1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454716303321

Titolo

Arab women writers [[electronic resource] ] : a critical reference guide, 1873-1999 / / edited by Radwa Ashour, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi ; translated by Mandy McClure

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2008

ISBN

1-61797-554-0

977-416-267-6

Edizione

[Electronic edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (541 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ʻĀshūrRaḍwá

GhazoulFerial Jabouri <1939->

Reda-MekdashiHasna

Disciplina

892.7099287

Soggetti

Arabic literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Arabic literature - Women authors

Women authors, Arab - Arab countries - History

Women authors, Arab - Arab countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-526).

Nota di contenuto

9789774161469; 9789774161469

Sommario/riassunto

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab wo



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453385603321

Autore

Richmond Vivienne

Titolo

Clothing the poor in nineteenth-century England / / Vivienne Richmond [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46189-8

1-139-89353-X

1-107-45973-7

1-107-64534-4

1-107-32539-0

1-107-46541-9

1-107-47255-5

1-107-46895-7

1-107-47354-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

391.0094209/034

Soggetti

Clothing and dress - England - History - 19th century

Poor - Clothing - England - History - 19th century

England Economic conditions 19th century

England Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Identifying the poor, locating their clothes -- Setting the standard: working-class dress -- 'Frankly, a mystery': budgeting for clothes -- 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes -- 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing -- 'The struggle for respectability' -- The sense of self -- 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the poor law -- 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities -- 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants -- 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons -- Conclusion: No finery.

Sommario/riassunto

In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not



only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms and the spread of urban fashions replaced the informal dress of agricultural England. This laid the foundations of modern popular dress and generated fears about the visual blurring of social boundaries as new modes of manufacturing and retailing expanded the wardrobes of the majority. But a significant impoverished minority remained outside this process. Clothed by diminishing parish assistance, expanding paternalistic charity and the second-hand trade, they formed a 'sartorial underclass' whose material deprivation and visual distinction was a cause of physical discomfort and psychological trauma.