Examines the work of well-known writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C.L. Moore, and contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy, and Josephine Saxton. Also examines the sf film and the publishing industry's response to the recent influx of women authors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction...read more

1987, hardcover edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 391 pages. "First full-length feminist study written by a man ... examines the ways in which writers of both genders have abetted and defied the ideological ramifications of traditional fictional order."

European Intertexts is the first fruit of an ongoing collaborative study aiming to challenge the isolationism of much critical work on English literature by exploring the interdependence of English and continental European literatures in writing by women. While later volumes will deal with specific texts, this introductory volume provides a descriptive framework and a theoretical basis for studies in the field. Covering issues such as the role of English as a world language, the definition of 'Europe', and the current state of Translation Studies, the book also surveys theories of intertextuality and demonstrates intertextual links between written and visual and film texts. This book is itself pioneering in making a systematic approach to women's writings in English in the context of other European cultures. Although Europe is a political reality, this cultural interpenetration remains largely unexamined, and these essays represent an important first step towards revealing that unexplored richness.

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From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Now in a new paperback edition with a new preface by the author, this collection explores feminism within the profession of literature. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

It is commonly accepted that identity or a sense of self is constructed by and through narrative - the stories we tell ourselves and each other about our lives. This book explores the complex relationships that exist between memory, nostalgia, writing and identity. The author examines a range of autobiographical and first-person fictional texts from holocaust literature, women's writing and popular fiction. Each text foregrounds issues of memory, history and trauma in the construction of identity. There are close readings of texts including Sylvia Fraser's My Father's House, Margaret Atwood's Cats Eye, Barbara Vine's A DarkAdapted Eye, Toni Morrison's Beloved, George Perec's W Or the Memory of Childhood, and Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces. Reading these texts of memory shows that 'remembering the self' depends not on restoring an original identity, but on 're-membering', on putting past and present selves together, moment by moment, in a process of provisional reconstruction. This is a powerfu

A collection of memoirs, diaries, essays, testimonials, and short stories by thirty women writers--including Margaret Atwood's 'Giving Birth,' 'A Woman's Prerogative' by Mary Gaitskill, and Jane Lazarre's 'The Mother Knot'--explores the joy, triumph, pain, and terror of motherhood. Original. (view table of contents)

Essays discuss Clover Adams, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Grace Paley, and the nature of love

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Offers a collection of critical extracts from literary critics on famous women writers of biography (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and yearnings, the confessions and desires, revealed in the pages of a diary...read more

Product Description: Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds. The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Roberts argues that Clarissa's, Hester's, Isabel's, and Tess's "heroism" or "greatness" is measured not by her actions but by the extent to which others are moved by her. Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she generates, which, in these novels, is sympathy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Roberts argues that Clarissa's, Hester's, Isabel's, and Tess's "heroism" or "greatness" is measured not by her actions but by the extent to which others are moved by her. Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she generates, which, in these novels, is sympathy...read more

Product Description: This study begins with a series of cultural artifacts and explores the way they function both as concrete presences and metaphorical configurations in literary texts. These objects lead to matters central to current critical debate by testifying to cultural values and preconceptions and undermining such certainties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

These essays offer readers vivid and varied evidence of the female response to recurring attempts by culture to artificially limit identity along the gendered lines of private and public experience. Calling on voices both familiar and little known, British and American, black and white, young and old, the essayists explore how women used life-writing as a means of both self-understanding and connection to a community of sympathetic others, real or imagined. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900" comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Since Margaret Cavendish published the first critical essay on Shakespeare in 1664, women have written as scholars, critics, editors, performers and popularisers of Shakespeare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using texts ranging from the writings of Schlegel to the speeches of the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day, these essays explore the ways in which nostalgia brokers the relations between the master narratives of gender and the master narratives of nationalism...read more

Product Description: These fifteen essays explore the rich texture of women's diaries written in America and Europe over the past two centuries. The authors use a variety of critical methodologies to examine the diary as a text, as a form of women's self-inscription, as a window to the diarists' historical and contemporary lives, and as a theoretical tool that allows us to question longstanding assumptions...read more