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"A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education"--Provided by publisher.

Feminist theory. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Astell, Mary, --- Wotton, --- Daughter of the Church of England, --- Lady, --- Single, Tom, --- Mr. Wotton, --- Lover of her sex,

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Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they're ours to hold.

Mothers and daughters --- Alzheimer's disease --- Patients --- Family relationships. --- Venema-de Jong, Geeske. --- Venema, Kathleen Rebecca, --- Alzheimer's Disease. --- Canada. --- Netherlands. --- Uganda. --- civil war. --- conflict. --- correspondence. --- cross-cultural communication. --- cross-cultural identity. --- death. --- dementia. --- dying. --- identity deformation. --- identity formation. --- international development. --- letter writing. --- memory loss. --- mother-daughter relationship. --- post-WWII immigration. --- progressive theology. --- resilience.

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Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children-white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female-suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks's The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.

Comic books, strips, etc --- Children in literature. --- Citizenship in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism --- History. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism. --- childhood, citizenship, comics, Progressive Era, The Yellow Kid, Buster Brown, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Little Ah Sid, Jap "It", Made the Magician's Daughter, Betsy Bouncer and Her Doll, comic books, graphic novels, comic strips.

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Filling a long-standing gap in our knowledge about slave-marriage, 'Novel Bondage' unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Tess Chakkalakal expertly mines antislavery and post-Civil War fiction to extract literary representations of slave-marriage, revealing how these texts and their public responses took aim not only at the horrors of slavery but also at the legal conventions of marriage.

Slavery in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Slaves --- United States --- Social conditions --- African Americans in literature --- Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884. Clotel, or, The President's Daughter (1853) --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Webb, Frank J. --- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Crafts, Hannah --- African Americans in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Social conditions. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons

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In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage-the "family silver"-is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intimate relationships between lesbians, ties between students and feminist teachers, the dilemmas of women in academia as well as in the broader work world, and the importance of female separatism. Drawing on her experiences as a lesbian, a feminist, and a teacher, Krieger presents a stunning critique of higher education. She argues for acknowledging gender in all areas of women's lives and for valuing women's inner realities and outer forms of expression.Krieger has developed a distinctly feminist approach to understanding and scholarship. Her style is self-revelatory, emotional, and at the same time deeply analytical. Her essays pioneer a new method of locating, defining, and honoring female values.The Family Silver includes a thought-provoking discussion of gender roles among women, including the author's experience of being mistaken for a man; an exploration of teaching in a feminist classroom; and a description of the controversy that resulted when the author refused to allow a hostile male student to take one of her courses. Beautifully written,The Family Silver addresses issues of central concern to feminists, postmodernists, and queer theorists and encourages new insights into how gender profoundly affects us all.

Gender. --- Gender identity. --- Interpersonal relations. --- Krieger, Susan. --- Lesbian studies. --- Lesbians. --- Lesbians - United States. --- Marriage, family and other relationships. --- United States. --- Women. --- Women college teachers. --- Women college teachers - United States. --- Women's studies. --- Women --- Lesbians --- Women college teachers --- Gender identity --- Interpersonal relations --- Feminist theory --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Social Sciences --- Krieger, Susan --- United States --- academia. --- academic. --- analysis. --- controversial. --- domestic. --- emotions. --- essay collection. --- family life. --- female teachers. --- feminism. --- feminist studies. --- feminist. --- gender expression. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- interpersonal relationships. --- lesbians. --- lgbtq. --- material wealth. --- mental health. --- mother daughter. --- postmodern. --- queer theory. --- research. --- scholarly. --- strong women. --- teaching. --- wealth. --- womens issues. --- womens studies.