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a biography
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rollyson, Carl
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LOW 2013 - B
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- dichters, lesbische vrouwen, prijzen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American poet, Amy Lowel (1874-1925), member of the Imagist group, who posthumously (1926) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Based on newly discovered letters and papers.
feminist education against sexism, classism, and racism
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pomerleau, Clark A.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 7 2013 - B
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- vrouwenorganisaties, onderwijs, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 20e eeuw
- Description
- History of the Califia Community (1975-1987), a Los Angeles based grassroots alternative education group, that organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dahlerup, Drude > (ed.)
- Creator
- Leyenaar, Monique > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Geissel, Brigitte
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, quota, politieke partijen, gemeentelijk beleid, Denemarken, IJsland, Duitsland, Nederland, Australië, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zweden, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon be reached? Around 100 years after women's suffrage was gained most countries are still at some distance from this goal. In 2013, the average representation of women in the world's parliaments was around 20 per cent. This book analyses the longitudinal development of women's political representation in eight old democracies, where women were enfranchised before and around World War I: Denmark, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands, New Jersey (USA), New South Wales (Australia), Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries/states have all followed an incremental track model of change in women's position in political life, but have followed different trajectories. This slow development stands in contrast to recent examples of fast track development in many countries from the Global South, not least as a result of the adoption of gender quotas. Furthermore, the book discusses in four separate chapters the common historical development in old democracies, the different trajectories and sequences, the framing of women politicians, and the impact of party and party system change. In this book a new model of male dominance is developed and defined in terms of both degree and scope. Four stages are identified: male monopoly, small minority, large minority, and gender balance.
Edwardian radicals and literary modernism
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fernihough, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2013
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- literatuur, cultuur, culturele stromingen, redacteuren, schrijvers, tijdschriften, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This publication re-evaluates the literature and culture of the Edwardian period (1900-1914). It singles out the editors of two magazines for the history of modernism, Dora Marsden (editor of the Freewoman), and A.R. Orage (editor of the New Age). Their magazines were interdisciplinary in approach, with articles on literature and philosophy appearing alongside discussions of such matters as anarchism, eugenics, suffragism, suburban architecture, vegetarianism, and the 'intermediate sex'. This book discusses both British and American writers across different genres, including Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, Upton Sinclair, Rebecca West, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Tressell, and Gertrude Stein. Other cultural figures discussed include the sexologists Otto Weininger and Edward Carpenter, and the diet-reformer, Horace Fletcher.
lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children in the United States since the Second World War
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rivers, Daniel Winunwe
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 35 2013 - B
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- lesbisch moederschap, lesbische moeders, vaderschap, homo's, homoseksualiteit, gezinnen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Based on archival research and 130 interviews this book includes the stories of lesbian mothers and gay fathers in the 1950s, lesbian and gay parental activist networks and custody battles, families struggling with the AIDS epidemic, and children growing up in lesbian feminist communities. The author also addresses changes in gay and lesbian parenthood in the 1980s and 1990s brought about by increased awareness of insemination technologies and changes in custody and adoption law.
the rise of early Hollywood
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hallett, Hilary
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
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- films, filmsterren, gelijke behandeling, etniciteit, seksualiteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a 'New Woman.' Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. This book explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
why men refuse to move
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Craig, Maxine Leeds
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
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- dans, mannen, vrouwbeelden, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, etniciteit, sociale klasse, seksualiteit, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Combining archival sources, interviews, and participant observation, the author analyzes how, within the United States, recreational dance became associated with women rather than men, youths rather than adults, and ethnic minorities rather than whites. The author talks to men about how they learn to dance or avoid learning to dance within a culture that celebrates masculinity as white and physically constrained and associates both femininity and ethnically-marked men with sensuality and physical expressivity.
dialogues in female creativity
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Almeida, Diana V. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Martins, Isabel Oliveira
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, literatuur, gender, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, statistiek, essay
- Description
- This collection brings together twelve essays that tackle the nexus between gender, literature, and the visual arts. While it provides a philosophical and theoretical background for some of the factors that shape female creativity, it also considers the contributions of particular writers and artists from the late 17th century to the contemporary scene. Mostly focusing on the U.S. context, the articles anthologized here further establish a dialogue with other cultural backgrounds, offering the reader a wider perspective of networks of women artists in several countries. Contents:
- Christine Battersby: ‘By a Woman Wrought’: Do We/Should We Still Care?
