Women as Sites of Culture

Susan Shifrin, Ursinus College, USA Christopher Orchard, Alison Piepmeier, Louise Ryan, Lisa Plummer Crafton, Lisa Johnson, Elizabeth McCartney, Reina Green, Susan Lamb, Sudipto Chatterjee, Etsuko Kato, Marjorie Och, Elizabeth V. Chew, Lynn Lubamersky, Susan Shifrin, Ross J. Pudaloff, Robin DeRosa, Kristine Peleg, Ruth Ellen Kocher.

• Contents:Introduction; The female body as the site of polemics: The rhetoric of corporeality and the political subject: containing the dissenting female body in civil war England, Christopher Orchard; 'As strong as any man': Sojourner Truth's tall tale embodiment, Alison Piepmeier; Flappers and shawls: the female embodiment of Irish national identity in the 1920s, Louise Ryan; 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': language, culture, and the female body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Lisa Plummer Crafton; 'If this is improper,...then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and other uppity white women as resistant emblems of America, Lisa Johnson; Staging the sights of culture, staging women: theater, ritual, and ceremony: Bodies political and social: royal widows in renaissance ceremonial, Elizabeth McCartney; Eroticizing virtue: The role of Cleopatra in early modern drama, Reina Green; Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the 18th century: sexual desire, politics. and the good woman; Susan Lamb; Mothers of invention: prostitute-actresses of the late 19th-century Bengali theatre, Sudipto Chatterjee; 'Art' for men, 'manners' for women: how women transformed the tea ceremony in modern Japan, Etsuko Kato; Si(gh)ting the woman as cultural resource: Portrait medals of Vittoria Colonna: representing the learned woman, Marjorie Och; Si(gh)ting the mistress of the house: Anne Clifford and architectural space, Elizabeth V. Chew; The 'wild woman' in the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, Lynn Lubamersky; 'At the end of the walk by Madam Mazarines lodgings': si(gh)ting the transgressive woman in accounts of the restoration court, Susan Shifrin; The female voice as the site of cultural authority: 'Why do you call me to teach the court?': Anne Hutchinson and the making of cultural authority, Ross J. Pudaloff; A criticism of contradiction: Anna Leticia Barbauld and the 'problem' of 19th-century women's writing, Robin DeRosa; Silent at the wall: women in Israeli Remembrance Day ceremonies, Kristine Peleg; Revisiting a site of cultural bondage: JoAnn Gibson Robinson's Boycott Memoir, Ruth Ellen Kocher; Bibliography; Index.

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