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Joseph Carroll-Smith Family Papers - Accession 499 - M208 (250)
No full textThe Carroll-Smith Family Papers consist of typescript copies and photocopies of genealogical records related to the family of John Carroll, Jr., American revolutionary soldier and York County, SC resident. Included is a family history chart for the Reuben Smith family of North Carolina and of wills and deeds related to Joseph Carroll, Reuben Smith, Jeannett Carrell, Thomas Carroll, Robert McClelland, William Ratchford, Sr., Abner Smith, Nancy Smith, Rachel Westmoreland, Jane Gallagher.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1633/thumbnail.jp
Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
“Working with cloth”: Materialising women’s creative labour in the work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Riley
Full text linkAn instrument of creative labour, the needle has played a significant but ambivalent role in the closely related histories of women’s work and women’s rights. The gendering of demarcations between private and public domains, formations of paid and unpaid labour, and hierarchies of art, craft and design all converge in the practice of sewing, an occupation with a complex relationship to the history of women’s education, employment and creativity. Centrally concerned with questions of visibility and value in relation to women’s work, this chapter directs new critical attention to the figure of the dressmaker in twentieth century fiction by women writers. It examines the legacies of Victorian discourses of distress in Rosamond Lehmann’s Invitation to the Waltz (1932), wartime austerity, domestic space and private property in Beryl Bainbridge’s The Dressmaker (1973) and British Caribbean women’s labour in the post-war textile arts and industries in Joan Riley’s Waiting in the Twilight (1987). With a sustained focus on the material conditions of creative labour, this chapter foregrounds the social, economic and political forces which serve to shape women’s exercise of creative agency in differing historical, class and colonial contexts
“Working with cloth”: Materialising women’s creative labour in the work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Riley
Full text linkAn instrument of creative labour, the needle has played a significant but ambivalent role in the closely related histories of women’s work and women’s rights. The gendering of demarcations between private and public domains, formations of paid and unpaid labour, and hierarchies of art, craft and design all converge in the practice of sewing, an occupation with a complex relationship to the history of women’s education, employment and creativity. Centrally concerned with questions of visibility and value in relation to women’s work, this chapter directs new critical attention to the figure of the dressmaker in twentieth century fiction by women writers. It examines the legacies of Victorian discourses of distress in Rosamond Lehmann’s Invitation to the Waltz (1932), wartime austerity, domestic space and private property in Beryl Bainbridge’s The Dressmaker (1973) and British Caribbean women’s labour in the post-war textile arts and industries in Joan Riley’s Waiting in the Twilight (1987). With a sustained focus on the material conditions of creative labour, this chapter foregrounds the social, economic and political forces which serve to shape women’s exercise of creative agency in differing historical, class and colonial contexts
“Working with cloth”: Materialising women’s creative labour in the work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Riley
Full text linkAn instrument of creative labour, the needle has played a significant but ambivalent role in the closely related histories of women’s work and women’s rights. The gendering of demarcations between private and public domains, formations of paid and unpaid labour, and hierarchies of art, craft and design all converge in the practice of sewing, an occupation with a complex relationship to the history of women’s education, employment and creativity. Centrally concerned with questions of visibility and value in relation to women’s work, this chapter directs new critical attention to the figure of the dressmaker in twentieth century fiction by women writers. It examines the legacies of Victorian discourses of distress in Rosamond Lehmann’s Invitation to the Waltz (1932), wartime austerity, domestic space and private property in Beryl Bainbridge’s The Dressmaker (1973) and British Caribbean women’s labour in the post-war textile arts and industries in Joan Riley’s Waiting in the Twilight (1987). With a sustained focus on the material conditions of creative labour, this chapter foregrounds the social, economic and political forces which serve to shape women’s exercise of creative agency in differing historical, class and colonial contexts
Introduction: writing women's rights - from Enlightenment to ecofeminism
Full text linkThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical and historical perspectives to the relationship between women’s writing and women’s rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Thematically organised around five central concepts--Rights, Networks, Bodies, Production and Activism—the Companion tracks vital questions and debates, offering fresh perspectives on changing priorities and enduring continuities in relation to women’s ongoing struggle for liberty and equality. This ground-breaking collection brings into focus the historical and cultural conditions which have shaped the formation of British literary feminisms, including the legacies of slavery, colonialism and Empire. From the political novel of the 1790s to early twentieth-century suffrage theatre and contemporary ecofeminism, and from the mid-Victorian anti-slavery movement to anti-fascist activism in the 1930s and working-class women’s writing groups in the 1980s, this book testifies to the diverse and dynamic character of the relationship between literature and feminism. Featuring contributions from leading feminist scholars, the Companion offers new insights into the crucial role played by women’s literary production in the evolving history of women’s rights discourses, feminist activism and movements for gender equality. It will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of women’s writing, British literature, cultural history and gender and feminist studies
