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Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference

Susan Rudy

Elizabeth Meese Elizabeth Meese draws a useful parallel between Gallop's concept of identity-what I have been speaking of as feminism's doubled notion of subjectivity—and feminism generally. Because reading, too, is a "theorizing process ...
Common Ground: Feminist Collaboration in the Academy

Common Ground: Feminist Collaboration in the Academy

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But Elizabeth Meese points out the uncontrolled nature of figurative language: " Like description, figuration works on the principle of likeness, resemblance of one thing to another" (80). Meese warns that slippages enter the use of metaphor ...
The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly

The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly

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Students of reading and gender, like Elizabeth Flynn, Patrocinio Schweickart, Elizabeth Meese, and Jonathan Culler, suggest that such resistance essentially involves “reading the text as it was not meant to be read, in fact, reading it against  ...
Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality

Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality

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We sent each of the panelists copies of abstracts the others had written about their ongoing projects and asked Elizabeth Meese to initiate the letter exchange. The four correspondents adapted this into an impressive conference presentation .
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

Sharon Patricia Holland

The debates about the direction of feminist scholarship raged into the 1990s: see Alice Parker and Elizabeth Meese, "Critical Negotiations: Calling Feminism Out of Its Name," in Feminist Critical Negotiations, ed. Alice A. Parker and Elizabeth ...
Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's ...

Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's ...

Megan Simpson

My analysis of these writers' different projects is informed by the work of two contemporary feminist theorists who address the question of how gender, sexuality, and subjectivity are related — Judith Butler and Elizabeth Meese. Of course the ...
South Atlantic Review: The Publication of the South Atlantic ...

South Atlantic Review: The Publication of the South Atlantic ...

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Edited by Elizabeth Meese and Alice Parker. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989. xi + 220 pp. Cloth $49.00; Paper $19.95. The Difference Within, a collection of essays drawn from the 1986 Alabama Symposium on Literature, ...
Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the "Postcolonial"

Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the "Postcolonial"

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Prominent feminist theorists — from Donna Haraway and Elizabeth Meese to Gayatri Spivak — increasingly focus their recent work on issues of postcoloniality/ The major anthologies of feminist theory in the last few years — such as Marianne ...
(Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing

(Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing

Elizabeth Meese

Friedman, Ellen G., and Miriam Fuchs. “Contexts and Continuities: An Introduction to Women's Experimental Fiction in English.” In Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction. Ed. Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs, 3–51.
Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader

Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader

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Elizabeth Meese I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. —Vita Sackville- West, Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf I lie in bed making up stories about you. — Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Letters of Virginia Woolf I don' t ...
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Missouri. General Assembly

1910 January 4 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary February 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary March 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary April 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 31 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary July 1 — Elizabeth ...
Under a Silent Moon

Under a Silent Moon

Elizabeth Haynes

Elizabeth Haynes. Elizabeth Haynes worked for many years as a police analyst. Her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels. Elizabeth grew up in Sussex ...
I Remember Well...

I Remember Well...

Elizabeth Donaldson

Memoirs of Elizabeth Donaldson, compiled by her son Ian and based on notes made by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth I and Ireland

Elizabeth I and Ireland

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... Elizabeth was able to turn her gender to advantage in manoeuvring through the male-dominated world of high politics.5 Natalie Mears's more recent work on Elizabeth and queenship has tacked differently in pursuit of monarchical authority .
Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...

Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...

David Alistair Yalof

Winner of the 2000 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency Drawing on the papers of seven modern presidents-and firsthand interviews with key figures like Edwin Meese, Ramsey Clark, and Gerald Ford-David Alistair ...
Stitches in Time

Stitches in Time

Elizabeth Donaldson

Elizabeth Donaldson. Stitches In Time Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Donaldson First Edition –September 2012. A Collection by Elizabeth Donaldson Axel Anderson Sowing Wood wlTh Eric. EllZobeTh ls ln bdckground.
Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

J. Randy Taraborrelli

This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life.
BodyGuard:

BodyGuard:

Jennifer Ashley

Having grown up in foster care, Elizabeth can only admire how protective Ronan is. But Ronan will only let Elizabeth leave the confines of Shiftertown if he becomes her 24/7 bodyguard. Elizabeth chafes at the restriction, but agrees.
Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Patricia Cleary

28 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to [Mrs. Rowe], 24 April 1770. 29 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to Mrs. Dehlois, 1 3 April 1 770, JMR. 30 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to unknown. [Fehruary 1770], JMR. 31 Elizabeth (Murray Smith to James Murray, ...
Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

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Emily Herring Wilson. Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence — A Friendship in Letters No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence North Carolina Women: Making History (co-authored with Margaret Supplee ...
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Elizabeth Jacoway

Her employer was Dr. Joseph Buchman; Elizabeth Eckford interview with Elizabeth Jacoway,Aug. 14, 2003, p.38, EJC. Eckford interview with Jacoway, Aug. 14, 2003, p. 26; Ted Pos- ton,“Nine Kids Who Dared: Elizabeth Ann Eckford, ” Oct. 23, ...
Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Dina Gachman

Some say Elizabeth Taylor was the last great movie star.
The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout ...

The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout ...

Trivion Books

Trivion Books. a. b. c. d. Question #1 Professor Doctor Painter Actor a. ANSWER a Professor Author Elizabeth Strout's father was a. What was Elizabeth Strout's father's profession? Where was Elizabeth Strout born?
Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern ...

Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern ...

David Loewenstein

437m 1 Gifford, George (cont.) A Short Reply 391m47; 51; 58, 392né6. and Elizabeth Evenden, “Print, Profit and Propaganda...” 379m3 and Sarah Elizabeth Wall, “Racking the Body...” 378m144 and Elizabeth Evenden, Religion and the Book.
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of ...

Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of ...

Elizabeth Pérez

Palmié, Stephan, and Elizabeth Pérez. “An All Too Present Absence: Fernando Ortiz's Work on [the Afro-Cuban secret society] Abakuá in Its Sociocultural Context.” New West Indian Guide 79, nos. 3–4 (2005): 219–28. Pérez, Elizabeth.
Authority and Society in Nantes during the French Wars of ...

Authority and Society in Nantes during the French Wars of ...

Elizabeth C. Tingle

Copyright © Elizabeth C. Tingle 2006 The right of Elizabeth C. Tingle to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University ...
Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective

Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective

Susan Bassnett

However, among the many books written about Elizabeth I there is none like this one: Bassnett looks at the life and achievements of Elizabeth from a twentieth-century feminist perspective and considers her as writer, politician, scholar and ...
Elizabeth's Horseback Adventure

Elizabeth's Horseback Adventure

Molly Mia Stewart

In love with her horseback riding lessons and her horse Puddles, Elizabeth Wakefield dreams of competing in horse shows, that is until Puddles throws her and Elizabeth decides to never ride again. Original.
Johannes Werbel and his descendants: the Warvel-Warble ...

Johannes Werbel and his descendants: the Warvel-Warble ...

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D., 31-33 Dee Ann, 31-30 Diana, 31-33 Doris Marciel, 31-32 Drew Edward, 31- 30 Elaine, 31-33 Elizabeth, 31-33 Elizabeth Jane "Libbie", 31-29 Evelyn, 31-32 Hlldreth Elouise, 31-29 Hollice Elizabeth, 31-32 James Daniel "Jamie", 31-30 Jean ...
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING CHAPTER VII 1851-1852 Since they first settled in Florence the Brownings had made no long or distant expeditions from their new home. Their summer excursions to Vallombrosa, Lucca, or Siena had ...

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