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jewish narratives on abandoned wives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Goldstein, Bluma
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- echtscheidingen, familierecht, joodse vrouwen, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Duitsland, Verenigde Staten, Oost-Europa
- Description
- This study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ('chained wives')--women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce--and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to describe the dynamics of power between men and women within traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of experiences abandoned women faced.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Flannery, Denis
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, homostudies, aids, zwarte schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Sibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity. Denis Flannery demonstrates the centrality of fraternal and sororal love to queer strands of nineteenth- and twentieth century texts from the elemental wildnesses of Moby-Dick to David Fincher's postmodern cinema: from the brutal and comic decorum of Henry James' major fiction to the elegiac memoir-writing of Jamaica Kincaid. Questions driving Flannery's exploration of sibling relations: How do we characterize the relationship between sibling love, queer possibility and the formal intensities of American writing? Why is brotherhood invoked as a positive value in announcements of the United States national aspirations but used repeatedly and ominously in that nation's texts to herald a fall?
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- DeLuzio, Crista
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 2 2007
- Thesaurus
- adolescentie, meisjes, gender, identiteit, psychologie, theorieën, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book DeLuzio studies the early formulation of the category of female adolescence in America. The work explanes how adolescence emerged as a 'crisis' in female development. It examines the views of experts from different fields of science, such as psychology, biology, and anthropology. Among the experts whose theories are reviewed we find G. Stanley Hall, Lawrence Frank, Carol Gilligan, and Margaret Mead.
African-American women composers and their music
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walker-Hill, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- componisten, muziek, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book provides an examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It gives attention to the musical, political and social context in which the music was composed. With individual chapters on Undine Smith Moore (1904-89), Julia Perry (1924-79), Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Irene Britton Smith (1907-99), Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940), Valerie Capers (b. 1935), Mary Watkins (b. 1939), and Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
a historical journey through American media
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Semonche, John E.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, seksualiteit, internet, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. He covers the various forms of American media--books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. In each of the areas, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place. He also details how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship diminished over the course of the last two centuries. In an era in which sexual images are pervasive and the need for reliable information about sex and sexuality is growing, he questions the remaining rationales for censorship and the justification for placing obscenity outside the protection of the U.S. Constitution.
women's organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s-1940s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jonsson, Pernilla > (ed.)
- Creator
- Neunsinger, Silke > (ed.)
- Creator
- Sangster, Joan > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 7 2007
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vrouwenorganisaties, arbeidsmarkt, vrouwenkiesrecht, socialisme, internationaal, historisch, Canada, Duitsland, Europa, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, Zweden, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, essay
- Description
- This volume contributes a series of essays about the history of feminist internationalism, examining the attempts of feminists and socialists in Western Europe and the Americas to establish meaningful connections with fellow activists across national boundaries, whether through travel, written communications, or face-to-face meetings.
making history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Smith, Margaret Supplee
- Creator
- Wilson, Emily Herring
- Creator
- Betts, Doris > (forew.)
- Creator
- Buford, Elizabeth F. > (pref.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 1999 - C
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, vrouwen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Stories and pictures to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Throughout the book are biographies of twenty-two North Carolina women, from Cherokee Beloved Woman Nanye'hi and frontierswoman Rebecca Bryan Boone to civil rights scholar and priest Pauli Murray and political activist Gladys Avery Tillett.
male sensibility in America, 1890-1920
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pettegrew, John
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, rolgedrag, mannen, geweld, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines theoretical writings and cultural traditions in the United States and argues that, Darwinian arguments to the contrary, masculine aggression can be interpreted as a modern strategy for taking power. He argues that traditionally held beliefs about masculinity developed largely through language and cultural habit, and that these same tools can be employed to break through the myth that brutishness is an inherently male trait.
an intellectual history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Evans, Stephanie Y.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2007
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijk onderwijs, wetenschappelijke beroepen, zwarte vrouwen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women’s educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education. Evans reveals how black women demanded space as students and asserted their voices as educators--despite such barriers as violence, discrimination, and oppressive campus policies--contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States. Among those Evans profiles are Anna Julia Cooper, who was born enslaved yet ultimately earned a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College.
a critical introduction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- May, Vivian M.
- Creator
- Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, theorieën, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, etniciteit, filosofie, biografische gegevens, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), a renowned black feminist scholar, educator, and activist. Drawing on African and feminist theory, May places Cooper's theorizing in its historical contexts.
the remarkable life of Lady Randolph Churchill
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sebba, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 CHU 2007
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, journalisten, moeders, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (1854-1921), born Jennie Jerome, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Based a.o. on family letters.
America's first movie star
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Kelly R.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LAW 2007
- Description
- Biography of Florence Lawrence (1890-1938), Canadian-American silent film actress, often referred to as 'The first movie star', and 'The biograph girl'.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Weiss, Penny A. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Kensinger, Loretta > (ed.)
- Creator
- Tuana, Nancy > (pref.)
- Contributor
- Hewitt, Marsha
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 GOL 2009
- Thesaurus
- anarchisme, feminisme, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, bundel, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Essays about Goldman's thinking, from social, historical and philosophical perspectives.
O'Keeffe and the women of the Stieglitz circle
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pyne, Kathleen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2007 - B
- Thesaurus
- kunstenaressen, schilders, fotografen, galeries, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Describes how Alfred Stieglitz's search for a pure, essential 'woman in art' led him to several women before his vision found ultimate expression in Georgia O’Keeffe, whom Stieglitz portrayed as the shining, liberated feminine figure of his movement. The author portrays women who were affiliated with the Stieglitz circle, namely Gertrude Käsebier, Pamela Colman Smith, Anne Brigman, and Katharine Nash Rhoades. She argues how these artists helped define the woman modernist through their lives and their individual photographs and paintings. This publication accompanied an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in fall 2007.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tally, Justine
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, romans, zwarte schrijvers, prijzen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is a widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher.
the culture of divorce in the West since 1789
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Leydecker, Karl > (ed.)
- Creator
- White, Nicholas > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Akass, Kim
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 33 2007
- Thesaurus
- romans, films, televisie, kranten, echtscheidingen, relaties, liefde, normen, recht, politiek, vrouwbeelden, Europa, Rusland, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This study offers an account of the depiction of divorce across the northern hemisphere in novels, films, journalism and television. Scholars from the UK and North America contributed to this volume. The first contribution is on divorce in a number of early women's novels in Germany, 1784-1848. In most other western literatures, divorce becomes an important subject matter of fiction from the mid-nineteenth century. A relationship is found between the legal possibilites of divorce and the depiction of divorce in fiction. Other contributions are on literatures from the UK, France, Scandinavia, America, and Russia, and on twentieth century American films. A chapter is on the late twentieth century lesbian romance. The book ends with the subjects of separation and divorce in the contemporary American television series 'The Sopranos'.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lee, Hermione
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 WHA 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, verhalen, romans, poëzie, essays, partners van, Verenigde Staten, Italië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American writer Edith Warton (1862 – 1937) .
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hannam, June
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2007
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenkiesrecht, burgerschap, eerste feministische golf, tweede feministische golf, socialisme, Verenigde Staten, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Starting with the late eighteenth century, this book explores the history of feminism within a range of countries .The use of a comparative approach highlights the varieties of feminism and the different political and social contexts in which they have developed. Hannam identifies changes over time and introduces recent interpretations and approaches. Key themes include the challenge made by feminists to prevailing ideas about a ‘woman’s place’, the notions of sisterhood and solidarity and the relationship between feminism and other social and political reform movements, including nationalist struggles, socialist politics and anti-colonial movements