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Natalia Costa-Zalessow

Bio: Natalia Costa-Zalessow is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emancipation. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 8 citations.
Topics: Emancipation


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21 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The arguments for and against women fighting on the front line, shoulder-to-shoulder with men as discussed by the authors were asked by men and women, from the lowliest private to defence ministers.
Abstract: 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.

59 citations

Dissertation
01 Aug 1999
TL;DR: This paper examined women's prose narratives representing four major Taiwanese and mainland Chinese communities during the last 30 years, focusing on the depiction of mother-daughter relationships among personae within the narrative texts.
Abstract: 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.

17 citations

Book
01 Nov 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, el proyecto de investigación financiado por la Consejeria de Educación, 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).
Abstract: 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

14 citations

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TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue that Garibaldi's novels simultaneously offer support for the values of female emancipation and encourage women to participate in the nation outside the home, and challenge the predominant sexual double standard.
Abstract: This article draws attention to the understudied literary career of one of Italy's most famous patriots, Giuseppe Garibaldi. From 1868 to 1874, Garibaldi wrote and published three novels: Clelia (1870), Cantoni (1870), and I Mille (1874). Scholars have recognised the works as evidence of Garibaldi's anticlericalism and dissatisfaction with Italy's political moderatism, but have not yet sufficiently shown how the novels reveal the influence of Garibaldi's involvement with the female emancipation movement and his personal relationships with unconventional women. While Garibaldi is less well-known for his feminism than other men of the left, like Giuseppe Mazzini, his fictional heroines celebrate female physical strength and violence, offer women a means of participating in the nation outside the home, and challenge the predominant sexual double standard. While acknowledging that Garibaldi often conformed to prevailing patriarchal literary conventions, this article argues that his novels simultaneously offer support for the values of female emancipation.

7 citations