Read and Download Marge Piercy book Woman on the Edge of Time in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Woman on the Edge of Time. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 434 pages. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review

Read and Download Magali Cornier Michael book Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 292 pages. Book excerpt: Analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction.

Read and Download Alice Elaine Adams book Reproducing the Womb in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Reproducing the Womb. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Book excerpt: Alice E. Adams crafts a subtle new response to the controversies surrounding reproductive freedom and the implications of medical technology. She explores a spectrum of competing visions of childbearing, from misogynistic nightmares of matriarchal control to feminist utopias. Firmly rooted in political reality, Adams offers innovative answers to the questions posed by the intimate interconnections, and the perceived conflicts, between fetus and mother, individual and collective.

Read and Download Marge Piercy book Woman on the Edge of Time in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Woman on the Edge of Time. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 394 pages. Book excerpt: This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Read and Download Erin McKenna book The Task of Utopia in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Task of Utopia. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Book excerpt: Are utopian visions viable in the 21st century? Utopia has been equated, for many, with totalitarianism. Such visions are not acceptable. The loss of utopian visions altogether is also unacceptable. This book argues that American Pragmatism and Feminist theory can combine to provide a process model of utopia that pushes to build a flexible future that helps us deal with change, conflict, and diversity without resorting to fixed ends.

Read and Download Linda A. M. Perry book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Book excerpt: A multifaceted analysis of gender.

Read and Download Martin Parker book The Dictionary of Alternatives in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Dictionary of Alternatives. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 353 pages. Book excerpt: 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

Read and Download Elaine Neil Orr book Subject to Negotiation in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Subject to Negotiation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Book excerpt: Challenges the "subversive" model of feminist criticism and argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities, presenting an empirical method for a negotiating feminist criticism and demonstrating the model with analysis of the writing of five American women authors: Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and Marge Piercy. For scholars of feminist literary theory and 20th-century American literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Read and Download Elaine Tuttle Hansen book Mother Without Child in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Mother Without Child. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Book excerpt: "This is a conceptually innovative book which expands the meaning of motherhood to include mothers 'without child'; it is also a compassionate political book which refuses the boundary between 'good enough' and 'bad' mothers. Mother Without Child is an engaging, witty, and provocative literary study which should fascinate anyone who is interested in mothering or in looking for new ways to talk about motherhood without erasing some women's experience or dividing mothers from each other."--Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace "Hansen positions her study in a genuinely new space . . . taboo ground, which demands not only a great deal of courage to address, but also enormous intelligence and insight. Hansen is up to this task. . . hers is a pioneer study that will have a significant impact on the ways that non-procreative motherhood is discussed and understood." --Madelon Sprengnether, author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis "Since the beginnings of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, feminist scholars have been obsessed with motherhood. Mother Without Child takes us to the next stage in this fascinated and fascinating exploration. Through illuminating readings of contemporary stories of thwarted motherhood, Hansen challenges the persistent and constraining definitions of the good and even the good-enough mother. She enjoins us to listen to the moving, devastating, and often inspiring stories of mothers who survive the loss of their children and she urges us to find there not the angry voices of feminist daughters who cannot forgive their patriarchal mothers, but alternative stories of a different maternity that can lead us to alternative plots and visions of women's lives. We need this book."--Marianne Hirsch, author of The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism "A careful, committed, and freshly clarifying voice. Hansen's graceful prose and finely interwoven explorations are much needed at this time. Through readings of contemporary fiction, she enriches our vocabulary for discussing the overdetermined topic of motherhood and deepens our understanding of both its psychological and contemporary political dimensions. Mother Without Child is a book for historians and social scientists as well as literary scholars."--Laura Doyle, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture

Read and Download Maroula Joannou book Contemporary Women s Writing in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Contemporary Women s Writing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.

Read and Download Lisa Maria Hogeland book Feminism and Its Fictions in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Feminism and Its Fictions. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Book excerpt: During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work "consciousness raising." Women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness-raising. Lisa Maria Hogeland contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually engaged in consciousness-raising with their readers. Using a broad range of fiction—including works by Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Alix Kates Shulman, Alison Lurie, Joanna Russ, and Joan Didion—Hogeland explores the ways in which consciousness-raising novels addressed some of the most important questions raised by second-wave feminism.

Read and Download Greta Claire Gaard book Ecofeminist Literary Criticism in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Ecofeminist Literary Criticism. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Book excerpt: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.

Read and Download Mary Elene Wood book The Writing on the Wall in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Writing on the Wall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Fredric Jameson book Archaeologies of the Future in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Archaeologies of the Future. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?

Read and Download Edward James book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Read and Download Paul J. Nahin book Time Machines in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Time Machines. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 674 pages. Book excerpt: This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

Read and Download Marge Piercy book Parti colored Blocks for a Quilt in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Parti colored Blocks for a Quilt. This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Book excerpt: Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman becoming poet