Saints Sinners And Sisters

Author : Jane Louise Carroll,Alison G. Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0754605892

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Saints, Sinners, and Sisters by Jane Louise Carroll,Alison G. Stewart Pdf

A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience, use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints, ' 'Sinners, ' and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints, ' contributors look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to historians of more than art alone.

Author : JaneL. Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351550277

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"Saints, Sinners, and Sisters " by JaneL. Carroll Pdf

A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience, use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints,' 'Sinners,' and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints,' contributors look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to historians of more than art alone.

Author : HOPE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020747312

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The Saints' Hope and Sinners' Refuge, Or Dialogues Between Two Sisters ... Added to which Will be Found Sacred Poems ... Also, Verses for Tombstones by HOPE. Pdf

Author : Nikki Turner
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622868988

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The Banks Sisters 3 by Nikki Turner Pdf

Just like any dysfunctional family reunion, loyalty, love, and good times soon turn to bitterness, regret, and promises to never see one another again. At the end of the day, the Banks sisters are no different than any other family in the city of Richmond—other than the fact that they are rotten to the core. Sure, the girls are bonded by D.N.A, but they’re also tied together because of their past of robbing banks, extortion, drug dealing, and even cold-blooded murder. However, that bond means absolutely nothing to them. When it comes down to it, it is every sister for herself, even if it means throwing her siblings underneath the bus to avoid the consequences of their many crimes. Sisterly love be damned; this is survival!

Author : Danny Unrau
Publisher : Kindred Productions
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0921788398

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Saints, Sinners & Angels by Danny Unrau Pdf

Author : Peg Herring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944502343

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Sister Saint, Sister Sinner by Peg Herring Pdf

Three sisters whose lives diverged find themselves close again, but the results aren't all good.

Author : Barbara A. White
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300127638

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The Beecher Sisters by Barbara A. White Pdf

A “rich, varied, sensitive” biography of three nineteenth-century women: an educator, an early feminist, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Publishers Weekly). Daughters of the famous evangelist Lyman Beecher, Catherine, Harriet, and Isabella could not follow their father and seven brothers into the ministry. Nonetheless, they carved out path-breaking careers for themselves. Catharine Beecher founded the Hartford Female Seminary and devoted her life to improving women’s education. Harriet Beecher Stowe became world famous as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. And Isabella Beecher Hooker was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights. This engrossing book is a joint biography of the sisters, whose lives spanned the full course of the nineteenth century. The life of Isabella Beecher—who has never been the subject of a biography—is examined in particular detail here, as Barbara White draws on little used sources to explore Isabella’s political development and her interactions with her sisters and with prominent people of the time—from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Mark Twain.

Author : J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307959577

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Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan Pdf

"A ... novel about two sisters--one the matriarch of a boisterous Irish Catholic family, the other a cloistered nun, hidden from the world--and the secret that drove them apart"--

Author : T. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137051790

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Saints, Sinners, Saviors by T. Harris Pdf

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. Instead, strength becomes a problematic trait, at times a disease, in many characters in which it appears. It has a detrimental impact on the relatives and neighbors of such women as well as on the women themselves. The pattern of portraying women characters as strong in African American literature has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

Author : Anne Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317036821

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The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg by Anne Simon Pdf

Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe, ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance, relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study adds a welcome new interdisciplinary perspective to the study of Saint Katherine and the wider ecclesiastical landscape of a medieval Europe poised on the edge of religious change. Taking as a case study the wealthy and politically influential merchant city of Nuremberg, this book draws on a wide variety of textual and visual sources to explore interrelated themes: the shaping of urban space through the cult of Saint Katherine; her role in the moulding and advertising patrician identity and alliances through cultural patronage; and patrician use of the saint to showcase the city's political, economic, cultural and religious importance at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Further , the book reveals the construction of exemplarity in Saint Katherine's legend and miracles and their resonance within the context of the city and the Dominican Convent of Saint Katherine, whose nuns came from the same status-aware, confident patrician elite that so loyally supported successive Emperors. Filling a significant gap in current research, the work has much to offer scholars of medieval history, hagiography, art history, German studies, cultural and urban studies. Hence it not only expands our understanding of Saint Katherine's importance in German-speaking territories, but also adds to the picture of her cult in its European perspective.

Author : Mary Johnson S.N.D. de N.,Patricia Wittberg S.C.,Mary L. Gautier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199316854

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New Generations of Catholic Sisters by Mary Johnson S.N.D. de N.,Patricia Wittberg S.C.,Mary L. Gautier Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the generations of women who entered religious life in the United States after 1965. It provides up-to-date demographics for women's religious institutes; a summary of canon law locating religious life within the various forms of life in the Church; an analysis of Church documents on religious life; and data on the views of post-Vatican II entrants regarding ministry, identity, prayer, spirituality, the vows, and community. Beginning each chapter with an engaging narrative, the authors explore how different generations of Catholic women first became attracted to vowed religious life and what kinds of religious institutes they were seeking. By analyzing the results of extensive national surveys, the authors systematically examine how the new generations of Sisters differ from previous ones, and what those changes suggest about the future. The book concludes with recommendations for further understanding of generations within religious life and within the Church and society. Because of its breadth and depth, this book will be regarded by scholars, the media, and practitioners as an essential resource for the sociological study of religious life for women in the United States.

Author : Karen Baker-Fletcher
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1451412150

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Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit by Karen Baker-Fletcher Pdf

Karen Baker-Fletcher cultivates the earthy potential of black womanism. In her rich prose and poetry, she combines reflection on her own journey with a keen awareness of environmental racism and a constructive religious vision. She seeks to recover and renew the strong historic tie of black and native peoples to the land, often broken by migration and urbanization. And she deftly tills the biblical and literary metaphors of dust and spirit to address the embodiment of God, Spirit, Christ, creation, and humans, seeding a powerful justice-oriented spirituality of creation. Its earnest, reflective character makes this small volume ideal for individual, adult-study, or classroom use - by all who wish to grow closer to the earth and to God.

Author : Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300165418

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Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry Pdf

DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div

Author : Arthur J. DiFuria,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004462069

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Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 by Arthur J. DiFuria,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

Author : Tama Starr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0788161962

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Eves Revenge by Tama Starr Pdf

An anthology of fascinating and often amusing quotations about men by women ranging from St. Catherine of Siena, St. Theresa, Marie de Sevigne, and Mary Wollstonecraft to Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mae West, and Andrea Dworkin; they offer suggestions on what to do about, with, and without men. A magnificent compendium of wise and unwise words and warnings from "the fair sex" about the opposite sex. Offers a valuable source of ammunition in the ongoing battle between the sexes and a keenly hilarious parody of those who long for the day when, the battle won, "men" will be fully under the control of the wiser, more compassionate, more virtuous beings -- women.