The Impregnable Women

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448203451

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The Impregnable Women by Eric Linklater Pdf

The Next Great War begins, and soon all Europe is involved. The war lasts a year - and then the women, robbed of husbands and sweethearts and sons, grow doubtful of the benefits of military policy, and begin to think that victory will come too late to do them any good. But what can they do? A remedy was discovered by Aristophanes about 2350 years ago. It is re-discovered and re-applied. And it is again successful. This is an Aristophanic comedy, and takes some Aristophanic liberties. It is satirical when the author pleases and when he cares to be serious he is very serious indeed. There is no monotony. The story shifts from realism to wild burlesque; from earnest appeal to uproarious extravagance. The final scenes are in Edinburgh. Aristophanes made his insurgent women seize the Acropolis - here they take possession of Edinburgh Castle, as tall an eminence, and hold it against the infuriated men. The fight for the Castle is the culminating incident in a vigorous and many-sided novel.

Author : Karen Schneider
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813161341

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Loving Arms by Karen Schneider Pdf

Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II. Evoking the famous "St. Crispin's Day" speech from Henry V and then her own father's account of being moved to tears on V-J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far-reaching potency. She admits -- perhaps for all of us -- that such stories "had powerfully shaped my consciousness in ways I could not completely resist." How a story is narrated and by whom are matters of no small importance. As widely defined and accepted, war stories are men's stories. If we are to hear an "other" story of war, then we must listen to the stories women tell. Many of the war stories written by women insist that war is not the condition of men but rather the condition of humanity, beginning with relations between the sexes. For the five women whose work is examined in Loving Arms -- Stevie Smith, Katharine Burdekin, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Doris Lessing -- this latter point was particularly relevant. Their positions as women within a patriarchal, militarist culture that was externally threatened by an overtly fascist one led to an acute ambivalence, says Schneider. Though all five women perceived the war from substantially different perspectives, each in her own way exposed and critiqued the seductive power of war and war stories, with their densely interwoven tropes of masculinity and nationalism. Yet these writers' conflicting impulses of loyalty to England and resistance to the war betray their ambivalence. Loving Arms will interest students of twentieth-century British literature and culture, gender studies, and narratology. Even today, we maintain an unabated love affair with the war story. But unless we listen to what the women had to say fifty years ago, we are doomed to hear only "the same old story."

Author : May Wright Sewall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women
ISBN : UOM:39015004865377

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The World's Congress of Representative Women by May Wright Sewall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women
ISBN : MINN:31951001543183X

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The World's Congress of Representative Women by Anonim Pdf

Author : Association for the Advancement of Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Women
ISBN : UIUC:30112044145545

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Papers Read at the ... Congress of Women by Association for the Advancement of Women Pdf

Author : Otto Rothfeld
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732672561

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Women of India by Otto Rothfeld Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Women of India by Otto Rothfeld

Author : Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Jane Addams,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Susan B. Anthony,Alice Stone Blackwell,Matilda Gage
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5773 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547764304

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The Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. by Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Jane Addams,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Susan B. Anthony,Alice Stone Blackwell,Matilda Gage Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Suffrage Movement collection. The history of suffrage movements is produced by women's suffrage leaders: the Great Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper. It presents the complete history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. This edition presents the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. In addition to the remarkable history this collection is enriched with the biographies of the most influential figures of American movement for women's suffrage: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul.

Author : Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351944717

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Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women's Employment in Europe by Birgit Pfau-Effinger Pdf

This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000. Cross-national differences are explained with a focus on cultural change and the development of welfare state, labour markets, the family and social movements. It is evident that change took place along different development paths that were based on deep-rooted historical differences in the cultural ideals of the family. Such historical differences and their explanations also form part of the analysis. The results of this survey contribute to the further development of cross-national sociology on social change, social and gender inequality, welfare state, labour markets and family structures.

Author : Susan B. Anthony,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 6441 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788026875093

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History of Women's Marches – The Political Battle of Suffragettes (Complete 6 Volume Edition) by Susan B. Anthony,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper Pdf

Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Know your history and learn how to continue the fight. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Stanton. Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist and an abolitionist. Ida H. Harper (1851–1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author, journalist and biographer of Susan B. Anthony.

Author : Sarah Bilston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191556769

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The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 by Sarah Bilston Pdf

This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's 'awakening' to disaffected consciousness. The book thus both historicises the evolution and mythic appeal of the female adolescent and works to receive suggestive exchanges between apparently diverse female literary traditions.

Author : Lindsey Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134138777

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Arab, Muslim, Woman by Lindsey Moore Pdf

Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience? Lindsey Moore’s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and ‘multicultural’ paradigms. She provides an accessible but theoretically-informed analysis by foregrounding tropes of vision, visibility and voice; post-nationalist melancholia and mother/daughter narratives; transformations of ‘homes and harems’; and border crossings in time, space, language, and media. In doing so, Moore moves beyond notions of speaking or looking ‘back’ to encompass a diverse feminist poetics and politics and to emphasize ethical forms of representation and reception. Aran, Muslim, Woman is distinctive in the eclectic body of work that it brings together. Discussing Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, and Tunisia, as well as postcolonial Europe, Moore argues for better integration of Arab Muslim contexts in the postcolonial canon. In a book for readers interested in women's studies, history, literature, and visual media, we encounter work by Assia Djebar, Mona Hatoum, Fatima Mernissi, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Nawal el Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Moufida Tlatli, Fadwa Tuqan, and many other women.

Author : Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547021865

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The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy Pdf

The Priest, the Woman, & the Confessional is a look at women's role in confessionals. It takes a look at different ideas within the church, served by a former Roman Catholic priest.

Author : Madhuparna Gupta.
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781482845860

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Women, Power and Leadership: by Madhuparna Gupta. Pdf

The author is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chandernagore Government College, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jadavpur University in 2014 and is a Gold medallist in her M.A. programme from the same university. She has also served as an instructor of German language at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata and translated several English and Bengali texts and songs into German language. Her areas of interest include: international politics, defence and strategic studies, comparative politics and international law. Since the Second World War, there have been very few women politicians to have come to lead their nations and dominate the world politics. Out of them, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir are regarded as powerful women leaders of the world. These three Premiers were the first and only women leaders to have assumed political leadership in their respective countries till date. They were universally recognised as Iron Ladies because of their command and control over their respective governments, their conviction mindset and their capability to transform and implement their visions and ideas into practical policies. They were surrounded by male colleagues and there was hardly any woman in their respective Cabinets or governments; nor did they portray themselves as representatives of womenfolk. Also, their policies bore no reflection of women-friendly approaches; neither were they supporters of womens rights, nor did they encourage womens participation in politics or promote womens empowerment. They were successful in maintaining domestic peace and resisted external aggressions with strong hands, for which, they were universally recognised as tough leaders and were personified with their respective countries as well. This book intends to look at their electoral politics, modes of functioning and the power-sharing patterns, makes a comparative study of the nature of their leadership, along with the personal and institutional factors in their access to power, mitigating domestic discontents as well as their individual roles in the Indo Pak War of 1971, the Falklands Island dispute of 1982 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820360898

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Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction by Chitra Sankaran Pdf

In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Author : Denise DeCaires Narain
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415340608

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Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry by Denise DeCaires Narain Pdf

This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves.