Women Authors category: 700 books
Rewriting the Return to Africa
Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the...
Where No Man has Gone Before
Essays on Women and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?
To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?
What has been the effect of this phenomenon...
Archives of Labor
Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies,...
by Beverly Lyon Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor’s 1933 movie; Mark English’s shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo—this time played by Sutton Foster—belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broadway musical flop:...
by Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Provocative . . . articulates the importance of embodied, erotic spirituality to black female subjectivity and empowerment."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Sets out to reclaim the right of black women to their sexual and erotic expression untainted by the stereotypes and disparagements...
by Li Guo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from,...
by Carmen L. Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing...
by Pattie Kuwong
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Marital conflicts are increasing exponentially and women are becoming more and more confused as to what to do. Women and men are in a dilemma of identifying who they really are. Two people, who were created to live as one, think as one and act as one are getting more distant from each other. Humanity...
The Sword and the Pen
Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555....
Waiting for Cancer to Come
Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Waiting for Cancer to Come tells the stories of women who are struggling with their high risk for cancer. Based on interviews and surveys of dozens of women, this book pieces together the diverse yet interlocking experiences of women who have tested positive for the BRCA 1/2 gene mutations, which...
Reverie and Reality
Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This is a study of Chinese gentry women’s poems on the theme of travel written during the late imperial period (ca.1600–1911), when Chinese women’s literature and culture flourished as never before. It challenges the clichéd image of completely secluded and immobile women anxiously waiting...
Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals)
The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly restrictive...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
by Emily J. Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority.
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially paintingas a...