Women Authors category: 700 books
Healing Memories
Puerto Rican Women's Literature in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such...
by Joanne Hartman, Mary Claire Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Boldly and unapologetically told, the essays featured in this powerful collection exemplify strength and resilience as these writers—published authors as well as fresh voices—take their truths public. Filled with hope, humor, and determination, these stories tackle love, loss, friendship, identity,...
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions...
Writing Herself into Being
Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de l'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution...
by Wendy Martin, Sharone Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature....
Partners in Wonder
Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female...
by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction,...
Locating Gender in Modernism
The Outsider Female
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining....
Literary Witches
A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Celebrate the witchiest women writers with beautiful illustrations and imaginative vignettes.
Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through poetic portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates...