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Sororophobiaby Helena Michie
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 108.00This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterhood to a more nuanced notion of women's relations with other women which may include such uncomfortable concepts as envy, jealousy, and competition as... more...
Women Writers in the United Statesby Cynthia J. Davis; Kathryn West
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 14.78Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing--including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns,and cookbooks, alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the U.S. and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writingby Dale M. Bauer; Philip Gould
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 28.00A specially commissioned collection designed for use by students. It provides an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, and offers several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading. more...
Transformations and Domesticity in Modern Women's Writingby Thomas Foster
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 130.00This volume makes connections between feminist criticism of domestic ideology in the 19th century, modernist women's experiments with literary form, contemporary feminist debates about the politics of location, and postmodern theories of social space. more...
The Erotics of Talkby Carla Kaplan
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 50.00A rereading of the American feminist criticism of the past two decades and the literary canon which it has constructed as its foundation. It reads a group of feminist classics focusing on how each work represents talk and how feminist criticism has talked about these representations. more...
Writing Selvesby Jeanne Perreault
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 72.00Why ?autography?? Because there really is no genre for feminist self-writing. This is the territory, between autobiography and feminist thought, that Jeanne Perreault marks out. Looking to Audre Lorde?s Cancer Journals, Kate Millet?s The Basement, Adrienne Rich?s later prose and poetry, and Patricia Williams?s ?diary,? among other works, Perreault compellingly examines writing as a significant element in the processes of self-making. more...
Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetryby Nicky Marsh
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in ?third wave? feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being ?public? in contemporary U.S culture. more...
Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Bodyby D. Hoeveler; D. Schuster
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00This volume addresses one aspect of a challenging topic: what does it mean for women to create within particular literary and cultural contexts? How is the female body written on textuality? In short, how is the female body analogous to the geographical space of land? How have women inhabited their bodies as people have lived in nation-states? more...
Anne Tylerby Robert W. Croft
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 102.00Anne Tyler is one of America's most significant contemporary writers. This book is a solid introduction to her life and work. It includes the first biography of Tyler, along with a record of her writings and the response to her work. It incorporates source materials from the Anne Tyler Papers at Duke University and letters from Tyler to the author. The volume lists all of Tyler's novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews and provides an annotated bibliography of critical studies.||The first half of the book is a biography of Tyler. The author describes her childhood in a North Carolina commune, her high school years in Raleigh, her college years at Duke, and her earliest writing efforts. The biography charts the development... more...









