daughter of African-American novelist Alice Walker and Jewish activist Mel Leventhal, this memoirist shares her complicated experiences as a biracial child growing up in the waning days of the civil rights movement.
Edited by bestselling author Walker, this anthology invites readers to step into the center of a range of different domestic arrangements. In a collection of 18 honest, personal, and deeply affecting essays from an array of writers, "One Big Happy Family" offers a fresh look at how contemporary families are adapting to this altering reality.
The president of the world-famous Wilhelmina Models, Inc., presents essential information and savvy advice for the thousands eager to break into modeling. Presenting interviews with top models and other features, this guide shows how to find the right agent, handle auditions and contracts, and more. 150 b/w photographs.
From the bestselling author hailed by "Time" magazine as one of the leaders of her generation comes an insightful memoir of pregnancy and her decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.
This anthology of writing on feminism. Includes pieces by Danzy Senna, Donna Minkowitz, Gina Dent, Naomi Wolf, Jason Schultz and others addressing the nature of feminism, its impact on everyday life, and what it promises for the future. Covers issues of power and language, the eroticization of violence, socialized desires, and sex and the ...
The complexion of the world is changing. There are millions of people of multiracial descent and the number is growing. With a roster of acclaimed authors, "Mixed" explodes expectations of what it means to be multiracial. Including contributors such as Danzy Senna, Cristina Garcia and Diana Abu-Jaber, and with an illuminating introduction by ...
In more than 20 candid and humorous essays, a diverse group of women explore how they have chosen to ignore, subvert, or redefine the standard of beauty. These women break down modern culture's feminine ideal and reinvent it for themselves.
This is the story of the author's pilgrimage across America to find a spirituality that she, a faithless and spiritually bereft babyboomer, might be able to adpot. Along the way, she encounters young women who have embraced "outsider traditions", including Buddhism, Wicca, Yoga, Sufism, Shamanism and Voodoo. Temporarily, she joins each of them, a ...
Body Outlaws collects a wide range of essays that give collective voice to the first feminist generation to consciously repudiate the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies. Writers like Nomy Lamm and Lisa Jervis (editor of Bitch magazine) explore new paradigms of women who use their bodies as symbols of power, sites of ...
From the bestselling author hailed by "Time" magazine as one of the leaders of her generation comes an insightful memoir of pregnancy and her decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.
One of "Time" magazine's 50 Future Leaders of America brings together novelists, essayists, men, and women to talk about the future of masculinity. What does it mean to be male in the twenty-first century? What does the concept of masculinity even mean in the wake of four decades of modern feminism? What makes a man a man today and a woman a ...
A timely and profound anthology from the national bestselling author of "Black, White and Jewish," Representing a stunning range of essayists and novelists, both men and women, this groundbreaking anthology boldly confronts the complications, possibilities, uncertainties, and joys of being a man in the 21st century.
The issue of reproductive rights has taken center stage in recent months with the appointment of two conservative Supreme Court justices, which threatens Roe v. Wade, the supreme court case that legalized abortion in 1973. Abortion Under Attack addresses a spectrum of personal and social influences, ranging from dealing with remorse to the ...
Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues ...
Love becomes a family affair in this bright, new Regency romance, when a young widow and her young sister are left behind by the stage, and end up at the home of Lord Belham. Madeline was mad for Belham--but Katie was mad when her once-spurned suitor, Lord Wellsey, turned up and offered her a profitable new position . . . as his mistress.
Unlike other motherhood books that focus on the experiences of a small group of affluent, married white women, "Who's Your Mama?" centers on the largely untold perspectives of the majority of American women, whose unique and sometimes unconventional family structures impact our country. Their contributions speak practically of their personal ...
This anthology of writing on feminism. Includes pieces by Danzy Senna, Donna Minkowitz, Gina Dent, Naomi Wolf, Jason Schultz and others addressing the nature of feminism, its impact on everyday life, and what it promises for the future. Covers issues of power and language, the eroticization of violence, socialized desires, and sex and the ...
In the emergency room of a New York City hospital, a young doctor is confronted by seemingly abnormal behavior and severe medical symptoms in children under the age of two. Intrigued by the circumstances surrounding her initial case, Dr. Jesse Michaels investigates the medical history of this child and the events leading to the childas visit to ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of rural southerners were dependent on agriculture and eked out a living as tenants on land owned by someone else. Women took on multiple duties, from child rearing to labor in the fields, to help meet their own goals of independence, well-being, and family persistence on the land. Over the ...
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