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What does the story of Robinson Crusoe have to do with understanding past and present women’s lives? The Female Crusoe: Hybridity, Trade and the Eighteenth-Century Individual investigates the possibility that Daniel Defoe’s famous work was informed by qualities attributed to trade, luxury and credit and described as feminine in the period. In this volume, Robinson Crusoe and the female castaway narratives published in its wake emerge as texts of social criticism that draw on neglected values of race and gender to challenge the dominant values of society. Such narratives worked to establish status and authority for marginalised characters and subjects who were as different, and as similar, as Defoe’s gentleman-tradesman and Wollstonecraft’s independent woman. The Female Crusoe goes on to address the twentieth-century engagement with the castaway tale, showing how three contemporary authors, in their complex and gendered negotiations of power and identity, echo, even while they challenge, the concerns of their eighteenth-century predecessors. This work will be of interest to students interested in literary engagements with individualism and women’s rights in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Gender identity in literature. --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, Daniel)

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In this innovative work, Joanne D. Birdwhistell presents the first gender analysis of the Mencius, a central text in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Mencian philosophy, particularly its ideas about the processes by which a man could develop into a cultivated gentleman, was important to the political thought of China's long imperial order. Through close textual readings, Birdwhistell offers a new interpretation of core Mencian ideas about the heart and the self-cultivation of the great man. She argues that the concept of masculinity advocated by the Mencius is derived, although without acknowledgment, from maternal practices and thinking—through processes of appropriation, inversion, and transformation. She illustrates that even though maternal practices and thinking are an invisible dimension of Mencian thought, they are constantly present in the text through their transcoding with agricultural practices and thinking.

Gender identity in literature. --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Mencius. --- Mencius --- Gender identity in literature --- S12/0364 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Mengzi 孟子 Mencius (incl. works on Mencius ) --- Meng Tseu.

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As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation. Taking Liberties is a study of what may be called patriotism without borders: a nonnational form of loyalty compatible with the universal principles and practices of democracy and human rights, respectful of ethnic and cultural diversity, and, overall, open-minded and inclusive. Moving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic litera

Polish drama --- Patriotism in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Patriotism in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- History and criticism --- History

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So much of great literature centers on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one's sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? What does it mean to fail at doing gender? These are just some of the questions that this volume, edited by Margaret Breen, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Connecticut, examines. Essays will consider a range of texts, including Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble in light of issues of gender, sex, and sexuality, and their interplay.

Sex in literature --- Sex (Psychology) in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- Love in literature --- Sex in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Love in literature.

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Die komparatistische Studie betrachtet den gynozentrischen Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts und den des 19. Jahrhunderts unter gemeinsamen Perspektiven. Zentral steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung der Geschlechtscharakter-Anthropologie für das 19. Jahrhundert. Anhand prominenter Texte der deutschen, englischen und französischen Romanliteratur, die als Verführungsromane weibliche Heldinnen in den Fokus stellen, wird der These einer Kollision von Verstand und Gefühl als spezifisch weibliches Dilemma nachgegangen. Frauen werden dem maßgeblichen Geschlechtscharakterdiskurs zufolge zwar einerseits als emotional definiert, das aktive Ausleben dieser und weiterer ,natürlich weiblicher' Dispositionen bleibt andererseits aber verpönt. Der Vergleich fiktionaler Entwürfe von Weiblichkeit mit normativen Idealen, wie sie zeitgenössische Erziehungsratgeber und Anstandslehren konzipieren, lässt Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten des westeuropäischen Romans in seinen diskursgeschichtlichen Kontexten zutage treten.

European fiction --- Gender identity in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Heroines --- History and criticism.