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Women's Literary Creativity and the Female Body
This collection attempts to place in convergence a few central questions: how has woman's experience of her body shaped her creativity? How do women exist in cultural contexts and, more importantly, how do they respond to cultural traditions that impose their conventions and contexts on women's identities? Does the experience of being a woman, or more specifically of giving birth, alter the ideological messages? How do woen's literary works respond to the variety of different ideologies imposed upon them? How are the literary genres they use shaped by women's responses to their cultural positions? Large questions, perhaps ultimately unanswerable, but these are the topics around which this volume revolves in its explorations of British, American, Spanish, and Canadian women artists as well as through the various genres in which they have written.
Edited by: Diane Long Hoeveler & Donna Decker Schuster
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The A to Z of Feminism
Over 150 entries of the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Feminism (2004) have been updated, corrected, or revised for The A to Z of Feminism. Furthermore, several new entries and additional cross-references have also been added, and the chronology of feminism now extends through 2005.
This paperback edition has a short bibliography of classic and contemporary materials for use by students and the general public. The dictionary, which contains several hundred cross-referenced entries on persons, organizations, key terms, canonical publications, public policies, and campaigns, addresses feminism as both a social movement and a political theory in all nations and periods.
Written by: Janet K. Boles & Diane Long Hoeveler |
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Historical Dictionary of Feminism: Second Edition
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Historical Dictionary of Feminism: Second Edition is an essential resource for librarians, scholars, and students, with more than 1,000 entries covering significant people, organizations, campaigns, court cases, goals, achievements, and current and future directions of the feminist movement. Seventy-five percent of the entries are new or revised from the first edition, and the introduction, which provides an overview of the history and development of feminism as a movement and philosophy, is more internationally focused. This new edition also has an expanded chronology and updated bibliography that brings attention to many online resources and emphasizes global and third-wave feminism – both new developments since the publication of the first edition.
Written by: Janet K. Boles & Diane Long Hoeveler |
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Women of Color: Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices
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Beginning in the late 1960s, women's studies scholars worked to introduce courses on the history, literature, and philosophies of women. While these initial efforts were rather general, women's studies programs have started to give increasing amounts of attention to the special concerns of women of color. The topic itself is politically charged, and there is growing awareness that the issues facing women of color are diverse and complex. Expert contributors offer chapters on the major concerns facing women of color in the modern world, particularly in the United States and Latin America.
Each chapter treats one or more groups of women who have been underrepresented in women's studies scholarship or have had their experiences misinterpreted, including African Americans, Latina Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Women of Color includes chapters on theories related to race, gender, and identity. One section provides discussions of literature by women of color, including works by such authors as Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Edited by: Diane Long Hoeveler & Janet K. Boles |
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