Author: Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226752822
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine. In the Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigee-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Central to Sheriff's analysis is one key question: given the cultural norms and social attitudes that regulated a woman's activities, how could Vigee-Lebrun conceive of herself as an artist, and indeed become a successful one, in old-regime France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigee-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women. Engaging ancien-regime philosophy as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigee-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work of this controversial woman artist.
Author: Evangeline Delaney
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542960151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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This book helps you develop your best qualities in order to face life head on. There is an "exceptional" being buried in every woman. She lays dormant waiting to be explored, challenged, trained and developed. Most times she introduces herself through trials and challenges. The exceptional woman is determined to succeed. She finds every avenue that will take her there. she learns to understand investing, budgeting and financial growth. She plans her goals using critical strategies and time management, in order to achieve. She is a force to be reckon with. She trains her mind, which allows all her experiences in life to drive her in the right direction. 1. She wants to be mold to stand out in the presence of others. 2. She is an empowered woman. 3. She is fearless and unapologetic for being the woman she is. 4. She is the one who makes moves and is not afraid to break down the walls of stereotypes. Learn how to be that strong and empowered woman today by developing and improving the qualities you already have.
Author: James Lord
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Commenting upon the nature of friendship, loyalty, patronage, creativity, and moral courage the author explores the lives of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Arletty, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Errieta Perdididi, and Louise Bennett Lord. "Lord is a witty and elegant writer, catching the foibles and virtues of his subjects and chronicling his own succession of lovers with matter-of-fact precision. He is a gentle and literate companion; his book, a deeply affectionate reminiscence of friendships." - Publishers Weekly
Author: Caroline Anne Ellsmore
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351731637
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.
Author: Corrie Woods
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 9781600373954
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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For many women, life is a series of "supposed-to's" and "shoulds." This inspirational book offers a guided inner road trip to an extraordinary new outlook, complete with inspiration, tips, support, and motivation.
Author: John Lee Thompson
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600031707
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Calvin encouragea l'éducation féminine et, avec les autres réformateurs, réévalua positivement le mariage. Cette étude s'attache à la place de la femme dans son exégèse tant vétéro- que néo-testamentaire, en la comparant à celle de ses prédécesseurs, Augustin, Chrysostome et l'Ambrosiaster surtout, et de ses contemporains, Luther, Bullinger, Musculus et Pierre Martyr Vermigli.
Author: Xiao Qian
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647878438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Look at the old tree in the west how many years have it been carved the brook at the head of the village is full and dry again such as flower appearance but willing to pay the vicissitudes of life love also hurt but still like a stubborn rose bloom she once through the strange world dressed as a man sword make the enemy scared heroes do bow women heroes women not to men the soul of the world the air covers the sky she has also been like water tender feelings has also moved happy blushing cheeks is the horizon of the most beautiful clouds some say she is the most beautiful no strength then let yourself become stronger constantly no position good use of wisdom will let others look up to no money that rely on their own hands to earn in a word strong strong strong
Author: Weaver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997568271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Kcasey McLoughlin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000475530
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court’s historically masculinist gender regime. This book examines how the High Court’s gender regime operates once there is more than one woman on the bench. It explores the following questions: How have the Court’s gender relations accommodated the presence women on the bench? How have the women themselves accommodated those pre-existing gender relations? How might legal judgments and reasoning change as a result of changing gender dynamics on the bench? To develop answers to these (and other) questions the book pursues a methodology that conceptualises the High Court as an institution with a particular gender regime shaped historically by the dominant gender order of the wider society. The intersection between the (gendered) individuals and the (gendered) institution in which they operate produces and reproduces that institution’s gender regime. Hence, the enquiry is not so much asking ‘have women judges made a difference?’ but rather is asking how should we understand women judges’ relationship with the law, a relationship that is shaped as much by the individual judge as by the institutional context in which they operate. Scholars, legal practitioners and researchers interested in judicial reasoning, gender diversity and the legal profession, gender and politics will be interested in this book because it breaks new ground as a case study of a Court’s gender regime at a particular time.
