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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 864-874, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
wiley   +1 more source

“I’VE READ YOU RIGHT- I’M WITH YOU NOW”: AESTHETIC READING IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S METAFICTIONAL SHORT STORIES

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
“I’ve read you right—I’m with you now”: Aesthetic Reading in Virginia Woolf’s Metafictional Short Stories. Despite critical interest in Virginia Woolf’s intense preoccupation with the imaginative process at the root of literary creation, little ...
Andreea PARIS-POPA
doaj   +1 more source

Una passejada amb la senyora Dalloway [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Després de traduir Mrs Dalloway, la traductora explica els problemes que li ha plantejat girar aquesta obra al català i les lectures que ha hagut de fer per preparar-la.
Udina, Dolors
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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 795-804, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virginia Woolf, leitora de ficção russa

open access: yesLiteratura e Sociedade, 2006
A carreira de Virginia Woolf como ensaísta tem início por volta de dez anos antes da publicação de seu primeiro romance. Refletindo sobre a natureza dos problemas postos à ficção contemporânea sua, Woolf dá particular destaque à produção russa da segunda
Regina Pontieri
doaj   +1 more source

Death of the Moth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The image of moths gathering around a source of light recurs in Woolf’s private writings and becomes an import motif also in her novels and essays. It is most probably the description of moths in her sister’s letter that become an initial inspiration for
Woolf, Virginia
core   +3 more sources

Virginia Woolf and the Book Society Limited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In her polemical BBC radio debate with Leonard in July 1927, Virginia Woolf foresaw the appeal of what would shortly become the Book Society Ltd, a mail order book club modelled on the successful American Book-of-the-Month Club.
Wilson, Nicola
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VIRGINIA WOOLF EN LOS TESTIMONIOS DE VICTORIA OCAMPO: TENSIONES ENTRE FEMINISMO Y COLONIALISMO

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Literatura, 2006
En este artículo se analizan una serie de textos ensayísticos de la escritora argentina Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), en los que ella aborda la relación que la ligó a Virginia Woolf, su principal referente en términos literarios y feministas.
Alicia Salomone
doaj  

About the translation of Dones i literatura [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
L’article planteja diverses qüestions al voltant de la traducció al català de l’obra Dones i literatura, de Virginia Woolf: analitza l’autoria i gestació de l’obra original i contextualitza l’encàrrec de traducció; aborda les dificultats més rellevants ...
Ainaud i Escudero, Jordi
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A conversion disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Interrogating the relationship between reading, writing and ‘conversion disorder’, this creative-critical essay explores the eversion of the glove in the work of Woolf, Genet, Freud and Derrida.
Jackson, S
core   +1 more source

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