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Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question 1884-1911
This book takes a new look at the relationship between socialism and feminism before the First World War, through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and "free love," women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken toward women and their potential as socialists. Dr. Hunt shows how the SDF came to equivocate officially on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years..
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Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society Series)
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings." .
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Equivocal
"Open and read Julie Carr's finely wrought Equivocal. Such intimate, ambitious, impeccable, evocative writing!"-Carol Snow Julie Carr's second collection explores the elements of chance and mystery that determine human identity and relationships. In delving into the human fascination with the self's story and the boundaries between the self and others (including family), these poems pose often unanswerable questions, but the reader delights in the wit and artistry used to explore them. From "House/Boat": . . . The night soon lost its head. I said,
I'm here. Pulling up now, parking, as it were,
looking for something to eat, to redeem. The wind shook the seedpod but the seedpod
wasn't moved. And though I thought I'd done the damage I was born for,
there was still so much to step through,
so much to mar. Julie Carr's first book, Mead: An Epithalamion, won the University of Georgia Press' contemporary poetry prize for 2004. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Volt, American Letters & Commentary, Pool, Verse, The Iowa Review, Boston Review,and TriQuarterly. She earned an MFA in poetry from New York University and a PhD from UC Berkeley. She lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. .
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Equivocal Death
Harvard Law School graduate Kate Paine, heroine of Amy Gutman's Equivocal Death, is supposed to be smart. But as the new hire at Samson & Mills, one of the country's most powerful and successful firms, shecan't figure out who's behind the murder of partner Madeleine Waters.She's also gullible enough to buy the lies the other partners are spinning tokeep the firm from collapsing, or maybe she's too busy to figure out theirdeceptions. When she's not working 90 hours a week, she's fretting over the lawschool romance that went up in flames and left her unwilling to trust any manexcept Justin Daniels, her platonic buddy from her Cambridge days, and CarterMills, the senior partner who hired her. She barely has time to spare for theappealing inner-city teenager she's supposed to be mentoring, but Josie understands Kate enough to know that when she's late for an appointment, she must be in trouble.Unfortunately, Josie's not around when Kate has an ugly encounter with the firm's biggest client--an incident Kate keeps to herself, which further underlines the reader's impression that she's too dumb to have made it as far as she has in the cutthroat world she inhabits. Certainly, she's too slow on the uptake to see the clues that point to the murderer, whom most readers will have figured out many pages before the conclusion of this tepid thriller.Gutman's writing is clear enough, but her characters are one-dimensional. Fanswho aren't too choosy about their legal thrillers or just can't wait for thenext Grisham may not be bothered by these shortcomings. --Jane Adams.
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