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{"id":7777603387481,"title":"Crónica de un Amor Terrible — Celis","handle":"cronica-de-un-amor-terrible-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUna fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDurante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","published_at":"2024-08-07T17:02:16-04:00","created_at":"2024-08-07T17:02:16-04:00","vendor":"Penguin Random House","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Spanish Language"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41831147733081,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF413-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crónica de un Amor Terrible — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":255,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789585404885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cronica de un amor terrible by Nadia Celis","id":25561893601369,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUna fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDurante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e"}

{"id":7396434903129,"title":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","handle":"la-rebelion-de-las-ninas-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3250,"price_min":3250,"price_max":3250,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3250,"compare_at_price_min":3250,"compare_at_price_max":3250,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590081359961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF412-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3250,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3250,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9788484898368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Rebelion de las ninas by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333103464537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396434018393,"title":"Lección Errante — Celis","handle":"leccion-errante-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":2600,"price_min":2600,"price_max":2600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2600,"compare_at_price_min":2600,"compare_at_price_max":2600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590080180313,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF411-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Lección Errante — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2600,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789945455687","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Leccion errante by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333099368537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396432969817,"title":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","handle":"muerte-de-utopia-carolyn-wolfenzon-niego","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590077853785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF410-Wolfenzon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789972515552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of book Muerte de Utopia by Carolyn Wolfenzon","id":24333093830745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6562112995417,"title":"I, Grape — Clarke","handle":"i-grape-clarke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-07T16:56:10-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-16T16:24:15-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39307063754841,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF365","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I, Grape — Clarke","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781946724366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction, by Brock Clarke","id":20350316085337,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557973577817,"title":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma","handle":"buddhism-in-the-krishna-river-valley-of-andhra-padma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sree Padma, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/staff\/spadma\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sree Padma faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eResearch Associate in Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand A.W. Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the modern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contributors explore not only the factors that led to the rise of Buddhist communities, but also the significance of these early Buddhist communities in the unfolding of the greater history of Buddhism throughout the Asian world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:36:49-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:36:38-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":6500,"price_min":6500,"price_max":6500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6500,"compare_at_price_min":6500,"compare_at_price_max":6500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300412964953,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF362-Padma","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":6500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780791474853","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra by Sree Padma","id":20333457178713,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sree Padma, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/staff\/spadma\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sree Padma faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eResearch Associate in Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand A.W. Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the modern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contributors explore not only the factors that led to the rise of Buddhist communities, but also the significance of these early Buddhist communities in the unfolding of the greater history of Buddhism throughout the Asian world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557968302169,"title":"Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo","handle":"shen-gua-s-empiricism-zuo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrush Talks from Dream Brook\u003c\/i\u003e, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the connection between Shen’s life as an active statesman and his ideas, specifically the empirical stance manifested through his wide-ranging inquiries. She places Shen on the broad horizon of premodern Chinese thought, and presents his empiricism within an extensive narrative of Chinese epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clear\" id=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelying on Shen as a searchlight, Zuo focuses in on how an individual thinker summoned conditions and concepts from the vast Chinese intellectual tradition to build a singular way of knowing. Moreover, her study of Shen provides insights into the complex dynamics in play at the dawn of the age of Neo-Confucianism and compels readers to achieve a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Chinese thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:24:00-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:23:24-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":4995,"price_min":4995,"price_max":4995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":4995,"compare_at_price_min":4995,"compare_at_price_max":4995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300402446425,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF361","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":4995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":4995,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780674987111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo","id":20333425721433,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrush Talks from Dream Brook\u003c\/i\u003e, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the