From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling……続きを見る
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. the authors have brought tog……続きを見る
First published in 1991, this book radically challenged the view of Nana as the story of an old fashioned femme fatale and reinterprets her as a feminist heroine who manages to overturn patriarchy. ……続きを見る
First published in 1987, these essays deal with the three major novels of George Meredith. It explores in particular Meredith’s feminism and demonstrates how each novel embodies his very modern view……続きを見る
Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discuss……続きを見る
著者:Sara Mills
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年06月03日
This volume examines important themes in the theoretical debates on the relationship of language and gender. It analyses this relationship across a range of different disciplinary perspectives from ……続きを見る
著者:Alison Light
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年08月21日
Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot ……続きを見る
Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research pract……続きを見る
Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and……続きを見る
著者:Jaime Harker
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2018年10月15日
In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union……続きを見る
著者:Sylvia Forty
出版社: Roberto Guerra
発売日: 2018年08月22日
Sylvia Forty, poetessa cosmica, è nata a Ferrara . Ha pubblicato la raccolta poetica "Biancaneve a New York" (Este Edition) e alcuni testi in "A.A.VV., La prima donna sulla luna"(La Carmelina), libr……続きを見る
Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present ……続きを見る
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week
A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization.……続きを見る
Honorable Mention for the Robert K. Martin Prize 2019
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, a……続きを見る
Star Wars defined popular, big-screen science fiction. Still, what many viewers best recall is assertive, hilarious Leia, the diminutive princess with a giant blaster who had to save them all. As th……続きを見る
In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turn……続きを見る
著者:Gergana Ivanova
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2018年11月06日
An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized w……続きを見る
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-wa……続きを見る
Scholars and readers alike need little help identifying the infamous Bridget Jones or Carrie Bradshaw. While it is no stretch to say that these fictional characters are the most recognizable within ……続きを見る
著者:Carol J. Adams
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2018年11月29日
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms?
Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights act……続きを見る
Halima è una donna che partecipò in maniera effettiva alla lotta contro il colonialismo, in un'epoca dove il ruolo della donna era circoscritto all’ambito domestico e l’educazione dei figli. Sua mad……続きを見る
著者:Annabel L. Kim
出版社: Ohio State University Press
発売日: 2018年11月19日
In Unbecoming Language, Annabel L. Kim examines a corpus of French writing against difference. Inaugurated by Nathalie Sarraute and sustained in the work of Monique Wittig and Anne Garréta, this cor……続きを見る
El volumen reúne ensayos que se acercan a la obra sorjuanina desde un prisma analítico específico, el de la relación entre ingenio y feminidad. Desde la antigüedad, dicha relación implica una profun……続きを見る
著者:Gayl Jones
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2019年01月29日
No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISON
I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the C……続きを見る
The Feminine Case is a collection of papers that debate the issue of gender from a Jungian perspective. Particular attention is paid to the discussion of Jung's "transcendent function" and what this……続きを見る
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……続きを見る
著者:Tara Daly
出版社: Bucknell University Press
発売日: 2019年02月15日
In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since ……続きを見る
Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical refor……続きを見る
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five t……続きを見る
著者:Tanja Stampfl
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2019年03月13日
A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introdu……続きを見る