Voices from the debate on women's rights in early-twentieth-century Spain The newspaper columnist Carmen de Burgos Segui caused a sensation in 1903 when she called for a public discussion on divorce, then illegal in Spain. The fierce debate that ensued among Spain's leading thinkers-politicians, academics, feminists, journalists, and others-is ......
Voices from the debate on women's rights in early-twentieth-century Spain The newspaper columnist Carmen de Burgos Segui caused a sensation in 1903 when she called for a public discussion on divorce, then illegal in Spain. The fierce debate that ensued among Spain's leading thinkers-politicians, academics, feminists, journalists, and others-is ......
Representations of the struggle for gender justice in Asian literature This casebook investigates how diverse writers from across East, South, and Southeast Asia and their diasporas have engaged with the struggle for gender justice amid pervasive gender-based inequity and violence. Each chapter analyzes works of literature originally written in ......
Unsparingly honest writings about America and race One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the ......
Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and ......
An acclaimed Moroccan novel about resisting colonialism and environmental destruction. An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly ......
New approaches to teaching a familiar work By the time they encounter Romeo and Juliet in the classroom, many students have already been exposed to various, and sometimes incongruous, manifestations of Shakespeare's work. This volume makes a virtue of students' familiarity with the preconceptions, anachronisms, and appropriations that shape ......
An acclaimed Moroccan novel about resisting colonialism and environmental destruction. An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly ......
Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society This volume brings a diverse range of voices-from anthropology, communication studies, ethnomusicology, film, history, literature, linguistics, sociology, theater, and urban geography-into the conversation about film from the People's Republic of China. Essays seek to answer what films can ......
