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Book Images of Women in Fiction

Download or read book Images of Women in Fiction written by Susan Koppelman Cornillon and published by Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective

Download or read book Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective written by Hilde Hein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A first-rate introduction to the field, accessible to scholars working from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Highly recommended... " -- Choice "... offers both broad theoretical considerations and applications to specific art forms, diverse methodological perspectives, and healthy debate among the contributors.... [an] outstanding volume."Â -- Philosophy and Literature "... this volume represents an eloquent and enlightened attempt to reconceptualize the field of aesthetic theory by encouraging its tendencies toward openness, self-reflexivity and plurality." -- Discourse & Society "All of the authors challenge the traditional notion of a pure and disinterested observer that does not allow for questions of race/ethnicity, class, sexual preference, or gender." -- Signs These essays examine the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributions are unified by a sustained scrutiny of the nature of "feminist," "feminine," or "female" art, creativity, and interpretation.

Book Women s Pictures

Download or read book Women s Pictures written by Annette Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haunting the House of Fiction

Download or read book Haunting the House of Fiction written by Lynette Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Images of Women in Literature

Download or read book Images of Women in Literature written by and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1977 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Women in Literature, Fifth Edition, is an anthology of literature--short fiction, poetry, and drama--by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature.

Book Feminist Literary Criticism

Download or read book Feminist Literary Criticism written by Josephine C. Donovan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.

Book Feminist Ryan Gosling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danielle Henderson
  • Publisher : Running Press Adult
  • Release : 2012-08-14
  • ISBN : 0762447362
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Feminist Ryan Gosling written by Danielle Henderson and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the blog of the same name, a humorous book pairs 120 photos of Ryan Gosling with favorite feminist theories.

Book Fictions of Feminist Ethnography

Download or read book Fictions of Feminist Ethnography written by Kamala Visweswaran and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminist Criticism and Social Change  RLE Feminist Theory

Download or read book Feminist Criticism and Social Change RLE Feminist Theory written by Deborah Rosenfelt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by major feminist scholars, this anthology in effect defines as well as illustrates the materialist-feminist tendency in current literary criticism. The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology, and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other critical discourse, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas. An introduction by the editors situates the collected essays in relation both to one another and to a shared materialist/feminist project. Feminist Criticism and Social Change demonstrates the important contribution of materialist-feminist criticism to our understanding of literature and society, and fulfils a crucial need among those concerned with gender and its relation to criticism.

Book Images of Persephone

Download or read book Images of Persephone written by Elizabeth T. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Persephone resisted fiercely, Hades seized her and carried her off, screaming in shrill voice. Her cries echoed from the mountain peaks to the depths of the sea, and her noble mother Demeter heard her. "This book's originality rests upon its intertextual approach to some of the most powerful archetypes of Western literature. . . . A sample study of women's responses to well-entrenched Western patriarchal values."--Marcelle Maistre Welch, Florida International University "An exemplary model for the intersection of the feminist/literary/archetypal approaches. . . . All the essays [are] informative, well-substantiated, and interesting."--Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern Maine Images of Persephone have appeared in the works of male and female writers for hundreds of years. Because the story of Persephone and Demeter is so moving, embodying archetypes of the "loving and terrible" mother and the rite of passage for women in patriarchal cultures, the myth resonates throughout Western consciousness. These essays explore the myth through critical analysis of literary texts, the authors of which include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Atwood, Cixous, and Morrison. The essays converge at three important areas of study: the feminist/cultural, the archetypal, and the literary/textual. They explore women's relationships and experiences within patriarchal cultures that range from Homer's classical Greece to Cixous's postmodern France, from Chaucer's England to Alice Walker's contemporary America. Contents The Persephone Myth in Western Literature, by Elizabeth T. Hayes Chaucer's Use of the Proserpina Myth in "The Knight's Tale" and "The Merchant's Tale," by Marta Powell Harley "Like an Old Tale Still": Paulina, "Triple Hecate," and the Persephone Myth in The Winter's Tale by Janet S. Wolf Sexual and Artistic Politics under Louis XIV: The Persephone Myth in Quinault and Lully's Proserpine, by Michele Vialet and Buford Norman The Persephone Myth in Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales, by Laura Laffrado Through the Golden Gate: Madness and the Persephone Myth in Gertrude Atherton's "The Foghorn," by Melissa McFarland Pennell "Lost" Girls: D. H. Lawrence's Versions of Persephone, by Virginia Hyde Ghosts of Themselves: The Demeter Women in Beckett, by Mary A. Doll Dark Persephone and Margaret Atwood's Procedures for Underground, by Eileen Gregory From Persephone to Demeter: A Feminist Experience in Cixous's Fiction, by Martine Motard-Noar "Like seeing you buried": Persephone in The Bluest Eye, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Color Purple, by Elizabeth T. Hayes Elizabeth T. Hayes is assistant professor of English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, and has published in The Southern Literary Journal.

Book Woman s Embodied Self

Download or read book Woman s Embodied Self written by Joan C. Chrisler and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using various psychological theories, this book examines women's complex relations with their bodies and how attitudes toward the body affect women's sense of self. It also suggests ways to achieve a positive embodied self

Book Images of Women in Fiction  Feminist Perspectives

Download or read book Images of Women in Fiction Feminist Perspectives written by Susan Koppelman Cornillon (Comp) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Afterimages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Mulvey
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 178914163X
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Afterimages written by Laura Mulvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its title, Afterimages, alludes to the dislocation of time that runs through many of the films and works it discusses as well as to the way we view them. Beginning with a section on the theme of woman as spectacle, a shift in focus leads to films from across the globe, directed by women and about women, all adopting radical cinematic strategies. Mulvey goes on to consider moving image works made for art galleries, arguing that the aesthetics of cinema have persisted into this environment. Structured in three main parts, Afterimages also features an appendix of ten frequently asked questions on her classic feminist essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in which Mulvey addresses questions of spectatorship, autonomy, and identity that are crucial to our era today.

Book Engendering Human Security

Download or read book Engendering Human Security written by Saskia Wieringa and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Feminism Is for Everybody

Download or read book Feminism Is for Everybody written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

Book Hood Feminism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mikki Kendall
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-02-25
  • ISBN : 0525560556
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Hood Feminism written by Mikki Kendall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic “One of the most important books of the current moment.”—Time “A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.”—Gabrielle Union, author of We’re Going to Need More Wine A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on reproductive rights, politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.

Book Beyond Feminist Aesthetics

Download or read book Beyond Feminist Aesthetics written by Rita Felski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.