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DIVArgues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life./div
Author : Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822328933
DIVArgues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life./div
Author : Monika Elbert
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0817357793
Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Civil War experience. Rather than privileging particular genres or certain well-known writers, the contributors examine writings ranging from novels and poetry to autobiography, utopian fiction, and essays. And they consider familiar figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside such lesser-known writers as Melusina Fay Peirce, Susie King Taylor, and Mary Gove Nichols. Each essay revises the binary notions that have been ascribed to males and females, such as public and private, rational and intuitive, political and domestic, violent and passive. Although they do not deny the existence of separate spheres, the contributors show the boundary between them to be much more blurred than has been assumed until now.
Author : Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
DIVArgues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life./div
Author : Marjanne Elaine Goozé
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9783039110186
This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated, interrogated, and challenged the gender ideology of separate spheres through their advocacy and representations of female Bildung. The term Bildung encompasses an individual's entire moral, spiritual, behavioral, emotional, political and intellectual development. The contributors analyze works of fiction, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, the periodical press, and conduct and cookbooks from the mid-1700s to circa 1900 that confront the separate spheres paradigm and promote women's educational and personal development. They examine women's writing and reading practices, moral and gender philosophies, political activism, and work from the home to the stage and factory. Most writers did not repudiate outright existing gender models, but both subtly and overtly subverted and reinterpreted them. In all the texts, the process of female education leads to an assertion of agency. The writers came from different social classes and professional backgrounds, ranging from noblewomen to working-class autobiographers of the later nineteenth century. This volume will be of interest to German cultural, literary, and historical scholars, as well as to those concerned with the development of European feminism, women's education and autobiography.
Author : Jaime Osterman Alves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1135842469
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that the emergence of schoolgirl culture in nineteenth-century America presented significant challenges to subsequent constructions of normative femininity. The trope of the adolescent schoolgirl was a carrier of shifting cultural anxieties about how formal education would disrupt the customary maid-wife-mother cycle and turn young females off to prevailing gender roles. By tracing the figure of the schoolgirl at crossroads between educational and other institutions - in texts written by and about girls from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds - this book transcends the limitations of "separate spheres" inquiry and enriches our understanding of how girls negotiated complex gender roles in the nineteenth century.
Author : Dr David Greven
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409469921
Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire, Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ‘gender protest’ in the writings of Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Greven shows, antebellum authors took up the taboo subjects of same-sex desire and female sexuality and were adept in their use of a variety of rhetorical means for expressing the inexpressible.
Author : R. Schur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230101720
This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism. Moving between novels, music, and visual culture, the essays present race as a significant factor within legal discourse. Essays examine rights and sovereignty, violence and the law, and cultural ownership through the lens of African American culture. The volume argues that law must understand the effects of particular decisions and doctrines on African American life and culture and explores the ways in which African American cultural production has been largely centered on a critique of law.
Author : Natalie Dykstra
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618873856
A revelatory life of Clover Adams, casting a lens on her iconic marriage to historian Henry Adams and her fatal embrace of photography in her last months.
Author : Susanne Auflitsch
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN :
During the first half of the 20th century approximately 10,000 short plays were written in the United States. This book examines twenty one-act plays by authors such as Mary Shaw, Susan Glaspell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote from such diverse backgrounds as women's clubs, art theaters, or commercial theaters. This study argues that the plays share a structural organization along spatial dichotomies of theatrical space within and theatrical space without. While some writers use the underlying structure of separate spheres and organize place and space in order to promote a broader definition of «domesticity», the spatial configurations in other plays are read as appropriations, affirmations, negotiations, subversions, or transgressions of the separate spheres dichotomy. Substantial bibliographies documenting the productivity of the one-act genre supplement this study.
Author : Mahadev Govind Ranade (Rao Bahadur)
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 1915
Category : India
ISBN :