"Women have been led to believe that superheroes and heroism are not for them, and that they are little more than love interests, or sidekicks who stand by their supermen. This is a false proposition argues Jennifer K. Stuller, as she uncovers the true history of how superwomen …
"Documents goddesses and mythological heroines from cultures around the world, covering Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including the pantheons of the world's religious traditions. By a pioneer in women's spirituality"--
Jacqueline Rose's book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon and film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. These women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a trail across some of the mos…
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to…
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to…
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to…
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to…
Lies of the Past is the story of Simone Unger, an archaeologist who is so driven to uncover the buried past that she loses sight of what is really important. The first three chapters, reproduced here, set up the mystery that will be unraveled by the end of the completed novel. C…
This study of gender and genre addresses how British Romantic poets feminized the epic form. Romantic epics deserve study because of their unusual focus on feminine heroism as a source of liberation from tyranny, a focus on gender that reflects the influence of Edmund Spenser an…
Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…
This dissertation calls attention to a set of late-Victorian novels that refashioned the industrial novels of the mid-nineteenth century to fit the pressing issues of the 1880s and 1890s. Instead of being concerned with the new patterns of life in Northern England as induced by …
Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories
Women warriors and national heroes: global histories
"This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexi…
