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Women, Literature, Criticism

Book by Harry R. Garvin; Bucknell University Press, 1978

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism, Religion And Literature--English-Speaking Countries, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Literature--English-Speaking Countries, Women And Religion

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

BUCKNELL REVIEW Women, Literature, Criticism STATEMENT OF POLICY...copy, $7.50. BUCKNELL REVIEW Women, Literature, Criticism Edited by HARRY...Data Main entry under title: Women, literature, criticism. (Bucknell review...
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The Bitch Is Back: Wicked Women in Literature

Book by Sarah Appleton Aguiar; Southern Illinois University Press, 2001

Subjects:

American Fiction--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism, Evil In Literature, Feminism And Literature, Villains In Literature, Women And Literature--Great Britain, Women And Literature--United States, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Sarah Appleton Aguiar is an assistant professor at Murray State University.
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Worlds within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women

Book by Thelma J. Shinn; Greenwood Press, 1986

Subjects:

American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Fantasy Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Fiction, Future In Literature, Myth In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety ...
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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.
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Women and Western American Literature

Book by Helen Winter Stauffer, Susan J. Rosowski; Whitston Publishing, 1982

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, West (U.S.) In Literature, Women Authors, American, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Western American Literature Women and Western American...answer these questions. Women and Western American Literature is in some respects...Like that volume, Women and Western American Literature includes many essays...
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Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature

Book by Beth Ann Bassein; Greenwood Press, 1984

Subjects:

Death, Women And Death, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Handiwork: Images of Women in Early Germanic Literature Richard J. Schrader...Judith Sealander Women in Colonial Spanish American Literature: Literary Images...index. 1. Women. 2. Women in literature. 3. Death. I. Title...

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Fanny's Misreading and the Misreading of Fanny: Women, Literature, and Interiority in Mansfield Park

Journal article by Susan C. Greenfield; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 36, 1994

Subjects:

Literature--History And Criticism, Philology

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and the Misreading of Fanny: Women, Literature, and Interiority in Mansfield...referred to the problem of women and literature, for at the time popular works...mind" (4). According to such literature, women--more than men--had the capacity...
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Sexual Matter and 'Votes for Women.'

Journal article by Sue Thomas; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 33, 1997

Subjects:

English drama--20th century, Robins, Elizabeth--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Suffrage--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Votes for Women! A Dramatic Tract (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Lincoln: U of...Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the...Studies in Womens Literature 8 (1989): 63-75...The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the...Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory. Ed...
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Hijab Scenes: Muslim Women, Migration, and Hijab in Immigrant Muslim Literature

Journal article by Samaa Abdurraqib; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Hijab (Custom)--Social aspects, Muslim women--Clothing, Muslim women--Social aspects, United States--Social aspects, Women immigrants--Clothing, Women immigrants--Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Clothing, Women, Muslim--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Hijab Scenes: Muslim Women, Migration, and...Immigrant Muslim Literature. by Samaa...Hyphenation Immigrant literature written by Muslim women pushes against the...are examples of literature written by Muslim women that falls into...
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If Women Should Beware Women, Bianca Should Beware Mother

Journal article by Richard A. Levin; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 37, 1997

Subjects:

English drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Middleton, Thomas--Works, Mothers-in-law--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women Beware Women (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...introduction to the Norton Women Beware Women, pp. xi-xxxv, sets the play in the context of misogynist literature and of defenses of women (pp. xvii-xxi). 7 The Mother is a "gentlewoman" at II.ii.226; she discusses her impecunious circumstances...
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What We Know about Women in Community Colleges: An Examination of the Literature Using Feminist Phase Theory

Journal article by Susan B. Twombly; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 64, 1993

Subjects:

Community colleges--Social aspects, Women college students--Social aspects, Working women--Research

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...focusing on the community college literature on women, this study shares Boxers...returning to school as do women. The literature leaves the reader feeling...such is not the case in the literature on women in the community college...

