Category: Women Authors

By Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott

ISBN-10: 023110040X

ISBN-13: 9780231100403

ISBN-10: 0231100418

ISBN-13: 9780231100410

Such a lot anthologies of Renaissance writing comprise merely (or predominantly) male writers, while those who specialise in ladies contain girls completely. This ebook is the 1st to survey either in an built-in type. Its texts include quite a lot of canonical and non-canonical writing―including a few new and demanding discoveries. The texts are prepared in order that writing by way of men and women is gifted jointly, now not in a "point-counterpoint" approach that might "square off" male and female writers opposed to each other, yet particularly in pairs, occasionally clusters, of texts during which women's writing is foregrounded whilst it seems that with writing via men.

The anthology arranges lately recovered texts into exciting styles, juxtaposing, for instance, Aemelia Lanyer's state residence poem with an expression of a special form of nostalgia by means of Surrey. It contains unconventional voices, as within the homoerotic poems by means of Richard Barnfield or the potentially lesbian poems through Katherine Philips. It makes newly on hand the voices of English Marrano ladies (secret Jews) and the Miltonic poetry of Jean Lead.

By Gill Rye, Michael Worton

ISBN-10: 0719062268

ISBN-13: 9780719062261

ISBN-10: 0719062276

ISBN-13: 9780719062278

ISBN-10: 1417576391

ISBN-13: 9781417576395

ISBN-10: 1847790267

ISBN-13: 9781847790262

By Dinah Roe

ISBN-10: 0230005071

ISBN-13: 9780230005075

ISBN-10: 0230625207

ISBN-13: 9780230625204

This new research makes a speciality of the significantly overlooked region of Rossetti's devotional poetry and her prose, delivering a severe intervention within the feminist building of a big Victorian lady poet.

By Irène Assiba D'Almeida

ISBN-10: 081301302X

ISBN-13: 9780813013022

French-speaking African girls typically expressed their creativity via oral storytelling. formerly silent in print, this present day in addition they converse throughout the written be aware, and their tales represent the most major contemporary advancements in African literature. Irene Assiba d'Almeida dates this rising phenomenon to 1969, the yr Kuoh-Moukouri's Rencontres essentielles was once released. a couple of extra books by way of girls have been released within the '70s, by means of an inventive explosion within the '80s that d'Almeida describes as a militant feminist appropriation of the written observe. D'Almeida's e-book, the 1st single-author severe research in English of literary expression via Francophone African girls, examines novels and autobiographies by way of 9 new and proven writers, all released seeing that 1975. She reveals that writing has liberated Francophone African girls. They use it to critique the patriarchal order, to champion the reason for girls and the group, and to maintain features of culture. D'Almeida divides her research into sections on 3 elements of literary construction. the 1st offers with autobiography and starts off with A Dakar youth, by means of Nafissatou Diallo, the 1st Francophone African lady to put in writing her personal existence background. The part additionally examines The deserted Baobab, by means of Ken Bugul, a booklet that broke sexual taboos, and My nation, Africa, by way of Andree Blouin. within the moment part the writer seems to be at ladies and the kinfolk, together with difficulties concerning "compulsory" motherhood. She discusses Your identify could be Tanga, via Calixthe Beyala, Cries and Fury of girls, through Angele Rawiri (both released in simple terms in French), and Scarlet music, via Mariama Ba. The 3rd part, "W/Riting Change:Women as Social Critics", discusses the methods lady novelists hyperlink difficulties that impact women's lives to these affecting society at huge. It examines works in French via Werewere Liking, Aminata Sow Fall, and Veronique Tadjo.

By Sidonie Smith

ISBN-10: 0816628742

ISBN-13: 9780816628742

ISBN-10: 0816628750

ISBN-13: 9780816628759

Women's Studies/Literary concept a fascinating examine girls writing at the go-and what they let us know approximately woman identification. As technological advances elevated the benefit, pace, and achieve of transportation, a growing number of girls took to the air, to the line and the rail, and headed for issues somewhere else. As they mastered new modes of mobility after which narrated their trips, those girls tourists left cultural rules of femininity as sedentary, subordinate, and restricted within the dirt. In relocating Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women's shuttle and commute writing within the 20th century have been formed by way of specific modes of mobility, asking how the shape of trip affected the type of narrative written. Alexandra David-Neel visiting strolling around the Himalayas; Robyn Davidson on her camel within the outback of Australia; Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham mountain climbing into the cockpit in their airplanes; Mary Morris using a educate from Beijing to Berlin; Irma Kurtz taking a Greyhound into the bellies of yank towns and towns-of those and different ladies, Smith asks: What do they make in their travels? How do they enact the dynamics of and contradictions within the flow of identification? Are they outlined through the experience-or do they outline the that means of a specific mode of delivery in new and other ways, and in doing so, disentangle commute from its masculine common sense? designated in its concentrate on the connection of girls in movement, applied sciences of movement, and autobiographical practices, relocating Lives will curiosity readers throughout a wide spectrum of disciplines, in addition to people who find themselves easily intrigued via shuttle narratives. Sidonie Smith is director of women's reports and professor of English on the collage of Michigan. Her books comprise Subjectivity, identification, and the physique: Women's Autobiographical Practices within the 20th Century (1993) and, as coeditor, Getting a existence: daily makes use of of Autobiography (Minnesota, 1996).

