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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"women's writing"”.
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Lord Byron and women's writing
Lord Byron’s criticisms of women writers and intellectuals are well known; his chauvinism and scorn for literary rivals have long dominated perceptions of his character and works. However, insufficient critical attention has been given to his connections with influential female authors whom he held …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… the fiction of mid-twentieth-century Irish women writers Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane. Seeking out the ghosts of modern Ireland, I turn to queer ways of reading, paying attention to the marginal and the disavowed. This new reading queers the archive of …
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Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing
… obsession with the past. Examining how southern women writers represent the compulsion to remember, I demonstrate how, in their narratives, efforts to retain intimate relationships with an idealized past obstruct characters' ability to live in the present. Their fiction aligns neatly with the …
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Masculinities in Immigrant Women's Writing in France and Canada
… of masculinities in texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Centring on the premise that the migratory experience creates a form of tabula rasa which destabilizes identity, I chart the various ways in which the texts …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… of mysticism and female mystics incontemporary women's writing, with specific reference to fiction by Michele Roberts,Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's mysticalexperience is seen as …
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Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921
… OF THE DISSERTATION Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable womanhood …
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"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905
… American society encouraged strong bonds between women. As separate sphere ideology took hold, highly-structured female relationships were created and maintained through shared rituals, language, and expectations. The resulting friendships enabled women to build a range of emotional ties with one …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… produce them as lacking, deviant or unnatural women, commensurate with a failed and futile existence. Condemned to endure clichéd representations, non-mothers are all-too often rendered faceless, voiceless and powerless anomalies in a sea of women qua would-be mothers. Further, binary thinking …
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Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center
… and institutional mission is the college writing center at YU's women's campus, Stern College for Women. This study defines rhetorical education as the way an institution authorizes written, spoken, and behavioral communication, with the goal of developing its students as civic beings, …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
In search of an Irish women's literary tradition, this dissertation examines the fiction of Irish women writers from Maria Edgeworth in 1800 to Jennifer Johnston in 1984. Contemporary anthropological, psychoanalytical, and literary theory suggests that women, even those of different cultures, …
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
… The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee imagery, I propose that they actually subvert the societal devaluation of women. The beeswax bodies represent gendered constructions of how women should behave. The characters "melt" these bodies by …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… of men and manhood in novels by five American women published between 1794 and 1878. It demonstrates that despite differences in form, setting, and artistic aim, these novels valorize similarly constituted male characters, the ""new men"" of my title. New men define themselves by affectionate …
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Faith positions: Re -reading gender, race, and Christianity in nineteenth -century American women's writing
… on the texts of four nineteenth-century American women---Jarena Lee, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Frances Harper---to consider the ways in which religious belief, and the narratives shaped by belief, respond to experiences defined by gender and race.</p><p>As Jenny Franchot …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… dissertation analyzes the texts of contemporary women writers who consciously engage dominant Catholic, American, and southern ideologies in their narratives and who posit Louisiana as a liminal, hybrid space. Building upon postcolonial concepts of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, I …
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Flowers for the Book-binder's Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women's Writing
… Giambattista Della Porta’s demonization of women’s menstrual flowers in his books of secrets, Shakespeare’s depiction of the danger of patriarchal sententiae for women, and finally Isabella’s Whitney’s entry into authorship, a venture which captured the early modern opposition between the …
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Bodies That Struggle: A Study of the Use of Illness in Spanish Women's Writing, 1880--1920
"My results show that women involved in the hygiene crusade embraced exercise and dress reform largely because of the social and political freedoms they saw as resulting from these reforms, as well as the benefits to their own health. For the literary section of this study, I focus on three …
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Excavating the landscapes of American literature: Archaeology, antiquarianism, and the landscape in American women's writing, 1820--1890
<p>This dissertation investigates the ways that women writers made use of the discourses of antiquarianism and archaeology between the years 1820 and 1890. Focusing especially upon the writings of Sarah Josepha Hale, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Celia Thaxter, and Constance …
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Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
… on the part of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and American Studies, <italic>Reading Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist literary critical practice and movement that developed alongside black feminist activism beginning in the 1970s. This dissertation addresses the …
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Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England
… the Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England" explores the writing of eighteenth century evangelical lay women in print, poetry, and educational material. Through careful attention to both the content and materiality of their texts I reveal how the …
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"What can our daughters do for a living?": Women's writing on music in the British press, 1880–1914
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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