Author : Dorothy Allison
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 1996-08-01
ISBN : 1101127988
Pages : 112 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (11 users)
Book Descriptions :
Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted w [...]
Author : Carolyn Perry
Publisher : LSU Press
Release Date : 2002-03-01
ISBN : 9780807127537
Pages : 689 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (275 users)
Book Descriptions :
Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eu [...]
Author : Sheila Batacharya
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-31
ISBN : 1771991917
Pages : 408 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (719 users)
Book Descriptions :
Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of [...]
Author : Lincoln
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Release Date : 2004-09-08
ISBN : 058547141X
Pages : 504 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (854 users)
Book Descriptions :
This is a book of signposts, of key turning points, of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.' Each article reproduced in this volume, edite [...]
Author : Jan Whitt
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Release Date : 2012-03-22
ISBN : 076185830X
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (618 users)
Book Descriptions :
A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching [...]
Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-06-14
ISBN : 3030645983
Pages : 209 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (36 users)
Book Descriptions :
Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examin [...]
Author : Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9781575911212
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (112 users)
Book Descriptions :
"This book examines how working-class status intersects with other identities such as gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and region in the lives a [...]
Author : Clare Landrigan
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Release Date : 2013
ISBN : 1571109641
Pages : 140 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (711 users)
Book Descriptions :
Assessment is an integral part of instruction. For the past decade, the focus on assessment--particularly via high-stakes mandated tests--has shifted [...]
Author : Lauri Umansky, co-editor with Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2000-08-01
ISBN : 1461608228
Pages : 572 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (616 users)
Book Descriptions :
Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn o [...]
Author : Sara Rodrigues
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-29
ISBN : 3319767836
Pages : 433 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (197 users)
Book Descriptions :
Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual’s appearance—it has long functioned as a social category that d [...]
Author : Joy Ritchie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2001-07-12
ISBN : 0822979756
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (229 users)
Book Descriptions :
“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by [...]
Author : Clive Erricker
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
ISBN : 1135116725
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (351 users)
Book Descriptions :
Religious Education is now identified as a shortage subject as a growing number of pupils in schools opt for it. The growing emphasis on children's mo [...]
Author : Beth Kephart
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2013-08-06
ISBN : 1101620188
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (16 users)
Book Descriptions :
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writ [...]
Author : Barbara Abercrombie
Publisher : New World Library
Release Date : 2013-04-15
ISBN : 1608681564
Pages : 233 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (86 users)
Book Descriptions :
"Barbara Abercrombie, an author and creative writing instructor at UCLA Extension, offers 365 days' worth of guidance for writers seeking to warm up, [...]
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-01
ISBN : 143812743X
Pages : 842 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (381 users)
Book Descriptions :
This encyclopedia features an informative introduction that surveys the history of the short story in the United States, interprets the current litera [...]
