A Forgotten Bestselling Author: Laura Terracina in Early Modern Naples

To a greater extent than ever before, the army of the future is going to be female. History is being turned on its head, as Western women train for combat: they now join the ranks of fighter pilots, artillery gunners and foot soldiers. As the barriers crash down in Britain and America, in the wake of the women who fought and died in the Gulf War, this book looks at the arguments for and against women fighting on the front line, shoulder to shoulder with men. From teenage girls growing up to be American Marines at boot camp, to the first Western female fighter pilot in Canada and the first women to go to sea with the British Navy in the Gulf, women soldiers, officers and war veterans talk about surviving in this most masculine of worlds. Are women aggressive enough to kill? Are they physically capable of keeping up with the men? Should they leave their children to go to war? Are mixed armies less effective? Do lesbians make better soldiers? Will our future generals and admirals be female? Kate Muir puts the questions to men and women, from the lowliest private to defence ministers.

Arms and the Woman

@'She there as Princess rained@': Spenser's Figure of Elizabeth

This study looks at women's prose narrative representing four major
Chinese communities during the last 30 years, and focuses on the depiction of
mother-daughter relationships among personae within the narrative texts. The
thesis seeks to suggest that mother-daughter relationships within the texts are a
reflection of how a text responds to its mother culture in the course of development.
Narrative prose ranging from self-professed autobiographies to the fictional,
written by Chinese women from American-Chinese communities, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Mainland China, are examined in a comparative approach within an
ethnical framework. The concept of a national literature is discussed with regard to
different fonns of Chinese-ness.
It is revealed, in the course of this examination, that each group of Chinese
women's writing examined here demonstrates an acute awareness of a link with an
original mother culture, the Chinese orientation. However, recent events both
inside and outside China have inevitably shaped cultural development in these
communities, resulting in splits and diversifications in the individual cultural
consciousness.
Approached from this perspective, the Chinese mother culture gains a new
vitality by virtue of shedding the burden of a long history. Focusing on the
intertextual activities of regional writings, it is shown that represented Chinese-ness
is no longer an unchanged and unchanging phenomenon, but is redefined each
moment through the locus of interactions among independent hybrid communities.

Chinese mothers - Western daughters? : cross-cultural representations of mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Chinese and Western women's writing

Este libro se enmarca en el proyecto de investigacion financiado por la Consejeria de Educacion
de la Junta de Castilla y Leon y el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (SA019P17),
con el titulo “Escritoras ineditas en espanol en los albores del s. XX (1880-1920).
Renovacion pedagogica del canon literario”dirigido por la profesora Milagro Martin Clavijo de la Universidad de Salamanca

Margaret Tomalin

Papers

Scrittrici italiane dal XIII al XX secolo. Testi e critica@@@The Fortunes of the Warrior Heroine in Italian Literature. An Index of Emancipation

Bradamante and Marfisa: An Analysis of the "Guerriere" of the "Orlando Furioso"