Meet the Authors Event


On December 3, 2003, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women held its "Meet the Authors - Book Signing and Reception." Several of the authors attended the event and offered brief synopses of their exciting new publications. Here is a list of the publications now available:

Letizia Argenteri (CSW Research Scholar)
Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

Maylei Blackwell (Chicano/Chicana Center)
"Contested Histories: las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms and Print Culture in the Chicano Movement, 1968-1973." In Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, eds. Gabriella Arredondo, et. al. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2003)

Sandra Harding (Education)
. . . and Robert Figueroa, eds. Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology (Routledge, January 2003)
. . . and Merrill Hintikka, eds. Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. 2d. ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, July 2003).
. . . ed. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies (Routledge, November 2003)

Shirley Hune (Urban Planning) and Gail M. Nomura, eds. Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology (New York University Press, 2003)

Nikki Keddie (Emerita/History)
Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2003)

Kathleen Komar (Comparative Literature)
Reclaiming Klytemnestra--Revenge or Reconciliation (University of Illinois Press, 2003)

Rachel C. Lee (English/WS) and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, eds. Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Cyberculture (Routledge, May 2003)

Felicity Nussbaum (English)
. . .The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Anomaly in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, May 2003)
... ed., The Global Eighteenth Century, (Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2003)

Penny Richards (CSW Research Scholar),
"Bad Blood and Lost Borders: Eugenic Ambivalence in Mary Austin's Short Fiction," Lois A Cuddy and Claire Roche, eds. Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (Bucknell UP 2003)

Mari Womack (CSW Research Scholar)
Sport as Symbol: Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song (McFarland & Company, 2003)

Gail Wyatt (Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences) and Louis Wyatt
No More Clueless Sex: Ten Secrets to a Sex Life that Works for Both of You
(John Wiley and Sons, 2003)