Mothers of Invention

• Author : Robin Pickering-Iazzi
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release Date : 1995
• Total pages : 271
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : In the Mother of Invention in their analyses of literature, painting, sculptures, film, and fashion, the contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these women as they negotiated prevailing ideologies....

• Author : Miléna Santoro
• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 348
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Mothers of Invention draws together innovative works of fiction written by French and Quebec feminists in the mid-1970s. Through an analysis of the strategies adopted by Hlne Cixous, Madeleine Gagnon, Nicole Brossard, and Jeanne Hyvrard as they rework maternal and (pro)creative metaphors and play with language and conventions ...

• Author : So Mayer,Corinn Columpar
• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
• Release Date : 2022-04-05
• Total pages : 368
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures....

• Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release Date : 2000-11-09
• Total pages : 326
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this ...

• Author : Vanessa Reimer
• Publisher : Demeter Press
• Release Date : 2013-06-01
• Total pages : 197
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us As Feminist Academics and Activists is an interdisciplinary collection that combines feminist theory with life writing to explore the diverse ways that mothers, whether or not they themselves identity as “feminist,” inspire feminist consciousness in their daughters and sons. It features creative ...

• Author : Autumn Stanley
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release Date : 1995
• Total pages : 708
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Written in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of technology not only includes women's contributions but begins the long-overdue task of redefining technology and significant technology and to value these contributions correctly. Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, ...

• Author : David V. Moskowitz
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2015-11-10
• Total pages : 756
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : This one-of-a-kind reference investigates the music and the musicians that set the popular trends of the last half century in America. • Contains an alphabetical collection of entries that each profile a major group and band from the past 60 years • Provides a selected discography and bibliography for further listening and reading ...

• Author : Mary A. DeCredico
• Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
• Release Date : 2020-05-19
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Unlike other Southern cities, Richmond boasted a vibrant, urban industrial complex capable of producing crucial ammunition and military supplies. Despite its northern position, Richmond became the Confederacy's beating heart—its capital, second-largest city, and impenetrable ...

• Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release Date : 2007-10-01
• Total pages : 259
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture....

• Author : Paul Carr
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-04-15
• Total pages : 266
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, cultural, and translation studies, with expertise and interests ranging ...

• Author : Mike Ward
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2013-08-06
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides an essential guide to the Internet as a research and publishing tool. In particular, it examines how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the World Wide Web ...

• Author : Jürgen Martschukat
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release Date : 2019-12-31
• Total pages : 352
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and society The nuclear family has been endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth ...

• Author : Linda Miles Coppens
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release Date : 2007-10-01
• Total pages : 271
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : This reference book chronicles what American women did from the emergence of the republic through the end of World War I and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. A broad spectrum of activities are depicted, showing their many accomplishments and how their activities affected the world around them. It was ...

• Author : Billy James
• Publisher : SAF Publishing
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 160
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : The best Frank Zappa memoir yet, as told by the early members of the Mothers of Invention....

• Author : Andrew Razeghi
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2008-01-07
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9780816626519

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Summary : While organizations claim to value creativity, they are often at a loss when attempting to conjure up novel ideas, particularly in a world where technology has made information readily available to everyone. As a result, leaders ask, "Where will the next big idea come from?" In response, they allocate significant ...