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Books on: english women

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The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975

Book by Hera Cook; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Birth Control--England--History--19th Century, Birth Control--England--History--20th Century, Fertility, Human--England--History--19th Century, Fertility, Human--England--History--20th Century, Sex Customs--England--History--19th Century, Sex Customs--England--History--20th Century, Women--England--Sexual Behavior--History--19th Century, Women--England--Sexual Behavior--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...blank The Long Sexual Revolution ENGLISH WOMEN, SEX, AND CONTRACEPTION...white Protestant or secular English women. There was regional variation...transformation, in the lives of English women over the past two centuries. The...
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Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers

Book by Sidney L. Sondergard; Susquehanna University Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Language--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain--History--17th Century, Sex Role In Literature, Violence In Literature, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--17th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers Sidney L. Sondergard...rhetorical violence by early modern English women writers / Sidney L. Sondergard...in the writings of early modern English women is as often a response to patriarchal...
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Chaste, Silent & Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640

Book by Suzanne W. Hull; Huntington Library, 1982

Subjects:

Chastity In Literature, England--Imprints, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Fiction, Obedience In Literature, Silence In Literature, Women In Literature, Women--Conduct Of Life, Women--England--Books And Reading--History--16th Century, Women--England--Books And Reading--History--17th Century, Women--England--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...romances that were printed for English women in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and...List cite all the books read by English women in the late fifteenth to early...and his "Reading of Renaissance English Women"; 3 H. S. Bennett three studies...
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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings

Book by Angela Keane; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

English Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Nationalism In Literature, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Romanticism--England--History--18th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national ...
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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.
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Women, Violence, and English Renaissance Literature: Essays Honoring Paul Jorgensen

Book by Linda Woodbridge, Sharon Beehler; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003

Subjects:

English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Rape In Literature, Violence In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History--16th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--17th Century, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Women, Violence, and English Renaissance Literature MEDIEVAL...TEXTS AND STUDIES VOLUME256 Women, Violence, and English Renaissance Literature Essays...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women, violence, and English Renaissance literature : essays...

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Journal Articles on: english women

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Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric

Journal article by Elizabeth Harris Sagaser; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric. (Book)--Book reviews, Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early...Hammons. Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early...texts by early modern women, both Hammons and Sondergard...and seventeenth-century English society. Both authors...
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The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975

Journal article by Judith S. Lewis; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800...The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800...uncovers so well is the role of English women during the demographic transition...
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The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975

Journal article by Angus Mclaren; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975...The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975...contraceptive did little to free women from male sexual demands, feminist...
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"Exemplify My Frailty": Representing English Women in 'De Casibus' Tragedy

Journal article by Paul Budra; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, 1995

Subjects:

English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics in literature--16th century, Women in politics--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Exemplify my frailty": representing English women in De casibus tragedy...The tradition of representing English women in De casibus tragedy began in...Huntington, 1982); Linda Woodbridges Women and the English Renaissance (U. of Illinois Press...
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Women and the Early Modern Canon: Recent Editions of Works by English Women, 1500-1660

Journal article by Mary Thomas Crane; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998

Subjects:

Renaissance--Bibliography, Women authors--Bibliography

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...recent editions of works by English women, 1500-1660. by Mary...Shakespeares hypothetical sister. WOMEN WRITERS IN ENGLISH, 1350-1850 As the forward...Writers of Tudor England: Women Writers 1485-1603," English Literary Renaissance 14...

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Magazine Articles on: english women

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English Women Marry Gay Men Because They Are Not Threatening as Husbands and Are Great as Friends

Magazine article by Mary Riddell; New Statesman, Vol. 128, February 5, 1999

Subjects:

Bisexuality in marriage--United Kingdom, Gay fathers--Analysis, Married women--Case studies, United Kingdom--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

English women marry gay men because they are not threatening...by Mary Riddell Why do English women marry gay men? For love, for friendship...gay associates, such as Noel Coward. English women like gay men. As friends, they are engaging...
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Empowering Women: For 80 Years, the Inter-American Commission of Women Has Worked to Ensure That Women Are Not Only Seen but Heard on Critical Issues Affecting All Citizens

Magazine article by Ian Edwards; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, May-June 2008

Subjects:

International agencies--Powers and duties, International organizations--Powers and duties, Women's issues--Social aspects, Women--Civil rights

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...line is for us to be able to help and to assist to empower the women in our individual territories." One issue CIM has been tackling...populations in the Caribbean and Latin America. Since June 1996, the English-speaking Caribbean has accounted for 4.6 per cent of the cumulative...
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Courageous Women & Insightful Essay: Elizabeth Subercaseaux, Telling It like It Is

Magazine article by Barbara Mujica; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 50, January 1998

Subjects:

Subercaseaux, Elizabeth--Interviews, Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women journalists--Chile

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Courageous women insightful essay: Elizabeth Subercaseaux...penetrating look at the problems of modern women, El comenzon de ser mujer Itching to Be...fury of the mothers of the disappeared--women it was my job to interview." One of Subercaseauxs...
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Angeles Mastretta: Women of Will in Love and War

Magazine article by Barbara Mujica; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 49, July 1997

Subjects:

Authors, Mexican--Attitudes, Mastretta, Angeles--Interviews, Novelists--Mexico, Women authors--Mexico, Women--Mexico

Collections: Entire Library

...Cuban, it goes without saying. Women who went to war with guns in...Washington, D.C., to promote the English edition of Lovesick, Mastretta...writers; however, today many women writers--for example, Esquivel...Mothers Hands was published in English in 1988 by University of Texas...
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Women: A Strong Voice

Magazine article; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 44, March 1992

Subjects:

Women--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

Women: a strong voice From March 8 to 14, a host of prominent women from government and the private sector, including writers...participation of the Iberian Peninsula woman, the American woman and women from different regions of the world in the commemoration...

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Newspaper Articles on: english women

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Scott Free; Kristin Scott Thomas Has Always Specialised in Repressed English Women Trapped in Unhappy Marriages. Now She's Thrown Her Own Life into Turmoil, Lydia Slater Asks: Is the Ice Queen Thawing?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 9, 2005

Subjects:

Scott Thomas, Kristin, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Specialised in Repressed English Women Trapped in Unhappy Marriages...specialised in repressed English women trapped in unhappy marriages...portraying adulterous women (Random Hearts, Gosford...The Horse Whisperer, The English Patient). Why does she...
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Only Irish Women Binge Drink More Than the English

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2006

Subjects:

Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Drink More Than the English. Byline: FIONA MACRAE WOMEN in England are some...that 33 per cent of English women could be tagged binge...staggering 57 per cent of women admitting to binge...that a quarter of English men binge-drink. However...
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Why Scots Are Too Scared to Have More Kids; Women Say They Want Big Families but Fears over Cash, Careers and Health Mean That, Unlike the English, Most Will Decide to Stop at Two

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...27.42 years, compared with 28.08 years for English women. But while half of English women have a second child within 3.2 years, Scottish...child, Scottish women again wait longer than English women. In fact, fewer Scottish women have families...
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Fun's No1 for Scots Girls; Scots Women Spend Most of Their Wages on Living for Today - Unlike English Girls Who Save for the Future. So Just Who Has Got It Right?

Newspaper article by Roz Paterson, Maria Croce; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Funs No1 for Scots Girls; Scots Women Spend Most of Their Wages on Living for Today - Unlike English Girls Who Save for the Future. So Just...disastrous consequences in the future. While English women are putting away a little nest egg for...
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ALLY CHAT; EXCLUSIVE McCoist Goes for Elocution Lessons Because English T V Viewers Can't Un Derstand Him ..but He's Never Had Trouble Smooth-Talking Women

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for Elocution Lessons Because English T V Viewers Cant Un Derstand...Had Trouble Smooth-Talking Women. Byline: By GILL SMITH...for elocution lessons - after English viewers complained they couldnt...started speaking like a posh Englishman." Charmer Ally, 43, who became...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: english women

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...champion both the primitive and the supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological subtlety mark the superb novels...Forster , the biographer Lytton Strachey , and many important English intellectuals of the early 20th cent. Aldous Huxley and Evelyn...
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Herrick, Robert , English Poet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HERRICK, ROBERT , English poet 1591 1674, English poet, generally considered the greatest of the Cavalier...there until his death. Herrick never married, and the many women mentioned in his poems are probably imaginary. The bulk of...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...predominantly regional, and many writers have been women. Among the most prominent authors have...their models from American colonial or English neoclassical literature. Before the confederation...ed. 1972); R. P. Baker, A History of English Canadian Literature to the Confederation...
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Langtry, Lillie

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...LANGTRY, LILLIE 1853 1929, English actress, b. Jersey, Channel Islands; known as the Jersey Lily. One of the first English women of elevated social rank to go on the stage, she made her debut at the Haymarket theater in 1881 after her husband...
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Jex-Blake, Sophia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...JEX-BLAKE, SOPHIA 1840 1912, English physician, active in opening the medical profession to women in England. A graduate of Queens...medical schools to give degrees to women. Jex-Blake was influential in founding medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh. See...

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