If Emily Dickinson were alive today, would she be celebrating International Women’s Day? That’s a tough call to make. This year’s theme for International Women’s Day calls upon women and allies...
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...
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
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.
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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Timothy H. Dixon, author of Curbing Catastrophe discusses 8 disasters and how they could have been prevented.
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.
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.
Rex A. Wade, author of 'The Russian Revolution,1917' talks about his experience in researching the Russian Revolution.
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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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...
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,...