Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world.Using the Chilean arpilleras as a case study, this book explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when freedom of expression is absent and repression rife, and the consequences of its production for the resistance and for the artists. Taking a sociological approach based on interviews, participant observation, archival research, and analysis of a visual database, Jacqueline Adams examines the emergence of the arpilleras and then traces their journey from the workshops and homes in which they were made, to the human rights organizations that exported them, and on to sellers and buyers abroad, as well as in Chile. She then presents the perspectives of the arpillera makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the arpilleras strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who made them.

Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

Arts & Photography

Adams, Jacqueline

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

Surviving Dictatorship (Sociology Re-Wired)

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on shantytown women, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive. Drawing on a visual database of shantytown photographs, art, posters, flyers, and bulletins, as well as on interviews, photo elicitation, and archival research, the book is an example of how multiple methods might be successfully employed to examine dictatorship from the perspective of some of the least powerful members of society. It is ideal for courses in social inequalities, poverty, race/class/gender, political sociology, global studies, urban studies, women’s studies, human rights, oral history, and qualitative methods.

Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology (Sociology Re-Wired)

History

Routledge

Reference

Describes the symptoms and possible causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder and discusses the difficulties faced in treating it.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Diseases and Disorders)

Teen & Young Adult

Personal Health

Lucent Books

These books offer readers a means of understanding various ailments; clear, careful explanations offer insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how we cope with them, and the latest information about treatment and prevention.; ; All volumes in the series include primary and secondary quotations, annotated bibliographies, detailed indexes, and lists of organizations to contact for additional information.

Alzheimer's Disease (Diseases and Disorders)

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world.
Using the Chilean arpilleras as a case study, this book explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when freedom of expression is absent and repression rife, and the consequences of its production for the resistance and for the artists. Taking a sociological approach based on interviews, participant observation, archival research, and analysis of a visual database, Jacqueline Adams examines the emergence of the arpilleras and then traces their journey from the workshops and homes in which they were made, to the human rights organizations that exported them, and on to sellers and buyers abroad, as well as in Chile. She then presents the perspectives of the arpillera makers and human rights organization staff, who discuss how the arpilleras strengthened the resistance and empowered the women who made them.

Discusses the history of performance enhancing drugs, the effects they have on the body, the epidemic use of anabolic steroids in the world of sports, and current legal efforts underway to ban these substances.

Steroids (Drug Education Library)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Look around. Imagine being the only one, the only woman of color, the sole "sister" in any business setting. Then imagine all of these sole sisters teaming up as a collective, full of resilience and pioneering spirit, eager to share our glory with the next generations. A blessing is a group of unicorns and we are Black Unicorns.The book, ?A Blessing,? will serve as a mission-driven, yet realistic analysis of African American female leadership. Armed with data from our original survey of 4005 women knowledge workers across four generations (GenZ, Millennials, GenX and Boomers) and four races (Black, LatinX, Asian and white), ?Women of Color in Business: Cross Generational Survey©, we will serve two main objectives:1. To provide inspiration for today's "unicorns," upwardly mobile women of color in white-collar jobs across a wide variety of industries as well as entrepreneurs and to provide information for HR professionals and managers tasked with attracting and retaining employees of color; and2. To offer a "playbook" to help these women "team up" - i.e. to find innovative ways to support one another as they climb what our and other research show are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity for themselves personally and their organizations.The authors focus on grit and family, the economic benefits and personal stresses of diversity, the influence of white, male mentors. And they will relate their own experiences as "unicorns," the first African-American Harvard Business School MBAs to reach the top of their respective fields -- technology (first African American woman vice president at Google) and media (first female African-American White House Correspondent for CBS News).

A Blessing

Stewart, Bonita C

Business & Money

Wordeee

A Blessing presents a fresh, bold analysis of African American female leadership. An unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America's social, political, psychological and economic history, it is armed with data that should be empowering for today's "unicorns." The book offers a "playbook" to help Black unicorns "team up" and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.

A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive

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Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology (Sociology Re-Wired)

Surviving Dictatorship (Sociology Re-Wired)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Diseases and Disorders)

Alzheimer's Disease (Diseases and Disorders)

Art Against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

Steroids (Drug Education Library)

A Blessing

A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive