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Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England

Author : Betty Travitsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231100403
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England written by Betty Travitsky and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how the theory and practice of international relations produces and sustains masculine identities and masculine rivalries. This volume asserts that international politics shapes multiple masculinities rather than one static masculinity, positing an interplay between a "hegemonic masculinity" (associated with elite, western male power) and other subordinated, feminized masculinities (typically associated with poor men, nonwestern men, men of color, and/or gay men). Employing feminist analyses to confront gender-biased stereotyping in various fields of international political theory -- including academic scholarship, journals, and popular literature like The Economist-- Hooper reconstructs the nexus of international relations and gender politics during this age of globalization.

Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England

Author : Betty Travitsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231100410
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England written by Betty Travitsky and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of Renaissance writing, which equally represents men and women authors, designed to encourage students to be more aware of gender as a significant category of thought and perception.

'This Double Voice'

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349628883
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book 'This Double Voice' written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

Women & History

Author : Valerie Frith
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Women & History written by Valerie Frith and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through private letters and journals, published memoirs and reflections, trial transcripts and court depositions, Women and History illuminates the world of 17th- and 18th-century English women.

Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England

Author : Michele Osherow
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754666745
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England by : Michele Osherow

Download or read book Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England written by Michele Osherow and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to bear a commanding knowledge of Hebrew Scripture, Osherow presents a series of case studies of biblical heroines who engage in poetry and in song. The author investigates how the cultural requirement for feminine silence informs early modern readings of these biblical characters, and furthermore, how they were used to counteract cultural constraints on women's speech. The book's chapters focus on Miriam, Hannah, Deborah, and a feminized King David.

Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England

Author : Michele Osherow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195539X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England by : Michele Osherow

Download or read book Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England written by Michele Osherow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England documents the extent to which portrayals of women writers, rulers, and leaders in the Hebrew Bible scripted the lives of women in early modern England. Attending to a broad range of writing by Protestant men and women, including John Donne, Mary Sidney, John Milton, Rachel Speght, and Aemilia Lanyer, the author investigates how the cultural requirement for feminine silence informs early modern readings of biblical women's stories, and furthermore, how these biblical characters were used to counteract cultural constraints on women's speech. Bringing to bear a commanding knowledge of Hebrew Scripture, Michele Osherow presents a series of case studies on biblical heroines, juxtaposing Old Testament stories with early modern writers and texts. The case studies include an investigation of references to Miriam in Lady Mary Sidney's psalm translations; an unpacking of comparisons between Deborah and Elizabeth I; and, importantly, a consideration of the feminization of King David through analysis of his appropriation as a model for early modern women in writings by both male and female authors. In deciphering the abundance of biblical characters, citations, and allusions in early modern texts, Osherow simultaneously demonstrates how biblical stories of powerful women challenged the Renaissance notion that women should be silent, and explores the complexities and contradictions surrounding early modern women, their speech, and their power.

Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Author : Leslie C. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317130472
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Song in Early Modern England written by Leslie C. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

Voice in Motion

Author : Gina Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201310
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Voice in Motion written by Gina Bloom and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas about the efficacy of spoken communication spring from an understanding of the voice's materiality. Voices can be cracked by the bodies that produce them, scattered by winds when transmitted as breath through their acoustic environment, stopped by clogged ears meant to receive them, and displaced by echoic resonances. The early modern theater underscored the voice's volatility through the use of pubescent boy actors, whose vocal organs were especially vulnerable to malfunction. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marston, and their contemporaries alongside a wide range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts—including anatomy books, acoustic science treatises, Protestant sermons, music manuals, and even translations of Ovid—Bloom maintains that cultural representations and theatrical enactments of the voice as "unruly matter" undermined early modern hierarchies of gender. The uncontrollable physical voice creates anxiety for men, whose masculinity is contingent on their capacity to discipline their voices and the voices of their subordinates. By contrast, for women the voice is most effective not when it is owned and mastered but when it is relinquished to the environment beyond. There, the voice's fragile material form assumes its full destabilizing potential and becomes a surprising source of female power. Indeed, Bloom goes further to query the boundary between the production and reception of vocal sound, suggesting provocatively that it is through active listening, not just speaking, that women on and off the stage reshape their world. Bringing together performance theory, theater history, theories of embodiment, and sound studies, this book makes a significant contribution to gender studies and feminist theory by challenging traditional conceptions of the links among voice, body, and self.

The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110897776
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.

'This Double Voice'

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349628902
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book 'This Double Voice' written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700

Author : James Daybell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187232X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 by : James Daybell

Download or read book Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 written by James Daybell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The chapters embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic and gender based. They deal with a variety of issues related to female intervention within political spheres, including women's rhetorical, persuasive and communicative skills; the production by women of a range of texts that can be termed 'political'; the politicization of marital, family and kinship networks; and female involvement in patronage and court politics. Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-700 also looks at ways in which images of female power and authority were represented within canonical texts, such as Shakespeare's plays and Milton's epic poetry. The volume extends the range of areas and texts for the study of women, gender and politics, and locates women's political, social and cultural activities within the contexts of the family, locality and wider national stage. It argues for a blurring of the boundaries between the traditional categories of the 'public' and the 'private,' the 'domestic' and the 'political'; and enhances our understanding of the ways in which women exerted political force through informal, intimate and personal, as well as more official, and formal channels of power. As a whole the book makes an important contribution to the reassessment of early modern politics from the perspective of women.

Reading Early Modern Women

Author : Helen Ostovich
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415966467
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Reading Early Modern Women written by Helen Ostovich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals an unprecedented view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England

Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing

Author : Lara Dodds
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220420
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing written by Lara Dodds and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women’s writing by exploring women’s debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women’s texts.

Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered

Author : Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226505499
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered by : Lucrezia Marinella

Download or read book Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered written by Lucrezia Marinella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04). Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella’s other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.

Early Modern English Lives

Author : Ronald Bedford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351942409
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern English Lives written by Ronald Bedford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals, travel journals, accounts of warfare, incidental meditations on the nature of time, death and self-reflection, as well as life stories themselves: these are just some of the texts that allow us to address the social and historical conditions that influenced early modern self-writing. The texts explored in Early Modern English Lives do not automatically speak to our familiar patterns of introspection and self-inquiry. Often formal, highly metaphorical and emotionally restrained, they are very different in both tone and purpose from the autobiographies that crowd bookshelves today. Does the lack of emotional description suggest that complex emotions themselves, in all the depth and variety that we now understand (and expect of) them, are a relatively modern phenomenon? This is one of the questions addressed by Early Modern English Lives. The authors bring to our attention the kinds of rhetorical and generic features of early modern self-representation that can help us to appreciate people living four hundred years ago as the complicated, composite figures they were: people whose expression of identity involved an elaborate interplay of roles and discourses, and for whom the notion of privacy itself was a wholly different phenomenon.

Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ

Author : Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226864901
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ written by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name to a reception unequaled by any other German woman during her lifetime. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina’s works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century. For this volume, Lynne Tatlock translates for the first time into English three of the thirty-six meditations, restoring Catharina to her rightful place in print. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ—including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb—and in Scripture in general. Tatlock’s selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina’s devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history.

Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Simone Chess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317360850
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature by : Simone Chess

Download or read book Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature written by Simone Chess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.