Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities

Spinster Tales and Womanly PossibilitiesLooks at changing conceptions of spinsterhood in modern American culture. The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's life and demise by using stories from the Ladies' Home Journal (from 1890, 1913, and 1933), along with Hollywood films from the 1940s and 1950s, such as It's

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no secular party has approximated the high levels of membership and intense activism of women within the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party

a century-old independent newspaper that covers city and state government in greater detail than today's mainstream news organizations

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attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable food consumption

and history that waves of feminisms have sought to describe and challenge

Minority scholars offer a critical and often radical rethinking of fundamental questions concerning identity

Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history

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and what this reveals about the gendered dynamics of anti-apartheid political action

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and experiences by combining history and anthropology