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Author : Kate Chopin
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-03
A Respectable Woman written by Kate Chopin and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Fiction categories.
They had entertained a good deal during the winter; much of the time had also been passed in New Orleans in various forms of mild dissipation. She was looking forward to a period of unbroken rest, now, and undisturbed tete-a-tete with her husband, when he informed her that Gouvernail was coming up to stay a week or two. This was a man she had heard much of but never seen. He had been her husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him. But she had unconsciously formed an image of him in her mind. She pictured him tall, slim, cynical; with eye-glasses, and his hands in his pockets; and she did not like him. Gouvernail was slim enough, but he wasn't very tall nor very cynical; neither did he wear eyeglasses nor carry his hands in his pockets. And she rather liked him when he first presented himself. But why she liked him she could not explain satisfactorily to herself when she partly attempted to do so. She could discover in him none of those brilliant and promising traits which Gaston, her husband, had often assured her that he possessed. On the contrary, he sat rather mute and receptive before her chatty eagerness to make him feel at home and in face of Gaston's frank and wordy hospitality. His manner was as courteous toward her as the most exacting woman could require; but he made no direct appeal to her approval or even esteem.
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Author : Easterine Kire
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2019-02-28
A Respectable Woman written by Easterine Kire and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Drama categories.
‘It took my mother, Khonuo, exactly forty-five years before she could bring herself to talk about the war.’ These powerful words introduce the reader to Easterine Kire’s stunning new novel, A Respectable Woman. In Nagaland, the decisive Battle of Kohima has been fought and won by the Allies, and people in and around Kohima are trying hard to come to terms with the devastation, the loss of home and property, and the deaths of their loved ones. Forty years after the event, Khonuo recreates this moment, stitching together her memories, bit by painful bit, for her young daughter. As memory passes from mother to daughter, the narrative glides seamlessly into the present, a moment in which Nagaland, much transformed, confronts different realities and challenges. Using storytelling traditions so typical of her region, Kire leads the reader gently into a world where history and memory meld — where, through this blurring, a young woman comes to understand the legacy of her parents and her land.
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Author : David Fletcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-10
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Author : Susanna Bavin
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
Release Date : 2018-06-21
A Respectable Woman written by Susanna Bavin and has been published by Allison & Busby Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with Fiction categories.
After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and performing miracles with scrag-end. When she discovers that Stan is leading a double-life, she runs away to make a fresh start.Two years later, in 1924, Nell has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself and her young children in Manchester, where her neighbours believe she is a respectable widow and a talented machinist. But the past is hard to run from, and Nell must fight to protect the life she has made for herself and her children.
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Author : Jane E. Dabel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-05-10
A Respectable Woman written by Jane E. Dabel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-10 with History categories.
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The struggle for civil rights did not extend to equal gender roles, and black male leaders encouraged women to remain in the domestic sphere, serving as caretakers, moral educators, and nurses to their families and community. Yet as Jane E. Dabel demonstrates, separate spheres were not a reality for New York City's black people, who faced dire poverty, a lopsided sex ratio, racialized violence, and a high mortality rate, all of which conspired to prevent men from gaining respectable employment and political clout. Consequently, many black women came out of the home and into the streets to work, build networks with other women, and fight against racial injustice. A Respectable Woman reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women, who, despite the exhortations of male reformers, occupied public roles as gender and race reformers.
Making Respectable Women
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Author : Mary Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Making Respectable Women written by Mary Evans and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with Social Science categories.
This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being ‘respectable’ has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty years. Mary Evans shows how the term ‘respectable’ has changed and how, most importantly, the basis of the ways in which the respectability of women has been judged has shifted from a location in women’s personal, domestic and sexual behaviour to that of how women engage in contemporary forms of citizenship, not the least of which is paid work. This shift has important social and political implications that have seldom been explored: amongst these are the growing marginalisation of the validation of the traditional care work of women, the assumption that paid work is implicitly and inevitably empowering and the complex ways in which respectability and conformity to highly sexualised conventions about female appearance have been normalised. Making Respectable Women makes use of archive material to show how the changing definition of a moral and social concept can have an impact on both the behaviour and the choices of individuals and the operations of institutional power. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Respectable Woman written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Operas categories.
