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Hace 4 días · Born in 1949, Elaine Showalter is a highly influential American feminist critic. She coined the term gynocriticism, a powerful tool in feminist studies today. Gynocriticism is a literary framework that empowers female authors by critiquing their work without using the terminologies developed by male critics and authors, which often disadvantage women writers.
15 de jun. de 2024 · While not disputing that it happened in isolated cases, historians like Andrew Scull have questioned whether women (sane or otherwise) suffered from the ‘great confinement’ that Showalter outlines any more than men did.
Hace 3 días · Some researchers argue that orthorexia nervosa chimes with the historian Elaine Showalter’s description of eating disorders as “modern hysteria epidemics.” They’re a product of three factors: vulnerable patients, doctors who are enthusiastic about the diagnosis, and a culture that supports it all.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Indeed, he highlights the way such bifurcations have apparently been uncritically accepted by cultural historians such as Eric Leed and Elaine Showalter (p. 76).
12 de jun. de 2024 · "An extension of feminism’s critique of male power and ideology, feminist theory combines elements of other theoretical models such as psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction to interrogate the role of gender in the writing, interpretation, and dissemination of literary texts.
6 de jun. de 2024 · The author, Elaine Showalter, has explained that, by the 1850s the "woman's man," impossibly pious and desexed, or impossibly idle and oversexed, had become as familiar a figure in the feminine novel as the governess. On another hand, some women novelists have confessed that they didn’t give real reading for man’s personalities.
21 de jun. de 2024 · Price: £55.99. This book traces trajectories of medical understanding of mind, brain and nerves from pre- to post-war Britain and analyses the impact of the First World War with its shell shock ‘epidemic’ on established medical ideas and practices.
