- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Table of contents
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- Half title
- Also Available From Bloomsbury
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 What Did Women Want? Post-War Masculinity in the Womanās Novel of the 1950s
- 2 āMothers Without Partnersā: The Single Mother Novel of the 1960s
- 3 āSheās Leaving Homeā: The College Novel of the 1970s
- 4 Shopping as Work: The Sex and Shopping Novel of the 1980s
- 5 Keeping the Home Fires Burning: The Aga-saga and the Domestic Romance of the 1990s
- 6 Shopping for Men: The Single Woman Narrative
- 7 Resentful Daughters: The Post-Feminist Novel?
- 8 Having it All? Women, Work and Motherhood
- 9 Shopping for Meaning: The Spiritual Quest
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index