Rita Mae Brown, author of "Ruby fruit Jungle"

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Poet and writer Rita Mae Brown

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Pat Moore poses with her book

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Writer Dr. Phyllis Chelser reads a statement in support of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead in front of New Jersey Court House

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Writer Jill Johnston of Lesbian Nation

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Writer Jill Johnston at Wooster Street fair

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Barbara Love, co-author of "Sappho was a Right on Woman"

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Rita Mae Brown, author of "Ruby fruit Jungle"

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E.M. Broner

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E.M. Broner

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Pensamento antropofágico ‘coloração’ tropical e irreverência teórica

Neste artigo procuro apresentar o poeta, escritor e pensador brasileiro Oswald de Andrade e a influência deste no nascimento e desenvolvimento do pensamento antropofágico. Pensamento teórico que tendo raiz na cultura indígena e no ritual de deglutição dos inimigos pela tribo dos Tupinambás, extrapola as fronteiras da sua acção prática para desaguar, após sucessivos desenvolvimentos teóricos, no ano de 1922, na irreverência do movimento modernista da Semana de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Nascida sob a tónica do pensamento crítico e da reflexão social e cultural, propõe a metamorfose da cultura estrangeira e a reestruturação dos processos artísticos. Ao estudo da antropofagia, enquanto pensamento/conceito teórico optei por acoplar o conceito de tradução cultural. Duas estruturas de análise socioculturais que em comunhão funcionam como contributo efectivo ao reconhecimento e compreensão das particularidades que definem o (re)posicionamento multi e intercultural das sociedades pós-colonialistas e pós-modernas. Apreender o sentido teórico combinado de antropofagia e tradução cultural é pois reverenciar a figura, pensamento e vivência de Oswald de Andrade. Mais do que aprofundar a biografia do autor, este artigo visa apresentar um encontro teórico: antropofagia, tradução cultural e (re)posicionamento multi e intercultural – conceitos indispensáveis ao reconhecimento das sociedades contemporâneas.

Incidente em Antares e O cão e Os caluandas : Literatura brasileira e angolana na perspectiva da sátira menipeia

Esta pesquisa estuda Incidente em Antares, de Erico Veríssimo, e O cão e os caluandas, de Pepetela, na perspectiva da sátira menipeia. Para além da biografia dos autores, busca-se discutir as origens do gênero da menipeia, recuperando o seu mais importante representante - Luciano de Samósata. É, porém, sob a teoria de Mikhail Bakhtin que se analisam as obras dos escritores brasileiro e angolano. Quer-se verificar a presença de específicas características da sátira menipeia, as quais são o carnaval e o riso ritual, a paródia, a liberdade imaginativa, o fantástico e seus desdobramentos, as cenas excêntricas, os contrastes, a polifonia, a utilização de gêneros intercalados e a chamada publiscística atualizada. No último capítulo há uma observação sociológica das obras, o que permite pensá-las como um retrato das sociedades a que os autores se referem. ABSTRACT: This research studies Incidente em Antares, by Erico Veríssimo, and O cão e os caluandas, by Pepetela, in the perspective of the menippean sati.re. Besides de authors' biography, it tries to discuss the origin of the genre, recovering its most important representative - Luciano de Samosata. However, the search analyses the works of the Brazilian and Angolan writers upon the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin. lt intends to verify the presence of the specific characteristics of the menippean satire, which are: carnival and the ritual Iaughting, parody, imaginative freedom, the fantastic and its unfolding, eccentric scenes, contrasts, polyphony, intercalary genres and the up-to-date publiscistic. ln the last chapter there is a sociologic observation concerning the works, which allow thinking about them as a portrait of the societies that the authors want to discuss.

Breaking New Ground: The First Generation of Women to Work as Professional Authors in English Canada (1880-1920)

In the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, large numbers of Canadian women were stepping out of the shadows of private life and into the public world of work and political action. Among them, both a cause and an effect of these sweeping social changes, was the first generation of Canadian women to work as professional authors. Although these women were not unified by ideology, genre, or date of birth, they are studied here as a generation defined by their time and place in history, by their material circumstances, and by their collective accomplishment. Chapters which focus on E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), the Eaton sisters (Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna), Joanna E. Wood, and Sara Jeannette Duncan explore some of the many commonalities and interrelationships among the members of this generation as a whole. This project combines archival research with analytical bibliography in order to clarify and extend our knowledge of Johnson’s and Duncan’s professional lives and publishing histories, and to recover some of Wood’s “lost” stories. This research offers a preliminary sketch of the long tradition of the platform performance (both Native and non-Native) with which Johnson and others engaged. It explores the uniquely innovative ethnographic writings of Johnson, Duncan, and the Eaton sisters, among others, and it explores thematic concerns which relate directly to the experiences of working women. Whether or not I convince other scholars to treat these authors as a generation, with more in common than has previously been supposed, the strong parallels revealed in these pages will help to clarify and contextualize some of their most interesting work.

Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places

In this article five women explore (female) embodiment in academic work in current workplaces. In a week-long collective biography workshop they produced written memories of themselves in their various workplaces and memories of themselves as children and as students. These memories then became the texts out of which the analysis was generated. The authors examine the constitutive and seductive effects of neoliberal discourses and practices, and in particular, the assembling of academic bodies as particular kinds of working bodies. They use the concept of chiasma, or crossing over, to trouble some aspects of binary thinking about bodies and about the relations between bodies and discourses. They examine the way that we simultaneously resist and appropriate, and are seduced by and appropriated within, neoliberal discourses and practices.