Feminist Criticism category: 436 books

Widely regarded as a literary genius in her day, the Jewish American author Emma Wolf (1865-1932) wrote vivid stories that penetrated the struggles of women and people of faith, particularly Jews, at the turn of the twentieth century. This reissue of the 1916 revised edition of one of her most popular...

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.

Le récit qu’on va lire est le travail d’un homme à demi-lettré, qui, malgré beaucoup de lectures et la fréquentation des personnes distinguées, a conservé certaines manières de dire un peu surannées, et d’une correction parfois douteuse. Je n’ai pas voulu soumettre à une révision...

The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell's first-person works through a post-modern perspective employing such theoretical frameworks as psychoanalytic theory, narratology, and gender theory. It attempts to explore the problematics...

This eBook includes all 2016 monthly features from Natacha Guyot's blog series "Sci-Fi Women Interviews", which celebrates women who create, write, enjoy Science Fiction.The 2016 guests were the following women:Robin Rivera and Heather JacksonJennifer A. MillerSally Ember, Ed.D.Diana...

In today’s world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry—and the labor organizing pushing back—draws on a long history...

In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the reader on an eye-opening...

Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed...

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, the Beat Generation defined...

Es éste un estudio de un personaje del teatro áureo que apenas ha recibido atención, la heroína intelectual. Las circunstancias histórico-culturales de la modernidad y los fundamentos ideológicos del concepto de la mujer son el marco de referencia que ha permitido comprender la importancia del...

La memoria épica de Amadou Hampâté Bâ pretende mostrar al lector que la novela L’étrange destin de Wangrin está profundamente inspirada en la épica subsahariana. Para ello, el autor de esta monografía relaciona al protagonista del relato con algunos de los principales héroes de las epopeyas...

Uno de los factores de cambio en el paso de las sociedades tradicionales a la sociedad moderna ha sido el acceso de las mujeres a la educación, lo cual facilita su participación en la sociedad como ciudadanas de pleno derecho. El aprendizaje de la lectoescritura se convierte así en un medio de...

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...

A volte c’è un confine sottile tra amore e odio, così sottile che troppo spesso viene valicato. E a pagarne le conseguenze sono le donne. Mogli, fidanzate, ex-compagne e sorelle sono ancora oggi vittime di una violenza massacrante. Un fenomeno che sembra inarrestabile, ma che invece è possibile...