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Recommended introduction to an important cultural theorist
Jean Baudrillard has an insatiable desire to stay ahead of the game, to push things further and further. Symbolic Exchange and Death, written in 1976 but surprisingly not translated in English until 1993, is a key text because it sets out in challenging but relatively clear terms Baudrillard's radical approach before his more recent period based upon `fatal strategies' which travels into the ethereal and obscure. Symbolic Exchange and Death fundamentally operates as a genealogy of our dominant system of political economy and the underlying spectre of a pre-existing Symbolic Order. This involves a catastrophic challenge to Marxian and Freudian thought and traditional social approaches. It develops the earlier works of Michel Foucault and phenomenologists such as R.D. Laing to a more radical stance which begins to turn many widely accepted beliefs on their head. It also demonstrates that Baudrillard is not at all the high priest of postmodernism as was thought in the latter part of the 1980s but is a relentless poststructuralist. Despite Baudrillard's own later consignment of the work to a bygone era of dialecticism, Symbolic Exchange and Death, twenty five years on still retains an explosive potency. Fascinating, controversial and unputdownable - will inevitably draw readers to explore the author's other works. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Death    2. Death & Dying    3. General    4. Social Science    5. Social psychology    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Symbolism (Psychology)    9. Value    10. Feminism    11. Social Science / Sociology / General    12. Western philosophy, from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Anthropology - General    3. Female circumcision    4. Feminism & Feminist Theory    5. Moral and ethical aspects    6. Prevention    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Women's Studies - General    10. Anthropology    11. Customs   

Subjects:  1. 1865-1933    2. History    3. Political History    4. Politics and government    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Suffrage    8. United States    9. United States - 20th Century    10. Women    11. Women's Studies - General    12. Women's Studies - History    13. Elections & referenda    14. Feminism    15. History / United States / General    16. History, American | Women    17. Social history    18. USA   

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reveals dearth of serious feminist theorizing about EDs
This collection of twenty-two essays by therapists, professors, researchers, and philosophers explores the sociocultural phenomenon of eating disorders from a feminist perspective, working through questions of theory and application with an eye toward cultivating a better-informed approach to the epidemic.The book begins with some historical framing, includes a section on the issues that mere fact of having a body raise for patient and therapist, deals with questions of textuality and discourse, and calls for a feminist model of treatment and recovery as well as a redefined research agenda for the entire field.Two important essays, Marcia Germaine Hutchinson's "Imagining Ourselves Whole: A Feminist Approach to Treating Body Image Disorders" and Deborah L. Tolman and Elizabeth Debold's "Conflicts of Body and Image: Female Adolescents, Desire, and the No-Body Body," unsettle the position of woman within speech and society by using the compound "body-image" to show how woman stands as both speaking, acting subject (body) and passive gazed-at object or picture (image).

A well-explicated series of works on a ubiquitous problem
The authors delve into some of the least-examined aspects of eating disorders with grace and insight. This is the book that the eating disorder literature has needed: one that incorporates a feminist perspective,involves cultural considerations, and combines theory with research for adynamic text.

A Powerful Read
I have read many books on the multidimensional subject of eatingdisorders, and I can confidently say that this is one of the best.The 22authors deal with all aspects of eating disorders: historical, cultural,social, and psychological, to name just a few.I especially like theon-going theme of the FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE--I find it empowering. Hopefully, the views in this book can generate discussion that will lead tochange. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Psychology    2. Psychopathology - Addiction    3. Psychopathology - Eating Disorders    4. Psychopathology - General    5. Clinical psychology    6. Eating disorders    7. Eating disorders & therapy    8. Feminism    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Eating Disorders   

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Anthology of Cyberfeminist Art and Theory
Sixteen essays bring together digital media artists, software and graphic designers, feminist theorists and historians of space, architecture and science, with cyberfeminists (see especially essay by"Technowhores"), to consider multiple issues concerned with"women and design." Contributors critically and creativelycelebrate and interrogate cybertechnologies, and consider how these(material, conceptual and virtual) processes and practices challenge (andreify) contemporary ideas of gender, the body, nature, identity, space,diaspora, and difference. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Criticism    4. Popular Culture - General    5. Sociology    6. Special Subjects In Art    7. Women And Art    8. Art / Criticism   

