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Women as sites of culture : women's roles in cultural formation from the Renaissance to the twentieth century
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Women as sites of culture : women's roles in cultural formation from the Renaissance to the twentieth century

Author: Susan Shifrin
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This collection of essays examines the roles women have played in interrogating, forming, informing and reforming political discourse, cultural tradition and ceremony, social mores and the patronage  Read more...

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Women as sites of culture.
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002
(OCoLC)647079899
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Shifrin
ISBN: 0754603113 9780754603115
OCLC Number: 49044170
Description: xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Female Body As the Site of Polemics --
The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England / Christopher Orchard --
'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment / Alison Piepmeier --
Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s / Louise Ryan --
'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Lisa Plummer Crafton --
'If this is improper, ...then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America / Lisa Johnson --
Staging the Sights of Culture, Staging Women: Theater, Ritual, and Ceremony --
Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial / Elizabeth McCartney --
Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama / Reina Green --
Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman / Susan Lamb --
Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater / Sudipto Chatterjee --
'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How Women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan / Etsuko Kato --
Si(gh)ting the Woman as Cultural Resource --
Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman / Marjorie Och --
Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space / Elizabeth V. Chew.
Responsibility: edited by Susan Shifrin.
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