Cynthia: 2564 books
Of Women Borne
A Literary Ethics of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
by S. Frances Harrison, Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old...
by Cynthia Ruby
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
A collection of dark poems by award-winning author Cynthia Ruby, 3rd place winner of the 100,000 Poets for Change in Slam Poetry and winner of the Haiku contest the same year. This collection includes " Knowledge ", honorable mention in the 1994 Mojo Mystique literary magazine contest, and other pieces of dark poetry.
Bridge that Gap. Get over it...
lessons learned from life's experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
It was not so much what he said but the little things -- craning his neck as if it was stiff, fidgeting in his seat, clenching his jaw, and sucking his teeth. He tapped on the steering wheel, then gripped it!
"Isn't there something you can do with that thing?" he snapped. He glanced sideways at me with a look that suggested it was my fault...
Yes We Did?
From King's Dream to Obama's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. Not since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has the United States seen such remarkable advances. During Obama's historic campaign, however, prominent African Americans voiced concern about his...
by Cynthia Bailey Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Edith Parker operated the Farmer and Maid Matrimonial Service. Jefferson Dane, a Missouri rancher, asked Edith to help him choose between three possible brides. Edith, believing that marriage should be a commitment, at first refused to select the winner. But her own growing attraction to the rancher...
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist
A Woman Apart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Cynthia Nelson brings to life a bold and gifted Egyptian of the mid-twentieth century who helped define what it means to be a modern Arab woman. Doria Shafik (1908-1975), an Egyptian feminist, poet, publisher, and political activist, participated in one of her country’s most explosive periods of...
Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility
The Ethical Significance of Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other...
by Cynthia Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
• First title in Stackpole Books' new Wild Guide series
• A complete, expert introduction to the world of dragonflies and also covers damselflies
• Detailed color drawings of different species and behaviors
Dazzling in appearance, idiosyncratic in behavior, dragonflies and damselflies have long...
Feeding the Whole Family
Cooking with Whole Foods: More than 200 Recipes for Feeding Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
For nearly 15 years, Cynthia Lair's iconic cookbook Feeding the Whole Family has been the source for parents who want to cook one healthy meal for the entire family, including babies. Feeding the Whole Family starts with the basics of creating a whole foods diet, from understanding grains and beans...
Religion's Cell
Doctrines of the Church That Lead to Bondage and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Religion's Cell by Cynthia McClaskey is a masterful exploration of the ways in which organized religion has, through the centuries, systematically denied woman her proper role in the church and the world. Beginning with a firsthand account of her own subjugation within a fundamentalist sect, McClaskey...
Women Legislators in Central America
Politics, Democracy, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
During the years between 1980 and 1999, in the midst of war and economic crisis, a record number of women were elected to national legislatures in Central American republics. Can quantitative increases in the presence of elected women in Central America produce qualitative political changes?In this detailed...