Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle―and not so subtle―strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers wi...(展开全部)

By the author of The Female Man--a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

By the author of The Female Man--a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

【作者简介】 乔安娜·拉斯（1937—2011） 美国著名女性主义科幻作家、学者。 20世纪60年代，拉斯凭借其小说《在天堂野餐》在科幻小说界崭露头角；彼时科幻小说界几乎由男性作家占据，也只为男性读者服务，拉斯是最早对此形成挑战的女作者之一，之后她亦被认为是最重要的女性 主义科幻作家之一。她的主要科幻作品另有《雌性男人》《他们两个》等；非虚构作品另有《像女人那样写作》等。 【译者简介】 章艳，上海外国语大学教授，翻译学博士，硕士生导师，理论研究方向为文化翻译和翻译美学。译作另有《娱乐至死》《三十而栗》《通往明天的唯一道路：安·兰德专栏集粹》《论小丑：独裁者和艺术家》《青春无羁：狂飙时代的社会运动（1875—1945）》《朋友之间：汉娜·阿伦特、玛丽·麦卡锡书信集（1949—1975）》《重访美丽新世界》等。

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle―and not so subtle―strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers wi...(展开全部)

The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds―real, invented, uncanny ―in this ingenious, electrifying collection. A Trinidadian obeah man finds himself reborn, a hundred years after his death, in the body of a Canadian child; a writer takes up a seasonal job as a caretaker for a set of mysterious large sacks hanging from the rafters of the houses in a small town;...(展开全部)

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism. The first collection of its k...(展开全部)

Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth val...(展开全部)