Product Description: A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto" to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture - the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic - and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place...read more

Product Description: An introduction to feminist literary criticism which emphasises the practical issues of applying these often wide-ranging theories to particular texts. It analyzes in turn several schools of feminist thought, including gynocriticism, authentic realism and Marxism...read more

Product Description: Book by Ardis, Ann

Product Description: Most theological language which is available is based on men's stories-stories told about men's lives, and interpreted from a distinctly masculine perspective. In such stories women, by and large, are marginal characters. When they occasionally do figure in a more central role, the meaning of their actions is explained from a male viewpoint...read more

Product Description: Book by Robinson, Sally

Product Description:    Cutting-Gray places Burney's eighteenth-century view of Woman alongside those views of such contemporary theorists as Kristeva, Irigaray, and Arendt and discovers that Burney dismantles both the old social order and any new order that dictates resistance to male authority...read more

Alice Walker’s womanist theory about black feminist identity and practice also contains a critique of white liberal feminism. This is the first in-depth study to examine issues of identity and difference within feminism by drawing on Walker’s notion of an essential black feminist consciousness.Allan defines womanism as a “(r)evolutionary aesthetic that seeks to fully realize the feminist goal of resistance to patriarchal domination,” demonstrated most powerfully in The Color Purple. She also recognizes the complexities and ambiguities embedded in the concept, particularly the notion of a fixed and unitary black feminist identity, separate and distinct from its white counterpart. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Drabble’s The Middle Ground, she argues, do not allay Walker’s concerns about white liberal feminist practice, but they reveal signs of struggle that complicate the womanist/feminist dichotomy. Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, an ostensibly womanist text, fails to fit the race-restrictive womanist paradigm, and Walker’s own aesthetic trajectory—before The Color Purple—places her outside womanist boundaries. Finally, Allan’s intertextual reading reveals significant commonalities and differences.In the current debate among competing feminisms, this critical appraisal of womanist theory underscores the need for new thinking about essentialism, identity, and difference, and also for creative cooperation in the struggle against domination.

Product Description: In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed...read more

Product Description: This book examines the depiction of the social construction of male homosexuality, lesbianism, and women's role in "The Bell", "A Fairly Honourable Defeat", "An Accidental Man", "The Philosopher's Pupil", and "The Green Knight". It also explores the representation of power dynamics in the portrayal of homosexuality in Murdoch's fiction and takes a detailed look at the illustration of power-knowledge vis-a-vis incest in "A Severed Head and The Time of the Angels"...read more

Product Description: This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home...read more

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