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Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how
are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women:
Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to
interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above
fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and
real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been
constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and
treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed
on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the
camera development.
This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book
Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. In Song
Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes
images of women in painting and poetry of China's middle imperial
period, focusing on works that represent female figures as
preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and
literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience,
examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender,
exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and
considering connections between subjectivity and representation.
The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as
simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as
straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire; Blanchard
proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as
political allegories, representations of the artist's or patron's
interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR
THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth
century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living.
The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was
to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour
like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented
forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were
the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages,
queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous,
even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though
they set the pattern for the world to come. In Wayward Lives,
Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman deploys both radical
scholarship and profound literary intelligence to examine the
transformation of intimate life that they instigated. With
visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas,
their defiant brilliance.
Existent literature has identified the existence of some
differences between men and women entrepreneurs in terms of
propensity to innovation, approach to creativity, decision making,
resilience, and co-creation. Without properly examining the current
inequalities in social-economic structures, it is difficult to
examine the results of corporate female leadership. The Handbook of
Research on Women in Management and the Global Labor Market is a
pivotal reference source that examines the point of convergence
among entrepreneurship organizations, relationship, creativity, and
culture from a gender perspective, and researches the relation
between current inequalities in social-economic structures and
organizations in the labor market, education and individual skills,
wages, work performance, promotion, and mobility. While
highlighting topics such as gender gap, woman empowerment, and
gender inequality, this publication is ideally designed for
managers, government officials, policymakers, academicians,
practitioners, and students.
Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for
decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and
across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach
been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and possibly
reinterpret old women-related myths and other taken-for-granted
aspects (e.g., grammatically inclusive gender). Moreover, this
approach can better place the ideologies as myth creators and
propagators, identify and deconstruct stereotypes and prejudices,
and compare them across cultures with the view to spot universal
vs. culturally specific approaches as far as women's studies and
interpretations are concerned. It is important to gather these
perspectives to translate and unveil new interpretations to old
ideas about women and the feminine that are universally accepted as
absolute, impossible to challenge, and invalidated truths. The
Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women
Imagery Across Disciplines is a comprehensive reference book that
provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on
the perception and reception of women across time and space. It
tackles various perspectives: gender studies, linguistic studies,
literature and cultural studies, discourse analysis, philosophy,
anthropology, sociology, etc. Its main objective is to present new
approaches and propose new answers to old questions related to
gender inequalities, stereotypes, and prejudices about women and
their place in the world. Covering significant themes that include
the ethics of embodiment, myth of motherhood at the crossroad of
ideologies, translation of women's experiences and ideas across
cultures, and discourses on women's rehabilitation and
dignification across centuries, this book is critical for
linguists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students
working in the fields of women's studies, gender studies, cultural
studies, and literature, as well as other related categories such
as political studies, education studies, philosophy, and the social
sciences.
In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and
created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a
warning - in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a
room and forbidden to do anything interesting - and she loses her
mind. In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had
been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in 'Why I Wrote
The Yellow Wallpaper', also included in this volume. He was a 'wise
man' who 'put me to bed and applied the rest cure... and sent me
home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as
possible"... and "never to touch pen, brush or pencil again" as
long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some
three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin
that I could see over.' The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting
illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling
Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another
generation of readers.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theatres, dominated opinion pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine, and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership.
Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in.
The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour – of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business – draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale.
In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University,
took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern
Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. ""Miss Margot,"" as
her students called her, would teach at the school for one year.
This book is the memoir she wrote then, published here for the
first time, under her married name. Filled with humor and affection
for her students, Horseback Schoolmarm recounts Liberty's coming of
age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students. Margot's
school was located on the SH Ranch, whose owner needed a way to
retain his hired hands after their children reached school age. Few
teachers wanted to work in such remote and primitive circumstances.
Margot lived alone in a ""teacherage,"" hardly more than a closet
at one end of the schoolhouse. It had electricity but no phone,
plumbing, or running water. She drew water from a well outside. The
nearest house was a half-mile away. Margot had a car, but she had
to park it so far away, she kept her saddle horse, Orphan Annie, in
the schoolyard. Miss Margot started with no experience and no
supplies, but her spunk and inventiveness, along with that of her
seven students, made the school a success. Evocative of Laura
Ingalls Wilder's school-teaching experiences some eighty years
earlier, Horseback Schoolmarm gives readers a firsthand look at an
almost forgotten - yet not so distant - way of life.
The last decade has seen significant changes in global attitudes,
policies and practices that impact the lives of trans people, but
the world of sport has been slow to follow these initiatives.
Contributors to this book document the formidable social-cultural
and legal challenges facing trans athletes, particularly girls and
women, at the global, national, and local levels, in contexts
ranging from school sport to international competition. They
demonstrate how proponents of trans exclusion rely on flawed or
inconclusive science, selectively employed to support their
purported goal of 'protecting women's sport'. Politicians in the
US, UK, and elsewhere who have shown little interest in women or in
sport exploit the issue to advance broader conservative agendas,
while hostile mainstream and social media coverage exacerbates the
problem. Bringing insights from sociology, philosophy, science and
law, contributors present cogent analyses of these developments and
explore the way forward, providing thoughtful and original
recommendations for changes to policies and practices that are
inclusive, innovative and democratic.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750
brings together research on women and gender across the Low
Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the
Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North
and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the
South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight
women's experiences of social class, as family members, before the
law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings
of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from
microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a
remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the
opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations.
Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt
Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der
Stighelen, Margit Thofner, and Diane Wolfthal.
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened
material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the
social and political landscape. "Borders"--defined broadly to
include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural
boundaries--have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over
social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do
contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What
meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and
political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the
strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social
movements confront internal borders based on the differences that
emerge within social change initiatives? Border Politics, edited by
Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these
important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies
situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By
conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and
exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the
complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing
lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn.
This volume notably places right-wing and social justice
initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that
span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through
which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well
as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in
today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub,
Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling,
Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison,
Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David
Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana
Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle
Tellez
Until quite recently, anthologies of English poetry contained very
few poems by women, and histories of English poetry gave little
space to women poets. How should poetry lovers respond? The book
begins by suggesting four possible responses: the conservative,
which claims that women have not written many good poems;
individual recuperation, which salvages some fine poems by women
but without altering the general view of English poetry;
alternative canon, which claims that women do not write the same
kind of poetry as men, so that their work should be judged by
different standards; and cultural recuperation, which claims that
women's poetry is a significant cultural phenomenon, and should be
read and studied without subjecting it to any tests. All these
positions can be defended, and this book has elements of them all.
As the title indicates, this book is about reading women's poems,
rather than forming theories about them: it explores the experience
of reading Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Browning, Christina Rossetti,
Emily Dickinson and many others. Beginning with Katherine Philips,
the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three
centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does
not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to
themselves. In order to discuss adequately the work of those
included, it was necessary to omit many other women poets: the
selection has been made on merit, and to readers who miss some of
their favourite poets the only answer can be that the book does
nothing to discourage reading other poets. Indeed, it is hoped that
the form of discussion of the selected poems will be helpful in
engaging further with women poets of all calibres. Do women write
differently from men? The author assumes no predetermined answer
but is very willing to ask the question; and in order to do so he
frequently compares poems by women with poems by men, not so much
to ask who writes better as to explore similarities and
differences: thus Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is discussed along with
Alexander Pope, Emily Dickinson along with Gerard Manly Hopkins and
Elizabeth Browning along with her husband. Poems by women should be
read, enjoyed, and argued about. They can be related to the time
they were written and first admired, or to our views on women's
history, or to our expectations of what poetry can offer -- but
above all they should be enjoyed. And that is the faith in which
this book is written.
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative
nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his
late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this
discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden
past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his
childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman
who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and
photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious
existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy
during World War II.
As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt
was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the
Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated.
Piecing together fragments of his aunt's remarkable and tragic
story, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving
portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and
a spellbinding slice of history.
This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all
the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters
are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse American
ethnic groups from both the North and South. Through a close
reading of several novels, Babakhani shows how the reinvention of
cultural traditions serves these women writers as a political,
decolonial, and feminist tool. Babakhani situates her readings in a
critique of the concepts of realism and magical realism. Because
magical realism sets realism against magic and implies binary
oppositions, Babakhani proposes "cultural realism" as a revisionary
concept that takes the cultural importance of rituals and beliefs
seriously, without simply dismissing them as superstition.
"Just like Prisoner and Wentworth, this book is an instant cult
classic. Written with love by a collective of expert aca-fans, TV
Transformations & Transgressive Women takes us on a fascinating
journey through the cultural legacies of Australia's favourite
prison TV dramas. Contributors use a rich palette of methods, from
genre analysis to production research, to unpack the significance
of these shows. An exemplary textual study, this richly
multi-perspectival collection is essential reading for anyone
interested in television genres." (Ramon Lobato, Associate
Professor, RMIT University) "This collection is a wonderful example
of how certain TV shows can have tremendous impact, not only in the
time of their making, but for several decades, when suddenly
there's the opportunity to travel even further in an on-demand age
and meet new audiences, academics and analytical approaches. The
chapters offer a wide range of interesting interpretations and
discussions, not the least on the way women have been represented
on screen then and now. A good read for academics, fans and
aca-fans." (Eva Novrup Redvall, Associate Professor, University of
Copenhagen) A deep dive into iconic 1980s Australian
women-in-prison TV drama Prisoner (aka Cell Block H), its
contemporary reimagining as Wentworth, and its broader, global
industry significance and influence, this book brings together a
range of scholarly and industry perspectives, including an
interview with actor Shareena Clanton (Wentworth's Doreen
Anderson). Its chapters draw on talks with producers, screenwriters
and casting; fan voices from the Wentworth twitterverse;
comparisons with Netflix's Orange is the New Black; queer and LGBTQ
approaches; and international production histories and contexts. By
charting a path from Prisoner to Wentworth, the book offers a new
mapping of TV shifts and transformations through the lens of female
transgression, ruminating on the history, currency, industry
position and cultural value of women-in-prison series.
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