Feminist Literature & Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

   By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

   Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

   By Judith Lowder Newton

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. New Woman Hybridities

   Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930

   Edited by MARGARET BEETHAM, Ann Heilmann

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

   Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

   By Sam Lopez

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

   By Kenneth Cervelli

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Where No Man has Gone Before

   Essays on Women and Science Fiction

   Edited by Lucie Armitt

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. New Feminist Discourses

   Critical Essays on Theories and Texts

   Edited by Isobel Armstrong

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Women Writing and Writing about Women

   Edited by Mary Jacobus

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems of...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Rewriting the Victorians

    Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

    Edited by Linda M. Shires

    Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

    This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology,...

    Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge