Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales... Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action. The 'flip-up' flaps encourage prediction and discussion, and ......
Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity
Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from'or returned to'an ecosystem.
In The Wolf's Tooth, scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg explores the concept of ""trophic cascades"" and the role ......
Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence
Criticizes the use of gendered metaphors - "Babylon" as a tortured woman - which the author asserts reflect an inescapably androcentric, even misogynistic, perspective. The author seeks to dismantle the either/or dichotomy within the "Great Whore" debate by bringing the categories of race/ethnicity and class to bear on John's metaphors.
''Real mystery fans will enjoy this survey of nearly 300 female sleuths in 100 years of British and U.S. fiction.'' -- Feminist Bookstore News This new edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character ......
Willem de Kooning's six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. At their debut in 1953, the critics were incensed by the ugliness of the images themselves and by the inclusion of vestiges of the figure in abstraction. Consequently, they questioned de Kooning's attitude toward women and commitment to the Abstract ......
Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how those dimensions can reshape the reader's imaginative encounters with questions of identity, location, and transformation.Ranging widely among ......
Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
The Woman They Wanted recounts the remarkable story of Shannon Harris courtship with Joshua Harris (author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye), her grappling with conservative Christianitys patriarchy and narrow definition of womanhood, and her journey to break free and reclaim a more authentic version of herself.
