Search Results - "Woman"

Prophetic woman : Anne Hutchinson and the problem of dissent in the literature of New England / by Lang, Amy Schrager

What is a woman ? : and other essays / by Moi, Toril

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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The "improper" feminine the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / by Pykett, Lyn

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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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Framed the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / 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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Beyond the Gibson Girl reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 / by Patterson, Martha H., 1966-

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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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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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The Roman mistress ancient and modern representations / by Wyke, Maria

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The coupling convention sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / by DuCille, Ann

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Black internationalist feminism women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / by Higashida, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in the margins: Jean Rhys -- The future in a different shape: broken form and possibility in The golden notebook -- Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple -- Other side, other woman: Lady oracle.…”
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Postnational feminisms postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / by Ahmad, Hena

Table of Contents: “…Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.…”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…"Infection in the sentence : the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship" from The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination (1979) / Sandra M. …”
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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Setting motherhood free -- The thing you are!: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.…”
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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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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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Parcours de femmes twenty years of women in French /

Table of Contents: “…Women's trajectories within the French National Assembly / Manda Green -- Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gisèle Halimi's parcours and the role of her autobiography / Imogen Long -- Trajectories of homeless women in France / Estelle Soudant-Depelchin -- Nomadic trajectories: postfeminism and contemporary women's writing in French / Amaleena Damlé -- An illusory journey: the mermaid's trajectory in Ying Chen's fiction / Gabrielle Parker -- Du dedans au dehors: trajectories of the self in diaries by Annie Ernaux / Elise Hugueny-Léger -- Marie Chaix's trajectory as a writer: the ever present past and the influence of feminism / Nicole Thatcher -- Feminising war experience: representations of the second World War in Québécois historical fiction / Florence Tilch -- Reading Victor Margueritte and Léon Frapié: motherhood, the emancipated woman and female identity / Jurate Kaminskas -- I'm going back where I came from: travels in language and prose in Marie Etienne's Sensò, la guerre and Silvia Baron-Supervielle's Le livre du retour / Dawn M. …”
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