Disciplining Women

Disciplining Women
Author: Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438432747

An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.

Disciplining Girls

Disciplining Girls
Author: Joe Sutliff Sanders
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421403773

At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic orphan girl novels of Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, and other writers still popular today. Domestic novels published between 1850 and 1880 argued that a discipline that emphasized love was the most effective and moral form. These were the first best sellers in American fiction, and by reimagining discipline as a technique of the heart—rather than of the whip—they ensured their protagonists a secure, if limited, claim on power. This same ideal was adapted by women authors in the early twentieth century, who transformed the sentimental motifs of domestic novels into the orphan girl story made popular in such novels as Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna. Through close readings of nine of the most influential orphan girl novels, Sanders provides a seamless historical narrative of American children’s literature and gender from 1850 until 1923. He follows his insightful literary analysis with chapters on sympathy and motherhood, two themes central to both American and children’s literature, and concludes with a discussion of contemporary ideas about discipline, abuse, and gender. Disciplining Girls writes an important chapter in the history of American, women’s, and children’s literature, enriching previous work about the history of discipline in America.

Disciplines of a Godly Woman

Disciplines of a Godly Woman
Author: Barbara Hughes
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1581347596

Hughes helps women to scrutinize their lives and tells their poignant stories with faithful reminders to develop the godly character they desire. (Women's Issues)

Disciplining Feminism

Disciplining Feminism
Author: Ellen Messer-Davidow
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2002-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780822328438

DIVA cultural studies account of the changes produced in feminism as it became part of the academy and of the highly orchestrated attack on higher education by the right-wing./div

Faithful to the Task at Hand

Faithful to the Task at Hand
Author: Carroll L.L. Miller
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438442602

Born just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major sports title, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She provided leadership and service in a wide range of organizations concerned with improving the conditions of women, African Americans, and other disadvantaged groups and also participated in peace activism. Among her many accomplishments, she created the first junior high school for black students in Washington, DC. In this long overdue biography, Carroll L. L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan tell the remarkable story of Slowe's steadfast determination working her way through college, earning respect as a teacher and dean, and standing up to Howard's President and Board of Trustees in insisting on equal treatment of women. Along the way, the authors weave together recurring themes in African American history: the impact of racism, the importance of education, the role of sports, and gender inequality.

Disorderly Women

Disorderly Women
Author: Susan Juster
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501731386

Throughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening, evangelical women in colonial New England participated vigorously in major church decisions, from electing pastors to disciplining backsliding members. After the Revolutionary War, however, women were excluded from political life, not only in their churches but in the new republic as well. Reconstructing the history of this change, Susan Juster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religion and revolutionary politics in America. Juster compares contemporary accounts of Baptist women and men who voice their conversion experiences, theological opinions, and proccupation with personal conflicts and pastoral controversies. At times, the ardent revivalist message of spiritual individualism appeared to sanction sexual anarchy. According to one contemporary, revival attempted "to make all things common, wives as well as goods." The place of women at the center of evangelical life in the mid-eighteenth century, Juster finds, reflected the extent to which evangelical religion itself was perceived as "feminine"—emotional, sensional, and ultimately marginal. In the 1760s, the Baptist order began to refashion its mission, and what had once been a community of saints—often indifferent to conventional moral or legal constraints—was transformed into a society of churchgoers with a concern for legitimacy. As the church was reconceptualized as a "household" ruled by "father" figures, "feminine" qualities came to define the very essence of sin. Juster observes that an image of benevolent patriarchy threatened by the specter of female power was a central motif of the wider political culture during the age of democratic revolutions.

Same Bodies, Different Women

Same Bodies, Different Women
Author: Christopher Mielke
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 6158122238

This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.

Strict Women

Strict Women
Author: Annabelle Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-01-31
Genre:
ISBN:

In this collection of provocative confessions, both women and men speak of how they came to discover what really gets them going when it comes to a dominating woman taking charge with a strict hand. It is a raw and sometimes extreme look at how the power dynamic between a woman and a man can play out in an infinite number of ways both sexually and in their overall relationship. The act of a woman physically disciplining a man is at the heart of each narrative, but the way in which this evolves in each instance is very broad and much more complicated than the simple motion of a female's hand striking a man's body. The obsession with spanking and being spanked runs throughout most of the personal revelations, but they go far beyond that to deeper needs, to traumatic early-life experiences and to broader visions of living a life in a matriarchal society. Spanking is tied up in so many emotional, psychological and physical dimensions that it is impossible to distill the whole world of getting a good hard whipping into simple depictions. Yet, it is possible to take the broad array of men and women who have either gotten disciplined or have done the disciplining in a strikingly memorable way and let them speak for themselves. The stories collected here are chosen from a vast array of confessions due to their unique qualities. There were many similar stories I came upon but the ones printed here really stuck in my mind as being especially exemplary of women with deep desires to spank and men with endless urges to be spanked due to unusually powerful events or people in their lives. The characters run the gamut - fierce-willed wives, bossy bosses, Femdom-believing heads of households, strict stepmothers, spanking addicts, firmly disciplined males, corporal punishment proponents, humiliated cuckolds, strict black queens, power hungry girlfriends, naughty boys and philosophers of matriarchy.

Managing Women

Managing Women
Author: Elyssa Faison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2007-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520934180

At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry. For the first time, young Japanese women were persuaded to leave their families and enter the factory. Managing Women focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, examining how factory managers, social reformers, and the state created visions of a specifically Japanese femininity. Faison finds that female factory workers were constructed as "women" rather than as "workers" and that this womanly ideal was used to develop labor-management practices, inculcate moral and civic values, and develop a strategy for containing union activities and strikes. In an integrated analysis of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison shows how this discourse on women's wage work both produced and reflected anxieties about women's social roles in modern Japan.