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Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing.
Focusing on women's writing of the last two centuries, Scenes of
the Apple traces the intricate relationship between food and body
image for women. Ranging over a variety of genres, including
novels, culinary memoirs, and essays, the contributors explore
works by a diverse group of writers, including Mary Elizabeth
Braddon, Toni Morrison, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Jeanette Winterson,
as well as such nonliterary documents as discussions of Queen
Victoria's appetite and news coverage of suffragettes' hunger
strikes. Moreover, in addressing works by Hispanic, African,
African American, Jewish, and lesbian writers, the book explodes
the myth that only white, privileged, and heterosexual women are
concerned with body image, and shows the many cultural contexts in
which food and cooking are important in women's literature. Above
all, the essays pay tribute to the rich and multiple meanings of
food in women's writing as a symbol for all kinds of
delightful--and transgressive--desires.
As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research, this book examines the reasons why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self-esteem and depression. Through the words of many ordinary women interviewed in the course of the research the authors show vividly what can be learned from the experience of adult survivors of abuse. Most importantly, Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe assesses the factors which can reduce the later impact of such experience on both the children of today and the parents of tomorrow. Always closely in touch with human experience, this book presents research findings which have far-reaching implications not only for parents, but also for social policy makers, social workers and other professionals involved in child protection and welfare.
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As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse
in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering
clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of
systematic research, Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and
abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in
childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low
self-esteem and depression.
Drawing on interviews with over 200 women, the authors show
vividly what can be learned from the experience of adult survivors
of abuse. Most importantly, Wednesday's Child assesses the factors
which can reduce the later impact of such experience on both the
children of today and the parents of tomorrow.
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The Female Face of Shame (Paperback)
Erica L. Johnson, Patricia Moran; Contributions by Anna Rocco, Suzette A Henke, Frann Michel, …
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R649
R592
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The female body, with its history as an object of social
control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding
the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of
20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the
nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame.
It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes
women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around
the world, these essays provide an interdisciplinary and
transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and
powerful articulations of women's shame.
Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of
manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from
schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive
illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and
Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed
were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour,
and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within
the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the
misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White
constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her
strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have
skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her
fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder.
By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the
contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, 'Antonia White
and Manic-Depressive' Illness proposes a new model for reading
White; documents the complex interplay of biological,
psychological, and environmental factors involved in affective
disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's
illness in medical, psychoanalytic, and Catholic contexts.Key
FeaturesRereads Antonia White's writing in the context of
manic-depressive illness and scholarship on narrative identity and
illnessDocuments the ways in which early psychoanalytic theories of
female development impacted White through her Freudian analysis in
the 1930sDocuments how psychoanalysis and Catholicism served as
master narratives or templates for White's stories of self
Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of
manic-depressive illness Misdiagnosed as suffering from
schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive
illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and
Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed
were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour,
and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within
the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the
misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White
constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her
strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have
skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her
fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder.
By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the
contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White
and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading
White; documents the complex interplay of biological,
psychological, and environmental factors involved in affective
disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's
illness in medical, psychoanalytic, and Catholic contexts. Key
Features Rereads Antonia White's writing in the context of
manic-depressive illness and scholarship on narrative identity and
illness Documents the ways in which early psychoanalytic theories
of female development impacted White through her Freudian analysis
in the 1930s Documents how psychoanalysis and Catholicism served as
master narratives or templates for White's stories of self
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Algernon (Paperback)
Patricia Moran; Illustrated by Astara Brynmor; Notes by Marta Moran Bishop
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R154
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Keeping The Upper Paw: A Cat's Guide To Training Your Human, is a
humorous look at life, humans, and living with humans through the
eyes of a cat.
I have reached my autumn years. While I was making the difficult
transition from wife/mother/career woman to
divorcee/grandmother/retiree, I learned many things, mostly by
trial and error. I offer to you the results of my experience, which
might help make your transition positive, meaningful and,
ultimately, joyful.
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The Female Face of Shame (Hardcover)
Erica L. Johnson, Patricia Moran; Contributions by Anna Rocco, Suzette A Henke, Frann Michel, …
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R1,986
R1,700
Discovery Miles 17 000
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The female body, with its history as an object of social
control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding
the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of
20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the
nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame.
It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes
women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around
the world, these essays provide an interdisciplinary and
transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and
powerful articulations of women's shame.
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