Feminist Criticism 18

The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson. 'A brilliantly st……続きを見る

'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and ne……続きを見る

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, fema……続きを見る

"Voi, mie fedeli lettrici, vi sorprenderete che dopo avervi parlato della casa come del miglior centro dell’operosità femminile, io venga ora a dirvi: La casa è bell’e buona come rifugio per riposar……続きを見る

Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art, elaborate ……続きを見る

When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it "a mildly interesting relic from another era." But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the subur……続きを見る

Gothic Heroines on Screen explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations, and contemporary interpretations of the form. Each chapt……続きを見る

This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women rarely dignified in fiction: glamorous café waitresses, feisty commu……続きを見る

Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that……続きを見る

History didn’t listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out … A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire s……続きを見る

Ecrivaine et philosophe, fondatrice des Cahiers du GRIF, Françoise Collin nous a quitté.e.s à l’automne 2012, laissant la scène féministe belge orpheline de l’une de ses figures les plus engagées et……続きを見る

Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways ……続きを見る

A partir del análisis de las novelas francesas publicadas en 1909 por la Biblioteca La Nación, la autora delinea de qué manera la ficción fue modelando un ideal de mujer importado desde Europa a tra……続きを見る

Engaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women’s bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteent……続きを見る

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Liter……続きを見る

"Herland" is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The novel is a feminist fantasy about a world without men, a radical utopia in which mothering is socialized. Gi……続きを見る

'Intense and claustrophobic, this is an impressive first book' OBSERVER 'A summer sizzler...with twists, turns and revelations in all the right places' EVENING STANDARD 'Stylish and sensual**' KIRAN……続きを見る

Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this colle……続きを見る

L’enorme successo di "Cinquanta sfumature di grigio" va oltre il caso letterario, che neppure c’è. Da quel punto di vista i tre romanzi sono scritti male, zeppi di ripetizioni e di stereotipi. Eppur……続きを見る

'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that ……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's ……続きを見る

Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space……続きを見る

Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of "the Other"? In this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues……続きを見る

This book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between history and fiction;women as writers and subjects; a……続きを見る

This is a critical study of the major novels and short stories of Minako Oba (1930-) the undisputed leader in the resurgence of women writers in Japan. Oba is a postmodernist, rethinking gender and ……続きを見る

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging fr……続きを見る

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culturechallenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as……続きを見る

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far ……続きを見る

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force t……続きを見る

This book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance p……続きを見る