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Review Of Catharine A. Mackinnon, Women’S Lives, Men’S Laws, Rose Corrigan
Review Of Catharine A. Mackinnon, Women’S Lives, Men’S Laws, Rose Corrigan
Rose Corrigan
No abstract provided.
Feminist Philosophy In The Analytic Tradition, Anita Superson, Samantha Brennan
Feminist Philosophy In The Analytic Tradition, Anita Superson, Samantha Brennan
Samantha Brennan
No abstract provided.
Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen, Karen Gevirtz
Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
This monograph argues that images of the widow in the early novel served to express, explore, and construct concepts of appropriate female activity in emerging capitalism during the eighteenth century in England. Drawing on novels published between 1719 and 1818, this study investigates how different classes of widows (affluent, working class, impoverished, and criminal) functioned to challenge and affirm emerging economic values. A concluding chapter on widows in Jane Austen's work shows how changing notions of appropriate female economic activity had settled by the establishment of both the capitalist economy and the novel in the early nineteenth century.
Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (J. Nagel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh
Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (J. Nagel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh
Amanda "Mandy" J. Swygart-Hobaugh
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Aids And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic, Thomas Long
Aids And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic, Thomas Long
Thomas Lawrence Long
Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to …