Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Dr Claire O’Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography,...
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research...
Shifting Subjects
Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
There are many different ways to say 'I.' This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (HZl_ne Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gis_le Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their autobiographical 'I' as a plural concept. These women refuse the individual 'I' of traditional autobiography...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood presents the accounts of mothers who have suffered a major physical and/or psychically traumatic accident, and, as a consequence, their minds and bodies have been drastically changed. They live under the pressure of having discovered the alter ego of their traumatized...
The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature
Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This study examines contemporary narratives by Arab-American, South-Asian American, Chicana, and Cuban-American women writers. Gomaa argues that the disparate histories of Arabs, South Asians, Chicanas, and Cubans in the U.S. unfold new non-national sites for affiliations and identifications that unsettle...
Writing from the Hearth
Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa...
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s...
Kate Chopin Reconsidered
Beyond the Bayou
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives—biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist—with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening.
The Lesbian South
Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential...
Neither Victim nor Survivor
Thinking toward a New Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of 'victim' and 'survivor' as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Framed by the phenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, Nissim-Sabat...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was a poem-based pamphlet that was produced for an 1846 Anti-slavery Fair in Philadelphia. As noted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History...
The Alphabet consists of sixteen leaves, printed on one side, with the printed pages facing each...
Contemporary Native Fiction
Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist...
Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)
Rhetoric, Gender, Property
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly,...