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Offering readers key women's writings from the eighth century to the present, this global and multicultural anthology includes selections written in English by women from Great Britain and the U.S. as well as Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Croatia, Ghana, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa.Organized thematically, the anthology emphasizes five important topics for women writers finding a voice, writing the body, rethinking the maternal, identity and difference, and resistance and transformation. Pivotal works of feminist theory by Woolf, Cixous, Showalter, hooks, Trinh, and others are also included.For those interested in women's literature. ... Read more

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This exciting anthology offers virtually the entire collection of literature by American women and is by far the widest ranging and most diverse.Arranged chronologically, it includes a broad range of selections including fiction, poetry, essays, diaries, letters, autobiographies, oratory, and journalism, spanning the colonial days to the present.These writers represent women's writing at its highest level of accomplishment. ... Read more

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Even in Hollywood's world of blockbusters and specialeffects, there continues to be an interest in adaptations based on theworks of writers of other eras, especially the classic novels ofnineteenth-century women.Those novels, as accessible, as relevant,and as endearing to modern film audiences as they have been togenerations of readers, emphasize strong female protagonists, finelanguage, and sensitivity to social nuances.And the important issuesexplored in much of that classic fiction--inequities of patriarchalstructures and ambivalence over male domination (Jane Eyre), fear ofscience and technology gone awry (Frankenstein), unconventionalnotions of gender and sexuality (Under Two Flags), evils of slavery(Uncle Tom's Cabin)--speak as strongly to contemporary women as towomen of Shelley's or Brontë's age.

Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies analyzes in detail theadaptations of novels by eight popular writers--Mary Shelley, JaneAusten, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, LouisaMay Alcott, Ouida, and George Eliot--and examines the ways in whichthose writers' themes are reinterpreted, updated, and oftenmisconstrued by the filmmakers who bring them to the screen.Thevolume's twelve essays, whose authors include some of the foremostscholars of contemporary literature and film, offer critical insightsnot only into the visions of the novelist and the filmmaker but alsointo contemporary cultural concerns. ... Read more

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An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political. Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Moving between texts and between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of both physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two. ... Read more

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This innovative series is designed to help primary teachers plan focused sessions on the work of popular, well-loved and valued authors, both classic and contemporary. Each book contains a range of activities for use directly in the classroom, covering biographical information about the author; a review of the author's work and a summary of major themes in his/her key texts; key language features of the author; frameworks to help children analyze, evaluate and compare texts, and to develop personal opinions of authors' works; ideas for writing modeled on or developed from key texts; speaking and listening opportunities; drama and role play ideas; and references to video, CD-ROM, websites and ICT activities.

Inside each book is a full-color pullout poster illustrating the work of the author, which also has a set of challenges for children on the back.

David McKee is an author and illustrator, creator of Mr Benn, King Rollo, and the ever-popular patchwork elephant, Elmer. Building on children's enjoyment of the characters and their adventures, this book presents activities that focus on narrative structure, character development, settings and themes. Most importantly, the activities are designed to make learning about stories as much fun as reading them.

Games and activities include: fortunately/unfortunately and chain of events - exploring cause and effect; comparing plots - using a matrix to order information; looking for clues about Elmer - building a character sketch; mapping feelings - exploring character development; time talk and Isabel's diary - understanding setting, sequence and relationships between the two; making a story map - recognizing picture and context clues; comparing the video to the written text; and text detective work using extracts. ... Read more

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Interdisciplinary studies of early modern women ... Read more

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Grounded in research and theory, this is a how-to, nuts-and-bolts book for teachers designing inclusive high-school English programs and for those not yet so engaged. ... Read more

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The Case for Expanding the HS English Canon
Liz Whaley and Liz Dodge have written a reader-friendly textbook that argues that teachers need to give their students a realistic mirror of the world as reflected in literature.Acknowledging that women have for years been excluded or minimized in the anthologies available to high school students, Whaley and Dodge discuss how teachers must move beyond the texts. Students should be guided toward reading the work of women writers and other minority writers.Some practical suggestions are offered via annotated bibliographies for each chapter.Useful. However, the chapters themselves sometimes belabor the point. ... Read more

