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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere are hundreds of her. Here: she poses in shimmering gold, with burnished curls and dosed eyes. (1) In another portrait, her gaze fades behind lavender veils. Ghostlike, she rematerializes black and white in a...
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From:Emergency Librarian (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSometimes acts of bravery are small; sometimes wisdom is manifested quietly and simply. Sometimes strong women appear larger than life, and other times their accomplishments are never seen beyond a small circle, and...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a revived interest in the writings of eighteenth-century women, beginning with attempts to recover these women and their works from obscurity Dale Spender's Mothers of...
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 121, Issue 481) Peer-ReviewedPonds are ubiquitous in the Maithil region of Nepal, and they figure prominently in folk narratives and ceremonial paintings produced by women there. I argue that in Maithil women's folktales, as in their paintings, the...
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From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedStories of biblical women claim our individual and collective imagination and exert a powerful force in popular culture and fine art. Sarah and Hagar, Ruth and Naomi, Judith, Deborah and Miriam continue to provide...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen I arrive should I say Ah, la gaucherie! How shameful! I have just woken up. How graceless! I am in the financial district. There's no one for whom to put on airs. What could Bergman do with this, the fall of my...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Women characters play various roles in African epics, including heroic roles, but audiences and scholars generally fail to note and appreciate the full extent of these roles, focusing, instead, on male...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDraw me after you, let us run together. Song 1:4 (1) Embodied words Elusive, transgressive, fatherless, godless--finding a genre of investigation, a writing that works for the Song of Songs is a challenge. There...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPIONEERING FEMINIST SOCIOLOGIST LILLIAN RUBIN described US women's friendships in 1985 as evoking "the best parts of ourselves" and providing the possibility of having "many selves" that varied with one's "many...
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From:Style (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines competing narrational rhetorics in Margaret Atwood's historical novel, Alias Grace. It contrasts the textual discourse of Grace's "experiential" narrative with the stylistic discourses of the other...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 64, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen Esther Greenwood is almost raped, why can't she connect what happened to her downward spiral from throwing designer clothes off the hotel balcony to her unwashed hair, electro- shock therapy and worse? "Slut," the...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe old are as mysterious as idols in a temple; we take off our shoes before we approach them. The whole of our tradition is against unpremeditated intercourse with them; before we speak we sort out what it is proper to...
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From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN THE SECOND HALF of the nineteenth century, London grew in population from 2.7 million to 6.6 million people becoming the largest city in the world. As a spatially and socially evolving place it became a key element...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen you can control a [person's] thinking you don't have to worry about [that person's] actions. --Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) ... never would I be able to write a book about my life,...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNotable for her interest in physicality, both of the human body and of the literary text, Janice Galloway writes articles, stories, and novels that take a woman's perspective as their basis, pointedly emphasizing what a...
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From:Resources for Feminist ResearchPeer-ReviewedIn this paper, I argue that Mahasweta Devi's meticulously researched "documentary/fiction," which moves fluidly between fiction, history, ethnography and reportage, provide a crucial antidote to three vexed problems in...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2)Hymns Ancient and Modern (1860-61) was one of the great literary achievements of the nineteenth century, its sales eclipsing those of every other printed book. In religion, the growing uncertainties and doubts produced...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"I am a monster of the crossroads," declares Julia Kristeva on more than one occasion in her work, (1) referring not only to the complex intersections of her theoretical work, but also to her heterogeneous identity: a...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Loose characters in Mary Cowden Clarke's The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Tales
To the young girl, emerging from childhood and taking her first step into the more active and self-dependent career of woman-life, Shakespeare's vital precepts and models render him essentially a helping friend....... -
From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedContributing to the raging debates regarding the woman question that hovers over the era, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature presents varying perspectives on the issue. Taking a stand for...