New Woman Reference library
Lois Rudnick
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
... Woman . The New Woman ( 1890–1920 ), as defined by the mainstream media, was a revolutionary social ideal at the turn of the century that defined women as independent, physically adept, and mentally acute, and able to work, study, and socialize on a par with men. The popular image of the New Woman was related to a new consumer and leisure ethic, to health and dress reforms, to rising pressure from woman's suffrage, to gains that women had made in their access to higher education, and to expanding service and public sector occupations. Women writers of the era...
New Woman Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
... Woman , a term used to describe a new generation of active women, who believed in women's suffrage, equal educational opportunities for women, sexual independence, and what they called rational dress. New Women figure in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day and in the works of Schreiner , Shaw , Wells , Rebecca West , and others. Sarah Grand is said to have coined the phrase in the North Atlantic Review in 1894...
New Woman writing Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)
... Woman writing A body of fiction and drama concerning the ‘New Woman’, a type of self-assertive younger woman much discussed in the British press in the 1890s and the early Edwardian period as the focus for public debates about marriage and women’s rights. The term was coined in an article in March 1894 by the feminist novelist Sarah Grand , and reappeared as the title of an anti-feminist satirical play The New Woman , by Sidney Grundy in September of that year, after which it stuck in the public mind as the term for independent-minded women seeking...
New Woman fiction Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... Woman fiction A term used to describe late 19th‐century writings which foreground the ideas and actions of the ‘New Woman’, a phrase said to have been coined by Ouida when responding to Sarah Grand 's article ‘The New Aspects of the Woman Question’, 1894 . Grand's own novels, like The Heavenly Twins ( 1893 ) and The Beth Book ( 1897 ), include many elements associated with this movement: attacks on sexual double standards; demands for better employment and educational opportunities for women; frankness about matters like venereal disease,...
New Woman fiction Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Woman fiction A term used to describe late 19th‐century writings which foreground the ideas and actions of the ‘New Woman’, a phrase said to have been coined by Ouida when responding to Sarah Grand 's article ‘The New Aspects of the Woman Question’, 1894 . Grand's own novels, like The Heavenly Twins ( 1893 ) and The Beth Book ( 1897 ), include many elements associated with this movement: attacks on sexual double standards; demands for better employment and educational opportunities for women; frankness about matters like venereal disease,...
New Woman Novel Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
... Woman Novel The New Woman appeared so suddenly in 1894 that she threatened the sanctity of marriage as well as British masculinity—at least if one believes the recurring essays, poems, and cartoons in the pages of Punch during the mid-1890s. In one sense, the New Woman did appear suddenly. In her 1894 essay “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” Sarah Grand ( Frances Elizabeth [ née Clark ] McFall ) coined the term, claiming that “the new woman… has been sitting apart in silent contemplation all these years… until at last she solved the problem and...
The Emancipation of Woman and The New Woman Reference library
Qasim Amin
Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook
...all difficulties is the one that ends in victory and success. And the shortest path is the one that delivers you to your goal. Qasim Amin, The Liberation of Woman and The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism , translated from Arabic by Samiha Sidhom Peterson (Cairo, Egypt: © American University in Cairo Press, 2000), pp. 3–10 ; al-Mar’a al-jadida ( The New Woman ), in Muhammad ‘Imara, ed., Qasim Amin: al-‘Amal al-kamila ( Qasim Amin: The Complete Works ) (Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Shuruq, 1989), pp. 511–518. Translation of...
NEW MOON first mentioned by woman Quick reference
A Dictionary of Superstitions
... MOON first mentioned by woman 1808 JAMIESON Scottish Dict. Mone … With regard to the first mention of the term Moon by a woman, after this planet has made her first appearance … some to prevent the dangerous consequences … will anxiously inquire at any male, ‘What is that which shines so clearly?’ Cf. MONDAY first mentioned by woman...
New woman Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... woman . A type of ‘liberated’, independently minded and self-motivated woman who emerged in the late 19th century as a successor to the feminist crusaders of the 1860s. Her successors in the 20th century include the ‘career girl’ or ‘career woman’ of the 1950s and, in the backlash against the open promiscuity and aids scares of the 1980s, the New morality ‘virgin’ or sexual abstainer of the 1990s. The term has largely been a creation of the media. See also New man...
