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Author: Jacqueline Letzter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-08-12
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0520226534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the same time it demonstrates how the Revolution fostered many dreams and ambitions for women that would be doomed to disappointment in the repressive post-Revolutionary era.".
Author: Catherine Clement
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780816635269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.
Author: Katharine Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1000457486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed engagement with female performance and with female spectators’ material responses to "women’s opera, theatre and film," placing these in the context of melodrama from the 1880s to the 1920s in Italy, France, the US, and elsewhere. It is unique in its interdisciplinary approach and in its consideration of female relationships based on admiration among performers and writers – the embodiment of a vibrant, mobile and successful Italian female culture industry during the first wave of feminism.
Author: Corinne E. Blackmer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0231102690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEn Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Helene Cixous, Lowell Gallagher and Elizabeth Wood are among the contributors. Includes 20 musical examples.
Author: Anna Beer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1780748574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion to the Classic FM series Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy. Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten.
Author: Leslie Ritchie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1351536613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barth?mon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.
Author: Lesa Scholl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 1753
ISBN-13: 3030783189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Author: Christine Ammer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781574670615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the contributions of women instrumentalists, composers, teachers, and conductors to American music, and suggests why they have gone unnoticed in the past.
Author: Micki Grant
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780573680809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This dynamic mixture of rock, calypso and ballads features a dozen singer-dancers in 20 numbers. In revue-style format, Don't Bother Me ... explores the African American experience through vibrant song and dance."--Publisher
Author: Caitlin Moran
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0062893726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another “hilarious neo-feminist manifesto” (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism. A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran’s seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, and beyond—and is considered the inaugural work of the irreverent confessional feminist memoir genre that continues to occupy a major place in the cultural landscape. Since that publication, it’s been a glorious ten years for young women: Barack Obama loves Fleabag, and Dior make “FEMINIST” t-shirts. However, middle-aged women still have some nagging, unanswered questions: Can feminists have Botox? Why isn’t there such a thing as “Mum Bod”? Why do hangovers suddenly hurt so much? Is the camel-toe the new erogenous zone? Why do all your clothes suddenly hate you? Has feminism gone too far? Will your To Do List ever end? And WHO’S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN? As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have readers laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—and one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.
