Women Authors category: 700 books

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The Feminist Bestseller

From Sex and the Single Girlto Sex and the City

by Imelda Whelehan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005

Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders...
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Community Boundaries and Border Crossings

Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers

by Leila Aouadi, Sarah A. Chavez, Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate. These liminal spaces—physical and virtual, local and global—provide opportunities...
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by Dana A. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed...
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by Gabriella West
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019

Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) was an English novelist who pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique in her long novel "Pilgrimage," which was published in 13 volumes over the 1920s and 1930s. Shy and from a humble background, Richardson's work is now overlooked, but in...
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The Cry

A New Dramatic Fable

by Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Published in 1754 in five parts and divided into three volumes, The Cry stands as one of the most distinctive...
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Consensual Fictions

Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel

by Wendy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation of women's...
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Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck

E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies

by Terry May
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating simultaneously in the United States alone. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
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by Roberta Garrett, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced...
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Sandoz Studies, Volume 1

Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019

Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family’s remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail...
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Restless Wave

My Life in Two Worlds

by Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Greg Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. Restless Wave is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and...
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Bodies in a Broken World

Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine

by Ann Folwell Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of eleven novelists, Stanford...
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Miles Franklin

A Short Biography

by Jill Roe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

A classic, accessible award-winning biography of Australia's most iconic author, leading feminist and humanitarian. 'To meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as to ride on a spring morning across the Monaro plains she so dearly loved,' wrote Henrietta Drake-Brockman. Author, union organiser,...
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Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars

Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories - An Anthology

by Sandra Bark
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007

- This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.- This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent...
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