Creating Gender In The Garden

Author : Barbara Deutschmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780567704573

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Creating Gender in the Garden by Barbara Deutschmann Pdf

What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Garden of Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Texts from other Hebrew Bible genres build a picture of robust and flexible partnerships within a patriarchal framework. In popular culture, Eve still carries the stench of guilt while Adam, seemingly unscathed by Eden events, remains a positive symbol of manhood. This book helps explain why they have had such different histories. The book also charts the subversive alternate streams of interpretation of women's writings and rabbinic texts. The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates how conceptions of gender in both ancient and modern worlds reflect larger philosophical schemes. Far from existing as timeless verities, female and male relations are constructed according to cultural imperatives of the day. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own twenty-first century gender architecture.

Author : Jennifer Munroe
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754658260

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Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature by Jennifer Munroe Pdf

An investigation into early modern gardens, gender and writing, this study considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here analyzes how writers appropriated the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status.

Author : Jennifer Munroe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351934756

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Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature by Jennifer Munroe Pdf

Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gendering of the garden during the period has gone largely unexamined. This new study focuses on the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status. The first part of the book focuses on how practical gardening books proposed methods for planting as they simultaneously represented gardens increasingly hierarchized by gender. The second part of the book looks at how men and women appropriated aesthetic uses of actual gardening in their poetry, and reveals a parallel gendered tension there. Munroe analyzes garden representations in the writings of such manuals writers as Gervase Markham, Thomas Hill, and William Lawson, and such poets as Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer and Lady Mary Wroth. Investigating gardens, gender and writing, Jennifer Munroe considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. She de-prioritizes the text as a primary means of cultural production, showing instead the relationship between what men and women might imagine possible and represent in their writing, and everyday spatial practices and the spaces men and women occupied and made. In so doing, she also broadens our outlook on whom we can identify and value as producers of early modern social space.

Author : Caroline Blyth,Emily Colgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000929010

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The Routledge Companion to Eve by Caroline Blyth,Emily Colgan Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Eve is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection which explores the history of interpretation that surrounds Eve’s character in both religious writings and cultural texts. The primary themes discussed in the volume include the religious, historical, and cultural ideologies that have influenced interpretations of Eve, as well as the cultural impact of these interpretations on gender identities and injustices. Chapters trace the evolution of Eve’s interpretive history from ancient biblical texts up to the present day. The contributors engage with both traditional modes of inquiry in text-based religious research as well as the newer fields of reception history and cultural criticism to explore the rich history of interpretation and reception surrounding Eve, as well as the cultural and historical impact these interpretations have had on women’s religious and social lives across space and time. The Routledge Companion to Eve is an original and important collection which will equip readers to begin their own explorations of Eve’s extraordinary legacy. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars of Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Gender, Literary Studies, History of Art, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Aimable Twagilimana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732327

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Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition by Aimable Twagilimana Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Home Gardens in Nepal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mona Narain,Karen Gevirtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317130451

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Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660–1820 by Mona Narain,Karen Gevirtz Pdf

Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British literature of the period, this collection defines, charts, and explores new cartographies, both geographic and figurative. The contributors take up a variety of genres and discursive frameworks from this period, including poetry, the early novel, letters, and laboratory notebooks written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn, Hortense Mancini, and Isaac Newton to Frances Burney and Germaine de Staël. Arranged in three groups, Inside, Outside, and Borderlands, the essays conduct targeted literary analysis and explore the changing relationship between gender and different kinds of spaces in the long eighteenth century. In addition, a set of essays on Charlotte Smith’s novels and a set of essays on natural philosophy offer case studies for exploring issues of gender and space within larger fields, such as an author’s oeuvre or a particular discourse. Taken together, the essays demonstrate space’s agency as a complement to historical change as they explore how literature delineates the gendered redefinition, occupation, negotiation, inscription, and creation of new spaces, crucially contributing to the construction of new cartographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.

Author : Lisa Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317186465

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A Taste for Gardening by Lisa Taylor Pdf

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.

Author : Karalina Matskevich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567686183

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Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis by Karalina Matskevich Pdf

Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2–3 and 12–36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' – the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel – is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12–36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other.

Author : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475557299

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Bangladesh by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. Pdf

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. This country document for Bangladesh is being available on the IMF website by agreement of the member country as a service to users of the IMF website.

Author : Benjamin H. Dunning
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780190213398

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The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality by Benjamin H. Dunning Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to the relevant problems, debates, and issues that animate the study of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual difference in early Christianity. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future research trajectories.

Author : Carole Leathwood,Becky Francis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134188628

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Gender and Lifelong Learning by Carole Leathwood,Becky Francis Pdf

This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions addressed include: To what extent can the policy discourses and institutional contexts of lifelong learning be seen as masculinised and/or feminised? What are the gender implications of lifelong learning policy? In what ways are learners’ identities constructed through lifelong learning? Does lifelong learning provide opportunities to challenge or transgress gender binaries? What are the implications for practice?

Author : Cheryl McEwan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351753142

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Gender, Geography and Empire by Cheryl McEwan Pdf

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of the need to write critical histories of geographical thought and, particularly, the relationship between modern geography and European imperialism; and secondly, the attempt by feminist geographers to countervail the absence of women in the histories. The author focuses on the narratives of British women travellers in West Africa between 1840 and 1915, exploring their contributions to British imperial culture, teh ways in which they wer empowered in the imperial context by virtue of both "race" and class, and their various representations of West African landscapes and peoples. The book argues for the inclusion of women and their experiences in histories of geographical thought and explores the possibilities and problems of combining feminist and post-colonial approaches to these histories.

Author : Lisa Maurice,Tovi Bibring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350212848

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Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization by Lisa Maurice,Tovi Bibring Pdf

This volume offers an instructive comparative perspective on the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths about the creation of humans in relation to each other, as well as a broad overview of their enduring relevance in the modern Western world and its conceptions of gender and identity. Taking the idea that the way in which a society regards humanity, and especially the roots of humanity, is crucial to an understanding of that society, it presents the different models for the creation and nature of mankind, and their changing receptions over a range of periods and places. It thereby demonstrates that the myths reflect fundamental continuities, evolutions and developments across cultures and societies: in no context are these more apparent than with regard to gender. Chapters explore the role of gender in Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian creation myths and their reception traditions, demonstrating how perceptions of 'male' and 'female' dating back to antiquity have become embedded in, and significantly influenced, subsequent perceptions of gender roles. Focusing on the figures of Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve and their instantiations in a broad range of narratives and media from antiquity to the present day, they examine how variations on these myths reflect the concerns of the societies producing them and the malleability of the stories as they are recast to fit different contexts and different audiences.

Author : Shannon Dea
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770486287

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Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender by Shannon Dea Pdf

How many sexes are there? What is the relationship between sex and gender? Is gender a product of nature, or nurture, or both? In Beyond the Binary, Shannon Dea addresses these questions and others while introducing readers to evidence and theoretical perspectives from a range of cultures and disciplines, and from sources spanning three millennia. Dea’s pluralistic and historically informed approach offers readers a timely background to current debates about sex and gender in the media, health sciences, and public policy.