👉Exciting new volume: Feminism and the early Frankfurt School.
Αn original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory.
A deeply moving and inspiring collection of notes from the most expressive wall in the world.
In the days and weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Matthew Chavez showed up in the subway with stacks of brightly colored sticky notes. "Express yourself," he told passersby. The response was electric. Chavez turned an underground maze into a communal art space known as Subway Therapy.
Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history.
Hollywood Her Story
An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies
With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on.
[Belated] DecRec #14 is A 'Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry', by C. M. Waggoner. Again, it's something I haven't finished yet, but so far it's a delightful sapphic romp in which a street con artist joins a corps of wizardly bodyguard protecting an upper crust young lady from assassins. The plot itself is nothing special, but the narrative voice, with its linguistic playfulness*, is a delight.
*Dog-carts, for example, are misnamed, being drawn by horses and entirely unendoginated.
We Stand Divided
The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
From National Jewish Book Award winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reinterprets the past and reimagines the future of Jewish life.
@bookstodon My #review of Rouge by Mona Awad is now live! Darkly beautiful and intensely bittersweet, this actually managed to make me cry towards the end. That is VERY much a compliment.
A guide to cultivating a shared life of joy and respect with our dogs.
Who's a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and balanced relationships with our canine companions. By deepening our curiosity about what our dogs are experiencing, and by working together with them in a spirit of collaboration, we can become more effective and compassionate caregivers.
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era.
Five stars: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023) is a novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story was inspired in the process of writing a different retelling, namely, Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible (2016), written under the actual name, Ursula Vernon
@Likewise@bookstodon Just continuing my read through of what I call my, 'often quoted, never read', reading list. Finishing up Josephus now, probably going to move on to Xenophon next.