Respectable Woman is a twenty-seven minute one-act opera scored for four voices (two sopranos, tenor, and baritone), flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The creation of this opera was inspired by the "Poe Project," an initiative created by the American Lyric Theater (ALT), the aim of which was to celebrate and explore the genius of one of America's most famous poets, Edgar Allan Poe. For the project, participating composers and librettists chose a short story written by Poe, speculated on how that story would have been different if it had been written in modern times, then wrote an opera based on the modern version of that story. The narrative of Respectable Woman follows the same guidelines given to the composers and librettists that participated in ALT's "Poe Project." Librettist Jennifer Cresswell and I worked together to modernize the short story "A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin (1851-1904) and realize it as a chamber opera. The result is an account of self-discovery and acceptance set in modern-day Joliet, Illinois. The main character, Cassandra (Sandy) McGavin, is a married woman in her late twenties. Her husband, Dave McGavin, is a second-generation blue-collar worker who is emotionally disconnected and indifferent toward his wife. The story follows Sandy as she discovers her true identity through the chance meeting of Dave's distant cousin, Lexi Swain. The piece carries heavy undertones of current issues relating to the stigma surrounding gender stereotypes and sexual identity. A wide variety of pieces written for voice and instruments inspired my composition of Respectable Woman. Two of the most influential include Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Telephone and Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge, both with libretti by Menotti. Other influential pieces include Alban Berg's Lulu, Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, and David Lang's the difficulty of crossing a field.
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Author : Lynn Bryant
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-28
A Respectable Woman written by Lynn Bryant and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with categories.
Philippa Maclay is the daughter of a missionary who is left alone on the death of her father to make her way in the restricted society of mid nineteenth century London. Taking a post at a charity school in the East End she is torn between her love for her work and the girls in her care and her relationship with Major Kit Clevedon, a man to whom she can never be more than a diversion. Major Kit Clevedon is an aristocrat by birth and a soldier by choice and knows that he should stay away from the young school teacher he first met in the African bush but his attraction to the girl who lives in a different world to him is rapidly turning into something a lot more. Set against the luxury of Victorian salons and the poverty and teeming backstreets of the East End, A Respectable Woman is the story of a girl who must choose between propriety and love in a society which gave no second chances to a woman who lost her reputation.
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Author : Jane E. Dabel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008
A Respectable Woman written by Jane E. Dabel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The struggle for civil rights did not extend to equal gender roles, and black male leaders encouraged women to remain in the domestic sphere, serving as caretakers, moral educators, and nurses to their families and community. Yet as Jane E. Dabel demonstrates, separate spheres were not a reality for New York City's black people, who faced dire poverty, a lopsided sex ratio, racialized violence, and a high mortality rate, all of which conspired to prevent men from gaining respectable employment and political clout. Consequently, many black women came out of the home and into the streets to work, build networks with other women, and fight against racial injustice. A Respectable Woman reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women, who, despite the exhortations of male reformers, occupied public roles as gender and race reformers.
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Author : Easterine Kire
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Release Date : 2019
A Respectable Woman written by Easterine Kire and has been published by Zubaan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Life change events categories.
The Second World War has just ended. The Japanese have departed. In Nagaland in northeast India--one of the key theaters of the battle--political unrest and tremendous social changes have generated new social problems. For returning soldiers and others dealing with the aftermath of war, alcohol provides some relief and a way of dealing with new realities. The Church, a major presence, joins the battle against alcoholism with its support of the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act. This mandate, however, only leads to bootlegging and the more insidious problem of domestic violence. In her new novel, Easterine Kire explores one woman's journey through these altered realities. In doing so, she also uncovers the underbelly of a society in transition--one that is reluctant to cast off traditional ways even as it entangles itself in the problems of the modern world.