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The Virago Story
The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically different, with only one press from the period still active in contemporary publishing: Virago. This engaging history explains how, from modest beginnings, Virago managed to weather epochal transformations in gender politics, literary culture, and the book publishing business. Drawing on original interviews with many of the press's principal figures, it gives a compelling account of Virago’s place in recent women's history while also reflecting on the fraught relationship between activism and commerce.
The Chinese Virago
Drawing from a broad array of literary, historical, dramatic and anecdotal sources, Yenna Wu makes a rich exploration of an unusually prominent theme in premodern Chinese prose fiction and drama: that of jealous and belligerent wives, or viragos, who dominate their husbands and abuse other women. Focusing on Chinese literary works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, she presents many colorful perspectives on this type of aggression, reviewing early literary and historical examples of the phenomenon. Wu argues that although the various portraits of the virago often reveal the writers' insecurities about strong-willed women in general, the authors also satirize the kind of man whose behavioral patterns have been catalysts for female aggression. She also shows that, while the women in these works are to some extent male constructs designed to affirm the patriarchal system, various elements of these portraits constitute a subversive form of parody that casts a revealing light on the patriarchal hierarchy of premodern China.
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Regency High Society Vol 3: Beloved Virago / Lord Trenchard's Choice / The Unruly Chaperon / Colonel Ancroft's Love
Including: Beloved Virago Katherine O’Malley, sent to France to flush out a traitor, is prepared for danger. She isn’t prepared to pose as handsome rake Major Daniel Ross’s wife! But when Napoleon escapes from Elba, Katherine has to trust Daniel with her life. Suddenly it is also her heart that is at risk...
The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to San Francisco
From Gertrude Stein to Whoopi Goldberg to Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco is virtually synonymous with independent women. Harriet Swift has captured the special delights of the Bay Area. Her book is filled with cultural insights, offbeat travel tips & delightful armchair reading. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth coverage while emphasizing the cultural diversity that makes San Francisco one of the the world's most lovable cities.
Virago Woman's Travel Guide to New York
This lively guidebook ventures from the Statue of Liberty to seething go-go bars to Dorothy Parker's round table salon at the Algonquin Hotel. Sections on downtown, midtown, upper Manhattan, and the outer boroughs highlight the city's best. From the best shops and markets to the perfect hotel for businesswomen, this book runs the gamut from the glamorous to the gaudy. Line drawings. Maps.
The Virago Woman's Travel Guide to London
London is lustrous, literary, loud & lewd. Josie Barnard, author of the Virago Woman's Guide to New York, captures all the many wonders of this famous city with a special emphasis on women's contributions to London's history, art & culture. This comprehensive guide offers a unique & invaluable look at this complex city. Women travelers will appreciate her valuable advice on places where they will feel welcome, safe & comfortable.
The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping
Some of us adore it, some of us live for it, some of us loathe it - but we all do it. SHOP. This is a book to celebrate the passion and the fear.
