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Invalid Women
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Author : Diane Price Herndl
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Invalid Women written by Diane Price Herndl and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres "Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and somatic cures, medicine's place in the rise of capitalism, and the cultural forms in which men and women used the trope of female illness.--Choice "A rich and provocative study of female illnesses and their textual representations. . . . A major contribution to the feminist agenda of literature and medicine.--Medical Humanities Review "[An] important book.--Nineteenth-Century Literature "[This] sophisticated new study . . . brings the best current strategies of a thoroughly historicized feminist literary criticism to bear on textual representations of female invalidism.--Feminist Studies "An outstanding study of the representation of female invalidism in American culture and literature. There emerges from this work a striking sense of the changing meanings of female invalidism even as the conjunction of these terms has remained a constant in American cultural history. . . . Moreover, Invalid Women provides fascinating readings of female illness in a variety of texts.--Gillian Brown, University of Utah "A provocative study based on imaginative historical research and very fine close readings. The book provides a useful American complement to Helena Michie's The Flesh Made Word and Margaret Homans's Bearing the World. It should prove enlightening and otherwise useful not just to scholars of American literature, but also to those engaged in American studies, feminist criticism and theory, women's studies, the sociology of medicine and illness, and the history of science and medicine.--Cynthia S. Jordan, Indiana University
Of Lovely Tyrants And Invisible Women
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Author : Emma Domínguez-Rué
language : en
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Release Date : 2011
Of Lovely Tyrants And Invisible Women written by Emma Domínguez-Rué and has been published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines images of female illness and invalidism as a metaphor of women's position of invisibility in Victorian and fin-de-siecle America, which pervade the fiction of the Virginia writer Ellen Glasgow (Richmond, 1873-1945). The study contends that the author explores the Victorian cult of invalidism to reveal the mechanisms of patriarchy: her novels warn against adhering to its values, since women are moulded to become epitomes of extreme delicacy and selflessness, being ultimately reduced to virtual inexistence. Many times physically incapacitating, Glasgow seems to suggest, the doctrine of female self-effacement always debilitates women's autonomy as human beings. The female invalids in Glasgow's fiction thus operate as uncanny mirrors of the self women become if they adhere to the traditional code of femininity and its adjoining principle of self-sacrifice.
Women Writers Of Children S Classics
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Author : Mary Sebag-Montefiore
language : en
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Release Date : 2008
Women Writers Of Children S Classics written by Mary Sebag-Montefiore and has been published by Northcote House Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th century female children's writers, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs Ewing and Mrs Molesworth who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.
Women And Sexuality In The Novels Of Thomas Hardy
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Author : Rosemarie Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-04-07
Women And Sexuality In The Novels Of Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
The women in Thomas Hardy's novels appear to have no control over their conduct or their destiny. In this book, Rosemarie Morgan argues a contrary case. Hardy's women struggle, sometimes winning, often losing, but they are not tame objects to be manipulated. Their resistance emerges in their sexuality, a quality which Hardy was often forced to cloak or disguise. Rosemarie Morgan resurrects Hardy's voluptuous heroines and restores to them the physical, sexual reality which Hardy sees as their birthright, but which the male-dominated world they inhabit seeks to deny them, both within and beyond the novel.
The Woman S Gazette Or News About Work
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Woman S Gazette Or News About Work written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Volunteers categories.
Elections In Asia And The Pacific A Data Handbook
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Author : Dieter Nohlen
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-11-15
Elections In Asia And The Pacific A Data Handbook written by Dieter Nohlen and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-15 with Political Science categories.
This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initial comparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state of the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-date electoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral systems world-wide. The second volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific covers the Asia-Pacific area, i.e. the 30 independent states of East Asia (including Japan), South East Asia and the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand).
The Women S Mosque Of America
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Author : Tazeen M. Ali
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-11
The Women S Mosque Of America written by Tazeen M. Ali and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11 with Religion categories.
"The Women's Mosque of America analyzes how American Muslim women cultivate new forms of Islamic authority that contend with gender inequality, anti-Blackness, and global Islamophobia by approaching the Qur'an as a tool for social justice and community building, providing insights on Islamic authority at the intersections of gender, religious space, and national belonging"--
Soviet Women On The Frontline In The Second World War
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Author : R. Markwick
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-06-26
Soviet Women On The Frontline In The Second World War written by R. Markwick and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with History categories.
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
Reading Women
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Author : Jennifer Phegley
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Reading Women written by Jennifer Phegley and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
Women And Society In Greek And Roman Egypt
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Author : Jane Rowlandson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-26
Women And Society In Greek And Roman Egypt written by Jane Rowlandson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-26 with History categories.
The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.