– Márcia Oliveira: From Practice to Theory: The Ontological Turn in 1970s Feminist Art
– Susana M. Costa: Gertrude Käsebier - ‘Lady Amateur’ or ‘Advanced Photographer’? The Case of the Tea Party with the Sioux
– Elisabete Lopes: Francesca Woodman’s Journey into the Gothic Wonderland
– Ana Raquel Fernandes/Daniela Garcia: From D’Aulnoy to Rego and Sherman: Fairy-Tales Revisited
– Teresa Botelho: Finding an Aesthetic of Her Own: Partnering Identities in the Work of Faith Ringgold
– Guisela Latorre: Mestiza Aesthetics: Anzalduan Theories on Visual Arts and Creativity
– Monica Pavani: In the Skin of Another: Rainer Maria Rilke’s, Anne Michaels’ and Sujata Bhatt’s Poems as Embodiments of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s Life and Art
– Jeffrey Childs: Family Resemblances: Elizabeth Bishop and Mark Strand
– Marta Soares: ‘I Know It Hurts to Burn’: Adrienne Rich’s Body in Pain
– Isabel Fernandes Alves: Jamaica Kincaid’s Garden of Words
– Isabel Oliveira Martins: Landscapes of Change: Annie Proulx’s Representation of the American West.
gender, genre, and politics
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kord, Susanne
- Creator
- Krimmer, Elisabeth
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, mannelijkheid, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Description of the changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 within the context of political events, social developments, and popular American myths. The authors describe the most common male types: cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers and losers. Their analysis includes over sixty films, such as The Matrix, Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Wedding Crashers, Mr. & Ms. Smith, War of the Worlds and The 40-Year Old Virgin.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Faderman, Lillian
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- migratie, oorlog en vrede, industrie, joodse vrouwen, vakbonden, sociale klasse, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- This is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and met the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in. She finds a job in the garment industry and a shop friend who teaches her the thrills of dance halls and the cheap amusements open to working-class girls. This dazzling life leaves Mary distracted and her half-sister and brother-in-law scandalized and they kick her out of their home.. Eighteen years later, still barely scraping by as a garment worker and unmarried at thirty-five, Mary falls madly in love with a man who will never marry her, but who will father Lillian Faderman before he disappears from their lives. America is in the midst of the Depression, Hitler is coming to power in Europe, and New York’s garment workers are just beginning to unionize. As National Socialism engulfs Europe, Mary realizes she must find a way to get her family out of Latvia, and she spends frenetic months chasing vague promises and false rumors of hope. Mary faces both single motherhood and the devastating possibility of losing her entire Eastern European family. Lillian Faderman has reconstructed an engrossing and essential chapter in the history of women, of workers, of Jews, and of the Holocaust as immigrants experienced it from American shores.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kaplan, Alice
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2012 - B
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- sociale klasse, zwarte vrouwen, joodse vrouwen, schrijvers, Frankrijk, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens, 20e eeuw
- Description
- All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture and sophistication that only Paris could offer. Yet their backgrounds and their dreams couldn’t have been more different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante, a Catholic girl from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a North Hollywood family of modest means, and Paris was a refuge from motherhood, a failing marriage, and graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Angela Davis, a French major at Brandeis from a prominent African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, found herself the only black student in her year abroad program—in a summer when all the news from Birmingham was of unprecedented racial violence.Kaplan takes readers into the lives, hopes, and ambitions of these young women, tracing their paths to Paris and tracking the discoveries, intellectual adventures, friendships, and loves that they found there.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Theoharis, Jeanne
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 PAR 2013 - B
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- zwarte vrouwen, mensenrechten, etniciteit, acties, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The national narrative on Parks is that of a reluctant champion of civil rights whose single action was refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Theoharis offers a complex portrait of a forceful, determined woman who had long been active before the boycott she inspired and who had an even longer career in civil rights afterward. The image of a quiet seamstress minimizes Parks’ stature as an activist and obscures continued injustice and inequality. Theoharis chronicles Parks’ personal journey to resistance, her work in the South challenging segregation and promoting voter registration, and her continued efforts in Detroit to address racial restrictions that had ostensibly been resolved by civil rights legislation. Theoharis details the cost of the bus boycott to Parks and her family, including decades of death threats: her strong admiration for radical black activists: and the controversies that continue to surround the disposition of her archival material as factions fight to claim rights to her iconic image.
