Search Results - "Woman"

Reconstructing Woman From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel / by Kelly, Dorothy, 1952-

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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Framed The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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I Made You to Find Me The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Women in Print Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /

Table of Contents: “…Cloonan -- Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin -- A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley -- Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet -- Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins -- "When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. …”
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Eat My Dust Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Privately Empowered Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse -- Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms -- Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn -- Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman -- Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants -- Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny.…”
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Romantic Narrative Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…: Godwin's editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman.…”
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Rewriting Womanhood Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Composition Studies As A Creative Art by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? …”
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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

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Faithful Transgressions In The American West Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier.…”
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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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From Shtetl to Stardom Jews and Hollywood /

Table of Contents: “…Dirty Jews : Amy Schumer and other vulgar Jewesses / Shaina Hammerman -- 4. "The woman thing and the Jew thing" : transsexuality, transcomedy, and the legacy of subversive Jewishness in transparent / Joshua Louis Moss -- 5. …”
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