Enlightened Women

Author : Alison Assiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134889037

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Enlightened Women by Alison Assiter Pdf

This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism. Whilst providing a brief and accessible introduction to postmodernist feminist thought, Enlightened Women is also a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy. The first half of the book covers an analysis of some of the most influential postmodernist theorists, such as Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. In the second half Alison Assiter advocates a return to modernism in feminism. She argues, against the current orthodoxy, that there can be a distinction between "sex" and "gender". For students trying to pick their way through the maze of literature in the area of postmodernist feminism, Enlightened Women is a concise guide to contemporary thought - as well as a radical contribution to the debate.

Author : Lin Coughlin,Ellen Wingard,Keith Hollihan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118046803

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Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership by Lin Coughlin,Ellen Wingard,Keith Hollihan Pdf

How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question--and forever changes the traditional notions involving women in leadership. The book features the accumulated wisdom of 40 influential men and women who represent the most compelling voices in the field, including: Dynamic business leaders such as Eileen Fisher (founder, Eileen Fisher, Inc.), Barbara Corcoran (founder and chairman, The Corcoran Group), and Pat Mitchell (president and CEO, PBS) Trailblazing women from other arenas such as politics (Ambassador Swanee Hunt), the military (Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer, USN), and sports (U.S. Olympian Marilyn King) Renowned thought leaders such as Riane Eisler, Rayona Sharpnack, Sally Helgesen, Peggy Klaus, Bruce Patton, Nancy J. Adler, and Gail Evans Leading-edge academics, activists, executives, entrepreneurs, and practitioners

Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520922921

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Women in the Chinese Enlightenment by Zheng Wang Pdf

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change cross-culturally. In this multilayered book, the first-person narratives are complemented by a history of the discursive process and the author's sophisticated intertextual readings. Together, the parts form a fascinating historical portrait of how educated Chinese men and women actively deployed and appropriated ideologies from the West in their pursuit of national salvation and self-emancipation. As Wang demonstrates, feminism was embraced by men as instrumental to China's modernity and by women as pointing to a new way of life.

Author : Kellie V Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578623420

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The Enlightened Woman by Kellie V Hayes Pdf

Being an Enlightened Woman is about embracing the freedom to just "be." The freedom to be completely confident in who you are and who you are becoming in the sacred and significant season of midlife. The midlife rite of passage is a reminder that you are a priceless masterpiece ready to live a life of meaning and fulfillment. There is both madness and magnificence in this season, and if you embrace the opportunity to evolve and expand, you will emerge with the grace to master it all. Dr. Hayes encourages women to rebuild and update their lives to find their joy. In the midlife season and beyond, it's vital that we don't give in to the crisis and chaos that abound when this inevitable transformation overtakes our psyches and bodies. You have two options: retreat from the upheaval or master it. Celebrate this opportunity for a radical reset to transform your midlife narrative. Your life is calling, waiting to be lived. It's time to enjoy the journey and rediscover the joy of being you!

Author : Alison Assiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134889044

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Enlightened Women by Alison Assiter Pdf

Enlightened Women is a concise guide to contemporary thought in postmodernist feminism, analysing some of the most influential postmodern theorists whilst giving a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy.

Author : B. Taylor,S. Knott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230554801

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Women, Gender and Enlightenment by B. Taylor,S. Knott Pdf

Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521773492

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien Pdf

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Author : Margo Goodhand
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630007

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Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists by Margo Goodhand Pdf

In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600. In Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists, journalist Margo Goodhand tracks down the “rogue feminists” whose work forged an underground railway for women and children, weaving their stories into an unforgettable — and until now untold — history. As they lobbied for funding, scrounged for furniture and fended off outraged husbands, these women marked a defining moment in Canadian history, triggering monumental changes in government, schools, courts and law enforcement. But was it enough to stop the cycle of violence? Forty years later, these pioneers describe how and why Canada has lost its ground in the battle for women’s rights.

Author : Margaret Hunt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0866561900

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Women and the Enlightenment by Margaret Hunt Pdf

This examination of previously unexplored aspects of women's roles in the European Enlightenment will enhance yur understanding of the culture and the role played by women.

