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Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The Revival of ...

Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The Revival of ...

Hollie Russon Gilman

In this brief work, Hollie Russon Gilman explains the history and concepts of participatory budgeting.
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic ...

Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic ...

Hollie Russon Gilman

In Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, edited by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma (Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly), pp. 177 –82. Noble, David F. 2011. Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial ...
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic ...

Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic ...

Hollie Russon Gilman

“Participation, Activism, and Politics: The Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory. ... Report for the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, June ...
Speak of the Dead

Speak of the Dead

Hollie Van Horne

Hollie Van Horne. They did as he said and none to ceremoniously, either. Felicia walked towards the corpse of her friend and agent. Mike pulled back the sheet to expose the pale body, the crushed face, and the broken torso. It was no more ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Jennifer S. Tuttle

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarhip in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the ...
The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

" Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.
A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Golden, Catherine. “'Overwriting' the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Susan Jane Gilman

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless Susan Jane Gilman ... —Cheryl Peck, author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs “If David Sedaris married most of the cast of TheBreakfast Club,the resulting child just might be Susan Jane Gilman.
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers.
Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints

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Women and Economics

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: “the economic ...
Families, Marriages, and Children

Families, Marriages, and Children

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Transcending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial aspects of family, and family life.
The Home: Its Work and Influence

The Home: Its Work and Influence

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what became a century-long struggle.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The early twentieth-century writer, feminist, and social reformer recounts her upbringing, development, and career
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Acknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
La ragazza di Orchard Street

La ragazza di Orchard Street

Susan Jane Gilman

«Un romanzo dal cuore grande... La Gilman riesce a dipingere un bellissimo affresco della storia americana del secolo scorso, mettendoci al centro un meraviglioso personaggio di donna.» Chicago Tribune
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Carol Farley Kessler

A fresh reading of Gilman's fiction and a biographical exploration of her life yield a vision of how the feminist author developed her capacity to imagine a full-blown utopia for women.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander L. Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Critical essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Critical essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Joanne B. Karpinski

Victorian Daughters: The Lives and Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner Barbara Scott Winkler In the period before World War I, when most feminists in Britain and America were preoccupied with the struggle to gain the ...
Gender and the City Before Modernity

Gender and the City Before Modernity

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David Gilman Romano, 'The Panathenaic Stadium and Theater of Lykourgos: A Re-Examination of the Facilities on the Pnyx Hill', American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985), pp. 441–54; David Gilman Romano, 'Lykourgos, the Panathenaia ...
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Sander L. Gilman

In this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide "healthy" bodies from ones that are ill.
Obesity: The Biography

Obesity: The Biography

Sander L. Gilman

Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more ...
Dark Orbit: A Novel

Dark Orbit: A Novel

Carolyn Ives Gilman

From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
The Jew's Body

The Jew's Body

Sander L. Gilman

Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography

Cynthia Davis

A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist.

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