pounds 68 FOR A BABY.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  June 30, 2000 ;     20 words ...A STARVING mother of 23 swapped her newborn daughter for pounds 68 and some beef, child care officials in Brazil claimed yesterday.

The Black Feminist Reader

Black Issues Book Review;  March 1, 2001 ;     58 words ...The Black Feminist Reader edited by Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Blackwell Publishers Ltd., May 2000, $26.95, ISBN 0-631-21007-5 This volume...

(book review)

symploke;  December 22, 1999 ;     680 words ......explores the receptive role of the feminist reader with respect to four works: a nineteenth-centu...with the effect of the text on the feminist reader. Her focus is on the emotional response of the feminist reader rather than on the politicized...

FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM: A YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE TO WHY FEMINISM MATTERS/THE...

Herizons;  October 1, 2008 ;     637 words ......JESSICA VALENTI Seal Press THE ESSENTIAL FEMINIST READER EDITED BY ESTELLE B. FREEDMAN Modern...Feminism Mattersand The Essential Feminist Reader, edited by Estelle B. Freedman. Either...today and into tomorrow, the Essential Feminist Reader reminds us that we have feminist ...

Women of Early Cinema

Framework;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Women of Early Cinema A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, edited by...decade or two of film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema takes a longer...written, and one hopes that A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema will have an...

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

The Journal of American Culture;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra, Editors. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. This omnibus collection of twenty essays offers...

What makes us turn a blind eye? The more images we see of tragedy...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of the daily grind of work and domesticity. Another famine and again we see the pleading face of Africa embodied in the starving mother and the dying child, scant flesh flyblown even before death. Are we still appalled? For a moment, perhaps, but the empathic...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1902: Nephew 'Holds Up' Aunt

International Herald Tribune;  October 18, 2002 ;     82 words ......ten cent toy pistol Jacob Pearlman, eighteen years old, ''held up'' his aunt for seventy-five cents to buy bread for his starving mother and brother, according to the complaint of the aunt, Mrs. Dora Sokolosky, upon which Pearlman was arrested. He asked for...

MAD CITY STATS.(77 SQUARE)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 13, 2008 ;     104 words ......Father, Barack Obama 3. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell 4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski 5. The Essential Feminist Reader, Estelle Freedman Top 5 Netflix rentals from Madison 1. Get Smart 2. Iron Man 3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal...

DAUGHTER ACCUSED OF KILLING HER STARVING MOTHER; Couple charged with...

The Mirror (London, England);  January 11, 2007 ;     321 words ...Byline: By BRENDAN FURLONG and LYNN JOLLY A WOMAN appeared in court yesterday accused of killing her starving mother, who died weighing just three-and-a-half stone. Eleanor Joel, 32, and her 35-year-old partner Jonathon Costen were charged with...

LETTERS

The Boston Globe;  November 4, 2007 ;     386 words ...SPENSER ADMIRER If there is only one feminist reader left in the world, I am that reader, and an enthusiastic reader of Robert B. Parker's novels ("Man of Mystery," October 14). Parker...

100 CANADIAN HEROINES

Herizons;  April 1, 2006 ;     144 words ......women's history. A book of encyclopedic biographical references, Heroines is fresh and informative, even to the seasoned feminist reader. I'd never heard of half of these women before-what a shame! This is a book of rich achievements, but more, it is a storytelling...

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Studies in the Novel;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Hardy's work: How does a female reader - particularly a modern feminist reader - read Thomas Hardy? Does she applaud his feminism? Deplore...feminine. Hardy's texts will therefore continually impress the feminist reader as both indictments of, and examples of the ideological...

Women Writers and Resisting Readers

Legacy;  April 30, 1998 ;     700+ words ......women and their interests. What happens, then, when the feminist reader senses that there is danger in the designs of works by American...criticism has become, indeed, clarifying what it means for a feminist reader to resist a woman's text, and what consequences this has...

BOOK REVIEW: 'See Jane Date' a romance for the feminist reader?

University Wire;  January 24, 2002 ;     457 words ......publishers of countless romance novels. Red Dress Ink is supposed to put out new, fresh, sexy, realistic novels for the modern feminist reader. See Jane Date, by Melissa Senate, is none of the above. The heroine is Jane, a petty, self-involved woman who hates everyone...