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Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Women's Caucus for Art Honor Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts
Author: Information Bulletin
Author: Beauties and Achievements of the Blind
Author: William ArtmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Heath's Book of Beauty
Author: Unity
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ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Embodying Beauty
Author: Malin PereiraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135711623
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally recognize a link between beauty standards and aesthetic ideology, exploring female beauty as a symptom of prevailing ideas about art and esthetics. Female beauty, in their texts, is not merely an issue of whether a female character is pretty or not; it is an expression of the controlling discourses negotiated by character, text, and author. In this study, therefore, the women writers' texts are read after interchapters outlining their key cultural and literary contexts. Revising Paul de Man's method of exploring scenes of reading, this study focuses on scenes of beauty in which a character, narrator, or speaker negotiates ideas about beauty. The author pairs Euro-American and African American women writers across the century in three generations: H.D. and Zora Neale Hurston; Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath; and Toni Morrison and Louis Gluck. As such, this study offers a landmark black/white dialogue on female beauty in twentieth-century American culture and literature. Scenes of beauty in the texts of these writers suggest multiple feminine aesthetics in twentieth-century American writing, unified in their negotiation of the aesthetic ideologies embodied in female beauty.
Dirty Words
Author: Robin E. JensenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252035739
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies of sex education advocates, Robin E. Jensen engages with rich sources such as lectures, books, movies, and posters that were often shaped by female health advocates and instructors. She offers a revised narrative that demonstrates how women were both leaders and innovators in early U.S. sex-education movements, striving to provide education to underserved populations of women, minorities, and the working class. Investigating the communicative and rhetorical practices surrounding the emergence of public sex education in the United States, Jensen shows how women in particular struggled for a platform to create and circulate arguments concerning this controversial issue. The book also provides insight into overlooked discourses about public sex education by analyzing a previously understudied campaign targeted at African American men in the 1920s, offering theoretical categorizations of discursive strategies that citizens have used to discuss sex education over time, and laying out implications for health communicators and sexual educators in the present day.
The Wilson Chronology of Women's Achievements
Author: Irene M. FranckPublisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A chronology of women's history, from 35,000 B.C. to 1996, providing information about women in all areas of endeavor, including politics, religion, science and technology, law, education, medicine, and others.
Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935
Author: Janice HellandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351761188
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies have focused on the denigration of decorative work by leading male artists, frequently dismissed as fashionably feminine. With few exceptions, women have been cast as consumers rather than producers. The first book to examine the decorative strategies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women artists, Women Artists and the Decorative Arts concentrates in particular on women artists who turned to fashion, interior design and artisanal production as ways of critically engaging various aspects of modernity. Women artists and designers played a vital role in developing a broad spectrum of modernist forms. In these essays new light is shed on the practice of such well-known women artists as May Morris, Clarice Cliff, Natacha Rambova, Eileen Gray and Florine Stettheimer, whose decorative practices are linked with a number of fascinating but lesser known figures such as Phoebe Traquair, Mary Watts, Gluck and Laura Nagy.
Educational Bulletin
Author: North Carolina. Dept. of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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