The Woman's Book of Creativity

The Woman's Book of Creativity
Author: C. Diane Ealy
Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing Company
Total Pages: 261
Release: 1995
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781885223067

Describes the holistic creative practice while explaining how it can particularly benefit women, describes how female creative processes differ from those of men, and offers exercises on developing and focusing creativity. Original. Tour. IP.

Women in the Studio

Women in the Studio
Author: Paula Wolfe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1134776187

The field of popular music production is overwhelmingly male dominated. Here, Paula Wolfe discusses gendered notions of creativity and examines the significant under-representation of women in studio production. Wolfe brings an invaluable perspective as both a working artist-producer and as a scholar, thereby offering a new body of research based on interviews and first-hand observation. Wolfe demonstrates that patriarchal frameworks continue to form the backbone of the music industry establishment but that women’s work in the creation and control of sound presents a potent challenge to gender stereotyping, marginalisation and containment of women’s achievements that is still in evidence in music marketing practices and media representation in the digital era.

Dakota Women's Work

Dakota Women's Work
Author: Colette A. Hyman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873518586

Ornately decorated objects created by Dakota women -- cradleboards, clothing, animal skin containers -- served more than a utilitarian function. They tell the story of colonization, genocide, and survival. Colette Hyman traces the changes in the lives of Dakota women, starting before the arrival of whites and covering the fur trade years, the years of treaties and shrinking lands, the brutal time of removal, starvation, and shattered families after 1862, and then the transition to reservation life, when missionaries and government agents worked to turn the Dakota into Christian farmers. The decorative work of Dakota women reflected all of this: native organic dyes and quillwork gave way to beading and needlework, items traditionally decorated for family gifts were also produced to sell to tourists and white collectors, work on cradleboards and animal skin bags shifted to the ornamenting of hymnals and the creation of star quilts.

Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Body

Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Body
Author: D. Hoeveler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2007-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230609236

This volume addresses one aspect of a challenging topic: what does it mean for women to create within particular literary and cultural contexts? How is the female body written on textuality? In short, how is the female body analogous to the geographical space of land? How have women inhabited their bodies as people have lived in nation-states?

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women
Author: Gail McMeekin
Publisher: Conari Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2000-02-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781573241410

Revealing how women can break free of societal and psychological barriers, the author uses the examples of Shakti Gawain, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Cathleen Rountree, Chris Madden and other "creatives" to show how to overcome blocks to creativity. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Where Women Create

Where Women Create
Author: Jo Packham
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781402712296

More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful to behold. Research by Craft Trends Magazine reveals that 89% of all crafters are women, and that they want to work in an environment conducive to creating their art. This invaluable and very special guide helps them achieve that goal, whatever their passion. It goes straight to the experts: successful women who have made their mark in more than 10 different creative fields. These top designers and artisans offer insights gleaned from years of experience, reveal how they constructed their own creative spaces, and explain how the reader can make practical use of these decorating, organizational, and inspirational techniques as they go about designing their own work areas. Among the pertinent questions they answer: Where did you like to work as a child? What's the most important thing about having your own place to work? Are women's creative spaces different from men's? How important is it for you to organize your work, and how do you do it? Do you listen to music when you work--and what kind? The featured designers include Wendy Addison, Dena Fishbein, Jill Schwartz, and Suze Weinberg and their fields range from paper crafts to gardening. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club & the Homestyle Book Club.

Creativity and Persistence

Creativity and Persistence
Author: National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578714257

The National Endowment for the Arts commemorates how the arts were critical to the ultimate success of the women's suffrage movement--just as they have been critical to countless social and political movements before and since. The arts--from poetry to visual arts to fashion--have a unique ability to serve as a rallying cry, disseminating messages across large audiences, and inspiring us in a way that few other things can.

Gender, Age and Musical Creativity

Gender, Age and Musical Creativity
Author: Dr Lisa Colton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1472430859

This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of identity and its representation, examining intersections of age and gender in relation to music and musicians across a wide range of periods and places. Drawing together the work of musicologists and practitioners, it offers new ways in which to conceptualise the complex links between age and gender in both individual and collective practice and their reception: essays explore juvenilia and 'late' style in composition and performance, the role of institutions in fostering and sustaining creative activity throughout musical careers, and the ways in which genres and scenes themselves age over time.

Producing Women

Producing Women
Author: Michele White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317680243

Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media—including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides, nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll production—Producing Women elucidates women’s production cultures online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and engage with these practices.

The Rainbow Way

The Rainbow Way
Author: Lucy H. Pearce
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1782790276

Visioned as the guide and mentor that most creative women yearn for, but never find in their daily lives, The Rainbow Way explores the depths of the creative urge, from psychological, biological, spiritual and cultural perspectives. This positive, nurturing and practical book will help to empower you to unlock your creative potential within the constraints of your demanding life as a mother. Featuring the wisdom of over fifty creative mothers: artists, writers, film-makers, performers and crafters, including: Jennifer Louden (multiple best-selling author), Pam England (author, artist and founder Birthing From Within), Julie Daley (writer, photographer, dancer and creator of Unabashedly Female), Indigo Bacal (founder of WILDE Tribe). Foreword by Leonie Dawson (author, artist, entrepreneur and women’s business and creativity mentor). ,