Covers authors, chiefly British--about half women--and works and genres for adults and for children (view table of contents)

Product Description: Spanning nearly two decades, from 1980 to 1996, this Reader investigates the debates which have best characterized feminist theory. Including such articles as Pornography and Fantasy, The Body and Cinema, Nature as Female, and A Manifesto for Cyborgs, the extracts examine thoughts on sexualtiy as a domain of exploration, the visual representation of women, what being a feminist means, and why feminists are increasingly involved in political struggles to negotiate the context and meaning of technological development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The human face has been admired, interpreted, disfigured, decorated, puzzled over, and reconstructed from earliest times. But what do faces mean? How should we interpret expressions? Does the face indicate personality? What makes our faces unique? Far from the world of facelifts and Botox, science is now embarking on undreamed-of facial reconstruction—a full-face transplant will soon be available as the ultimate new identity under the FBI’s Witness Protection Program...read more

Product Description: "Italian Feminist Thought" represents a radical re-examination of institutionalized definitions of womens' nature and social role, in relation to the sexual division of labour, the structure of the family and to social welfare, the church and the media...read more

Product Description: Kemp (English, Glasgow) views Kipling's work in light of modern concepts of cultural codes, ambivalence of the narrator, and crisis as the source of literature. She discovers a preoccupation with the East, the supernatural, and religion threading through many of his stories...read more

Product Description: This a broad-ranging anthology of critical essays spanning the last ten years, drawn from literature, linguistics, semiotics, history, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Contributing to a dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, this collection sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate...read more

Product Description: The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction, much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Everyman's Library softcover (trade paperback), as shown. 1992 reprinting.

Product Description: Though Kipling always denied any critical intent, his letters, speeches and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many previously unpublished private letters and papers, reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value...read more