Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman Richard S. Levine

Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman Richard S. LevineConduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about womens roles and abilities.

The letters throw fascinating and often amusing light not only on the writer’s private life

Brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process

When political and civil unrest threatened France’s social order in the 1950s

North Korea is an anomaly in the international system

Explores how popular culture encodes and demonizes queerness within the generic format of the horror film

Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical

the discipline of information governance and the steps to develop a strategic records and information management plan

taking account of more recent critical works

the topics include contemporary thinkers

dramatic and non-dramatic

Draws on unexploited original sources from Ireland and Germany

John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching