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All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave [PDF]
In 1982, African American feminists, writers, and educators Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith co-edited a foundational volume of essays designed to map a program for African American women’s studies and research on issues ranging ...
Lenhardt, R.A., Paul-Emile, Kimani
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[Review of] Mitsuye Yamada and Sarie Sachie Hylkema, eds. Sowing Ti Leaves: Writings by Multi-Cultural Women [PDF]
Sowing Ti Leaves gathers together personal narratives, poems, essays, and a scholarly study which were produced during the Multi-Cultural Women Writers (MCWW) of Orange County\u27s nine-year existence.
Motoyama, Kate
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The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity [PDF]
The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more
Till, C
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The Politics of Faith in the Work of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros [PDF]
If Chicanas are perceived as a communal threat because they are closer to the carnal, according to the Church, they paradoxically are worshipped as the female divine within indigenous practices like Yoruba or Mexica as well.
Pagan, Darlene
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When writing about European settlement in Australia, nineteenth and early twentieth century writers focused on the lives of the male convicts and on the English middle class who were in charge of the colony.
Lou Drofenik
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[Review of] Charlotte H. Bruner, ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa [PDF]
Looking at the map of Africa locating contributors to this collection of women writers, one is struck by the seeming over-representation from some countries -- Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Republic of South Africa -- and the vast stretch of lands that have ...
Allen, Virginia
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'Si no fuere tu hija ilustre': Women Writers’ Social Status in Early Modern Spain
The numbers of women writers of the early modern Spain currently identified have risen to over five hundred, with their writings catalogued and systematized by the Spanish data base Biblioteca de Escritoras Españolas (BIESES).
Anne J. Cruz
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The genre of almanacs or astrological forecasts, so in vogue in Spain in the 18th century, was also cultivated by women, such as Manuela Sánchez de Oreja, «la Gran Piscatora Aureliense», and Francisca de Osorio, «la Musaraña del Pindo».
María Dolores Gimeno Puyol
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Narratives of Arab Anglophone Women and the Articulation of a Major Discourse in a Minor Literature [PDF]
“It is important to stress that a variety of positions with respect to feminism, nation, religion and identity are to be found in Anglophone Arab women’s writings.
Sarnou, Dalal
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