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figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Herndl, Diane Price
- Publish Year
- 1993
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 1993 - B
- Thesaurus
- gehandicapten, ziekten, patiënten, vrouwbeelden, romans, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
the twentieth century
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Forman-Brunell, Miriam > (ed.)
- Creator
- Paris, Leslie > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Sicherman, Barbara
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- meisjes, onderwijs, etniciteit, seksualiteit, arbeid, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwbeelden, lesbische vrouwen, slavernij, ziekten, egodocumenten, bundel, 19e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
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- This book provides the readers with the most influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and culture. Girl-centered research is critical for a fuller understanding of women and gender, a deeper consideration of childhood and adolescence, and a greater acknowledgment of the significance of generation as a historical force in culture and society. Bringing together work from top scholars of women and youth, the book addresses topics ranging from diary writing and toys to prostitution and slavery. Covering girlhood and the relationships between girls and women, the volume tackles themes such as education, work, play, sexuality, consumption, and the body. The reader also illuminates broader nineteenth-century developments—including urbanization, industrialization, and immigration--through the often-overlooked vantage point of girls. As these essays collectively suggest, nineteenth-century girls wielded relatively little political or social power but carved out other spaces of self-expression.
women novelists of color and the politics of medicine
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stanford, Ann Folwell
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4508 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, zwarte romans, ziekten, lichamen, geneeskunde, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In literary representations of physical and emotional states of illness and health, Stanford identifies issues related to public health, medical ethics, institutionalized racism, women's health, domestic abuse, and social justice that are important to discussions about how to improve haelth and health care. She argues that in either direct of indirect ways, the novelists considered here push to see health not only as an individual condition but also as a complex network of individual, institutionalm and social changes in which wellness can be a possibility for the majority rather than a privileged few. The novelists whose works are discussed are Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Bebe Moore Campbell, Sapphire, Ana Castillo, and Octavia Butler.
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