Author: Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.
Women and the City in French Literature and Culture
Author: Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.
Women and the City in French Literature and Culture
Author: Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786834355
Category : Cities and towns in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786834355
Category : Cities and towns in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine.
Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890
Author: Kathryn J. Brown
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409408758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on nineteenth-century notions of femininity and social relations. Artists discussed in the volume range from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as Lavieille, Carrière, Toulmouche and Tissot.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409408758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on nineteenth-century notions of femininity and social relations. Artists discussed in the volume range from Manet, Cassatt and Degas, to less familiar figures such as Lavieille, Carrière, Toulmouche and Tissot.
A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885
Author: Sheri Dion
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 1575911868
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 1575911868
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Women of Modern France
Author: Hugo P. Thieme
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Women of Modern France" by Hugo P. Thieme. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Women of Modern France" by Hugo P. Thieme. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Book of the City of Ladies
Author: Christine De Pizan
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN: 9780892553730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN: 9780892553730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.
Nonstop Metropolis
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
Gender in American Literature and Culture
Author: Jean M. Lutes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108805507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108805507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.
Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French analyses the literary transgressions of women’s writing in French since the turn of the twenty-first century in the works of both established figures and the most exciting and innovative authors from across the francosphère. Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French étudie les transgressions littéraires dans l’écriture des femmes en français depuis le début du XXIe siècle dans les œuvres de figures bien établies aussi bien que chez les auteures les plus innovantes de la francosphère.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French analyses the literary transgressions of women’s writing in French since the turn of the twenty-first century in the works of both established figures and the most exciting and innovative authors from across the francosphère. Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French étudie les transgressions littéraires dans l’écriture des femmes en français depuis le début du XXIe siècle dans les œuvres de figures bien établies aussi bien que chez les auteures les plus innovantes de la francosphère.
Flâneuse
Author: Lauren Elkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374156042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An exhilarating, gender-bending walk through the lives of women who are enlivened by cities
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374156042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An exhilarating, gender-bending walk through the lives of women who are enlivened by cities