Trovati 68 documenti.
Trovati 68 documenti.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001
Abstract: This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, Andre Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Woman at war / Dacia Maraini ; translated from the Italian by Mara Benetti & Elspeth Spottiswood.
New York : Italica Press, 1988, c1981.
United States : Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2005.
Abstract: Memoirs of a Geisha tells the story of a young girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold to an okiya, a geisha house by her family. Her new family then sends her off to school to become a geisha. This movie is mainly about older Chiyo and her struggle as a geisha to find love, in the process making a lot of enemies.
Women writing the West Indies, 1804-1939 : "a hot place, belonging to us" / Evelyn O'Callaghan.
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction / Sue Kossew.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 10
Women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation / edited by Katharina M. Wilson.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987.
2nd ed.
New York : W.W. Norton, c1994.
Abstract: First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul, " this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses "The Awakening," Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite, " "sensitive, " and "iridescent." This edition of "The Awakening" also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. <p>"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.</p>
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg.
1st Ballantine Books mass market ed.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2000, c1987.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992.
Singer from the sea / Sheri S. Tepper.
1st ed.
New York : Avon Eos, c1999.
The good women of China : hidden voices / Xinran ; translated by Esther Tyldesley.
London : Vintage, 2013.
Abstract: For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of political turmoil had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories. This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the women's voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Their stories changed Xinran's understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.
Bloodchild and other stories / Octavia E. Butler.
2nd ed.
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2005.
Abstract: Bloodchild and Other Stories is renowned author Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work and features the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories "Bloodchild" and "Speech Sounds." These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. Butler proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature's strongest voices.
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c1994.
Versions of virginity in late medieval England / Sarah Salih.
Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2001.
Abstract: This study examines what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and it may be considered as a gendered identity.
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Penguin classics
New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Abstract: This volume explores the usefulness of the virgin ideal for widows, wives, and women in religion, and presents a book-length study of women writers in England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Women's writing in Middle English / edited by Alexandra Barratt.
New York : Longman, 1992.
Longman annotated texts
Crossing borders and shifting boundaries.
Opladen : Leske + Budrich, 2002-2003.
Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversitèat "Technik und Kultur"
Abstract: This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy.
Gender and society in Renaissance Italy / edited by Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis.
New York : Longman, 1998.
Women and men in history
Abstract: Offering an in-depth synthesis of recent scholarship in the field, this book presents a reconstruction of the Renaissance in Italy as both a social and a gendered experience. Successive chapters explore this theme in the context of work, law, politics, and notion of the state; and as expressed in Renaissance concepts of honour, representational art, medicine and magic, sexual practices, religious organization and spirituality. Introductory and concluding chapters on the historiography of Italian social and gender history draw these specific studies together. Contributing to the volume are: Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., Thomas Kuehn, Diane Owen Hughes, Stanley Chojnacki, Sharon Stocchia, Karen-edis Barzman, Katherine Park, Michael Rocke, Gabriella Zarri and Daniel Bornstein.