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Mixed Forms of Visual Culture

From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity

By: Mary Anne Francis

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Mixed Forms of Visual Culture

From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity

By: Mary Anne Francis

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the book adopts the term 'mixed form' for them. Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in digital times, so-called 'mixed reality,' the book argues that while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life. Crucially, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture relates its phenomena to the emergence of the division of labour under capitalism and addresses the shifting relationships between art and life, when singularity and uniformity are variously valued and dismissed in the two arenas, and at different points in history. Two of the book's chapters take the form of visual essays, with one comprising an anthology of found scrapbook pages and the other offering an analysis of artists' scrapbooks. The book is richly illustrated throughout.

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249

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN 10

1350211397

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9781350211391

Quiet Rebels

A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

By: Mary Jane Mossman

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Quiet Rebels

A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

By: Mary Jane Mossman

“It’s a girl!” the Ontario press announced, as Canada’s first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers for the next six decades, and how their experiences continue to shape gender issues in the contemporary legal profession. Mary Jane Mossman tells the stories of all 187 Ontario women lawyers called to the bar from 1897 to 1957, revealing the legal profession’s gendered patterns. Comprising a small handful of students—or even a single student—at the Law School, women were often ignored, and they faced discrimination in obtaining articling positions and legal employment. Most were Protestant, white, and middle-class, and a minority of Jewish, Catholic, Black, and immigrant women lawyers faced even greater challenges. The book also explores some changes, as well as continuities, for the much larger numbers of Ontario women lawyers in recent decades. This longitudinal study of women lawyers’ gendered experiences in the profession during six decades of social, economic, and political change in early twentieth-century Ontario identifies factors that created—or foreclosed on—women lawyers’ professional success. The book’s final section explores how some current women lawyers, despite their increased numbers, must remain “quiet rebels” to succeed.

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450

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771125934

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9781771125932

World Clothing and Fashion

An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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World Clothing and Fashion

An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories (shoes, hats, gloves, handbags, and jewellery) for men, women, and children. Dress for different climates, occupations, recreational activities, religious observances, rites of passages, and other human needs and purposes - from hunting and warfare to sports and space exploration - are examined in depth and detail. Fashion and design trends in diverse historical periods, regions and countries, and social and ethnic groups constitute a major area of coverage, as does the evolution of materials (from animal fur to textiles to synthetic fabrics) and production methods (from sewing and weaving to industrial manufacturing and computer-aided design). Dress as a reflection of social status, intellectual and artistic trends, economic conditions, cultural exchange, and modern media marketing are recurring themes. Influential figures and institutions in fashion design, industry and manufacturing, retail sales, production technologies, and related fields are also covered.

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825

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Routledge

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1317451678

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9781317451679

A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter

By: Mary Robinson

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A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter

By: Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson’s A Letter to the Women of England (1799) is a radical response to the rampant anti-feminist sentiment of the late 1790s. In this work, Robinson encourages her female contemporaries to throw off the “glittering shackles” of custom and to claim their rightful places as the social and intellectual equals of men. Separately published in the same year, Robinson’s novel The Natural Daughter follows the story of Martha Morley, who defies her husband’s authority, adopts a found infant, is barred from her husband’s estate and is driven to seek work as an actress and author. The novel implicitly links and critiques domestic tyrants in England and Jacobin tyrants in France. This edition also includes: other writings by Mary Robinson (tributes, and an excerpt from The Progress of Liberty); writings by contemporaries on women, society, and revolution; and contemporary reviews of both works.

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336

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Broadview Press

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1460403649

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9781460403648

Best Companions

Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846

By: Eliza Middleton Fisher,Mary Hering Middleton

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Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846

By: Eliza Middleton Fisher,Mary Hering Middleton

This text is a collection of letters that were sent over a period of seven years, between a mother and daughter who lived in South Carolina and Philadelphia respectively. The correspondence offers a sweeping view of antebellum Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island.

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614

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570033757

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9781570033759

Firing the Heather

The Life and Times of Nellie McClung

By: Mary Elizabeth Hallett,Marilyn I. Davis

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Firing the Heather

The Life and Times of Nellie McClung

By: Mary Elizabeth Hallett,Marilyn I. Davis

Nelly McClung was a woman of eloquence and wit, intellligence and integrity, and a born leader with a keen sense of justice and an unrelenting drive.

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372

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Saskatoon : Fifth House

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1895618436

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9781895618433

Fallen Star

By: Mary Jo Brunette

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Fallen Star

By: Mary Jo Brunette

BEST SELLING AUTHOR, GAIL BREWER-GIORGIO stated, "I LOVE YOUR NOVEL! "JENNIFER BERRY, ORIGINAL BOOK-JACKET ARTIST, SAID, "It touched me. It was so realistic. It took me awhile to get through it. There were times that I had to put it down because it was so truthful and I had all I could do from crying. There are funny parts where the humor is so original, and sad parts that make me believe Katy is real. FALLEN STAR is very good. I will be glad to illustrate the cover of your novel. "FALLEN STAR KATY KIMBALL has a past of parental abuse that continually haunts her. From teenage heartache, onto two broken marriages, her Hollywood lifestyle cannot rectify her desolation from long ago. When Hollywood, in addition, rejects her, she is left in solitude to survive on her own. Can she forget her painful past to continue tomorrow? FALLEN STAR is a novel filled with emotion: from pain, through joy, and onto triumph. You will laugh, cry, rejoice and feel for Katy Kimball as you travel through the decades of her troubled life. What is the key to understanding child abuse? Fallen Star holds the answers!

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553

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Xlibris Corporation

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1436373816

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9781436373814

Liberty's Daughters

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 : with a New Preface

By: Mary Beth Norton

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Liberty's Daughters

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 : with a New Preface

By: Mary Beth Norton

Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.

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412

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Cornell University Press

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0801483476

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9780801483479

Book's by Mary Anne Francis

Mixed Forms of Visual Culture

Mixed Forms of Visual Culture

Quiet Rebels

Quiet Rebels

World Clothing and Fashion

World Clothing and Fashion

A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter

A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter

Best Companions

Best Companions

Firing the Heather

Firing the Heather

Fallen Star

Fallen Star

Liberty's Daughters

Liberty's Daughters

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