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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Women in Literature

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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender » Read Now
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.
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Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View » Read Now
by Bettina L. Knapp. 249 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View WOMEN IN TWENTIETH- CENTURY LITERATURE: A Jungian View BETTINA L. KNAPP...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Women...
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Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture » Read Now
by Helena Michie. 216 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country...
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This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterhood to a more nuanced notion of women's relations with other women which may include such uncomfortable concepts as envy, jealousy, and competition as well as more institutionalized ideas of difference such as race and class. Chapters on literature are interspersed by "inter-chapters" on the choreography of sameness and difference among women in popular culture.
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The Heroine in Western Literature: The Archetype and Her Reemergence in Modern Prose » Read Now
by Meredith A. Powers. 234 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature » Read Now
by Margaret Hallissy. 176 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Preface: Secret Weapon Introduction: Archetypes and Stereotypes Mother Eve and Other Death-Dealers Venefica: Healer and Witch Woman and the Serpent Conclusion: Beatrice Rappaccini
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New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism » Read Now
by Ann L. Ardis. 217 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 222 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference » Read Now
by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 188 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature » Read Now
by Janice Lee Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp. 268 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.
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In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature » Read Now
by Susan J. Tracy. 310 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book explores the way in which literature can be used to reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served to justify and perpetuate the oppression of...
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This book explores the way in which literature can be used to reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served to justify and perpetuate the oppression of women, blacks, and poor whites. Tracy focuses on the historical romances of six authors: George Tucker, James Ewell Heath, William Alexander Caruthers, John Pendleton Kennedy, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and William Gilmore Simms. Using variations on a recurring plot - in which a young planter/hero rescues a planter's daughter from an "enemy" of her class - each of these novelists reinforced an idealized vision of a Southern civilization based on male superiority, white supremacy, and class inequality. It is a world in which white men are represented as the natural leaders of loyal and dependent women, grateful and docile slaves, and inferior poor whites. According to Tracy, the interweaving of these themes reveals the extent to which the Southern defense of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War was an argument not only about race relations but about gender and class relations as well.
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Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self- Perceptions (Part Four "The Image of Women in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature") » Read Now
by Rosalind Marsh. 300 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This collection of essays by leading western and Russian specialists contains new insights and updates previous research into the role of women in Russian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Eve's Orphans: Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature » Read Now
by Nikki Stiller. 158 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Martha A. Kurtz. 21 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...critics of authority. See Natalie Z. Davis, "Women on Top," Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford: Stanford Univ...histories (pp. 234-5). Martha A. Kurtz...