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Feminist and Materialist Philosophies of History in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

Meliora, 2022
The first act of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls does away with temporal boundaries, inviting women across historical periods, artistic masterworks, and literary epics to a dinner party. During the evening, the women share their life stories, interrupt each
Sophie Poole
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Review of Sigrund Haude and Melinda S. Zook, eds, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women: Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2016
This article reviews Sigrun Haude and Melinda S. Zook, eds, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women: Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith.
Emma Major
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Feminist biography and feminist history [PDF]

Women's History Review, 1994
Abstract This article seeks to explore the relationship between biography and the many new developments evident in feminist history. Taking as its particular focus the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English feminism, it looks at the divergence between an approach to biography which assumes it to be concerned with the lives of exceptional ...
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Footprints, Imprints: Seeing Environmentalist and Buddhist Marie Byles as an Eastern Australian

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2007
This paper looks at the Australian author, traveller, conservationist and Buddhist Marie Byles (1900-1979) as “eastern” and Australian at once. It investigates the influence of Buddhist spirituality and travel on her approach to the environment and ...
Allison Jane Cadzow
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Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity [PDF]

Kronos
Revolutionary experiments require building revolutionary relationships. This praxis of material and social creativity to reorganise power dynamics and weave connections across weaponised divides, are evident in the content, the form and the backstory ...
Koni Benson
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Mothering a nation : the gendered memory of Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion [PDF]

, 2015
textThis paper approaches fiction as a site of gendered history and memory and presents two pieces of literature by Kenyan authors - Passbook Number F.47927 by Muthoni Likimani and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo ...
Murimi, Wanjira
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Women’s and feminist periodical press in literary studies’ classroom: Theory and practice [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
Women’s and feminist periodical press represents a fruitful resource for researchers who explore women’s and gender history, history of women’s and feminist movement(s), women’s writing, and various gender identites which were - and still are ...
Kolarić Ana
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Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science [PDF]

, 2006
This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of The Death of Nature among English-speaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized by these historians (as opposed to ...
Park, Katharine
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L’expérience collective des archives

Glad!, 2021
This article offers an introduction to the English feminist history of the 70s, little known in France, and it analyzes the activist contexts in which this history emerged.
Delphine Frasch
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Girl, interrupted : the distinctive history of Galician women's narrative [PDF]

, 2003
This paper addresses the anomaly that whilst there are increasing numbers of Galician-language women poets and writers of children's literature, women prose writers are still few and far between.
Hooper, Kirsty
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