Aspasia 2008

by Haan, Francisca De; Bucur, Maria; Daskalova, Krassimira

• ISBN13: 9781845456344
• ISBN10: 1845456343
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender historyfocused on - and produced in - Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. In this region the field of women's and gender history has developed uevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon.

Author Biography

Francisca de Haan is Professor of Gender Studies, Central European University; Maria Bucur is Associate Professor, John V. Hill Chair in East European History, Indiana University; and Krassimira Daskalova is Associate Professor, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

Table of Contents

Special Section: Women Writers and Intellectuals

Released From Her Fetters? Natural Equality in the Work of the Russian Sentimentalist Woman Writer Maria Bolotnikova

National and Gender in the Writings of Slovene Women Writers, 1848-1918

Armenian Writers and Women's Rights Discourse in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Constantinople

The Visible Woman: Interwar Romanian Women's Writing, Modernity, and the Gendered Public/Private Divide

The Feminisation of Bulgarian Literature and the Club of Bulgarian Women Writers

Writing an Actress's Life: The Autobiography of the Polish Actress Irena Solska (1875-1958)

A History of Things That Did Not Happen: the Life and Work of Two Fictitious Hungarian Women Authors

Forum: Contemporary Women Writers And Intellectuals

Introduction: Negotiating Identities in the Post-Worlds

Women's Cultural Canon?

Defining the Feminine Presence in Literature: A Search For New Terms

An Exchange of Gifts: Feminism for History

Show the World How Good They Are

In Eastern Europe, an Ethics of Care is Extremely Important, As Well As Painfully Absent

You Do Not Turn Woman Because the Word 'Female' Is Written On Your Identity Card

Inside and Beyond Worlds

Talking Across Cultural Differences: Some Reflections Proceeding from Exile, Eva Hoffman

De-Fragmenting the Struggle and Other Stories

Review Essay

Women's Literary History and Its (Im)Possibility

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