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Jardine's command of French theory is awesome. Even more impressive is the fact that she manages to delve into the subject without ever losing sight of certain impertinent American questions. "-Jane Gallop, Department of French and Italian, Miami University Gynesis: from the Greek-gyn- signifying woman, and -sis designating process. In her book, Alice Jardine charts the territories and landscapes of contemporary French thought, focusing on such concepts as "woman" and "the feminine," and relating them to the problem of modernity. Interdisciplinary in her approach, she confronts and addresses important psychoanalytic, philosophical, and fictional texts that are largely the work of male writers.In Part One Jardine charts the general boundaries of what she describes as the "problematization" of woman, and in Part Two she explores three major topologies of contemporary French thought-the breakdown of the Cartesian Subject, the default of Representation, and the demise of Man's Truth. Part Three analyzes the work of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, three major French thinkers who, according to Jardine, are deeply involved in the process of gynesis, and discusses their readings of such writers as Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, and Michel Tournier. A final section turns to the question of comparativism by discussing male American and French writers-those self-consciously exploring the conceptual territories mapped in Part Two. Looking at her texts from the vantage point of an American feminist, Jardine voices the hope that feminism and modernity will not become mutually exclusive and, by the same token, that feminism will not grow less concerned with the question of female stereotyping.A brilliant and engaging book that will undoubtedly provoke controversy, Gynesis should find a large audience among students of contemporary thought-including feminists, literary and cultural critics, and philosophers.

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"Cracking the Bro-Code is an ethnography that engages women navigating male-dominated cultures of computing. It provides evidence of women's experiences to reveal the values and practices of U.S.-based high-tech institutions and how they reproduce discrimination and harassment not only in their workplaces, but also in the broader political economy"--

Women computer industry employees --- Sexual harassment of women --- Sex discrimination against women --- Male domination (Social structure) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Womens Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & Information Technology

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Le deuxième volume de cette grande enquête au coeur de l'exception française commence avec l'arrivée au pouvoir d'Henri IV, premier roi à parvenir sur le trône au nom de la " loi salique ". Il se termine deux siècles plus tard, à la veille de la Révolution française. Croisant les différents domaines où se jouent les rapports de force entre hommes et femmes (politique, économie, droit, culture, religion. ), Eliane Viennot met en lumière le double mouvement, très conflictuel, qui caractérise toute cette période : d'une part le début de la " longue marche " vers l'égalité ; d'autre part la nouvelle offensive qui se met en place pour bloquer cette perspective, au nom du respect prétendu de la " différence naturelle des sexes ". Que la querelle sur les femmes soit ancienne, nous le savions déjà. Qu'elle ait rebondi avec cette vigueur d'une génération à l'autre, de l'égalité des droits à la masculinisation de la langue française, en passant par l'accès au savoir et la capacité des femmes à gouverner, voilà qui n'avait encore jamais été montré.

Women --- Feminism --- History --- France --- Womens studies --- Femmes et politique --- Égalité des sexes --- Loi salique --- Femmes --- Statut juridique --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Sociology of minorities --- Family law. Inheritance law --- History. --- Women's studies --- Etudes sur les femmes --- Féminisme --- Histoire --- Lex Salica. --- Women - France - History. --- Womens studies - France - History. --- Feminism - France - History. --- Women - France - History --- Feminism - France - History --- France - History --- Power --- Monarchies --- Book --- Discrimination --- Inheritance law

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Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century.

Women --- Confucianism --- Religions --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Women - China - History --- Women - Japan - History --- Women - Korea - History --- Confucianism - Social aspects --- 19th century. --- academic. --- asia. --- confucianism. --- confucius. --- construct. --- contemporary. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- east asia. --- east asian culture. --- europe. --- feminism. --- feminist. --- international. --- modern world. --- oppression. --- scholarly. --- scholarship. --- social history. --- social studies. --- united states. --- victims. --- womens issues. --- womens studies. --- world history.

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Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective, the book brings together the entangled lives of three notable but overlooked women: American Eslanda Robeson, Martinican Paulette Nardal, and Jamaican Una Marson. It explores how, between the 1920s and the 1960s, the trio participated in global freedom struggles by traveling; building networks in feminist, student, black-led, anticolonial, and antifascist organizations; and forging alliances with key leaders. This made them race women internationalists-figures who engaged with a variety of interconnected internationalisms to challenge various forms of inequality facing people of African descent across the diaspora and the continent.

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