Civilized Women

Author : Mary H. Moran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015017009971

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Civilized Women by Mary H. Moran Pdf

Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia. Like other Liberians, the Glebo people make a social distinction between western-educated wage-earners, or "civilized people," and traditional subsistence agriculturists, or "natives." The civilized-native dichotomy splits the Glebo community and Liberian society in general, in contrast to other West African nations, where ethnicity or regionalism provides important markers of personal identity.Through a close analysis of the local history of male labor migration, contact with African-American settlers, and the influence of Protestant Episcopal missionaries, Mary H. Moran shows how the Glebo have incorporated the civilized/native dichotomy into other systems of prestige allocation based on gender and age, capturing the poignant nature of "civilized" and traditional roles for women.

Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322542

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Jane Austen's Civilized Women by Enit Karafili Steiner Pdf

Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.

Author : Mary Moran
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501724701

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Civilized Women by Mary Moran Pdf

Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia. Like other Liberians, the Glebo people make a social distinction between western-educated wage-earners, or "civilized people," and traditional subsistence agriculturists, or "natives." The civilized-native dichotomy splits the Glebo community and Liberian society in general, in contrast to other West African nations, where ethnicity or regionalism provides important markers of personal identity.Through a close analysis of the local history of male labor migration, contact with African-American settlers, and the influence of Protestant Episcopal missionaries, Mary H. Moran shows how the Glebo have incorporated the civilized/native dichotomy into other systems of prestige allocation based on gender and age, capturing the poignant nature of "civilized" and traditional roles for women.

Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322535

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Jane Austen's Civilized Women by Enit Karafili Steiner Pdf

Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.

Author : Winifred Holtby
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038744111

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Women and a Changing Civilization by Winifred Holtby Pdf

Author : Thomas Low Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004531083

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Woman, in All Ages and Nations by Thomas Low Nichols Pdf

Author : Gail Bederman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226041490

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Manliness & Civilization by Gail Bederman Pdf

When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced. Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, Gail Bederman demonstrates, was part of two fundamental and volatile national obsessions: manhood and racial dominance. In turn-of-the-century America, cultural ideals of manhood changed profoundly, as Victorian notions of self-restrained, moral manliness were challenged by ideals of an aggressive, overtly sexualized masculinity. Bederman traces this shift in values and shows how it brought together two seemingly contradictory ideals: the unfettered virility of racially "primitive" men and the refined superiority of "civilized" white men. Focusing on the lives and works of four very different Americans—Theodore Roosevelt, educator G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—she illuminates the ideological, cultural, and social interests these ideals came to serve.

Author : Susi Wyss
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429971973

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The Civilized World by Susi Wyss Pdf

A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women—two of them haunted by a shared tragedy—whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways When Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hopes that one day she'll return home to open a beauty parlor. Her dream comes true, though not before she suffers a devastating loss—one that will haunt her for years, and one that also deeply affects Janice, an American aid worker who no longer feels she has a place to call home. But the bustling Precious Brother Salon is not just the "cleanest, friendliest, and most welcoming in the city." It's also where locals catch up on their gossip; where Comfort, an imperious busybody, can complain about her American daughter-in-law, Linda; and where Adjoa can get a fresh start on life—or so she thinks, until Janice moves to Ghana and unexpectedly stumbles upon the salon. At once deeply moving and utterly charming, The Civilized World follows five women as they face meddling mothers-in-law, unfaithful partners, and the lingering aftereffects of racism, only to learn that their cultural differences are outweighed by their common bond as women. With vibrant prose, Susi Wyss explores what it means to need forgiveness—and what it means to forgive.

Author : Susan Fulop Kepner
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781630418182

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A Civilized Woman by Susan Fulop Kepner Pdf

Boonlua Debyasuvarn was born to a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed, but participated in, the great events of her century. She was talented, intelligent, and determined to make her own place in the world beyond Thewet Palace, her family home. After the 1932 overthrow of the absolute monarchy, M.L. Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree. As an official in the Ministry of Education, she worked tirelessly to improve education within the kingdom and represent Thailand at international education conferences. She was a greatly respected teacher of literature and was much cherished for her charm, wit, and eminently quotable remarks. Her essays on literature became the foundation of modern Thai literary criticism and her novels are now recognized as unique social histories of the times in which she lived. Lucid and sensitive, this engaging biography documents Boonlua’s life within the context of her society and the enormous changes her country was going through in her lifetime. What Others Are Saying “An intimate view of an extraordinary life. M.L. Boonlua’s passage from precocious child of an aristocratic lineage under the absolute monarchy to fiery debater in the liberal explosion after 1973 cuts across the social upheavals of twentieth-century Thailand. Susan Kepner succeeds in conveying the sheer complexity of her life, resulting in not only a fine biography and literary appreciation but also a unique essay in social history.”—Chris Baker, historian and writer, co-translator of The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen “This is not only an excellent biography of a unique Siamese lady, but it is also a wonderful social history of Siam from the reign of Rama VI to the end of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the subtleties of Thai culture and the delicacies of personal interaction should not fail to read this book.”—S. Sivaraksa, a Thai public intellectual

Author : Elizabeth Miller Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000481909

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Women in Western Civilization by Elizabeth Miller Walsh Pdf

Author : William C. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037066417

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Woman, Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World by William C. King Pdf

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226721279

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Civilization without Sexes by Mary Louise Roberts Pdf

In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.

Author : Noriko Kawamura Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135936198

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American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909 by Noriko Kawamura Ishii Pdf

This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103087037

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The Medical Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katherine L. French,Allyson M. Poska
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Women
ISBN : 0618246258

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Women and Gender by Katherine L. French,Allyson M. Poska Pdf

[This book] is a survey of women's history in Western Civilization from the earliest days of human experience to the present. It examines women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities and provides balanced coverage of political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The text focuses on five major themes: the relationship between historical events and ideas and women's lives; the history of the family and sexuality; the social construction of gender; the differences between cultural ideas about women and the lives of actual women; women's perceptions of themselves and their roles.-Back cover.