The Eighteenth-century Woman
Author: Olivier Bernier
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0870992945
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A Woman's Guide to Reading the Bible in a Year
Author: Diane Stortz
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1441261125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Unique, Relational Way for Women to Read the Bible in a Year Many women feel overwhelmed at the thought of reading the Bible in a year. Diane Stortz found that it is not only possible but life-changing. Her journey from initial reluctance to excitement about reading the Bible will inspire readers to try it for themselves. Part of a women's group that read through the Bible each year for ten years, the author discovered the value of reading the Bible to get to know God better rather than viewing it only as a book to study. This guide will give women tools to read and discuss the Bible together, drawing them closer to God and each other. Includes a week-by-week reading plan, discussion guide, lists of what to look for, and motivational quotes.
The Saturday Evening Post Classic Covers
Author: Saturday Evening Post
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2020-02-12
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 0486838145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapturing the simplicity and sweetness of mid-20th-century American life, six cards feature classic cover illustrations by three of the famous magazine's most celebrated artists. Images include Milkman Meets Pieman, Billboard Painters, Penny Candy, and Pete's Double Headers by Stevan Dohanos, plus Brushing Their Teeth by Amos Sewell and Doggy Buffet by Richard Sargent.
The Woman in the Red Dress
Author: Minrose Gwin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252027321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Graceful and impassioned, The Woman in the Red Dress offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest as well as stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books - such as Hulme's The Bone People - that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open.".
Reading Women
Author: Jennifer Phegley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0802089283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
Hippocrates' Woman
Author: Helen King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1134772211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read. Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.
Woman Reading to the Sea
Author: Lisa Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-09-22
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0393337774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new volume by the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize is a sojourn into such fanciful realms as the interior of a glacier and the translucent body of a jellyfish, in a collection that invites readers to follow a literary journey that illuminates and returns to the writer's own life. By the author of The Hammered Dulcimer. -- Tower Books product description.
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
Author: David R. Olson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-16
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0521862205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume demonstrates how literacy is more than learning to read and write. Literacy creates communities, organizes personal and social lives, makes possible civil society and the rule of law, and underwrites the commitment of both modern and developing societies to universal education and ever higher levels of literate competence. Everything that is involved in being and becoming literate is the concern of this interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars.
Six Frida Kahlo Cards
Author: Frida Kahlo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1998-12-23
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780486405919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHauntingly beautiful reproductions of the great Mexican artist's Self-Portrait (1926), The Deceased Dimas (1937), Girl with Death Mask (1938), Self-Portrait with Monkeys (1943), Doña Rosita Morillo (1944), and Still Life with Parrot (1951).
Reading Women
Author: Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-08-02
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0812205987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with local specificity and material culture. Removing women from the historically inaccurate frame of exclusively solitary, silent reading, the authors collectively return their subjects to the activities that so often coincided with reading: shopping, sewing, talking, writing, performing, and collecting. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation, the volume expands notions of reading and literacy, and it insists upon a rich and varied narrative that crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders.