connection between Shen’s life as an active statesman and his ideas, specifically the empirical stance manifested through his wide-ranging inquiries. She places Shen on the broad horizon of premodern Chinese thought, and presents his empiricism within an extensive narrative of Chinese epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clear\" id=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelying on Shen as a searchlight, Zuo focuses in on how an individual thinker summoned conditions and concepts from the vast Chinese intellectual tradition to build a singular way of knowing. Moreover, her study of Shen provides insights into the complex dynamics in play at the dawn of the age of Neo-Confucianism and compels readers to achieve a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Chinese thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":6557965877337,"title":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","handle":"nature-behind-barbed-wire-chiang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:14-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:13-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":3799,"price_min":3799,"price_max":3799,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3700,"compare_at_price_min":3700,"compare_at_price_max":3700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300396089433,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF360-Chiang","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3799,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780190842062","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire by Connie Chiang","id":20333411336281,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557393846361,"title":"Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang","handle":"shaping-the-shoreline-chiang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel \u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. \u003ci\u003eShaping the Shoreline\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T16:49:51-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T16:49:50-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2500,"compare_at_price_min":2500,"compare_at_price_max":2500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299498704985,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF356-Chiang","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780295991399","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Shaping the Shoreline by Connie Y. Chiang","id":20330956357721,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel \u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. \u003ci\u003eShaping the Shoreline\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557366583385,"title":"The Physical Comedy Handbook — Robinson","handle":"the-physical-comedy-handbook-robinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Davis Robinson, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/drobinso\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Davis Robinson faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eProfessor of Theater\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough there are numerous books that examine physical comedy from a historic or aesthetic perspective, few provide guidance in how to do it. So where can actors and teachers go for instruction? To \u003ci\u003eThe Physical Comedy Handbook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Physical Comedy Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind resource for actors, teachers, and directors interested in physical comedy from slapstick pratfalls to the theater of the absurd. Davis Robinson believes that the basic physical skills of comedy can be taught to anyone. His twenty years of practical experience including workshops with Jacques LeCoq, Tony Montanaro, Bill Irwin, Avner Eisenberg, Mark Morris, and Ronlin Foreman--have taught him so. Robinson shares what he has learned in this book, providing a thorough explanation of a range of techniques for developing comic timing, writing original material, and working with scripts. The book includes numerous hands-on exercises designed to help anyone, regardless of experience, develop their sense of play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActing students will learn how to sharpen their physical skills. Teachers will learn how to structure and guide their students work. Actors will explore a range of comic styles. Directors will discover a number of tools for bringing comedy to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T15:53:33-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T15:53:32-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1895,"compare_at_price_min":1895,"compare_at_price_max":1895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299455451225,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF352-Robinson","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Physical Comedy Handbook — Robinson","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1895,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0325001146T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf352-robinson-phys.jpg?v=1617911613"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf352-robinson-phys.jpg?v=1617911613","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Physical Comedy Handbook, by Davis Robinson","id":20330891935833,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf352-robinson-phys.jpg?v=1617911613"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf352-robinson-phys.jpg?v=1617911613","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Davis Robinson, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/drobinso\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Davis Robinson faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eProfessor of Theater\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough there are numerous books that examine physical comedy from a historic or aesthetic perspective, few provide guidance in how to do it. So where can actors and teachers go for instruction? To \u003ci\u003eThe Physical Comedy Handbook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Physical Comedy Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind resource for actors, teachers, and directors interested in physical comedy from slapstick pratfalls to the theater of the absurd. Davis Robinson believes that the basic physical skills of comedy can be taught to anyone. His twenty years of practical experience including workshops with Jacques LeCoq, Tony Montanaro, Bill Irwin, Avner Eisenberg, Mark Morris, and Ronlin Foreman--have taught him so. Robinson shares what he has learned in this book, providing a thorough explanation of a range of techniques for developing comic timing, writing original material, and working with scripts. The book includes numerous hands-on exercises designed to help anyone, regardless of experience, develop their sense of play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActing students will learn how to sharpen their physical skills. Teachers will learn how to structure and guide their students work. Actors will explore a range of comic styles. Directors will discover a number of tools for bringing comedy to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543815704665,"title":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","handle":"apartheid-in-south-africa-gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-11T12:23:19-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-11T12:22:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":2415,"price_min":2415,"price_max":2415,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2415,"compare_at_price_min":2415,"compare_at_price_max":2415,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39268038213721,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF324-Gordon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2415,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2415,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781457665547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Apartheid