Author: Anne McLayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Women Out of Their Sphere
Author: Anne McLayThe Sphere and Duties of Woman
Author: George W. BurnapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere
Author: Oyeronke OlajubuPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book shows that women occupy a central place in the religious worldview and life of the Yoruba people and shows how men and women engage in mutually beneficial roles in the Yoruba religious sphere. It explores how gender issues play out in two Yoruba religious traditions—indigenous religion and Christianity in Southwestern Nigeria. Rather than shy away from illuminating the tensions between the prominent roles of Yoruba women in religion and their perceived marginalization, author Oyeronke Olajubu underscores how Yoruba women have challenged marginalization in ways unprecedented in other world religions.
The Enlargement of the Sphere of Women
Author: Charles Pitfield MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Sphere
Author: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution
Author: Joan B. LandesPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women under the Old Regime with their status during and after the Revolution. Basing her work on a wide reading of current historical scholarship, Landes draws on the work of Habermas and his followers, as well as on recent theories of representation, to re-create public-sphere theory from a feminist point of view.Within the extremely personal and patriarchal political culture of Old Regime France, elite women wielded surprising influence and power, both in the court and in salons. Urban women of the artisanal class often worked side by side with men and participated in many public functions. But the Revolution, Landes asserts, relegated women to the home, and created a rigidly gendered, essentially male, bourgeois public sphere. The formal adoption of "universal" rights actually silenced public women by emphasizing bourgeois conceptions of domestic virtue.In the first part of this book, Landes links the change in women's roles to a shift in systems of cultural representation. Under the absolute monarchy of the Old Regime, political culture was represented by the personalized iconic imagery of the father/king. This imagery gave way in bourgeois thought to a more symbolic system of representation based on speech, writing, and the law. Landes traces this change through the art and writing of the period. Using the works of Rousseau and Montesquieu as examples of the passage to the bourgeois theory of the public sphere, she shows how such concepts as universal reason, law, and nature were rooted in an ideologically sanctioned order of gender difference and separate public and private spheres. In the second part of the book, Landes discusses the discourses on women's rights and on women in society authored by Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Gouges, Tristan, and Comte within the context of these new definitions of the public sphere. Focusing on the period after the execution of the king, she asks who got to be included as "the People" when men and women demanded that liberal and republican principles be carried to their logical conclusion. She examines women's roles in the revolutionary process and relates the birth of modern feminism to the silencing of the politically influential women of the Old Regime court and salon and to women's expulsion from public participation during and after the Revolution.
The Bonds of Womanhood
Author: Nancy F. CottPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300257988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. “Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew.”—Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books “A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book.”—Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review
The Young Lady's Counsellor; Or, Outlines and Illustrations of the Sphere, the Duties and the Dangers of Young Women ... Eleventh Edition
Author: Daniel WisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young women
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Beyond Her Sphere
Author: Barbara Jean HarrisPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Traces women in the professions in light of the women's movement, changing attitudes towards women's inferiority and the Victorian cult of domesticity.
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere
Author: Brooks, AnnPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447330633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity. Covering the legacy of eighteenth-century intellectual groupings which were dominated by women such as members of the 'bluestocking circles' and other more radical intellectual and philosophical thinkers, the book focuses on women such as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. These individuals and groups which emerged in the eighteenth century established 'intellectual spaces' for the emergence of women public intellectuals in subsequent centuries. It also examines women public intellectuals in the US including Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elizabeth Warren, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg.
