| | The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art |  | Authors: Vera Norwood, Janice Monk
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1508830
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 281
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0816516499
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.82
EAN: 9780816516490
ASIN: 0816516499
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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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
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poetic scholarship! May 19, 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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