Author : Karen Lips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Women college students
ISBN : 0578416220

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She's Conservative by Karen Lips Pdf

Author : Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 067440372X

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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes by Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel Pdf

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

Author : Sarah Knott,Barbara Taylor
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 6610632499

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Women, Gender, and Enlightenment by Sarah Knott,Barbara Taylor Pdf

Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. But images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves---as scientists and salonnières, bluestockings and governesses, polemicists and novelists---contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. From Edinburgh to Naples, from Paris to Philadelphia, innovative minds of both sexes challenged conventional assumptions about female nature and entitlements, and imagined new modes of relating between the sexes. Viewpoints competed, with feminists utilizing enlightened principles to argue for women's rights while defenders of masculine privilege developed new rationales for male dominance grounded in Enlightenment science. This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438422343

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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment by Mary Seidman Trouille Pdf

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women readers. By today's standards, Rousseau's sexual politics appear reactionary, paternalistic, even blatantly misogynist; yet, among his female contemporaries, his works often met with enthusiastic approval and had tremendous impact on their values and behavior. To probe Rousseau's paradoxical appeal to eighteenth-century readers, Mary Trouille examines how seven women authors responded to his writings and sexual politics and traces his influence on their lives and works. The writers include six Frenchwomen (Roland, d'Epinay, Stael, Genlis, Gouges, and an anonymous woman correspondent who called herself Henriette) and the English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The book constitutes an important contribution to French literature, women's studies, and eighteenth-century cultural studies. While a great deal has already been written on the individual women whom Trouille treats, what distinguishes this book is that it places multiple female subjects directly opposite Rousseau, and succeeds in showing that the relationship between mentor and student(s) is both multi-layered and fascinatingly complex.

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226817927

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Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment: by Rebecca Cypess Pdf

A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds. In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons—and the women who hosted and made music in them—played a crucial role in shaping their cultural environments. Musical salons served as a testing ground for new styles, genres, and aesthetic ideals, and they acted as a mediating force, bringing together professional musicians and their audiences of patrons, listeners, and performers. For the salonnière, the musical salon offered a space between the public and private spheres that allowed her to exercise cultural agency. In this book, musicologist and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess offers a broad overview of musical salons between 1760 and 1800, placing the figure of the salonnière at its center. Cypess then presents a series of in-depth case studies that meet the salonnière on her own terms. Women such as Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy in Paris, Marianna Martines in Vienna, Sara Levy in Berlin, Angelica Kauffman in Rome, and Elizabeth Graeme in Philadelphia come to life in multidimensional ways. Crucially, Cypess uses performance as a tool for research, and her interpretations draw on her experience with the instruments and performance practices used in eighteenth-century salons. In this accessible, interdisciplinary book, Cypess explores women’s agency and authorship, reason and sentiment, and the roles of performing, collecting, listening, and conversing in the formation of eighteenth-century musical life.

Author : Amanda Strasik
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648895357

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The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth Century by Amanda Strasik Pdf

The rise of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific thought during the long eighteenth century in Europe and North America (c. 1688-1815) sparked artistic and political revolutions, reframed social, gender, and race relations, reshaped attitudes toward children and animals, and reconceptualized womanhood, marriage, and family life. The meaning of “education” at this time was wide-ranging and access to it was divided along lines of gender, class, and race. Learning happened in diverse environments under the tutelage of various teachers, ranging from bourgeois mothers at home, to Spanish clergy, to nature itself. The contributors to this cross-disciplinary volume weave together methods in art history, gender studies, and literary analysis to reexamine “education” in different contexts during the Enlightenment era. They explore the implications of redesigned curricula, educational categorizations and spaces, pedagogical aids and games, the role of religion, and new prospects for visual artists, parents, children, and society at large. Collectively, the authors demonstrate how new learning opportunities transformed familial structures and the socio-political conditions of urban centers in France, Britain, the United States, and Spain. Expanded approaches to education also established new artistic practices and redefined women’s roles in the arts. This volume offers groundbreaking perspectives on education that will appeal to beginning and seasoned humanities scholars alike.