The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical ......
The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical ......
Kern (history, Northern Illinois U.) documents a recurring pattern in Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist painting that arranges the sexes so that a profiled man gazes at a women while she looks away from him at the viewer and ponders on an apparent offer. He challenges feminist claims that gazing men
Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagina
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagina
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.
Martin Heidegger's influence on the thought of Hannah Arendt has been frequently noted, but the precise nature of Arendt's critique of her mentor is less understood. Kim Maslin argues that Arendt's work attempted to transform fundamental ontology for responsible use in the public realm.
This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work.
