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Author: Lucretia Mott
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal, here, for women's enfranchisement, placing emphasis, instead on the injustices done to women in marriage.
Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1452903255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Author: Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0691194653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWoman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-Islamic tradition, argues Fedwa Malti-Douglas in this pioneering book. Spanning the ninth through twentieth centuries and covering a wide range of texts—from courtly anectdote to mystical and philosophical treatises, from works of geography to autobiography—this study reveals how woman's access to literary speech has remained mediated through her body. Malti-Douglas first analyzes classical texts (both well-known works like The Thousand and One Nights and others still ignored in the West) in which the female voice, often associated with wit or trickery of a sexual nature, is subordinated to the male scriptor. Showing how early Arabo-Islamic discourse continues to influence contemporary Arabic writing, she maintains that today feminist writers of novels, short stories, and autobiography must work through this tradition, even if they subvert or reject it in the end. Whereas woman in the classical period speaks through the body, woman in the modern period often turns corporeality into a literary weapon to achieve power over discourse. Fedwa Malti-Douglas is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. Her books include Structures of Avarice: The Bukhala' in Medieval Arabic Literature (Leiden) and Blindness and Autobiography: Al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-07-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 019534717X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.
Author: Lucretia Coffin MOTT
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sojourner Truth
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0241472377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Author: John Wilson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9027267979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders focuses on the discourse practices of women in global political leadership. It provides a series of discursive studies of women in positions of political leadership. ‘Political leadership’ is defined as achieving a senior position within a political organization and will often indicate a senior role in government or opposition. The volume draws on a diverse collection of studies from across the globe, reflecting a variety of cultures and distinct polities. The primary aim is to consider in what way(s) discursive practice underpins, reflects, or is appropriated in terms of women’s political success and achievements within politics. The chapters employ differing theoretical approaches all bound by the discursive insights they provide, and in terms of their contribution to understanding the role of language and discourse in the construction of gendered identities within political contexts.
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780801493300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780801493317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.
Author: Deshouna Dee
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-07-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781724350640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you a Capable Woman? Life and Love sometimes have a way of knocking you down. Just when you think you got it all together everything goes to crap. Men, Money, Monogamy and your Mind seems to be flushed down the toilet and everyone who was considered family and friends are nowhere to be found. How do you sustain? How do you cope? No one ever gave you the blueprint to living a life of love & happiness. You have been living by past down generational stories and beliefs. You don't want to spend months or even YEARS trying to win at the "GAMES" of Men, Money, or Monogamy . You want immediate gains in your self-confidence and a better mentality to live the life you want and deserve. NOW it's time for YOU to learn and ADOPT the mindset of a "Capable Woman." Packed with stories based on real life. Capable Woman is about The Woman's Journey to find and discover her best version of herself. In every woman is the Capability to be a Queen. However, miseducation, underrepresentation, heartache, and pain can cause her to demonstrate traits that are contrary to who she is meant to be. In Capable Woman, you will meet many characters that may at times remind you of yourself or others you have encountered. You may find yourself saying I am like she or I know someone who acts just like that. Remember within you a Queen is waiting to show you, the Capable Woman you were born to be. Be Mentally attractive! And you will attract the MENtality that's suitable to sit on the throne" - Capable Woman Rise
