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Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novelby Sarah CardwellISBN 071906046X (0-7190-6046-X)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violenceby James Garbarino, Ellen DelaraISBN 0743228995 (0-7432-2899-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Angelina Jolie's: Notes from My Travelsby Angelina JolieISBN 0743470230 (0-7434-7023-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Antifeminism and Family Terrorism: A Critical Feminist Perspectiveby Rhonda HammerISBN 0742510506 (0-7425-1050-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074348486X (0-7434-8486-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
Scene-by-scene plot summaries
A key to famous lines and phrases
An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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At Swim, Two Boysby Jamie O'NeillISBN 0743222954 (0-7432-2295-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Swim, Two Boys'Book summary:You may have read the hype. Irishman Jamie O'Neill was working as a London hospital porter when his 10-year labor of love, the 200,000-word manuscript of At Swim, Two Boys, written on a laptop during quiet patches at work, was suddenly snapped up for a hefty six-figure advance. For once, the book fully deserves the hype.
In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and "the Doyler," two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys' friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be overtaken by tragedy. O'Neill's prose, playing merrily with vocabulary, syntax, and idiom, has unsurprisingly drawn comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but in his creation of comic characters (such as Jim's pathetic but irrepressible father) and in the sheer scale of his work, Charles Dickens springs to mind first. But Dickens never wrote a love story between young men as achingly beautiful as this.
In the character of Anthony MacMurrough, who is haunted by voices as he pursues his illegal and dangerous desire for Dublin boys, O'Neill has created a complex and fascinating center to his novel, rescuing the love story from mawkishness, and allowing a serious meditation on history, politics, and desire. For as Ireland seeks its own future free of British government, so Jim, Doyle, and MacMurrough look back to Sparta to find a way to live. As Dr Scrotes, one of MacMurrough's voices, commands:
Help these boys build a nation of their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literature for words they can speak.
In this massive, enthralling, and brilliant debut, Jamie O'Neill has indeed done just that: provided a nation for what Walt Whitman calls, in O'Neill's epigraph, "the love of comrades." --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of At Swim, Two Boys:
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Beowulfby Michael SwantonISBN 0719051460 (0-7190-5146-0)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Beowulf is to English what the Odyssey and Iliad are to Greek literature ? the oldest example of vernacular literature of any substance not only in England but in the whole of western Europe. Since its rediscovery and the appearance of the first printed editions in the middle of the last century, this moving and dramatic epic has attracted considerable scholarly attention, and Dr Swanton is able to draw on this wealth of scholarship to present a considered and balanced introduction to the poem. Explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, expand the poets more esoteric allusions and offer background information on contemporary manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be invaluable to both students and the general reader.[via]More editions of Beowulf:
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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern Worldby Sian GriffithsISBN 0719049547 (0-7190-4954-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Black Man Emerging : Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in Americaby Joseph L. White, Cones, James H., IIIISBN 0716728958 (0-7167-2895-8)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporealityby Avril Horner, Angela KeaneISBN 0719054699 (0-7190-5469-9)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplayby Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaISBN 0743294165 (0-7432-9416-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Storyby Angela BourkeISBN 0712665900 (0-7126-6590-0)
Hardcover, Pimlico
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Class Analysis and Contemporary Australiaby Janeen BaxterISBN 0732903351 (0-7329-0335-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Co. of Australia
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Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theoryby Peter Hulme, Francis Barker, Margaret IversenISBN 0719048761 (0-7190-4876-1)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory'Book summary:The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.[via]More editions of Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory:
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veilby W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering LewisISBN 074346060X (0-7434-6060-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil'Book summary:W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding of the "problem of the color line." While much of his early texts were sociological investigations of the Black community, the author increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual elements into his works. The results are some of the most electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in America.
After decades of obscurity, this literary jewel is presented with a new introduction written by David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; Lewis is the foremost scholar of the work of Du Bois.
"If The Souls of Black Folk achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal in such a way that each appropriated something of the illustrative and symbolic value of the other, much of Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil was a cri de coeur in which the author's anger at the absurdities of racial prejudice crackled through the text like electric jolts that scorched, illumined, or stunned."
