Brandeis University4 年
Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-century Eastern European ...
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...
The New Yorker9 天
Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women
The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.
JSTOR Daily3 年
‘There is no respectable woman … that sells books!’: The Memoirs of Nineteenth ...
In Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and ... to Create Desire’: Reproducing Knowledge and Evading Censorship in the Nineteenth-Century Subscription Press”. Bulletin of the History of Medicine ...
culture.pl7 年
19th-Century Polish Women's Cookbooks: The Hatching of a Social Monster
Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...
BBC2 年
Lady Killers – The lives and crimes of eight 19th-century women
During the 19th century, married women in England and Wales began to ... after she had moved to Reading. Between 30 March and 30 April, the bodies of seven infants were pulled from the River ...
来自MSN1 个月
These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman
By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life ... Children play in the background. The woman boasts a large wedding ring on her finger. She is reading a novel, in the still seclusion ...