ISBN:
9789027224019
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (144 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Critical theory v. 1
Paralleltitel:
Print version Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s : Selected papers
DDC:
305.4/2
Schlagwort(e):
Feminism ; Congresses
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Semiotics and literature ; Congresses
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Women ; Social conditions ; Congresses
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Women's studies ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women's texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women's identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challengin
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
WOMEN, FEMINIST IDENTITY AND SOCIETY IN THE 1980's SELECTED PAPERS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; KEYNOTE ADDRESS; NOTESTOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION; NOTES; REFERENCES; SEMIOTICTHEORY: SEXUALITY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE; FEMALE DESIRE AND SEXUAL IDENTITY; REFERENCES; BLACKNORTH-AMERICANWOMEN POETS IN THE SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE; Introduction; CULTURE-EXTRACULTURAL SPACE; Some Mechanisms of Exclusion at Work; White Women's Movement vs. the Black Poet; MEMORIZING MECHANISMS:THE BLACK POET AND THE ALIEN TEXT
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Oral Tradition as Pre-existent Literary TextThe Bible Transposed; The Social Text; CONGENIAL DIALOGISM; Black North-American Music; Longing for Africa: The Missing Sign; African Spectrum: Seven Glances; INTERTEXTUAL POLEMIC FACTOR; Against the Forces of the Oppressor's Codes; Humour, Parody, Laughter as Cultural Transgressions; SIGN PROVIDER/SIGN PERCEIVER INTERACTION; REFERENCES; 1. Sources; 2. General; PRACTICAL CRITICISM: LAW, RACISM AND ART; WOMEN'S RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS: LATIN AMERICANCOUNTRIES AND THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS); Women and Latin America.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Latin American legal provisions regarding women.The constitutions.; Civil law.; Criminal law.; Labour Law.; The feminist struggle in the legal area. How and where.; Concluding remarks.; NOTES; REFERENCES; RACISM IN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN; Introduction; Interdisciplinary framework; Women studies: black and white; The problem; Method; Everyday racism; A. House hunting; B. Contacts with neighbors; C. Work; D. School; Racism and Sexism; Interpretation strategies in the detection of implicit discrimination; An interpretation fragment; 1. Own previous experiences.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
2. Comparison with other people.3. Own observations; 4. Comparison with similar situations.; 5. General beliefs, opinions, expectations and other cognitions; 6. Comparison with other (black people).; 7. Opinions of others; NOTE; REFERENCES; "I FOUND GOD IN MYSELF AND I LOVED HER/ I LOVED HER FIERCELY": MORE THOUGHTS ON THE WORK OF BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS.; THE SECOND BIBLE QUILT; OF HARRIET POWERS; NOTES; REFERENCES; Concluding Remarks; REFERENCES; Contributors Notes;
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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