Gender And American Culture Ser

Author : Jean M. Lutes,Jennifer Travis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108805506

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Gender in American Literature and Culture by Jean M. Lutes,Jennifer Travis Pdf

Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003227910

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Uncertain Terms by Faye D. Ginsburg,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Pdf

Author : Dorri Beam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139489232

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Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by Dorri Beam Pdf

In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.

Author : Tara L. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151654997X

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Gender and Popular Culture by Tara L. Ward Pdf

Gender and Popular Culture: A Visual Study presents students with a thought-provoking and contemporary collection of readings that question, and even undermine, key binary dichotomies present in Western culture. The readings address three long-standing and pervasive dichotomies: male-female, intellectual-popular, and text-image. Students are encouraged to consider and reconsider cultural classifications, what or who is left out, mismatched, or forced into these groups, and what power differentials exist between them. The collection provides readers with a series of critical tools that allow them to critically examine the ways in which gender functions in contemporary Western, and especially American, culture. The anthology begins with a series of essays that present key theories and provide essential context. Later sections address stereotypes and tropes, the representation of women in media and culture, theories regarding single gender cultures, race and representation, the concept of space in relation to gender, attitudes toward sex, parenting, reactions to feminism, and more. Designed to elicit thoughtful self-reflection and the development of new perspectives, Gender and Popular Culture is a valuable text for courses in popular culture, gender studies, and women's studies. Tara L. Ward holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. She is a lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, where she teaches courses in gender and popular culture, as well as the history and theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture. Dr. Ward's research interests include the French avant-garde, questions of abstraction, and gender issues.

Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469620405

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Toward an Intellectual History of Women by Linda K. Kerber Pdf

As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women's history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber's essential contribution to the field is made clear. In this volume is gathered some of Kerber's finest work. Ten essays address the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in intellectual and cultural history, and explore the rhetoric of historiography. In the chronological arrangement of the pieces, she starts by including women in the history of the Revolutionary era, then makes the transforming discovery that gender is her central subject, the key to understanding the social relation of the sexes and the cultural discourse of an age. From that fundamental insight follows Kerber's sophisticated contributions to the intellectual history of women. Prefaced with an eloquent and personal introduction, an account of the formative and feminist influences in the author's ongoing education, these writings illustrate the evolution of a vital field of inquiry and trace the intellectual development of one of its leading scholars.

Author : Estelle B. Freedman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807830314

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Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics by Estelle B. Freedman Pdf

One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which schol

Author : Maureen E. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315464954

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Lifestyle Media in American Culture by Maureen E. Ryan Pdf

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and self-improvement genres, from newspaper columns to design blogs. Drawing on the methodologies of cultural studies and feminist media studies, and built upon a series of case studies from newspapers, books, television programs, and blogs, it tracks the emergence of lifestyle’s discursive formation and shows its relevance in contemporary media culture. It is, in the broadest sense, about the role played by the explosion of lifestyle media texts in changing conceptualizations of selfhood and domestic life.

Author : M. Alison Kibler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807876053

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Rank Ladies by M. Alison Kibler Pdf

A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist--all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. Kibler focuses on the role of gender in struggles over whether high or low culture would reign in vaudeville, examining women's performances and careers in vaudeville, their status in the expanding vaudeville audience, and their activity in the vaudevillians' labor union. Respectable women were a key to vaudeville's success, she says, as entrepreneurs drew women into audiences that had previously been dominated by working-class men and recruited female artists as performers. But although theater managers publicly celebrated the cultural uplift of vaudeville and its popularity among women, in reality their houses were often hostile both to female performers and to female patrons and home to women who challenged conventional understandings of respectable behavior. Once a sign of vaudeville's refinement, Kibler says, women became associated with the decay of vaudeville and were implicated in broader attacks on mass culture as well.

Author : LuElla D'Amico
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498517645

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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture by LuElla D'Amico Pdf

This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books’ messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.

Author : Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052941

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Dressed for Freedom by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox Pdf

Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness. A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.

Author : Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521255791

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Penelope's Web by Susan Stanford Friedman Pdf

Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.'s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown dramatically; but she also deserves to be known for her innovative novels and essays.

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0879727365

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Nancy Drew and Company by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Nine critical essays contribute to the accelerating academic investigation into girls' fiction as mechanics of gender formation in the 20th century. Among the series they discuss are Ann of Green Gables, Isabel Carleton, Linda Lane, Betsy-Tacy, and several focusing on automobiles, as well as Nancy herself. They also consider Girl Scouts and related organizations and books furthering the effort of World War II. No personal recollections are included. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Albert L. Hurtado
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0826319548

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Intimate Frontiers by Albert L. Hurtado Pdf

Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.

Author : Christy Rishoi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791486887

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From Girl to Woman by Christy Rishoi Pdf

From Girl to Woman examines the coming-of-age narratives of a diverse group of American women writers, including Annie Dillard, Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Mary McCarthy, and explores the crucial role of such narratives in the development of American feminism. Women have long known that identity is complex and contradictory, but in the twentieth century their coming-of-age narratives finally voice this knowledge. Addressing a variety of themes—awakening sexuality, the body's metamorphosis in puberty, consciousness of difference from males, and the socialization into feminine gender roles—these narratives reject the heroine's narrative ending in romance, allowing American women writers to create alternative subjectivities by rejecting the notion that identity is ever fixed. While activists have succeeded in winning legal battles that have changed the legal status of women, these narratives perform the cultural work of exposing the painful contradictions faced by women as they come of age.

Author : Katherine M. Marino
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469649702

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Feminism for the Americas by Katherine M. Marino Pdf

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines. Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action.