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This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative...

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period,...

A compelling reappraisal of Spark's approach to literary experimentation Offers a distinctive reappraisal of Spark's fiction, which challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writing Interrogates how Spark's literary...

The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann...

Consisting almost entirely of new essays specially prepared for this volume, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt illuminates the diversity of contemporary feminisms while also generating new and suggestive readings of Hannah Arendt's political...

Translation and Gender places recent work in translation against the background of the women's movement and its critique of "patriarchal" language. It explains translation practices derived from experimental feminist writing, the development of openly...

Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic...

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960-a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood -Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early...

Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century...

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The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second...

This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492648Author Joanna WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality...

Selects the best from the last fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarshipSelects the best from the last fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarshipAbout the AuthorBonnie Kime Scott is a professor of English and women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627347266Author Resa HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Brown Walker PressPublisher Brown Walker PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal concept. In her radical rereading of the Greek...

This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It accomplisheses four main goals. First, it outlines a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. Second, it uses these principles to critique...

Clara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714190Author KELLY IVESFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

How Black women's reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy-and remains key to their dismantling In the United States, slavery relied on the reproduction and other labors of unfree Black women. Nearly four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849021357Author Mary WollstonecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly's The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery's books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery's fiction, Epperly argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454649Author Gillian BeerFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861715456Author Margaret ElvyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Much contemporary feminist theory continues to see itself as freeing women from patriarchal oppression so that they may realize their own inner truth. To be told by postmodern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida that the very possibility of such a truth...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861717757Author M K PaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning...

A pivotal figure in critical theory and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the subject of differing feminist critiques. Going beyond and behind Simone de Beauvoir's creative appropriation of Hegel in The Second Sex, the essays gathered...

Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir.The book offers readers "the basics" of Beauvoir, affording new and continuing readers...

This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected...

This collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.Book...

Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices...

Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz fills a gap...

Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.Book...

We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?About the AuthorAlison Findlay is a lecturer in English at Lancaster University, specializing in feminist approaches to...

Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality,...

Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.Book...