Introduction: writing women's rights - from Enlightenment to ecofeminism
Full text linkThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical and historical perspectives to the relationship between women’s writing and women’s rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Thematically organised around five central concepts--Rights, Networks, Bodies, Production and Activism—the Companion tracks vital questions and debates, offering fresh perspectives on changing priorities and enduring continuities in relation to women’s ongoing struggle for liberty and equality. This ground-breaking collection brings into focus the historical and cultural conditions which have shaped the formation of British literary feminisms, including the legacies of slavery, colonialism and Empire. From the political novel of the 1790s to early twentieth-century suffrage theatre and contemporary ecofeminism, and from the mid-Victorian anti-slavery movement to anti-fascist activism in the 1930s and working-class women’s writing groups in the 1980s, this book testifies to the diverse and dynamic character of the relationship between literature and feminism. Featuring contributions from leading feminist scholars, the Companion offers new insights into the crucial role played by women’s literary production in the evolving history of women’s rights discourses, feminist activism and movements for gender equality. It will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of women’s writing, British literature, cultural history and gender and feminist studies
Writing and Popular Music: Litpop in / and / as the world
Full text linkBringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa
Introduction: Writing Women’s Rights – from Enlightenment to Ecofeminism
Full text linkHistorically excluded from formal education, the professions and politics, women have found meaning, purpose and agency on the page. The written word has played a catalysing role in women’s struggle for equality, both past and present: whether as a vehicle for personal expression, private exchange or public communication, the practice of writing – at once reflective, creative and productive – has enabled women to create liberating spaces in which to critique and challenge the realities of their experience. The circulation of women’s words has further served to validate experience, foster shared identity and fuel collective intent, empowering women to overcome both barriers to authorship and resistance to the troubling truths their words disclose. The forging of feminist communities of the word is an impulse which also finds expression in this collection. Bringing together specially commissioned essays by leading feminist scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism offers new insights into the crucial role played by women’s literary production in the evolving history of women’s rights discourses, feminist activism and movements for gender equality. The transformative power of women’s words is explored in literary forms ranging from novels, plays and poetry to letters, journals and travel writing, and from journalism, essays and manifestos to biography, autobiography and memoir. Foregrounding the material and cultural conditions which have shaped histories of women’s literary activity, new light is cast on women’s role as editors, publishers and cultural activists in championing women’s voices
Introduction: writing women's rights - from Enlightenment to ecofeminism
Full text linkThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical and historical perspectives to the relationship between women’s writing and women’s rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Thematically organised around five central concepts--Rights, Networks, Bodies, Production and Activism—the Companion tracks vital questions and debates, offering fresh perspectives on changing priorities and enduring continuities in relation to women’s ongoing struggle for liberty and equality. This ground-breaking collection brings into focus the historical and cultural conditions which have shaped the formation of British literary feminisms, including the legacies of slavery, colonialism and Empire. From the political novel of the 1790s to early twentieth-century suffrage theatre and contemporary ecofeminism, and from the mid-Victorian anti-slavery movement to anti-fascist activism in the 1930s and working-class women’s writing groups in the 1980s, this book testifies to the diverse and dynamic character of the relationship between literature and feminism. Featuring contributions from leading feminist scholars, the Companion offers new insights into the crucial role played by women’s literary production in the evolving history of women’s rights discourses, feminist activism and movements for gender equality. It will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of women’s writing, British literature, cultural history and gender and feminist studies
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