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

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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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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Women’s Roles and Influence in Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The War against the Feminine: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Doctor She! Helena and Sisterhood in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (ca. 1602–1603)

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Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)

Young Lady or slut: Identity and Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1983)

Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.E.)

Work Cited

Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin’s the Awakening (1899)

For Further Reading

Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees (1988)

William Faulkner’s Male Myth: the Bear (1942)

More Than Skin Deep: Robin Mckinley’s Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique (1963)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987): Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding

Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945, 1991) and Black Women

Works Cited

Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s the Bluest Eye (1970)

Founding Women’s History: Christine de Pizan Writes the Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Works Cited

A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932)

An Immigrant Girl’s Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

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As My Mother’s Daughter: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta’s the Bride Price (1976)

The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London’s the Call of the Wild (1904)

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388–1400)

Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Eye (1951)

Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple (1982)

The Women in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

Witch-Hunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Arthur Miller’s the Crucible (1953)

A Nice Girl Ought to Know! Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878)

Redefining Female Absence in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)

Black and White Womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, Rebels (1986)

Work Cited

Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self—the Female Adolescent Voice (1952)

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The Slammed Door That Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (1879)

Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911)

Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s a Farewell to Arms (1929)

The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress’ Florence (1950)

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Daring Creation: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, Revised 1831)

Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie (1945)

What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)

Works Cited

Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S.Buck’s the Good Earth (1931)

No Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861)

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Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby (1925)

Reading between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600)

Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Work Cited

When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

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Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros’ the House on Mango Street (1984)

Living in a Borderland: Cultural Expectations of Gender in Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Good Mother, Bad Mother in Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

Bobbie Ann Mason’s in Country (1985): a Girl’s Quest for Her Father and Herself

The Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)

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Be True to Yourself: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Thinking Different in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club (1989)

Gender Bending: Ursula le Guin’s the Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

What a Teacher Learns: Ernest J.Games’ a Lesson before Dying (1993)

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The Foreignness of Femininity in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)

Boys’ Club—no Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)

Unnatural: Women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (ca. 1606)

Emma Rouault Bovary: Gendered Reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

(Re)surfacing Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

Critiquing “the We of Me”: Gender Roles in Carson Mccullers’ the Member of the Wedding (1946)

Works Cited

Beauty and Gender in Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)

Where No Role Fits: Maggie’s Predicament in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss (1860)

For Further Reading

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Epic Tale of Male Destruction (1851)

For Further Reading

Images of Possibility: Gender Identity in Willa Cather’s My Àntonia (1918)

Work Cited

The Good Woman: Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)

Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)

Homer’s Odyssey: “the Iliad’s Wife” (ca. 700 B.C.E.)

Jocasta and Her Daughters: Women in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (ca. 430 B.C.E.)

Women Stripped of Humanity: John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men (1937)

Role Traps in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Under the Burden of Yellow Peril: Race, Class, and Gender in Yoshiko Uchida’s Picture Bride (1987)

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Woman and Art in James Joyce’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Stereotypes of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Undue Influence in Muriel Spark’s the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Exploring the Gender Puzzle of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912)

Work Cited

Seasoned with Quiet Strength: Black Womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Heroism against the Odds: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1599)

Molly Bolts and Lifelines: Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle (1973)

A as Hester’s Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter (1850)

Female Freedom in Other Places and Inner Spaces: Suzanne Fisher Staples’ Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989)

For Further Reading

Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

Empowerment through Writing in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)

Wearing “her Favour in the Battle”: the “go-Between” in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913)

Riding Tennessee Williams’ a Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Agent or Victim: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles (1891)

An African-American Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Fragmenting Culture, Fragmenting Lives: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959)

Just a Lady: Gender and Power in Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916)

For Further Reading

For Such as We Are Made Of, Such We Be: the Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will (first Performed 1602)

Work Cited

The Power of Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

A Chinese-American Woman Warrior Comes of Age: Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Procrustean Bed: Gender Roles in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)

Negotiating Tight Spaces: Women in Michael Dorris’ a Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988)

Index of Literary Works by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View
by Bettina L. Knapp. 249 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Federico García Lorca's Yerma: A Woman's Mystery

2: Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the Heart: The Teenage Archetype

3: Isak Dinesen's Peter and Rosa": An Alchemical Transfiguration from Fixatio to Solutio"

4: Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays: The Introverted Cocotte and the Insect

5: Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge": Sacrifice, a Castration"

6: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: Mother/Daughter Identification and Alienation

7: Nathalie Sarraute's Between Life and Death: Androgyny and the Creative Process

8: Pa Chin's Family: The Patriarchate Dismembered

9: Fumiko Enchi's Masks: A Sacred Mystery

10: Ani.Ta Desai's Fire on the Mountain: A Rite of Exit

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture
by Helena Michie. 216 pgs.

