Women Authors category: 700 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion,...
by Barbara Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies,"...
The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain
The Social Construction of Maternity in the Works of Lucía Etxebarria
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria’s fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society. Traditional expectations for women as mothers persist despite the fact that they no longer match Spain’s cultural and economic reality....
An Ethics of Becoming
Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contemporary poststructuralist feminism and its profound resonance with the nineteenth-century British female...
by Bryant Mangum, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum examines the thematic intricacies and astute social commentary of Adams’s eleven novels and five short story collections. Throughout her career Adams was known for creating and re-creating the “Alice Adams woman,” who is bright, honest, attractive,...
Wollstonecraft's Ghost
The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir...
Reconceiving Nature
Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets—Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing transcended...
Breaking the Silence
Murmurs of the Girl in Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Told from the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse, these contest-winning poems, short stories, and personal essays come from established writers as well as fresh new talents. Based on the idea that creative writing aids the healing process, these selections...
Bridges to Memory
Postmemory in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This multiethnic examination of the legacy of violence shows how inherited traumatic memory is represented in novels by contemporary American women writers, revealing both the influence of specific cultural contexts and the solidarity of global witness to the suffering of others.
Keeping up Her Geography
Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and...
by Mary Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners.
Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and argues...
Sushi and Tapas
Bite-size Personal Stories from Women Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Welcome to the wonderful world of Sushi and Tapas.Sample a feast of writing from around the world. From China to America, Europe to Africa, 25 women write, delighting and shocking you with their real-life experiences.What is it like to be a top student in India, only to be married off to a brute...
by Jane Davison
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty years, nine novels, nine plays, two travelogues, and copious criticism, O’Brien rebelled against the narrow nationalism...