Women Authors category: 700 books
Literary Crossroads
An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing...
Women on Women
Indian Women Writers' Perspectives on Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel...
Inventing Herself
Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present.
With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing...
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state...
Arab Women Writers
A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women.
Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems...
by Nancy R. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution...
by Gladys M. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive...
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road
American Mobilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women...
Surrealist Women
An International Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed,...
by F. Elizabeth Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance...
The Artistry of Anger
Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized...
Women Novelists Before Jane Austen
The Critics and Their Canons
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question...
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant—who is still living and occasionally publishing—wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work...