Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Latin American Women's Narrative: Practices and Theoretical Perspectives
Narrativa Feminina en América Latina: Prácticas Perspectivas Teóricas.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This volume deals with the narrative of major women writers in Spanish America and analyses the novel, the short story and testimonio writing of the second half of the twentieth century. It contextualises their work by highlighting the importance of women's voices from the colonial period, the nineteenth...
No Country
Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing?
No Country argues for a rethinking of the...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox...
by Margaret Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–50) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. Her 1845 work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, is regarded as the United States' first feminist publication, a groundbreaking book that helped reshape gender roles for women as well as men....
by Marja Pruis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Verplichte leeskost voor een nieuwe generatie feministische lezers Je kunt een leven lang over feminisme nadenken, feminist zijn, maar toch telkens opnieuw uitgedaagd worden om te bedenken wat het nou precies inhoudt. Vooral als er een nieuwe generatie feministen aan de deur klopt, speelt die vraag...
But Enough About Me
Why We Read Other People's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to...
Winifred Holtby's Social Vision
'Members One of Another'
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.
The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit
Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous...
Fractured Borders
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations.
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's...
(Un)like Subjects
Women, Theory, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?
This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied...
Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Double Threads
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our...
Clarissa's Ciphers
Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...
The Stronger Sex
The Fictional Women of Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man. Durrell's modern twentieth- /twenty-first-century woman is the center of...
Between the Sheets
Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin.
Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry...