"In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, …
Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing o…
Women's voices: visions and perspectives
by DiYanni, Robert, Hoy, Pat C., Schor, Esther H.
Women's voices: visions and perspectives
by DiYanni, Robert, Hoy, Pat C., Schor, Esther H.
Women's voices: visions and perspectives
by DiYanni, Robert, Hoy, Pat C., Schor, Esther H.
Women's voices: visions and perspectives
by DiYanni, Robert, Hoy, Pat C., Schor, Esther H.
This volume is an anthology of nonfiction writing by women. The text is divided into two sections: the first section contains from three to four pieces by fifteen major women writers; the second section presents thirty-four classic essays from the feminist tradition.