Women's Studies/Sexuality

Kate O'Brien and the Basques / La Escritora Kate O'Brien Y Euskadi

Author: 

Mentxaka, Aintzane L.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Comparative Languages, UC Dublin (National University of Ireland)

“... arresting work ... fascinating portrait of O’Brien ... exemplary scholarship ”
ENGLISH STUDIES JOURNAL, October 2014

"Mentxaka’s prose is clear, well-written and informative, and opens new and fascinating doors to the interpretation of O’Brien’s novels"
THE IRISH EXAMINER, 25 Feb 2013

"[Mentxaka’s book] reads like a challenging detective story, scholarly, yet unpredictable, and sparkling”
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, Summer 2013

Market: 
Irish Studies, Basque life and culture, Basque Identity Politics, Feminism, Spain in 20th c literature, Irish Writing 20th c, Gay/Lesbian Studies, Queer Theory, Women in 20th c British and Irish Drama, Postcolonial Literature
Release Date: 
March 17th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-005-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)

Author: 

Lipski, Jakub and Jacek Mydla

Credentials: 

Ph.D; D/English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland Ph.D; D/English, University of Silesia, Poland

This collection of original research essays celebrates in a scholarly focused fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s birthday. “The Great Enchantress” of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an author endowed with exceptional powers of enchantment over words, sounds and images.

Market: 
English Gothic Writing 18-19th c, Ann Radcliffe, British literature in Central Eastern Europe 18th c., the novel in 18th c Europe, Psychological novels, Women and chaos in European literature, Byron, Shelley, Wollstonecraft
Release Date: 
June 15th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 9781936320-96-7
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research

Author: 

Fogel, Dr. Curtis (with Andrea Quinlan,York University and Dr Elizabeth Quinlan, D/Sociology, University of Saskatchewan)

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds (author: D/Interdisciplinary Studies, Lakehead University, Canada)

Academic disciplines have remained largely committed to research methods and methodologies that hinge on simplistic binaries and problematic dichotomies. Despite this historical and contemporary trend in interdisciplinary research, there have been some notable advances in innovative approaches to method and methodology. With the recent growth in these advances, there is an increasing need for texts that document contemporary, innovative approaches to research.

Market: 
Research Methods ,Sociology, Psychology, Nursing, Health Studies, Criminology, Interdisciplinary Studies, History, Political Science, Gender Studies and Anthropology
Release Date: 
September 15th , 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320- 43-1
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
182
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Feminism and the Mastery of Women

Author: 

Nall, Jeffery

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Comparative Studies—Feminism,Gender and Sexuality

Dr Nall's monograph uses a title that may seem familiar since it is a tribute to Val Plumwood’s classic ecofeminist work ,Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(Routledge). Nall, like Plumwood, explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. The research examines the connections between the understanding of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth.

Market: 
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Sexuality,Ecofeminism, Mother and Child,Ethics and Practice of Childbirth/Delivery, Medical Ethics, Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
December 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-78-3
Price: 
$84.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Yorkshire: Dialect, Place and Setting in Victorian Sensation Literature

Author: 

Morris, Ruth

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Aberdeen University, author of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question (Bethesda, 2011)

Foreword by Mr Graeme Garvey, Chair, Yorkshire Dialect Society

Market: 
English Literature, 19c, Braddon, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, Topography/Place in literature, Yorkshire in literature, sensation writing and its proponents, popular fiction, feminism, country life and dialects, 19th century literature, Yorkshire history
Release Date: 
November 11,2012
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-54-7
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
132
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education

Author: 

O’Higgins-Norman, James, Ph.D

Credentials: 

Ed.D; School of Education, Dublin City University

This research monograph is an exploration of students, parents and teachers experiences regarding sexuality and homophobic bullying in National (ie public) as well as private secondary institutions. The work discusses settings that run the gamut of tough inner city schools to historical entities with distinguished graduates and first rate instruction and provides solid research statistics as well as an historical overview of pedagogies that have been heavily influenced by religious and sectarian agendas.

Market: 
Education, Irish Secondary Education, Bullying, Homophobic Behaviors
Release Date: 
7/21/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-45-4
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Latin American Studies: Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution

Author: 

Gallagher, David

Credentials: 

Ph.D Royal Holloway College; Cambridge University; winner of the Farnworth Prize, Author of Comedy in Contemporary Literature, 2009

“...a well chosen and absolutely fascinating discussion of Latin American literary and cultural life today emphasizing the region's dialogue with the world as an equal and not as a magical realist , protean revolutionary, or Bolanian construct . Virtually all contributors are Latin American or Caribbean scholars with first class credentials. Recommended for library collections.”

Professor Helga Gates,UNE

Market: 
Latin American Studies, the role of the artist in contemporary Latin American poetry, prose and criticism, Translation, Politics and social criticism, American writers (Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, Waldo Frank etc), Columbia, Peru, Argentina, Cuba and Haiti in contemporary fiction, poetry, drama and film, revolution and homosexuality in Cuban literature.
Release Date: 
10/15/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-20-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
358
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Turning Victorian Ladies Into Women: The Life of Bessie Rayner Parkes, 1829 – 1925

Author: 

Lowndes, Emma

Credentials: 

M.Litt, University of Lisbon; under the name Ana Vicente, author of numerous studies including Women in Portugal at the Turn of the Millennium(1998), Portugal in Spanish Eyes: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1939 -1960 (1992)

With a commendatory foreword by Professor Bonnie Anderson, CUNY Graduate Center

Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925) was one of the most prominent and influential campaigners for women’s rights in the nineteenth century and her life and work are of remarkable interest. She is described by the American historian Bonnie S. Anderson as one of the key British feminists of her time. Surprisingly, Turning Victorian Ladies into Women is her first biography.

Market: 
Feminist Studies, Womens Studies, English History 19th c, Womens' Rights/Suffragette Movement, English Catholicism 19th c, Hilaire Belloc, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Politics and Society in Victorian Age
Release Date: 
10/15/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-28-8
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Colm Toibin: Novels of the State, Childhood and Religion

Author: 

Turner, Tramble T.

Credentials: 

Ph.D: University of Pennsylvania

This monograph is a serious sustained study of one of Ireland’s most important emerging literary practitioners : Colm Toibin. Professor Turner focuses on the origins of Toibin’s career, his stylistic and thematic shift that became apparent in THE STORY OF NIGHT(1996). Another aspect of this critical evaluation is an examination of Toibin’s career as a journalist and non fiction writer.

Release Date: 
2002
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-39-9
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Nicholas Rowe and the Beginnings of Feminism on the London Stage

Author: 

Sennett, Herbert

Credentials: 

PhD, Louisiana State University

Nicholas Rowe flourished during the first quarter of the 18thc: he was poet laureate to George I, the author of eight plays(three of which were great successes) and he was the esteemed translator of Lucan’s PHARSALIA as well as the first modern editor of Shakespeare’s plays. But most of all he was known as a playwright.

Market: 
Drama and Poetry,18th century; English Dramatic literature; Feminism; Theatrical History,18th c
Release Date: 
12/2004
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-89-5
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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