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Wonderful Wealth of Literature
Anyone teaching literature or anyone who simply likes to read will find this anthology wonderfully and thoughtfully compiled. If I were teaching a class on women writers, I would make this one of the required texts.

an exceptional collection
"Southern Women's Writing" is the most comprehensive collection of works by Southern women that has ever hit the shelves! ... Read more

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In this volume of the "Woolf Studies Annual", Jane Goldman reveals submerged suffrage history in "The Waves," Lorraine Janzen Kooistra explains how "Roger Fry" is an apologia for Bloomsbury, and Janet Winston examines the multiple discourses of imperialism in "To the Lighthouse." Karen L. Levenback explores Woolf's embodiment of the post-war experience of combatants in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Years," Tracy Seeley finds in a short story Woolf's autobiographical experience of private and public space, and Barbara Apstein traces Woolf's reading of Chaucer in the drafts and published text of "Between the Acts". A new "Comment" section includes Jill Morstad's juxtaposition of Woolf's feminist polemics with the politics of examining graduate students, Nicholas Midgley's uncomfortable posing of Woolf's question 'why teach English?', and Brenda Silvers' thoughts on the movie "Tom & Viv". "Woolf Studies Annual, Volume II" also includes a revised and up-to-date "Guide to Collections" and reviews of several new books on Woolf, Bloomsbury, and related matters. Contents: "Purple Buttons on Her Bodice": Feminist History and Iconography in "The Waves", Jane Goldman; Virginia Woolf's "Roger Fry": A Bloomsbury Memorial, Lorrain Janzen Kooistra; "Something Out of Harmony": "To the Lighthouse" and the Subject(s) of Empire, Janet Winston; Virginia Woolf and Returning Soldiers: The Great War and Reality of Survival in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Years", Karen L. Levenback; Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Space: "The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection", Tracy Seeley; Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, and "Between the Acts," Barbara Apstein.; COMMENTS: Woolf Whistles, Cat Calls and Other Figures, Jill Morstad; Virginia Woolf and the University, Nicholas Midgley; Tom & Viv & Vita & Virginia & Ottoline & Edith..., Brenda R. Silver; Guide to Library Special Collections; REVIEWS: "Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers" by Beth Carole Rosenberg, Michael Chappell; "Woolf and Lessing, Breaking the Mold", eds. Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, J.J. Wilson and Jonah Raskin; "Virginia Woolf Against the Empire" by Kathy J. Phillips, Masani Usui; "So geheim und vertraut [So Secret and Private]: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West" by Susanne Amrain, Vera Nünning; "Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters", eds. Abigail Burnham Bloom and John Maynard, Jane Fisher; "The Art of Dora Carrington" by Jane Hill, Geneviève Sanchis Morgan; "Virginia Woolf" by James King, Val Gough; "Aesthetic Autobiograpyh: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin" by Suzanne Nalbantian, Suzette Henke. ... Read more

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"What I like most about this book is the fine balance between theory and pedagogy it achieves. The theoretical discussions are carefully developed, thoughtful, and richly provocative, drawing on complex theories to unpack the subtleties and contradictions of women’s autobiography in its many forms. Yet the essays themselves are full of valuable and very accessible information that could be used to develop and/or enrich courses in women’s autobiography and women’s studies in general.

Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. Itdiscusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally.

This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text--particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism--but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries. ... Read more

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This book provides a fascinating series of revelations, that will not only add to your knowledge of women's history, but will also enable you to have a greater understanding of female characters in any literary classics you read or see. ... Read more

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During the British women’s suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences.

This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women’s suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been reprinted since they were first published.

This important collection includes essays reflecting a variety of opinions and political positions; excerpts from autobiographies by women involved in the movement; suffrage poetry; the song that became the official song of the British suffrage movement; several one-act plays that were written and performed specifically to advance the suffrage cause; and short stories and excerpts from novels about suffrage. ... Read more