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0-89594-122-8. OCLC. 18190883. LC Class. PS3562.O75 Z23x 1982b. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth. [1] In the text, Lorde writes that "Zami" is "a Carriacou name for women who work ...
0-393-32257-2. The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies. [3][4] Friedan used the book to challenge the ...
Brownmiller's other major book, In Our Time (2000), is a history of women's liberation. In Academic circles, feminist theology was a growing interest. Phyllis Trible wrote extensively throughout the 1970s to critique biblical interpretation of the time, using a type of critique known as Rhetorical criticism. [201]
Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the male point ...
v. t. e. Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of women's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievements over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and ...
Gather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.
Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) by Titian, showing the goddess Venus as the personification of femininity. Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, [ 1 ][ 2 ] and there is also some evidence that some behaviors ...
The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of New England farmers, typically between the ages of 15 and 35. [1] By 1840, at the height of the Textile Revolution ...