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The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak
by Donna Landry  Publisher Comments 'The Spivak Reader' offers a selection of a major critic's work, making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible in post-colonial studies, literature, women's studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and sociology. Many pieces in the Reader have...
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The Hidden Writer
by Alexander Johnson Publisher Comments "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...
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color
by Gloria Anzaldúa Publisher Comments A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well...
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Hell's Belles: A Tribute to the Spitfires, Bad Seeds, and Steel Magnolias of the New and Old South
by Seale Ballenger Publisher Comments From Mama to Mammy, from Scarlett to Blanche, Hell's Belles (often exclaimed in mock piety and defining generations of Southern women) is a hilarious and loving tribute to the famous and infamous females of ol' Dixie. This diverse collection features...
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
by Charlotte S Waisman Publisher Comments This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of American women since the 1500s. The result is a captivating look at champions that will resonate with women and men alike....
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Undoing Gender (04 Edition)
by Judith Butler Publisher Comments Undoing Gender deepens issues introduced by Butler's earlier scholarship: the materiality of the body, the meaning and instrument of human agency, the relation between power and the psyche or power and the body, psychic triangulation and the incest taboo,...
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Working with Feminist Criticism
by Mary Eagleton Publisher Comments Using the concepts and practices of feminist literary criticism, this constantly challenging workbook not only makes the connection between women's writing and women's lives but breaks new ground in enabling students to apply critical concepts and to...
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Literature After Feminism
by Rita Felski Publisher Comments Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the...
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Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
by Helen Cooper Publisher Comments Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the...
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Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
by Mildred Mortimer Publisher Comments Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa Aoua KZita, Mariama B, Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse...
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
by Toril Moi Publisher Comments Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, "Sexual/Textual Politics" nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or...
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Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction
by Nina Auerbach Publisher Comments In this classic work of feminist and literary criticism, Auerbach explores how the fellowship of sisterhood as it occurs or fails to occur in historical reality is reflected in famous novels such as those of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Charlotte...
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The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World: Completely Revised and Updated
by Joni Seager Publisher Comments In this revision of her ground-breaking atlas, Joni Seager draws on a vast amount of new global data to explore the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, beauty, culture, women at work, women in the global economy, changing...
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Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter (Library of Medieval Women,)
by Anne Of France Publisher Comments Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an active and influential figure in...
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Virginia Woolf as Feminist
by Naomi Black Publisher Comments Virginia Woolf as Feminist claims Woolf's radical and political version of feminism and activism is most explicitly laid out in her nonfiction text "Three Guineas."...
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Feminism and Religion
by Rita M Gross Publisher Comments Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself. "This book will be an important resource for all...
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New Essays in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism
by Glynis (edt) Carr Publisher Comments This collection gathers new essays in ecofeminist literary criticism and theory that extend the critical trajectory of ecocriticism toward interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, and internationalism in the context of social ecofeminist theory and...
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
by Elaine Showalter Publisher Comments When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the...
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Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender
by Jerilyn (edt) Fisher Publisher Comments With the literary canon consisting mostly of works created by and about men, the central perspective is decidedly male. This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to...
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Making a Difference
by Gayle Greene Publisher Comments An invaluable overview of feminist critical thinking. The esssays address a wide range of topics including: the politics of language; feminist readings of the canon; psychoanalysis and feminism; French theories of the feminine. This title available...
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