The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes ...- and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.
The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós,
Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in
Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly
held views ...of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's
novels to the "woman question" in Spain, arguing that after 1892
the muted feminist discourse of his early work largely disappears.
While his later novels have been interpreted as celebrations of the
emancipated new woman, Jagoe contends that they actually reinforce
the conservative, bourgeois model of frugal, virtuous womanhood-the
angel of the house. Using primary sources such as periodicals,
medical texts, and conduct literature, Jagoe's examination of the
evolution of feminism makes Ambiguous Angels valuable to
anyone interested in gender, culture, and narrative in
nineteenth-century Europe.
Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the ...cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexuality, spousal abuse, gender oppression. Others display a scintillating sense of humor. They touch on many themes—injustice, the heartlessness of society, loneliness, the difficult choices that life presents. Susan Kepner's lyrical, faithful translations preserve the tenor and resonances of these voices, many of which will be heard for the first time by English-speaking readers.
Conchita Herdman Marianella's book develops the words "Duena" and "Doncella" in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this character type in pre-Cervantine usage, from the ...tendency of the duena or doncella to appear as a lady-in-waiting, damsel in distress, or other high-level intermediary and to behave in patterns commensurate with that socio-cultural status.
This landmark collaboration between African American and white
feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist
thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist
...interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as
the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of
psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of
identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts
and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and
traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the
racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory
should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and
diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many
stubborn incompatibilities-as well as the transformative
possibilities-between white feminist and African American cultural
formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic,
feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays
enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always
provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a
new cross-racial feminism.
The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin ...American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.
What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts
not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for
what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is
merely ..."alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful
feminist theory of the subject-and shows us paths to thinking
subjectivity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider
social world.
Through fresh, sophisticated readings of Lewis Carroll,
Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Wilkie Collins in
conversation with psychoanalysis, Black feminist and queer-of-color
theory, and continental philosophy, Ronjaunee Chatterjee uncovers a
lexicon of feminine singularity that manifests across poetry and
prose through likeness and minimal difference, rather than
individuality and identity. Reading for singularity shows us the
ways femininity is fundamentally entangled with racial difference
in the nineteenth century and well into the contemporary, as well
as how rigid categories can be unsettled and upended.
Grappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western
liberal imaginary, Feminine Singularity invites readers to
commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century
literature for thinking subjectivity today.
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