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Tag Archives: Gender
Cussin’, Fightin’ & Rarin’
“For Women’s History Month, historian Stephanie Shaw [NHC Fellow 1995-96] talks [...] about her study of gender and slavery in 19th-century America. How did slaves, especially women, resist their oppressors? How successful were they?” [Wayne Pond]
The Literature of Women’s Lives
“It’s been a long time coming, but the literature of women’s lives — diaries, autobiographies, journals, and memoirs — has firmly established itself on the popular as well as academic literary scenes. Phyllis Rose talks about her recent anthology, The Norton Book of Women’s Lives.” [Wayne Pond]
Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley, playwright in residence at the Seven Stages Theater in Atlanta, discusses and reads from Dream Boy and discusses his first book, Winter Birds. Both works are fictional portraits set in the modern South and explore themes of adolescent love, homosexuality, religion, and personal identity. Grimsley discusses his ambivalence toward the South and the import of tackling such serious issues as identity, violence, and abuse in his works.
Mystery Woman
Patricia Cline Cohen [NHC Fellow 1994-1995] uses the story of the murder of a young prostitute, Helen Jewett, as a lens to view gender, youth, and sexuality in the 19th century United States. Cohen situates issues of gender within the unique historical moment that population expansion, unsupervised youth, the rise of prostitution, and the growth of publicity and the reading public presented in the 1830s. Cohen also problematizes the relationship between sex and murder, noting that the sensationalism surrounding erotic violence was still in its formative stage in the 19th century.
Crossing Ocean Parkway
Marianna Torgovnick discusses her new book, Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter, which is about gender, ethnicity, and social mobility.
Shakespearean Scandals
Although William Shakespeare is central to our cultural canons, his plays are full of the worst sort of social ills, including racism and sexism. Stephen Greenblatt talks about these literary scandals.
Bodies of Knowledge
Caoline Bynum discusses Fragmentation and Redemption, her book of essays about gender and the human body in medieval religion. Patricia Ebrey discusses The Inner Quarters, a study of marriage and social manners in medieval China.
Renaissance Ritual and Art
A discussion of the power of ritual from Renaissance Europe to the modern world. A discussion of religion and gender in Renaissance art.
Standing in Unknowing
Elizabeth Kirk discusses her new study of faith, gender, and medieval English poetry.
Gendering War Talk
A discussion of Gendering War Talk, a new collection of essays about gender, the military, and American culture.
Women, Work, and the City
Katharine Bartlett discusses gender and American legal culture. Susan Porter Benson discusses her book, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores 1890-1940.
Elizabeth and Company
A discussion of gender, political power, and public artistry in Renaissance England.
Storied Bodies
Peter Brooks discusses Storied Bodies, his new book about the human body and literary narrative. Eve Sedgwick talks about gender and literature.
Rethinking Roman History
A discussion of new perspectives on scholarship about gender and domestic life in early Roman culture.
Gendermania
A discussion of male and female power, sex roles, political institutions, and the imagination in utopian fiction.