By Angelica Goodden

ISBN-10: 0191528773

ISBN-13: 9780191528774

ISBN-10: 019923809X

ISBN-13: 9780199238095

How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? what sort of writing can either be fuelled through absence and lengthen it? Exile, which used to be intended to imprison her, ironically gave Madame de Sta?l a freedom that enabled her to be as energetic a dissident as any girl within the past due eighteenth and early 19th centuries was once able to being. again and again banished for her nonconformism, she felt she were made to undergo two times over, first for political bold after which for bold, as a lady, to be political (a rather grave offence within the eyes of the misogynist Napoleon). but her outspokenness - in novels, comparative literary experiences, and works of political and social conception - made her appear as a lot a risk outdoor her cherished France as inside it, whereas her friendship with statesmen, squaddies, and literary figures comparable to Byron, Fanny Burney, Goethe, and Schiller easily extra to her harmful big name. She preached the virtues of liberalism and freedom at any place she went, turning the reports of her enforced absence into an arsenal to exploit opposed to all who attempted to suppress her. Even Napoleon, might be her maximum foe, conceded, from his personal exile on St Helena that she could final. Her unremitting job as a speaker and author made her into exactly the type of activist no lady at the moment was once accepted to be; but she mockingly remained a reluctant feminist, seeming even to connive on the inferior prestige society granted her intercourse whilst vociferously tough it, and last torn by means of the conflicting calls for of private and non-private existence.

By Willis, Elizabeth

ISBN-10: 0819570982

ISBN-13: 9780819570987

ISBN-10: 0819570990

ISBN-13: 9780819570994

ISBN-10: 1283109689

ISBN-13: 9781283109680

Tackle attracts us into noticeable and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public deal with. those poems are centred, polyvocal, and sharply aware of acts of illustration; they take for my part their politics and within the method display anything in regards to the manner civic constructions inhabit the mind's eye. toxic vegetation, witches, anthems, bees—beneath their floor, we glimpse the fragility of our founding, republican aspirations and witness a disintegrating panorama artfully remodeled. If a poem can function one of those astrolabe, measuring distances either cosmic and quick, temporal and actual, it does so via imaginitive, nonlinear capability. the following, prior and current have interaction in acts of mutual interrogation and critique, and inside of this dynamic Willis’s poetry is immediately complexly authoritative and looking: “so starts our legislation.”

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By Anne Lambright, Elisabeth Guerrero

ISBN-10: 0816648123

ISBN-13: 9780816648122

ISBN-10: 0816698481

ISBN-13: 9780816698486

The town isn't just outfitted of towers of metal and glass; it's a made from tradition. It performs an extremely vital function in Latin the USA, the place city parts carry a near-monopoly on assets and are domestic to an increasing inhabitants. The essays during this assortment assert that women’s perspectives of town are designated and revealing. For the 1st time, Unfolding town addresses problems with gender and the city in literature—particularly lesser-known works of literature—written through Latin American ladies from Mexico urban, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. The participants suggest new mappings of city area; interpret race and sophistication dynamics; and describe Latin American city facilities within the context of globalization. individuals: Debra A. Castillo, Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess, U of Maryland; Guillermo Irizarry, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom, U of Texas, Austin; Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby, Mount Holyoke university; Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos, Yale U; Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, U of Michigan; Gareth Williams, U of Michigan. Anne Lambright is affiliate professor of recent languages and literature at Trinity university in Hartford, Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is affiliate professor of Spanish at Bucknell collage.

By Akiko Kusunoki

ISBN-10: 1137558938

ISBN-13: 9781137558930

ISBN-10: 1349561533

ISBN-13: 9781349561537

This publication examines the interactions among social assumptions approximately womanhood and women's real voices represented in performs and writings via authors of either genders in Jacobean England, putting the exact emphasis on girl Mary Wroth.

By June Szirotny

ISBN-10: 1137406151

ISBN-13: 9781137406156

ISBN-10: 1349487848

ISBN-13: 9781349487844

The query of even if George Eliot was once what may now be known as a feminist is a contentious one. This publication argues, via a detailed research of her fiction, knowledgeable by means of exam of her life's tale and by way of a comparability of her perspectives to these of up to date feminists, that George Eliot was once extra radical and extra feminist than mostly suggestion.