Gina Luria Walker

The Invention of Female Biography (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351265195
• Artikelnr.: 50135974

Autorenporträt

Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women's Studies, The New School, where she teaches Women's Intellectual History. She is the Director of The Center for the New Historia at the University, now in formation, dedicated to the global feminist project of historical recovery of earlier women. She was editor of The Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Hays's Female Biography (1803; Pickering & Chatto, 2013, 2014). With Mary Spongberg she is co-editor of a Special Issue on Female Biography of Women's Writing (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Invention of Female Biography Gina Luria Walker. Part 1: Forgotten
Women 2. Well Represented or Missing in Action? Queens, Queenship and Mary
Hays. 3. The contribution of Isabella de Rosares and Isabella de Josa to
the Development of Learning for Women in the Sixteenth Century. 4.
'Anonymous' The University Women in Hays's Female Biography. Part 2:
Omissions and Revisions 5. Commonwealths of Women: Republican Biography and
Feminist Practice in The Female Biography and Project Continua. 6. Hays's
Changes to her Classical Sources to Promote Female Agency. 7. Hays's
Surprises. 8. Feminist Historical Recovery: Moving the 'Others' from Margin
to Centre. Part 3: Female Biography and Feminist History Traditions 9.
Agrippa to Venturia: Ancient and Modern Companions to Female Biography. 10.
Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. 11.
Four Types of Incongruity: Adventures in Editing the Work of Tullia
d'Aragona. 12. Women of the Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's Wife and
Daughters. Part 4: Contemporary Uses of Female Biography 13. Post-feminist
Uses of Female Biography. 14. Female Biography: Towards Solidarity.