Download or read book Unspoken Heroines They Walk Amongst Us written by Hema Srinivas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do: - If you are thrown out of your house with three young daughters in the middle of the night? - If the light of your life is extinguished in a freak moment? Does one give up? What helps you cope? 14 Women, 14 Lives. They are all ordinary women who walk amongst us. These heroines are from different states, income classes, age and social status levels. What struck us in our face-to-face interviews with these protagonists is their fortitude when faced with extreme challenges. We, as authors, were drawn to this conviction. We had to chronicle their battles. 14 ordinary women, 14 unique footprints. What would you do?
Download or read book Unspoken Heroines written by Aparna Shekar, Hema Srinivas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do: – If you are thrown out of your house with three young daughters in the middle of the night? – If the light of your life is extinguished in a freak moment? Does one give up? What helps you cope? 14 Women, 14 Lives. They are all ordinary women who walk amongst us. These heroines are from different states, income classes, age and social status levels. What struck us in our face-to-face interviews with these protagonists is their fortitude when faced with extreme challenges. We, as authors, were drawn to this conviction. We had to chronicle their battles. 14 ordinary women, 14 unique footprints. What would you do?
Download or read book Ordinary Heroines written by Nadya Aisenberg and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unspoken Heroines Depictions of the Maternal in the Works of Frank O Connor Frank McCourt and Edna O Brien written by Caitlin M. Farmer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Frank O'Connor's "Man of the House" and "My Oedipus Complex," Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and Edna O'Brien's "The Country Girls" side-by-side, one sees a vivid illustration of the changing depictions of the mother character within Irish literature. The portrayal of mother characters in these works is significant to the literary representation of the social development of several generations of women within the Republic of Ireland. The depictions of the mother as see in the works of O'Connor, McCourt and O'Brien are also vital to the development of the female presence in literature bot as completely developed characters and as narrators, beginning with the see-but-rarely-heard mother, transitioning to the mother as family-advocate-and-constant, and ending with the sexually-driven-but-repressed mother teaching her daughter to evolve beyond tradition." from abstract
Download or read book The New Heroines written by Katheryn Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century. Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen and young adult female characters—the New Heroines—in popular culture. The book addresses a wide range of examples primarily from the past two decades, with several chapters focusing on a specific heroic figure in popular culture. In addition, the author offers a comparative analysis between the "New Woman" figure from the late 19th and early 20th century and the New Heroine in the 21st century. Readers will understand how representations of teenage girls in fiction and nonfiction are positioned as heroic because of their ability to find out about themselves by connecting with other people, their environment, and technology.
Download or read book Male Domination Female Revolt written by Ishaq Tijani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Marxist-feminist theory, this book examines women’s resistance to, and subversion of, patriarchal authority, as respresented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. It demonstrates that Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women are not as submissive as commonly (mis)represented in academia and the media.
Download or read book The Heroine written by Eaton Stannard Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroines of Sport written by Jennifer Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world: Black women in South Africa; Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian and disabled women from different countries worldwide. It also asks searching questions about colonialism and neo-colonialism in the women's international sport movement. The particular groups of women featured in the book reflect the need to look at specific categories of difference relating to class, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion and sexual orientation. In her account, Jennifer Hargreaves reveals how the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. Based on original research each chapter includes material which relates to significant political and cultural developments. Heroines of Sport will be invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport sociology, and will also be relevant for students working in women's studies and other specialized fields, such as development studies or the politics of Aboriginality, disability, Islam, race and sexuality.
Download or read book Bravo Anjali written by Sheetal Sheth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, especially something she loves. For Anjali, playing the tabla is something that comes naturally--she loves feeling the drum beneath her fingers and getting lost in the music. She doesn't care that some people say it's an instrument for boys. But she does care when her skills make others treat her differently. Anjali starts downplaying her talent, and even messes up on purpose. When her teacher announces a music contest, Anjali can’t deny her dreams of playing the tabla. From actor, author, and activist Sheetal Sheth, this second book in the Anjali series is an important message about never dimming your light.