-- David Levering Lewis, from the Introduction [via]
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Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identityby Amy de la Haye, Elizabeth B. WilsonISBN 0719053285 (0-7190-5328-5)
Hardcover, Manchester University Press
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The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorismby Robin MorganISBN 0743452933 (0-7434-5293-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Careby Benjamin Spock, Robert NeedlmanISBN 0743476670 (0-7434-7667-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care'Book summary:Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Throughout its first 52 years, Baby and Child Care was the second-best-selling book, next to the Bible. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics. His ideas about childcare influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children, and to treat them as individuals. In addition to his pediatric work, Spock was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. At the time his books were criticized by Vietnam War supporters for allegedly propagating permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratifications that led young people to join these movements, a charge Spock denied. Spock also won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale University. [via]
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0743477367 (0-7434-7736-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. 
Empire And Sexuality: The British Experienceby Ronald HyamISBN 0719025052 (0-7190-2505-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0735101191 (0-7351-0119-1)
Hardcover, Replica Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
Feminist Cultural Theory: Process and Productionby Beverley SkeggsISBN 0719044715 (0-7190-4471-5)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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The First Voice of Australian Feminism: Excerpts from Louisa Lawson's the Dawn, 1888-1895by Olive Lawson, Louisa LawsonISBN 0731801377 (0-7318-0137-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Australia in association with New Endeavour Press
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The Forbidden Towerby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0727845896 (0-7278-4589-6)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Framing Medieval Bodiesby Sarah Kay, Miri RubinISBN 0719050103 (0-7190-5010-3)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Iconsby J. A. Mangan, Fan HongISBN 0714681296 (0-7146-8129-6)
Softcover, Frank Cass & Co
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From 'Fair Sex' to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Erasby J.A. Magnan, Roberta A. ParkISBN 0714632880 (0-7146-3288-0)
Hardcover, Frank Cass & Co
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Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Mythby Lillian E. DohertyISBN 0715630423 (0-7156-3042-3)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiationby Kay Saunders, Raymond EvansISBN 0729512185 (0-7295-1218-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Gender, Conflict, And Peacekeepingby Dyan E. Mazurana, Dyan Mazurana, Jane L. Parpart, Angela Raven-RobertsISBN 0742536335 (0-7425-3633-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Gender, Justice, And the Wars in Iraq: A Reminist Reformulation of Just War Theoryby Laura SjobergISBN 073911610X (0-7391-1610-X)
Softcover, Lexington Books
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The Gendered Objectby Pat KirkhamISBN 0719044758 (0-7190-4475-8)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0743406362 (0-7434-0636-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914by Christopher BrewardISBN 0719047994 (0-7190-4799-4)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914'Book summary:This innovative book uncovers the consuming habits of urban men from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. It focuses on the fraught relationships that emerged at this time between ideal models of manly behavior and attitudes towards the expression of sexual and class identities through the medium of dress. The period has been identified by many historians as a crucial moment in the development of a commodity culture, and its characteristics have generally been discussed in terms of a "feminization" of practices linked with shopping and fashionable display. In a challenge to the accepted picture, Christopher Breward tracks previously hidden connections between the formation of popular sartorial models for male consumers, the organization of associated retail industries and the promotion of new leisure activities.[via]More editions of The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914:
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italyby Judith C. BrownISBN 0735104328 (0-7351-0432-8)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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In Session : The Bond Between Women and Their Therapistsby Deborah A. Lott, Marie CohenISBN 0716740257 (0-7167-4025-7)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0742627985 (0-7426-2798-5)
Hardcover, Classic Books
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Kama Sutra: The Arts of Loveby Zek Halu, Misha Halu, Jane Graham-MawISBN 0722532377 (0-7225-3237-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Lorna Simpsonby Kellie Jones, Thelma Golden, Chrissie LlesISBN 0714840386 (0-7148-4038-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477103 (0-7434-7710-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
