Illuminates the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. This work looks at a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.
Demystifying the "Poet Laureate of Depression" Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad--Jane Kenyon's complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that continue to attract a passionate following. Dana Greene draws on a wealth of personal correspondence and other newly available materials to delve ......
Jane Austen, that product of Georgian refinement and restraint, seems far removed from medieval romances abounding in valiant knights rescuing beautiful maidens from ferocious dragons. Yet, Jane Austen's Romantic Medievalism traces her knowledge of the medieval tradition of courtly love and happy endings through medieval authors, through ......
Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate--or undermine--romance and happy endings? How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjaer Brodey ......
Staying Behind But Moving Forward During the Age of Mass Emigration, 187
This study examines the role of southern Italian women who remained behind when their husbands emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By piecing together limited archival source material, the author argues that married women were not voiceless or powerless when their husbands were abroad, but they took on roles beyond ......
What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
This book examines the use of everyday items such as food, clothing, and social media accounts to offer sociological and intersectional analyses of how religion, race, politics, class, and gender shape, define, and reinforce consumption practices of Muslim American women.
