Product Description: Great literature resonates with us not only because of well-developed characters and plots, but also because it often reflects important social themes; these books explore a work of literature through the lens of the major issue reflected in it...read more

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Product Description: This volume sets El Saadawi's literary work within the context of her activism, in particular showing how her ideas for the renewal of society run through her writing. As a companion for reading her fiction and non-fiction, this volunme contextualizes her work by taking into consideration the complexities of Egyptian society today - in particular, Islamic fundamentalism and women's status...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Between 1880 and 1920, the New Woman novel outraged "ladies," rallied women's rights activists, and inspired women readers and writers to harness an emerging popular literary market to their own political purposes. British author and activist Sarah Grand (1854-1943) took center stage, popularizing the term "New Woman," marching for suffrage, lecturing from platforms in Britain and America, and publishing fiction and essays that challenged the most powerful obstacle to middle-class militancy--marriage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Within the context of Johnson's central preoccupation with human happiness, this study examines his attitudes toward women and important issues such as happiness in marriage, domestic violence, prostitution, and education. In particular, it focuses on Irene, The Rambler, and Rasselas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The inclusion of the ethnic voice in the examination of what has been termed «American» literature is a significant development, but what of the voice of the ethnic woman? This study seeks to answer that question and, at the same time, shed light on the effects exercised by the act of immigration as well as on the specific fate of French-Canadian immigrants to the United States at the turn of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This extensive collection of English-language essays examines the many strategies of resistance to male domination that women in France from the 16th through the 18th centuries utilized in their lives and their writings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text analyzes the development of Tagore's heroines within the framework of the Bildungsroman, and also explores the ways in which the "female Bildung" can be facilitated within a Hindu ideology. It examines gender development in Tagore in terms of its privatized cultural context...read more