Amazon Women And The Patriarchal Power In The 21st Century

Author : Vilma Pereira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521596135
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazon Women and the Patriarchal Power in the 21st Century: written by Vilma Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book recovers the question of inequalities, the figure of the woman and the Myth of the Women of the Amazon. It deconstructs some legends through discoveries of paleontology and archeology on the existence of Amazon warrior women in the ancient world, disappearing around the year 1200 BC, the Iron Age. The work is included in a broader process of reflection on the question of gender, the figure of Amazonian women As an icon to reverberate in the modern world XI century, through the differences occasioned by the patriarchal system. It gives a retrospective on the influence of matriarchal society in antiquity, when it appears in Europe and Asia, at least since the year 35 000 BC, and traces of this culture that would have been phased out, from 4,000 BC, when the Age of Bronze; Which coincides according to the hypothesis of the author with the appearance of the clans of Amazonian women (warriors). The book traces a panorama of Ancient Greece and the Arab world, addressing the first Islamic defeat by a Berber warrior woman from Africa (Morocco) in 689 BC. The copy is divided into 03 chapters and 04sub-titles with approximately 140 pages. An interesting subject for scholars, researchers, men's and women's movements.Professional Social Worker, Postgraduate specialization in public health, Fluminense Federal University-UFF (2014). Postgraduate in Management of People of the Catholic University of Don Bosco (2016-2017). Manager of the company CONSESO-Technical Consulting in Corporate Social Service-MEI. E-mail: seso.assesso.midiadigital1 @ gmail.com / [email protected]

Author : Stacey Floyd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443815454
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body written by Stacey Floyd and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emerging voices of women writers during the fin de siècle. These “New Woman” writers created a distinctly different body of literature that reflected their concerns about women’s limited role in society. The essays cover a range of authors, shedding light on the ways New Woman texts also often offer new and progressive portrayals of women’s authority as connected to strong physical bodies. These scholars highlight how New Woman endings re-envision the marriage plot, self-destruction and even empowerment through pain. Additionally they help scholars, instructors and students contextualize the New Woman writers in terms of the Women’s Movement, nineteenth-century laws related to marriage, Darwinian theory, athletics for women, the New Woman’s navigation of urban life and even Jack the Ripper.

Author : Keira V. Williams
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170860
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazons in America written by Keira V. Williams and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in America uncovers a rich tradition of matriarchal popular culture in the United States. Beginning with late-nineteenth-century anthropological studies, which theorized a universal prehistoric matriarchy, Williams explores how representations of women-centered societies reveal changing ideas of gender and power over the course of the twentieth century and into the present day. She examines a deep archive of cultural artifacts, both familiar and obscure, including L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz series, Progressive-era fiction like Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novel Herland, the original 1940s Wonder Woman comics, midcentury films featuring nuclear families, and feminist science fiction novels from the 1970s that invented prehistoric and futuristic matriarchal societies. While such texts have, at times, served as sites of feminist theory, Williams unpacks their cyclical nature and, in doing so, pinpoints some of the premises that have historically hindered gender equality in the United States. Williams also delves into popular works from the twenty-first century, such as Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise and DC Comics/Warner Bros.’ globally successful film Wonder Woman, which attest to the ongoing presence of matriarchal ideas and their capacity for combating patriarchy and white nationalism with visions of rebellion and liberation. Amazons in America provides an indispensable critique of how anxieties and fantasies about women in power are culturally expressed, ultimately informing a broader discussion about how to nurture a stable, equitable society.

Author : Christopher Stuart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443808032
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Life Writing and the Body written by Christopher Stuart and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of materialist revisions of the Cartesian dual self and the increased recognition of memoir and autobiography as a crucial cultural index, the physical body has emerged in the last twenty-five years as an increasingly inescapable object of inquiry, speculation, and theory that intersects all of the various subgenres of life writing. New Essays on Life Writing and the Body thus offers a timely, original, focused, and yet appropriately interdisciplinary study of life writing. This collection brings together new work by established authorities in autobiography, such as Timothy Dow Adams, G. Thomas Couser, Cynthia Huff, and others, along with essays by emerging scholars in the field. Subjects range from new interpretations of well-known autobiographies by Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Lucy Grealy, as well as scholarly surveys of more recently defined subgenres, such as the numerous New Woman autobiographies of the late 19th century, adoption narratives, and sibling memoirs of the mentally impaired. Due to their wide, interdisciplinary focus, these essay will prove valuable not only to more traditional literary scholars interested in the classic literary autobiography but also to those in Women’s Studies, Ethnic and African-American Studies, as well as in emerging fields such as Disability Studies and Cognitive Studies.

