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Book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Download or read book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America written by Manning Marable and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance—even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies to the terrain of the prison-industrial complex, anti-racist work, labor organizing, alternatives to racial capitalism, and challenging patriarchy—personally and politically."—Robin D. G. Kelley "In this new edition of his classic text . . . Marable can challenge a new generation to find solutions to the problems that constrain the present but not our potential to seek and define a better future."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "[A] prescient analysis."—Michael Eric Dyson How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of the intersection of racism and class in the United States. It has become a standard text for courses in American politics and history, and has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since the 1980s. This edition is prsented with a new foreword by Leith Mullings.

Book Women and Leadership

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Lau Chin
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 1405181370
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Women and Leadership written by Jean Lau Chin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years the number of women assuming leadershiproles has grown dramatically. This original and important bookidentifies the challenges faced by women in positions ofleadership, and discusses the intersection between theories ofleadership and feminism. Examines models of feminist leadership, feminist influences onleadership styles and agendas, and the diversity of theoretical andethnic perspectives of feminist leaders Addresses how diverse women lead, how feminist principlescontribute to leadership, the influence of ethnic groups and thebarriers that women face as leaders Transforms existing models of leadership by incorporatinggender issues Looks to the future of feminist leadership and identifies whatmust be done to train and mentor the next generation of feministleaders

Book Visions of War  Dreams of Peace

Download or read book Visions of War Dreams of Peace written by Lynda Van Devanter and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs.

Book Savonarola s Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tamar Herzig
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0226329151
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Savonarola s Women written by Tamar Herzig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), the religious reformer, preacher, and Florentine civic leader, was burned at the stake as a false prophet by the order of Pope Alexander VI. Tamar Herzig here explores the networks of Savonarola’s female followers that proliferated in the two generations following his death. Drawing on sources from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many never before studied, transcribed, or contextualized in Savonarolan scholarship and religious history, Herzig shows how powerful public figures and clerics continued to ally themselves with these holy women long after the prophet’s death. In their quest to stay true to their leader’s teachings, Savonarola’s female followers faced hostile superiors within their orders, local political pressures, and the deep-rooted misogynistic assumptions of the Church establishment. This unprecedented volume demonstrates how reform circles throughout the Italian peninsula each tailored Savonarola’s life and works to their particular communities’ regionally specific needs. Savonarola’s Women is an important reconstruction of women’s influence on one of the most important and controversial religious movements in premodern Europe.

Book Tender Violence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Wexler
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780807848838
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Tender Violence written by Laura Wexler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of such female photojournalists as Alice Austen, Jessie Tarbox Beals, and Frances Benjamin Johnston, arguing that they produced images that helped to reinforce the imperialistic ideals that were forming at the beginning of the 20th century.

Book Women s Voices  Feminist Visions  Classic and Contemporary Readings

Download or read book Women s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings written by Susan Shaw and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a leading introductory women’s studies reader, Shaw and Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students.

Book Girls  Visions and Everything

Download or read book Girls Visions and Everything written by Sarah Schulman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 1999-08-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissued novel takes readers on a "wry and playful" (Out!) tour of lesbian sex, politics, and art in New York City. The city's sizzling -- especially at the Kitsch-Inn, where the girls are mounting an all-female production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Book Development Crises and Alternative Visions

Download or read book Development Crises and Alternative Visions written by Gita Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Book Women and Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty A. Reardon
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1993-07-01
  • ISBN : 1438417020
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Women and Peace written by Betty A. Reardon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women s Voices

Download or read book Women s Voices written by Pat C. Hoy and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an anthology of nonfiction writing by women. The text is divided into two sections: the first section contains from three to four pieces by fifteen major women writers; the second section presents thirty-four classic essays from the feminist tradition.

Book Visions of the  Neue Frau

Download or read book Visions of the Neue Frau written by Marsha Meskimmon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the role of women as producers and patrons of art in Germany after the First world war, while also considering the problematic area of women as subject and object in representation. Art forms discussed are the visual arts, photography, dance and film.

Book Gendered Visions

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  • Author : Salah M. Hassan
  • Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Gendered Visions written by Salah M. Hassan and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work by six prominent artists accompanied by critical essays which place the work in the context of the artists' socio-cultural backgrounds. All six artists are of African origin but work in the West: Ethiopian painter Elisabeth T Atnafu; US fibre and mixed-media artist Xenobia Bailey; Jamaican photographer Renee Cox; Cameroon photographer Angele Essamba; painter Houria Niati from Algeria; and Ethiopian sculptor Etiye Dimma Poulsen.