New Woman
Politics and the Muslim Woman Reference library
Benazir Bhutto
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...aspect of the powerful role within Islam of women, I would like to quote from the Qur'an, the Sura “The Ant” [Sura 27, Verse 23] : “I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given abundance of all things, and hers is a mighty throne.” It is not Islam which is averse to women rulers, I think—it is men. 1. Benazir Bhutto , Daughter of Destiny (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), pp. 368, 392. ...
Feminist Scholarship Reference library
Yvonne Sherwood
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...Hebrew Bible propel us into a kind of feminist neo-Marcionism, scholars have also challenged the idea that the New Testament can be seen as a kind of proto-feminist refuge for women battered by their reading of the ‘Old’. The New Testament does indeed reflect a different view of gender: it reflects the androcentric social structures of the Graeco-Roman world. Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza warns the woman reader to proceed with ‘caution’ since the New Testament ‘could be dangerous to [her] health and survival’; while Daphne Hampson warns that, though not a...
Qur'an and Woman Reference library
Amina Wadud-Muhsin
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...of woman influences the interpretations of the Qur'an's position on women. I will give an overview of my own perspective of woman and of the methods of interpretation I used in analyzing the Qur'an which have led to some new conclusions. No method of Qur'anic exegesis is fully objective. Each exegete makes some subjective choices. Some details of their interpretations reflect their subjective choices and not necessarily the intent of the text. Yet, often, no distinction is made between text and interpretation. I put interpretations of woman in the...
Rights and Roles of Woman Reference library
Amina Wadud
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...plural) and you are raiment for them’ ( 2:187 ). However, the Qur'an does not rule out the possibility of difficulty, which it suggests can be resolved. If all else fails, it also permits equitable divorce. From Amina Wadud, Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 62–91. Amina Wadud ...
A Lover’s Complaint Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...as some of the concerns, of The Rape of Lucrece , but this poem, its central woman seduced rather than raped, deliberately eschews the dramatic and conclusive ending of its predecessor. Part of its strength lies in its vivid depiction of a psychological state from which neither the woman nor the poem seems able to imagine an escape, condemned endlessly to re-enact to herself the drama of her own undoing. The ‘complaint’ of the title may be either the inset complaint of the woman, or the complaint of her seducer which it quotes: in either case, neither the...
Women Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...married, he argued, arose from the fact that under present norms and circumstances, a ‘woman is more the slave of man for the gratification of her desires than man is of woman’. Where men could seek sexual pleasure and gratification outside marriage, existing moral codes made this impossible for women—indeed, there was no recognition even of women's entitlement to sexual activity or fulfilment in marriage. In marriage, man was the master and commander; woman obeyed. Woman consequently is ‘not permitted to appear to feel, or desire. The whole of what is called...
The Political Competence of Women in Islamic Law Reference library
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...that person is capable of. When we study the question of woman's right to the offices of State, therefore, we ask: Which woman? What are her abilities? What is her degree of competence? We do not speak of “woman” in general and thus exclude her from the legal discourse describing a Muslim's duties. Women's Political Competence Although many Muslim writers love to hold forth on the rights gained by women under Islam, many of them have also adopted the concept of the social division of work: a woman's work is in the home looking after the family, while a...
Human Procreation Reference library
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...often euphemistically referred to as “hiring a womb.” The procedure involves using the service of another woman to serve as a carrier for the fertilized ovum of a couple. The woman makes herself available to inject the fertilized ovum into her own womb and then carries the child to its full term on behalf of the other couple. It is often done in lieu of a specified remuneration or free of charge. People resort to this procedure either because a married woman who desires to have a child has problems in carrying her child to its full term or because of her desire...
Sensibility Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...to the moralization of its other possibilities. Here, too, ‘delicacy’ worked to influence a woman's taste more completely than it did that of a man. Tasteful objects and delicate nerves were thought to be attuned in the same system. The heroine of Ann *Radcliffe 's The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) finds it impossible to contain her feelings in a domestic space stuffed brim-full; ‘where, alas! could she turn, and not meet new objects to give acuteness to grief?’ There, ‘indulging’ her feelings and making a virtue of necessity, the heroine unwittingly...
