Product Description: The Parisienne, in her subtler phases, is a theme for a feminist of genius; and this little book does not venture upon the psychological deep seas. Grave issues are tangled in the game of fashion-making; but the world through which My Lady of the Chiffons dances lightly to gay music reeks of frivolity, and the story of the fashionable Parisienne and of the haunts in which she obtains and displays her incomparable frocks must needs be a story of folly and extravagance, best told, perhaps, by snap-shots of the inner courts of Vanity Fair...read more

Product Description: Most of the major challenges of the women's liberation movement, argues this book, were reflected in late 19th-century fiction, and this concern had a significant effect on the art of the novel.Although primarily a work of criticism, the presentation is informed more than is customary by social history since the period covered was 'a particularly tumultuous phase of the women's liberation movement' throughout Europe...read more

Product Description: Examines the responsibilities of the dental assistant and describes her work with the equipment and materials, used in dentistry

Product Description: 'You stand rooted to the spot or you run like mad.'Hal and Roget Hunt head off for another challenging mission -- this time to search for gorillas in the Congo jungle. But when the boys stumble across the evil trade in baby gorillas, someone seems determined to silence them once and for all...read more

After Howard Rice saves John Slocum's life, Slocum is hired to protect Rice's gold from a gang of deadly robbers

First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent—the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors’ letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen’s heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen’s now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this perspicacious study of John Fowles's work, Bruce Woodcock brings techniques developed in the field of women's studies to bear on the work of one of our most widely read contemporary male novelists. Woodcock proposes a theoretical and historical context to analyze Fowles's use of gender roles, providing an essential counterbalance to theories of feminist criticism, which can too easily become sterile if applied only to the work and personality of female writers...read more

Product Description: Exploring the controversial question of feminist criticism's relationship to recent critical theory, Elizabeth Meese resists the impulse to encompass women's diverse experiences within a single theory. Instead, she attempts to make American critical theory more radically political and American feminist criticism more self-consciously polyvocal and de-centering...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is an edited text of Oroonoko, a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery...read more

Book by Lovell, Terry

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Product Description: Kathleen Wall traces the myth through fifteen works of English, American, and Canadian literature, providing a fresh, feminist reading of these narratives. Among the works analysed are selections by Margaret Atwood, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, and George Elliot...read more

This best-selling book gives readers a close look at the fashion industry from the professional designer's viewpoint. It contains clear and comprehensive coverage and excellent illustrations that examine fashion through the decades and trends of the times. KEY TOPICS Each chapter links stylishly updated visual images with relevant concepts. Coverage of the role of computers and digital technology are integrated into every phase of the design and production process .This reference covers business practice, vocabulary, and industry resources. For economic development researchers profiling the apparel industry, reporters who cover the fashion industry, PR and marketing people new to the fashion arena, and lawyers in civil cases related to apparel production and copyright issues.

Product Description: Gender and Theory: Dialogues in Feminist Criticism

Product Description: Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of the mother in the daughter's discourse...read more

Product Description: Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories...read more

"... Boumelha offers fascinating analyses of Brontë's work and of feminist criticism of Brontë." —Choice

Product Description: Heller examines the quest-romance genre and contends that we are witnessing the genre's development as one of the most fundamental formal expressions of women's awakening to selfhood, mobility, and influence in both American culture and mythology.