Search Results - "Women."

Teaching gender with libraries and archives : the power of information /

“…Teaching with gender. European women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms,…”
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Wrinkled deep in time aging in Shakespeare / by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women.…”
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Reading like a girl narrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature / by Day, Sara K.

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Sex & money feminism and political economy in the media /

Table of Contents: “…: communication as circulation / Michèle Martin -- The invisibility of the everyday : new technology and women's work / Ellen Balka -- The political economy of women's employment in the information sector / Stana Martin -- Sexual harassment as an economic concern : Swedish and American coverage of Astra / Nancy Hauserman -- Single moms, quota queens, and the model majority : putting "women" to work in the California Civil Rights Initiative / Roopali Mukherjee -- Selling women (down the river) : gendered relations and the political economy of broadcast news / Karen Ross -- Gender and the political economy of newsmaking : a case study of human rights coverage / Carolyn M. …”
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David & Bathsheba : the love story that changed history / by Dorr, Roberta Kells

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / by Higginbotham, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood -- Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities -- Female infants and the engendering of humanity -- Where are the girls in English renaissance drama? …”
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Common scents comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction / by Carlisle, Janice

Table of Contents: “…Smelling others -- Melancholic men -- Women of substance -- Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend.…”
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Oriental Lawrence the quest for the secrets of sex / by Doherty, Gerald, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Between East and West: Language and Silence -- Ch. 3. Women in Love: Narrative and Sexuality -- Ch. 4. …”
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The Bunraku puppet theatre of Japan honor, vengeance, and love in four plays of the 18th and 19th centuries /

Table of Contents: “…The Genji vanguard in Ōmi Province -- Mount Imo and Mount Se : precepts for women -- Vengeance at Iga Pass -- The true tale of Asagao.…”
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Singing the dead a model for epic evolution / by Bertolín Cebrián, Reyes

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning was the rite -- From funeral lament to epic -- Laments and other genres -- Women's funeral lament -- Epic and sports -- Classical funeral orations and epic.…”
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Religious diversity and early modern English texts : Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions /

Table of Contents: “…Hebraism and the Bible -- part IV. Women and religion -- part V. Religion and secularization.…”
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Chaucer : the basics / by Tasioulas, J. A. (Jacqueline A.)

Table of Contents: “…Geoffrey Chaucer : a life in time -- Chaucer's language of poetry -- The Canterbury tales -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The book of the duchess -- The house of fame -- The parliament of fowls -- The legend of good women.…”
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Why I can't read Wallace Stegner and other essays a tribal voice / by Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Who will tell the stories? -- pt. 4. Women's lives -- pt. 5. The last word.…”
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Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / by Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father -- Melville's fraternal melancholies -- Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility -- The death of boyhood and the making of Little women.…”
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The unspeakable : representations of trauma in Francophone literature and art /

Table of Contents: “…Constructing narrative voice and exploring generic tensions -- part III. Women and trauma -- part Ivolume Memory and amnesia in the representation of trauma.…”
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Beyond the subtitle remapping European art cinema / by Betz, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Recovering European art cinema -- The name above the subtitle: language, coproduction, transnationalism -- Wandering women: decolonization, modernity, recolonization -- Exquisite corpses: art cinema, film studies, and the omnibus film.…”
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Theater of the people spectators and society in ancient Athens / by Roselli, David Kawalko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : theater and people in Athens -- The idea of the audience and its role in the theater -- Space and spectators in the theater -- The economics of the theater : theoric distributions and class divisions -- Noncitizens in the theater -- Women and the theater audience -- Epilogue.…”
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Screening the Marquis de Sade pleasure, pain and the transgressive body in film / by Hallam, Lindsay Anne, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Serial killers -- Cannibals -- The transhuman -- Victims. Women -- Adolescents -- Sexual transgressors. Sadists -- Masochists -- Conclusion.…”
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Sandra Cisneros's woman hollering creek

Table of Contents: “…Images of masculinity -- 4. Images of women : role expectations and conflict.…”
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Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place" / by Cameron, Ardis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : small talk -- The novel truth -- The sheep pen murder -- Scenes of writing -- The other side of writing -- The gendered eye -- Sex talk -- The women of Peyton Place -- Excitable fictions -- Epilogue : memento mori.…”
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