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Emilie Du Chatelet

Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

By: Judith P. Zinsser

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Emilie Du Chatelet

Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

By: Judith P. Zinsser

The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man's mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she proceeded to fulfill the prescribed-and delightfully frivolous-role of a French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it, conducting a highly visible affair with a commoner, writing philosophical works, and translating Newton's Principia while pregnant by a younger lover. With the sweep of Galileo's Daughter, Emilie Du Châtelet captures the charm, glamour, and brilliance of this magnetic woman.

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Penguin

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1101201843

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9781101201848

History Matters

Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

By: Judith M. Bennett

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History Matters

Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

By: Judith M. Bennett

Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the past, and she asks her readers to consider what sorts of feminist history can best advance the struggles of the twenty-first century. Bennett takes as her central problem the growing chasm between feminism and history. Closely allied in the 1970s, each has now moved away from the other. Seeking to narrow this gap, Bennett proposes that feminist historians turn their attention to the intellectual challenges posed by the persistence of patriarchy. She posits a "patriarchal equilibrium" whereby, despite many changes in women's experiences over past centuries, women's status vis-à-vis that of men has remained remarkably unchanged. Although, for example, women today find employment in occupations unimaginable to medieval women, medieval and modern women have both encountered the same wage gap, earning on average only three-fourths of the wages earned by men. Bennett argues that the theoretical challenge posed by this patriarchal equilibrium will be best met by long-term historical perspectives that reach back well before the modern era. In chapters focused on women's work and lesbian sexuality, Bennett demonstrates the contemporary relevance of the distant past to feminist theory and politics. She concludes with a chapter that adds a new twist—the challenges of textbooks and classrooms—to viewing women's history from a distance and with feminist intent. A new manifesto, History Matters engages forthrightly with the challenges faced by feminist historians today. It argues for the radical potential of a history that is focused on feminist issues, aware of the distant past, attentive to continuities over time, and alert to the workings of patriarchal power.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200551

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9780812200553

Paradoxes of Gender

By: Judith Lorber

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Paradoxes of Gender

By: Judith Lorber

In this pathbreaking book, a well-known feminist and sociologist--who is also the Founding Editor of Gender & Society--challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber views gender as wholly a product of socialization subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation. In her new paradigm, gender is an institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Drawing on many schools of feminist scholarship and on research from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, Lorber explores different paradoxes of gender: --why we speak of only two "opposite sexes" when there is such a variety of sexual behaviors and relationships; --why transvestites, transsexuals, and hermaphrodites do not affect the conceptualization of two genders and two sexes in Western societies; --why most of our cultural images of women are the way men see them and not the way women see themselves; --why all women in modern society are expected to have children and be the primary caretaker; --why domestic work is almost always the sole responsibility of wives, even when they earn more than half the family income; --why there are so few women in positions of authority, when women can be found in substantial numbers in many occupations and professions; --why women have not benefited from major social revolutions. Lorber argues that the whole point of the gender system today is to maintain structured gender inequality--to produce a subordinate class (women) that can be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers, and emotional nurturers. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize economic, educational, and cultural resources or the positions of power.

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446

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Yale University Press

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0300064977

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9780300064971

A History of Their Own

Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present

By: Bonnie S. Anderson,Judith P. Zinsser

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A History of Their Own

Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present

By: Bonnie S. Anderson,Judith P. Zinsser

Some material on lesbians and lesbianism. See index.

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0060914521

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9780060914523

Emilie Du Chatelet

Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

By: Judith P. Zinsser

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Emilie Du Chatelet

Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

By: Judith P. Zinsser

Documents the life of the French Enlightenment-era intellectual, from her aristocratic youth and controversial choice to become the mistress of Voltaire to her mathematical and scientific achievements and work as a translator of Newton. Originally published as La Dame D'Esprit. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Penguin Books

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0143112686

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9780143112686

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

By: Emilie Du Châtelet

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Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

By: Emilie Du Châtelet

Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226168085

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9780226168081

History

CUNY Panel : Rethinking the Disciplines.

By: Carol Berkin,Martha C. Howell,Altagracia Ortiz,Myra B. Young Armstead,Judith Zinsser

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History

CUNY Panel : Rethinking the Disciplines.