Man Made Languageby Dale SpenderISBN 0710203152 (0-7102-0315-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Memories of the Bodyby Lisa TuttleISBN 0727843125 (0-7278-4312-5)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offenderby A. Nicholas Groth, H. Jean BirnbaumISBN 0738206245 (0-7382-0624-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477561 (0-7434-7756-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Merchant of Venice : Texts and Contextsby William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineISBN 0743452984 (0-7434-5298-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Womenby Meredith W. Michaels, Susan DouglasISBN 0743260465 (0-7432-6046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Women'Book summary:Does Martha Stewart make you feel like you never do enough for your kids? Do "celebrity mom" profiles leave you feeling lumpen and inadequate? That's because they're supposed to, say Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels, authors of The Mommy Myth and self-professed "mothers with an attitude." Both scathing and self-deprecating, their pop-culture critique takes on "the new momism," the media's obsession with motherhood and the impossible standards which that obsession promotes. Today's ideal mom makes June Cleaver seem like a layabout: she may work outside the home, but never too much, always looks at the world through her children's eyes, makes sure to buy only educational, age-appropriate toys, and includes a loving note with each hand-prepared lunch. Meanwhile, the news media hype stories about child abduction, politicians excoriate so-called "welfare queens," and parenting experts advocate wearing your child in a sling until he moves out on his own. Romanticized, commercialized, sensationalized, and demonized by turns, today's mothers are damned if they work and damned if they don't; whats more, the idea that the government might do something to help their plight has come to seem almost quaint. As a history of motherhood in the media from 1970 to the present, The Mommy Myth makes a fun and thought-provoking read. Yet close readings of episodes of thirtysomething don't create quite the call to arms the authors seem to have in mind; no woman likes to think of herself as a media dupe, particularly the kind of woman who will be reading this book. Straightforward policy critiques like their chilling chapter on childcare fare much better, illuminating a culture that seems to have forgotten public institutions' power to correct social ills. --Mary Park [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WestineISBN 0743482751 (0-7434-8275-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:FOLGER Shakespeare Library
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Gail Kern Paster
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to theworld's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet forShakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open tothe public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performancesand programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
Not in Front of the Servants: A True Portrait of Upstairs, Downstairs Lifeby Frank Victor DawesISBN 0712629815 (0-7126-2981-5)
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty defends the representative democracy as the culmination of society's progression from lower to higher stages, even as it recognizes one of the unique dangers of this type of government-namely, the "tyranny of the majority."Central to Mill's ideology is the harm principle-the idea that individual liberties should only be curtailed when they harm or interfere with the ability of others to exercise their own liberties. Unlike other liberal theorists, Mill did not rely upon theories of abstract rights to support his ideology, but rather grounded his philosophy in ideas of utility. As relevant to modern audiences as it was to Mill's Victorian readership, On Liberty is an enduring classic of political thought.[via]More editions of On Liberty:
Peninsula Of Lies: A True Story Of Mysterious Birth And Taboo Loveby Edward BallISBN 0743235614 (0-7432-3561-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peninsula Of Lies: A True Story Of Mysterious Birth And Taboo Love'Book summary:Peninsula of Lies is a nonfiction mystery, set in haunting locales and peopled with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the focus of one of the most unusual sexual scandals of the last century.
Born in England sometime before World War II, Dawn Langley Simmons began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall. Gordon was the son of servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the estate of Vita Sackville-West, where as a child he met Vita's lover Virginia Woolf. In his twenties, Gordon made his way to New York, where he became an author of society biographies and befriended such grandes dames as the actress Margaret Rutherford and the artist and heiress Isabel Whitney, who left him a small fortune.
The money allowed Gordon to buy a mansion in Charleston and fill it with period furniture, providing a stage for him to entertain more great ladies and to climb the social ladder of the Southern gentry to its heights.
However, Gordon's world changed instantly in 1968, when at The Johns Hopkins Hospital he underwent one of the first sex-reassignment surgeries, returning to Southern society and scandalizing Charleston as the new Dawn Langley Hall. Dawn Hall furthermore announced that her surgery had been corrective, because she'd actually been misidentified as a boy at birth.
Three months later, Dawn raised the stakes in still-segregated Charleston when she arranged her very public marriage to a young black mechanic, John-Paul Simmons. In due course, Dawn appeared around town pregnant; finally, she could be seen pushing a baby carriage with a child -- her daughter, Natasha.
National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball (Slaves in the Family) has written a detective story that deciphers the riddle of Dawn Simmons, a once rich and infamous changeling who died in 2000, her sexual identity never determined.
Peninsula of Lies is an engrossing narrative of a person who tested every taboo, as well as the confidence of observers in their own eyes. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Raquel JaramilloISBN 0743214498 (0-7432-1449-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"Peter Pan," J. M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now.
In this lavishly produced edition of the unabridged adventure classic, designer and illustrator Raquel Jaramillo interprets "Peter Pan" through her wondrous photographic imagery. By blending illustration, photography, and computer technology, she blurs the lines between fiction and reality. The result is fresh and startlingly beautiful -- pure magic. Neverland comes alive with the immediacy and drama of a movie. Pirates stalk savage forests, mermaids swim through sun-kissed seas, children fly above undiscovered islands. Portrayed with a flesh-and-blood intimacy, the beloved characters of Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, and Nana seem more real than ever before.
