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Relatively recently it has been acknowledged that Black women too often experience extreme psychological distress such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic, phobias, fear, eating disorders, low self-esteem, loneliness from social isolation, PTSD/PTSS, emotional pain,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-14
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Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? When a poem is written by the male poet for the woman he loves, both addressed to her and taking her as its object, how does – how can – she interact with it?
This book represents a foray into the love poetry of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-01-29
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Das Verhältnis zwischen Religion und Wissen wurde im Verlauf der letzten Jahrhunderteimmer wieder ausführlich von Philosophen und Autoren diskutiert, wobei sich nur selten ein Konsens bilden konnte. Die Beschäftigung mit der heiklen Thematik zeigte sich allerdings nie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-26
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«A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker.»
(Steven Ungar, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cinematic Arts,
University of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-12
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Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards.
Women in Print I: Design...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales. Focusing on the Germanic folktale, the author investigates how retelling and reinterpreting fairy tales in online fan fiction both criticizes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-03
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While there is a multiplicity of identity markers that affect the dynamics ofintercultural communication, the intersectionality of gender and religiondeserves more scholarly attention. The book takes the dissimilar culturalconcepts and identity performance as a starting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Following the recent advancements in Irish lesbian politics, North and South, lesbian writing is attracting more attention from scholarly audiences, making this body of work particularly timely. Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time is an attestation of a historical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-15
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These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-29
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Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-21
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QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN’S WRITING is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis of Italian women’s writing. Focusing especially on the writers Dacia Maraini, Goliarda Sapienza and Elsa Morante, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-06
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Since the publication of James Smith’s groundbreaking book on the Magdalene laundries in 2007, many developments have made the issue even more topical. Even though the lack of access to archives and records of religious orders remains a major obstacle to writing a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-28
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Literature has been a bastion of male creativity, not of female procreativity, which has traditionally inhibited the voices of women and disempowered their self-expression. This book explores the underestimated legacy of women’s fiction and (semi-)autobiographical works...
Editeur :
NBN International
Parution :
2021-04-28
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During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This essentialised the concept of feminine fluidity at the same...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-26
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This book is a study of women’s involvement in occult practices in Weimar Germany. Women during the Weimar period experienced an unprecedented level of liberation.This included a greatly increased role in the work force as well as participation in other realms that were...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-23
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Second fiddle to love, fleeting and inauthentic, a disguise for sexual rivalry, a practice to be policed or, at most, a social mechanism aptly reinforcing traditional gender norms, female friendship did not always have a good reputation in canonical and didactic...
Editeur :
NBN International
Parution :
2021-03-01
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Ellen Key (1849–1926) was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women’s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe’s five major language areas – English, German, French, Italian, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-24
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Catholic Sexual Pathology and the Western Mind: The Ancient Era, Vol. 1 documents with historical and clinical data the correlation betweenCatholic sexual orthodoxy andCatholic sexual pathology. The Roman church government replaced the sex positive Hebrew Tradition,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-12-21
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Dangerous. Sexy. All-American—or rather All-World—Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values.
Award-winning filmmaker and author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-17
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En France comme en Grande-Bretagne, la fin du XIXe siècle semble hantée par les formes destructrices ou malveillantes de la féminité, que la figure de Salomé incarne d’une manière omniprésente et contradictoire. La danseuse fatale ne peut pourtant se comprendre que...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-23
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