To Speak Or be Silent: The Paradox of Disobedience in the Lives of WomenLena B. Ross This is an exploration of the history of the woman's dilemma in history and literature. Lena Ross has collected articles on disobedient women from Eve and Bedouin women to Jane Eyre, Dona Luz, and Virginia Woolf--how they have challenged male dominance and the structures of patriarchal oppression. Table of Contents Introduction by Lena B. Ross. CREATING A WORLD Eve: Reflections on the Psychology of the First Disobedient Women -Juddith Hubback Before the Fall(s): Native American Women and the Concept of Disobedience - Patricia Clark Smith Analyzing Resistance: Bedouin Women's Discourses - Lila Abu-Lughod CREATING A SELF Strategies of Defiance: The Quest of the Wife of Bath - Judith Grossman Stepping Off the Path: Disobedience and Story-Making in "Little Red-Cap" - Jeanie Watson "Speak I Must" Jane Eyre and the Discourse of Disobedience - Lena B. Ross To Speak or Be Spoken: Some Women in African Literature - Marjolijn de Jager Apple, Nabila, and Ramza: Arab Women's Narratives of Resistance - Miriam Cooke Staying in the Place of Danger: The Disobedient, Poetic "I" of Dahlia Ravikovitch - Nili Rachel Scharf Gold TRANSFORMING A WORLD Women Who Disobey: Examples from India - Manisha Roy The Whirlwind and the Spiral: State-Sponsored Terror and Psychic Resistance in Marta Traba's Mothers and Shadows - Teresa Anderson At War with Home in South Africa: Writing by Ellen Kuzwayo and Lauretta Ngcobo - Jane Foress Bennett RAGE AND DISOBEDIENCE: LIKE A RAISIN IN THE SUN Medea's Fiery Chariot - Carol Savitz Some Archetypal Foundations of Self-Spite in the Welsh Mabinogion - Sylvia Brinton Perera Suchieh: The Untamed Shrew of Hsing-shih Yin-yuan - Fan Pen Chen Virginia Woolf: The Tragedy of Unconscious Disobedience - Jane White-Lewis WOMEN OF POWER: WHOSE HERO IS SHE, ANYWAY? Princess of Resolution: The Emergence of Al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, A Medieval Arab Warrior Woman - Wen-chin Ouyang From Coatlicue to Doiia Luz: Mitotes in Chicana Literature - Tey Diana Rebolledo Lye Throwers and Lovely Renegades: The Road from Bitch to Hero for Black Women in Fiction and Poetry - Jewelle Gomez Forbidden Words-Enchanting Song: The Treatment of Delilah in Literature and Music - Elaine Hoffman Baruch |
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Reflections on the Psychology of the First Disobedient | 3 |
Native American Women and the Concept | 13 |
Bedouin Womens Discourses | 25 |
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