Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory
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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory

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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory

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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, this book traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work. In addition to considering such well-known authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous, this book also reflects on the lasting influence of postcolonialism, liberalism, and specific genres such as science fiction and modernist poetry. Written by leading scholars and focusing on the literary trajectories of feminism's noted contributors, Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory ultimately provides a new perspective on feminism's theoretical context, bringing into view the effects of literary form on the growth of feminist thought.

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Yes, you can access Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatura & Crítica literaria para escritoras. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 “Original Spirit”: Literary Translations and Translational Literature in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
  10. 3 Jane Eyre, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and the Varieties of Nineteenth-century Feminism
  11. 4 Progressive Portraits: Literature in Feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner
  12. 5 Feminist Poetics: First-Wave Feminism, Theory, and Modernist Women Poets
  13. 6 Woolf and Women’s Work: Literary Invention in an Obscure Hat Factory
  14. 7 Walking in a Man’s World: Myth, Literature, and the Interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
  15. 8 Decapitation Impossible: The Hundred Heads of Julia Kristeva
  16. 9 Shattering the Gender Walls: Monique Wittig’s Contribution to Literature
  17. 10 Hélène Cixous: Writing for Her Life
  18. 11 Subversive Creatures from behind the Iron Curtain: Irmtraud Morgner’s...
  19. 12 Christa Wolf: Literature as an Aesthetics of Resistance
  20. 13 Naked Came the Female Extraterrestrial Stranger: Applying...
  21. 14 Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and Sci-Fi Family Values
  22. 15 More than Theater: Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman and the Feminist Phenomenology of Excess
  23. 16 Nawal el Saadawi: Writer and Revolutionary
  24. 17 “The Woman Who Said ‘No’”: Colonialism, Islam, and Feminist Resistance in the Works of Assia Djebar
  25. Notes
  26. Index