Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
by Judith Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory,...
Frances Newman
Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance.
Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic H....
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....
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
The Other Side of the Story
Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized...
by Miles Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger,...
Decolonising Gender
Literature and a Poetics of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:
a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory
an anti-essentialist approach...
by Chela Sandoval
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.
What...
Unruly Bodies
Life Writing by Women with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity.
Combining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah...
Statistical Panic
Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture’s scripts for “emotional” behavior and that the accelerating...
Three Traveling Women Writers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed...
Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s
Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Tesl
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
Feminine Fictions
Revisiting the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the...