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Revolution within the Revolution

Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962

By: Michelle Chase

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Revolution within the Revolution

Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962

By: Michelle Chase

A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history of women and gender politics in revolutionary Cuba. Restoring to history women's participation in the all-important urban insurrection, and resisting Fidel Castro's triumphant claim that women's emancipation was handed to them as a "revolution within the revolution," Chase's work demonstrates that women's activism and leadership was critical at every stage of the revolutionary process. Tracing changes in political attitudes alongside evolving gender ideologies in the years leading up to the revolution, Chase describes how insurrectionists mobilized familiar gendered notions, such as masculine honor and maternal sacrifice, in ways that strengthened the coalition against Fulgencio Batista. But, after 1959, the mobilization of women and the societal transformations that brought more women and young people into the political process opened the revolutionary platform to increasingly urgent demands for women's rights. In many cases, Chase shows, the revolutionary government was simply formalizing popular initiatives already in motion on the ground thanks to women with a more radical vision of their rights.

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UNC Press Books

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1469625016

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9781469625010

Spanish for Californians- Third Edition

By: Francisco Bruquetas,Michelle de la Calle

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Spanish for Californians- Third Edition

By: Francisco Bruquetas,Michelle de la Calle

Spanish for Californians is intended for English speakers with no previous knowledge of the Spanish language. Its methodology takes advantage of the similarities between Spanish and English. By using those words that you already know from English and Spanish, you will be guided through short lessons. You will find your words at your pace and will enjoy putting them to work. The book is organized in sections: sounds, words and sentences. First it will teach you how to read and write in Spanish; then it will help you learn words efficiently. Finally, it will show you how to build sentences and communicate. With its clear organization, Spanish for Californians will also serve as a reference book for consultation once you are no longer actively learning. Self-educated students will find exercises and frequently asked questions to learn from home or on the go. The expansion of the Spanish language in the U.S. will make this learning even easier and more fun.

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Lulu.com

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0578105020

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9780578105024

Spanish for Health Care: Using English to Learn Spanish

By: Francisco Bruquetas,Michelle De la Calle

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Spanish for Health Care: Using English to Learn Spanish

By: Francisco Bruquetas,Michelle De la Calle

Spanish for Health Care is intended for English- speaking professionals with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Its methodology takes advantage of both the simplicity of Spanish and its similarities with English to teach you the language as quickly as possible. The book is organized in three sections: sounds, words and sentences, that correspond to milestones. First it will teach you how to read and write in Spanish; then it will help you learn words efficiently; finally, it will show you how to build sentences and communicate. The goal is your communication with patients. The book will introduce the dialogue in order to understand symptoms, and convey diagnostics and medical instructions, such as referrals to specialists, prescriptions or procedures. Health care vocabulary is part of the textbook from chapter one. A phrasebook is included to show realistic sentences, following the standard stages of the provider visit: history, assessment and diagnosis, procedures, and follow up.

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0578098121

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9780578098128

Poetry in Pieces

César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

By: Michelle Clayton

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Poetry in Pieces

César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

By: Michelle Clayton

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo’s writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo—and Latin American poetry—to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.

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Univ of California Press

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0520948289

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9780520948280

American Sabor

Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense

By: Marisol Berros-Miranda,Shannon Dudley,Michelle Habell-Palln

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American Sabor

Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense

By: Marisol Berros-Miranda,Shannon Dudley,Michelle Habell-Palln

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in five vibrant centers of Latin@ musical production: New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Miami. From Tito Puente�s mambo dance rhythms to the Spanglish rap of Mellow Man Ace, American Sabor focuses on musical styles that have developed largely in the United States�including jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip hop, country, Tejano, and salsa�but also shows the many ways in which Latin@ musicians and styles connect US culture to the culture of the broader Americas. With side-by-side Spanish and English text, authors Marisol Berr�os-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pall�n challenge the white and black racial framework that structures most narratives of popular music in the United States. They present the regional histories of Latin@ communities�including Chicanos, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans�in distinctive detail, and highlight the shared experiences of immigration/migration, racial boundary crossing, contesting gender roles, youth innovation, and articulating an American experience through music. In celebrating the musical contributions of Latinos and Latinas, American Sabor illuminates a cultural legacy that enriches us all.

