The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.Abstract: Hysteria is deemed as a woman’s malady. Showalter also edited several volumes, including The New Feminist Criticism (1985) and Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle (1993). The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe (2016) is a biography about the American author. She also wrote Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1990) Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing (1991) Hystories: Historical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997), a controversial exploration of the history of mass hysteria Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001), which follows the evolution of the feminist intellectual from the 18th to the 21st century Teaching Literature (2003) Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005), an analysis of the academic novel and its relation to real-world institutes of higher education and A Jury of Her Peers (2009), a survey of women’s writing in the United States from its origins through the 1990s. Her next book, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980 (1985), was a historical examination of women and the practice of psychiatry. Showalter developed her doctoral thesis into her first book, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1977), a pioneering study in which she created a critical framework for analyzing literature by women. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.

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