By Leni Marshall

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to additional understandings of the way getting older and outdated age are created.

In energetic, obtainable prose, this booklet expands the succeed in and intensity of age reports. A evaluate of age reports equipment in thought, literature, and perform leads readers to determine how their very own intersectional identities form their ideals approximately age, getting older, and outdated age. This learn asks readers to interrogate the “texts” of menopause, self-help books on getting older, and foundational age stories works. as well as the learn of those nonfiction texts, the poetry and prose of Doris Lessing, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Erdrich function autos for exploring how age kinfolk paintings, together with how they invoke readers into kinships of reciprocal care as othermothers, otherdaughters, and otherelders. The literary chapters research how talented storytellers offer enactments, portrayals, and metaphorical makes use of of age to create transformative power.

By Kristan Poirot

By way of the mid-1990s feminist theorists and critics started to problem traditional brooding about intercourse distinction and its courting to gender and sexuality. students resembling Anne Fausto-Sterling and Judith Butler stricken the sex-gender/nature-nurture divide. a few have asserted that those questions about intercourse are a lot too summary to give a contribution to a priceless figuring out of the cloth politics confronted via feminist activities. In a question of intercourse, Kristan Poirot demanding situations this assumption and demonstrates that modern theories approximately intercourse, gender, id, and distinction compel a rethinking of the background of feminist events and their rhetorical practices. Poirot specializes in 5 case reviews -- the move of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" in early and modern feminist contexts; the visible rhetorics of the feminist self-help overall healthiness circulate; the general public discourse of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and early nineteenth-century principles approximately suffrage, intercourse, and race; the conflicts over lesbian sexuality within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies; and the discourse that surrounds twenty-first-century SlutWalks. within the strategy, Poirot rethinks the phrases wherein we comprehend U.S. feminist routine to discover the methods feminism has puzzled sexed differences and practices over the years. She emphasizes the significance of interpreting feminist engagements with intercourse as rhetorical endeavors -- practices which are formed by way of the instrumental calls for of events, the exigent events that decision for feminists to reply, and the iconic philosophical traditions that move in U.S. political contexts.

By Anne E. Brodsky

With All Our power is the interior tale of this women-led underground association and their struggle for the rights of Afghan ladies. Anne Brodsky, the 1st author given in-depth entry to go to and interview their individuals and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines mild at the grotesque, usually tragic, lives of Afghan girls below the most brutal sexist oppression on this planet.

By Haideh Moghissi

An available creation to postmodernism, feminist conception and Islamic fundamentalism, this publication is a hugely debatable intervention into the controversy on postmodernism and feminism which appears to be like at what occurs after they are together hired to light up the sexual politics of Islam. the writer describes the increase of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's reaction to it. Postmodernism has uncovered the vested pursuits implicit in racist stereotyped and colonial pictures of Islam, rather radical Islam. in spite of the fact that, the writer argues that whatever the refined argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of energy, as an highbrow and political circulate, postmodernism has placed itself in provider to energy and the established order. She brilliantly demonstrates how this has given upward thrust to a neo-conservative feminism--or a brand new feminist orientalism, asking a few tough questions of these who denounce the racism of Western feminism yet uncritically include the Islamic id of Muslim ladies.

By Jenny Beale

"... a dramatic evaluation of the altering life-styles and values of girls within the Republic of Ireland." —Choice

"Beale’s learn is enticing, informative and concept provoking." —Women’s stories foreign Forum

"... an interesting examine girls made up our minds to take part within the fight for the lengthy haul, girls who may perhaps simply have thrown up their fingers in depression, and subsidized clear of an all-too-powerful Catholic heirarchy. that they've no longer performed this can be inspiring, and reinforces the truism that "sisterhood is global." —Belles Lettres

Beale’s research indicates that even supposing eire continues to be a deeply conservative society with appreciate to sexual morality and the ideology of the kin, it additionally has a full of life women’s move, which has gained major advancements for women.

By Marguerite Waller, Jennifer Rycenga

Worldwide, ladies have lengthy been at the frontlines, protesting struggle and armed forces forces. The essays during this assortment, from either students and activists, discover the reviews of neighborhood women's teams that experience built to struggle conflict, militarization, political domination, and patriarchy during the global. The writings during this assortment hide quite a number genres from memoir and ancient money owed to severe essays. What holds the writings jointly is an urgency to mirror on and research women's activism at the frontiers - from Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Kosovo and rural India to Serbia, Croatia, Okinawa, Israel, U.S. prisons, and the racialized American South.