Orientalism unveiled: Hester Donaldson Jenkins and Demetra Vaka Brown / Eleftheria Arapoglou -- Ida Hahn-Hahn and Ida Pfeiffer: Are ninetheenth centrury female travellers the more open-minded Europeans? / Veronika Bernard -- Victorian woman or new woman? Woman or artist? Anxiety, authority and ambivalence in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Confessions of a Wife / Janet Peterson Gerstner -- A spy in the house of the other: Anais Nin, modernism, autobiography, and feminine self-disclosure / Theodora Tsimpouki -- Transatlantic crossroads: Brazilian feminisms in the post-war era / Peggy Sharpe -- The colours of grief in Cuba / Nieves Pascual Soler -- "Female bonds in a male world:" Catharine Parr Traill's The Backwoods of Canada as a national canon-forming text / Klára Kolinská -- A garden of one's own: Figurative language in Some Flowers by Vita Sackville-West / Eleonora Chiavetta -- Breaking down the walls: Challenging the concept of Zenana in Blasphemy / Amber Fatima Riaz -- Can feminist theory in the academy be politically activist? A survey of feminist critism from the 60s to the present / Oya Batum Mentese -- Mother as muse / Mimi Khalvati -- Out of silence: Women against war / Eleanor Wilner -- Spinning and weaving this woman's life: A reflection / Judy Light Ayyildiz -- Women's literature / Erendiz Atasü -- The cult of true oysterhood / Ayse Lahur Kirtunc
Women in Dialogue: (M)Uses of Culture results from an international symposium held at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, in 2006, which brought together scholars from over ten countries, and from multiple academic backgrounds, who share professional interest in women's studies, and, to no less degree, in current women's realities. The book presents a collection of essays united by a common focus on the position of women as objects of cultural production in different geographic, national, and poli ..