Book Women s Re visions of Shakespeare

Download or read book Women s Re visions of Shakespeare written by Marianne Novy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voicing Our Visions

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  • Author : Mara Rose Witzling
  • Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Voicing Our Visions written by Mara Rose Witzling and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, the art establishment has turned a deaf ear to the voices of women artists. These women were not silent, however, but constantly struggling to articulate their experience. For the first time, the unique and powerful voices of twenty female artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including such luminaries as Georgia O'Keeffe, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Barbara Hepworth, Faith Ringgold, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Frida Kahlo, have been gathered together in a single volume. These women all made eloquent and revealing disclosures about the personal and aesthetic issues that shaped their private lives, and their work. Often working in isolation, beset by doubt, and ignored by the commercial art world, they kept written records of their anxieties, their triumphs, and their artistic themes and methods in a wide variety of formats. Included are excerpts from private diaries, letters, essays, articles, poems, stories, and aesthetic manifestoes. Much of the material appears in print for the first time. The writings of artists have become an essential vehicle for understanding their art. A milestone in art history, Voicing Our Visions is compelling reading for anyone concerned with women and art. This lively collection of texts provides a clearer understanding and deeper enjoyment of the work of twenty leading women artists. -- Back Cover

Book The Psychology of Today s Woman

Download or read book The Psychology of Today s Woman written by Toni Bernay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual revolution, oft discussed in the journalistic literature of recent years, has brought in its wake a host of questions that are only beginning to be addressed. How are women coping with "real world" challenges for which they may be ill prepared, both socially and psychologically? How successfully are they integrating old and new ego ideals in forging new identities? Is their ostensible "liberation" actually making for a sense of integration and wholeness? The Psychology of Today's Woman: New Psychoanalytic Visions probes these and related questions from the standpoint of both developmental and therapeutic concerns. Taking Freud's notion of female sexuality as a point of departure, editors Bernay and Cantor have compiled a collection of original essays that reassesses traditional conceptions of female psychology (Section I), proffers new visions of femininity (Section II), and explores critical situations in the lives of contemporary women (Section III). A final section of the book, of special interest to analysts and psychotherapists, examines the various facets of the clinical treatment of women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume articulate a strong challenge to the "deficiency model" of female identity that has long dominated psychoanalytic theory. More impressively still, they offer constructive alternatives to the preconceptions of the past. They converge in the belief that the richness and diversity of female experience cannot be encompassed in the overly simplified definitions and "masculine" analogizing of classical analysis. Whether we investigate the status of "masculinity" and "femininity" as personality traits, the relationship between "nurturance" and "aggression" in female identity, or the meaning of "normality" and "pathology" in treatment situations, we are very much in a realm of multiple truths in which the formulas of the past give little sense of the options of the present or the possibilities of the future.

Book Leaders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gien Karssen
  • Publisher : NavPress
  • Release : 2015-05-15
  • ISBN : 1631464175
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Leaders written by Gien Karssen and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders: Lessons from Women of Vision and Courage walks women through the lives of Miriam, Esther, Lydia, and nine other women of the Bible. Wherever God placed them, these women used their leadership abilities to serve God and others. Gien Karssen’s vivid storytelling and deep insights will immerse you in the lives of these courageous women and explore how God has called you to serve as a leader in your own life, wherever God has placed you. The stories you read will remind you of people you know, and maybe even of yourself. Each book in the Her Name Is Woman series brings to life women of the Bible. As you grapple with God’s role in each woman’s life, you will be motivated to live your own life wholeheartedly for God. Each chapter includes relevant Scripture passages and Bible study questions that have made the Her Name Is Woman series a favorite guide for Bible studies and small groups.

Book Visions of Struggle in Women s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Download or read book Visions of Struggle in Women s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean written by F. Laviosa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women s human, civil, and social rights while situating feminist arguments on women s identity, roles, psychology and sexuality. Although their methodologies are diverse, these artists are united in their use of cinema as a means of intervention, taking on the role as outspoken and leading advocates for women s problems. Contributors examine the ways in which cinematic art reproduces and structures the discourses of realism and represents Mediterranean women s collective experience of struggle.