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"Make it Yourself"
Through home sewing, Sarah A. Gordon examines domestic labor, marketing practices, changing standards of femininity, and understandings of class, gender, and race from 1890 to 1930. As ready-made garments became increasingly available due to industrialization, many women, out of necessity or choice, continued to make their own clothing. In doing so, women used a customary female skill both as a means of supporting traditional ideas and as a tool of personal agency. The shifting meanings of sewing formed a contested space in which businesses promoted sewing machines as tools for maintaining domestic harmony, women interpreted patterns to suit-or flout-definitions of appropriate appearances, a...
Indecent Exposures
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion, the series included more than 300 plates of nude men and women engaged in activities such as swinging a baseball bat, playing leapfrog, and performing housework—an astonishing fact given the period’s standards of propriety. In the first sustained examination of these nudes and the remarkable success of their production, wide circulation, and reception, Indecent Exposures positions this revolutionary enterprise as central to crucial advancements of the modern era. Muybridge’s nudes ushered in new attitudes toward science and progress, including Darwinian ideas about human evolution and hierarchy; quickened debates over the role of photography and scientific investigation in art; and offered innovative perspectives on the human body. This fascinating story is copiously illustrated, and includes many lesser-known photographs published here for the first time.
Flannery O'Connor
Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O’Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O’Connor’s writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background. Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O’Connor’s Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other arguably misogynistic authors; and ...
The Lost Thing
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Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question"
Errata slip inserted. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 389-405.
Rapture Red & Smoke Grey
Rapture Red, Smoke Grey captures the everyday moments in life and translates them into a rich microcosm of experience. Sarah Gordon skillfully targets the things that make us swoon--the small things that interest and excite us; the bits that demand our attention; and those things that quietly make us rage. Blending various poetic styles with an eye for detail, Gordon takes us from outside her apartment through South Dakota and finally to Kansas City. Along the way, we are privy to her joys and sorrows. Rapture Red, Smoke Grey is the ordinary made brilliant. And the brilliant made real.
Medical Judgment
Heart-thumping suspense and intrigue--just what the doctor ordered.
The Mormon Question
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of re
The Kingdom of Mathalot
"The Kingdom of Mathalot has been cursed! The royal child is missing. Learn more about the villagers while searching for the missing heir." It is often difficult for a very creative child to learn mathematical concepts. The author struggled with this herself in the first and second grade. Memorizing the concrete concepts did not work for her. To help her learn addition, subtraction, and multiplication, she made up stories and personalities in her creative little head for the numbers. This is the basis for this book.
