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This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a
variety of "bad girls"-women who challenge, refuse, or transgress
the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them-in television,
popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century
to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction
of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the
introduction of transgressive women. From the beginning, for good
or ill, women have been depicted as insubordinate. Today's popular
manifestations include such widely known figures as Lisbeth
Salander (the "girl with the dragon tattoo"), The Walking Dead's
Michonne, and the queen bees of teen television series. While the
existence and prominence of transgressive women has continued
uninterrupted, however, attitudes towards them have varied
considerably. It is those attitudes that are explored in this
collection. At the same time, these essays place
feminist/postfeminist analysis in a larger context, entering into
ongoing debates about power, equality, sexuality, and gender.
This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a
variety of "bad girls"-women who challenge, refuse, or transgress
the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them-in television,
popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century
to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction
of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the
introduction of transgressive women. From the beginning, for good
or ill, women have been depicted as insubordinate. Today's popular
manifestations include such widely known figures as Lisbeth
Salander (the "girl with the dragon tattoo"), The Walking Dead's
Michonne, and the queen bees of teen television series. While the
existence and prominence of transgressive women has continued
uninterrupted, however, attitudes towards them have varied
considerably. It is those attitudes that are explored in this
collection. At the same time, these essays place
feminist/postfeminist analysis in a larger context, entering into
ongoing debates about power, equality, sexuality, and gender.
Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women
reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the
reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century
and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some
Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their
religious and gender identities.
Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women
reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the
reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century
and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some
Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their
religious and gender identities.
On December 27, 1934, the American scholar Hope Emily Allen
announced in The Times the reappearance of a late medieval
manuscript called The Book of Margery Kempe. Perilous Passages: The
Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934 explores the various paths by
which this late medieval manuscript made its way out of a monastery
in Yorkshire during Henry VIII's religious reformation to the home
of a family of deep English and Catholic roots in the twentieth
century. Julie A. Chappell reveals new evidence that implicates the
Carthusians as conscious preservers of this manuscript between 1534
and 1537 and significantly furthers our understanding of the ways
in which the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman
turned mystic and visionary, was interpreted. Most importantly,
this fascinating study bridges the gaps in our understanding of the
transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.
This study will significantly further our interpretations of the
unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and
visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery
through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of
the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.
Julie Chappell wields her metaphors like a rapier, cutting to the
quick our cultural constructs with her insight, wit and words. Her
foreword aptly describes the work of this collection: "Like
Nature's faultlines and their shifting boundaries, social
constructions of gender, class, belief systems, ad infinitum,
create faultlines and shift the boundaries of life, splitting it
open, changing destinies, eroding lives, in the capricious and
violent whims of human nature. The whims come to light in the
depths of the crevasses, fissures, rifts, and abysses of real and
imagined shifting boundaries."
Writing Texas is an anthology of some of the best current fiction,
poetry, and nonfiction by Texas professors of creative writing and
their top students.
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