Gender Studies

ISBN: 9780746309797
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515099080
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (AFMW-B)
Volume: 69
English summary: The setting of women's rolls through singing as well as the adoption of masculine parts through female vocalists was a well established practice in the first two centuries of the history of opera. Kordula Knaus analyses thi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515097765
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung (BzSU)
Volume: 11
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 ca... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168478
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin
Volume: 61
The intensive exchange of letters between 1912 and 1946 between the physicist Lise Meiner, born in Vienna in 1878, and the botanist Elisabeth Schiemann, born in 1881 and raised in Berlin, cannot be seen merely as the documentation of a friendsh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746311769
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
An examination of the innovative literary works (novels, short stories, and an anti-war play) of one of the most influential women writers of the late-Victorian and early-Modernist periods.
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ISBN: 9783515093439
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Studien zur Geschichte des Alltags (StGA)
Volume: 28
Shop 'til you drop is the rhetoric of modern consumer society and refers to a world in which one sale merges seamlessly into the next, in which department stores, chain stores and boutiques offer an infinite product palette, not to mention the in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515087834
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Sozialgeographie kompakt
Volume: 2
Gender is now established as an analytical category in geography. This introductory volume in the series Sozialgeographie kompakt ( Compact Social Geography ) presents essential theoretical foundations, relevant methods, and the most important r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856400915
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Italianistica nel mondo
Volume: II/04
English summary: The twentieth-century Italian writer Sibilla Aleramo expressed the desires of many women, going beyond the moral limits of her time and place. Monika Antes uses Aleramo's own words, from her fulgurant autobiographical novel... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904597322
Published by : Pindar Press
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... .... Learn More