Writing Women S Worlds

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520256514

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Writing Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation."

Author : Robyn Warhol-Down,Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl,Mary Lou Kete
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 2096 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124078994

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WOMEN'S WORLDS: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing in English Across the Globe by Robyn Warhol-Down,Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl,Mary Lou Kete Pdf

Women’s Worlds, a new anthology of women’s writing, makes available a broad range of women’s voices from across time, across classes, and across the globe in a slimmer, more flexible, and more affordable format. This new anthology includes selections from the 14th through the 21st centuries, from the first text by a woman published in English (Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love) to selections by contemporary writers like Barbara Kingsolver, Alison Bechdel, and Zadie Smith. The selections are drawn from Britain and North America, but also from Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and the Caribbean--wherever English is spoken. While classics of fiction, poetry, and drama are provided, the text also includes essays, song lyrics, letters, diary entries--even excerpts from domestic handbooks and a graphic memoir--to represent the full range of women’s voices. And Cultural Coordinates essays provide insights into customs and costumes from purdah to life before the Pill. To expand the choice of novels instructors wish to assign, McGraw-Hill also offers works from Library of Women's Literature at a discount.

Author : Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134730902

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Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England by Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing Pdf

Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, the book explores women's: * experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood * beliefs and spirituality * political activities * relationships * mental worlds. In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices have left traces in the written record, and deepens our understanding of womens lives in the past.

Author : James Uden
Publisher : Ilex Foundation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674260562

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Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing by James Uden Pdf

Worlds of Knowledge rediscovers the works of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and challenges the frequent focus in travel studies on English-language texts. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, this interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on the range, innovation, and erudition of travel narratives by women.

Author : Marilyn Kallet,Patricia Clark
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015035734238

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Worlds in Our Words by Marilyn Kallet,Patricia Clark Pdf

Encompassing several genres of literary composition, this up-beat, multi-cultural anthology provides an integrated curriculum of contemporary American women writers from diverse backgrounds whose works have recently emerged or made an impact on American literature in the last several decades. Juxtaposing the works of emerging writers with those of American classics, this book comes organized into eight thematic sections - language, family, and multicultural histories, transformation, music/spirituality, work, love, and happiness. It includes a variety of genres in each section - fiction, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama - moving from one to another with ease and a sense of discovery. Presenting an original interview at the end of each section with a distinguished author, it provides clearly and concisely written headnotes for each section. Spanning a broad historical range, from Margaret Walker (1915) to the present day, it includes brief biographies for each author, along with contextual notes for each reading. For professors of American literature and/or women's studies; librarians.

Author : Jennifer Leetsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030677541

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Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing by Jennifer Leetsch Pdf

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.

Author : Enid Dame,Lilly Rivlin,Henny Wenkart
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461632535

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Which Lilith? by Enid Dame,Lilly Rivlin,Henny Wenkart Pdf

Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. Lilith is mentioned in the Talmud, elaborated on in the midrash and in the kabbalah, whispered about in stories, and passed down from mother to daughter. In this anthology, a vivid, provocative, and enlightening sampling of Jewish women's written responses to the Lilith myth are offered. The editors have provided the space for contemporary women to link themselves to a tradition and participate in a sacred activity, thereby infusing energy into Lilith and creating a new tradition.

Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230118812

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Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing by S. Jansen Pdf

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literature
ISBN : 080502932X

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Great Women Writers by Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Recounts the lives and summarizes and evaluates the works of 135 of the world's most important female writers

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520934979

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Writing Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504050937

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The Female Man by Joanna Russ Pdf

Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.

Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191532047

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Reading Early Modern Women's Writing by Paul Salzman Pdf

This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from the time it was produced through to the present day. Salzman's study covers an enormous range of women from all areas of early modern society, and it covers examples of the many and varied genres produced by these women, from plays to prophecies, diaries to poems, autobiographies to philosophy. As well as introducing readers to the wealth of material produced by women in the early modern period, this book examines changing responses to what was written, tracing a history of reception and transmission that amounts to a cultural history of changing taste.

Author : Amy Ling
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003776734

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Between Worlds by Amy Ling Pdf

Author : Mary Spongberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230203075

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Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg Pdf

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.

Author : Leila J. Rupp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691221816

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Worlds of Women by Leila J. Rupp Pdf

Worlds of Women is a groundbreaking exploration of the "first wave" of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War. Making extensive use of archives in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, and France, Leila Rupp examines the histories and accomplishments of three major transnational women's organizations to tell the story of women's struggle to construct a feminist international collective identity. She addresses questions central to the study of women's history--how can women across the world forge bonds, sometimes even through conflict, despite their differences?--and questions central to world history--is internationalism viable and how can its history be written? Rupp focuses on three major organizations that were technically open to all women: the broadly based and cautious International Council of Women, founded in 1888; the feminist International Alliance of Women, originally called the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, founded in 1904; and the vanguard Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, which grew out of the International Congress of Women that met at The Hague in 1915. The histories of these organizations, and their stories of cooperation and competition, shed new light on the international women's movement. They also help us to understand the different but connected story of the second wave of international feminism that emerged from the ashes of World War II.