Women Authors category: 700 books
Women's Work
An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities,...
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early...
by Faye Hammill
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private...
Private Woman, Public Stage
Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh,...
by Mudita Agnihotri, Rachel Bari, Sutapa Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
doyenne signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture....
House/Garden/Nation
Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1994
How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between...
Naturally Woman
The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging...
Native Speakers
Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved...
by Nathaniel Cadle, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...
by Teresa C. Zackodnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which...
by Catherine Delafield
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary writing, it assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms...
(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...
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Constructing Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining...