scholarly journals Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-32
Author(s):  
Janine Hatter ◽  
◽  
Helena Ifill
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Current Series ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Publishing Practice ◽  
A Current ◽  
Feminist Practice

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary and gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishers and edited by Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill, as one example of a current series that continues and develops this feminist practice. By drawing upon the research, writing and publishing practice of current women academics, as well as related issues concerning literary value, canonicity and the popularity of the Victorian writers themselves, we showcase the methodological and pedagogical practice of finding motivation and inspiration beyond that which is established as the norm. Furthermore, through examining the current political, academic and publishing fields’ impact on researching and teaching (Victorian) popular fiction, we discuss breakthroughs, challenges and potential ways for the study of this area to move forward. Popular women’s writing continues to offer readers, students and academics, ways to challenge conventions, embrace the multi-faceted nature of our field and take our place on the landscape.

The Progress of Feeling: The Ossian Poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoEllen DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Of Moral Sentiments

This chapter examines the relationship between time, feeling, and gender in two foundational texts of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Ossian poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. It contends that Macpherson and Smith created a temporal map of emotion that gauged social development from “primitive” to “developed” cultures and offered women writers and Scottish philosophers a new field upon which they could experiment with the relationship between gender and historical progress. Despite their obvious differences, Macpherson and Smith used women’s social status and the feminine values they were thought to impart to their male counterparts as tools for charting, evaluating, and questioning emerging theories of historical change. The ambiguity surrounding feminine sentiments’ placement in these Scottish Enlightenment narratives of historical progress creates the foundation for the following chapters, which trace women writers’ engagement with the theories of feeling and historical progress articulated by these two influential writers.

Introduction: Women, Wars and Weapons: Mapping the Cultural Battlefield of Ba‘thist Iraq

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hawraa Al-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Saddam Hussein ◽  
The Status ◽  
Iraqi Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

W hen Saddam Hussein infamously proclaimed that the word and the bullet came from the same barrel, he created an embattled cultural space which would persist because of, and in spite of, his dominance of Iraqi politics for almost twenty-five years. This book is not an analysis of the status of women in Iraq under Saddam Hussein; nor is it exclusively about Iraqi women writers inside or outside the country, or about constructions of gender and gender identity. Instead the focus of the book is, to use the words of Abir Hamdar, on the ‘ongoing struggle for symbolic power in the Arab world’....

Leffler (Edgren), Anne Charlotte (1849–1892)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Hron
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Del Pezzo

Anne Charlotte Leffler was one of the most acclaimed Swedish women writers of the modern breakthrough in late 19th-century Scandinavia. Joining the circle known as Young Sweden, a leading literary movement of the 1880s, she was part of the Ibsen-inspired debate about women’s rights, sexual morality, and the normative bourgeois family structure. During her lifetime, Leffler’s plays were performed more frequently than Strindberg’s, and she was known as a notable salon hostess. After her divorce from Gustaf Edgren in 1889, she married the Italian mathematician Pasquale del Pezzo, duke of Cajanello, and settled in Italy. In 1892 she died of appendicitis at the age of forty-three. In her provocative works, sometimes close to popular fiction, Leffler depicts not only dysfunctional middle-class marriages but also 19th-century notions of love, in particular eroticism. Her major works are translated into several languages, including English, German, Russian, Italian, Croatian and Dutch.

The Unspeakable Speculative, Spoken

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-574
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wanzo
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Racial Representations ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Paradigm Shifting

Abstract Exploring various absences—what is or should not be represented in addition to the unspeakable in terms of racial representations—is the through line of three recent books about race and speculative fictions. Mark C. Jerng’s Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018) argues racial worldmaking has been at the center of speculative fictions in the US. In Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (2017), Kristen Lillvis takes one of the primary thematic concerns of black speculative fictions—the posthuman—and rereads some of the most canonical works in the black feminist literary canon through that lens. Lillvis addresses a traditional problem in the turn to discussions of the posthuman and nonhuman, namely, what does it mean to rethink black people’s humanity when they have traditionally been categorized as nonhuman? Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) speaks to the absence of a framework of disability in African American literature and cultural criticism. In addressing absence—or, perhaps silence—Schalk offers the most paradigm-shifting challenge to what is speakable and unspeakable: the problem of linking blackness with disability and how to reframe our treatment of these categories.

scholarly journals COMO PROBLEMATIZAR AS VIOLÊNCIAS DE GÊNERO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL? UMA PROPOSTA EM DISCUSSÃO

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Jane Felipe ◽  
Jéssica Tairâne Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Continuous Work

RESUMOEste trabalho tem por objetivo discutir as violências de gênero e suas implicações e consequências na Educação Infantil, pois muitas crianças vivenciam situações de violência intrafamiliar. Nosso compromisso como educadores/as tem sido problematizar o tema, tendo como referencial teórico os Estudos de Gênero e os Estudos Culturais. Para tanto, realizamos um trabalho contínuo com crianças de quatro e cinco anos, em uma EMEI de Novo Hamburgo/RS, sobre Direitos Humanos e equidade de gênero, promovendo atividades lúdicas e leituras literárias, que visam discutir a divisão do trabalho doméstico, modos de resolução de conflitos e o respeito às diferenças. Os resultados apontam que as crianças foram (re)construindo alguns scripts de gênero, trazendo soluções para as divisões de tarefas.Palavras-chave: Violências de gênero.  Educação Infantil. Scripts de gênero. Prática pedagógica. ABSTRACTThis work aims to discuss gender violence and its implications and consequences in Early Childhood Education, since many children experience situations of intrafamily violence. Our commitment as educators has been to problematize the theme, having as theoretical reference the Studies of Gender and Cultural Studies. For that, we carried out a continuous work with children of four and five years, in an EMEI of Novo Hamburgo / RS, on Human Rights and gender equality, promoting play activities and literary readings, that aim to discuss the division of domestic work, ways of conflict resolution and respect for differences. The results show that children have been (re) constructing some gender scripts, bringing solutions to task divisions.Keywords: Gender violence. Child education. Gender scripts. Pedagogical practice.

scholarly journals Virtue as Adventure and Excess: Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight Series

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Claudia Lindén
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Twilight Series

The vampire is still primarily a literary figure. The vampires we have seen on TV and cinema in recent years are all based on literary models. The vampire is at the same time a popular cultural icon and a figure that, especially women writers, use to problematize gender, sexuality and power. As a vampire story the Twilight series both produces and problematizes norms in regard to gender, class and ethnici-ty. As the main romantic character in Twilight, Edward Cullen becomes interesting both as a vampire of our time and as a man. In a similar way as in the 19th century novel the terms of relationship are negotiated and like his namesake Edward Rochester, Edward Cullen has to change in important ways for the “happy end-ing” to take place. In spite of a strong interest in sexuality and gender norms in relation to vampires very few studies have focused exclusively on masculinity. This article examines the construction of masculinity in relation to vampirism in the Twilight series. It offers an interpretation of Stephenie Meyer’s novels and the character of Edward as part of a broader field of feminist (re-)uses of the vampire in modern literature with its roots in the literary tradition from Austen and the Brontë-sisters as well as from classic Gothic fiction.

scholarly journals Alcohol and new onset atrial fibrillation: a case-control study of a current series.

Heart ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 468-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Koskinen ◽  
M Kupari ◽  
H Leinonen ◽  
K Luomanmaki
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Current Series ◽  
Onset Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
A Current ◽  
Control Study ◽  
New Onset
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