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  • After the Fall

    The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

    by Josephine Donovan ...
    A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Animals, Mind, and Matter

    The Inside Story

    by Josephine Donovan ...
    Series series The Animal Turn
    It’s no secret that animals are considered objects in the fields of law, commerce, and science, characterized as property and commodities. Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story challenges this ascription and establishes that animals are living subjects, who have minds and opinions of their own and care about what happens to them. Donovan contends that animals’ voices or standpoints should be ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Feminist Literary Criticism

    Explorations in Theory

    Edited by Josephine C. Donovan ...
    The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Radical Natural Law

    The Critical Standpoint of Animals and Nature

    by Professor Josephine Donovan ...
    Eschewing anthropocentric framings, Radical Natural Law proposes a reconception of natural law that locates it in the critical standpoints of animals and other life forms in the natural world.Engaging an impressively diverse range of thinkers and intellectual traditions, from conceptions of natural law in ancient Stoic and scholastic writings, to theoretical discussions about natural-world ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Black Soil

    by Professor Josephine Donovan ...
    "Black Soil is a novel written by Josephine Donovan, which tells the story of a young woman named Ella Mae Turner, who is forced to confront the harsh realities of racism and discrimination in the American South during the 1930s. Ella Mae is a strong-willed and determined character, who is determined to make a better life for herself and her family, despite the many obstacles that stand in her way ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminist Theory, Fourth Edition

    The Intellectual Traditions

    by Professor Josephine Donovan ...
    This first major study of feminist theory, revised and updated here inits fourth edition, now takes the reader into the twenty-first century.It addresses the basic question, "What is feminism?'' by outlining thevarious strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist,Freudian, and radical. This fourth edition brings the discussion up-to-date,integrating the developments in feminist ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Care

    On the Literary Treatment of Animals

    by Professor Josephine Donovan ...
    In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

    by Aaron Bell, Ted Benton, Susan Benston, Christina Gerhardt, John Sorenson, Dennis Soron, Vasile Stanescu, Zipporah Weisberg, Renzo Llorente, Carol J. Adams, Carl Boggs, Karen Davis, Josephine Donovan, Victoria Johnson, Eduardo Mendieta ...
    Series series Nature's Meaning
    Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Animals and Women

    Feminist Theoretical Explorations

    by Joan Dunayer, Lynda Birke, Marti Kheel ...
    Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

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  • The Denial of Nature

    Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism

    by Arne Johan Vetlesen ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare, thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of its ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Vibrant Matter

    A Political Ecology of Things

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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