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Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry: Feminist Theory Across Disciplines
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women?s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women?s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, history, political... more...
Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ?materialist-feminist? criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories... more...
Engendering Men RLE
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00Over the past several years, the question of men?s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics. In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task... more...
Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 55.00Audacity within Confinement examines the cultural work of American women writers of the Left during the years immediately following World War II, and the feminist consciousness that developed in those years. McDonald argues that, despite efforts to contain political resistance during the McCarthy era, women writers became more actively involved in... more...
Transatlantic Women
University of New Hampshire Press 2012; US$ 34.99Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers more...
American Women Poets
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 45.00American poetry has been shaped and deeply influenced by the wealth of female voices that have contributed to its originality and vivacity through the years. From the colonial era's Phillis Wheatley to the new voices of the 21st century, this volume surveys the ongoing contributions and critical legacy of the United States' diverse women poets.... more...
Modernist Women Writers and War
LSU Press 2011; US$ 22.95In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors---Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein--- and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged, one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war... more...
Playing Smart
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 23.95Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. Their fiction raised questions about what it meant to be a woman in the public eye, how gender... more...
From the Modernist Annex
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 44.50In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman’s close readings of four modernist writers—Edith Wharton,... more...
The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 49.50









