Review\nFormerly titled The Feminist Dictionary, Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones now sports a rich, descriptive title much like the words defined within. This colorful and wealthy dictionary examines, explains and redefines many ideas and terms pertaining to women and patriarchal society. Each word is placed within the context of its evolving meaning-dating back to its origin and weaving through the years into its present day connotation. Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler have compiled a reference resource filled with fascinating information contributed by many women. This lexicon is destined to be a classic. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by SH\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\nBLUESTOCKINGS 
Viewy women who gather for artistic, literary, intellectual and witty exchanges. Critics have used the term to refer to learned, and thus in their minds, unfeminine and pretentious women. The origin of the term is in dispute but was evidently first used in the 1750s to refer to women and men in London who gathered for conversation; one of the people wore blue worsted instead of black silk stockings. The women who attended were first derisively called bluestockings and Blue Stocking Ladies and later Bluestockings and Blues. The terms were thus first used to denote informal or homely dress and then to refer to intellectual, literary, or learned women. To "wear your blues" became a metaphor for evenings of intellectual and witty conversation. As the term bluestocking became associated with the women who held salons and who put their energies and emotions into their work with each other, it became a term of abuse, with connotations of snob and misfit. The bluestockings, excluded from politics, law, education and employment because they were female, formed an alternative, knowledgeable, supportive, competent and intellectually self-sufficient group. There are many bluestockings today, learning, reading, writing, and exchanging ideas in women's groups. 
Wife-Beating 
A by-product of the Christian view of woman as man's property. (Barbara G. Walker 1983, 593)

Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

Politics & Social Sciences

Treichler, Paula A.

Russo, Ann

Kramarae, Cheris

Social Sciences

Pandora Pr

A FEMINIST DICTIONARY

Women's Studies

University of Illinois Press

Book by 'CHERIS KRAMARAE, PAULA A. TREICHLER, ANN RUSSO'

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's: Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Women's Source Library)

First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer and Women's Advocate, the Una, The Woman's advocate and The Sybil

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Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge

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Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch

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Language and Power

Schulz, Muriel

Sage Publications, Inc.

The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship (Athene Series)

Teachers College Pr

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Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

A FEMINIST DICTIONARY

A FEMINIST DICTIONARY

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's: Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Women's Source Library)

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's: Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Women's Source Library)

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge

Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch

Language and Power

The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship (Athene Series)

The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship (Athene Series)