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Author:   Gina Luria Walker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780367876104

ISBN 10:   0367876108
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. The Invention of Female Biography Gina Luria Walker. Part 1: Forgotten Women 2. Well Represented or Missing in Action? Queens, Queenship and Mary Hays. 3. The contribution of Isabella de Rosares and Isabella de Josa to the Development of Learning for Women in the Sixteenth Century. 4. 'Anonymous' The University Women in Hays's Female Biography. Part 2: Omissions and Revisions 5. Commonwealths of Women: Republican Biography and Feminist Practice in The Female Biography and Project Continua. 6. Hays's Changes to her Classical Sources to Promote Female Agency. 7. Hays's Surprises. 8. Feminist Historical Recovery: Moving the 'Others' from Margin to Centre. Part 3: Female Biography and Feminist History Traditions 9. Agrippa to Venturia: Ancient and Modern Companions to Female Biography. 10. Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. 11. Four Types of Incongruity: Adventures in Editing the Work of Tullia d'Aragona. 12. Women of the Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters. Part 4: Contemporary Uses of Female Biography 13. Post-feminist Uses of Female Biography. 14. Female Biography: Towards Solidarity.

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Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women's Studies, The New School, where she teaches Women’s Intellectual History. She is the Director of The Center for the New Historia at the University, now in formation, dedicated to the global feminist project of historical recovery of earlier women. She was editor of The Chawton House Library Edition of Mary Hays’s Female Biography (1803; Pickering & Chatto, 2013, 2014). With Mary Spongberg she is co-editor of a Special Issue on Female Biography of Women's Writing (2017).

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