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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 221–234.
Published: 01 June 1942
...Jacob Ornstein Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 MISOGYNY AND PRO-FEMINISM IN EARLY CASTILIAN LITERATURE By JACOB ORNSTEIN I. The Background of Misogyny The phenomenon of misogyny is as old...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 358–375.
Published: 01 December 1979
...Katherine Bailey Linehan Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THE ODD WOMEN CISSING’S IMAGINATIVE APPROACH TO FEMINISM By KATHERINEBAILEY LINEHAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 197–226.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2001). She is writing a book on literary and philosophical imaginations of autonomy. The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Philosophy Nancy Yousef t is as a giant that the creature makes his first appearance in Franken- I...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 7–28.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Rewriting the Renaissance:The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (1986) and Feminism and Postmodernism (1994). © 2004 University of Washington 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Feminism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 161–176.
Published: 01 March 2004
... collections: Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity,with Judith Roof (1995); Feminism beside Itself, with Diane Elam (1995); AIDS and the National Body, by Thomas E. Yingling (1997); Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change (2002); and The Futures of American Studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Introduction (1997), and other works of literary theory and criticism. He is at work on books on Baudelaire and on the theory of the lyric. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 “Feminism in Time”: A Response Jonathan Culler collection of essays on feminism in time promises an account...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 560–562.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., transcolonial, and autobiography studies. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 . By Andrade Susan Z. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . ix + 259 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 268–270.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and for the future” (86). Through reflection on time’s circularity she traces the “dialectical relationship between past and present that characterizes black feminism’s philosophy of history” (26). And her compelling analysis centers on biocapitalism’s continued reliance on the slave episteme that is structured...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., and cultural legacies of Chinese modernity. This essay explores the relationship of women to Chinese modernity through a close reading of canonical works from modern Chinese drama. In the essay I deal with different aspects of modernity that shaped the lives of Chinese women, such as feminism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 185–200.
Published: 01 June 1997
...Sowon S. Park Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Sowon S. Park is a doctoral student at Oxford University; her D.Phi1. thesis, from which this essay is drawn, is on suffrage fiction. She has also written on Confucian feminism and has published, in collaboration, two...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (3): 367–371.
Published: 01 September 1992
... differently from the way other critics do. The women are “killed off, lost, silenced and erased” (p. 56), while the men, especially the Chaucerian narrator, are “feminized”; that is, they “occupy positions and/or perform functions already occupied and per- formed . . . by women or normatively assigned...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., and participants in a discussion sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Center for British and Irish Studies and Center for Humanities and the Arts, as well as partici- pants in the MLQ conference “Feminism in Time,” University of Washington, Seattle, October 2002. 1 Jacques Derrida, Politics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2004
... as feminism are always reading feminism in time. As we study the works and the careers of writers from earlier periods, we con- stantly attempt to evaluate the extent to which it is valid to interpret their projects from our vantage point. We have to ask ourselves in par- ticular whether our...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 305–323.
Published: 01 June 1996
...). Taylor I The Traps of Political Spectacle 307 The coup as event and the consensus-building spectacles con- verged to feminize the population as it made military violence look necessary, even desirable. Though apparently discrete events, their suc- cess and coherence depended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 49–68.
Published: 01 March 2004
... for the possibility of each “I.” —Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural Paper hough Margaret Cavendish has been and continues to be a central Tfigure in the discussion of Anglo-American feminism in time,1 I This essay has benefited from discussions at the Fourth Biennial Conference...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 231–234.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to feminism, although that debt is not acknowledged as such in Fair Copy (the term relational poetics seems not to derive from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation , which does not appear among the works cited). The social construction of a category like the literary, occurring as it always does within...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 231–249.
Published: 01 September 1994
... in Christine de Pizan (who is often considered the first professional female writer and a “forerunner” of feminism), the contribution of this highly educated fifteenth-century author to the history of rhetoric has remained largely unexplored.’ In this essay, I propose to reread the Cite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (3): 373–375.
Published: 01 September 1992
... difference, a difference that post- colonial art and criticism share with various forms of feminism: both have distinct political agendas and often theories of agency that allow them to go beyond the postmodern limits of deconstructing and dismantling existing orthodoxies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1996
... habits of their latter-day students, the field has been a great beacon of patriarchalism. To get women on the map at all in Renaissance studies, it was important, for a time, to present a united front. Judith Butler explains perfectly the “urgency of feminism to establish a universal sta- tus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 1999
.... Third, when women do imagine transformation through talk, their repre- sentations succumb to a utopian, sentimental vision in which, again, differ- ence is converted into sameness. In Kaplan’s view, feminism focuses almost exclusively on a politics of Price Herndl I Review...