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University of Washington Press

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0295742631

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9780295742632

Fractional Freedoms

Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700

By: Michelle A. McKinley

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Fractional Freedoms

Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700

By: Michelle A. McKinley

Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. She complicates the way we think about life under slavery and demonstrates the degree to which slaves were able to exercise their own agency, despite being ensnared by the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved women are situated as legal actors who had overlapping identities as wives, mothers, mistresses, wet-nurses and day-wage domestics, and these experiences within the urban working environment are shown to condition their identities as slaves. Although the outcomes of their lawsuits varied, Fractional Freedoms demonstrates how enslaved women used channels of affection and intimacy to press for liberty and prevent the generational transmission of enslavement to their children.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316739635

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Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss

Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalía de Castro

By: Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci

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Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss

Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalía de Castro

By: Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci

Rosalia de Castro (1837-85) wrote five volumes of poetry before succumbing to cancer of the uterus at the age of forty-eight. While she is perhaps best known for her more introspective and intimate poetry, Castro's mature works are also highly feminist and political in thematic orientation. This book examines the fascinating system of poetic techniques Castro employs in her works to link the compelling issues surrounding femaleness and identity- both national and individual- to the construction of a system of gendered symbolic language that has been vastly understudied by contemporary scholars.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638902

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9780838638903

Home Away from Home

Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture

By: N. Michelle Murray

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Home Away from Home

Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture

By: N. Michelle Murray

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers. In the past thirty years, Spain has experienced a massive increase in immigration. Since the 1990s, immigrants have been increasingly female, as bilateral trade agreements, migration quotas, and immigration policies between Spain and its former colonies (including the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines) have created jobs for foreign women in the domestic service sector. These migrations reveal that colonial histories continue to be structuring elements of Spanish national culture, even in a democratic era in which its former colonies are now independent. Migration has also transformed the demographic composition of Spain and has created complex new social relations around the axes of gender, race, and nationality. Representations of migrant domestic workers provide critical responses to immigration and its feminization, alongside profound engagements with how the Spanish nation has changed since the end of the Franco era in 1975. Throughout Home Away from Home, readings of works of literature and film show that texts concerning the transnational nature of domestic work uniquely provide a nuanced account of the cultural shifts occurring in late twentieth- through twenty-first-century Spain.

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UNC Press Books

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1469647478

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Chain Linked

Stories

By: Michelle Blair Wilker

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Chain Linked

Stories

By: Michelle Blair Wilker

We are bound together and yet broken apart, like a chain link fence. The human heart yearns for connection and mourns its loss; it is the fabric of our existence and what drives us. The agony of lost love, the hollowness of an absent family member, the cute guy on the basketball court that you just can’t muster up the courage to say hi to. A summer trip to Montauk. A night out at a salty dive bar. A foghorn in the distance, sipping a sweet drink. Emptying the fridge, packing up the old condo. Listening to Grandpa’s corny jokes. Wondering if life as a prep school art teacher meant anything. Getting even with your older brother. Haunted by Havana’s vacant casino high rises and ancient automobiles, dreaming of pizza in Rome. Chain Linked chronicles life’s joys and discontents in vivid detail and gives us a window into our souls.

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Post Hill Press

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1682615901

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9781682615904

Intimate Distance

Andean Music in Japan

By: Michelle Bigenho

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Intimate Distance

Andean Music in Japan

By: Michelle Bigenho

This is a book about Andean music, its reception in Japan, and the resultant transcultural connection. Michelle Bigenho toured Japan with Bolivian musicians and dancers and describes how the two nationalites connected with each other through song and dance.

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Duke University Press

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0822352354

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9780822352358

Sabiduría diaria para mujeres

Colección devocional

By: Compiled by Barbour Staff,Michelle Medlock Adams

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Sabiduría diaria para mujeres

Colección devocional

By: Compiled by Barbour Staff,Michelle Medlock Adams

This popular devotional collection—now available in Spanish—is designed to draw women closer to their heavenly Father’s heart. With an inspiring reading and powerful prayer for every day of the year, Daily Wisdom for Women will provide both encouragement and refreshment as readers come to know just how deeply and tenderly God loves them. Women will find their spiritual journey enhanced and strengthened as they experience an intimate connection with their Master Creator all 365 days of the year. Esta colección popular de devocionales —ahora disponible en español— está diseñado para acercar más a las mujeres al corazón de su Padre celestial. Con una lectura inspiradora y una oración poderosa para cada día del año, Sabiduría diaria para mujeres proporcionará estímulo y refresco a medida que las lectoras lleguen a conocer la forma tan profunda y tierna en que Dios las ama. Las mujeres verán realzado y fortalecido su viaje espiritual al experimentar una conexión íntima con su Maestro Creador los 365 días del año.