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The Science of Getting Rich
The Paperback, Jan. 2002 by Wallace D. Wattles & Judith L. Powel is powerful, scientific, easy to read and YOU GET IT! It is inspiring, practical and simple. We all have access to the unlimited riches of the universe. Enjoy it!
Simple Truths to Transform Your Life
I love the philosophy.Mr. Wattles first deals with our low thinking.He empowers us with the knowledge that we have a right to be rich.Then he shows us how we are creative and we don't have to compete.There are no lack of resources.I love the teaching on giving more in use value than you receive in cash value.I have read this book over and over.Each time I learn something new.Every person I have shared this book with, lives have been transformed.They have a new found hope in themselves.I have clients who are starting their dream busineses because they stopped to find their passion.They removed the negative from their lives and they are going forth and creating the live they have been dreaming about. Forget the negative people.You must read and study this book.
A Must-Read for Fans of Crackpot Literature
The author seems incapable of putting two sentences together without saying at least one ridiculous thing. Maybe Wattles really did get rich selling baloney like this. If he did, I'm sure that's as "scientific" as he ever got. It's hard to imagine a non-imbecile getting any inspiration from this absurd book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business Life - General    3. Personal Finance    4. Personal Finance - General    5. Personal Growth - Success    6. Psychology    7. Wealth    8. Business & Economics-Business Life - General    9. Self-Personal Growth - Success   

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. Sex Relations    3. Sexual Ethics    4. Sexual harassment    5. Sexual harassment of women    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Gender studies    10. Sexual abuse    11. Social Science / Sociology / General    12. Stalking & sexual harassment   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination in employment    2. Gender Studies    3. Sex discrimination in employme    4. Sex discrimination in employment    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. United States    9. Women & Business    10. Women scientists    11. Women's Studies - General    12. Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory    13. Sociology, Social Studies   

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A great feminist reader
This is a wonderful collection of essays for anyone looking for an introduction to feminist theory, or simply for new ways to perceive and analyze the body.The bitesize samples of Judith Butler, CatharineMacKinnon, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks challenge the reader to confrontcontemporary issues such as rape, gender, and representations of women ofcolor in ways that are radically different from mainstream thought. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Human, in literature    2. Feminism & Feminist Theory    3. Feminism and the arts    4. Feminist    5. Feminist literary criticism    6. Literary Criticism    7. Reference    8. Sex in literature    9. Sociology    10. Women Authors    11. Women in literature    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Cultural studies    14. Feminism    15. Literary Criticism & Collections / General   

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Great Insight.
She does a great job telling the stories of these women with a feministic view, but notice the tombstones before the chapters.She takes the whole Bible out of context."She was wounded for our transgressions?"Not in my Bible.Great stuff, but the her "tombstones" upset me.

"On Telling Sad Stories."

In memoriam...
Phillis Trible, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is a noted authority on feminist interpretation and literary analysis of biblical stories of the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament.From the start of her career, Trible has addressed the topic of how gender and gender/sex relationships are represented in the bible.She looks for biblical themes that have a 'depatriarchalizing principle', which she admits is a relatively minor theme in the biblical texts.
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Subjects:  1. Bible    2. Bible - Commentaries - General    3. Bible - CriticismInterpretation - General    4. Bible - Study - Old Testament    5. Hidden God    6. O.T    7. Old Testament Commentary    8. Religion    9. Religion - Theology    10. Sacred Texts As Literature    11. Theology    12. Violence in the Bible    13. Women in the Bible    14. Biblical concordances & commentaries    15. Christian theology    16. Feminism   

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Good collection, but...
H. Reckitt and P. Phelan wrote a good introduction book to understand women artists in summary. A widerange selection of artists are interesting to read with the help of sufficient amount of quality pictures. The articles of artists and feminist theoreticians in the last section are very useful and valuable especially for those who want to have a clue of what to read in theory. The only unfortunate thing about the book, like most of the similar examples is that women artists outside Europe and America are not given equal interest except the ones that live in the West like S. Neshat, M. Hatoum, etc.