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African American Women: A Selected List of Books

Magazine article by Janet Sims-Wood; Negro History Bulletin, January 1996

Subjects:

African American women--Literature, Literature--Bibliography

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

African American women: a selected list of books by Janet Sims-Wood Alexander, Amy. Fifty Black Women Who Changed America. Secaucus, N. J.: Carol...Group. 1998, 256p. Allen, Carol. Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family...
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What's Behind the Big Boom in Black Women Writers

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 55, March 2000

Subjects:

African American women authors--Works, African American women--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Whats Behind the Big Boom In Black Women Writers. by Charles Whitaker...ago, most of the attention paid to Black women fiction writers was focused on a small...Though immensely popular, these revered women of letters were the exceptions rather than...
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Feisty Females: Using Children's Literature with Strong Female Characters

Magazine article by Karen Karp, Candy Allen, Linda G. Allen, Elizabeth Todd Brown; Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 5, October 1998

Subjects:

Education of women--Methods, Mathematics teachers--Methods, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Women's education--Methods

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Using Childrens Literature with Strong Female...Association of University Women 1991). They are...in how these two women faced similar problems...ways. This piece of literature enabled us to reinforce...Models in Childrens Literature? Paper presented...the Association of Women in Psychology, Indianapolis...
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Women for Women: The Grassroots Organization Women for Women International Helps Individuals Recover from Wartime Atrocities

Magazine article by Alison Burke; World and I, Vol. 18, June 2003

Subjects:

Salbi, Zainab--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Salbi, Zainab--Influence, Salbi, Zainab--Planning, War victims--Care and treatment, Women for Women International--History, Women for Women International--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...injustice and the need for action." An outreach program educates the public through print literature, public speaking, and a Web site with current information about women at risk around the world. Pertinent issues include rape and concentration camps...
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Black Women Firsts: Hidden Gems of Black History

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 52, April 1997

Subjects:

African American women athletes--Biography, African American women executives--Biography, African American women teachers--Biography, African American women--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Elizabeth Mahoney, who graduated from the New England hospital for Women and Children in Boston in 1879. The first woman, the first...1993. The first Black American to win the Nobel Prize for literature was Toni Morrison in 1993. The first Black woman to edit...

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Anti-Women Literature Found at 3 City Mosques; Exclusive

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), November 4, 2007

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

Anti-Women Literature Found at 3 City Mosques...away from men." The same literature also stresses that Muslim women are forbidden from travelling...harsh stance towards Muslim women adopted in some literature, he added: "Of course a sick...
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Women in Sports, Literature, Music Getting Their Due

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 2, 2001

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

Women in Sports, Literature, Music Getting Their Due...devote this weeks column to great women in sports, art, literature and music, plus a few suggestions...Chicago. Paying homage to the women writers who have influenced and...
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Lifestyle: Each Sentence an Escape for Inmates; Hannah Davies Took Part in a Literature Workshop in Low Newton Prison, Durham, to Discover How Literature Is Helping Women Inside

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 9, 2007

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

...to Discover How Literature Is Helping Women Inside. Byline...hope the bright women I met in Low Newton...positive effects literature can make on their...providing the women of Low Newton...communicative values of literature and we hope to...
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Culture: A Passion for Stories; She Was One of Two Women Whose Passion and Drive Turned Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books, from a Dream into a Reality. Daniel Thomson Talks to Elizabeth Hammill Who Has Been Awarded an OBE for Services to Children's Literature

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 11, 2007

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

...Stories; She Was One of Two Women Whose Passion and Drive Turned...for Services to Childrens Literature. Byline: Daniel Thomson...specifically for childrens literature and artwork is still in its...are the same in childrens literature and the activities we put...
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Mum Said Politics Was a Disease.The Women in Our Family Caught It More Badly Than Most; FAMILY SEAT: Tamsin Dunwoody on the Campaign Trail in Crewe Last Week

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 11, 2008

Subjects:

Women

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

...fortunes are little better. After studying English andAmerican literature at the University of Kent, she took a post-graduatequalification...was like a disease - once caught never cured, shesays. The women in our family seem to catch it more badly than most. But Iunderstood...

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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...court communications, yet literature in the native language, the...medium permitted to educated women, gained increasing prestige...write in Japanese. Much Heian literature of note was written by aristocratic women, foremost among whom was...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...figures of 20th-century English literature were not English; Shaw, Yeats...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...a great period of English literature, it produced a variety of...Fowler, A History of English Literature (1987); The New Cambridge...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...gave rise to the gaucho literature of Argentina and Uruguay...trends and movements. Three women poets, Alfonsina Storni, Juana...underdog of any sort now entered literature as an urgent social problem...Representative of this indigenista literature are Raza de bronce bronze...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

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