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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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INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: "There Is No Friend Like a Sister": Sisterhood as Sexual Difference

Inter-Chapter 1: "That Stormy Sisterhood": Portrait of the Brontiës

Chapter 2: "Another Woman in Your Shape": Sexual and Class Duplicity in Sensation Fiction

Inter-Chapter 2: "Mama He's Crazy": The Judds

Chapter 3: Writing Lesbian Difference

Inter-Chapter 3: Eliminating the Other Woman: The Excremental Fatal Attraction

Chapter 4: "And Now She Was Different": Sexuality and Differentiation Among Black Women In Quicksand, Passing, and Sula

Inter-Chapter 4: Between Two Carmens: Olympic Ice-Skating and the Choreography of Othernesse

Chapters 5: The Colleague and the Washerwoman: The Other Woman in Feminist Theory

Inter-Chapter 5: Elizabeth and Helena

NOTES

CREDITS

INDEX
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The Heroine in Western Literature: The Archetype and Her Reemergence in Modern Prose
by Meredith A. Powers. 234 pgs.

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Part One the Prehistoric Goddess

Introduction: in Search of the Heroine

Chapter I Motherhood in Prehistory: Attachment Patterns and the Origin of Religion

Chapter II the Nature of the Goddess: Ominous, Transformative, Nurturing; Three Persons in One Goddess

Part Two Revision of the Archetype

Chapter III Fiction as Process and the Deprecation of the Goddess:: Atalanta, Cassandra, and Ariadne

Chapter IV Self-Deprecation and Ostracism in Homer

Chapter V the Reconstructed Divinity: Danae, Athena, and Pandora

Chapter VI the Feminine Principle in Classical Athens: Cultural Imprimatur of Second Stratum Archetypes

Chapter VII Euripides

Part Three Reemergence of the Lost Archetype

Chapter VIII Merging Traditions of Goddess Deprecation: the Heroism of Eve

Chapter IX Rediscovering the Goddess

Chapter X the Chthonic Aspect as a Source of Strength in Twentieth- Century American Heroines

Chapter XI Chthonic Renewal: Irrational Modes in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the Good Mother, and the Color Purple

Chapter XII the Chthonic as Metaphor: Manifestations in Beloved, Seachange; Revision in the Witches of Eastwick

Afterthought

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature
by Margaret Hallissy. 176 pgs.

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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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Preface: Secret Weapon

1: Introduction: Archetypes and Stereotypes

2: Mother Eve and Other Death-Dealers

3: Venefica: Healer and Witch

4: Woman and the Serpent

5: Conclusion: Beatrice Rappaccini

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism
by Ann L. Ardis. 217 pgs.

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New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Attending to Marginality: the New Woman, the New Woman Novel, and the History of Modernism

1: Preliminaries: Naming the New Woman

2: The Controversy Over Realism in Fiction, 1885-1895

3: The Romance Plot: New Women, New Plausibilities

4: Erotomania

5: Crossing the Line: Figuring Revolutions

6: Retreats

7: Turning the Century, Writing New Histories

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women
by Thelma J. Shinn. 222 pgs.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

NOTES

1 Stumbling Over Stereotypes: Fiction of the 40's

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2 A Strategic Retreat: Fiction Of The 50's

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3 Growing, Growing, Grown: Fiction of the 60's

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4 Afterword on the 70's and 80's

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Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference
by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 188 pgs.

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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (women's) Writing

2: (re)constructing Identity and Subjectivity: Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga

3: Sexuality in Cameroonian Women Writers: Delphine Zanga Tsogo, Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking

4: Women Redefining Difference: Mariama Bâ, Miriam Tiali, and Bessie Head

Conclusion: African Women's Writing as a Weapon

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature
by Janice Lee Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp. 268 pgs.

