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  • Crossing Boundaries

    Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges

    Edited by Barbara Caine, E. A. Grosz, Marie de Lepervanche ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist perspective, contesting their presumptions, and questioning and crossing their boundaries.The book provides a broad-ranging overview of the state of feminist interventions in the social and natural sciences and the humanities. It illustrates something of the diversity of approaches to ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Biography and History

    by Barbara Caine ...
    Series series Theory and History
    Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area of historical scholarship and research. Examining key works that have changed the nature of biography, Barbara Caine also explores the way biographical narrative and life stories have become a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Friendship

    A History

    by Barbara Caine ...
    There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history of friendship, and the ways in which it has changed over time, have rarely been examined. Friendship: A History traces the development of friendship in Europe from the Hellenistic period to today. The book brings together a range of essays that examine ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Women and the Autobiographical Impulse

    A History

    by Barbara Caine ...
    Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life experiences.Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of history: from the emergence of the 'modern autobiography' in the 18th-century which ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Letters Between Mothers and Daughters

    Edited by Barbara Caine ...
    There are now many studies of family letters in Europe, but most of them focus on marital letters and letters between parents, especially mothers, and their sons. Little attention has been paid to the letters to and from daughters. This volume seeks to begin filling that gap by exploring the continuities and changes evident in the letters written between mothers and daughters over several ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Transitions

    New Australian feminisms

    Edited by Barbara Caine ...
    Gender relations are in a period of transition. In this collection, some of Australia's leading writers and talented young scholars offer a systematic overview of the ways in which recent feminist analysis is shaping women's studies. They reflect on questions of power, difference, social structures, methodology and culture. They ask how feminism has changed in the past few years, and whether ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries

    by Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine ...
    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world. Whether written from the ... Read more

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    by Belinda Jack ...
    This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of the Courtier

    The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

    by Peter Burke ...
    This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

    The Import of Terror

    by Angela Wright ...
    Series Book 99 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the ... Read more

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  • The Prospect Before Her

    A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800

    by Olwen Hufton ...
    Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations. ... Read more

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