Part ghost story, part love story, tender, funny, and wise, "Peter Pan" is a haunting work that appeals equally to boys and girls. But in the wake of numerous abridged retellings, the famous Disney adaptation, and other big-screen updates, the true nature of the novel has been somewhat forgotten, its impact diminished with each passing generation. Jaramillo's stunning re-creation secures the legacy of the tale, in all its complexity, for a second century. It will prove to be as ageless as Peter himself. [via]
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Pleasures and Regretsby Marcel Proust, Louise VareseISBN 0720611105 (0-7206-1110-5)
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Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixtiesby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0713994460 (0-7139-9446-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertisingby Anthony J. CorteseISBN 0742524981 (0-7425-2498-1)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising'Book summary:This updated second edition offers a refined theoretical framework, new pedagogical features, and expansion of advertising images and their analysis. Controversially, the second edition highlights preliminary evidence, contrary to popular opinion, that media sex and violence do not always sell. The new edition reviews these and other recent research findings. Other updates for this edition include: --an evaluation of advertisements following the 9-11 terrorist attacks --more on media violence and its nexus to youth violence --new discussion of the use of advertising in law enforcement --introduces the concept hybridizing (combinations of two types of advertising) --many new ads representing cultural changes since the first edition [via]
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Psychoanalysis and Feminismby Juliet MitchellISBN 0713901551 (0-7139-0155-1)
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteemby Bell HooksISBN 0743456068 (0-7434-5606-8)
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0735105928 (0-7351-0592-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room With a View'Book summary:The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text. The grading system is based on lexical controls, structural controls and guidelines on sentence length and complexity. Books in Level 3 have a vocabulary of 1000 words. [via]
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiographyby David M. HalperinISBN 0735104239 (0-7351-0423-9)
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Haremsby Fatima MernissiISBN 0743412435 (0-7434-1243-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems'Book summary:Fatima Mernissi's unclassifiable book, at turns scholarly, playful, watchful, and admonitory, perfectly juxtaposes the relations between men and women in Europe with those in the Muslim world. In Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems, there is a studied casualness in Mernissi's observations, which she presents as a series of discoveries reached through conversations with friends, through reading and travels, and through her own lived experience as a liberated Moroccan woman, a feminist professor of sociology at a Moroccan university. In 1994, Mernissi traveled to 10 Western cities to promote her bestselling book, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, a luxury not available to her illiterate grandmother Yasmina, to whom the harem was a prison, rather than the idealized sanctuary of Western myth.
The contrasts Mernissi discovered between East and West were not as simple as one might imagine. In Berlin, for example, she leafed through pornographic German photo books of "harem women," produced for an eager audience of Western men, and in Paris, she accompanied a male friend on a walking tour of his favorite odalisques, from Ingres to Matisse, while he explained how comforting an insecure man found these nude, silent women. While the medieval caliphs tended to prize intelligence and erudition among the women of their harems, Western writers have lauded beauty over every other quality; as Kant put it, a learned woman "might as well even have a beard." In deceptively light prose, Mernissi introduces the sexual politics of Islam to a Western audience, while pointing out the inconsistencies and illogic in the Western tradition. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World Warby Angela K. SmithISBN 0719053005 (0-7190-5300-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Sex: A Natural Historyby Joann Ellison RodgersISBN 0716737442 (0-7167-3744-2)
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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for the New Millenniumby Robin MorganISBN 0743466276 (0-7434-6627-6)
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The Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide for Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace With a Manby Laura DoyleISBN 0743204441 (0-7432-0444-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide for Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace With a Man'Book summary:Self-proclaimed "feminist and former shrew" Laura Doyle sets forth a whopper of a game plan for establishing profound intimacy in one's marriage. Building on the gender stereotypes defined by bestselling author John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus), Doyle seeks to heal the overworked, underappreciated wife who snarls at her mate's every thought or action. Her message to these smart, self-sufficient types: check the nitpicking, the unsolicited opinions, and--egads!--the finances at the marital door (although she says it's still okay to wield control at work). Many women will find such advice archaic and offensive; some will simply laugh off this credential-free anachronism when they receive the book as a bridal-shower gag gift. Still others, identifying with Doyle's profile of a controlling wife, will be curious enough to dabble in her proposed art of "surrendering."