Excellent Survey and Document of Both Feminism and Art
This book would be an excellent textbook for a Women In Art course. It doesn't have much information on centuries prior to the twentieth and largely focuses on art, artists, and issues from the 1960's on, so it wouldn't do as the only text for such a course. But this is all you need for late twentieth century concerns.
Art and Feminism
This book is a great "picture book" for anyone interested in art and/or women artist.The descriptions of the work are concise, giving enough information to make you want to investigate further. A necessary addition to any art book collection. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Art, Modern    5. Criticism    6. Essays    7. Feminism & Feminist Theory    8. Feminism and art    9. History - General    10. Women And Art    11. Women artists    12. Women in art    13. Art / General    14. Art styles: c 1960 -    15. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    16. The Arts: General Issues    17. Women's studies   

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An Amazing Book
Telling To Live is an important book that will serve as both inspiration and information-source for years to come.While calls for a more diverse scholarship permeate academia, so few books are written from the viewpoint of Latinas. The use of the "testimonios" format is particularly compelling as the authors relate their personal experience to larger political issues such as empowerment, invisibility, the body.This thematic organization makes the book particularly well suitedfor use in the classroom. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anecdotes    2. Anthropology - Cultural    3. Biography    4. Ethnic Studies - General    5. Feminism & Feminist Theory    6. Feminists    7. Hispanic American feminists    8. Hispanic American women    9. Sex discrimination against women    10. Social Science    11. Social conditions    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Women's Studies - General    15. Ethnic studies    16. Feminism    17. Latin America   

Subjects:  1. Action research    2. Feminism    3. Feminism & Feminist Theory    4. Gender Studies    5. Methodology    6. Research    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Women    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory   

Subjects:  1. Family Violence    2. Feminism    3. Psychology    4. Wife abuse    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations    6. Social issues    7. Social welfare & social services   

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An Evening With Eve
Not long ago, on a beautiful fall evening in 2005 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida, we experienced The Good Body, by Eve Ensler. The performance on November 12th was one that will live with us forever. Ensler was superb both in delivery and performance of her masterfully written script.
You've been waiting for this.
A long-time fan of the Vagina Monologues, I just HAD to get The Good Body when it came out. Everyone has issues with body image, but no one addresses it quite like Eve Ensler. I just hope that I can see this on stage someday.

Nothing New
Delightfully short in length, "The Good Body" takes a mere hour to peruse and completely read...which is a blessing.The repetitious cliches used to re-assure women that whatever the body form or shape, the body is good.There is nothing new to enlighten or educate the reader, and nothing one hasn't read or heard beforehand.Regardless of how compelling an argument in favor of an unaltered natural appearance the author puts forth, the bottom line is that in our global community looks and body shape DO still make a difference in a woman's life choices and success.This feminist rhetoric is no different than that which has been preached since the onslaught of "Feel good about yourself" books in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Culture    2. Feminism & Feminist Theory    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Sociology Of Women    6. Women's Studies - General    7. Social Science / Women's Studies   

Editorial Review

This classic of modern feminism is an ambitious attempt to trace certain present-day values back to cultural shifts of the 19th century. Historian Ann Douglas entwines the fate of American women, most notably those of the white middle class, with that of clergy marginalized by the rise in religious denominations and consequent dilution of their power base. No longer invited to wield influence in vital (some might say traditionally masculine) political and economic arenas, clergy were pushed toward more feminine spheres and rules of expression. Likewise, as growing numbers of middle-class white women lost their place as the indispensable center of household production, and many lower-class women became easily replaced industrial cogs, a none-too-subtle shift in perceptions about women's strengths and abilities occurred. Women lost voting rights and other legal privileges; barred from healing and midwifery, they were also less likely to appear in other increasingly male professions. Academies for wealthier girls imparted skills deemed to entice and soothe men without taxing supposedly tiny feminine brains; when Emma Willard offered geometry lessons to girls in the 1820s, one opponent harrumphed: "They'll be educating cows next." Douglas chronicles the rise of an overwhelmingly sentimental "feminization" of mass culture--in which writers of both sexes underscored popular convictions about women's weaknesses, desires, and proper place in the world--with erudite and well-argued scholarship. Read more