By: Carol Berkin,Martha C. Howell,Altagracia Ortiz,Myra B. Young Armstead,Judith Zinsser

This collection of five essays examines the ways in which history, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Rethinking History," Carol Ruth Berkin reviews the incorporation of social history into elementary, secondary, and postsecondary textbooks. In "History--Writing from the Margins," Martha C. Howell examines the effects of social history on the profession and the interdisciplinary nature of much of the scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, and social class. In "Puerto Rican Women's Historiography and the Inclusive Curriculum," Altagracia Ortiz traces the development of Puerto Rican women's history over the last several decades and notes the lack of inclusion of Puerto Rican history into the curriculum. In "American Social History," Myra B. Young Armstead argues that the study of issues surrounding gender, race, ethnicity, and social class have directly challenged conventional historical wisdom and augmented historians' understanding of the past. In "Measuring Impact," Judith P. Zinsser argues that while the field of women's history has grown exponentially over the last several decades, women's experiences continue to be subsumed under men's history or fall prey to old denigrating prejudices. Most essays contain references. (MDM)

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Towson State University

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1885303122

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9781885303127

In the Image of God

A Feminist Commentary on the Torah

By: Judith S. Antonelli

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In the Image of God

A Feminist Commentary on the Torah

By: Judith S. Antonelli

In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah is a unique blend of traditional Judaism and radical feminism and is a groundbreaking commentary on the Bible, the central document of Jewish life. Using classical Jewish sources as well as supplementary material from history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, ancient religion, and feminist theory, Judith Antonelli has examined in detail every woman and every issue pertaining to women in the Torah, parshah by parshah. The Torah is divided into fifty-four portions; each portion, or parshah, is read in the synagogue on the Sabbath (combining a few to make a yearly cycle of readings). This book is modeled on that structure; hence there are fifty chapters, each of which corresponds to a parshah. One may, therefore, read this book from beginning to end or use it as a study guide for the parshah of the week. The reader will discover in these pages that the Torah is not the root of misogyny, sexism, or male supremacy. Rather, by looking at the Torah in the context in which it was given, the pagan world of the ancient Near East, it becomes clear that far from oppressing women, the Torah actually improved the status of women as it existed in the surrounding societies. Not only does this book refute the common feminist stereotype that Judaism is a "patriarchal religion" but it also refutes the sexism found in Judaism by exposing it as sociological rather than "divine law.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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1461628911

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9781461628910

The Coming of Lilith

Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

By: Judith Plaskow

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The Coming of Lilith

Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

By: Judith Plaskow

This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics. Accessibly organized into four sections, the collection begins with several of Plaskow's foundational essays on feminist theology, including one previously unavailable in English. Section II addresses her nuanced understanding of oppression and includes her important work on anti-Judaism in Christian feminism. Section III contains a variety of short and highly readable pieces that make clear Plaskow's central role in the creation of Jewish feminism, including the essential "Beyond Egalitarianism." Finally, section IV presents her writings on the significance of sexual ethics to the larger project of transforming Judaism. Intelligently edited with the help of Rabbi Donna Berman, and including pieces never before published, The Coming of Lilith is indispensable for religious studies students, fans of Plaskow's work, and those pursuing a Jewish education.

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Beacon Press

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0807036234

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9780807036235

Standing Again at Sinai

Judaism from a Feminist Perspective

By: Judith Plaskow

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Standing Again at Sinai

Judaism from a Feminist Perspective

By: Judith Plaskow

A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing involvement of women in naming and shaping Jewish tradition.

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Harper Collins

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0060666846

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9780060666842

Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

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Rereading The Rabbis

A Woman's Voice

By: Judith Hauptman

Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the

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Routledge

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0429966202

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9780429966200

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

By: Emilie Du Châtelet

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Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

By: Emilie Du Châtelet

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University of Chicago Press

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0226168077

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9780226168074

Judith Plaskow

Feminism, Theology, and Justice

By: Judith Plaskow

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Judith Plaskow

Feminism, Theology, and Justice

By: Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow, Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at Manhattan College, is a leading Jewish feminist theologian. Plaskow's feminist reading of traditional sources is a critical reading of Judaism that calls Jews to end oppression, exclusion, and marginalization of individuals and groups.

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Brill Academic Publishers

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9004280006

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9789004280007

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Emilie Du Chatelet

Emilie Du Chatelet

History Matters

History Matters

Paradoxes of Gender

Paradoxes of Gender

A History of Their Own

A History of Their Own

Emilie Du Chatelet

Emilie Du Chatelet

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

History

History

In the Image of God

In the Image of God

The Coming of Lilith

The Coming of Lilith

Standing Again at Sinai

Standing Again at Sinai

Rereading The Rabbis

Rereading The Rabbis

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

Judith Plaskow

Judith Plaskow

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