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This book offers an in-depth analysis as to how and why women have
been widely associated with madness since ancient times. The first
part of the book comprises a historical survey of various
perceptions of madness across the centuries, while the second part
of the book covers a wide selection of literary works by American
and English writers who dealt with this subject in their works. In
this part of the book, the authors examine selected works of
literature from a feminist perspective by also drawing on the works
of influential theorists of feminist criticism. The authors further
show how these writers, who have been influenced by various
philosophers and theoreticians, critically examine women's madness
in their fiction.
While social structures and relations effect how we give meaning to
spaces, our comprehension of spaces effects how we give meaning to
what is social. We wanted to look into how women stroll through
spaces, what roles and functions they undertake, how they give
meaning to their engagement with spaces, and how, with their
existence, they become one with spaces. We started this journey
looking for clues as to how women, as they played their parts,
re-interpreted those scripts written by sovereign powers, how they
became stars, how they transformed limitations into the limitless,
and how they created rich lives out of deprivation. We aimed to
take up what kind of an intermediary role 'space' serves, while
women stretched their limits - without objection, screaming, or
revolting; how, in various forms, they have positioned themselves
in spaces and re-defined their being, and how spaces in this
journey served as an interface be-tween society's perception of
women versus their self-perception and their lives.
The book is a collection of memoirs related to Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk. The recollections of 27 people who met Ataturk in person
reflect the environment in which they grew up. The accounts of
their childhood during the founding period of the Turkish Republic
provide a wealth of information enabling historians to reconstruct
how the perception of Ataturk was transformed during a time of
profound political change.
For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest
sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society,
it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of
society. The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss demonstrated
in his seminal essay "The Elementary Structures of Kinship" that
human society relies on the exchange of women by men. But women are
not only the passive object of this trade among men. They also try
and often succeed in trading goods, ideas, and changing their
subject position by getting the upper hand in this crucial
exchange. Little attention has been given to genderizing the
connection between trade and the British Enlightenment and to its
subsequent influence on women's history and/or literary or visual
representations of women by women or men. The contributors in this
collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects,
as subversive women trading in spite of cultural and social
stereotypes, and as women empowered in the cultural, political, and
social trade.
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