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| DESIRE FOR DEVELOPMENT : Whiteness, Gender, & the Helping Imperative [Barbara Heron] Heron draws on post-structuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants. She posits that the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the North-South binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the 'good guys' of the world. { 191pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £17.99, 1554580013:9781554580019 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN -- ORIGINS : A History of Women, Volume 1 [Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood] Readable reference guide to the beginnings of women's history, from the best selling author, Marilyn French. Working over two decades with a team of researchers and historians, international best selling author Marilyn French synthesises women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes. REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada. { 336pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £17.50, 1558615652:9781558615656 , Feminist Press } |
| FROM EVE TO DAWN -- THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE : A History of Women, Volume 2 [Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood] Women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture? REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada. { 336pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £17.50, 1558615679:9781558615670 , Feminist Press } |
| IN THE NAME OF LOVE : Women's Narratives of Love & Abuse [Heather Fraser] Although love is the hallmark of humanity, it is not widely discussed in social work and other related professions with respect to its potential connection to abuse. In this ground-breaking book the author argues that, while love and abuse should not co-exist, they often do. Using a feminist narrative approach, stories about love, abuse, and social work are told with the purpose of understanding domestic violence and other forms of abuse. Based on interviews with 84 women of varying ages in Canada and Australia, the author shows how the pain and shame of intimate abuse can leave its mark on the bodies, minds, and souls of victims/survivors long after abusive episodes have ended. Additionally, Fraser also discusses the importance of hope, 'enlightened witnesses', income support, and educational opportunities for women who refuse to renounce love relationships altogether, but are instead, trying to foster relationships that are respectful as well as erotic. { 270pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; PB, £18.49, 0889614628:9780889614628 , Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) } |
| ONE STEP OVER THE LINE : Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests [Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus (eds)] This eclectic and carefully organised range of essays -- from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies -- is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and US West. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women's history that cross national borders. Out of the talks presented at the 2002 'Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History', Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus have edited a foundational text for pioneering scholars of an emergent, interdisciplinary field. { 504pp, 155x230mm, May 2008; PB, £19.50, 0888645015:9780888645012 , University of Alberta Press (Athabasca University Press) } |
| WITNESS ((Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2007)) [Kathryn Abrams & Irene Kacandes (eds)] Explores how 'bearing witness' exposes inequalities of power and can lead to revolutionary movements like feminism. Feminism was born of acts of witness, and throughout its many transformations bearing witness has played crucial roles. Women speaking out about their own experiences, or the injustices they see around them, have provoked resistance, and called entrenched structures of power to account. But witnessing can also be an equivocal process: opportunities for bearing witness are strongly shaped by their institutional, political, and cultural settings; and potentially powerful messages may be assimilated to dominant discourses, or isolate those bearing witness outside influential processes of governance. In this issue, we explore the challenges of bearing witness: we look at the legal and political contexts that have structured women's efforts to testify to injustice; we examine new methodologies -- such as the graphic novel -- that feminists have used to bear witness, and the role of objects in the process of witnessing; and we highlight the experience of contemporary and historical feminist witnesses to oppression, genocide, and transformation. Featuring essays by scholars such as Susan Brison, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Rosanne Kennedy, Nancy Miller, Judith Resnik, Valerie Smith, and Leo Spitzer, and a retrospective on the work of Judith Herman, this issues asks how witnessing might be understood and fortified as a vehicle for feminist understanding, resistance and change. { 196pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; PB, £18.99, 1558615776:9781558615779 , Feminist Press } |
| WIVES, MOTHERS & THE RED MENACE : Conservative Women & the Crusade Against Communism [Mary Brennan] Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. From writing letters and hosting teas to publishing books and running for political office, they campaigned against communism and, incidentally, discovered the power they had to effect change through activism. Brennan reveals how the willingness of these deeply conservative women to leave the domestic sphere and engage publicly in politics evinces the depth of America's postwar fear of communism. She further argues that these conservative, anti-communist women pushed the boundaries of traditional gender roles and challenged assumptions about women as political players by entering political life to publicly promote their ideals. { 197pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; HB, £28.50, 0870818856:9780870818851 , University Press of Colorado } |
| WOMEN BETWEEN Author Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of four Canadian women -- visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs. All four came into prominence in middle age, doing their most significant work in their mature years. They, along with the author, are members of a transitional generation of women, occupying the space between the traditional world of their mothers and the postmodern world of their daughters. The multiple roles they have played are reflected in the strong autobiographical content present in their work. Applying feminist and autobiographical theory, Reid considers the work of Butala, Dyck, Meigs, and Pratt in light of the influences that have shaped their senses of identity. As a contemporary of her subjects, Reid was able to interview all four women for this project, infusing her exploration of their lives and work with a sense of intimacy and immediacy. Reproductions of pieces by Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt are also included. { June 2008; PB, £21.99, 1552382427:9781552382424 , Calgary University Press } |
| WOMEN IN CONCERT : An Anthology of Bengali: Muslim Women's Writings, 1904-1938 [Shaheen Akhtar & Moushumi Bhowmik] This anthology is like a rediscovery of Muslim women's lives through their writings. Society had not believed that such women existed but indeed there are remarkable contributions of essays, short stories, poetry, a novella and some letters, providing a vital picture of an age and a place -- undivided Bengal before partitio -- and a glimpse of lives not always confined within the household. Translated from the Bengali edition, "Zenana Mehfil". { 400pp, 140x215mm, May 2008; HB, £32.00, 8185604576:9788185604572 , Stree } |