Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Biographic Data
| ID | 804538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara Charlesworth |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelpi |
| SIGNATURE | GELPI B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Signs": The Stanford Years, 1980-1985
Significant exposure: The turn‐of‐the‐century breast
In their History of Underclothes, Willet and Phillis Cunnington make point that late in 1790s the Englishwoman of fashionable world succeeded in reducing total weight of her clothing to a couple of pounds. Such a thing had never been previously attempted in this country (97). Indeed, believe one could add that no change of equal drama was to occur again, until after First World War. Yet analyses of this phenomenon are as scanty as costumes themse…
“Where the Split Began” (Prometheus Unbound, Act III)
The chapter analyzes the third act of Shelley’s play, “Prometheus Unbound,” and follows the sequence of events from the fall of Jupiter to the release of Prometheus and his union with Asia. In this act, the tyrannical “Father” is overthrown indirectly through Prometheus and his foreknowledge, in union with the feminine—Mother Earth and his lover. Jupiter is replaced by his son Demogorgon, who is seen as a creative and unifying force, instead of d…
Shelley’s Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
Contradictions: Tracking Adrienne Rich's Poetry
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
Places, Please! The First Anthology of Lesbian Plays
Our Ten-Year Engagement with Gender
Engagement: en-gaj 'ment; agazmi. Whether one is speaking English or French, the written word looks the same and has in both languages similar associations with love and hatred. The term for betrothal and thus for commitment to a shared life, it also denotes the moment of entrance into combat and enlistment into war. For feminist scholars, gender as a topic carries the same ambivalence. Overcoming the limits imposed upon us by what is ascribed to…
The politics of androgyny
The politics of androgyny
Significant exposure: The turn‐of‐the‐century breast
In their History of Underclothes, Willet and Phillis Cunnington make point that late in 1790s the Englishwoman of fashionable world succeeded in reducing total weight of her clothing to a couple of pounds. Such a thing had never been previously attempted in this country (97). Indeed, believe one could add that no change of equal drama was to occur again, until after First World War. Yet analyses of this phenomenon are as scanty as costumes themse…
Places, Please! The First Anthology of Lesbian Plays
Our Ten-Year Engagement with Gender
Engagement: en-gaj 'ment; agazmi. Whether one is speaking English or French, the written word looks the same and has in both languages similar associations with love and hatred. The term for betrothal and thus for commitment to a shared life, it also denotes the moment of entrance into combat and enlistment into war. For feminist scholars, gender as a topic carries the same ambivalence. Overcoming the limits imposed upon us by what is ascribed to…
The politics of androgyny
Our Ten-Year Engagement with Gender
Engagement: en-gaj 'ment; agazmi. Whether one is speaking English or French, the written word looks the same and has in both languages similar associations with love and hatred. The term for betrothal and thus for commitment to a shared life, it also denotes the moment of entrance into combat and enlistment into war. For feminist scholars, gender as a topic carries the same ambivalence. Overcoming the limits imposed upon us by what is ascribed to…
Places, Please! The First Anthology of Lesbian Plays
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
Contradictions: Tracking Adrienne Rich's Poetry
“Where the Split Began” (Prometheus Unbound, Act III)
The chapter analyzes the third act of Shelley’s play, “Prometheus Unbound,” and follows the sequence of events from the fall of Jupiter to the release of Prometheus and his union with Asia. In this act, the tyrannical “Father” is overthrown indirectly through Prometheus and his foreknowledge, in union with the feminine—Mother Earth and his lover. Jupiter is replaced by his son Demogorgon, who is seen as a creative and unifying force, instead of d…
Shelley’s Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
Significant exposure: The turn‐of‐the‐century breast
In their History of Underclothes, Willet and Phillis Cunnington make point that late in 1790s the Englishwoman of fashionable world succeeded in reducing total weight of her clothing to a couple of pounds. Such a thing had never been previously attempted in this country (97). Indeed, believe one could add that no change of equal drama was to occur again, until after First World War. Yet analyses of this phenomenon are as scanty as costumes themse…
"Signs": The Stanford Years, 1980-1985
Sociology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)