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When it’s your only way of paying rent or feeding your kids, little wonder that sex is not so great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis expert, witty and empowering book provides all the evidence and arguments you need to reclaim your time, emotional energy and self-worth from the reductive logics of capitalism – and shows how collectively young women have the power to re-shape society in their favour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427323035810,"sku":null,"price":220.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/51w41H9EvBL._SY445_SX342_FMwebp.webp?v=1783951438"},{"product_id":"lives-of-wives-by-laura-riding-jackson","title":"Lives of Wives by Laura (Riding) Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9781557131829\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSun \u0026amp; Moon Press, November 2000\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e326 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn January 16, 1901, Laura Riding Jackson was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City. From 1918 to 1921, she attended Cornell University. In 1920, she married Louis Gottschalk, a professor of history at Cornell. Her work soon attracted the notice of “\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/text\/brief-guide-fugitives\"\u003eThe Fugitives\u003c\/a\u003e,” a group of writers centered on Vanderbilt University whose members included\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/john-crowe-ransom\"\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/allen-tate\"\u003eAllen Tate\u003c\/a\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/robert-penn-warren\"\u003eRobert Penn Warren\u003c\/a\u003e. The group met regularly to read and discuss poetry and philosophy, and published a poetry magazine, the \u003cem\u003eFugitive\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1923, the poet began calling herself Laura Riding Gottschalk, and her first published poem appeared in the\u003ci\u003e Fugitive\u003c\/i\u003e; the following year she received the group’s “Nashville Prize” for poetry. She was invited to join the group, accepting in March 1925. That same year, Riding and Gottshalk divorced, and she moved to New York City. While in New York, she became friends with various writers, including the poet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/hart-crane\"\u003eHart Crane\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1925,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/robert-graves\"\u003eRobert Graves\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einvited her to collaborate on a book, and she left New York for England. Riding lived abroad, mainly in England and Mallorca, Spain, from 1926 to 1939. In 1927, she officially changed her name to Laura Riding. That same year, she established the Seizin Press with Graves, serving as managing partner of the press until 1938. She and Graves co-wrote\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Survey of Modernist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Heinemann, 1927), and from 1935 to 1938 they edited\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e, a journal in which they explored new principles of textual analysis that were to influence the development of the New Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1941, having returned to the United States, Riding married Schuyler Brinckerhoff Jackson, a poet, critic, and former poetry editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine. In 1943, they moved to Wabasso, Florida, where they became involved in citrus farming. For many years she worked with her husband on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Related Meanings\u003c\/i\u003e, a project she had begun in the 1930s. They also collaborated on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words\u003c\/i\u003e, which she completed in 1974, six years after Schuyler Jackson's death. She was honored with the Mark Rothko Appreciation Award in 1971, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1973, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1979, and, in 1991, Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for her lifetime contribution to poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJackson published collections of short stories and essays under several forms of her name and the pseudonym Madeleine Vara. Her most successful book was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLives of Wives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Random House, 1939), a work of historical fiction. She completed more than a dozen volumes of poetry before renouncing the craft as “inadequate” in the late 1930s. She continued to write prose throughout her life, however. 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