Search results for "women's studie"
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La Palermo esotica di una viaggiatrice femminista
2009
La sage-femme, « vertueuse et experte »
2018
Dans son Instruction familière et très utile pour les accouchemens, Mme de La Marche, maîtresse jurée sage-femme de la ville et de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, pose un certain nombre de questions préliminaires avant d’aborder les aspects techniques de la profession. À la première d’entre elles : « Qu’est-ce que sage-femme ? », elle répond : « C’est une femme qui doit être vertueuse et experte pour accoucher et délivrer les femmes et pour les soulager dans le temps de leur accouchement. » « Vertueus...
Donne-gufo: resistenze e metamorfosi
2010
La storia delle donne e di genere e l’Università italiana. L’esperienza della Società Italiana delle Storiche
2018
Intersezioni di identità nell’Inghilterra vittoriana: note sulla storiografiadi Leonore Davidoff
2019
The chapter discusses some issues of the historiography of Leonore Davidoff, regarding gender identities in Victorian England
Shape-Shifting Tales. Michèle Roberts's Monstrous Women
2010
The book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm Brothers’ and Charles Perrault’s, the lives of female saints and Roberts’s counter-narratives, focussing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body. The book takes into account relevant Women’s Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter relationship, as Roberts’s stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rewo…
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category
2022
In the scientific journals, being part of the editorial boards, including the journals' members and chief editors, involves holding positions of power and responsibility that affect the running of a journal. Until now, these positions have usually been held by men in most scientific disciplines. In this study, the gender composition in the editorial board members (EBMs) and editor-in-chief (ECs) of the 45 Women's Studies journals classified in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) was analyzed. The following indicators were calculated: the gender distribution of ECs and EBMs by journal, publisher, country, and quartile of the journal in the JCR; the geographical area of the members; and the gen…