Lois W. Banner
Lois Banner has taught at Rutgers University, Princeton University, the University of Scranton, Hamilton College, the University of Maryland, and George Washington University. She is currently Professor of History and Gender Studies at the ... [... more]
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Biography - Banner, Lois W(endland) (1939-): An article ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 5 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Finding Fran
 Fran & Lois: This is an interesting story, although the writing is ponderous in places, with detail that bogs down the story instead of enlivening it (e.g., apropos of nothing, we learn that she always goes to the airport early to avoid missing her [... more]
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The Underside of American History, Volume I: to 1877
The Effects of Corporate Statism: In this edition of the second volume (since Reconstruction to Reagan), Thomas Frazier of The Bernard M. Baruch College of The City University of New York has compiled selections of readings in American history that deal [... more]
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Flesh Wounds: Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
An impressive book. An important book. --Jamie Lee Curtis I blame mirrors. If it weren't for them we wouldn't need plastic surgeons. In the meantime, anyone tempted to re-shape face, body and mind by means of knife should first read Blum's intelligent, [... more]
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Flesh Wounds: Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Drawing on personal materials alongside interviews and readings of literature and culture, this book considers the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the conditions of identity in contemporary culture.An impressive book. An important [... more]
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Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women
P/PPThe story of two friends who took radically different paths: Lois Banner became an academic feminist, while Fran Huneke joined the mystical Sufi order and moved to Egypt./PPCandid and serious, IFinding Fran/Iis suffused with intelligence and at war [... more]
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Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology
P/PPMargaret Mead was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. She was the author of IComing of Age in Samoa/I, among other works./PPLois Banner is professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern [... more]
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Reading Benedict / Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and ...
A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead--enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound.Prominent international scholars explore the lives, works, and legacies of two influential figures in American anthropology. The [... more]
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