Book Description
Exploring the interrelatedness of the poetry of three American women writers
Author : Sabine Sielke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472107889
Exploring the interrelatedness of the poetry of three American women writers
Author : Simidele Dosekun
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252052099
Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class. Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.
Author : Kathryn Laing
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904505204
As part of Pegasos, Kuunsankosken Kaupunginkirjasto of Finland presents a biographical sketch about the Irish writer Edna O'Brien (1932- ). O'Brien has written plays, children's books, essays, screenplays, and nonfiction about Ireland. Some of O'Brien's works include "Country Girls" (1960), "The Love Object" (1968), "Night" (1972), "Mother Ireland" (1976), and "A Fanatic Heart" (1984).
Author : Lesley Wheeler
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572331976
The Poetics of Enclosure provocatively explores interconnections between Dickinson, Moore, H.D., Brooks, Bishop, and Dove in the dual context of their manipulations of the traditional lyric and use of shared images of enclosure ... With frequent reference to male as well as female influences and to poets marginalized by sexuality or race, Wheeler usefully refines what she argues is particular to these poets' shared lyric practices and concerns, and links those concerns to other poetic traditions. --Christianne Miller.
Author : Karen Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 1991-08-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226577090
By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical lens of poststructuralism, Newman reads anatomies, conduct and domesticity handbooks, sermons, homilies, ballads, and court cases to delineate the ideologies of femininity they represented and produced. Arguing that drama, as spectacle, provides a peculiarly useful locus for analyzing the management of femininity, Newman considers the culture of early modern London to reveal how female subjectivity was fashioned and staged in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and others.
Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199584419
In this pioneering study, Antony Augoustakis reconstructs the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature, examining the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood.
Author : Carolyn Mair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317217624
The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image, how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing, and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets, press and media, The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives.
Author : Denise N. Rall
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2022-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781789384611
A critique of the politics of dress for women in power. What is the relationship between fashion, women, and power? As never before, women in positions of political power find themselves facing the maelstroms of mass media regarding both their fashion and their right to govern. In this book, contributors offer a wide set of perspectives on women and their fashions when taking up powerful positions in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as emerging women leaders in Asia. This book questions the relationship between women and dress and interrogates how this conversation informs and articulates how women are viewed when taking up public office. The book critiques the interplays between politics, power, class, race, and social expectations concerning the politics of getting dressed.
Author : Susan B. Kaiser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 1350104698
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text considers fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Kaiser and Green use a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore how race, ethnicity, class, gender and other identities intersect and are produced through embodied fashion. Drawing on intersectionality in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars. This revised edition includes updated case studies and two new chapters. The first new chapter explores religion, spirituality, and faith in relation to style, fashion, and dress. The second offers a critique of “beauty” and considers dressed embodiment inclusive of diverse sizes, shapes and dis/abilities. Throughout the text, Kaiser and Green use a range of examples to interrogate the complex entanglements of production, regulation, distribution, consumption, and subject formation within and through fashion.
Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845451615
Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this collection of essays focuses on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. It emphasizes on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in public life.