Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782834532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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In 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in the decades that followed, due in part to changes in the legal definition of childhood, a new cultural category was inscribed in a flood of popular books and magazines. Indeed, by the turn of the century working-class and middle-class girls were beginning to control enough of their own time and pocket money that publishing for them was a lucrative business.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Katharine Tynan
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Sarah Bilston
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191556760
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's 'awakening' to disaffected consciousness. The book thus both historicises the evolution and mythic appeal of the female adolescent and works to receive suggestive exchanges between apparently diverse female literary traditions.
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Author: Luis Vaz de Camoens
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Author: Peter Turner Winskill
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Author: Wilfrid Philip Ward
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Author: Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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