Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900-90

ISBN-13: 9780333448397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 213 str.

Jennifer Birkett; Elizabeth Harvey

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The essays in this collection look at some of the images and categories which have shaped Western women's sense of themselves in the twentieth century. The approach of the collection is interdisciplinary, bringing together the perspectives of literary criticism, social history and linguistics. Its focus is international, with contributions on Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Canada. The collection shows both the similarity and the diversity of women's experience in a world determined by patriarchal assumptions, where women's only hope of change lies in developing a determination of their own.

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Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgement - Introduction; J.Birkett & E.Harvey - Private Fantasy and PubliIntervention: Girls' Reading in Weimar Germany; E.Harvey - Doubly Determined: The Ambition of Storm Jameson; J.Birkett - The Negative of a Person: Media, Image and Authenticity in the Work of Sylvia Plath; S.Smith - A Question of Inheritance: Canadian Women's Short Stories; C.A.Howells - Whistling Like a Woman: Alice Walker; J.Birkett - Beyond Paper Heroines: Maxie Wander's Guten Morgen, du Sch na and its reception in the GDR; P.Harbord - Sexism in French: A Case Study; R.Adamson - The Castration of Cassandra; H.Geyer-Ryan