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Inventing Womanhood

Author : Tara Williams
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
ISBN 13 : 9780814211519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Womanhood written by Tara Williams and published by Interventions: New Studies Med. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inventing Womanhood, Tara Williamsinvestigates new ideas about womanhood that arose in fourteenth-century Britain and evolved throughout the fifteenth century. In the aftermath of the plague and the substantial cultural shifts of the late 1300s, female roles expanded temporarily. As a result, the dominant models of maiden, wife, and widow could no longer adequately describe women's roles and lives. Middle English writers responded by experimenting with new ways of representing women across a variety of genres, from courtly poetry to devotional texts and from royal correspondence to cycle plays. In particular, writers coined new terms, including "womanhood" and "femininity," and refashioned others, such as "motherhood." These experiments allowed writers to develop and define a larger idea of womanhood underlying more specific identities like wife or mother and to re-imagine women's relationships to different kinds of authority--generally masculine and frequently religious. By exploring the medieval origins of some of our most important gender vocabulary, Inventing Womanhood defamiliarizes our modern usage, which often treats those terms as etymologically transparent and almost limitlessly capacious. It also restores a necessary historical and linguistic dimension to gender studies, providing the groundwork for reconsidering how that language and the categories it creates have determined the ways in which gender has been imagined since the Middle Ages.

The Invention of Women

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903255
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Women written by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.

Inventing Womanhood

Author : Tara Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814270783
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Womanhood written by Tara Williams and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing Women

Author : Gill Kirkup
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745609782
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Women written by Gill Kirkup and published by Polity. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of women's bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. The book also examines women as producers of science and technology, both as professional scientists and as unskilled workers. It concludes by looking at women as consumers of technology and science - domestic technology and computers - and at their relationship with Nature. Inventing Women raises the question of whether feminism can produce not only a critique of science and technology, but a new feminist science and technology, and the systems and artefacts that go with it. This volume includes contributions which represent some of the best feminist scholarship in their fields. It can be used as a textbook and it will appeal to a wide audience in feminism and women's studies, sociology, education, science and technology, and medicine and health.

Mothers of Invention

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855737
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Invention written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Inventing Herself

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743212924
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Herself written by Elaine Showalter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present. With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of women who possess a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. These women tried to work, travel, think, love, and even die in ways that were ahead of their time. In doing so, they forged an epic history that each generation of adventurous women has rediscovered. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of these women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more. Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom. This is not a history of perfect women, but rather of real women, whose mistakes and even tragedies are instructive and inspiring for women today who are still trying to invent themselves.

Inventing Black Women

Author : Ajuan Maria Mance
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Black Women written by Ajuan Maria Mance and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventing black women fills important gaps in our understanding of how African American women poets have resisted those conventional notions of gender and race that limit the visibility of Black female subjects. The first historical and thematic survey of African American women's poetry, this book examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women since the end of slavery and Reconstruction, as it offers incisive readings of individual works by important poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, and Audre Lorde, as well as many others."--BOOK JACKET.

Girls & Young Women Inventing

Author : Frances A. Karnes
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915793891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Girls & Young Women Inventing written by Frances A. Karnes and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool.

Womanhoods and Equality in the United States

Author : Christen Bryson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003847854
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Womanhoods and Equality in the United States written by Christen Bryson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womanhoods and Equality in the United States explores how the idea of equality has evolved along with the debates that have animated contemporary American women’s history. This book argues that “womanhood” is neither a unified concept nor a monolithic experience but rather a multifaceted notion. This collection thus looks at this plural dimension of womanhood—womanhoods—with a special focus on equality as a common goal. The authors question what equality means depending on many factors such as race, class, sexuality, education, marital or parental status, physical appearance, and political orientation, and address timely issues including abortion rights, Black womanhood, and sexual violence on college campuses. Womanhoods and Equality in the United States is an essential resource for academics and students in gender studies, American sociocultural history, and the sociology of social movements.

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

Author : Ana Saez-Hidalgo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317043030
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower written by Ana Saez-Hidalgo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame Gower’s work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric, theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places: material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author, not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception. "Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on Gower’s trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.

Inventing a Voice

Author : Molly Meijer Wertheimer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742529717
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Voice written by Molly Meijer Wertheimer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and interaction, and visual rhetoric of American first ladies from Ida Saxton McKinley to Laura Bush. The women's rhetorical devices varied--some practiced a rhetoric without words, while others issued press releases, gave speeches, and met with various constituencies. All used interpersonal or social rhetoric to support their husbands' relationships with world leaders, party officials, boosters, and the public. Featuring an extensive introduction and chapter on the 'First Lady as a Site of 'American Womanhood, '' Wertheimer has gathered a collection that includes the post-White House musings of many first ladies, capturing their reflections on public expectations and perceived restrictions on their communication.

Women Invent

Author : Susan Mary Casey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556523173
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Women Invent written by Susan Mary Casey and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses short biographies of women inventors around the world to demonstrate how inventions come about.

Feminine Ingenuity

Author : Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775496
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Feminine Ingenuity written by Anne L. MacDonald and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America.

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Author : Christopher M. Flavin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592732
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition written by Christopher M. Flavin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

Feminine Ingenuity

Author : Anne L. Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Feminine Ingenuity written by Anne L. Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Anne of Bohemia

Author : Kristen L. Geaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579581
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Anne of Bohemia written by Kristen L. Geaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the life of Anne of Bohemia, the first queen of Richard II (1377–1399), and situates her within the context of medieval queenship by arguing that Anne ably fulfilled the political role of the queen consort through her intercession, patronage, and piety. Much previous scholarship on Anne has focused on her relationship with famous poets, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, but from analyzing government documents it becomes clear that Anne used her wealth and status to enact power. Through financial, religious, and cultural patronage, Anne rewarded supporters and servants and influenced court life. The examination of sources such as a letter from Anne to her half brother, and an apothecary bill that contains some fertility medicines suggests that the queen both desired and tried to have children. As such, the volume questions the public imagination of Anne and shows that, in this example, although she died childless, Anne and Richard attempted to have children throughout their marriage. With the inclusion of tables listing Anne’s acts of intercession and her land holdings and land grants, Anne of Bohemia is a useful tool for students and scholars interested in queenship studies, medieval women’s history, and the history of the English monarchy.

Inventing the American Woman: To 1877

Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the American Woman: To 1877 written by Glenda Riley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Glenda Riley portrays the experience of women of all colors and ethnicity in this vibrant history of women in America. A consistent theme in these volumes is the tension between prescribed roles and expectations--the inventing process--and the manner in which women actually thought and felt about their lives and times. The portraits of many women who resisted or simply ignored imposed models of womanhood emerge in dramatic fashion as the author examines women in successsive periods of American history as well as their sometimes subtle, sometimes overt protests against confining stereotypes. Volume One covers from the 1600s to 1877 and tells the truly inclusive story of all types of women and their role in shaping the history of the United States." -- Publisher's description.