Women At The Beginning

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171463

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Women at the Beginning by Patrick J. Geary Pdf

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society. Unlike other books on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the authors of these stories were themselves struggling with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings.

Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Women
ISBN : BL:A0018082063

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Woman's Record; or sketches of all distinguished women, from “the beginning” till A.D. 1850, arranged in four eras. With selections from female writers of every age by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Pdf

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199328338

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American Women's History by Susan Ware Pdf

What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lifeway Church Resources
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1415825904

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Women Reaching Women by Anonim Pdf

Biblical study exploring the account of the building of the tabernacle, the significance of its design, its role in God's eternal plan, the fulfillment of its purpose by Jesus Christ, and its variety of meanings for a personal relationship with God.

Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Women
ISBN : HARVARD:RSM75J

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Woman's Record by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Pdf

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393322576

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

Author : Lynne Attwood
Publisher : Rivers Oram Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029866079

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Red Women on the Silver Screen by Lynne Attwood Pdf

The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to declare women equal to men. At the same time, cinema was emerging as the newest and most accessible form of popular entertainment, and as a powerful tool in propagandizing the Party line. This book looks at the interaction between these two phenomena: at the extent to which women's new status and roles were reflected and promoted on Soviet screens throughout the country's history. Part I, written by Lynne Attwood, provides an essential framework for readers unfamiliar with Soviet studies. It offers a lucid and lively account of the milestones in Soviet history, the importance of film within this history and the changing images and experiences of Soviet women within both cinema and society. In Parts II and III, women from the former Soviet Union - film critics, directors, camera-operators and script-writers - relate their own experiences in the film industry, and their responses to the images of women portrayed on screen. This crisply-written book, illustrated with evocative photographs from Soviet films, will provide readers with a real insight into the relationship between women and film in the Soviet Union.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441171405

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Dictionary of Early American Philosophers by John R. Shook Pdf

The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141192054

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver

Author : Simone Laqua-O'Donnell,Simone Laqua
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199683314

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Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster by Simone Laqua-O'Donnell,Simone Laqua Pdf

The first study of how women from different backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation in early sixteenth-century Münster.

Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443823623

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Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing by Paul Salzman Pdf

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces readers to a number of writers, such as Mirabai and Liu Rushi, who are virtually invisible in Anglophone scholarship, and to writers who remain little known, such as Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Hatton, and Jane Sharpe. The volume also represents critical strategies designed to open up the emergent canon of early modern women’s writing to new approaches, especially those that have consolidated the integration of literary and intellectual history, with an emphasis on religion, legal issues, and questions of genre. The authors expand the methodological possibilities available to approach early modern women who wrote in a diverse number of genres, from letters to poetry, autobiography and prose fiction. The sixteen essays are a major contribution to an area that has attracted the interest of a number of fields, including literary studies, history, cultural studies, and women’s studies.

Author : Sarah Deer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452945736

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The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer Pdf

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. Deer provides a clear historical overview of rape and sex trafficking in North America, paying particular attention to the gendered legacy of colonialism in tribal nations—a truth largely overlooked or minimized by Native and non-Native observers. She faces this legacy directly, articulating strategies for Native communities and tribal nations seeking redress. In a damning critique of federal law that has accommodated rape by destroying tribal legal systems, she describes how tribal self-determination efforts of the twenty-first century can be leveraged to eradicate violence against women. Her work bridges the gap between Indian law and feminist thinking by explaining how intersectional approaches are vital to addressing the rape of Native women. Grounded in historical, cultural, and legal realities, both Native and non-Native, these essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued, left unprotected, and hurt. Deer draws on her extensive experiences in advocacy and activism to present specific, practical recommendations and plans of action for making the world safer for all.

Author : Rebecca M. Wilkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871600

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Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France by Rebecca M. Wilkin Pdf

Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. Rebecca Wilkin focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, and depicts this period as one filled with epistemological anxiety and experimentation. She shows how skeptics, including Montaigne, Marie de Gournay, and Agrippa von Nettesheim, subverted gender hierarchies and/or blurred gender difference as a means of questioning the human capacity to find truth; while "positivists" who strove to establish new standards of truth, for example Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin, and Guillaume du Vair, excluded women from the search for truth. The book constitutes a reevaluation of the legacy of Cartesianism for women, as Wilkin argues that Descartes' opening of the search for truth "even to women" was part of his appropriation of skeptical arguments. This book challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth, their role in the development of rational thought, and the way in which intellectuals of the period dealt with the emergence of an influential female public.

Author : Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Margaret Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462984328

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The Youth of Early Modern Women by Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Margaret Reeves Pdf

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

Author : Karen Casey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592857616

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Each Day a New Beginning by Karen Casey Pdf

With millions of copies sold, these inspirational daily meditations speak to the common experiences, shared struggles, and unique strengths of women in recovery from all addictions. Discover why Each Day a New Beginning has become a classic for recovering women everywhere. Beloved author Karen Casey shares wisdom on spirituality, acceptance, self-esteem, relationships, perfectionism, the importance of connecting with other women, and many other topics essential for continued sobriety and personal growth. These daily meditations begin with quotations from exceptional and diverse women from around the world and end with actionable affirmations for the twenty-four hours ahead. In this perfect companion for AA, NA, and other Twelve Step programs, all recovering women will find messages that inspire them to live their best lives.