{"title":"Shealy, Daniel, editor. Little Women at 150","authors":"Zara Diab","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2206135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2206135","url":null,"abstract":"Little Women at 150, edited by Daniel Shealy, features eight critical essays that consider Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women. Although the essays are not unified by a particular theme or approach, they are all written by “scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community” (Shealy 11). The collection’s well-researched range of topics offers readers a deep and multifaceted dive into Alcott’s text, to march right alongside the sisters toward a more mature grasp of their world, as well as the one outside the book. Shealy’s introduction opens with the image of a nostalgic Julian Hawthorne. Julian – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s son, Louisa May Alcott’s friend, and the figure who once claimed to be the inspiration for Laurie – reminisces about the then 50-year-old story of the March sisters, having recently watched a film adaptation which drew in vast crowds and profits (Shealy 3–4). He credits it all to Alcott’s storytelling. Readers who pick up this collection likely feel a degree of nostalgia for Little Women, as well, and opening the book with a Laurie figure reminiscing over Little Women evokes a meta whirlpool of nostalgia, the emotion which the novel’s plot and characters themselves evoke and grapple with. Through such an opening, Shealy effortlessly pulls on the threads which carry the many levels of Little Women’s enduring success. 50 years after its publication, when Julian writes about watching the moving picture, the novel remains popular and influential for its themes and characters, which connect with readers and audiences on both a personal and sociocultural level. The same is true at 150 years, and these threads introduced by Shealy weave through the entire collection. Little Women lives on in print, in countless stage and screen adaptations, and in the hearts of admirers – young and old – worldwide, with Shealy conjecturing the number of sales over the past 150 years to be “in the millions” (8). Although, in academic circles, Alcott was not taken seriously until the mid–twentieth century with the emergence of feminism, Shealy’s diverse collection illustrates the many avenues of scholarly discourse that Little Women offers, connecting the text to other great writers, philosophers, and social, cultural, and historical movements. With its exploration of mature and complicated topics, this collection continues the movement away from “the view of Louisa May as ‘the children’s friend,’” and places her voice in conversation with leading social, historical, and literary figures (Shealy 11). The first essay, “Class, Charity, and Coming of Age in Little Women” by John Matteson, puts Alcott into a critical conversation about class and the responsibility of charity alongside John Winthrop and Friedrich Engels. Matteson writes that “Marmee uses charity to reassert her individual and social worth,” asserting that Alcott’s character reveals a weakness in Engels’s th","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"603 - 605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43490722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nicholls, Emily. Negotiating Femininities in the Neoliberal Night-Time Economy: Too Much of a Girl?","authors":"Jeremy Johnston","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2206134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2206134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"606 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44277287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby","authors":"R. Maitzen","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2197230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2197230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"464 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49039545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pfeiffer, Julie. Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth–Century Adolescence","authors":"Melanie J. Fishbane","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2206133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2206133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"601 - 602"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49242564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking in the Mirror","authors":"Carol Cosman","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2197231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2197231","url":null,"abstract":"However, this era also allow you to get the book from many sources. The off line book store may be a common place to visit to get the book. But now, you can also find it in the on-line library. This site is one of the on-line library in which you can find your chosen one to read. Now, the presented looking in the mirror is a book that you can find here. This book tends to be the book that will give you new inspirations.","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"458 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Female Singers in Iran Challenge Restriction by Retrieving Collective Memory: Their Genre, Visual Representation, and Different Implications for the National and International Audience","authors":"Atieh Asadollahi","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2194023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2194023","url":null,"abstract":"On the Iranian calendar, it is the year 1401. A new century has just started, and it means the country has been recently involved in a fin-de-siècle air which is sometimes also dubbed “Renaissance” to suggest the change many Iranians have sought through a series of widespread protests during the last months and even earlier than that, during the last few years. It has been in vogue to review what went on in the just-finished century in the country. Many video clips, photo collections, and essays have been released to show in synopsis which leader succeeded who, what wars and violent acts killed which people, how the environment was treated, when and how women were granted or denied their rights, and in general what it has come to mean to live in this part of the world at the turn of the century. Among these fashionable efforts to write contemporary history in first person (Poole and Nienass 94), this paper is not going to create one more to comply with the boom, but it intends to delve into the recent politics of memory-making specifically when practiced by Iranian women in order to seek some insight into the issues they try to tackle, the strategies they develop to tackle them, and the consequences that arise. Without a doubt, one of the most significant contemporary turns of events in Iran was the Islamic Revolution in 1979 which led to not only regime change in political terms but also a huge amount of lifestyle changes in social and cultural terms. While those new norms were to some extent voluntarily adopted at the beginning, they have failed more and more to be exercised freely. And as norms have always and everywhere in the world had a tighter hold over women than men (Muñoz Boudet et al. 39), Iranian women have","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"440 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46835917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}