Gates Performs His Audio Duty Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defense under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will read the introduction to his forthcoming memoir, Duty, for Random ...House Audio. Black is bringing Raymond Chandler's beloved character back to life for a new adventure, and Boutsikaris--whose television and film credits include Person of Interest, Elementary, The Mentalist, The Bourne Legacy, The Good Wife, Shameless, and Law & Order--will be in the recording booth to aid him in this quest. Audie Award-winner Bean was selected for her ability to convey the book's building suspense and enhance the paranormal aspects of this story.
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"Lift up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders" by Mark Perry is reviewed. Viking, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 0-670-03011-2
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35.
Eve: A Biography Ziegler, Valarie
Shofar,
09/2001, Letnik:
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Book Review, Journal Article
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I was wrong on that last assumption. Pamela Norris's book is not an encyclopedic account of Eve's "career" in Western thought, but it provides the most extensive consideration of specifically ...literary and artistic renditions of Eve that I have yet seen. Though I will raise some questions about organization and content, let me start by saying that this is a valuable book, essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the ways in which the story of Eve has influenced Western understandings of gender. In general, Norris argues that Eve has served as a paradigm for all women and that Western culture has, through her, accused women of "vanity, moral weakness, and sexual frailty, while Adam/Man's role in the transaction can be summarized by the familiar defense: "'She led him on'" (p. 5). The second section is more thematic than chronological, tracing literary depictions of Eve as second Mary, helpmeet, monster, mermaid, mother, temptress, etc. Such a thematic arrangement can lead to huge chronological leaps (on p. 359, Norris jumps from a 1611 poem to Sarah Grimke's 1838 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes). At times the themes themselves seem unrelated; I am still unsure how Norris connects mermaids to Eve (pp. 325-330). But if this section lacks the clear development of the history of interpretation that was evident in section one, it contributes a discussion of literary uses of Eve with which scholars of religion are likely to be unfamiliar. Norris considers literary works far beyond Paradise Lost. C. S. Lewis's Magician's Nephew, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Willa Cather's Professor's House, Anita Brookner's Misalliance, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh constitute a sampling of the literary works Norris plumbs for Eve's story.
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Eight women who fought for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are profiled. They are: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Lucy Stone, Victoria Woodhull, Ernestine Rose, Sojourner ...Truth, Belva Lockwood, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke.
