This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South — their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

    A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.

    Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.

    This third edition is now better than ever, with new information and letters from teens. here's the scoop on Body --Looking and feeling you bestFriendship --You don't like everybody why should everybody like you?Love --Falling in, falling outSex --What you should know before saying yesFamily --Making the best of your nestMoney --The buck starts hereEducation --Getting though high school, getting into collegeSmoking, Drinking, and Drugs --Advice without lecturesQuizzes --Getting to know you"Wise, warm, witty...Girltalk is a must for every young woman's library." --Phyllis Schneider, former Editor in Chief, YM Magazine"The newest fem-teen bible." --Buzz Magazine"A bestselling guide to facing nearly every adolescent problem, from acne to AIDS." --Ladies' Home Journal Parents' Digest Best of the Best

    first published in The New Yorker, January 21, 1985

    Valuable for its insights into gender, its extensive treatment of transsexualism, and its ethnomethodological approach, Gender reviews and critiques data from biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

    These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present.

    Nobody wants an informer in the kitchen or bedroom and as wife, mother or lover, women know far too much about men to be allowed to speak freely.Arising out of the controversy surrounding an exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, this collection of challenging essays and interviews explores the goals, ideas and conflicts of women artists who portray men as objects of sexual desire, as persecutors, poseurs, emotional dependents or friends and lovers. Even as the show was denounced by critics for its provocative imagery and keen political and critical edge, it drew record crowds, making clear that women exposing the male to view are liable to touch a nerve.With over 100 rich halftone illustrations and essays touching on the rebirth of figurative art, the use of art as a vehicle for political comment and the emergence of women artists, Women's Images of Men makes a substantial contribution to changes in attitudes toward women's art.

    This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.

    Sensuous and fabulous language turn conventional images of women inside out; Marchessault challenges us to remake our patterns of language in a way that explodes the stereotypes of the past and ecstatically explores the contours of a feminist vision for the future. Anglophone readers will find a new magic, new revelations, a new name of women's experience in the work of this Quebecoise word-spinner.