The Female Malady. Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980, Paperback - Elaine Showalter

A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female ...

Reducere. For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provoc...

DescriptionWhen first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies th...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Elaine ShowalterNumber of pages: 296Collection: Persephone ClassicsPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 192 ...

Reducere. When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room...

Reducere. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster--women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely s...

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth BarrettFemale Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposin...

Reducere. The poems in Balancing were inspired by the experiences of women who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the Upper Midwest. ...

Reducere. Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her ...

Reducere. Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publicat...

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Reducere. The author of the hugely successful Why We Buy and The Call of the Mall, reports on the growing importance of women in everybody's marketplace--wha...

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe SandsThe little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.Publisher: HarperCollin...

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteen...

DescriptionThis book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The infl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Publisher: University of Alberta PressNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 244 x 173 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

DescriptionWendy Adele-Marie's study of Nazi women as guards, overseers, and others who worked in the concentration and death camps during the geno...

The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders o...

DescriptionHow to More Effectively Leverage the Leadership Gifts and Abilities of Women in Your Church What would your church look like in the futu...

Biographical essays of women who were significant figures in Irish political life in the twentieth century. These studies recount the lives and wor...

Reducere. The Caregiver's Journey: A Roadmap for Navigating Your PathWhat began as an effort to manage stress through journaling, The Caregiver's Journey chr...

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, ...

Reducere. Women can only get all the things they really want when men know these truths, but women cannot speak these truths because that would violate all t...

In-depth insight into the lives of women convicts in the Victorian era

When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert's home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a G...

The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. This book examines a number of women whos...

Reducere. Women of every culture and society are facing the dilemma of identity. Traditional views of what it means to be a woman and changing cultural and m...

Reducere. DescriptionThis unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed bi...

Progressive women writers discovered unparalleled freedoms and opportunities for intellectual agency in Germany during the long nineteenth century....

Reducere. The "useful and inspiring" (Diane von Furstenberg) guide for female entrepreneurs who want to take their businesses into the big leagues. "Do you h...

DescriptionHalf a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emer...

Reducere. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimké on les...

Written by a respected Christian feminist thinker and activist, Storkey presents a panoramic picture of the scale of the problem backed up with com...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Susanne AlthoffNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 143 x 221 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia,...

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.Publisher: The Uni...

DescriptionIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is...

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...

The Bible includes many stories about women: some well-known, others lesser known; some named, others whose names are not given. In some of these s...

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The first book to explore the lives of pioneering women diplomats and development of equality in the governmentIllustrations: 6 Tables, black and w...

This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and inte...

Fantastic Female Adventurers by Lily Dyu and illustrated by Chellie Carroll is a collection of exciting and inspirational stories about fourteen wo...