Balancing the Scales

An Examination of the Manipulation and Transformation of Symbolic Concepts of Women
Herausgeber: Conn, Marie A; McGuire, Thérèse

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Produktbeschreibung

Balancing the Scales, a book of essays by faculty members of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, is an exploration of the manipulation and transformation of symbolic concepts of women. A multidisciplinary collection, representing Art History, English, Spanish Language and Literature, Psychology, and Theology, this book hopes to raise awareness of the historical perception of women before and after the so-called patriarchal revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 137mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780761825135
• ISBN-10: 0761825134
• Artikelnr.: 21489230

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marie A. Conn and Thérèse McGuire - Contributions by SSJ; Cecelia Cavanaugh; Barbara Lonnquist and Nancy Porter

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4
"Pandora and Eve: The Manipulation and Transformation of Female Archetypes"
Chapter 5 "Symbolic Images of Women: The Whore of Babylon and the Woman
Clothed with the Sun" Chapter 6 "'Am I Not Your Mother?' Identity and
Resistance at Tepayac and Montserrat" Chapter 7 "Paler by Comparison:
Shadows of Cleopatra in Nineteenth-Century Representations of the New Woman
Vampire" Chapter 8 "The Return of the Goddess" Chapter 9 Index