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the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Welland, Sasha Su-Ling
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 LIN 2006
- Thesaurus
- immigranten, Chinees, zusters, medicijnen, schrijvers, schilders, historisch, Engels, China, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, oral history, biografie
- Description
- The author reconstructs the lives of her elite Cantonese grandmother, Amy Ling Chen, who in 1925 won a scholarship to study medicine in the United States, and of Amy's elder sister, Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter who remained in China until 1945. Welland balances family sources with research and reading of Shuhua's fiction. This biography gives glimpses of 20th-century Chinese women's intellectual history and insights into the Chinese-American and Anglo-Chinese experience.
the life of Jane Jacobs
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kanigel, Robert
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 JAC 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- gebouwde omgeving, steden, acties, schrijvers, joodse vrouwen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Canada, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), American-Canadian activist and publicist.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bauer, Dale > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, poëzie, kinderliteratuur, schrijvers, historisch, indianen, latina's, joodse vrouwen, oorlog en vrede, kolonialisme, religie, geweld, seksualiteit, vrouwenkiesrecht, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts and categories. This book develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers – from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers.
reading modernity through black women's fiction
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Taylor, Carole Anne
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B1085 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte schrijvers, schrijvers, theorieën, slavernij, postmodernisme, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Literaire analyse van het werk van zwarte schrijfsters, o.a. Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Bessie Head en de invloed van theorieën over (post-)modernisme hierop.
women writers at the intersection of motherhood and social change
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- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2008
- Thesaurus
- moeders, schrijvers, moederschap, arbeidsomstandigheden, discriminatie, historisch, politiek, acties, Verenigde Staten, bloemlezing
- Description
- In this literary anthology, about 40 women express their frustrations about motherhood, their disappointment with unsupportive work environments and their desire for social change.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bay, Mia > (ed.)
- Creator
- Griffin, Farah J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Jones, Martha S. > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, zwart, schrijvers, leraren, actiegroepen, religie, slavernij, lichamen, leidinggevende beroepen, elite, cultuur, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Afrika, Caraïbisch gebied, bundel, essay
- Description
- This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. The result is a volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.
pioneers of cinema
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bridges, Melody > (ed.)
- Creator
- Robson, Cheryl > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2016 - A
- Thesaurus
- regisseurs, schrijvers, actrices, ontwerpers, cameravrouwen, films, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- With chapters on the writers, directors, producers, stars, film editors, designers and camera women of the silent era this book acknowledges and celebrates the many talented women who were significantly involved in the rise of the industry and explains why the coming of the talkies and big business led to the inequality which exists today. Contents: Foreword / Bryony Dixon: Introduction / Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson: 1. Girl from God’s country: the history of women in film and other war stories / Karen Day: 2. Early African-American female filmmakers / Aimee Dixon Anthony: 3. The silent producer: women filmmakers who creatively controlled the silent era of cinema / Pieter Aquilia: 4. Women were writing: beyond melodrama and hot house romances / Patricia Di Risio: 5. Doing it all: women’s on and off-screen contributions to European silent film / Julie K. Allen: 6. Female legends of the silver screen / Melody Bridges: 7. Women directors from the dawn of Hollywood / Francesca Stephens: 8. Interview with director Dorothy Arzner / Kevin Brownlow: 9. Women film editors from silent to sound / Tania Field: 10. Who was the first female cinematographer in the world? / Ellen Cheshire: 11. When the woman shoots: ladies behind the silent horror film camera / K. Charlie Oughton: 12. Critics, reformers, and educators: film culture as a feminine sphere / Shelley Stamp: 13. US Women directors: the road ahead / Maria Giese.
essays in cultural studies
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Armitage, Shelley
- Publish Year
- 1995
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 1995 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, literatuur, schrijvers, creatieve beroepen, etniciteit, fotografie, poëzie, humor, populaire cultuur, historisch, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Aan de hand van de thema's, kunst, fotografie, literatuur, humor, populaire cultuur en brieven/autobiografieën wordt het werk besproken van: Mary Hallock Foote, Rose O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Maxine Kumin, Alice Corbin Henderson, Peggy Pond Church, Marietta Holley, Emily Dickinson, Frances Bullock Workman, Mary Austin, May Sarton.
a tradition of their own
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- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Jones, Nancy Baker
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1997 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, schrijvers, dichters, zwarte vrouwen, latina's, canons, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Bundel over de geschiedenis van vrouwelijke schrijvers in Texas van ca. 1930 tot heden. Aan de hand van verschillende genres wordt het werk van elke generatie chronologisch beschreven. Tevens wordt aandacht besteed aan Tejana en Afrikaans-Amerikaanse schrijfsters. Tenslotte wordt commentaar gegeven op de huidige stand van zaken en een beeld geschetst van nieuwe literaire tradities. Bevat bijdragen over o.a. de volgende schrijfsters: Mabel Major, Karle Wilson Baker, Charlotte Baker Montgomery, Ruth Cross, Loula Grace Erdman, Jewel Gibson, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Scarborough, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Laura Furman, Beverley Lowry, Shelby Hearon, Jane Gilmore Rushing, Carolyn Osborn, Gail Galloway Adams, Dianne Benedict, Pat Carr, Sandra Cisneros, Laverne Harrell Clark, Laura Furman, Mary Gray Hughes, Annette Sanford, Pat Ellis Taylor, Estela Portillo Trambley, Molly Ivins, Liz Carpenter, Prudence Mackintosh, Marion Winik, Angela De Hoyos, Pat Mora, Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Carmen Tafolla, Rosemary Catacalos, Vassar Miller, Jan Epton Seale, Sandra Lynn, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pattiann Rogers, Betsy Feagan Colquitt.
writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- LaPlante, Eve > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 ALC 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, feminisme, dagelijks leven, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American writer, thinker and feminist Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), mother of Louisa May Alcott.
Judith Sargent Murray and the struggle for female independence
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Skemp, Sheila L.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 MUR 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, dichters, toneel, mensenrechten, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and advocate of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Thanks to the recent discovery of Murray's papers — including some 2,500 personal letters — the author has documented the story of this eighteenth-century woman.
a life of Rose Wilder Lane
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Holtz, William
- Publish Year
- 1993
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LAN 1993 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1986) is the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), writer of pioneer book series Little House on the Prairie.
literacy, authorship, and culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hackel, Heidi Brayman > (ed.)
- Creator
- Kelly, Catherine E. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, cultuur, alfabetisering, heilige teksten, gender, identiteit, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, essay, bundel
- Description
- This publication brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion - from 1500 to 1800 - of female readership. The essays of historians and literary scholars share a concern with local specificity and material culture. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation.
an RSVP to the male text
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Howe, Mica > (ed.)
- Creator
- Aguiar, Sarah Appleton > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Mintcheva, Svetlana
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2737 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, heilige teksten, vrouwbeelden, schrijvers, mannen, feministische literatuurkritiek, rolgedrag, historisch, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- De auteurs van de bijdragen in deze bundel geven hun feministische visie als antwoord op beweringen en stellingen van mannelijke en vrouwelijke auteurs en op teksten uit de bijbel, de torah en toneelstukken van o.a. Shakespeare.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Souhami, Diana
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 1992 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, feminisme, literatuur, kunsten, lesbische vrouwen, vriendinnen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
feminist critical theory : theorizing the Filipina/American experience
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jesus, Melinda L. de > (ed,)
- Contributor
- Tadiar, Neferti Xina M.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2005
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, identiteit, dekolonisatie, imperialisme, huishoudelijke arbeid, spiritualiteit, rooms-katholicisme, leeftijdsgroepen, vrouwenbewegingen, seksualiteit, internet, schrijvers, wetenschappelijke beroepen, kunstenaressen, tijdschriften, literatuur, etniciteit, historisch, Filipijns, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Collection essays of Filipina American feminist cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans dealing with gender, decolonization, globalization, transnationalism, identity, sexuality, representation, spirituality.
a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zeitz, Joshua
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 1 G 2006
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, cultuur, schrijvers, ontwerpers, actrices, historisch, 1920-1929, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Hisorian Joshua Zeitz describes the cultural history of American women in the 1920s. He examines the roles played by writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, fashion designer Coco Chanel, various advertising specialists, columnists, and film actresses Colleen Moore, Clara Bow and Louise Brooks in developing and promoting the image of the modern American women who was embodied by the 'flapper'.
five modern histories
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dennison, Sally
- Publish Year
- 1984
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1984 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, uitgeverijen, historisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author traces the publishing histories of five writers - amongst them Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin - bringing together the details of their early careers, and demonstrating the effect of alternative publishing on the formation of twentieth-century literature.
feminist literature and social change
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Felski, Rita
- Publish Year
- 1989
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1989 - B
women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Branson, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2008
- Thesaurus
- rolgedrag, criminaliteit, daders, vrouwbeelden, cultuur, schrijvers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Description of the life of Ann Baker Carson and Mary Clarke (1815-1838), and their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Martin, Wendy
- Creator
- Williams, Sharone
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literaire stromingen, etniciteit, sociale klasse, cultuur, historisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This publication considers the literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and gives an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature. The volume examines the ways in which women writers from diverse racial, social, and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, giving particular attention to the ways writers worked inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural and historical moments to create space for women’s voices and experiences as a vital part of American life.
women's mystery writing and migration in the African diaspora
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Allen, Carol
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, detectives, schrijvers, diaspora, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, religie, sociale klasse, historisch, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements.
thresholds in women's writing
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jacobson, Kristin J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Allukian, Kristin > (ed.)
- Creator
- Legleitner, Rickie-Ann > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, intersectionaliteit, historisch, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women’s writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. Table of contents: Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act / Allukian, Kristin: “Sweet Cement”: Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers’s An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgments / Mohlmann, Nicholas K.: Beyond “The Bars”: Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape / Huse, Ann A.: The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Delay in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette / Ball, Molly: “We Cannot Be Indifferent”: Native Americans and the Students of the Bethlehem Boarding School / Specter, Gregory D.: Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing / Legleitner, Rickie-Ann: Changing Is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft / Olivier, Sarah: Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction / Wood, Michelle Gaffner: Contesting Sentimentalism: Human–Animal Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets / Rudolph, Kerstin: “The Third Sex”: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces / Jessee, Margaret Jay: “Costume de ghost”: Liminality in Grace King’s Balcony Stories / Durrans, Stéphanie: A Fragile Optimism: Writing Liminality and Hybridity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Allison, Leslie: La mujer en llamas: Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi’s Black Widow’s Wardrobe / Ruiz, Sandra: States of Exception and Arab American Women’s Poetry After 9/11: Liminality and Community in Suheir Hammad’s “first writing since” and D. H. Melhem’s “September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath” / Spengler, Birgit: Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’s Graphic Auto-Fiction / Kwa, Shiamin: “A Mash-Up World”: Hybridity and Storytelling in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being / Hanrahan, Heidi M.: Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins / Capo, Beth Widmaier: Afterword: Beyond Thresholds - Suggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources / Jacobson, Kristin J. (et al.)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scheick, William J.
- Contributor
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, poëzie, dagboek, autobiografieën
- Description
- Aan de hand van dagboeken, gedichten, (auto)biografieën van vrouwen uit de Amerikaanse koloniale tijd beschrijft de auteur het verschil in maatschappelijke betrokkenheid tussen mannelijke en vrouwelijke auteurs in die tijd.
from settlement to the present
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barker-Benfield, G.J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Clinton, Catherine > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Chevigny, Bell Gale
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- B6747
- Thesaurus
- witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, indianen, pioniers, suffragettes, sociale bewegingen, religie, slavernij, wetenschappelijke beroepen, politici, partners van, creatieve beroepen, schrijvers, historisch, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Levensbeschrijvingen van de volgende Amerikaanse vrouwen sinds 1596: Pocahontas, Anne Hutchinson, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Nanacy Ward, Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, Maria Weston Chapman, Catharine Beecher, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Statnton, Mary Todd Lincoln, Varina Howell Davis, Charlotte Forten, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, Rose Schneiderman, Crystal Eastman, Alice Paul, Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Mead, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Ella baker, Betty Friedan.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Saunders, James Robert
- Publish Year
- 1995
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1995 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, zwarte schrijvers, romans, predikanten, vrouwbeelden, mannen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, boekbespreking
- Description
- Besproken worden de volgende romans: Quicksand van Nella Larsen, Jonah's Gourd Vine van Zora Neale Hurston, Brown girl, brownstones van Paule Marshall, The women of Brewster Place van Gloria Naylor en Mama van Terry McMillan.
zur literatur und kulturgeschichte von Frauen aus Ost und West
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stephan, Inge > (Hrsg.)
- Creator
- Weigel, Sigrid > (Hrsg.)
- Creator
- Wilhems, Kerstin > (Hrsg.)
- Contributor
- Romero, Christiane Zehl
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 1991 - B
American women writers and masculine tradition
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kilcup, Karen > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Manning, Susan
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- canons, literatuur, schrijvers, mannen, man vrouw verschillen, historisch, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book contains essays about nineteenth-century American literature written by contributors from outside the United States. The essays foreground the work of women writers in comparison and contrast to their male literary contemporaries, predecessors, and descendants.