Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is a masterpiece of English modernist literature. In this stylistically daring work, we follow two different yet similar characters for one day, as they walk the streets of London in the interwar...
by Nathalie Schuck et Frédéric Gerschel
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2014
1962 le mystère de la mort de Marilyn Monroe ne cesse de fasciner depuis. Et, bien que présenté officiellement comme un intihar le décès de la sarışın la populaire de la planète suscite aujourd'hui encore d'innombrables sorgulama artı. Marilyn était-elle la maîtresse des Kennedy frères?...
Abjection, Melancholia and Love
The Work of Julia Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central...
The Age of Scientific Sexism
How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious...
by Kalenda C. Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...
A Female Poetics of Empire
From Eliot to Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?
This volume links fictional, non-fictional and...
Extreme Domesticity
A View from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions...
The Pious Sex
Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious...
by Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights.
It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice...
Out of Time
The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging.
How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone...
by Mary-Kay Wilmers
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
An incisive collection of essays by the editor of the London Review of Books, whom Hilary Mantel has called “a presiding genius”
Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of Books in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992. Her editorial life began long before that: she started...
The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre
Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers...
El Mundo Zurdo 4
Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa
A Study of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African...