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An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their lives. By documenting the often-complicated relationships girls have with Barbie dolls, Aguiló-Pérez highlights the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.
The Gender Reader

Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson, and Merry G. Perry

The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.
Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; Wide-ranging essays on print culture from Renaissance Europe to the contemporary digital world

Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history"—fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field.
New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring

Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall

Representing a range of approaches and voices, this text explores the tensions and ambiguities of portfolio assessment. While some of its essays problematize portfolio use at the classroom level, others move beyond the classroom to construct new research agendas in writing assessment.
Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence

Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley

The lesbian victim of a violent hate crime that left her seriously wounded and her partner dead is the story of family and community, the medical system, the police and courts, and the media--and of one woman's incredible courage.
Bully Pulpit: Poems

Kim Bridgford

Stately and assured, Kim Bridgford triumphs over private, public, mythic and literary bullies in her newest volume, Bully Pulpit, a sustained book of poems that ranges wide and deep, shining a searchlight on the world of threats. Her crisp meters and deft turns of phrase take on “mobbing” to “bullycides,” intelligently moving us from examples of survivor-figures (like Rosa Parks) to literary victims (like Desdemona) and on to film icons, too. The growl of Norma Desmond bursts forth, and the electric and charming voices of the Triplets of Belleville. Are these the subjects of poetry? You bet they are, especially in Bridgford’s valiant hands.
Molly Peacock
Epiphanies: Poems

Kim Bridgford

The poems of Kim Bridgford's Epiphaniesare heart-breaking in their leap of faith, finding not just the divine in the human, but the human in the divine: "You'll rise again. I know what you've been through./I suffered human life: and so do you."
Hitchcock's Coffin: Sonnets About Classic Films

Kim Bridgford

The inspired meditations on movies in Kim Bridgford'sHitchcock's Coffin are vibrant in their mix of metrical music and Hollywood gloss.
Instead of Maps: Poems

Kim Bridgford

Kim Bridgford’s Instead of Maps is a remarkable journey, her elegant poems leading us on the treacherous road to truth with only the heart—and Bridgford’s effortless art—to guide us.
In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records

Kim Bridgford

Winner of the 2007 Donald Justice Poetry Award sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center.
Undone: Poems

Kim Bridgford

'Out of what she calls the bric-a-brac of ordinary life, Kim Bridgford has made poems remarkable for their depth of feeling and formal skill. Her lapidary precision conveys a passionate artistry. Open this book anywhere and you will find a gem." -- Mary Jarman. "Her work is rigorous and memorable, full of linguistic surprises and emotional twists that suggest, as she says, that there is an art in learning how to underscore." -- Jay Parini
Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes

Mary Bellucci Buckelew and Andrea Fishman

Based on the conceptual framework of the educational ecosystem, Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes engages preservice teachers in activities that promote their understanding of diversity topics. In working through the activities included in this text, students deepen their understanding of the interrelationship of the community, the school, and classroom dynamics and cultures. By making multicultural issues local and relevant, future teachers begin to see themselves as agents of change, creators of curriculum and pedagogy, and facilitators of a synergistic, dynamic, and exciting learning environment.
Action Research for English Language Arts Teachers: Invitation to Inquiry

Mary Buckelew and Janice Ewing

Offering preservice and inservice teachers a guide to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of English Language Arts education, this book provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be a teacher researcher in ELA contexts. Inviting teachers to view inquiry and reflection as intrinsic to their identity and mission, Buckelew and Ewing walk readers through the inquiry process from developing an actionable focus, to data collection and analysis to publication and the exploration of ongoing questions. Providing thoughtful and relevant protocols and models for teacher inquiry, this book establishes a theoretical foundation and offers practical, ready-to-use tools and strategies for engaging in the inquiry process in the context of teachers’ communities. Action Research for English Language Arts Teachers: Invitation to Inquiry includes a variety of examples and scenarios of ELA teachers in diverse contexts, ensuring that this volume is relevant and accessible to all educators.
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891

Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.
Women Writing Latin: Early Modern Women Writing Latin

Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).
War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare

Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, and Merry G. Perry

War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization. War and Words offers students of literature critical tools for reading literary explorations of ambivalence toward war and provides teachers of literature a suggested syllabus for a course that has become all too necessary in a time when all our lives are touched by war.
Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film: Agents of Vengeance

Eric Dodson-Robinson

Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Filmchallenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.
Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy

Karen Fitts and Alan W. France

Left Margins offers an inside view of the cultural politics of knowledge in college-level composition classrooms. The basic question this book raises is whether or not we can continue to represent the writing process apolitically as the work of autonomous individuals recording their experiences or realizing their private objectives. Readers will get a front-row, classroom perspective on the confrontation between politically engaged writing teachers and largely resistant students, between critical pedagogy and the orthodoxies of American culture at the end of the twentieth century. The book presents classroom strategies that develop students' awareness of their own ideological subjectivities.
Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New Millennium

Henry A. Giroux and Kostas Myrsiades

A decade of budgetary, policy, and ideological contention has left American universities under the yoke of narrow-minded management models. As corporate culture increasingly invades educational and other public sectors, we as a nation have lost a clear vision of the public good and the necessary components of a vital democracy. Prominent scholars in this book seek to redress these trends. They move boldly beyond critique to show how and why the critical functions of a democratically informed civic education (not merely professional training) must become the core of the university's mission. They show why higher education must address what it means to relate knowledge to public life, and social responsibility to the demands of critical citizenship. Moreover, they show why democratic forms of education and various elements of a critical pedagogy are vital not only to individual students, but also to our economy and our democratic institutions and future leadership. They also suggest how we can move beyond the stagnation of current debates to more fully embrace the democratic possibilities of public education.
Family Matters in the British and American Novel

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth M. Nollen, and Sheila Reitzel Foor

Contributors examine the literature that challenges widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Topics include: the family as a microcosm of the larger political sphere in Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Fenwick, Mrs. Opie, and Mary Shelley, and alternatives to the nuclear patriarchal family in Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Louisa Molesworth.
A Reference Guide to Modern Fantasy for Children

Helen M. Hill and Pat Pflieger

A very thorough guide to the fantasies and fantasists selected, this is unlike any other guide to the genre. Only English and American authors of full-length fantasies are included, just 36, with entries for titles, characters, places, and magical objects, and of course the authors. Authors' entries describe major themes of all their full-length works, following biographical notes. Book-title entries give plot synopses and information about the first editions of the books. People who remember something of a fantasy sequence and want to find it again will find this the most helpful guide to fantasies. Choice
Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre

Erin Hurt

Scholars and readers alike need little help identifying the infamous Bridget Jones or Carrie Bradshaw. While it is no stretch to say that these fictional characters are the most recognizable within the chic lit genre, there are certainly many others that have helped define this body of work. While previous research has focused primarily on white American chick lit, Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre, takes a wider look at the genre, by exploring chick lit novels featuring protagonists from a variety of ethnic backgrounds set both within and outside of the US.
Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Deidre Johnson

Deidre Johnson's biography of Edward Stratemeyer leaves little, if anything, to be desired. His entire history is covered here with, of course, special emphasis on his incredible "Syndicate" - a Syndicate which produced the most influential juvenile fiction of the 20th century (Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew to mention but a few) and whose influence is still felt to this day.
Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition

Seth Kahn, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek

Composition has been a microcosm of the corporatization of higher education for thirty years, with adjuncts often handling the hard work of writing instruction. We've learned enough to know that change is needed. Influenced by the efforts of organizations such as New Faculty Majority, Faculty Forward, PrecariCorps, and national faculty unions, this collection highlights action, describing efforts that have improved adjunct working conditions in English departments. The editors categorize these efforts into five threads: strategies for self-advocacy; organizing within and across ranks; professionalizing in complex contexts; working for local changes to workload, pay, and material conditions; and protecting gains.
Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement

Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee

This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today’s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2) the central role of rhetoric in democratic activist practices. In presenting a variety of political and rhetorical struggles in their specific contexts, editors Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee allow contributors to reflect on and elaborate possibilities for both activist approaches to rhetorical studies, and rhetorical approaches to activist projects, facilitating better understanding the socio-political consequences of this work.