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Women's Worth, Priceless: Written by a Man, for Women Empowerment . . .
ISBN: 9781490747071 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,57 |
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Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming and Performing Femininity
ISBN: 9781137492845 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms o...
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La voleuse de baisers: suivi de Gangster mode d'emploi
ISBN: 9781503042469 / Francuski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defendre la femme en l'homme, defendre l'humanite dans ce qu'elle ignore de nous, dans ce qu'elle ignore quand elle s'ampute de la moitie d'elle-meme. Des femmes, donc. Ce livre, je l'ai concu comme un diptyque. Deux recits, deux histoires qui se completent. L'un par une femme. L'autre par un homme. La Voleuse de baisers... Gangster... Deux personnages, deux creations a contre-emploi pour parler de la meme chose: de l'amour, de l'inhumanite de nos societes, de la violence faite aux etres. Deux personnages pour conter l'insupportable fardeau de la solitude quand la bienveillance et... Defendre la femme en l'homme, defendre l'humanite dans ce qu'elle ignore de nous, dans ce qu'elle ignore quand elle s'ampute de la moitie d'elle-me... |
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Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
ISBN: 9781474402361 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new reading of Elizabeth Bishop's work ranging across archival, historical and theoretical materials
Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. Drawing generously on Bishop's notebooks and letters, the book situates Bishop both in her historical and cultural context and in terms of her own writing process, where the years between beginning a poem and completing it, for which Bishop is legendary, are seen as a necessary part of their composition. The book begins by... A new reading of Elizabeth Bishop's work ranging across archival, historical and theoretical materials
Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's p... |
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Perspectives on Early Modern Women in Iberia and the Americas: Studies in Law, Society, Art and Literature in Honor of Anne J. Cruz
ISBN: 9781940075273 / Angielski / Miękka / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation of thirty-four articles written by renowned international specialists in Hispanic literature, history and culture gathers a variety of approaches to elucidate the lives, work and influence of women in early modern Iberia and the Americas. The volume honors Professor Anne J. Cruz, whose brilliant scholarship in historical gender and women's studies and early modern Spanish literature has stimulated generations of Hispanists. The authors delve deeply into social and political history, law, literature and artistic representation to yield provocative and revisionist readings of...
This compilation of thirty-four articles written by renowned international specialists in Hispanic literature, history and culture gathers a variety o...
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264,01 |
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Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio's Decameron
ISBN: 9781137490551 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron, Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture.
Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron, Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. ...
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301,89 |
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International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
ISBN: 9781138934399 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism, women s environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this collection build... Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the c... |
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CEDAW and the legitimacy of misogynous religious institutions.: Re-readings in canonical Hindu shastras.
ISBN: 9789384281014 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, and can be seen as an international bill of rights for women. All countries that have accepted the Convention are compelled to follow up with a series of measures that would end all forms of discrimination against women. Any country that has ratified or acceded to the Convention, is legally and morally obliged to ensure that women are not discriminated against, or oppressed. If the purpose of CEDAW is to end all acts of discrimination against women by...
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, and can be seen...
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Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and European Gothic
ISBN: 9781784991036 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. Owing to her fascination with pornography and the imprisoning fantasies of self-sacrificing and monstrous femininity emerging from a male-authored bloodline of European Gothic, Carter's fictions...
Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothi...
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Woolf Studies Annual v21
ISBN: 9781935625193 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,64 |
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Opening Acts: Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction
ISBN: 9780803269637 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups. Catherine Romagnolo argues for a critical awareness of how social identity plays a role in the strategic use and critical interpretation of narrative beginnings. The twentieth-century U.S. women writers whom...
In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings...
