Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing
Author: Laurie Finke
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501726250

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How to Suppress Women's Writing

How to Suppress Women's Writing
Author: Joanna Russ
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1983-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780292724457

Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Women Writing and Writing about Women

Women Writing and Writing about Women
Author: Mary Jacobus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415521696

United by a common focus on writing by and about women, this collection of contemporary essays, spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, emphasises some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman and by women's representation in literature. The subjects of individual essays range from the nineteenth and twentieth century novel to avant-garde film, and from Victorian women poets to Russian women poets of today. Drawing on structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, socio-linguistics and Marxist analyses of literature, the diverse essays suggest the variety and vigour of contemporary feminist literary criticism, as well as representing the debates animating it. Successfully bridging the gap between literary criticism and literary production, the scope of this collection will be of considerable interest to those concerned with developments in literary criticism as well as to those in the field of women's studies.

Women Writing Culture

Women Writing Culture
Author: Gary A. Olson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995-09-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438415060

Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed include feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding; cultural critic and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; noted American theorist of women's epistemology Mary Belenky; African-American cultural critic bell hooks; Luce Irigaray, a major exponent of "French Feminism"; and Jean-Francois Lyotard, a philosopher and cultural critic who has helped to define "the postmodern condition." Together, these interviews afford significant insight into these eminent scholars' perspectives on women, writing, and culture, and explore how women write culture through the various postmodern discourses in which they engage.

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers
Author: Radha Chakravarty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317809955

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century
Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781558610279

Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman.

Women Writing Nature

Women Writing Nature
Author: Barbara J. Cook
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780739119136

Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed, culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about the natural world from a feminist perspective.

Black Internationalist Feminism

Black Internationalist Feminism
Author: Cheryl Higashida
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252093542

Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat. Black internationalist feminism critiques racist, heteronormative, and masculinist articulations of nationalism while maintaining the importance of national liberation movements for achieving Black women's social, political, and economic rights. Cheryl Higashida shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Rosa Guy, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou worked within and against established literary forms to demonstrate that nationalist internationalism was linked to struggles against heterosexism and patriarchy. Exploring a diverse range of plays, novels, essays, poetry, and reportage, Higashida illustrates how literature is a crucial lens for studying Black internationalist feminism because these authors were at the forefront of bringing the perspectives and problems of black women to light against their marginalization and silencing. In examining writing by Black Left women from 1945–1995, Black Internationalist Feminism contributes to recent efforts to rehistoricize the Old Left, Civil Rights, Black Power, and second-wave Black women's movements.

Women's Writing, 1660-1830

Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Author: Jennie Batchelor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137543825

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a Postscript by Cora Kaplan.

Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing

Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
Author: E. Jackson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-01-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230275095

This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.