The Woman Reader and What She Wanted

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-615
Author(s):  
Emma Liggins
Keyword(s):  
Woman Reader

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Visual Models ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Literacy

This chapter explores a more concrete and historicized figure of the woman reader. It explores the forces that make her appear and disappear, and surveys the state of knowledge on medieval female literacy, and the documentary evidence on women readers. It investigates typically female modes of reading (such as the educational, the devotional, and the courtly) and the visual models that were available to vernacular authors to forge their imagined textual interlocutor. It shows how the protagonist of this book is the product of two cultural events within the history of reading and the material culture of the book: the raise of literacy among the laity and women in the years under consideration, and a changed scenario insofar as theories and practices of reading are concerned.

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Literacy ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Shed Light

The literature of the Italian Due- and Trecento frequently calls into play the figure of a woman reader. From Guittone d’Arezzo’s piercing critic, the ‘villainous woman’, to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante’s female co-editors in the Vita Nova and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the Comedy, all the way to Boccaccio’s overtly female audience, this particular sort of interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority in these times. The aim of this book is to shed light on this figure by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions (in particular Occitan and French) imagined her. Its argument is that these figures of women readers are not mere veneers between a male author and a ‘real’ male readership, but that, although fictional, they bring several advantages to their vernacular authors, such as orality, the mother tongue, the recollection of the delights of early education, literality, freedom in interpretation, absence of teleology, the beauties of ornamentation and amplification, a reduced preoccupation with the fixity of the text, the pleasure of making mistakes, dialogue with the other, the extension of desire, original simplicity, and new and more flexible forms of authority.

The Woman Reader, 1837–1914. Kate Flint

1996 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-387
Author(s):  
Patrick Scott
Keyword(s):  
Woman Reader

Women's Pages in Australian Print Media from the 1850s

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Print Media ◽  
News Values ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Insight Into

For a roughly a century, from the 1870s to the 1970s, most Australian newspapers ran a section directed towards a woman reader written from a woman's perspective and edited by a female journalist. The rise and fall of the women's editor's ‘empire within an empire’ provides insight into female journalists' industrial situation, as well as a window on to gender relations in colonial and post-Federation Australia. This history matches wider struggles over the notion of separate spheres and resulting claims for equality, as well as debates over mainstream news values. This article investigates the appearance and disappearance of women's sections from Australian newspapers, and argues that this story has greater impact on contemporary digital formats than we perhaps realise.

Progressing with a Vengeance: The Woman Reader/Writer in the African Press

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
Corinne Sandwith
Keyword(s):  
Woman Reader

Analogy as Destiny: Cartesian Man and the Woman Reader

Hypatia ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol H. Cantrell
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
The Human Condition

Feminist studies in the history and philosophy of science have suggested that supposedly neutral and objective discourses are shaped by pairs of dualisms, which though value-laden are assumed to inhere in the order of nature. These hierarchical pairs devalue women, particularly their bodies and their labor, as they sanction the domination of nature. Readers of literature can draw on these studies to address texts and genres which do not thematize gender but rather purport to portray “the human condition.” Samuel Beckett's Molloy, with its clear structure of Cartesian divisions, provides a dramatic example of how an examination of dualisms reveals the presence of a language of gender informing a minimalist literary text.

The woman reader, 1837-1914

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Norma Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Woman Reader
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