Carolyn Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender, Politics, and Islam
This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers essays from the journal Signs on women in the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and at…
Creole Then And Now
(1998). Creole Then And Now: The Problem Of Definition. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 33-49
Editing SIGNS at the Borders
Editing SIGNS at the Borders Carolyn Allen (bio) During my little more than a year of co-editing SIGNS (with Judith A. Howard, a social psychologist), I have rediscovered that, of course, you can’t please all the people all the time. No surprise there. But I have also come to rethink two propositions that have nearly mythic status, at least at SIGNS: first, the journal must cross borders between academic and non-academic audiences, and second, al…
The Erotics of Nora's Narrative in Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood
Breaking the Sequence
The Gendered Context of Reading
Reading, a micro-level and subjective activity, is a mechanism through which gender is constructed and reinforced. Drawing on insights from cultural studies and feminist literary critics, and applying sociological perspectives and methodologies, we explored how 53 women and men read and interpreted two short stories, William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Jayne Anne Phillip's 'Home.' We found that the gender of the readers had relatively few e…
Making Meaning
In this study we assess the variability in readers' responses to a published short story. We also explore whether interpretations of this story are influenced by traditional attributional variables
Women Studies/American Studies, 1970-1975
Creole Then And Now
(1998). Creole Then And Now: The Problem Of Definition. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 33-49
Making Meaning
In this study we assess the variability in readers' responses to a published short story. We also explore whether interpretations of this story are influenced by traditional attributional variables
The Erotics of Nora's Narrative in Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood
The Gendered Context of Reading
Reading, a micro-level and subjective activity, is a mechanism through which gender is constructed and reinforced. Drawing on insights from cultural studies and feminist literary critics, and applying sociological perspectives and methodologies, we explored how 53 women and men read and interpreted two short stories, William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Jayne Anne Phillip's 'Home.' We found that the gender of the readers had relatively few e…
Women Studies/American Studies, 1970-1975
Making Meaning
In this study we assess the variability in readers' responses to a published short story. We also explore whether interpretations of this story are influenced by traditional attributional variables
The Gendered Context of Reading
Reading, a micro-level and subjective activity, is a mechanism through which gender is constructed and reinforced. Drawing on insights from cultural studies and feminist literary critics, and applying sociological perspectives and methodologies, we explored how 53 women and men read and interpreted two short stories, William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Jayne Anne Phillip's 'Home.' We found that the gender of the readers had relatively few e…
Breaking the Sequence
The Erotics of Nora's Narrative in Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood
Editing SIGNS at the Borders
Editing SIGNS at the Borders Carolyn Allen (bio) During my little more than a year of co-editing SIGNS (with Judith A. Howard, a social psychologist), I have rediscovered that, of course, you can’t please all the people all the time. No surprise there. But I have also come to rethink two propositions that have nearly mythic status, at least at SIGNS: first, the journal must cross borders between academic and non-academic audiences, and second, al…
Creole Then And Now
(1998). Creole Then And Now: The Problem Of Definition. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 33-49
Gender, Politics, and Islam
This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers essays from the journal Signs on women in the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and at…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (2 works)