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Barbour Publishing

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163409056X

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9781634090568

A Dash of Death

By: Michelle Hillen Klump

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A Dash of Death

By: Michelle Hillen Klump

A Houston reporter-turned-mixologist mixes it up with murder in this “clever, page-turning mystery” series debut—for fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Lee Hollis (Darci Hannah, author of Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop). Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fiancé in rapid succession. But Sam has a way of making lemonade out of the bitterest of lemons. At a meeting of the local historical-homes council, she serves up the homemade bitters that she made as gifts for her wedding party. She intends to use that as her “in” to become an in-demand party mixologist. But the party’s over for one of the council members, who keels over dead soon after he sips the bereft bride’s bitter brew. It turns out that the victim, Mark, was poisoned—his drink spiked with oleander. Since Sam mixed the drink that Mark imbibed right before his demise, she finds herself at the front of the suspect line. Now, she’ll have to use all of her reporter’s wisdom and wiles to clear her name. Who could have wanted Mark dead? His wife, Gabby? His girlfriend, Darcy? Someone who wanted his seat on the council? Or another citizen of this sweet Texas town that holds some seedy secrets? Job hunting, building her mixology business, and fending off late-night phone calls from her nearly betrothed don’t leave much time for sleuthing. But if Sam can’t “pour” over the clues to find the killer, it may soon be last call for her.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1643859382

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9781643859385

Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan

By: Michelle Aristizabal

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Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan

By: Michelle Aristizabal

The first evidence-based book covering natural childbirth practices written by an obstetrician Natural birth plans have emerged as a battle cry of resistance among women who are dissatisfied with today’s medically-aggressive model of maternity care and high cesarean section rates. However, natural birth does not need to be a source of controversy or conflict between women and their nurses and doctors. Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidenced-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan seeks to broaden the medical community’s understanding of the motivations and needs of naturally laboring mothers, while also exploring why natural birth is often so difficult to achieve within our current system and what can be done to change that. It is a complete resource on the topic of natural childbirth, teaching healthcare providers and other birth workers the skills necessary to assist a woman through an unmedicated birth and reviewing the compilation of medical evidence in support of those methods. It demonstrates how natural birth can exist within the framework of traditional antepartum care and hospital deliveries, and offers alternative solutions to common challenges that often disrupt the physiologic birth process. Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidenced-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan is also an unbiased resource for pregnant women seeking a more thorough and scientific understanding of unmedicated birth. This guide will help women and their partners make their own birth plans from a truly informed place. It will help women understand the barriers they may face when seeking a natural birth and give them the ability to better communicate their needs and preferences. By creating room for natural birth within our maternity system, this book will help readers build a community of care where all women feel respected, acknowledged, and empowered during their birth experience.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1259862887

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9781259862885

Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

By: Michelle Roy Kelly

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Los Angeles Jobbank (16th Ed.)

By: Michelle Roy Kelly

-- Full company name, address, and phone number-- Contacts for professional hiring-- Description of company's products or services-- Listings of professional positions commonly filled-- Educational backgrounds sought-- Fringe benefits-- Internships offered-- And more!Each JobBank also includes: -- Sections on job search techniques-- Information on executive search firms and placement agencies-- Web sites for job hunters-- Professional associations-- And more!

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Adams Media

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1580623816

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9781580623810

The Dream at the End of the World

Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangiers

By: Michelle Green

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The Dream at the End of the World

Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangiers

By: Michelle Green

The impressive account of the amazing characters--Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, among others--who gathered during the 1940s and '50s in Tangier, Morocco: a city where drugs, sex, and just about everything seemed possible and permissible. Photo insert.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0060922672

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9780060922672

The Guinness book of records

By: Peter Matthews,Michelle Dunkley McCarthy

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The Guinness book of records

By: Peter Matthews,Michelle Dunkley McCarthy

Lists records and statistics related to human beings, animals, science, technology, buildings, transportation, business, arts, entertainment, human achievement, and sports

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