Download or read book The Forgotten Female Aesthetes written by Talia Schaffer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Better Left Unsaid written by Nora Gilbert and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism is equated with such cultural impulses as repression and prudery, few scholars have explored the Victorian novel as a "censored" commodity—thanks, in large part, to the indirectness and intangibility of England's literary censorship process. This indirection stands in sharp contrast to the explicit, detailed formality of Hollywood's infamous Production Code of 1930. In comparing these two versions of censorship, Nora Gilbert explores the paradoxical effects of prohibitive practices. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.
Download or read book Heroines of Popular Culture written by Pat Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.
Download or read book Strangers Migrants Exiles written by Frauke Reitemeier and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ovidian Heroine as Author written by Laurel Fulkerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book portrays the women of the Heroides as a community of authors. Combining close readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with critical methods, the book argues that the points of similarity between the different letters of the Heroides, so often derided by modern critics, represent a brilliant exploitation of intratextuality, in which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously fashions herself as an alluding author influenced by what she has read within the Heroides. Far from being naive and impotent victims, therefore, the heroines are remarkably astute, if not always successful, at adapting textual strategies that they perceive as useful for attaining their own ends. With this new approach Professor Fulkerson shows that the Heroides articulate a fictional poetic, mirroring contemporary practices of poetic composition.
Download or read book Taking Liberties written by Halina Filipowicz and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation. Taking Liberties is a study of what may be called patriotism without borders: a nonnational form of loyalty compatible with the universal principles and practices of democracy and human rights, respectful of ethnic and cultural diversity, and, overall, open-minded and inclusive. Moving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic literature, Halina Filipowicz turns to the plays themselves and to archival materials, ranging from parliamentary speeches to polemical pamphlets and verse broadsides, to explore the cultural phenomenon of transgressive patriotism and its implications for society in the twenty-first century. In addition to recovering lost or forgotten materials, the author builds an innovative conceptual and methodological framework to make sense of those materials. The result is not only a significant contribution to the debate over the meaning and practice of patriotism, but a masterful intellectual history.
Download or read book Becoming Female written by Clarie Kopp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every woman ought to be filled with shame at the thought that she is woman. -Clement of Alexandria, c. 150-215 The five worst infirmities that afflict the female are indocility, discontent, slan der, jealousy, and silliness .... Such is the stupidity of woman's character, that it is incumbent upon her in every particular, to distrust herself and to obey her husband. -Confucian Marriage Manual Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property; we are not theirs. They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener. What a mad idea to demand equality for women.. . Women are nothing but machines for producing children. -Napoleon Bonaparte The fact of the matter is that the prime responsibility of a woman probably is to be on earth long enough to find the best mate possible for herself, and con ceive children who will improve the species. -Norman Mailer Read these quotes and wonder!! Wonder at the strength, tenacity, and grace of females who have endured outrageous slings and arrows without becoming violent, uncaring, or incapacitated. Sturdy stuff is contained in our double X, preserved and nurtured for other, less dis torted times. The Women in Context series is a reflection of the dawn ing light slowly illuminating woman as unique in some ways, but nei ther less than nor more than man. Surely, our imperfect world can well use all the talents and capabilities that men and women possess.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question written by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy. This study proposes to bring Neera out of the shadows of literary marginality to which she has long been confined by analyzing her contribution to literary and cultural debates as testimony to the pivotal role she played in the creation of a female literary voice within the Italian fin-de-siècle context. Drawing from the Anglo-American feminist critical tradition; modern Italian feminist theory on the maternal order and sexual difference; and a close reading of Neera’s literary, theoretical and epistolary writings this volume examines Neera’s work from a three-pronged perspective: as promoter of a maternal order in contrast to the existent paternal order, as one of few women writers to participate actively in Italy’s verismo movement and as epistolary correspondent of leading representatives within fin-de-siècle Italian literary and journalistic circles. Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question represents the first monographic volume in English dedicated exclusively to this important Italian woman writer, repositioning her within the Italian literary landscape and canon.
