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Author : Elizabeth Eger
Release : 2001-01-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830 by : Elizabeth Eger
Download or read book Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830 written by Elizabeth Eger. This book was released on 2001-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.
Author : Alex Benchimol
Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 397/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spheres of Influence by : Alex Benchimol
Download or read book Spheres of Influence written by Alex Benchimol. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which intellectual and cultural publics from the early modern period to the postmodern present have actively constructed their cultural identities within the social processes of modernity. It brings together some of the most compelling recent writing on the public sphere by scholars in the fields of literary history, cultural studies and social theory from both sides of the Atlantic. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer a major re-examination of recent scholarship on the theory of the public sphere as developed by Jürgen Habermas. They also stand as a collective effort both to interrogate and to extend this influential model by exploring modern forms of intellectual and cultural activity in all their rich diversity and ideological complexity. Contributions range from the divided inheritance of Shakespeare publishing history to the new forms of mass-mediated cultural experience in contemporary Britain; from attempts at cultural regulation in the literary public sphere of the Romantic period to the postmodern political conflict played out in the American public sphere of the 1990s; and from varieties of religious dissent to modes of postcolonial criticism. The book furthers the dialogue between academic methodologies, fields and periods, and presents readers with a contested narrative of the key cultural and intellectual practices that have made up our modern world.
Author : Anthony Pollock
Release : 2010-03-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 919/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755 by : Anthony Pollock
Download or read book Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755 written by Anthony Pollock. This book was released on 2010-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755, complicates our understanding of eighteenth-century English print culture by studying the journalistic work of women writers who have long been overlooked by scholars, and by re-interpreting texts by canonical male authors in the period as responses to these early feminist models of cultural authority.
Author : Alessa Johns
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century by : Alessa Johns
Download or read book Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Author : Brooks, Ann
Release : 2019-04-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Politics and the Public Sphere by : Brooks, Ann
Download or read book Women, Politics and the Public Sphere written by Brooks, Ann. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity. Covering the legacy of eighteenth-century intellectual groupings which were dominated by women such as members of the 'bluestocking circles' and other more radical intellectual and philosophical thinkers, the book focuses on women such as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. These individuals and groups which emerged in the eighteenth century established 'intellectual spaces' for the emergence of women public intellectuals in subsequent centuries. It also examines women public intellectuals in the US including Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elizabeth Warren, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg.
