... and beyond the canon may all explain the increasing popularity of Asian American women's writing both within the US and beyond its geographical borders. In the context of the canon of Asian American writing by women, the publication of The Woman Warrior, in 1976, precipitated an intense...

... confronted when studying women's writing from this period, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage (and other complications involving pregnancy) could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could...

... (as well as illness and miscarriage); the seventeenth-century political and religious climate and understandings of providence; the relationship between conversion, health, and wellbeing; and a discussion of the circumstances that allowed or encouraged women's writing. The editorial principles...

...-nurse Medicine Women's writing Bible Motherhood In 1622, when Elizabeth Clinton (c.1574–c.1630), Countess of Lincoln, published her short treatise, it was fashionable for aristocratic families to employ a wet-nurse, that is, another woman to breastfeed...

... but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. Through an examination of Kavanagh's work, letters and official documents, it paints a portrait of a woman who achieved not simply a necessary economic independence, but a means through which she could voice...