Barbara White

Annis Pratt

Mary Wyer

Andrea Loewenstein

Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.

Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction

Rick Iedema

Jessica Mesman

Katherine Carroll

Aileen Collier

Su-Yin Hor

This innovative, practical guide introduces researchers to the use of the video reflexive ethnography in health and health services research. This methodology has enjoyed increasing popularity among researchers internationally and has been inspired by developments across a range of disciplines: ethnography, visual and applied anthropology, medical sociology, health services research, medical and nursing education, adult education, community development, and qualitative research ethics.

Theory and Application

Video-Reflexive Ethnography in Health Research and Healthcare Improvement

Jean F. O'Barr

Sarah Westphal-Wihl

Micheline R. Malson

A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical application of the practices of complicating gender, raising consciousness, engaging contradictions, transforming women's experiences, and naming the politics of theory.

Feminist Theory in Practice and Process

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

Emphasizing work that "frees our imaginations and allows us to conceive new theories, new language, and new questions," the collection seeks to establish the nature of Afro-American women's experiences while providing a theoretical framework for Black feminist thought. In essays that explore the intersection of work and family, socio-historical literature and critiques, and the relation of Black women to community life, contributors to this volume document Afro-American social and personal struggles and strategies. Individual essays examine family roles, job satisfaction, economic status, and women's traditions in the church. An eloquent introduction to the development of Black feminist thought, Black Women in America encourages the discussion of broader issues, such as the treatment of cultural diversity in American higher education.

Social Science Perspectives

Black Women in America

Marta Wayne

Donna Cookmeyer

Donna Giesman

Mary Barbercheck

Hatice Ozturk

This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.

A Reader in Feminist Science Studies

Women, Science, and Technology

Mary Wyer

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