This study historicizes Tillie Olsen's fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.
This book examines prominent women in the 2016 US presidential election-candidates, staffers, families, journalists, and organizers. The authors examine feminism, motherhood, voter expectations, the press, gender, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work spanning political science, communication, and women's and gender studies.
This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. It provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fiction and contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain.
This book analyzes the link between gender and technology to explain the mechanisms underlying specific genders that have been associated with literary genres. Ultimately, this book shows the ways in which contemporary Argentine society is creating inclusive spaces for women to participate in technological fields on the web and in real-time.
Anna Ott, a female physician battling oppression and the law in the nineteenth-century Midwest, died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.
Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world.Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical ......
University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists-all remain ......
