New Woman Hybridities

Author : MARGARET BEETHAM,Ann Heilmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134422708

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New Woman Hybridities by MARGARET BEETHAM,Ann Heilmann Pdf

This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks. Individual chapters by international scholars scrutinize the flow of ideas, images, and textual parameters of New Woman discourses in the UK, North America, Europe, and Japan, elucidating the national and ethnic hybridity of the 'modern woman' by locating this figure within both international consumer culture and feminist writing. The volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of American Studies, Women's Studies, and Women's History.

Author : Ann Heilmann,Margaret Beetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415299837

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New Woman Hybridities by Ann Heilmann,Margaret Beetham Pdf

Author : Ann Heilmann,Margaret Beetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 0203683811

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New Woman Hybridities by Ann Heilmann,Margaret Beetham Pdf

Author : A. Heilmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288355

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New Woman Fiction by A. Heilmann Pdf

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

Author : Ann Heilman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719057590

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New Woman Strategies by Ann Heilman Pdf

Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siécle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sarah Grand (1854-1943), Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and Mona Caird (1854-1932). The study explores how each writer drew on, mimicked, feminized and ultimately transformed traditional literary and cultural tropes and paradigms: feminity, allegory and mythology.

Author : Tina O'Toole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349132

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The Irish New Woman by Tina O'Toole Pdf

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.

Author : Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman,Mehdi Ghasemi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000964608

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Engagements with Hybridity in Literature by Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman,Mehdi Ghasemi Pdf

Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating selection of materials and approaches. The book examines the concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, trends, and voices in the field. It critically engages with the theoretical, intellectual, and literary discussions of the concept from the time of colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts from various genres and cultures that open up new perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks, questions, and additional reference materials.

Author : Elizabeth Podnieks
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031089114

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Maternal Modernism by Elizabeth Podnieks Pdf

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.

Author : Charlotte J. Rich
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826266637

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Transcending the New Woman by Charlotte J. Rich Pdf

The dawn of the twentieth century saw the birth of the New Woman, a cultural and literary ideal that replaced Victorian expectations of domesticity with visions of social, political, and economic autonomy. Although such writers as Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin treated these ideals in well-known literature of that era, marginalized women also explored changing gender roles in works that deserve more attention today. This book is the first study to focus solely on multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America, opening up a world of literary texts that provide new insight into the phenomenon. Charlotte Rich reveals how these authors uniquely articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences of both public and private life in the Progressive era. Rich focuses on the work of writers representing five distinct ethnicities: Native Americans S. Alice Callahan and Mourning Dove, African American Pauline Hopkins, Chinese American Sui Sin Far, Mexican American María Cristina Mena, and Jewish American Anzia Yezierska. She shows that some oftheir works contain both affirmative and critical portraits of white New Women; in other cases, while these authorsalign their multiethnic heroines with the new ideals, those ideals are sometimes subordinated to more urgent dialogues about inequality and racial violence. Here are views of women not usually encountered in fiction of this era. Callahan's and Mourning Dove's novels allude to women's rights but ultimately privilege critiques of violence against Native Americans. Hopkins's novels trace an increasingly pessimistic trajectory, drawing cynical conclusions about black women's ability to thrive in a prejudiced society. Mena's magazine portraits of Mexican life present complex critiques of this independent ideal of womanhood. Yezierska's stories question the philanthropy of socially privileged Progressive female reformers with whom immigrant women interact. These writers' works sometimes affirm emerging ideals but in other cases illuminate the iconic New Woman's blindness to her own racial and economic privilege. Through her insightful analysis, Rich presents alternative versions of female autonomy, with characters living outside the mainstream or moving between cultures. Transcending the New Woman offers multiple ways of transcending an ideal that was problematic in its exclusivity, as well as an entrée to forgotten works. It shows how the concept of the New Woman can be seen in newly complex ways when viewed through the writings of authors whose lives often embody the New Woman's emancipatory goals-and whose fictions both affirm and complicateher aspirations.

Author : Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098695

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Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea by Hyaeweol Choi Pdf

“Pathbreaking. Approaches the transcultural and religious encounters of Korean and American women with a remarkable degree of sensitivity and nuance, as well as with judicious use of feminist and postcolonial theory. Its rich and diverse historical examples and illustrations are both engaging to read and meticulously documented.”—Namhee Lee, UCLA

Author : Martha H. Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813542966

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The American New Woman Revisited by Martha H. Patterson Pdf

In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the "New Woman" sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920s, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces. Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman's prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.

Author : Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415517096

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New Women in Colonial Korea by Hyaeweol Choi Pdf

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Author : Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn Oulton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230354265

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Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle by Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn Oulton Pdf

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.

Author : Angelique Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198187009

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Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century by Angelique Richardson Pdf

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.

Author : L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137299574

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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama by L. Bailey McDaniel Pdf

Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.