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Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war Berlin, decadent society and Nazis?  How does it turn into media cabaret and the sisterhood of sleaze? Is cabaret a ...

Abstract In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues...

“Plant-Female Iconography in Neolithic Europe” covers the Neolithic transition to agriculture in the Aegean and Europe, which was accompanied by the production of a large corpus of...

This chapter studies noir's twin genre, the woman's film. While this genre's formal politics are quite similar to noir's, its focus on female identity entails a representation of f...

A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands. This book provides an...

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fictionexamines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In ...

The final chapter reviews the evidence that is presented throughout the book and discusses its implications for current conversations regarding female ordination in American congre...