in South Africa by David Gordon","id":20266267902041,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540473335897,"title":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","handle":"demography-in-the-age-of-the-postmodern-riley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:09-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2000,"price_min":2000,"price_max":2000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2000,"compare_at_price_min":2000,"compare_at_price_max":2000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260543254617,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF303-Riley","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2000,"inventory_quantity":7,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0521533643","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern by Nancy Riley","id":20249263472729,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538898964569,"title":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","handle":"forging-the-ideal-educated-girl-khoja-moolji","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:12-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":3495,"price_min":3495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3495,"compare_at_price_min":3495,"compare_at_price_max":3495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256730861657,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF285-Khoja-Moolji","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780520298408","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl by Shenila Khoja-Moolji","id":20239929770073,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538896113753,"title":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","handle":"time-use-of-mothers-connelly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:33-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:10-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1800,"price_min":1800,"price_max":1800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1800,"compare_at_price_min":1800,"compare_at_price_max":1800,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256708546649,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF284","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1800,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1800,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780880993685","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Time Use of Mothers by Rachel Connelly","id":20239906766937,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538892181593,"title":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","handle":"gendered-bodies-cui","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:01:20-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:00:03-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":5299,"price_min":5299,"price_max":5299,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":5500,"compare_at_price_min":5500,"compare_at_price_max":5500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256665817177,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF283-Cui","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":5500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780824840037","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Gendered Bodies by Shuqin Cui","id":20239877701721,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4785182965849,"title":"Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal","handle":"jim-crow-literature-and-the-legacy-of-sutton-e-griggs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/tchakkal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tess Chakkalakal faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-03T16:55:42-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-03T16:49:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2995,"compare_at_price_min":2995,"compare_at_price_max":2995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32371826229337,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF266-Chakkalakal","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780820345987","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs, edited by Tess Chakkalakal","id":7516082634841,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/tchakkal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tess Chakkalakal faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4785166319705,"title":"The Labor of Faith — Casselberry","handle":"the-labor-of-faith-gender-and-power-in-black-apostolic-pentecostalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Labor of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed church only functions through the work of the church's women, who, despite making up three-quarters of its adult membership, hold no formal positions of power. Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power. She also emphasizes how their work in the church is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to their personhood, family, and community as their careers, home and family work, and community service are. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black female personhood, Casselberry reveals the ways twenty-first-century women's spiritual power operates and resonates with meaning in Pentecostal, female-majority, male-led churches.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-03T16:11:37-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-03T16:11:32-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2495,"compare_at_price_min":2495,"compare_at_price_max":2495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32371785465945,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF263-Casselberry","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Labor of Faith — Casselberry","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2495,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780822369035","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Labor of Faith by Judith Casselberry","id":7518548197465,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Labor of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed church only functions through the work of the church's women, who, despite making up three-quarters of its adult membership, hold no formal positions of power. Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power. She also emphasizes how their work in the church is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to their personhood, family, and community as their careers, home and family work, and community service are. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black female personhood, Casselberry reveals the ways twenty-first-century women's spiritual power operates and resonates with meaning in Pentecostal, female-majority, male-led churches.