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A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660–1800. Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive) 450 entries, 68 of which are American; Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures: the Attic guide to the published works of Irish women literary writer: drama, fiction, poetry; Wilson, Katherina M., et al. An Encyclopedia of Continental ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
By the late 1960s, there was a plethora of feminine artwork that broke away from the tradition of depicting women in an exclusively sexualized or objectified fashion. [ 9 ] In order to gain recognition, many female artists struggled to "de-gender" their work in order to compete in a dominantly male art world.
IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...
Pages in category "1960s in women's history" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In the United States professional, academic employment for women art historians was, by the early 1970s, not commensurate with the number of female PhDs in art history. Between 1960 and 1969, 30.1% of PhDs were awarded to women but those numbers increased significantly during that period: between 1960 and 1965 it was 27%, but between 1966 and ...
A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [168] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [169] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [170] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...
February–October – Astounding magazine is renamed Analog. Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States. March 22 – Joan Henry's play Look on Tempests is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, as the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain.