The Meaning of Success
The Meaning of Success

Author: Jo Bostock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1107428688

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The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge makes a compelling case for a more inclusive definition of success. It argues that in order to recognise, reward and realise the talents of both women and men, a more meaningful definition of success is needed. Practical ways of achieving this are explored through interviews with female role models at the University of Cambridge. First-person stories bring alive the achievements and challenges women experience in their working lives, and the effect gender has on careers. The book stimulates a debate about how to bring about a more inclusive working environment.

The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women

Author: Fanny M. Cheung

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 1552

ISBN-13: 1108602185

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There is a growing knowledge base in understanding the differences and similarities between women and men, as well as the diversities among women and sexualities. Although genetic and biological characteristics define human beings conventionally as women and men, their experiences are contextualized in multiple dimensions in terms of gender, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity, and other social dimensions. Beyond the biological and genetic basis of gender differences, gender intersects with culture and other social locations which affect the socialization and development of women across their life span. This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to understand the intersectionality of gender differences, to dispel myths, and to examine gender-relevant as well as culturally relevant implications and appropriate interventions. Featuring a truly international mix of contributors, and incorporating cross-cultural research and comparative perspectives, this handbook will inform mainstream psychology of the international literature on the psychology of women and gender.

Women at Cambridge
Women at Cambridge

Author: Rita McWilliams Tullberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-09-24

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780521644648

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A study of women's education at Cambridge, first published in 1975 and now reissued with new material.

A Century of Votes for Women
A Century of Votes for Women

Author: Christina Wolbrecht

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1107187494

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Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

Author: Carolyn Dinshaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-22

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521796385

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

Author: Brenda Murphy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-06-28

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521576802

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This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature
The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature

Author: Dale M. Bauer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 9781108748339

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The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers - from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women's literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

Author: Ileana Rodríguez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 131641910X

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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.