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La Memoria Épica de Amadou Hampâté Bâ
ISBN: 9783034315937 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La memoria epica de Amadou Hampate Ba pretende mostrar al lector que la novela L etrange destin de Wangrin esta profundamente inspirada en la epica subsahariana. Para ello, el autor de esta monografia relaciona al protagonista del relato con algunos de los principales heroes de las epopeyas de Africa occidental, por lo que este estudio permite adentrarse igualmente en el apasionante universo de la literatura epica de etnias como la fulani y la bambara. El saber tradicional que tanto atraia a Hampate Ba y que decidio salvaguardar ha condicionado la escritura de esta novela, de...
La memoria epica de Amadou Hampate Ba pretende mostrar al lector que la novela L etrange destin de Wangrin esta profundamente inspirada ...
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Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity
ISBN: 9781511888905 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing": examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two best-selling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female "sentences" in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified what many think of today as a "natural" division. Virginia Woolf called it the fabricated "feminine sentence," and other linguists have also...
"Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing": examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on t...
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Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781137516893 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.
Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying...
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Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality: Troubling the Waves
ISBN: 9781137549952 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading, Feminism and Spirituality tackles the often tricky relationship between feminism and religion. Through wide-ranging analysis, Dawn Llewellyn explores the generational and secular meanings of the feminist "wave" metaphor, highlighting the disconnections it creates between feminist cohorts, and feminist studies and religious feminisms. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, she uses women's spiritual reading practices to uncover new commonalities between second and third wave, and sacred and secular, experiences. Her lively approach highlights the importance of reading cultures in...
Reading, Feminism and Spirituality tackles the often tricky relationship between feminism and religion. Through wide-ranging analysis, Dawn Llewellyn ...
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Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman
ISBN: 9780230392007 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heir to an earldom, and wife and widow of William de Valence (half-brother of King Henry III), Joan de Valence was an important actor in the volatile political world of thirteenth-century England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Yet, astonishingly, her story of survival, perseverance, and influence has never been told until now. Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman draws on archival research, as well as tools of historical analysis and gender studies, to peel back the layers of this remarkable noblewoman's life. From her survival of the wars between king...
Heir to an earldom, and wife and widow of William de Valence (half-brother of King Henry III), Joan de Valence was an important actor in the volatile ...
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Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist
ISBN: 9781474401920 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Virginia Woolf taught history at Morley College for adult education; addressed envelopes in an adult suffrage office in 1910; she was the treasurer of the Rodmell Women's Institute and had a life-long affiliation with the Women's Co-operative Guild. And yet the compelling details of this activity have been critically neglected owing to a critical emphasis on the politics of Woolf's writing, rather than her actual participation. Responding to this significant gap in Woolf scholarship and drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book establishes the details of Woolf's participation with...
"Virginia Woolf taught history at Morley College for adult education; addressed envelopes in an adult suffrage office in 1910; she was the treasurer o...
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Katherine Mansfield and Modernism: Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780748684717 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New analysis of Katherine Mansfield's contribution to modernism, above all her underexplored relationship with D.H. Lawrence
Katherine Mansfield and Modernism is given a distinct focus in this volume by an emphasis on her under-explored relationship with D. H. Lawrence, to whom, both as artist and person, she felt herself uncannily alike. In addition to investigating Mansfield's literary and biographical relationship with Lawrence, the essays for this volume xamine widely varied aspects of Mansfield's modernism including her modernist revision of fairy-tale motifs, and the aesthetic,... New analysis of Katherine Mansfield's contribution to modernism, above all her underexplored relationship with D.H. Lawrence
Katherine Mansfield a... |
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La Celestina: A Feminist Reading of the Carpe Diem Theme
ISBN: 9780916379810 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, which offers the first feminist reading of the "carpe diem" theme in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece, reveals a positive and liberating portrayal of female characters. The application of certain contemporary French feminist theories such as those of Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, elucidates Rojas' "deconstruction" process, which breaks with patriarchal attitudes towards women.
This book, which offers the first feminist reading of the "carpe diem" theme in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece, reveals a positive and liberating port...
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SCUM Manifesto
ISBN: 9781784784409 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
" Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex. " Outrageous and violent, "SCUM Manifesto" was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and... Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
" Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of soci... |
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