Articles tagged with: Books
Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights
Edited by Tamara Harvey, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Debra Bergoffen, Connie L. McNeely
Routledge
Confronting Global Gender Justice provides the reader …
The Girls’ History and Culture Reader: The Nineteenth Century
Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell, Leslie Paris
University of Illinois Press
In 1982 Harvard professor Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice, a …
Transnational Social Work Practice
Edited by Rich Furman, Nalini Junko Negi
Columbia University Press
Transnational Social Work Practice is definitely not a book intended for a …
Wingshooters
By Nina Revoyr
Akashic Books
By the age of nine, Michelle LeBeau has already taken more than a few knocks. Her mom …
WTF? Women: How to Survive 101 of the Worst F*#-ing Situations With the Ladies
By Jodi Miller, Gregory Bergman
Adams Media
The first time I flipped through this book, I felt like throwing it in the …
Dreaming in French
By Megan McAndrew
Simon & Schuster
On the surface, Dreaming in French sounds like the type of book I would love. It’s …
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
By Ntozake Shange
Scribner
There is something quite redemptive about the 2010 edition of Ntozake Shange’s experimental “choreo-poem,” For colored girls who …
Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science
By Claudia Welch
Da Capo Press
Though I enjoy a good yoga session as much as any middle-class white woman my age, …
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now
By Josh MacPhee, Dara Greenwald
AK Press
Signs of Change is both a coffee table book and a full-color history lesson. For …
Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock
One of the best things about reviewing books is the exposure I get to the fabulous females in feminist history who would otherwise be consigned to the cobwebby corners of academic obscurity had some enterprising writer not plucked them from the depths and held them up for the delight of feminist history nerds. This was what I experienced with Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic, which is part biography and part collected works of Ida Craddock. The editor and biographer intersperses five (long) chapters of Craddock’s own writings with well-written biographical detail explaining Craddock’s often puzzling rhetoric.
