Search Results - "Feministing"

Feminist Narrative Ethics : Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form / by Nash, Katherine Saunders, 1973-

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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism.…”
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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Grand: the new woman as an imperialist feminist -- George Egerton: Nietzschean feminism -- Elizabeth Robins: women's self-determination vs. state control -- Amy Levy: the Anglo-Jewish new woman.…”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman : New Texts, New Contexts /

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel -- Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall -- Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities -- A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure -- To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India / by Sreenivas, Mytheli

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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