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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Women's writing"”.
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Furious Females: Women's Writing as an Archive of Anger
… social, and academic debates surrounding women’s anger have followed a distinct pattern. On one hand, critics disparage women for writing and speaking in an angry voice, casting them as bitter, irrational, or they assign them the pejorative “angry feminist”. Women often respond to these …
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"Keeping up her geography": Women's writing and geocultural space in early twentieth-century United States literature and culture
… and contested. In chapter one, I focus on how women speakers at the World's Columbian Exposition negotiated their liminal position at the Exposition. Their understanding of the public-private binary is more complex than has been acknowledged and offers theorists new ways of understanding why …
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
In the early modern period, women were discouraged from writing for the public sphere; moreover, the genres of history and romance were particularly unwelcoming to women. In this project, I study four works by women who wrote in these male-dominated genres: Margaret Tyler's The Mirror of Princely …
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Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft
… of an aesthetic of performance among these women poets, paying particular attention to the ways the female body is performed in this work. Finally, I consider the social implications and contexts of such work, exploring the connections between poet and audience, the poetic persona and the …
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"Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction
… analyzing three categories of relationships—women and their fathers or guardians, women and their lovers, and women with other women—this thesis unpacks how women’s agency is stifled by parental relationships, transferred to male lovers, and finally empowered by female intimacy.
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Memory at work : domestic archives in documentary poetry by women of color
… housecleaning, interior design, and recipe-writing, among others, I contend that the way western culture represents these activities contributes to the socialization of women as memory-keepers. For women of color, these modes are often especially undervalued, and underscore the injustice of …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… explores Mary Devenport O'Neill’s (1879-1967) writing in its contemporary aesthetic contexts and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive examination of Devenport’scomplete work. I ask how her writing and artistic status …