Women and Things, 1750 1950: Gendered Material Strategies
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts
Bryn Geffert and Theofanis George Stavrou
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Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox...
Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives 1540 - 1714
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Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England,...
Women as Public Moralists in Britain - From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf: Volume 95
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In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and...
Dana (24 KP) rated A Serious Proposal to the Ladies in Books
Mar 23, 2018
I did enjoy the first essay more than I did the second because the second got a lot more religious and quite repetitive. But it was still interesting.
If you are interested in early feminist lit or in religious literature, check this book out. I think you would thoroughly enjoy it.
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
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Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal...
A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell and Dave Buchanan
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A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed...
Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S., 1859-79
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This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women's travel narratives...
The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. Colacurcio and Luke Bresky
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Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community,...
Her Voice Will be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
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Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious...