Mary Talbot ist eine Autorin, deren Werk die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Sprache, Gender und Macht beleuchtet, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Medien und Konsumkultur. Ihr literarisches Debüt im Graphic-Novel-Format wurde zu einem preisgekrönten Werk, das persönliche Erzählungen mit scharfer Gesellschaftskritik verbindet. Talbot ist bekannt für ihre kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Phänomenen wie der „synthetischen Schwesternschaft“ in Jugendzeitschriften sowie für ihre umfangreichen akademischen Arbeiten zu Sprache und Gender. Ihre Schriften bieten eine fesselnde Erkundung, wie persönliche Erfahrungen mit breiteren gesellschaftlichen Kräften interagieren, und vermitteln den Lesern eine differenzierte Perspektive auf diese vielschichtigen Themen.
Sally hat sich nie besonders für Politik interessiert. Die Gruppierung um Emmeline Pankhurst verfolgt das Dienstmädchen jedoch mit wachsendem Interesse. Schließlich schließt sie sich den Suffragetten an, die für das Frauenwahlrecht kämpfen. Demonstrationen, Schlägereien und Inhaftierungen sind an der Tagesordnung, doch die Regierung nimmt die Frauen nicht ernst. Sally erkennt, dass andere Mittel nötig sind, um etwas zu bewirken. Eine historisch minutiös recherchierte Graphic Novel, die den Leser tief eintauchen lässt in das British Empire vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg.
Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot’s Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. This anticipated third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated for the era of #MeToo, genderqueer, Trump, and cyberhate. The book is organized into three parts. An introductory section provides grounding in early ‘classic' studies in the field. In the second section, Talbot examines language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres. The last section considers the construction and performance of gender in discourse, reflecting the interest in mass media and popular culture found in recent research, as well as the preoccupation with social change that is central to Critical Discourse Analysis. Maintaining an emphasis on recent research, Talbot covers a range of approaches at an introductory level, lucidly presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, enabling students to further their interests in various topics. Language and Gender will continue to be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural and media studies, gender studies and communication studies.
The creative partnership of acclaimed writer and academic Mary M. Talbot and graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot has produced some of the most challenging and entertaining graphic novels in recent memory, including 2012's Costa Award medalist Dotter of Her Father's Eyes. The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia explores the life of revolutionary French feminist Louise Michel, a visionary teacher, poet, and radical who took up arms against a reactionary regime that executed thousands. Even deportation to a distant penal colony could not stop Michel from taking up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial oppression.
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for
votes for women. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is another stunning
collaboration from Costa Award winners, Mary and Bryan Talbot. Teamed up with
acclaimed illustrator Kate Charlesworth, Sally Heathcote's lavish pages bring
history to life.
Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives- that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of award winning comic artist and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers and artists, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is intelligent, funny and sad - a fine addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir.
Exploring the intersection of consumerism and feminine identity, this study critically examines how women in industrialized societies engage with "consumer femininity." It highlights the role of teen magazines in shaping feminine subjectivity through discourse analysis. Drawing on Norman Fairclough's early work, the book offers a framework for understanding how language influences identity formation. Ultimately, it advocates for a critical pedagogy that emphasizes the importance of language and its impact on the construction of subjectivities in educational settings.
A new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from a neglected artist, feminist icon, and influential surrealist Reluctant muse and feminist champion--heiress, rebel, refugee--and perhaps the last of the great surrealist artists, Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Exchanging her privileged upbringing in prewar England for the more exciting elite of Paris's 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dalí after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst. But the demons that have both haunted and inspired her work are gathering, and when the world goes mad with the outbreak of war and the Nazi invasion, Leonora's own hold on reality collapses into a terrifying psychotic episode of her own. Eventually fleeing war-torn Europe, she emerges into a new and richly creative life in Mexico City, establishing herself as a prodigious painter, writer, and advocate of women's rights. This new work by the acclaimed partnership of Mary and Bryan Talbot celebrates the life and career of a truly remarkable artist and woman.
