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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Published: 2009-04-27
Paperback: 184 pages
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... methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious... " ?Text and Performance QuarterlyWoman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It ...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Published: 2004-12-21
Paperback: 208 pages
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Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and s...
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Published: 1993-07-28
Paperback: 304 pages
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Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a “pure” Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new ...
How to Make White People Laugh
Published: 2016-05-24
Hardcover: 256 pages
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From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism. Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who be...
Anya's Ghost
Published: 2014-03-25
Paperback: 240 pages
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Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "forever" part . . . Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough,...
I Kill Giants
Published: 2009-05-26
Paperback: 184 pages
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Barbara Thorson, a girl battling monsters both real and imagined, kicks butt, takes names, and faces her greatest fear in this bittersweet, coming-of-age story called "Best Indy Book of 2008" by IGN. Collects I Kill Giants #1-7.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Published: 2013-04-02
Paperback: 304 pages
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From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial ...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Published: 2011-10-04
Paperback: 416 pages
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Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men. Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet ...
The Chess Garden or the Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
Published: 1995-09-01
Hardcover: 481 pages
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An exotic, spiritual tale combines elements of memoir and parable, in a collection of twelve letters sent with chess pieces to his wife Sonja by Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven while serving as a doctor in the Boer War concentration camps in South Africa. 25,000 first printing.
The Monsters of St. Helena: A Novel
Published: 2004-01-01
Paperback: 320 pages
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In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatriates, the descendants of Portuguese settlers, and their slaves. Bonaparte's arrival--with a retinue of fifteen hun...
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