These authors' responses to sexually liberated female characters are viewed as a reaction to the changing Twenties' social and moral climate, and their dramatically differing perspectives underline the influence of authorial gender on the perception of female sexuality.Walden...
Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/Through a Female Lens 201 S. Lillian Kremer 16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes 223 ... AL Berger,GL Cronin - 《Unfinalized Moments》 被引量: ...
He published various short fiction works, including Bartleby the Scrivener, but his marquee work is Moby Dick, which he published in 1851. In the early 20th century, there was a significant Melville Revival, positioning him as one of the greatest American authors of all time. 4. F. Scott...
In her 1992 novel, The War Against Women, she expanded on female oppression, writing: “Men’s need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”...
This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified.Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in these women's novels, Bauer explains, insofar as these novelists seized the ...
Focusing most often on female victims, captivity stories directly addressed the fears of colonists who felt threatened by the power of the vast American wilderness and its indigenous population. Of these, The True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) provides one...
We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven't read yet. Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. Submit Perhaps she would say the misspelling made me into a ghost like the ones that haunted her life. The subtitle ofWoman Warrioris “memoirs of a girlho...
This comic play asks compelling questions about the state of the male-female power struggle, fears of disrupting the status quo and ultimately the importance of challenging tradition. Saito, Andrew He is Resident Playwright at The Cutting Ball Theater, has studied, worked and lived in Mexico, ...
African-American Women Authors in Antebellum America Image: Middle-class black women who loved to read did not have many role models. Credit: Jeffrey Green Prior to the Civil War, the majority of African-Americans living in the United States were held in bondage. Although law forbade them, ma...
Untitled female figure, 1957, Hans Josephsohn Photo © Katalin Deér, Josephsohn Estate If it’s hard to find a single adjective to define the work, it’s even more difficult describe the feeling that Hans Josephsohn and the experience of his work inspire in me. Born in Konigsberg in 19...