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The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of the Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.
Beatrice Campbell, "Writer's Room With a View," The Guardian, 21 February 1989, image 35 (assembly of women writers from the USSR, the United States, and France" The Persephone Book of Short Stories," Persephone Books Ltd. 2012, ISBN 978-1903-155-905 is a collection of short stories written by women 1909-1986.
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."
She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a descriptive name; her personal name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara no Kaoruko ( 藤原香子 ) , who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial ...
In the 1980s, Pandora Press, responsible for publishing Spender's study, issued a companion line of 18th-century novels written by women. [2] More recently, Broadview Press continues to issue 18th- and 19th-century novels, many hitherto out of print, and the University of Kentucky has a series of republications of early women's novels.
The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good, Dale Spender (1989) Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Catharine MacKinnon (1989) "What Battery Really Is", Andrea Dworkin (1989) [513] Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1989)
Inspired by Carter's "very empowered women," and characters' ability to "defy archetypes," her writing is brimming with subverted fairy tale tropes. They may not directly comment on the Grimms' approach to storytelling – there aren't straw-spinning damsels or demanding prince-frogs populating her pages. Instead, she invents her own ...
Nalini Bala Devi (23 March 1898– 24 December 1977) was an Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature, [1] known for nationalistic as well as mystical poetry. [2] She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1957 for her contribution to literature, and 1968 she won the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters) for her poetry ...