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Gender Studies

Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it ...
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Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'
edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown
This volume offers new research on an essential but often controversial aspect of life in Dynastic Egypt. Its originality lies in combining research which uses Egyptologys traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. The authors are internationally-recognised authorities in their fields. 245p, b/w illus. (Classical Press of Wales 2008)
Hardback. Price US$100.00

Revolutionary Women Writers: Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams
by Angela Keane
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work.

In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of ...
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Rosamond Lehmann
by Judy Simons
Located in a world wrestling with new concepts of what it means to be modern, this book forms a penetrating analysis of a mid-twentieth century English woman novelist, whose genius was compared to Tolstoy.

Rosamond Lehmann's first book, Dusty Answer (1927), with its scandalous subject matter, made her a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-seven. Seen as the voice of a new generation, she became the centre of an artistic circle ...
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An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art
by Mati Meyer
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of representing realia. Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the daily life of women have not received much space or attention.

The present book studies various images representing women's status and her performative tasks, and their significance from the fourth century to the fall of the Empire, through analysis of archaeological evidence and ...
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Female Occupations: Women's Employment from 1850 - 1950
by Margaret Ward
This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 200 years of change. The entries themselves themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart the steadily evolving status of women and the job opportunities open to them.

Early occupations considered socially suitable included dairymaid, fisherwoman, governess, and stone picker. The decline of domestic service ...
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Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature
by Eva Sansavior
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is her fictional works that have been the focus of this attention, with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva ...
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Dear Diego
by Elena Poniatowska, translated with an introduction by Nathanial Gardner
When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from the Russian painter Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego became famous for his Mexican murals or was applauded for his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, he was married to Beloff. She was his wife for over ten years while the young Rivera lived as a poor and obscure artist in the city of ...
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Das Dienstfräulein auf dem Bahnhof: Frauen im öffentlichen Raum im Blick der Berliner Bahnhofsmission 1894-1939
by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
English summary: On October 1st, 1894, the first Protestant train station missionaries took up their work at the Berlin Friedrichstrasse train station and provided guidance for the masses of job-seeking women who immigrated to the German capital. Women not only assisted the urban public at the Berlin train stations because of their welfare-political work, but also because of their commitment to the Association of Station Missions, the ...
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Männer als Ammen - Frauen als Liebhaber: Cross-gender Casting in der Oper 1600-1800
by Kordula Knaus
German description: Die Besetzung von Frauenrollen durch Sänger sowie die Übernahme männlicher Partien durch Sängerinnen war in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten der Operngeschichte gängige Praxis. Dieses Phänomen des Cross-gender Castings analysiert Kordula Knaus in diesem Band unter Einbeziehung historischer Kontexte und Wahrnehmungsperspektiven.Beginnend bei der Unterrepräsentation von Frauen auf den ...
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