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Through extensive interviews, investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers in the university. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gesa Kirsch
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1993-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809318709
Through extensive interviews, investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers in the university. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gesa Kirsch
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1993-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809390841
Women Writing the Academy is based on an extensive interview study by Gesa E. Kirsch that investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers in the university. Kirsch’s study focuses on the writing strategies of successful women writers, their ways of establishing authority, and the kinds of audiences they address in different disciplinary settings. Based on multiple interviews with thirty-five women from five different disciplines (anthropology, education, history, nursing, and psychology) and four academic ranks (seniors, graduate students, and faculty before and after tenure), this is the first book to systematically explore the academic context in which women write and publish. While there are many studies in literary criticism on women as writers of fiction, there has not been parallel scholarship on women as writers of professional discourse, be it inside or outside the academy. Through her research, for example, Kirsch found that women were less likely than their male counterparts to think of their work as sufficiently significant to write up and submit for publication, tended to hold on to their work longer than men before sending it out, and were less likely than men to revise and resubmit manuscripts that had been initially rejected. This book is significant in that it investigates a new area of research— gender and writing—and in doing so brings together findings on audience, authority, and gender.
Author : Elizabeth Langland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226468755
Essays examine the impact of women's studies on scholarship in fields, includ American history, political science, economics, literary criticism, and psychology.
Author : Sekile Nzinga-Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 9781927335024
Author : Maggie Doherty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525434607
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Author : Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN :
My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book.
Author : Emily A. Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Christian literature
ISBN : 9781602583764
Women's theology has traditionally been pushed to the margins; it is "spirituality" or "mysticism" rather than theology proper. Theology from women has been transmitted orally, recorded by men as sayings or in hagiographies, or passed on as "stealth theology" in poems, hymns, or practices. In the past forty years, women have claimed theology for themselves and others as womanists, feminists, mujeristas, Asian, third-world, disabled, and queer women. Yet in most academic and ecclesial theology, the contributions of women skirt the borders of the written tradition. This unique volume asks about the conditions of women writing theology. How have women historically justified their writing practices? What internal and external constraints shape their capacity to write? What counts as theology, and who qualifies as a theologian? And what does it mean for women to enter a tradition that has been based, in part, on their exclusion? These essays explore such questions through historical investigations, theoretical analyses, and contemporary constructions.
Author : Mary Pierce Brosmer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9781933495187
Now in its second edition, APIL Guide to RTA Liability is written by a team of specialist personal injury (PI) lawyers and provides detailed practical guidance on every aspect of UK road traffic accident (RTA) liability. Thoroughly updated, the book is broken down into 26 accessible chapters, each focusing on a particular aspect of RTA liability, including coverage of: claims made in the UK arising from foreign accidents * the new EC directive consolidating all old RTA directives * pedestrians run down when drunk * failure to wear a seat belt * the definition of a motor vehicle * a new section containing draft model pleadings. Contents include: incidence of RTA claims in England and Wales * general principles of liability * low velocity crashes * liability for learner drivers * owner's liability * passenger's liability * driver's liability (speed and braking, overtaking, turning and side roads, traffic lights, road sign, and roundabouts) * bicyclist's liability * motor cyclist's liability * emergency vehicle's liability * pedestrian's liability * liability of children and schools * local authority liability * roadside neighbor's liability * liability for injuries caused by animals * liability for spillages and obstructions on the highway * public service vehicles * accidents abroad * insurer's liability * motor insurer bureau's liability * precedents.
Author : Hero Chalmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0199273278
Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender.
Author : Maria Marotti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271041250