1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968916403321

Titolo

Kindred hands : letters on writing by British and American women authors, 1865-1935 / / edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

9781587296628

1587296624

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Cognard-BlackJennifer <1969->

WallsElizabeth MacLeod <1974->

Disciplina

823/.8080357

Soggetti

Women authors, English

Women authors, American

English prose literature - 19th century

English prose literature - 20th century

American prose literature - 19th century

American prose literature - 20th century

English letters

American letters

Authorship

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

C o n t e n t s; Introduction; 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe; 2. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; 3. Rebecca Harding Davis; 4. Mary Abigail Dodge [Gail Hamilton]; 5. Mary Elizabeth Braddon; 6. Mary Cholmondeley and Rhoda Broughton; 7. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; 8. Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison [Lucas Malet]; 9. Henrietta Stannard, Mari Corelli and Annesley Kenealy; 10. Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright [George Egerton]; 11. Rosamund Marriott Watson [Graham R. Tomson]; 12. Palma Pederson; 13. Jessie Redmon Fauset; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kindred Hands, a collection of previously unpublished letters by women writers, explores the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences.  The letters illuminate such issues as authorship,



aesthetics, collaboration, inspiration, and authorial intent. By focusing on letters that deal with authorship, the editors reveal a multiplicity of perspectives on female authorship that would otherwise require visits to archives and special collections.    Representing some of the most important female writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including transatlantic cor

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955546703321

Autore

Stachowitsch Saskia

Titolo

Gender ideologies and military labor markets in the U.S. / / Saskia Stachowitsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-64234-X

1-283-44207-8

9786613442079

0-203-80468-6

1-136-64235-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in US foreign policy

Disciplina

331.4/8135500973

Soggetti

Women and the military - United States

Sociology, Military - United States

United States Armed Forces Women

United States Armed Forces Reorganization

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. [137]-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the US; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; (Re)uniting the material and the cultural; Military gender integration in the US; Military gender ideologies in media representations; War and gender as an interdisciplinary research field; 2. Relations between the material and the cultural; Materialism as a research strategy; Media representations as an object of social science



research; The media, the military, and political elites in the US

Critical Historical Discourse Analysis as a tool for text analysis3. Gender, state, and the military; State formation, militarization, and women's exclusion: historical interrelations; Rationalization and professionalization of the US military: the roots of women's integration; Downsizing and gender equality: the 1990s and beyond; Gender policies as reactions to changing recruitment conditions; The Services; State transformation and military privatization; Transformation of military gender ideologies; 4. Military gender ideologies in the media; The first step: contents of media discourses

The second step: contextualizationProfessionalized military women in the "Techno War" (phase 1: 1990-1994); Sexualized intruders into the male bond (phase 2: 1995-1999); Patriotic heroines in the "War on Terror" (phase 3: 2000-2005); 5. Conclusions; Relations between the material and the cultural; Structural change in US military and society; Change of military gender ideologies; The early 1990s; The late 1990s; The "War on Terror"; Groups of actors and lines of conflict; Gender, state, and the military; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the U.S. offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between changes in military gender ideologies and structural changes in U.S. military and society. By investigating how social and military change have influenced gender ideologies, the author develops an approach that (re-)connects military gender ideologies to the social conditions of their production and distribution and explains their transformation as effects of changing social and political relations and conflicts. Examining the role of different groups o