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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2, The Public Years

By Charles Capper (NHC Fellow, 1994–95; 2002–03) Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's "public … Continued

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What Is a Woman?: And Other Essays

By Toril Moi (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de … Continued

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Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age

Edited by Charles Capper (NHC Fellow, 1994–95; 2002–03) and Cristina Giorcelli Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known and highly regarded feminist intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. With her contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she was one of the predominant writers of … Continued

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Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History

By Barbara N. Ramusack (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Writing on South and Southeast Asia, Ramusack surveys both the prescriptive roles and lived experiences of women, as well as the construction of gender from the period of the early states to the 1990s. Sievers presents an overview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and … Continued

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May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian

By Suzanne Raitt (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great … Continued

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Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics

Edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) and Agatha Beins Established as an academic field in the 1970s, women’s studies is a relatively young but rapidly growing area of study. Not only has the number of scholars working in this subject expanded exponentially, but women’s studies has become institutionalized, offering graduate degrees and taking … Continued

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Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz

By Carol Ann Muller (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the … Continued

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Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History

Edited by Daphne Patai (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) and Sherna Berger Gluck Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , … Continued

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Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860

By Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) Women in the studio: representing professional identity — "Why are you no longer my brothers?" The Fraternité des arts and the female artist in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's L'atelier d'un peintre — Sisterhood in/as the studio: Anna Mary Howitt's sisters in art — Visualizing imagined communities: lessons of the female … Continued