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Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Dorri Beam "Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of … OL15537055W
American women writers to 1800 American women writers to 1800 Sharon M. Harris American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology cap… OL16100538W
The Cambridge history of American women's literature The Cambridge history of American women's literature Dale M. Bauer "The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, c… OL16521495W
Arab women writers Arab women writers Ferial Ghazoul,Radwa Ashour,Hasna Reda-mekdashi "Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study - first publis… OL16941734W
The Cambridge companion to early modern women's writing The Cambridge companion to early modern women's writing Laura Lunger Knoppers "Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of… OL16957958W
The Norton anthology of literature by women The Norton anthology of literature by women Sandra M. Gilbert Contains selections written by over 150 women authors from English-speaking countries. Ranges from the fourteenth century to the present. OL17026636W
Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers Susan Koppelman Koppelman has anthologized a collection of stories that recount love and desire between women, all of which appeared in popular literary magazines during the second half of the 19th century. Though t… OL17817183W
Medieval women's visionary literature Medieval women's visionary literature Elizabeth Petroff These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, mothers, wandering teachers, founders of reli… OL17943594W
The feminization of American culture The feminization of American culture Douglas, Ann This is one of those rare books that let us see with a fresh and startling clarity the underlying causes, meaning, and influence through time of profound a cultural phenomenon. In it, a brilliant you… OL1869175W
A literature of their own A literature of their own Elaine Showalter 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,… OL2041593W
The female tradition in southern literature The female tradition in southern literature Carol S. Manning This collection of critical essays examines the contributions to and influences on literature that have been made by Southern women writers.--From publisher description. OL20433436W
Writing religious women Writing religious women Christiania Whitehead,Denis Renevey This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist… OL20627326W
Privileging Gender in Early Modern England Privileging Gender in Early Modern England J. R. Brink "The essays in this volume focus on the issue of gender as it relates to texts written by and about women in early modern England. Among the issues considered are the boundaries between private and p… OL20913881W
Vier starke Frauen Vier starke Frauen Fay Weldon London, 1971, in der radikalen Aufbruchstimmung der Frauenbewegung. Die Mitglieder(innen?) einer feministischen Gruppe suchen ihren Weg: einige gründen einen Frauenverlag, schwören Männern ebenso ab … OL24306565W
Jasmine and Stars Jasmine and Stars Fatemeh Keshavarz In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and… OL2678912W
First Feminists First Feminists Moira Ferguson ""Moira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known figures and from fiction, polemic and poetry to illustrate the long and diverse history of feminist reflection up to and includin… OL2723166W
In Search of Our Mother's Garden In Search of Our Mother's Garden Alice Walker In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents a… OL273646W
The Promised Land? The Promised Land? Lorna Martens "From the 1960s on, women writers in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), including Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Sarah Kirsch, Brigitte Reimann, Charlotte Worgitzky, Lia Pirskawetz, and Maya Wien… OL2961019W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
How should I read these? How should I read these? Helen Hoy "One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Halen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and… OL6223795W
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