Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik (Pickering Women's Classics) - Hardcover

Rossetti, Christina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851960279 ISBN 13: 9781851960279

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods.

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Review:

"Tehranian's book covers fresh legal and social territory . . . consistently informative and casts off the cloak of invisibility."
-"Publishers Weekly",

"Tehranian has written a compelling account of discrimination against those of Middle Eastern descent. His book is an important addition to the literature on race in America and could not be more timely."
-Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law

"He provides an important contribution to the dynamic study of the legal and political status of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States."
-"The Law and Politics Book Review",

"A refreshing analysis and accessible account of the contradictory classification of Middle Eastern Americans as whites in the early 1900s and as non-whites a century later."
-Mehdi Bozorgmehr, co-author of "Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond"

"A learned, witty, and analytically biting analysis of race politics and race jurisprudence. A brilliant case that race is understood through performance and is hostage to the politics of fear. Tehranian's legal and intellectual thriller is hard to put down."
-James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

Synopsis:

"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19. Clearly autobiographical, the novel examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty, virtue and domesticity constitute the duties of women. Rossetti, often overshadowed by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, struggled to express her own independent authorial voice and to resist a life bound by the constraints and demands of the traditional feminine role. "On Sisterhoods" confronts head-on the woman question. Asserting that women's role is to find beauty in their lives through altruism and good works - to be, more or less, "good women", Craik provides a radical solution to "the woman question" by advocating the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods; effectively women's co-operatives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1851960279
• ISBN 13: 9781851960279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200