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Islands of Women and Amazons
This is a cultural studies ethnography of an island off the coast of Cancun that has been developing as part of the Rivera Maya for the last 25 years. The study traces the evolution of the image of islands of women and Amazons from pre-Greek through colonial history, establishing how the island got its name, and then demonstrates how this mythic archetype has operated in the attraction of tourists and the subsequent boom in the tourist business constructed to take advantage of the draw of the archetype. On-island birth practices of women and folk culture are explored, as well as severe changes in the image of women from Maya through contemporary days. The book is used in women and gender studies, as well as in feminist geography, spirituality, and studies of the power of place
Pictures of Patriarchy
Weinbaum's "sexual political economy" analyzes the world or work in terms of kinship categories. A classic breakthrough between the family or work divide, this very readable book spells out her original understanding of precisely how the psycho-sexual dynamics of the oedipal family are played out in the patriarchal structure of work.
Survivor Rhetoric
Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of essays about the language of abused women and girls written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice. Editors Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann have compiled a wholly original volume where diversity issues are critical, and which includes narratives from U.S. Appalachian evangelicals, lesbian women represented in Canadian feminist educational tracks, an American convert to Judaism in the Middle East, and elite or highly educated women represented in the mainstream media. The genres through which the stories are told include police reports, memoirs, and shelter talk, and the methods and focuses of the writers vary across the essays and include rhetorical, thematic analysis, ethnographic, and literary analysis. Survivor Rhetoric concludes with a call for more holistic and local responses to the problem of violence against women and girl children responses carefully attentive to language issues, informed by multiple perspectives, and in touch with global conversations.
Consumer Society in American History
This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.
The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
[Analyzes] economy in 'kin categories' - wife, father, daughter, brother....[Weinbaum] explains better than Marx the roles of each of these individuals within the economic system.--Seventh Sister
Feminist Conversations
This book offers a wealth of knowledge about addressing women's social and political issues and discusses some of the most striking examples of democratization. Women across all cultural lines will feel empowered to re-ignite our movement towards an egalitarian society transcending all boundaries and barriers.--T. V. Means, Ph.D.
The Second Wave
This volume collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past 40 years-works which have made key contributors to feminist thought.
Work Without Wages
production for family consumption and for the wider market. While the importance of women's domestic labor has been generally recognized, the complex articulation between household activities and the changing nature of the economy has rarely been examined in greater depth than in this volume. The authors explore, theoretically and empirically, the relationships between household labor, wage levels, markets, economic change, and the status of women in the context of both first and third world countries. In the process, narrowly-defined debates are expanded, suggesting ways in which our understanding of domestic activities is relevant to studies of petty commodity production and vice versa.
