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  • ‘Taking Up Space’

    Women at Work in Contemporary France

    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    Focusing on representations of women’s experiences in contemporary France, ‘Taking Up Space’ examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It also speaks to the importance of cultural productions in calling out labour issues affecting women, as well as in offering a platform that allows us to imagine a future where inclusive and equitable work spaces are the norm. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s ... Read more

    $79.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • «Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

    Series Book 119 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Zone Theory

    Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds

    Series Book 28 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    «This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world’s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s VultureIntroduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zo... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Yet One More Spring

    A Critical Study of Joy Davidman

    by Don W. King ...
    The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writerJoy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Yet One More Spring is the ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Yet One More Spring

    A Critical Study of Joy Davidman

    by Don W. King ...
    The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writerJoy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Yet One More Spring is the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Yeats and Theosophy

    by Ken Monteith ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others." ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Yann Andrea Steiner

    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed – or imagined – by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister’s murder at the hands of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wuthering Heights Thrift Study Edition

    by Emily Bronte ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Study Edition
    Includes the unabridged text of Brontë's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writings by Western Icelandic Women

    There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, occupied since before the arrival of the Vikings. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelandic immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, and still maintaining strong ties to their mother country. While the prominent role of women in the development of Western Iceland has long been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Writing with a Vengeance

    The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

    Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Writing Wild

    Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

    by Kathryn Aalto ...
    **"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —**Cultivating PlaceIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Writing Widowhood

    The Landscapes of Bereavement

    The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates—each of whom has written a memoir of spousal loss. In each chapter, Berman gives an overview of the writer's ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Writing the Town Read

    July 2005. London is hit by a coordinated terrorist attack. Jamie’s boyfriend disappears without a trace. Hundreds of miles away in Cornwall, how can Jamie find out what has happened to him?The initial impact of that terrible day is followed by a slow but sure falling apart of the life Jamie believed was settled and secure.A betrayal by her best friend.A threat to her job and beloved career.All ... Read more

    $3.93 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing the Prison in African Literature

    Series Book 5 - Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
    This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje. Detained across the continent from the 1960s onward due to their writing and political engagement, each writer’s memoir forms a crucial yet often overlooked part of their wider literary work. The author analyses the varied and unique ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe

    Representation, Contestation, Critique

    Series Book 9 - Literatur – Kultur – Oekonomie / Literature – Culture – Economy
    This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Writing Lives

    A Female German Jewish Perspective on the Early Twentieth Century

    Series Book 22 - Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture
    This book introduces the works of a German Jewish female author and provides a detailed analysis of the early twentieth century as she witnessed it. Although a prolific writer and leader in the women’s movement, Clementine Krämer (1873–1942) is relatively unknown today. Krämer’s life and works offer a fascinating insight into a challenging period for this community, as she experienced at first ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Writing Herself into Being

    Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de l'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan

    WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Writing Grief

    Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning

    Margaret Laurence's much admired Manawaka fiction—The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and *The Diviners—*has achieved remarkable recognition for its compassionate portrayal of the attempt to find meaning and peace in ordinary life. In Writing Grief, Christian Riegel argues that the protagonists in these books achieve resolution through acts of mourning, placing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

    by Li Guo ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 ... Read more

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  • Writing an Icon

    Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin

    by Anita Jarczok ...
    Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure.In Writing an Icon, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Writing Ambition

    Literary Engagements between Women in France

    In Writing Ambition: Literary Engagements between Women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen analyzes the work of three pairs of women writing in French—Genlis and Lafayette, Colette and Annie de Pène, and Nancy Huson and Leïla Sebbar—to assess how their literary ambitions affected their engagements with each other. Focused on the psychological aspects of the women’s relationships, the author combines ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Writing (for) the Market

    Narratives of Global Economy

    Series Book 4 - Literatur – Kultur – Oekonomie / Literature – Culture – Economy
    The volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the research areas of literary criticism and book history, the volume focuses on narrative strategies, metaphors and tropes that reflect the market as a network of multi-conglomerates, authors, translators and readers. The global scope of the different ... Read more

    $63.99 USD