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| Author | : P.F. Kornicki |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2010-01-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1929280653 |
Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century
| Author | : P.F. Kornicki |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2016-02-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1929280750 |
The Female as Subject presents 11 essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examining what women of different social classes read, what books were produced specifically for women, and the genres in which women themselves chose to write. The authors explore the different types of education women obtained and the levels of literacy they achieved, and they uncover women’s participation in the production of books, magazines, and speeches. The resulting depiction of women as readers and writers is also enhanced by thirty black-and-white illustrations. For too long, women have been largely absent from accounts of cultural production in early modern Japan. By foregrounding women, the essays in this book enable us to rethink what we know about Japanese society during these centuries. The result is a new history of women as readers, writers, and culturally active agents. The Female as Subject is essential reading for all students and teachers of Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods. It also provides valuable comparative data for scholars of the history of literacy and the book in East Asia.
| Author | : Charmaine A. Nelson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2010-06-10 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1136968067 |
This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circulation and the consequences of consumption. She analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. Nelson also explores and problematizes the issue of the historically privileged white artistic access to black female bodies and the limits of representation for these subjects. This book not only reshapes our understanding of the black female representation in Western Art, but also furthers our knowledge about race and how and why it is (re)defined and (re)mobilized at specific times and places throughout history.
| Author | : Mara Patessio |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2011-01-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 192928067X |
Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women’s founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women’s history more generally.
| Author | : Susan M. McKenna |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813216737 |
Susan McKenna presents the innovative narratives of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spain's preeminent nineteenth-century female writer, in Crafting the Female Subject.
| Author | : Andrea Long Chu |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2019-10-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1788737377 |
One of today’s most original thinkers on gender offers a provocative take on the current feminist movement, exploring “desire as the force shaping our identifies, the paradoxes of liberation politics, and her own gender transition” (Bookforum). “[Females] is always smart, sometimes sincere, and unpredictable about when it will pinch your arm or clutch its nails around your heart.” —Vice Everyone is female, and everyone hates it. Females is Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn. She even has a few barbs reserved for feminists like herself. Each step of the way, she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race—men, women, and everyone else. Or maybe she’s just projecting. A thrilling new voice who has been credited with launching the “second wave” of trans studies, Chu shows readers how to write for your life, baring her innermost self with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope.
| Author | : John Stuart Mill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1870 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jennifer Birkett |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Images and categories that have shaped Western women's sense of themselves in the 20th century are looked at in this interdisciplinary collection of essays, which bring together the perspectives of literary criticism, social history, and linguistics. Contributions about the status of women in Canada, France, East Germany, Great Britain, and the U.S. show both the similarity and diversity of women's experience in a world determined by patriarchal assumptions, where women's only hope of change lies in developing a determination of their own. Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Storm Jameson are among the writers whose ambition and authenticity are examined. Contents: Acknowledgement; Introduction, Jennifer Birkett and Elizabeth Harvey; Private Fantasy and Public Intervention: Girls' Reading in Weimar Germany, Elizabeth Harvey; Double Determined: The Ambition of Storm Jameson, Jennifer Birkett; The Negative of a Person: Media, Image and Authenticity in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Stan Smith; A Question of Inheritance: Canadian Women's Short Stories, Coral Ann Howells; Whistling Like a Woman: Alice Walker, Jennifer Birkett; Beyond Paper Heroines: Maxie Wander's Guten Morgen, du Schone and Its Reception in the GDR, Patricia Harbord; Sexism in French: A Case Study, Robin Adamson; The Castration of Cassandra, Helga Geyer-Ryan.
| Author | : Martha Nochimson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780520077713 |
Santa Barbara General Hospital Days of our lives.
