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Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation such as Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. Moving beyond cynical deconstructions of the post-colony, the book mounts a reassessment of the post-colonial nation as a site of potential empowerment, as a ‘paradoxical refuge’ in a globalised world. It acts on its own impassioned argument that post-colonial and nation-state studies address substantively issues hitherto raised chiefly within international feminism.

Nationalism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Nationalism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Sex role in literature --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- History and criticism --- Literature --- Gender --- Women --- Chinua Achebe --- India --- Nationalism --- Patriarchy --- Postcolonialism --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Literature: history & criticism

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Photoabsorption. --- Absorption --- Electromagnetic waves --- Radiation --- Sex role. --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Developmental psychology --- Sexology --- Sociology of literature --- Sex role --- 316.371 --- 396 --- 82:316 --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 82:316 Literatuursociologie --- Literatuursociologie --- 316.371 Gender --- Gender --- Gender role --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Masculinity --- Literary criticism --- Féminité --- Book

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The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.

History of civilization --- intellectuals --- portraits --- women [female humans] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Women in art --- 82.081 --- 396 --- 82:396 --- Sex in art --- Authority in art --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 396 Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- 396 Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society --- Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society --- 82.081 Creatief schrijven --- Creatief schrijven --- Gender studies: women --- Women Writers;Early Modern Period;Authority Constructions;Visual and Textual (Self-)Representation;European Intellectual Culture --- vrouwengeschiedenis