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4670445355097,"title":"The Democratization of Invention — Khan","handle":"the-democratization-of-invention-patents-and-copyrights-in-american-economic-development-1790-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Zorina Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/bkhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zorina Khan Faculty Bio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Economics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies were the most liberal in the world toward inventors. Individuals who did not have the resources to directly exploit their inventions benefited disproportionately from secure property rights and the operation of efficient markets. When markets expanded, these inventors contributed to the proliferation of new technologies and improvements. In contrast to its leadership in the area of patents, the US copyright regime was among the weakest in the world, in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare. American patent and copyright institutions promoted a process of democratization that not only furthered economic and technological progress but also provided a conduit for the creativity and achievements of disadvantaged groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-06-30T09:53:00-04:00","created_at":"2020-06-30T09:52:59-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":3599,"price_min":3599,"price_max":3599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3599,"compare_at_price_min":3599,"compare_at_price_max":3599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32020273528921,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF247-Khan","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Democratization of Invention — Khan","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780521747202","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920 by B. Zorina Khan, Professor of Economics","id":7518590795865,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Zorina Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/bkhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zorina Khan Faculty Bio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Economics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies were the most liberal in the world toward inventors. Individuals who did not have the resources to directly exploit their inventions benefited disproportionately from secure property rights and the operation of efficient markets. When markets expanded, these inventors contributed to the proliferation of new technologies and improvements. In contrast to its leadership in the area of patents, the US copyright regime was among the weakest in the world, in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare. American patent and copyright institutions promoted a process of democratization that not only furthered economic and technological progress but also provided a conduit for the creativity and achievements of disadvantaged groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4638256201817,"title":"Take Me To the River","handle":"take-me-to-the-river","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Michael Kolster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/mkolster\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Michael Kolster faculty website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eProfessor of Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTake Me to the River\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Kolster explores four American rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean—the Androscoggin, Schuylkill, James, and Savannah—as they emerge from two centuries of industrial use and neglect. Even as these well-known rivers still carry the legacies of longstanding pollution in their currents and sediments, thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972, they have become renewed and rediscovered waterways that our grandparents never could have envisioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKolster's new book is a masterful presentation of dramatic yet understated photographs of these rivers, from their source to the sea. In the spirit of nineteenth-century photographers such as Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and Timothy O'Sullivan, they were made using the wet-plate photographic process, in a portable darkroom Kolster set up along the banks and overlooks of these rivers. The chemical slurries that develop and fix the image on the glass plate actually mimic the movements of a river's current, and the idiosyncratic qualities of Kolster's ambrotypes harken back to the historical coincidence of the dawn of photography and the industrialization of Europe and America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the reality of a changing global climate and consensus building about the extent that humans are responsible, \u003cem\u003eTake Me to the River\u003c\/em\u003e challenges us to set aside our blinders of wanting to see these riverine landscapes as either pure or despoiled. As the boundaries between the human and the natural are increasingly entangled, Kolster's photographs suggest how we can embrace, even cherish, places once degraded and ignored that have become, in their own way, alluring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-10-24T17:01:02-04:00","created_at":"2020-05-26T09:36:35-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":6000,"price_min":6000,"price_max":6000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6000,"compare_at_price_min":6000,"compare_at_price_max":6000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":31876788650073,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF247-Kolster","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Take Me To the River","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":6000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6000,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781938086427","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba247-takeme-kolster.jpg?v=1590500197"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba247-takeme-kolster.jpg?v=1590500197","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Take Me To the River by Michael Kolster","id":6342761087065,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba247-takeme-kolster.jpg?v=1590500197"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba247-takeme-kolster.jpg?v=1590500197","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Michael Kolster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/mkolster\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Michael Kolster faculty website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eProfessor of Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTake Me to the River\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Kolster explores four American rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean—the Androscoggin, Schuylkill, James, and Savannah—as they emerge from two centuries of industrial use and neglect. Even as these well-known rivers still carry the legacies of longstanding pollution in their currents and sediments, thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972, they have become renewed and rediscovered waterways that our grandparents never could have envisioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKolster's new book is a masterful presentation of dramatic yet understated photographs of these rivers, from their source to the sea. In the spirit of nineteenth-century photographers such as Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and Timothy O'Sullivan, they were made using the wet-plate photographic process, in a portable darkroom Kolster set up along the banks and overlooks of these rivers. The chemical slurries that develop and fix the image on the glass plate actually mimic the movements of a river's current, and the idiosyncratic qualities of Kolster's ambrotypes harken back to the historical coincidence of the dawn of photography and the industrialization of Europe and America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the reality of a changing global climate and consensus building about the extent that humans are responsible, \u003cem\u003eTake Me to the River\u003c\/em\u003e challenges us to set aside our blinders of wanting to see these riverine landscapes as either pure or despoiled. As the boundaries between the human and the natural are increasingly entangled, Kolster's photographs suggest how we can embrace, even cherish, places once degraded and ignored that have become, in their own way, alluring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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The Los Angeles River was also the city's sole source of water for more than a century before flood-control projects made the river a ribbon of concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Kolster, in \u003cem\u003eL.A. River\u003c\/em\u003e, relies on a nineteenth-century photographic technology to render the Los Angeles River today, from its headwaters in Canoga Park and the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach. Coincidentally, the founding of the city of Los Angeles and California's achievement of statehood in 1850 coincide historically with the invention of the wet-plate photographic process, forever linking the city and state with the centrality of photography. The emotionally moving images that define \u003cem\u003eL.A. River\u003c\/em\u003e show a feature of the city's landscape that initially attracted native peoples to its banks and gave rise to the formation of our nation's second-largest city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChanneled in concrete during the last century to control flooding, the river was all but removed from the life of the city until the turn of the twenty-first century, when concerted efforts were made by some to peel back some of the concrete and let nature live once again. In his photographic journey, Kolster considers both the past and present and how the accumulation of life along the river suggests a larger a role for the L.A. River in the lives of the city's inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-05-26T09:26:57-04:00","created_at":"2020-05-26T09:33:53-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":4000,"price_min":4000,"price_max":4000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":4000,"compare_at_price_min":4000,"compare_at_price_max":4000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":31876779376729,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF248-Kolster","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"L.A. 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River by Michael Kolster","id":6342752075865,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba248-lariver-kolster.jpg?v=1614106575"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba248-lariver-kolster.jpg?v=1614106575","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBy Michael Kolster\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/mkolster\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Michael Kolster faculty website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eProfessor of Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters, and grizzly bears roamed its shores in search of food. The river and its adjacent woodlands helped support one of the largest concentrations of indigenous peoples in North America, and it also largely determined the location of the first Spanish Pueblo and ultimately the city itself. The Los Angeles River was also the city's sole source of water for more than a century before flood-control projects made the river a ribbon of concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Kolster, in \u003cem\u003eL.A. River\u003c\/em\u003e, relies on a nineteenth-century photographic technology to render the Los Angeles River today, from its headwaters in Canoga Park and the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach. Coincidentally, the founding of the city of Los Angeles and California's achievement of statehood in 1850 coincide historically with the invention of the wet-plate photographic process, forever linking the city and state with the centrality of photography. The emotionally moving images that define \u003cem\u003eL.A. River\u003c\/em\u003e show a feature of the city's landscape that initially attracted native peoples to its banks and gave rise to the formation of our nation's second-largest city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChanneled in concrete during the last century to control flooding, the river was all but removed from the life of the city until the turn of the twenty-first century, when concerted efforts were made by some to peel back some of the concrete and let nature live once again. In his photographic journey, Kolster considers both the past and present and how the accumulation of life along the river suggests a larger a role for the L.A. River in the lives of the city's inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":1885084024921,"title":"The Fact of a Body — Marzano-Lesnevich","handle":"the-fact-of-a-body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Alex Marzano-Lesnevich \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssistant Professor of English\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes—the moment she hears him speak of his crimes -- she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case. Despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime, even the darkest and most unsayable acts, can happen to any one of us. As Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood. And by examining the details of Ricky’s case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut another surprise awaits: She wasn’t the only one who saw her life in Ricky’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, \u003cem\u003eThe Fact of a Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness, and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. This groundbreaking, heart-stopping work, ten years in the making, shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe -- and the truth more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\nPaperback.","published_at":"2022-05-09T09:31:40-04:00","created_at":"2018-11-28T14:37:27-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":1799,"price_min":1799,"price_max":1799,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1799,"compare_at_price_min":1799,"compare_at_price_max":1799,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":18560498597977,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF242-Marzano-Lesnevich","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Fact of a Body — Marzano-Lesnevich","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1799,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1799,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781250080554","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf242-marzano-fact.jpg?v=1614106947"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf242-marzano-fact.jpg?v=1614106947","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Fact of A Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich","id":7518597644377,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf242-marzano-fact.jpg?v=1614106947"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf242-marzano-fact.jpg?v=1614106947","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Alex Marzano-Lesnevich \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssistant Professor of English\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. 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And by examining the details of Ricky’s case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut another surprise awaits: She wasn’t the only one who saw her life in Ricky’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, \u003cem\u003eThe Fact of a Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness, and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. This groundbreaking, heart-stopping work, ten years in the making, shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe -- and the truth more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\nPaperback."}

