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International Women’s Day: spotlight on Hildegard of Bingen

To commemorate International Women’s Day, it seems appropriate to think about the “career” trajectory of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), and what might have influenced it. Hildegard...

Jennifer Bain | 10 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: spotlight on feminist literary criticism

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Gill Plain and Susan Sellers, authors of A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, ask whether we are now in a post-feminist era

Gill Plain, Susan Sellers | 9 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: paths to the podium

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Jeanice Brooks, author of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger, explores the monumental career of this female composer, conductor and teacher.

Jeanice Brooks | 9 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: Editing Early Modern Women

Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman - editors of Editing Early Modern Women - discuss the challenges associated with editing the texts of Renaissance women.

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Paul Salzman, Sarah C. E. Ross | 8 Mar 2017

A Look at Past Human and Natural Disasters, and What Can be Done about it

Timothy H. Dixon, author of Curbing Catastrophe discusses 8 disasters and how they could have been prevented.

Timothy H. Dixon | 8 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: A long way lost

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Lorna Finlayson, author of An Introduction to Feminism, asks whether progress has been made towards achieving gender equality.

Lorna Finlayson | 8 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: spotlight on women’s writing in the Romantic period

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Devoney Looser, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period, explores the expansion of professional women writers during the Romantic period.

Devoney Looser | 8 Mar 2017

Writing about the Russian Revolution

Rex A. Wade, author of 'The Russian Revolution,1917' talks about his experience in researching the Russian Revolution.

Rex A. Wade | 8 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: Activism in Latin America

Mónica Szurmuk, Universidad de Buenos Aires, puts the recently published Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature in the context of the social protests around Latin America this Wednesday.

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Mónica Szurmuk | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: spotlight on Alice Munro

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, Alice Munro is far from unknown in literary award circles. For example, in Canada she has received three Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and...

David Staines | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: Verdi and Women

This book began life with a different title: ‘In tuono deciso’, or Verdi’s Heroines. The phrase ‘in tuono deciso’ (‘in a decided tone’) is a stage direction in the score of Verdi’s Alzira,...

Susan Rutherford | 7 Mar 2017

International Women’s Day: The World’s Greatest Living Author is a Woman

To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Heidi Macpherson, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood, discusses some of the themes explored in Atwood's work.

Heidi Macpherson | 6 Mar 2017