Literary Criticism : Feminist

One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre plays' wo......

The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now. These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech......

Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers ......

This book proposes a resolution to the paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's sexual politics-that he is the philosopher of freedom for men yet philosopher of se......

This book examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary produ......

Against the claims of increasing sexualisation of culture, one truism is constantly rehearsed - that women have little taste for pornography. In One for the ......

"Stigmata" brings together Helene Cixous's most recent essays for the first time in any language. It is a collection of texts that get away--escaping the rea......

An invaluable overview of feminist critical thinking. The esssays address a wide range of topics including: the politics of language; feminist readings of th......

Gritty and darkly humorous, Pearson's verses address modern myths head-on. British humour and psychoanalytic and feminist theory meet under the poet's steady......

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles i......

Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many......

In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of 'victim'......

In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of 'victim'......

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she con......

A spirited guide to the classics of feminism, examining how well the canon holds up to the realities of marriage and motherhood Author: Staal, Stephanie Pub......

Fraiman assesses the work of various contemporary male figures -- "bad boy" innovative filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, and Spike Lee ......

The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms in South Asian literature--most famously in the Mahabharata and in the fourth century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala ......

Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and so......

This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott......

From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has be......