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        The Arts
        January 2018

        Addressing the other woman

        Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing

        by Kimberly Lamm, Marsha Meskimmon

        List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Writing the "I" otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 1. Adrian Piper's textual address 2. Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela Davis Part II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 3. Writing the drives in Nancy Spero's Codex Artaud 4. Valerie Solanas' S.C.U.M. Manifesto and the texts of aggression Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey 5. Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document 6. Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura Mulvey Conclusion Bibliography Index

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2019

        Wir sind viele, wir sind eins

        Wenn wir die Rechte der Frauen stärken, verändern wir die Welt

        by Gates, Melinda / Übersetzt von Liebl, Elisabeth

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Male voices on women's rights

        An anthology of nineteenth-century British texts

        by Martine Monacelli

        Male voices on women's rights is a timely complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men's roles in the history of feminism.This unique collection of seminal, little-known or forgotten writings, spanning from 1809 to 1913, will help the revision of many common assumptions and misconceptions regarding male attitudes to sex equality, and give some insight into the tensions provoked by shifting patterns of masculinity and re-definitions of femininity. The documents, drawn from a wide range of sources, throw a light on the role played by the radical tradition, liberal culture, religious dissent and economic criticism in the development of women's politics in nineteenth-century Britain. The collection includes a substantial historical introduction and a short contextualising essay before each excerpt, making it an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        January 2018

        Addressing the other woman

        Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing

        by Kimberly Lamm, Marsha Meskimmon

        This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language In the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of 'the other woman', a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork's aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible. Appealing to scholars and students of feminist art history, visual studies, and literature, the book offers a multi-faceted picture of the feminisms that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s.

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        The Arts
        April 2019

        Stage women, 1900–50

        Female theatre workers and professional practice

        by Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney

        This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women's networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on and off stage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. 'Women and popular performance' focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

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        The Arts
        April 2019

        Stage women, 1900–50

        Female theatre workers and professional practice

        by Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney

        This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women's networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on and off stage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. 'Women and popular performance' focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        April 2019

        Stage women, 1900–50

        Female theatre workers and professional practice

        by Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney

        This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women's networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on and off stage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. 'Women and popular performance' focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        The futures of feminism

        by Valerie Bryson

        This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts women with multiple disadvantages at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Combining academic rigour with accessibility, the book demystifies some key feminist terms, including patriarchy and intersectionality, and shows their relevance to feminist politics today. It argues that the analysis of gender cannot be isolated from that of class or race, and that the needs of most women will not be met in an economy based on the pursuit of profit. Throughout, the book asserts the social, economic and human importance of the unpaid caring and domestic work that has been traditionally done by women. It concludes that there are some grounds for optimism about a future that could be both more feminist and more socialist.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        The futures of feminism

        by Valerie Bryson

        This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts women with multiple disadvantages at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Combining academic rigour with accessibility, the book demystifies some key feminist terms, including patriarchy and intersectionality, and shows their relevance to feminist politics today. It argues that the analysis of gender cannot be isolated from that of class or race, and that the needs of most women will not be met in an economy based on the pursuit of profit. Throughout, the book asserts the social, economic and human importance of the unpaid caring and domestic work that has been traditionally done by women. It concludes that there are some grounds for optimism about a future that could be both more feminist and more socialist.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Gothic forms of feminine fictions

        by Susanne Becker

        Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement. Today's globalised entertainment culture, relying on soaps, reality TV shows, celebrity and excess, is reflected in the emotional trajectory of the Gothic's violence, eroticism and sentimental excess. Gothic forms of feminine fictions discusses a wide range of anglophone Gothic romances, from the classics through pulp fictions to a postmodern Gothica. This timely and original study is a major contribution to gender and genre theory as well as cultural criticism of the contemporary. It will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields and become essential for students of the Gothic, contemporary fiction - particularly Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood - and popular culture.

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        The Arts
        October 2021

        Surrealist sabotage and the war on work

        by Abigail Susik

        In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism's transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism's profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism's creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        October 2021

        Surrealist sabotage and the war on work

        by Abigail Susik

        In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism's transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism's profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism's creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        Male voices on women's rights

        An anthology of nineteenth-century British texts

        by Martine Monacelli

        Male voices on women's rights is a timely complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men's roles in the history of feminism.This unique collection of seminal, little-known or forgotten writings, spanning from 1809 to 1913, will help the revision of many common assumptions and misconceptions regarding male attitudes to sex equality, and give some insight into the tensions provoked by shifting patterns of masculinity and re-definitions of femininity. The documents, drawn from a wide range of sources, throw a light on the role played by the radical tradition, liberal culture, religious dissent and economic criticism in the development of women's politics in nineteenth-century Britain. The collection includes a substantial historical introduction and a short contextualising essay before each excerpt, making it an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        Me, not you

        The trouble with mainstream feminism

        by Alison Phipps

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        Me, not you

        The trouble with mainstream feminism

        by Alison Phipps

        This book performs an intervention into #MeToo and other recent feminist campaigns against sexual violence. In a right-moving world, women's anger about sexual violence has been celebrated as a progressive force. However, this politics cannot tackle the intersections of patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism which produce sexual violence. Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence embodies a political whiteness which both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their experiences as capital within the 'outrage economy' of the media, and rely on state power and institutional governance to purge 'bad men' from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. Furthermore, the more reactionary branches of the feminist movement are complicit with the far-right, in their attacks on sex workers and trans people. This text is essential reading for scholars interested in the contemporary politics of sexual violence, and the feminist movement more generally.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        Me, not you

        The trouble with mainstream feminism

        by Alison Phipps

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        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2022

        The boundaries of international law

        A feminist analysis, with a new introduction

        by Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, Jean d'Aspremont

        Representing the first book-length treatment of the application of feminist theories of international law, The boundaries of international law argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronting it. The boundaries of international law provides a feminist perspective on the structure, processes and substance of international law, shedding new light on treaty law, the concept of statehood and the right of self-determination, the role of international institutions and the law of human rights. Concluding with a consideration of whether the inclusion of women in the jurisdiction of international war crimes tribunals represents a significant shift in the boundaries of international law, the book encourages a dramatic rethinking of the discipline of international law. With a new introduction that reflects on the profound changes in international law since the book's first publication in 2000, this provocative volume is essential reading for scholars, practitioners and students alike.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2022

        The boundaries of international law

        A feminist analysis, with a new introduction

        by Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, Jean d'Aspremont

        Representing the first book-length treatment of the application of feminist theories of international law, The boundaries of international law argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronting it. The boundaries of international law provides a feminist perspective on the structure, processes and substance of international law, shedding new light on treaty law, the concept of statehood and the right of self-determination, the role of international institutions and the law of human rights. Concluding with a consideration of whether the inclusion of women in the jurisdiction of international war crimes tribunals represents a significant shift in the boundaries of international law, the book encourages a dramatic rethinking of the discipline of international law. With a new introduction that reflects on the profound changes in international law since the book's first publication in 2000, this provocative volume is essential reading for scholars, practitioners and students alike.

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