{"id":84159201308,"title":"The Passion of Perfection — Vail","handle":"the-passion-of-perfection-gertrude-hitz-burtons-modern-victorian-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy June Vail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Dance Emerita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edelweiss pin at Gertrude’s throat signifies her Swiss-American heritage and her autonomy as a woman activist. Gertrude’s “life’s work” is perfecting humankind, morally and socially. Confronting Gilded Age double standards, she advocates for sex education, marriage equality and “voluntary motherhood.” After she marries, Gertrude leaves Washington DC to explore opportunities in Boston, Maine, and Switzerland. But conflicting family duties and loyalties derail her ambitious crusade, and when an incurable illness ends her activist career, Gertrude must seek new meanings in her life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-11-27T16:46:49-05:00","created_at":"2017-09-15T15:13:12-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1895,"compare_at_price_min":1895,"compare_at_price_max":1895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":947257344028,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF240-Vail","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Passion of Perfection — Vail","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1895,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781633811157","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf240-vail-passion.jpg?v=1614113644"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf240-vail-passion.jpg?v=1614113644","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Passion of Perfection by June Vail","id":7518720753753,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf240-vail-passion.jpg?v=1614113644"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf240-vail-passion.jpg?v=1614113644","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy June Vail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Dance Emerita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edelweiss pin at Gertrude’s throat signifies her Swiss-American heritage and her autonomy as a woman activist. Gertrude’s “life’s work” is perfecting humankind, morally and socially. Confronting Gilded Age double standards, she advocates for sex education, marriage equality and “voluntary motherhood.” After she marries, Gertrude leaves Washington DC to explore opportunities in Boston, Maine, and Switzerland. But conflicting family duties and loyalties derail her ambitious crusade, and when an incurable illness ends her activist career, Gertrude must seek new meanings in her life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4463677764,"title":"Until There Is Justice — Scanlon","handle":"until-there-is-justice-the-life-of-anna-arnold-hedgeman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/jscanlon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jennifer Scanlon faculty page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to be a household name, but until now has received only a fraction of the attention she deserves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice,\u003c\/em\u003e author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom helping black and Puerto Rican Americans achieve critical civil service employment in New York City during the Great Depression to orchestrating white religious Americans' participation in the 1963 March on Washington, Hedgeman's contributions transcend gender, racial, and religious boundaries. Engaging and profoundly inspiring, Scanlon's biography paints a compelling portrait of one of the most remarkable yet understudied civil rights leaders of our time. \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone with a passion for history, biography, and civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Oxford University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/books\/review\/until-there-is-justice-by-jennifer-scanlon.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Sunday Book Review: 'Until There Is Justice,' by Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-10-18T15:08:27-04:00","created_at":"2016-02-25T09:36:12-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Faculty"],"price":3495,"price_min":3495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3495,"compare_at_price_min":3495,"compare_at_price_max":3495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":15245770116,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF235-Scanlon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Until There Is Justice — Scanlon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3495,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780190248598","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman by Jennifer Scanlon","id":7518726520921,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf235-scanlon-until.jpg?v=1614113939","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/jscanlon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jennifer Scanlon faculty page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hedgeman ought to be a household name, but until now has received only a fraction of the attention she deserves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice,\u003c\/em\u003e author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings of many aspects of the civil rights and feminist movements. She worked as a teacher, lobbyist, politician, social worker, and activist, often crafting and implementing policy behind the scenes. Although she repeatedly found herself a woman among men, a black American among whites, and a secular Christian among clergy, she maintained her conflicting identities and worked alongside others to forge a common humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom helping black and Puerto Rican Americans achieve critical civil service employment in New York City during the Great Depression to orchestrating white religious Americans' participation in the 1963 March on Washington, Hedgeman's contributions transcend gender, racial, and religious boundaries. Engaging and profoundly inspiring, Scanlon's biography paints a compelling portrait of one of the most remarkable yet understudied civil rights leaders of our time. \u003cem\u003eUntil There Is Justice\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone with a passion for history, biography, and civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Oxford University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/books\/review\/until-there-is-justice-by-jennifer-scanlon.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Sunday Book Review: 'Until There Is Justice,' by Jennifer Scanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":274074277,"title":"Berlin Coquette — Smith","handle":"berlin-coquette-prostitution-and-the-new-german-woman-1890-1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jill Suzanne Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jsmith5\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of German\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In \u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette\u003c\/em\u003e, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the “New Morality” articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the “New Woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (\u003cem\u003eKokotte\u003c\/em\u003e), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette \u003c\/em\u003eis published in the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2014-03-26T16:28:00-04:00","created_at":"2014-03-26T16:33:41-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2795,"price_min":2795,"price_max":2795,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":643585129,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF228-Smith","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Berlin Coquette — Smith","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801478345","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Berlin Coquette by Jill Suzanne Smith","id":7516035809369,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jill Suzanne Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jsmith5\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of German\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. 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