Wayward Women
Title | Wayward Women PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Wardlow |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2006-05-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520245601 |
Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge.
The Wayward Woman
Title | The Wayward Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Antoniazzi |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611476631 |
The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female waywardness” as the critical intersection between the rise of female emancipation and the panic inspired by the period’s obsession with sexual enslavement. Concurrently, it explores the Progressive ambivalence about compassion and control which unfolded alongside a war on prostitution that traversed the realms of law, medicine, literature and politics. Drawing on theories of performativity the author develops “the wayward woman” as a capacious analytical category that encompasses all women who, countering the residual injunction of domesticity, brought new forms of femininity into the light of the public sphere: the activist, the professional and the divorcee, but also the female breadwinner, the charity girl and the urban woman of color––among many others. The book investigates the continuum of waywardness that stretches from the high-minded New Woman to the ever-victimized “white slave” as a cultural battlefield where numerous women stepped across the boundaries of class, race and respectability to claim new public personas. At the same time it reads the preoccupation with white slavery both as a symptom of and an antidote to this wave of change. Through an innovating collection of sources which brings together sociological writings, novels, plays, movies and legal documents, the book rearticulates the tensions of the Progressive Era between gender roles, blackness and whiteness, reformers and reformed, the citizens and the state. The Wayward Woman will be of much interest to students and scholars in the fields of American studies, women studies and performance studies.
Wayward Women
Title | Wayward Women PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Robinson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Travel writing |
ISBN | 9780192802330 |
Includes extracts from diaries, logs and letters, this volume covers 16 centuries of women travellers, starting with Abbess Etheria's 4th-century account of the difficulties of mountaineering on Mount Sinai.
A Wayward Woman,
Title | A Wayward Woman, PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Griffiths |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Writing the Wayward Wife
Title | Writing the Wayward Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Grushcow |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004146288 |
"Writing the Wayward Wife" is a study of rabbinic interpretations of sotah, the law concerning the woman suspected of adultery (Numbers 5: 11-31). The book identifies the emergence of two major interpretive themes: the emphasis on legal procedures, and the condemnation of adultery.
Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
Title | Victorian Women and Wayward Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Marisa Palacios Knox |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2020-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108496164 |
Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.
Wayward
Title | Wayward PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Spiotta |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-06-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 059331249X |
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.