By Elisa Ludwig, Dennis Abrams, Kyle Zimmer

Judy Blume is one among America's hottest authors of books for teenagers and adults. fanatics of her paintings will not be acutely aware, even though, that this winning writer used to be a spouse and a mom ahead of she established her writing skills. Blume's perseverance finally landed this keenly observant writer a publishing agreement. Readers have laughed on the adventures of Peter Hatcher and his brother, Fudge, in "Blume's stories of a Fourth Grade Nothing", and preteen readers came upon the pains and tribulations of puberty eased by way of interpreting "Are You There God? it is Me, Margaret" or "Then back, might be I Won't". Blume's characters exhibit the way it actually feels to be dealing with doubts, fears, and anxiousness approximately lifestyles. This re-creation brings readers modern in this lively writer.

By Lauren Kessler

Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists disregarded her as a stressed idealist. Her relatives pitied her as an exploited lover. a few stated she was once a traitor, a stooge, a mercenary and a grandstander. To others she used to be a real American heroine—fearless, principled, daring and resolute. Congressional committees enjoyed her. The FBI hailed her as an avenging angel. The Catholics embraced her. however the truth is, greater than part a century after she captured the headlines because the "Red secret agent Queen," Elizabeth Bentley is still a mystery.

New England-born, conservatively raised, and Vassar-educated, Bentley used to be groomed for a quiet lifestyles, a small lifestyles, which she explored in brief within the Twenties as a instructor, educating well-heeled younger ladies at the fantastic thing about Romance languages at an east coast boarding university. yet in her mid-twenties, she rejected either previous and destiny and set herself on a completely new path. within the Thirties she embraced communism and fell in love with an undercover KGB agent who initiated her into the realm of espionage. by the point the USA plunged into WWII, Elizabeth Bentley was once directing the operations of the 2 biggest secret agent earrings in the US. finally, she had 80 humans in her mystery equipment, 1/2 them staff of the government. Her assets have been far and wide: within the departments of Treasury and trade, in New Deal organisations, within the top-secret OSS (the precursor to the CIA), on Congressional committees, even within the Oval Office.

When she defected in 1945 and informed her story—first to the FBI after which at a sequence of public hearings and trials—she used to be catapulted to tabloid repute because the "Red secret agent Queen," ushering in, nearly single-handedly, the McCarthy period. She was once the government’s famous person witness, the FBI’s most crucial informer, and the darling of the Catholic anti-Communist circulation. Her disclosures and accusations placed a halt to Russian spying for years and helped to set the tone of yank postwar political life.

But who was once she? a wise, autonomous girl who made her offerings freely, correct and unsuitable, and had the energy of personality to work out them via? Or used to be she used and manipulated via others? smart woman is the definitive biography of a conflicted American lady and her debatable legacy. Set opposed to the backdrop of the political drama that outlined mid-twentieth century the USA, it explores the undercover agent case whose explosive family and overseas coverage repercussions were debated for many years yet now not totally revealed—until now.

By Elizabeth Etue, Megan K. Williams

Utilizing own money owed from big name avid gamers, interviews with game insiders and remarkable photos, at the aspect offers a dramatic check out the company and politics of women's hockey.

By Melanie Baak

Belonging is a controversy that is affecting us all, yet if you happen to were displaced, unsettled or made 'homeless' via the elevated activities linked to the modern globalising period, belonging is lower than consistent problem. Migration throws into query not just the property of these who bodily migrate, but additionally, fairly in a postcolonial context, the property of these who're indigenous to and 'settlers' in international locations of migration, next generations born to migrants, and those that are left in the back of in international locations of foundation. Negotiating Belongings utilises narrative, ethnographic and autoethnographic techniques to discover the negotiations for belonging for 6 ladies from Dinka groups originating in southern Sudan. It explores belonging, quite in terms of migration, via a attention of belonging to geographical regions, ethnic teams, neighborhood, relations and relations. In exploring how the trips in the direction of wanted assets are haunted by way of a variety of social procedures comparable to colonisation, strength, 'race' and gender, the writer argues that negotiating belonging is a continuing move among being and changing into. The examine utilises and calls for alternative ways of hearing and very listening to the narratives of the ladies as embedded inside non-Western epistemologies and ontologies. via this it develops an figuring out of the relational ontology, cieng, that governs the ways that the ladies exist on the planet. The women's narratives along the author's adventure in the Dinka neighborhood supply specific how one can interrogate the intersections of being and turning into at the haunted trip to belonging. The relational ontology of cieng presents an extra manner of realizing belonging, turning into and being as constantly relational.

