Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History

ISBN-13: 9781350150058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 328 str.

Juliana Dresvina

Opis

A collection of essays exploring forgotten women behind famous male writers, scholars, politicians and activists, and their uncredited contributions from antiquity to the late 20th century.

Recenzje

'There are very few books that can claim to address genuinely universal phenomena, and Thanks for Typing is one of this small class. Its canvas stretches from the classical world, via the medieval and early modern, to our own, and from Japan and Korea and North Africa, via the Russian Empire and Western Europe, to the United States - because in all these times and places the visible work of men was made possible by the invisible labour of women. Thanks for Typing makes such engagement possible for a range of readerships, and on a truly impressive scale.' Dr Anna Vaninskaya, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors List of Figures Introduction 1. Part I: Secretaries and Editors 2. M.E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism, Catherine Hollis, U.C. Berkeley, USA 3. The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L. A. Puntila, Anu Lahtinen, University of Helsinki, Finland 4. Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame, Karen Christensen, Independent scholar 5. Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour, and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Rebecca E. Lyons, University of Bristol, UK Part II: Politicians and Activists 6. Backing the Family: Servilia Between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi, Susan Treggiari, Stanford University, USA 7. A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy, Reetta Hanninen, University of Helsinki, Finland 8. Student, Diplomat, Wife, traveller ? A Transnational Life of Marie Sargant-Cerný, Hana Navratilova, Independent scholar 9. Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-1997), Woohee Kim, Harvard University, USA Part III: Artists and Painters 10. Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman, Melek Karatas, King's College London, UK 11. Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes, Irene Kukota, Curator, France 12. Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson's Acts of Fibre Resistance, Godelinde Gertrude Perk, University of Oxford, UK 13. Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole women, Juliana Dresvina, University of Oxford, UK Part IV: Mothers and Others 14. Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor, Patricia L. Grosse, Finlandia University, USA 15. "The Typist Home at Teatime": Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot's Role in Shaping T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel, King Saud University, Riyadh 16. Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder, Maria Artamonova, Oxford University, UK 17. "Why Aren't There More Women in Your Books?" Ann and William Golding, Nicola Presley, Bath Spa University, UK 18. "You'll Say that Mum is at the Bottom of All This": the Untold Story of Eva Larkin, Philip Pullen, Writer Part V: Poets and Writers 19. "Murder, He Wrote": Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Julia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar 20. Golden Myfanwy: The Domestic Goddess Who Turned the Screw, Eleanor Knight, Writer 21. Double Act: U.A. Fanthorpe and R.V. Bailey, Partners in Rhyme, Elizabeth Sandie, University of York St John, UK Epilogue Bibliography Index

O autorze

Juliana Dresvina is an Associate Member of St John's College and Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.