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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

By: Bernadette Andrea

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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

By: Bernadette Andrea

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139468022

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9781139468022

Eve on Top

Women's Experience of Success in the Public Sector

By: David Baker,Bernadette Casey

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Women's Experience of Success in the Public Sector

By: David Baker,Bernadette Casey

Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten 'successful' women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences. Each case study includes a 'lessons learned' response in the form of advice both to other women, and the organisations in which they work. Surrounding and supporting the case studies are short essays charting the main themes that emerge from the interview process, backed up by extensive literature reviews. The book also compares relevant public sectors in different parts of the world and concludes with several case studies. - Summarises the commonality and the diversity of the challenges and issues - Provides an analysis of the factors that help and hinder women in reaching the top positions - Provides solutions suggested by detailed analysis of real-life experiences

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285

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Elsevier

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178063160X

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9781780631608

The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

By: Bernadette Andrea

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The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

By: Bernadette Andrea

Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl acquired from Islamic Central Asia; Teresa Sampsonia, a Circassian from the Safavid Empire; and Mariam Khanim, an Armenian from the Mughal Empire. By analysing these women’s lives and their impact on the literary and cultural life of proto-colonial England, Andrea reveals that they are simultaneously significant constituents of the emerging Anglo-centric discourse of empire and cultural agents in their own right. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture advances a methodology based on microhistory, cross-cultural feminist studies, and postcolonial approaches to the early modern period.

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263

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University of Toronto Press

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1487512805

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9781487512804

Cinema of Silvio Soldini

Dream, Image, Voyage

By: Bernadette Luciano

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Cinema of Silvio Soldini

Dream, Image, Voyage

By: Bernadette Luciano

One of the acclaimed filmmakers of the so-called 'new Italian cinema', Silvio Soldini's early films were recognized by critics for their artistic and cinematic value. This book traces his career from his first student film, "Drimage", to his documentary and shorts, and his feature films culminating in the 2004 comedy "Agatha and the Storm".

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233

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1906510245

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9781906510244

Embracing Solitude

Women and New Monasticism

By: Bernadette Flanagan,Beverly Lanzetta

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Embracing Solitude

Women and New Monasticism

By: Bernadette Flanagan,Beverly Lanzetta

Embracing Solitude focuses on the interior turn of monasticism and scans the Christian tradition for women who have made this turn in various epochs and circumstances. New Monasticism is a movement assuming diverse forms in response to the turn to classical spiritual sources for guidance about living spiritual commitment with integrity and authenticity today. Genuine spiritual seeking requires the cultivation of an inner disposition to return to the room of the heart. The lessons explored in this book from women spiritual entrepreneurs across the centuries will benefit contemporay New Monastics--both women and men. The accounts will inspire, challenge, and guide those who follow in the footsteps of the renowned spiritual innovators profiled here.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630870021

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Book's by Bernadette Diane Andrea

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

Eve on Top

Eve on Top

The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

Cinema of Silvio Soldini

Cinema of Silvio Soldini

Embracing Solitude

Embracing Solitude

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