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Women's Space and Men's Space
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ISBN: 8381420067 8381420075 Year: 2017 Publisher: Łódź, Poland : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,

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The articles included in this book explore the concept of space with regard to gender discourse. Their authors analyse how women and men address, re-define and shape their physical, topographical as well as cultural and literary space; they study how gender affects women's and men's spatial and discursive location and how it influences their (spatial) identities. The contributors to this book are young academics, Ph.D. students and university graduates. Apart of the freshness of the approach, the book's strength lies in the fact that the gendered dimension of space is discussed here from numerous standpoints, such as geographic, psychological, linguistic, sociological, literary and cultural.


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The woman question in France, 1400-1870
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ISBN: 9781107188082 9781316946367 9781316638422 Year: 2017 Volume: *54 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press


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Discourses on gender and sexual inequality
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ISBN: 1787432521 1787431975 9781787432529 9781787431966 1787431967 9781787431973 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bingley, UK


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Dynamics of gender borders : women in Israel's cooperative settlements
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ISBN: 3110464098 311046621X 9783110466218 9783110464092 311046375X 9783110463750 311046375X 9783110463750 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg : Magnes,

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Resting on the multifaceted and multicultural voices of women – secular and religious, old-timers and newcomers, at the center or on the periphery of their communities – it brings into sharper focus rarely raised issues related to gender borders and to the private and public spheres.Beyond the specific society they treat, these essays contribute to our understanding of the social mechanisms that (re)produce gender inequality in modernity, in its socialist, capitalist, or postindustrial versions.They also provide additional evidence for the limits of any attempt to achieve gender equality by focusing on the transformation of women, without challenging hegemonic masculinities.


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Women and leadership
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ISBN: 0190614730 0190614722 9780190614720 9780190614737 9780190614713 0190614714 0190931779 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Women and Leadership explores the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in America's leadership roles. Drawing on comprehensive research and a survey of prominent women leaders, Rhode describes the reasons for gender inequity in leadership and identifies compelling solutions. Women and Leadership is essential reading for anyone interested in leveling the playing field for women.


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Reflections on gender from a communication point-of-view : genderspectives
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ISBN: 1443878537 9781443878531 144381699X 9781443816991 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,


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The woman question in France, 1400-1870
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ISBN: 1316992578 1316993213 1316993531 131699449X 1316946363 1107188083 1316638421 1316990656 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.


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The Labor of the Mind : Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures
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ISBN: 9780812294187 0812294181 Year: 2017 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish the "manly mind" from the feminine mind? How did awareness of these questions inform various kinds of published and unpublished texts, including the philosophical treatise, the dialogue, the polite essay, and the essay in literary criticism?The Labor of the Mind plumbs the social and cultural logic of the Enlightenment's trope of the manly mind; offers new readings of the textual representations of it; and examines the ways in which the trope was subverted or at least subtly questioned. With close readings of the writings of well-known and less familiar men and women, including Poullain de la Barre, The Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Madeleine de Scudéry, David Hume, Antoine-Léonard Thomas, Suzanne Curchod Necker, Denis Diderot, and Louise d'Epinay, and tracing their social networks and friendships, Anthony J. La Vopa explores the problematic opposition between mental labor as concentrated and sustained work, a labor of abstraction and judgment for which only men had the strength, and an aesthetic of effortless and tasteful play in polite conversation in which women were thought to excel. Covering nearly a century and a half of cultural and intellectual life from France to England and Scotland and then back again, La Vopa locates, beneath the tenacity of assumed natural differences, a lexicon imbued with ambivalence, ambiguity, and argument. The Labor of the Mind reveals the legacy for modernity of a fraught gendering of intellectual labor.


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The biopolitics of feeling : race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 9780822372356 0822372355 Year: 2017 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power. Schuller thereby overturns long-accepted frameworks of the nature of race and sex difference, offers key corrective insights to modern debates surrounding the equation of racism with determinism and the liberatory potential of ideas about the plasticity of the body, and reframes contemporary notions of sentiment, affect, sexuality, evolution, and heredity.

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