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Bluestockings

2009-08-06 History
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Release : 2009-08-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Bluestockings by : Jane Robinson

Download or read book Bluestockings written by Jane Robinson. This book was released on 2009-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the fight for female education in Britain In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since. Bluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination, of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness, as well as of passionate friendships, midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery. 'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times 'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle, and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that, charting the lives and struggles of campaigners' Mail on Sunday

Brilliant Women

2008 Art
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Release : 2008
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Brilliant Women by : Elizabeth Eger

Download or read book Brilliant Women written by Elizabeth Eger. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a fascinating narrative and 65 illustrations, including portraits, prints and caricatures, the extraordinary vigour of the bluestockings, 18th-century foremother to feminism, is rediscovered. In addition, inspirational women in the public eye today contribute their thoughts on the legacy of the bluestockings.

The Bluestockings of Japan

2007 History
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Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Bluestockings of Japan by : Jan Bardsley

Download or read book The Bluestockings of Japan written by Jan Bardsley. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bluestockings of Japan introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seitō (Bluestockings), the famed New Women's journal of the 1910s. Launched in 1911 as a venue for women's literary expression and replete with poetry, essays, plays, and stories, Seitō soon earned the disapproval of civic leaders, educators, and even prominent women's rights advocates. Journalists joined these leaders in ridiculing the Bluestockings as self-indulgent, literature-loving, sake-drinking, cigarette-smoking tarts who toyed with men. Yet many young women and men delighted in the Bluestockings' rebellious stance and paid serious attention to their exploration of the Woman Question, their calls for women's independence, and their debates on women's work, sexuality, and identity. Hundreds read the journal and many women felt inspired to contribute their own essays and stories. The seventeen Seitō pieces collected here represent some of the journal's most controversial writing; four of these publications provoked either a strong reprimand or an outright ban on an entire issue by government censors. All consider topics important in debates on feminism to this day such as sexual harassment, abortion, romantic love and sexuality, motherhood, and the meaning of gender equality. The Bluestockings of Japan shows that as much as these writers longed to be New Women immersed in the world of art and philosophy, they were also real women who had to negotiate careers, motherhood, romantic relationships, and an unexpected notoriety. Their stories, essays, and poetry document that journey, highlighting the diversity among these New Women and displaying the vitality of feminist thinking in Japan in the 1910s.

Bluestockings Displayed

2013-11-21 Art
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Release : 2013-11-21
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Bluestockings Displayed by : Elizabeth Eger

Download or read book Bluestockings Displayed written by Elizabeth Eger. This book was released on 2013-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.

College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

2006-07-25 Education
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Release : 2006-07-25
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now by : Lynn Peril

Download or read book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now written by Lynn Peril. This book was released on 2006-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest, the college girl has attracted criticism, advice, and regulation from her elders--not to mention some enduring images in popular culture. Is she a geek in glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This book brings together women's history and popular culture in a readable blend of information, insight and humor, peppered with photographs and other femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s.--From publisher description.

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