Frauen in Kultur und Gesellschaft Reihe
Diese Reihe befasst sich mit den komplexen und oft übersehenen Erzählungen von Frauen im Laufe der Geschichte und in verschiedenen Kulturen. Sie untersucht ihre Rollen, ihren Einfluss und ihren Kampf um Anerkennung innerhalb patriarchalischer Strukturen. Jeder Band bietet tiefe Einblicke in die sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Kräfte, die das Leben von Frauen und die Gesellschaft als Ganzes geprägt haben. Dies ist eine unerlässliche Lektüre zum Verständnis der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart aus weiblicher Sicht.
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Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
- 208 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
In this culmination of decades of research, Rose E. Frisch's Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection explains how, in women, each milestone of the reproductive life span - including puberty, fertility, and menopause - is influenced by food intake and energy output, the factors affecting the storage of fat.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer
- 250 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
Nails in the Wall
Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany
During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther instituted new ideologies addressing gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life that threatened Catholic monasticism. Yet many living in cloistered religious communities, particularly women, refused to accept these new terms and were successful in their opposition to the new Protestant culture.Focusing primarily on a group of Dominican nuns in Strasbourg, Germany, Amy Leonard's Nails in the Wall outlines the century-long battle between these nuns and the Protestant city council. With savvy strategies that employed charm, wealth, and political and social connections, the nuns were able to sustain their Catholic practices. Leonard's in-depth archival research uncovers letters about and records of the nuns' struggle to maintain their religious beliefs and way of life in the face of Protestant reforms. She tells the story of how they worked privately to keep Catholicism alive-continuing to pray in Latin, smuggling in priests to celebrate Mass, and secretly professing scores of novices to ensure the continued survival of their convents. This fascinating and heartening study shows that, far from passively allowing the Protestants to dismantle their belief system, the women of the Strasbourg convents were active participants in the battle over their vocation and independence.
Family Fortunes
- 608 Seiten
- 22 Lesestunden
This seminal text in class and gender history has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850. This revised edition contains a substantial new introduction.
"Family Fortunes is a major groundbreaking study that will become a classic in its field. I was fascinated by the information it provided and the argument it established about the role of gender in the construction of middle-class values, family life, and property relations. "The book explores how the middle class constructed its own institutions, material culture and values during the industrial revolution, looking at two settings—urban manufacturing Birmingham and rural Essex—both centers of active capitalist development. The use of sources is dazzling: family business records, architectural designs, diaries, wills and trusts, newspapers, prescriptive literature, sermons, manuscript census tracts, the papers of philanthropic societies, popular fiction, and poetry. "Family Fortunes occupies a place beside Mary Ryan's The Cradle of the Middle Class and Suzanne Lebsock's Free Women of Petersburg. It provides scholars with a definitive study of the middle class in England, and facilitates a comparative perspective on the history of middle-class women, property, and the family."—Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
In this study of sexuality, desire, the body and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature.
Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity
- 464 Seiten
- 17 Lesestunden
Focusing on the dynamics of cultural representation, the study uncovers the underlying power structures that shape popular portrayals of the exotic. Through a critical lens, it examines how these depictions reflect and influence societal perceptions. Enhanced by five line drawings and twenty halftones, the work offers a visually engaging exploration of cultural narratives. The author challenges readers to reconsider their understanding of cultural difference and the implications it has on power relations.
Manliness and Civilization
- 322 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.
Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration.