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Feminization made consumers of us all
This is a splendid book-Douglas shows how the loss of Christian faith, combined with the rise of industrialism, gave ministers and women (with too much time on their hands) common cause in seeking to "influence" culture. Thus was born the age of advertising and modern consumerism.
Tiresome, Uninformative
Bought this book as a spinoff to a seminar hoping for some insight into a complex subject. The common cause made between ineffectual clergy of the late 18th century and American women was interesting, but then the author lost herself (and her theme) in her exhausting review of obscure, forgettable literature. The phrase "deadly dull" comes to mind.
masterly
One can only imagine the work that has gone into this staggering piece of intellectual history - whose axis is the unforeseeable and fateful rise of the female public in American intellectual life, and contemporaneously the collapse of the old, muscular style of Protestant religiosity and intellect - from the kind and number of sources the author uses.She has apparently trawled through reams and piles of obscure newspapers and magazines, familiarized herself with writing most of us would be glad to avoid, learned to distinguish the various strands of an intellectual and publishing life which is, to modern America, as alien as imperial China or early Sumer.The result is tremendous: not only a resurrection of a past age that does it honour and justice (if anything, one seems to perceive, in this female scholar, a certain sympathy - even nostalgia - for the utra-male, activist, iron-faced world of the old Puritan thinkers, post-Jonathan Edwards and his likes), but a flood of light on the origins of our (not exclusively American) world and society.This simply cannot be praised too much; future historians will not be able to prescind from it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th Century American Literature    2. 19th century    3. American - General    4. American literature    5. Anthropology - Cultural    6. Feminism & Feminist Theory    7. Feminism and literature    8. History    9. History and criticism    10. Literary Criticism    11. Religion and literature    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Women As Authors (American Literature)    15. Women Authors    16. Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors   

Subjects:  1. Capitalism    2. Development - Economic Development    3. Economic policy    4. Feminism & Feminist Theory    5. History & Theory - General    6. Political science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Public Policy - Economic Policy    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Capitalist or free market economies    12. Political economy    13. Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory   

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. Sociology   

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Afeminist position on history's treatment of womenartist
This book is an interesting collection of power-ful essay's on the Postmodernist condition and how that has shaped the role of women artists to- day.Whether these strategies are being employed fashionably or inthoughtful disregard to presumed male prejudice is well argued andperceptive. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Art, Modern    5. Feminism and art    6. History - General    7. Popular Culture - General    8. Psychology    9. Women artists    10. Art / Popular Culture    11. Feminism    12. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -    13. Individual artists    14. Theory of art   

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nauseating
For decades, many male professors have made the same excuses for sexual exploitation of their students--to the fury of feminists.To read a feminist using the same rationalizations is both nauseating and infuriating.

A Provocative Appeal
Jane Gallop's 1997 tract, "Feminist Accused of Sexual Harrassment," is not meant to be an apology for her run in with academic and legal bureaucracies.The tract is not criticism nor critical theory as such.Instead, Gallop gives us an intensely personal overview and examination of her involvement in feminism, culturally and scholastically, since her exposure to the movement in the early 1970s.Gallop's writing is casual, even colloquial, and addresses the various socio-sexual facets of the student-professor relationship, and how they have changed between the early 70s and to-day. Insanity!
I could not agree more that this is "shrill, unconvincingscreed." I might also add that for a Professor who teachespsychoanalytic theory, Ms. Gallop doesn't seem to have a clue about themechanisms of DENIAL, RATIONALIZATION and NEGATION. The unconscious isspeaking very clearly through all this nonsense, if anyone cares to find itwhere it is, all on the surface. My condolences go out to her poorstudents, past and present, who have to put up with this psychoticpretentiousness. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1952-    2. Abuse - General    3. Biography    4. Education    5. Feminism & Feminist Theory    6. Feminism and education    7. Gallop, Jane,    8. Higher    9. Sexual harassment in universit    10. Sexual harassment in universities and colleges    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. Women college teachers    14. Feminism    15. Gallop, Jane    16. Sex discrimination