Product Description: Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts...read more

This volume opens up gendered perspectives on a broad range of 20th-century Scandinavian culture. The book consists of an introduction that theorizes gender and power, and sixteen chapters which explore aspects of gender within a spectrum of disciplines. The author is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Co-ordinator of Gender Studies at University College London. She has written extensively on Swedish women's writing, particularly that of Elin Wagner, Kerstin Ekman and Selma Lagerlof. ""Putting the work in a social-chronological context helps to follow the development of Wagner both as a writer and as a woman reacting to the world in which she lives."" Book News 11/09

Product Description: This work provides a survey of women's writing in Sweden, from the beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s to the present day. These writers are seen within the political, cultural and economic context of women's lives...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays written by leading American, British, and Swedish scholars surveys Swedish literature during the last 100 years, from 1891 to. 1991; it ranges from the work of Selma Lagerlöf and August Strindberg in the 1890s to that of Ingmar Bergman and Kerstin Ekman in the late twentieth century, including major figures such as Hjalmar Bergman, Stig Dagerman and Lars Norén...read more