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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
We are living a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars,
culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed
tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the
Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of Spanish
patrimony. Yet even with this widespread global attention, we know
little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for
demonstrating Spain's modernity and, in relation, the roles
ascribed to the modern Spanish women responsible for daily cooking.
Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in
multiple genres and media. Women's Work places these efforts in
their historical context to yield a better understanding of the
roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process.
Further, the book reveals the paradoxical messages women have
navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their
domestic and work lives. This argument is significant because of
the degree to which domestic activities, including cooking,
occupied women's daily lives, even while issues like their fitness
as citizens and participation in the public sphere were hotly
debated. At the same time, progressive intellectuals from diverse
backgrounds began to invoke Spanish cooking and eating as one
measure of Spanish modernity. Women's Work shows how culinary
writing engaged these debates and reached women at the site of much
of their daily labor-the kitchen-and, in this way, shaped their
thinking about their roles in modernizing Spain.
Women's London is the only guidebook that focuses on the women who
have shaped London through the centuries and the legacy they have
left behind. This new book provides the perfect opportunity to
explore sights, statues, plaques and buildings associated with
famous and some not so famous women who have left their mark on
London's heritage, culture and society. Their stories include
scientists and suffragettes, reformers and royals, military and
medical pioneers, authors and artists, fashion and female firsts
... and more. The author, a popular London tour guide and lecturer,
specialises in women's history and has provided a series of
original self-guided walking tours taking you to historic areas
where important women lived, worked and are commemorated.
Illustrated with new full-colour photography and specially
commissioned maps, Women's London will inspire visitors and
Londoners alike to discover how much London owes to women.
Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory
Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis,
Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites As
the golden age of children's literature dawned in America in the
mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a work that many
scholars view as one of the first realistic novels for young
people, soon became a classic. Never out of print, Alcott's tale of
four sisters growing up in nineteenth-century New England has been
published in more than fifty countries around the world. Over the
century and a half since its publication, the novel has grown into
a cherished book for girls and boys alike. Readers as diverse as
Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith,
and J. K. Rowling have declared it a favorite. Little Women at 150,
a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research
and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate
Alcott's reputation in the academic community, examines anew the
enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad
complexities of Alcott's most famous work. Examining key issues
about philanthropy, class, feminism, Marxism, Transcendentalism,
canon formation, domestic labor, marriage, and Australian
literature, Little Women at 150 presents new perspectives on one of
the United States' most enduring novels. A historical and critical
introduction discusses the creation and publication of the novel,
briefly traces the scholarly critical response, and demonstrates
how these new essays show us that Little Women and its
illustrations still have riches to reveal to its readers in the
twenty-first century.
Almost all economies have, or are at least starting to, understand
the significance of examining and mainstreaming gender issues in
the world of work. Sociocultural evolution and various other
factors have helped these developments, but there is still so much
more work to be done. Technology has played a substantial role in
decreasing the gender divide as more households than ever before
have access to technology, and the revolution of access to
information across most societies has become gender neutral and
empowering. While technology can hold the potential to
significantly expand the job market and open opportunities for all
job seekers, questions surrounding automation and availability of
jobs and the accessibility to secure the necessary qualifications
and education needed to fill paid jobs rage on, especially when
examining those who are typically marginalized. Gender Perspectives
on Industry 4.0 and the Impact of Technology on Mainstreaming
Female Employment discusses gender perspective and its impact on
the fourth industrial revolution, particularly in the realm of
employment structure, and analyzes the impact of technology on
mainstreaming women in paid employment. In the present environment,
organizations are beginning to realize the importance of looking
more critically at their workforce and structure and how to better
cater to the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement while also
productively managing the advancement of new technologies. Covering
topics such as sustainable development and the future of work, it
is ideal for policymakers, practitioners, professionals,
consultants, managers, researchers, academicians, educators, and
students.
Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year
1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive
intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany,
history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place
in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many
talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to
fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In
this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the
places and social constellations that enabled Smith's learning and
adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her
transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the
United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith's fascinating
life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon
reveals a larger narrative about women's efforts to enact learned
and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations
inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast
as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike,
McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel
explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in
which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque
tourism, celebrity culture, and women's literary productions,
McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly
exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before
we are no longer surprised?"
In this groundbreaking book, based on in-depth ethnographic
research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli brings
to light the little known, and often marginalized, lives of female
Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Her
book offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in
India today, exploring a phenomenon she terms vernacular
asceticism. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices
of primarily "unlettered" female sadhus who come from a variety of
castes, Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that the female sadhus
whom DeNapoli knew experience asceticism in relational and
celebratory ways and construct their lives as paths of singing to
God. While the sadhus have combined ritual initiation with
institutionalized and orthodox orders of asceticism, they also draw
on the non-orthodox traditions of the medieval devotional
poet-saints of North India to create a form of asceticism that
synthesizes multiple and competing world views. DeNapoli suggests
that in the vernacular asceticism of the sadhus, singing to God
serves as the female way of being an ascetic. As women who have
escaped the dominant societal expectations of marriage and
housework, female sadhus are unusual because they devote themselves
to a way of life traditionally reserved for men in Indian society.
Female sadhus are simultaneously respected and distrusted for
transgressing normative gender roles in order to dedicate
themselves to a life of singing to the divine. Real Sadhus Sing to
God is the first book-length study to explore the ways in which
female sadhus perform and, thus, create gendered views of
asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text
practices, which DeNapoli characterizes as the sadhus' "rhetoric of
renunciation." The book also examines the relationship between
asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary
contexts. It brings together two disparate fields of study in
religious scholarship-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-through use of the
orienting metaphor of singing bhajans (devotional songs) to
understand vernacular asceticism in contemporary India.
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