According to Doyle, the wife who chooses to surrender must learn to take care of herself first, overcome the desire to have more power, and abandon the myth of equality. Delving into the personal tales and sisterly advice shared within each chapter's pages, surrendering wives will further note the need to master unsavory phrases like "I can't," and "Whatever you think"--tough to swallow for a generation of women who value their own opinions. While she fully acknowledges that a few bills will go unpaid and a few deadlines or freeway exits will occasionally be missed, she also insists that surrendered wives will encounter less worry and fear, more money, and better sex. Hey, "Whatever you think...." --Liane Thomas [via]
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The Tangled Wing : Biological Constraints on the Human Spiritby Melvin J. KonnerISBN 0716746026 (0-7167-4602-6)
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Telegraph Daysby Larry McMurtryISBN 0743250788 (0-7432-5078-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telegraph Days'Book summary:Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove
Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write.
When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Once there, Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while the ever resourceful Nellie becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Nellie almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes to meet, and witness the exploits of Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday.
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Three Livesby Gertrude Stein, Brenda WineappleISBN 0743436547 (0-7434-3654-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America.
Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "The Good Anna" tells the story of a young German servant who must decide between loyalty to her employer and love. In "The Gentle Lena," another German servant girl marries the wrong man, and finds herself trapped as a wife and mother. And the introspective "Melanctha" examines the tragic life of a mulatto woman and those she loved.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Three Lives has been prepared by Brenda Wineapple, professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. It includes her introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading, as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs. [via]
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Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's Endby Sara M. EvansISBN 074325502X (0-7432-5502-X)
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The Transvestite Memoirs of the Abbe De Choisy; And, The Story of the Marquise-Marquis De Bannevilleby Charles Perrault, Choisy, R.H.F. ScottISBN 0720600537 (0-7206-0053-7)
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's Worldby Alan DownsISBN 0738210617 (0-7382-1061-7)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Walt Disney's Peter Panby Random House Disney, Ron Dias, Studio OrlandoISBN 0736412956 (0-7364-1295-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Disney's Peter Pan'Book summary:Journey to Never Land with John, Wendy, and Michael and join in the adventures of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys! A wonderful way to introduce young fans to the classic Walt Disney movie! [via]
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The Wise Wound: Menstruation And Everywomanby Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0714534056 (0-7145-3405-6)
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The Woman Questionby Karl MarxISBN 0717802566 (0-7178-0256-6)
Hardcover, International Publishers
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Women and International Peacekeepingby Louise Olsson, Torunn L. TryggestadISBN 0714682179 (0-7146-8217-9)
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Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Yearsby Jean Gelman TaylorISBN 0732611563 (0-7326-1156-3)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identityby Paola TinagliISBN 071904054X (0-7190-4054-X)
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Women of Australia: Their Lives and Times a Photographic Galleryby Helen Duffy, Ingrid OhlssonISBN 0732909872 (0-7329-0987-2)
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Women, Men and the Great Warby Trudi TateISBN 0719045983 (0-7190-4598-3)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers And Daughters in Conversationby Deborah TannenISBN 0739326023 (0-7393-2602-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers And Daughters in Conversation'Book summary:Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Dont Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of womens lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that men and women speak different languages. Mothers and daughters speak the same languagebut still often misunderstand each other, as they struggle to find the right balance between closeness and independence. Both mothers and daughters want to be seen for who they are, but tend to see the other as falling short of who she should be. Each overestimates the others power and underestimates her own.
Why do daughters complain that their mothers always criticize, while mothers feel hurt that their daughters shut them out? Why do mothers and daughters critique each other on the Big Threehair, clothes, and weightwhile longing for approval and understanding? And why do they scrutinize each other for reflections of themselves?
Deborah Tannen answers these and many other questions as she explains why a remark that would be harmless coming from anyone else can cause an explosion when it comes from your mother or your daughter. She examines every aspect of this complex dynamic, from the dark side that can shadow a woman throughout her life, to the new technologies like e-mail and instant messaging that are transforming mother-daughter communication. Most important, she helps mothers and daughters understand each other, the key to improving their relationship.
With groundbreaking insights, pitch-perfect dialogues, and deeply moving memories of her own mother, Tannen untangles the knots daughters and mothers can get tied up in. Readers will appreciate Tannens humor as they see themselves on every page and come away with real hope for breaking down barriers and opening new lines of communication. Eye-opening and heartfelt, Youre Wearing That? illuminates and enriches one of the most important relationships in our lives.
Tannen analyzes and decodes scores of conversations between moms and daughters. These exchanges are so real they can make you squirm as you relive the last fraught conversation you had with your own mother or daughter. But Tannen doesn't just point out the pitfalls of the mother-daughter relationship, she also provides guidance for changing the conversations (or the way that we feel about the conversations) before they degenerate into what Tannen calls a mutually aggravating spiral, a "self-perpetuating cycle of escalating responses that become provocations." The San Francisco Chronicle
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