Search Results - "Woman"

From virile woman to womanChrist studies in medieval religion and literature / by Newman, Barbara, 1953-

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Proving woman female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages / by Elliott, Dyan, 1954-

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Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / by Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952-

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Reading the Irish Woman : Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714–1960 / by Meaney, Gerardine, 1962-, Whelan, Bernadette, O'Dowd, Mary

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The cultural identity of seventeenth-century woman a reader /

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Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century : The Woman in the Mirror / by Powell, Morgan, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Mutations of the reading woman -- Reading as Mary did -- Constructing the woman's mirror -- Seeking the reader/ viewer of the St. …”
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From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace the 1851 travel diary of a working-class woman / by Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens

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Whether a Christian woman should be educated and other writings from her intellectual circle by Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678

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Unmarriages women, men, and sexual unions in the Middle Ages / by Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957-

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The Youth of Early Modern Women / by Reeves, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…'A Prospect of Flowers'; Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture; Margaret Reeves; 2. A Roving Woman; The Rover, Part I and Hellena's Self-Creation of Youth; Sarah Morris; 3. …”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Liaisons dangereuses sex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great / by Lindemann, Mary

Table of Contents: “…-- A most difficult case -- A very diplomatic affair -- Dramatis personae -- Entr'acte -- A brave and upright cavalier? -- A woman of pleasure -- A real Polish prince, a fake Italian count, and an authentic Spanish hidalgo.…”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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Transatlantic Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Todd -- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert -- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay -- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith -- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno -- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross -- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster -- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. …”
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Historical Anthology of Music by Women /

Table of Contents: “…Kassia / by Diane Touliatos-Banker -- "Augustus, the Monarch," Byzantine chant -- "The Fallen Woman," Byzantine chant -- Hildegard von Bingen / by Barbara Jean Jeskalian -- "De Sancta Maria," chant sequence -- "In Evangelium," chant antiphon -- "Kyrie," mass ordinary chant -- Countess of Dia / by Beverly J. …”
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