Telltale Women

Author : Allison Machlis Meyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496224442
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telltale Women written by Allison Machlis Meyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telltale Women fundamentally reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertextual one, presenting evidence for a new narrative about how--and why--these genres disparately chronicle the histories of royal women. Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama by arguing that chronicles and political histories frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest their voices with authority. Dramatists who used these sources for their history plays thus encountered a historical record that offered surprisingly ample precedents for depicting women's perspectives and political influence as legitimate, and writers for the commercial theater grappled with such precedents by reshaping source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemned queenship and female power. By tracing how the sanctioning of women's political participation changes from the narrative page to the dramatic stage, Meyer demonstrates that gender politics in both canonical and noncanonical history plays emerge from playwrights' intertextual engagements with a rich alternative view of women in the narrative historiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Séverine Genieys-Kirk
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623524X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovering Women's Past written by Séverine Genieys-Kirk and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.

Author : Cynthia Enloe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092374X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maneuvers written by Cynthia Enloe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones—executives and factory floor workers who make fighter planes, land mines, and intercontinental missiles. They are also the employees of food companies, toy companies, clothing companies, film studios, stock brokerages, and advertising agencies. Militarization is never gender-neutral, Enloe claims: It is a personal and political transformation that relies on ideas about femininity and masculinity. Films that equate action with war, condoms that are designed with a camouflage pattern, fashions that celebrate brass buttons and epaulettes, tomato soup that contains pasta shaped like Star Wars weapons—all of these contribute to militaristic values that mold our culture in both war and peace. Presenting new and groundbreaking material that builds on Enloe's acclaimed work in Does Khaki Become You? and Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, Maneuvers takes an international look at the politics of masculinity, nationalism, and globalization. Enloe ranges widely from Japan to Korea, Serbia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Britain, Israel, the United States, and many points in between. She covers a broad variety of subjects: gays in the military, the history of "camp followers," the politics of women who have sexually serviced male soldiers, married life in the military, military nurses, and the recruitment of women into the military. One chapter titled "When Soldiers Rape" explores the many facets of the issue in countries such as Chile, the Philippines, Okinawa, Rwanda, and the United States. Enloe outlines the dilemmas feminists around the globe face in trying to craft theories and strategies that support militarized women, locally and internationally, without unwittingly being militarized themselves. She explores the complicated militarized experiences of women as prostitutes, as rape victims, as mothers, as wives, as nurses, and as feminist activists, and she uncovers the "maneuvers" that military officials and their civilian supporters have made in order to ensure that each of these groups of women feel special and separate.

Author : Naomie Dieudonne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499044674
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Tale written by Naomie Dieudonne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are stories in these simple and tell all poems. Naomie Dieudonne uses language to continue our oldest customs of gifting the anecdote, sharing the fabric of verse through poetry. These poems beg to be said aloud, and more than once. She is a great thinker.

Author : Frima Fox Hofrichter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501379399
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Aging, and Art written by Frima Fox Hofrichter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very absence of these old women in certain settings also reveals both a discomfort with the aged and an ease in their invisibility. This is true in writing about art and often in the art itself. The physical markers of aging, even implications of death or the nearness of death, make many of these images of old women, haunting; in the 16th and 17th centuries, they become emblems of anger and avarice, though portraits of known elderly women are often created with a sense of awe, and in some cases, authority. This book provides a frank examination of old women, from medieval “old wives” to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied representations of “old women” offer fresh perspectives and a dialogue about society's values and preconceptions regarding the “golden years” in different times and cultures. Images of old women may be the very opposite of what one considers the ideal, but this discussion makes these often overlooked images seem fresh and highlights their many positive associations.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1588 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
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Download or read book The Tell Tale written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
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Download or read book Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
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Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: