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The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art [Hardcover]

Vera Norwood (Editor), Janice Monk (Editor)
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July 1, 1987
Over the past century, women artists and writers have expressed diverse creative responses to the landscape of the Southwest. The Desert Is No Lady provides a cross-cultureal perspective on women by examining Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American women's artistic expressions and the effect of their art in defining the southwestern landscape.

The Desert Is No Lady has been made into a motion picture of the same title by Women Make movies, New York, NY

"A beautifully crafted book. . . . Although it varies in intensity, the response of women to the environment is virtually always different from the male frontiersman's view of the land as inanimate, boundless, conquerable and controllable." —Polly Wells Kaufman in Women's Review of Books

"A powerful masterpiece." —Eve Gruntfest in The Professional Geographer
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"Eleven essays of exceptional quality . . . A pathbreaking book." —Esther Lanigan in Frontiers "A superb book, a model of multidisciplinary study of gender and landscape." —Susan Rosowski in Legacy
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Vera Norwood is a professor and chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and the author of Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature.

Janice Monk is the executive director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona and is coeditor of the University of Arizona Press series Society, Environment, and Place. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 293 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1st edition (July 1, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300036884
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300036886
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,105,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars poetic scholarship!, May 18, 2007
The Desert is No Lady is a book of careful scholarship about a much neglected subject, and is also a work of love. The authors have gathered the voices of 19th and 20th century women -- Hispanic and Native American as well as white -- who found their inspiration and muse in the severe but haunting beauty of the southwest US desert. The voices that emerge here collectively invite the reader into her or his own "center of boundless desire" (p. 29). The voices woven together unify body, place, and spirit in evocative detail. This book is an academic resource, but is far more than that: it is pure poetry!
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