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Passionate Women and Unruly Novels
2000Abstract Since her Works had neither Wit enough for a Man, nor Modesty enough for a Woman, [Aphra Behn] was to be look’d upon as an Hermaphrodite, & consequently not fit to enjoy the benefits & Privileges of either Sex, much less of this Society. —A Session of Poets (ca. 1688) What a Pox have Women to do with the Muses?
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Unruly Muslim Women and Threats to Liberal Culture
Peace Review, 2006In the five years since September 11, 2001, Muslim men have been subjected to remarkably cruel treatment in the name of stopping terrorist activity, whereas Muslim women have been considered victim...
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Unruly Knowledge: Women's Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity
NWSA Journal, 2000From its beginnings, Women's Studies has faced challenges due to use of the concept "discipline" to identify bodies of knowledge and to construct institutional boundaries in the academy. With its multiplicity of approaches, Women's Studies crosses lines between realms of knowledge that are typically identified with departments, creating difficulties ...
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Making Space for Those Unruly Women of Color
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2006When I first walked into the classroom without the luxury of sitting in the back of the room, I was extremely self-conscious. As a brand new teacher, I was terrified that my body would betray me.
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Unruly Women and Invisible Workers: The Shrimp Traders of Mazatlán, Mexico
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2012During the 1980s, a group of women from rural communities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa organized a grassroots social movement in order to gain legal access to the sale of shrimp. The movement reached its peak in 1984, with the formation of a shrimp traders union and the establishment of a shrimp marketplace in the tourist city of Mazatlán.
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Modernism from the Margins: Unruly Women and the Politics of Representation
2013Nella Larsen, Anzia Yezierska, and Evelyn Scott were New York neighbors and literary contemporaries in the 1920s, yet they moved in very different social circles. From Larsen, the award-winning psychological novelist of the Harlem Renaissance; to Yezierska, the Jewish immigrant composing in Yiddish-English a boot-straps story of Americanization; to ...
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