Sylvia Plath and life before Ted
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wilson, Andrew
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 PLA 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- dichters, schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The author argues that Plath’s instability could be traced back to her early life. On the other hand his book shows how difficult it was for any woman - especially someone trying to develop her personality through writing - to survive in the patriarchal world of 1950s America.
sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Freedman, Estelle B.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- verkrachtingen, seksueel geweld, etniciteit, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenkiesrecht, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Freedman demonstrates that our definition of rape has depended heavily on dynamics of political power and social privilege. The long-dominant view of rape in America envisioned a brutal attack on a chaste white woman by a male stranger, usually an black man. From the early nineteenth century, advocates for women’s rights and racial justice challenged this narrow definition and the sexual and political power of white men that it sustained. Between the 1870s and the 1930s, at the height of racial segregation and lynching, and amid the campaign for woman suffrage, women’s rights supporters and African American activists tried to expand understandings of rape in order to gain legal protection from coercive sexual relations, assaults by white men on black women, street harassment, and the sexual abuse of children. By redefining rape, they sought to redraw the very boundaries of citizenship. Freedman narrates the victories, defeats, and limitations of these and other reform efforts. The modern civil rights and feminist movements, she points out, continue to grapple with both the insights and the dilemmas of these first campaigns to redefine rape in American law and culture.
an Indian woman's American journey
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Desai, Padma
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 DES 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- loopbanen, hoogleraren, India, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University. A scholarship to America in 1955 launched her on her long journey to liberation from the burdens and constraints of her life in India. With a growing self-awareness and transformation at many levels, she made a new life for herself, met and married the economist Jagdish Bhagwati and rose to academic eminence at Harvard and Columbia.
the life and work of Marianne Moore
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Leavell, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 MOO 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- dichters, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- This biography of Marianne Moore reveals a passionate, canny woman caught between genuine devotion to her mother and an irrepressible desire for personal autonomy and freedom. Her many poems about survival are not just quirky nature studies but acts of survival themselves. Not only did the young poet join the Greenwich Village artists and writers who wanted to overthrow all her mother's pieties but she also won their admiration for the radical originality of her language and the technical proficiency of her verse. After her mother's death thirty years later, the aging recluse transformed herself, against all expectations, into a charismatic performer and beloved celebrity. She won virtually every literary prize available to her and was widely hailed as America's greatest living poet.
Judy Chicago and the power of popular feminism, 1970–2007
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gerhard, Jane F.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- feministische kunst, feminisme, kunstkritiek, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines the popularity of ´The Dinner Party´, Judy Chicago´s art installation (1979), to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
intimate portrayals of nuns in postwar Anglo-American film
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sabine, Maureen
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2013 - B
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- films, religieuzen, vrouwbeelden, spiritualiteit, seksualiteit, gezinnen, rooms-katholicisme, muziek, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- A study of nuns as lead characters in Hollywood films, including The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995) and Doubt (2008).
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brunner, Elgin Medea
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2013 - B
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- krijgsmacht, oorlog en vrede, publiciteit, overheidsbeleid, gender, Verenigde Staten, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The aim of the author is to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy of the United States by looking at a certain case, state and foreign security policy. In particular this volume explores the identity of the US through military documents on perception management in conflict from 1991-2007. Namely the Persian Gulf War of 1991, the Somalia intervention of 1993, the Kosovo war of 1999, the Afghanistan campaign as a component of the war on terror and the invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003.
the search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rothschild, Hannah
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 ROT 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- jazz, partners van, hogere klasse, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Kathleen Annie Pannonica (‘Nica’) Rothschild (1913-1988), based on archival material and interviews.