With gender as its valuable concentration, this publication bargains a transnational, multi-faceted figuring out of citizenship as legislated, imagined, and exercised because the past due eighteenth century. Framed round 3 crosscutting topics - employer, area and borders - major students exhibit the examine of citizenship's evolving dating with democracy.

Is there any such factor as women's tune? Do ladies write and hear tune another way than males do? whereas spotting that the variations between ladies are as specified because the modifications among genders, this daring new examine examines gender's impact on song. The author's specific analytical technique indicates, in its program to real musical compositions, that there's a fluid dating among the tune and the analyst, among the textual content and the context, and that 20th-century tune is inextricably sure to notions of gender that go beyond aesthetics.

Much of the paintings on women's tune to this point has did not deal seriously with the particular compositions, settling in its place for extra biographical or sociological ways. during this appreciate, this paintings fills a tremendous void. utilizing many concrete examples and cautious analyses of the paintings of such undervalued composers as Alma Mahler-Werfel, Anne Boyd, and Moya Henderson, it grounds the summary firmly, and fascinatingly, within the practical.

Throughout her literary and significant occupation, Canadian author Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted uncomplicated categorization. Her novels are dependent puzzles that confront the reader with the anomaly of that means and narrative, but their place inside of Shields’ severe feminist venture has, previously, been obscured.

In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that venture throughout the examine of Shields’ wide oeuvre, together with her fiction and feedback. Beckman-Long brings intensity to her research via shut readings of six novels, together with the award-winning The Stone Diaries. Elliptical, open-ended, and anxious with ladies writing approximately girls, those novels demonstrate Shields’ critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the lengthy culture of women’s lifestyles writing. Beckman-Long’s unique archival examine attests to Shields’ preoccupation with the altering efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing.

A a lot wanted reappraisal of Shields’s leading edge paintings, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on lifestyles writing and autobiography, literary feedback, and feminist and demanding theory.