Feminism and feminist theory Books

Erste Monographie zu dem deutschen Schriftsteller Christopher Ecker (Jg. 1967). Enthält Laudationes, Essays, Interviews und eine Bibliografie.

Vanishing Selves deals with autobiographical works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche. A key strategy in these works is to downplay the significance of the self. They avoid an interiorizing strategy in favour of an affirmation the world. The objective of...

En torno al año 2007 nació en España un poderoso movimiento de reactivación de la memoria histórica que dio lugar a un verdadero giro cultural. Este libro analiza el papel desempeñado por la literatura en relación con este proceso de resemantización de...

Osbornes Look Back in Anger markiert einen Generationenkonflikt im britischen Theaterwesen. Dieser ging mit einer intensivierten Thematisierung reziproker Selbst- und Weltverhältnisse in realistisch-alltäglichen dramatischen Räumen einher. Die...

The author describes and discusses 20th century literary theory and its appeal to scientific methodology. The book focuses on the appeal to scientific methods and epistemology, the status and nature of literary meaning and the role of authorial intention...

This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, but also as a writer. Philosophical and philological readings are accompanied by essays presenting his biography.

Die Beiträge des Sammelbands analysieren erstmals aus literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das Werk von Sibylle Berg (Theaterstücke, Romane, Reportagen, Kolumnen, Kinderbücher) in seinen verschiedensten Facetten. Damit wird eine Grundlage...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention to each play's plot, form, and style, the study seeks to come to terms with the dramatic and cultural function of this...

Die Autorin untersucht die Bedeutung des Ersten Spanisch-Marokkanischen Kriegs (1859-1860) im katalanischen Identitätsdiskurs des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie analysiert, wie der Krieg die Herausbildung einer eigenständigen, katalanischen kulturnationalen...

Frank O'Hara's poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art, the former movement directly relevant to understanding...

The close readings of selected literary texts by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America reveal that water spirituality is connected to working conditions and migration overseas. This results in a critical debate which...

Das Buch erschließt mit dem conduct book für junge Damen (1688-1797) einen in der anglistischen Forschung vernachlässigten Schrifttypus. Die Autorin unterzieht die Texte einem Verfahren des close reading bezüglich Darstellung und Stellenwert der...

Borges wurde in Europa zum Schriftsteller. Aber erst in Argentinien fand er Formen für sein Schreiben. Der Band untersucht das Entstehen seiner Gedichte und Essays der zwanziger Jahre zwischen Europa und Argentinien, Avantgarde und Tradition.

The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy and its...

This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Signs of liminality and communitas appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed...

Die Studie thematisiert den NS-Vernichtungsapparat und Frauen, die darin als Protagonistinnen wirkten anhand der Werke von Stephan Hermlin, Hans Lebert,　Bernhard Schlink, Lukas Hartmann und Helga Schneider.

Das Arbeitsbuch über John von Düffel beleuchtet in Essays und wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen sein literarisches Werk und seine Arbeiten als Dramaturg und geht dabei bewusst und entschieden über bisher etablierte Forschungen zu ihm hinaus.

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem literaturkritischen Werk von Matthias Claudius im Rahmen des Rezensionswesens im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie untersucht die besondere Form der Poetisierung, die die Rezensionen erfahren und erörtert Claudius' Position innerhalb...

The book brings to light Neal Stephenson's answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. Using affect theory and its applications to literature, it explores how operations of subjectivation emerge in Neal Stephenson's technological novel The...

Die Autorin untersucht Paul Zechs Exilwerk aus einem neuen Blickwinkel: Unter Heranziehung postkolonialer und ökokritischer Theorien sowie Konzepten der Hybridität und Alterität analysiert sie veröffentlichte und unveröffentlichte Prosawerke. Dabei...

Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Der Autor untersucht auch die Prosadichtungen, die in formaler Hinsicht den Charakter der Prosa aufweisen. Mit der Aufnahme der Gedichte erfasst der Autor Trakls...

Das Buch untersucht die Völlerei in der englischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. Darin zeigt der Autor, wie die Maßlosigkeit zur Beschreibung des Eigenen und Fremden genutzt wird, um durch Selbstüberhöhung und Fremdabwertung die nationale Identität zu...

This book discusses literary texts from English and French Canada, the US, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Bibliographic entries refer the reader to native American literature and culture. The periods focused on include the Colonial Period,...

This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and international levels in the contemporary global context. Beginning with an innovative conceptualisation...

The Third Republic, known as the 'belle époque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of...

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WRITING A PROGRESSIVE PAST: WOMEN TEACHING AND WRITING IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA traces the lineage of writing instruction during the Progressive Era, from the influences of John Dewey, to the graduate program designed and run by Fred Newton Scott. ...

Il libro ""Dei Feziali E Del Diritto Feziale"" (1884) di Guido Fusinato ����� un'opera che tratta del diritto romano antico, in particolare del diritto feziale. L'autore esamina la figura dei feziali, sacerdoti incaricati di gestire le relazioni tra gli...

Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action is an accessible foundation that whets appetite for further study. It provides a non-US-centric introduction to gender studies, covering topics like 19th-century African, Chinese, and Arab movements, and...

In the three decades before the First World War, the relationship between socialism and feminism was both curious and convoluted. Despite strong theoretical links between these ideologies, class and sex seem to have inspired conflicting loyalties and...

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah Waters's fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent...

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction...

All of political Islam is based upon the principles of submission and duality. Islamic dualism has one set of rules for men and another for women. Islam demands that a woman must submit to a man in all things-family, business, religion, work, war, sex,...

INTO THE HEART OF THE FEMININE: FACING THE DEATH MOTHER ARCHETYPE TO RECLAIM LOVE, STRENGTH, AND VITALITY by Massimilla Harris, Ph.D. and Bud Harris, Ph.D. Daphne Publications 978-0-692-31144-8 $ 16.99In this exceptionally...

Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores...

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her...

First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its...

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of...

This book is a study of the social and economic opportunities open to and seized upon by Muslim Hausa women, primarily in the city of Katsina, Nigeria, over the course of the past three decades. In the context of multiple political regimes, the turmoil...

This volume addresses the question of why issues of rights and democracy have become so central to women's movements in post-transition Latin America. As important actors in the struggle for democracy, women's movements moved from being an oppositional...

This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by...

Read in the context of emerging 19th Century women's theology, Rossetti's devotional prose shows a distinct preference for the "wisdom texts" of scripture, and foreshadows the work of leading feminist theologians today. This volume disputes the...

Original essays explore the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship, and social justice across the world. The editors bring together 20 contributions by scholars to cover the historical, political, and social contexts of...

In the eighteenth century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and...