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Freedom and Ballgowns: Elizabeth Keckley and The Work of Domesticity
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This article is published in Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory.The article was published on 2001-01-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).read more
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The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
Gloria T. Randle,Ann duCille +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the nascence of literary activity among American black women and investigated the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring wider questions of human social relations, sexuality and female subjectivity.
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Liberation Politics in Two Eras@@@Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left@@@The Slavery of Sex: Feminist-Abolitionists in America@@@Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
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Frederick Douglass : new literary and historical essays
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of race, violence, and manhood in Douglass' 'The Heroic Slave' and 'The punishment of Esther' in the construction of the feminine Jenny Franchot.
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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
James Hurt,Gillian Brown +1 more
Abstract: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed. In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes--abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia--she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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The queen of America goes to Washington city : essays on sex and citizenship
TL;DR: The Queen of America goes to Washington City as discussed by the authors, a book about the U.S. public sphere, argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere and questions why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts.
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Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race
TL;DR: The authors argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in the 20th century.
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The Feminization of American Culture
TL;DR: The Feminization of American Culture as discussed by the authors is a significant study of the domination of late nineteenth-century American culture by a feminine ethic and spirit, and explores their impact on the best-selling novels and magazines of the day.
"The King's Two Bodies, A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology", Ernst H. Kantorowicz, New Jersey 1957 : [recenzja] / Jan Adamus.
Jan Adamus,Ernst H. Kantorowicz +1 more
TL;DR: The King's Two Bodies as mentioned in this paper is a concept of the two bodies of a monarch, the body politic and the body natural, which was introduced by Kantorowicz in the early 20th century.