Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Feminist

In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics' wide disagreement about the value of Rawls's corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that follow testify to the continuing ambivalence among feminist readers of Rawls. From...

"This is the book we've been waiting for: a distinguished collection that demonstrates how revisions of Modernist definitions might proceed.... The Gender of Modernism... will be nothing less than an absolutely necessary text for Modernist studies." --Shari Benstock

"Scott and her contributing editors... effectively bring] together the issues of gender and modernism into a volume recommended for reference and classroom use." --James Joyce Literary Supplement

..". a treasure trove for anyone interested in the literature and history of modern times." --Susan Gubar

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Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women's popular fiction, which began in 1996 with the publication of British author Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones's Diary, uses first person narration to chronicle the romantic tribulations of its young, single, white, heterosexual, urban heroines. Critics of the genre have failed to fully appreciate...

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the literature of Christian devotion to women's creative lives through an examination of the varied ways in which Victorian women reproduced and recreated traditional Christian texts in their own poetic texts. Investigating how women poets redeployed the discourse of Christianity to uncover the multiple...

This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary criticism but to interpret the subjects that inspire and disclose Olsen's spiritual vision.

In Tell me a Riddle, Yonnondio, and, TIllie Olsen presents a world troubled by the problems of sex, race, and class and inhabited by people who are broken, silenced, defeated. Yet her artistic vision of this tragic world reveals Olsen's resounding affirmation of life. Orr's study shows Olsen's work...

Now, at the dawn of a new century of thought and action, it is important once again to revisit the canon of feminist literary criticism and theory and re-establish the measure for representing the latest developments in the field. Robyn Warhol-Down and...

This project examines the representation of "mixed race" female identities in colonial and postcolonial societies, from the eighteenth century to the present. Concentrating particularly on the relationship between Jamaica and England, Salih challenges contemporary theorizations of hybridity, métissage and créolité in a series of historicized, localized readings, arguing that in order to understand contemporary attitudes towards mixed race women, it is necessary to examine specific historical contexts and to trace the genealogy of racial and racist discourses. She examines the...