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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Women's writings"”.
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… the concept of the grotesque body. Contemporary women's writings still employ similar strategies, though more direct and effective. From the beginning of the twentieth century and through the development of consumer society, more bodies are regarded as "grotesque" but there are also cultural …
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The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature
… construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity through the …
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Black Club Women's Purposes for Establishing Kindergartens in the Progressive Era, 1890-1910
… such as the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACW) records, manuscripts, and Progressive Era newspapers, reveal that black women made tremendous contributions to the movement to meet the educational needs of children and families in their communities and to institutionalize …
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Ultramarooned : gender, empire and narratives of travel in Southern Africa
… in the first half of this study. British women’s travel writings from the nineteenth century are the topic of the second part of the study, as these later texts yield the first important female perspectives on contact. Both subgenres are crucial to formulating a feminist reading of the …
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
… Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings argues that public artistic spaces, which were not exactly a woman’s sphere during the time, became feminized through nineteenth-century women’s writings. By portraying how the affective relationships that female characters form …