Author : Ganaele Langlois
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350384356
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Textile Communicates written by Ganaele Langlois and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. Up until the 19th century, civilizations throughout the world manipulated thread and fabric to communicate in a way that would astound many of us now. Unlike text and images, textile is haptic and three-dimensional. Its meaning is unfixed, constantly shifting as it circulates between different owners and creators. In How Textile Communicates, Ganaele Langlois dissects textile's unique capacity for communication through a range of global case studies, before examining the profound impact of colonialism on textile practice and the appropriation of this medium by capitalist systems. A thought-provoking contribution to the fields of both fashion and communication studies, Langlois' writing challenges readers' preconceptions and shines new light on the profound impact of textiles on human communication.

Author : Lindsay R. Moore
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152613635X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women before the court written by Lindsay R. Moore and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women’s legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire with Fire written by Naomi Wolf and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most women embrace equality, but reject "feminism." In clear and brilliant prose, the author of the best-selling The Beauty Myth shows how this rift came about, and how to close it. A practical and inspiring road map for personal and political equality in our time.

Author : D. A. Hadfield
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059836
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaw and Feminisms written by D. A. Hadfield and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A worthy successor to Fabian Feminist. Shaw’s influence on the self-image and public standing of women has been immense, both in his time and in our own, yet Shaw has also been widely and sometimes appallingly misunderstood. This book should help clarify the complexities of the issue and provoke continued reflection and debate.”—Julie A. Sparks, San Jose State University “This collection suggests that Shaw’s views of women are still relevant and provocative and that the dialogue with Shaw is far from over.”—Sally Peters, author of Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman When offstage actions contradict a playwright’s onstage message, literary study gets messy. In his personal relationships, George Bernard Shaw was often ambivalent toward liberated women—surprisingly so, considering his reputation as one of the first champions of women’s rights. His private attitudes sit uncomfortably beside his public philosophies that were so foundational to first-wave feminism. Here, Shaw’s long-recognized influence on feminism is reexamined through the lens of twenty-first-century feminist thought as well as previously unpublished primary sources. New links appear between Shaw’s writings and his gendered notions of physicality, pain, performance, nationalism, authorship, and politics. The book’s archival material includes previously unpublished Shaw correspondence and excerpts from the works of his feminist playwright contemporaries. Shaw and Feminisms explores Shaw’s strong female characters, his real-life involvement with women, and his continuing impact on theater and politics today. A volume in the Florida Bernard Shaw Series, edited by R. F. Dietrich Contributors: Tracy J. R. Collins | Leonard W. Conolly | Virginia Costello | D. A. Hadfield | Brad Kent | Kay Li | Jackie Maxwell | John M. McInerney | Michel Pharand | Jean Reynolds | Margaret D. Stetz | Lawrence Switzky | Rodelle Weintraub | Ann Wilson

Author : Natalie Le Clue
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801175667
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives written by Natalie Le Clue and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.

Author : Cara Anzilotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076227
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Affairs of the World written by Cara Anzilotti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy. Though the colony prospered financially, throughout the colonial period the death rate remained alarmingly high, keeping the white population small. This demographic disruption allowed white women a degree of independence unknown to their peers in most of England's other mainland colonies, for, as heirs of their male relatives, an unusually large proportion of women controlled substantial amounts of real estate. Their economic independence went unchallenged by their male peers because these women never envisioned themselves as anything more than deputies for their husbands, fathers, brothers, and friends. As far as low country settlers were concerned, allowing women to assume the role of planter was necessary to the creation of a traditional, male-centered society in the colony. Fundamentally conservative, women in South Carolina worked to safeguard the patriarchal social order that the area's staggering mortality rate threatened to destroy. Critical to the perpetuation of English culture and patriarchal authority in South Carolina, female planters attended to the affairs of the world and helped to preserve English society in a wilderness setting.