Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Public Rape
Representing Violation in Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public...
by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This bookbuilds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts...
by María de Alva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 16, 2014
En "Memoria y escritura del cuerpo: un estudio sobre sexualidad, maternidad y dolor", María de Alva explora el papel del cuerpo femenino en la construcción de la memoria de personajes, tomando como ejemplo cuatro novelas del siglo XXI: "Historia del rey transparente" de Rosa Montero, "Un milagro...
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature
Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.
Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)
Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George...
Fictional Feminism
How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four best-selling novels and their film adaptations. According...
Fictions of Authority
Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining...
Antigone's Daughters?
Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu's, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L'dia...
Margaret Atwood
A Feminist Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Margaret Atwood’s writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture. Her language directs its readers to a hidden level of itself unspoken, symbolic, gestural and away from denotative meaning.
by Miranda Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of cultural critique in an examination and mockery of romantic love and heterosexual relationships. At the...
Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism
Weighing All the Galaxy’s Women Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Star Wars defined popular, big-screen science fiction. Still, what many viewers best recall is assertive, hilarious Leia, the diminutive princess with a giant blaster who had to save them all. As the 1977 film arrived, women were marching for equality and demanding equal pay, with few onscreen role...
Chick Lit
The New Woman's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the...
Oppression and Responsibility
A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2002
Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and...
Mammographies
The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies,...