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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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Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 A Birthing of Self

1 Psychic Rage and Response The Enslaved and the Enslaver In Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

2 Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation The Climacteric as Seen in Novels By Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall

3 A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo

4 Coming Home to Herself Autonomy and Self-Conversion In Flora Nwapa's One is Enough

Part 2 Relationships: Mothering, Marrying, Mistressing, and Women to Women Disengaging the Family Romance

5 When Difference is Not the Dilemma The Black Woman Couple In African American Women's Fiction

6 "Devouring Gods" And "Sacrificial Animals" The Male-Female Relationship In Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a Love Story

7 Snapshots of Childhood Life In Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

8 Fire and Ice The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love In When Rocks Dance by Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

Part 3 War on All Fronts Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality

9 Agents of Pain and Redemption In Sapphire's Push

10 Romantic Love and the Individual In Novels by Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head

11 The Politics of Exile Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

12 Sense Make Befoh Book" Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution In Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of Forgetting

Part 4 Invention and Convention Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions

13 Meditations on Her/Story Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem And the Slave Narrative Tradition

14 Guyana's Historical Sociology and The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols

15 Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism

16 "A Girl Marries a Monkey" The Folktale as an Expression of Value And Change in Society

17 Revolutionary Brilliance The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic

Contributors

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In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature
by Susan J. Tracy. 310 pgs.

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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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: The Antebellum South And the Production Of Southern Literature

2. the Production of Southern Literature

3. the Form of Southern Literature

4. the Genesis of the "Plantation Novel"

II: Representations Of Women

6: Unmarried Women: the "Belle," Passive Sufferer Versus Spirited Woman

7: Unmarried Women: the "Spinster" And the "Fallen Woman"

8 Married Women: Mothers

9. Widows

III: Representations Of Blacks

11. the Master-Slave Relationship: Individual Portraits of Slaves

13. Representations of Poor Whites

14. the Problem of the Yeoman Farmer

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self- Perceptions (Part Four "The Image of Women in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature")
by Rosalind Marsh. 300 pgs.

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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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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON THE TEXT

INTRODUCTION

Part One: Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 2: READING THE TEXTS -- REREADING OURSELVES

Part Two: WOMEN AND RUSSIAN CULTURE: FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE REVOLUTION

Chapter 4: MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOMESTIC IDEOLOGY IN RUSSIA

Chapter 5: CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY ON THE WORK OF RUSSIAN WOMEN WRITERS

Chapter 6: ACTRESSES, AUDIENCE AND FASHION IN THE SILVER AGE: A CRISIS OF COSTUME

Part Three: WOMEN WRITERS FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT

Chapter 8: UNDER AN UNWOMANLY STAR: WAR IN THE WRITING OF OL'GA BERGGOL'TS

Chapter 9: A DIFFICULT JOURNEY: EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND WOMEN'S WRITING OF CAMP MEMOIRS

Chapter 10: WOMEN MEMOIRISTS ON PASTERNAK

Chapter 11: IULIIA VOZNESENSKAIA: A FRAGMENTARY VISION

Chapter 12: THE OTHER WOMAN: CHARACTER PORTRAYAL AND THE NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF LIUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAIA

Chapter 13: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN POETS IN THE METROPOLIS AND DIASPORA

Part Four: THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Chapter 15: THE ROMANTIC PRESENTATION OF THE HEROINE IN SELECTED WORKS OF ALEKSANDR GRIN

Chapter 16: IS VILLAGE PROSE MISOGYNISTIC?

Chapter 17: REAL AND UNREAL WOMEN IN THE WORKS OF CHINGIZ AITMATOV

Chapter 18: THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN THE PROSE OF SERGEI DOVLATOV

Chapter 19: IN THE SHADOW OF A PROMINENT PARTNER: EDUCATED WOMEN IN LITERATURE ON THE SHESTIDESIATNIKI

Chapter 20: RUSSIAN WOMEN IN ANATOLY KURCHATKIN

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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Eve's Orphans: Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature
by Nikki Stiller. 158 pgs.

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Contributions in Women's Studies

Acknowledgments

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Preface

The Great Unwritten Story

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Life with Father: the Iron Dowry

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Natural Mothers: the Powerless Mirror

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The Fantasy of Power: Old Hags and Ancient Crones

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Fostermother: Women Mothering Women

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Eve's Orphans

Notes

Bibliographical Notes

Index

About the Author
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Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Martha A. Kurtz. 21 pgs.

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