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Chicana Sexuality and Gender

Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

By: Debra J. Blake

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Chicana Sexuality and Gender

Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

By: Debra J. Blake

Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures. After reading the works of Chicana writers who created bold, powerful, and openly sexual female characters, Debra J. Blake wondered how everyday Mexican American women would characterize their own lives in relation to the writers’ radical reconfigurations of female sexuality and gender roles. To find out, Blake gathered oral histories from working-class and semiprofessional U.S. Mexicanas. In Chicana Sexuality and Gender, she compares the self-representations of these women with fictional and artistic representations by academic-affiliated, professional intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists, including Alma M. López and Yolanda López. Blake looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the U.S. Mexicana women refigure confining and demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. She organizes her analysis around re-imaginings of La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, indigenous Mexica goddesses, and La Malinche, the indigenous interpreter for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest. In doing so, Blake reveals how the professional intellectuals and the working-class and semiprofessional women rework or invoke the female icons to confront the repression of female sexuality, limiting gender roles, inequality in male and female relationships, and violence against women. While the representational strategies of the two groups of women are significantly different and the U.S. Mexicanas would not necessarily call themselves feminists, Blake nonetheless illuminates a continuum of Chicana feminist thinking, showing how both groups of women expand lifestyle choices and promote the health and well-being of women of Mexican origin or descent.

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Duke University Press

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0822381222

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9780822381228

Linking Language

Simple Language and Literacy Activities Throughout the Curriculum

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Debra Hoge,Leroy Searcy

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Linking Language

Simple Language and Literacy Activities Throughout the Curriculum

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Debra Hoge,Leroy Searcy

Everyday ways to connect language and literacy to the daily curriculum.

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276

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876592027

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9780876592021

Bodily Arts

Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece

By: Debra Hawhee

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Bodily Arts

Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece

By: Debra Hawhee

The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, one that was in essence "performed." Detailing how athletics came to be rhetoric's "twin art" in the bodily aspects of learning and performance, Bodily Arts draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medical treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, including statues and vases. Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual "mingling" of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, repetition, and response. Presenting her data against the backdrop of a broad cultural perspective rather than a narrow disciplinary one, Hawhee presents a pioneering interpretation of Greek civilization from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE by observing its citizens in action.

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University of Texas Press

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0292757026

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9780292757028

Equine Internal Medicine - E-Book

By: Stephen M. Reed,Warwick M. Bayly,Debra C. Sellon

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Equine Internal Medicine - E-Book

By: Stephen M. Reed,Warwick M. Bayly,Debra C. Sellon

Confidently diagnose, treat, and manage patient conditions with the only comprehensive book on the market devoted solely to equine internal medicine. Filled with fully updated content on principles of treatment and contributions from internationally known equine experts, Equine Internal Medicine, 4th Edition focuses on the basic pathophysiologic mechanisms that underlie the development of various equine diseases. A problem-based approach outlines how to apply the latest clinical evidence directly to the conditions you will encounter in practice. A new companion website with over 120 video clips presents diseases and disorders that cannot be explained as well through words - Updated information throughout, including the most recent drug information. Current and well-referenced content on equine diseases and treatment techniques cites the latest books and journals. - Internationally known equine experts present information on problems affecting horses throughout the world — and provide contributions that enable practitioners and students to approach disease and treatment of equine patients with more authority and understanding. - User-friendly exterior and interior design makes the book appealing to both the equine internal medicine practitioner and the veterinary student. Easy-to-find information facilitates a more thorough understanding with minimal frustration. - Organized and consistent coverage among chapters allows you to easily find information on a specific topic. - NEW! Fully updated and revised sections on disorders and principles of treatment. - NEW! Problem-based approach outlines how to apply the latest clinical evidence directly to the conditions you will encounter in practice. - NEW! Pathophysiology is emphasized throughout, providing a sound basis for discussions of the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis that follow. - NEW! Body systems chapters begin with a thorough discussion of the diagnostic method appropriate to the system, including physical examination, clinical pathology, radiography, endoscopy, and ultrasonography. - NEW and UNIQUE! Companion website includes more than 120 video clips linked to content from chapters on cardiovascular and neurologic system disorders. - NEW! Flow charts, diagrams, and algorithms clarify complex material.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323443095

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9780323443098

Maximum Food Power for Women

Harness the Natural Power of Food, Vitamins, and Herbs for Total Health and Well-being

By: Julia VanTine,Debra L. Gordon

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Maximum Food Power for Women

Harness the Natural Power of Food, Vitamins, and Herbs for Total Health and Well-being

By: Julia VanTine,Debra L. Gordon

Harness the natural power of food, vitamins, and herbs for total health and well-being.

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Rodale Books

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1579542468

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Chicana Sexuality and Gender

Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

By: Debra J. Blake

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Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

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Bodily Arts

Equine Internal Medicine - E-Book

Equine Internal Medicine - E-Book

Maximum Food Power for Women

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