Anna Marie Smith

Gertrude and her girlfriends, get their game on in this supremely sweet story. Forever friends find fun in crafting creative contests.Author Lisa Baker and her cousin Anna Marie Smith team up to create a story of three girls and how they love coming up with games. They decided to merge their love of collective nouns, or animal groupings like a herd of cows, with their newfound knowledge of alliteration where the first letter of each word is the same."Lisa Baker's loveable alliterative literature provides a warm welcome to the world of wordplay. Enjoy reading about Gertrude's globetrotting game, during which the friends find fun in coining collective terms. This book carries on the centuries-old tradition of giving groups such glorious names as "a flamboyance of flamingos" or "a bike of bees." With the perfect pictures to illustrate the imaginings of the trio of tykes, the following is to be read and reveled in by children and adults alike." -Rob WattsAt the end of the story unscramble the fourteen letters to create a two-word phrase and scan the QR code in the back of the book for a freebie with the correct answer. -Helps with pre-reading skills with rhyming text, encouraging children to predict what the word will be (similar to the "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" book)-Encourages creativity-Introduces literature terms-Introduces geography concepts-Interactive

Gertrude and her girlfriends, get their game on in this supremely sweet story. Forever friends find fun in crafting creative contests.Author Lisa Baker and her cousin Anna Marie Smith team up to create a story of three girls and how they love coming up with games. They decided to merge their love of collective nouns, or animal groupings like a herd of cows, with their newfound knowledge of alliteration where the first letter of each word is the same."Lisa Baker's loveable alliterative literature provides a warm welcome to the world of wordplay. Enjoy reading about Gertrude's globetrotting game, during which the friends find fun in coining collective terms. This book carries on the centuries-old tradition of giving groups such glorious names as "a flamboyance of flamingos" or "a bike of bees." With the perfect pictures to illustrate the imaginings of the trio of tykes, the following is to be read and reveled in by children and adults alike." -Rob WattsAt the end of the story unscramble the fourteen letters to create a two-word phrase and scan the QR code in the back of the book for a freebie with the correct answer. -Helps with pre-reading skills with rhyming text, encouraging children to predict what the word will be (similar to the "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" book)-Encourages creativity-Introduces literature terms-Introduces geography concepts-Interactive

Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy. Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized poor mother as one of its primary disciplinary targets. The book concludes with a vigorous and detailed critique of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for welfare reform law and an outline of a progressive feminist approach to poverty policy.

Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy. Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized poor mother as one of its primary disciplinary targets. The book concludes with a vigorous and detailed critique of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for welfare reform law and an outline of a progressive feminist approach to poverty policy.

Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from the criticism of political theory from postmodern anti-foundationalist political theory.

Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from the criticism of political theory from postmodern anti-foundationalist political theory.

The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a ground-breaking study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.

The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a ground-breaking study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.