Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Records of a Girlhood
Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Records of Girlhood: an Anthology of Nineteenth-century Women's Childhoods
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Records of a Girlhood
Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Girlhood
Author: Melissa Febos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Girl Making
Author: Gerry Bloustien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814265
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the video camera by the girls themselves reveals their exploration and experimentation with possible identities, highlighting their awareness that the self is not ready made but rather constituted in the process of continuous performance. The result is an active self-conscious exploration of the continuous "art" of self-making. Through their play, the teenagers are shown to strategically test out various possibilities, while keeping such explorations within the bounds of what is acceptable and permissible in their own micro-cultural worlds. The resulting material challenges previous findings in those feminist and youth anthropological studies based on too narrow a concept of class, ethnicity or populist approaches to culture.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814265
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the video camera by the girls themselves reveals their exploration and experimentation with possible identities, highlighting their awareness that the self is not ready made but rather constituted in the process of continuous performance. The result is an active self-conscious exploration of the continuous "art" of self-making. Through their play, the teenagers are shown to strategically test out various possibilities, while keeping such explorations within the bounds of what is acceptable and permissible in their own micro-cultural worlds. The resulting material challenges previous findings in those feminist and youth anthropological studies based on too narrow a concept of class, ethnicity or populist approaches to culture.
Records of Girlhood
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315539812
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315539812
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Records of a Girlhood
Author: Kemble Fanny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781318822348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781318822348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Records of Girlhood
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317070143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several offer detailed accounts of their inadequate schooling and their keen hunger for knowledge: others give new insights into the dynamics of Victorian family life, especially relationships with parents and siblings, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood. Most contributors vividly describe their fears and fantasies, together with obsessive religious practices, and the development of an inner life as a survival strategy. This collection makes vital out-of-print material available to scholars working in the field of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature. The volume will also appeal to general readers interested in biography, autobiography, the history of family life, education, and women’s writing: read alongside Victorian women’s novels it offers an intriguing commentary on some of their key themes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317070143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several offer detailed accounts of their inadequate schooling and their keen hunger for knowledge: others give new insights into the dynamics of Victorian family life, especially relationships with parents and siblings, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood. Most contributors vividly describe their fears and fantasies, together with obsessive religious practices, and the development of an inner life as a survival strategy. This collection makes vital out-of-print material available to scholars working in the field of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature. The volume will also appeal to general readers interested in biography, autobiography, the history of family life, education, and women’s writing: read alongside Victorian women’s novels it offers an intriguing commentary on some of their key themes.
Further Records, 1848-1883
Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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