Gendered Voices JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Insects With compassion and clarity

With compassion and clarity

Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience

A Whale is a Country explores humanity's relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles

witnessed appalling abuses by prosecutors that prompted her to write Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice

Gendered Voices JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Insects With compassion and clarity"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."from the Foreword, by Caroline Walker Bynum Female saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent years. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the ways in which their experiences and voices were mediated by the men who often composed their vitae,