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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 major study. The Greeks, 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 demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back ...
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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. c.233p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2008)
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Anne Bulkeley and her Book: Fashioning Female Piety in Early Tudor England
by Alexandra Barratt
This study is focused on BL MS Harley 494, a small manuscript book which can be dated between 1532 and 1535 and which has many of the features of a preces privatae volume, or private prayer book. It contains prayers in English and Latin but also a number of brief devotional treatises in English. MS Harley 494 possesses two more features of interest: it belonged to a Hampshire widow, Anne Bulkeley (and possibly later to her daughter Anne, a ...
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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 Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego had become famous for his Mexican murals or applauded for his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, Angelina had been his wife for over ten years while the young Rivera had lived as a poor and obscure artist in the city of light. Wolfe was impressed by the ...
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Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
edited by Frederick Kiefer
Table of Contents:Tracy Adams, 'Make me chaste and continent, but not yet': A Model for Clerical Masculinity? - Victor Scherb, Shoulder Companions and Shoulders in Beowulf - Lynn Shutters, Lion Hearts, Saracen Heads, Dog Tails: The Body of the Conqueror in Richard Coer de Lyon - Albrecht Classen, Women Win the Day: The Female Heroine in Late-Medieval German Maeren- Megan Moore, Chrétien's Romances of ...
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Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch
by Caitríona Ní Dhúill
From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised. Reading utopian writing as a dialogue between reality and possibility, this study examines the relationship between historical sex-gender systems and those envisioned ...
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Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard
Oxbow says: Classical myth, with its forthright female protagonists, its gender inequalities, patriarchal opression, obsession with sexual politics and suppression of the female voice, has been used widely within feminist writing. The feminist movement has brought new life to ancient narratives and their principal figures to support contemporary struggles. This collection of essays explores why this choice was made and what it said about ...
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Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970
by Jane Fenoulhet
Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. While Dutch women had apparently retreated into domesticity after gaining the vote in 1919, women writers were out there in the market place selling the inside story of women's lives. Eight case studies of women writers between 1919 and 1970 trace the unconscious politics of the personal in ...
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Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels
by Kathy Bacon
This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.á Kathy Bacons innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spains three principal realist novelists: La familia de León Roch and Nazarín (Benito Pérez Galdós, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta ...
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