Women as Sites of Culture: Women's Roles in Cultural Formation from the Renaissance to the Twentieth CenturySusan Shifrin Ashgate, 2002 - 274 pàgines Exploring the ways in which women have formed and defined expressions of culture in a range of geographical, political, and historical settings, this collection of essays examines women's figurative and literal roles as "sites" of culture from the 16th century to the present day. The diversity of chronological, geographical and cultural subjects investigated by the contributors-from the 16th century to the 20th, from Renaissance Italy to Puritan Boston to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to post-war Japan, from parliamentary politics to the politics of representation-provides a range of historical outlooks. The collection brings an unusual variety of methodological approaches to the project of discovering intersections among women's studies, literary studies, cultural studies, history, and art history, and expands beyond the Anglo- and Eurocentric focus often found in other works in the field. The volume presents an in-depth, investigative study of a tightly-constructed set of crucial themes, including that of the female body as a governing trope in political and cultural discourses; the roles played by women and notions of womanhood in redefining traditions of ceremony, theatricality and spectacle; women's iconographies and personal spaces as resources that have shaped cultural transactions and evolutions; and finally, women's voices-speaking and writing, both-as authors of cultural record and destiny. Throughout the volume the themes are refracted chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily as a means to deeper understanding of their content and contexts. Women as Sites of Culture represents a productive collaboration of historians from various disciplines in coherently addressing issues revolving around the roles of gender, text, and image in a range of cultures and periods. |
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Pàgina 31
... physical labor , and governs the domestic realm.25 Truth defines herself in this part of her speech according to her labor , asserting that she can perform all of the physical acts a man can , stressing , ' I am as strong as any man ...
... physical labor , and governs the domestic realm.25 Truth defines herself in this part of her speech according to her labor , asserting that she can perform all of the physical acts a man can , stressing , ' I am as strong as any man ...
Pàgina 32
... physical labor that the average middle - class white woman would have found impossible . Although at the time of her Akron speech , Truth was probably no longer physically capable of this kind of labor , her assertions were more than ...
... physical labor that the average middle - class white woman would have found impossible . Although at the time of her Akron speech , Truth was probably no longer physically capable of this kind of labor , her assertions were more than ...
Pàgina 33
... physical labor for someone else but is , as for Crockett and other tall tale characters ' bodies , evidence of her heroic status . 6 Without proper contextualization , Truth's claims to physical strength could be read as a reification ...
... physical labor for someone else but is , as for Crockett and other tall tale characters ' bodies , evidence of her heroic status . 6 Without proper contextualization , Truth's claims to physical strength could be read as a reification ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
Sojourner Truths | 25 |
The Female Embodiment | 37 |
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