By Melissa Carosella,Stephanie Kuligowski

By Genie Chipps

By Ian C. Storey

Euripides' Suppliant ladies is an unfairly missed grasp paintings by means of the main debatable of the 3 nice tragedians. It dramatises the tale of 1 of the proudest moments in Athenian legendary heritage: the intervention of Theseus in aid of foreign legislation to strength the burial of the Argive lifeless at Thebes. yet Euripides provides new characters to the tale and offers the parable in a unique and infrequently ambiguous mild. a feeling of uncertainty and undercutting pervades this play, which dramatises the sufferings of the blameless in battle after which on the finish foretells extra conflict. in addition to providing a scene-by-scene research, this ebook will talk about the date and historical past of the play, no matter if humans and occasions from modern Athens will be glimpsed within the drama; the issues of staging, and at last the tale in later culture.

By Lisa Appignanesi

Mad, undesirable and unhappy.

From the melancholy suffered via Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the psychological ache and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the unconventional breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's building of a contemporary circulate and the recent women-centred remedies.

This is the tale of ways we now have understood psychological problems and severe states of brain in ladies during the last 200 years and the way we conceive of them this present day, while a growing number of of our internal existence and feelings became an issue for medics and therapists.

Literary Awards
British clinical organization Award for the general public realizing of Science

By Joseph M. Hassett

W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how 9 attention-grabbing girls encouraged a lot of W.B. Yeats's poetry. those girls are relatively very important simply because Yeats perceived them by way of ideals approximately poetic thought similar to the Greek proposal nice poet is galvanized and possessed by means of the female voices of the Muses. motivated via the Pre-Raphaelite proposal of lady as 'romantic and mysterious, nonetheless the priestess of her shrine', Yeats stumbled on his Muses in residing girls. His terribly lengthy and fruitful poetic occupation used to be fuelled by way of passionate relationships with ladies to and approximately whom he wrote a few of his such a lot compelling poetry. The ebook summarizes the various Muse traditions that have been congenial to Yeats and indicates how his belief of those girls as Muses underlies his poetry. Newly to be had letters and manuscripts are used to discover the artistic approach and interpret the poems.
Because Yeats believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, however the speech of a man,' exploring the connection among poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry, illuminates the method of its construction, and unlocks the 'second beauty' to which Yeats referred whilst he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, whilst the situations in their foundation is understood, achieve a moment a good looks, passing because it have been out of literature and turning into life.'
As existence emerges from the literature, the Muses are proven to be vivid, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the belief of the inspiration as a passive stereotype and take their right position as begetters of undying poetry.

By Jeffrey Zaslow

the moment New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a relocating tribute to woman friendships, with the inspiring tale of 11 women and the 10 girls they grew to become, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The final Lecture

As kids, they shaped a distinct bond, turning out to be up within the small city of Ames, Iowa. As younger women, they moved to 8th diverse states, but they controlled to keep up a rare friendship that may hold them via collage and careers, marriage and motherhood, relationship and divorce, the demise of a kid, and the mysterious loss of life of the 11th member in their staff. shooting their notable tale, The women from Ames is a testomony to the iconic, deep bonds of ladies as they adventure life's demanding situations, and the facility of friendship to beat even the main daunting odds.

the ladies, now of their forties, have a life of thoughts in universal, a few evocative in their new release and a few that may resonate with any girl who has ever had a chum. The ladies from Ames demonstrates how shut woman relationships can form each point of women's lives-their experience of themselves, their selection of males, their desire for validation, their relationships with their moms, their goals for his or her daughters-and unearths how such friendships thrive, profitable those that have dedicated to them. With either common occasions and deeply own moments, it's a ebook that each lady will relate to and be encouraged through.