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  1. We Are Not Born Submissive :
    How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives /
    Author: Garcia, Manon,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the... more

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    A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. In philosophy, even less has been said on why women submit to men and the discussion has been equally contradictory—submission has traditionally been considered a vice or pathology, but female submission has been valorized as innate to women’s nature. Is there a way to explore female submission in all of its complexity—not denying its appeal in certain instances, and not buying into an antifeminist, sexist, or misogynistic perspective?We Are Not Born Submissive offers the first in-depth philosophical exploration of female submission, focusing on the thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, and more recent work in feminist philosophy, epistemology, and political theory. Manon Garcia argues that to comprehend female submission, we must invert how we examine power, taking a bottom-up approach and seeing it from the woman’s point of view. Historically, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and even some radical feminists have conflated femininity and submission. Garcia demonstrates that only through the lens of women’s lived experiences—their economic, social, and political situations—and how women adapt their preferences to maintain their own well-being, can we understand the ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women’s experiences. Ultimately, she asserts that women do not actively choose submission. Rather, they consent to—and sometimes take pleasure in—what is prescribed to them through social norms within a patriarchy.Moving beyond the simplistic binary of natural destiny or moral vice, We Are Not Born Submissive takes a sophisticated look at how female submissiveness can be explained.

     
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  2. The Consolations of Writing :
    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi /
    Author: Zim, Rivkah,
    Published: [2014]; ©2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This... more

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    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also the earliest example of what Rivkah Zim identifies as a distinctive and vitally important medium of literary resistance: writing in captivity by prisoners of conscience and persecuted minorities.The Consolations of Writing reveals why the great contributors to this tradition of prison writing are among the most crucial figures in Western literature. Zim pairs writers from different periods and cultural settings, carefully examining the rhetorical strategies they used in captivity, often under the threat of death. She looks at Boethius and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as philosophers and theologians writing in defense of their ideas, and Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci as politicians in dialogue with established concepts of church and state. Different ideas of grace and disgrace occupied John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde in prison; Madame Roland and Anne Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes the obscenity of systematic genocide and its aftermath.A moving and powerful testament, The Consolations of Writing speaks to some of the most profound questions about life, enriching our understanding of what it is to be human.

     
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  3. Breaking Free from Death :
    The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer /
    Author: Rylkova, Galina,
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press,, Boston, MA :

    Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling... more

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    Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-64469-265-1
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    Subjects: Authors, Russian; Death in literature.; Death; A Confession.; About Chekhov.; Anna Karenina.; Dante.; Gogol.; Liberation of Tolstoy.; Meyerhold.; Psychology of Creative Personality;Death;Creativity;Sustainability;Chekhov;Bunin;Tolstoy.; Russian drama.; Russian literature.; The Cherry Orchard.; The Death of Ivan Ilych.; The Decembrists.; The Kreutzer Sonata.; The Life of Arseniev.; The Seagull.; The Steppe.; Uncle Vanya.; War and Peace.; Writer's Block.; anxieties.; existentialism.; hypochondria.; letters.; literary theory.; mortality.; psychoanalysis.; psychology.; the Divine Comedy.; writing.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
    Other subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, (1828-1910); A Confession.; About Chekhov.; Anna Karenina.; Bunin.; Chekhov.; Creativity.; Dante.; Death.; Gogol.; Liberation of Tolstoy.; Meyerhold.; Psychology of Creative Personality.; Russian drama.; Russian literature.; Sustainability.; The Cherry Orchard.; The Death of Ivan Ilych.; The Decembrists.; The Kreutzer Sonata.; The Life of Arseniev.; The Seagull.; The Steppe.; Tolstoy.; Uncle Vanya.; War and Peace.; Writer’s Block.; anxieties.; existentialism.; hypochondria.; letters.; literary theory.; mortality.; psychoanalysis.; psychology.; the Divine Comedy.; writing.
    Scope: 1 online resource (203 pages)
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    Includes index.
  4. The Uses of Literature :
    Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System /
    Author: Link, Perry,
    Published: [2022]; ©2000
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of... more

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    Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure art." The Uses of Literature looks broadly and empirically at these and many other "uses" of literature from the points of view of authors, editors, political authorities, and several kinds of readers. Perry Link, author of Evening Chats in Beijing, considers texts ranging from elite "misty" poetry to underground hand-copied volumes (shouchauben) and shows in concrete detail how people who were involved with literature sought to teach, learn, enjoy, explore, debate, lead, control, and resist. Using the late 1970s and early 1980s as an entree to the workings of China's "socialist literary system," the author shows how that system held sway from 1950 until around 1990, when an encroaching market economy gradually but fundamentally changed it. In addition to providing a definitive overview of how the socialist Chinese literary system worked, Link offers comparisons to the similar system in the Soviet Union. In the final chapter, the book seeks to explain how the word "good" was used and understood when applied to literary works in such systems. Combining aspects of cultural and literary studies, The Uses of Literature will reward anyone interested in the literature of modern China or how creativity is affected by a "socialist literary system."

     
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