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Feeding the Family
The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work
Häftad, 1994
264 kr
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Housework--often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse--contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "feeding the family" from the perspective of those who do that …
Honest Courtesan
Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Häftad, 1993
325 kr
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The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and …
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 1993
283 kr
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"A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's …
Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative
Häftad, 1990
490 kr
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Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex relations of gender, sexuality, and representation in Dinesen's narratives. Drawing on feminist, …
Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism
Inbunden, 2009
1237 kr
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Famous for her short fiction - most notably "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman also produced a vast body of nonfiction in tandem with her work as a Progressive-era feminist reformer. Rooted in groundbreaking research on Gilman's extensive correspondence, publications, and speeches, …
Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism
Häftad, 2009
490 kr
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Famous for her short fiction - most notably "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman also produced a vast body of nonfiction in tandem with her work as a Progressive-era feminist reformer. Rooted in groundbreaking research on Gilman's extensive correspondence, publications, and speeches, …
Manliness and Civilization
A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Häftad, 1996
324 kr
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When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro". Jeffries, though, was …
Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Av Daniel Bornstein, Roberto Rusconi
Inbunden, 1996
853 kr
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Between the 12th and the 16th centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all …
Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Av Daniel Bornstein, Roberto Rusconi
Häftad, 1996
306 kr
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Between the 12th and the 16th centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all …
Bound and Determined
Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst
Häftad, 1996
323 kr
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This work provides an analysis of a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than 60 accounts by …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1037 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
333 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court
Music and the Circulation of Power
Häftad, 2015
492 kr
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A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music she …
Elsie Clews Parsons
Inventing Modern Life
Häftad, 1999
343 kr
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Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic; she challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements that would fit the 20th century. From 1912, she incorporated ethnographic data on upper-class New York into …
Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937
Av Joan DeJean
Inbunden, 1989
1710 kr
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Considering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a …
Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937
Av Joan DeJean
Häftad, 1989
490 kr
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Considering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a …
Making Gray Gold
Narratives of Nursing Home Care
Häftad, 1995
298 kr
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This report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set in the context of wider political, economic and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. The author demonstrates the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the …
Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
Häftad, 2004
254 kr
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In this culmination of decades of research, Rose E. Frisch's Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection explains how, in women, each milestone of the reproductive life span - including puberty, fertility, and menopause - is influenced by food intake and energy output, the factors affecting the …
Lady and the Virgin
Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France
Häftad, 1987
307 kr
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Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a …
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform
Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929
Häftad, 1997
333 kr
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Exploring the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families. Chicago initiated the largest mothers' pension programme in the United States in 1911. Evolving alongside movements for industrial justice …
Feminist Morality
Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics
Häftad, 1993
298 kr
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How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and …
Royal Representations
Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876
Häftad, 1999
352 kr
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Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. This text investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. Arguing that being, seeming, and …
Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities
Häftad, 1990
395 kr
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In this bold reinterpretation of Women's changing labor status during the late medieval and early modern period, Martha C. Howell argues that women's work was the product of the intersection of two systems, one cultural and one economic. Howell shows forcefully that patriarchal family structure, …
Marriage Exchange
Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550
Inbunden, 1998
801 kr
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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens--wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds. Based on extensive research …
Marriage Exchange
Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550
Häftad, 1998
321 kr
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Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its citizens—wills, marriage agreements, business contracts, and records of court disputes over property rights of all kinds.Based on extensive research in …
Respectability and Deviance
Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation
Inbunden, 1999
1747 kr
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Studying a period of German literary history the text examines the social and cultural milieu of 19th-century women writers, along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing. The text demonstrates that these writings offer opportunities to examine such critical …
Equivocal Beings
Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
Häftad, 1995
441 kr
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In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe and gratitude. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke and Rousseau were politically motivated …
Special Delivery
Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction
Inbunden, 1992
1237 kr
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Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity …
Special Delivery
Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction
Häftad, 1992
745 kr
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Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity …
Women, History, and Theory
The Essays of Joan Kelly
Av Joan Kelly
Häftad, 1986
283 kr
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These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present.
