Author: Christy Rishoi
Publisher: SUNY Press
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Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.
Language: en
Pages: 120
Pages: 120
This book began as a panel of University professors on the theme of Francophone Women, Coming of Age, Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence, presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, 2006. The essays center on the plight of growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Issues of
Language: en
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.
Language: en
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In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of
Language: en
Pages: 569
Pages: 569
Language: en
Pages: 118
Pages: 118
The book discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine – the young white middle-class woman – and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature. In terms of theoretical approaches, the study draws on works by the feminist critics whose incorporation
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ethnic
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "coming of age" experience for each generation. • Presents concise content and detailed analysis written in an easy-to-understand style •
Language: en
Pages: 14
Pages: 14
Books about Contemporary Multi-ethnic Novels by Women