Women category: 49097 books
by Cheryl D. Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Breast cancer is reaching epidemic levels, especially among black women. This survival guide provides tools that women—black women in particular—can use to identify and combat this all-too-common threat.
• Speaks from the perspective of a black woman who has had breast cancer and is also...
Women's Experimental Cinema
Critical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Women’s Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical...
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Constructing Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining...
by Nikki van der Gaag
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Has the battle for women’s rights been won? Not when women still make up 70 percent of the world’s poor. This guide examines the advances that have been made and looks beneath the surface to find out what the reality is for women all around the world. It shows how, in this “post-feminist”...
British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement
Six Literary Voices of Their Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women’s movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September illustrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives...
The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s
Public Affection and Private Affliction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s—Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft—attempt to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform. These writers depict the conjugal family...
Framed
Women in Law and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to condemn these women or exonerate them? What is...
The Matrimonial Trap
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously...
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship
Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
British social reformers Emma Cons (1838–1911) and Lucy Cavendish (1841–1924) broke new ground in their efforts to better the lot of the working poor in London: they hoped to transform these people’s lives through great art, music, high culture, and elite knowledge. Although they did not recognize...
Writing African Women
Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference?
This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics...
Women Writers of Yiddish Literature
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of women writers. However, awareness of women Yiddish writers diminished over the years. Today, a modest body of novels, short stories, poems and essays by Yiddish women may be found in...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Featuring forthright testimonials by women who are or have been mothers as undergraduates, graduate students, academic staff, administrators, and professors, Mothers in Academia intimately portrays the experiences of women at various stages of motherhood while theoretically and empirically considering...