Feminism and women's writing : an introduction / Catherine Riley with Lynne Pearce.
Material type: TextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]Copyright date: c2018Description: xviii, 204 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781474415606 (paperback)
- 1474415601 (paperback)
- Feminism & women's writing [Cover title]
- 820.99287 RIL 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Baccah | 820.99287 RIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 26/10/2024 | 000048445 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Debates : Gendering the canon --
Gender -- Body/image -- Not straight sex -- Ethnicity -- Part II. Genres : Romance -- Crime -- Science fiction -- Life-writing -- Historical fiction.
This book clearly and succinctly introduces the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. Part I, Debates, contains chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the content of women's literature. In Part II, Genres, five chapters examine types of fiction writing, romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the form of women's literature--back cover.
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