Women Authors category: 700 books
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts
Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions...
Modernist Women Writers and War
Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged -- one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic...
by Melissa Coburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification. Starting from the premise...
Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing
Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or...
At Home in the World
Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life
In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic...
Westerns
A Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns...
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative...
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative...
Blood and Irony
Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the...
Victorian Women's Fiction
Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial...
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial...