1st Edition
Homemaking Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home
First published in 1996. The present volume, Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home, enters the critical discourse on gender by way of two of its most pressing issues: the politics of women’s locations at the end of the twentieth century, and the division of experience into public and private. That the emergence of systematic feminist thought in the west coincided with the invention of "private life" should not surprise us. Feminist thinkers from Mary Wollstonecroft on were quick to realize that the designation of the public and the private, male and female, was key to the subordination of women.
1 Perhaps the World Ends Here 2 Homeric Resonances: Longing and Belonging in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams 3 Writing Home: The Bible and Gloria Naylor’s Baileys Café 4 Beyond Silence 5 My Self, My Body, My World: Homemaking in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer 6 Home-Breaking and Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Jolley 7 Ironing Their Clothes 8 The Dream Detectives 9 Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry and the Surveillance Society 19 Jewish Women in the Diaspora 20 Home 21 Untitled Letter 22 Yes, Something Did Happen in My Childhood 23 Imagined Communities in the Novels of Michelle Cliff 24 Refusing the Poisoned Chalice: The Sexual Politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan 25 Zehra £irak: Foreign Wings on Familiar Shoulders 26 Helena Maria Viramontes’ Homing Devices in Under the Feet of Jesus 27 How We Did It, from Scenes from a Childhood
Biography
Catherine Wiley (Author) , Fiona R. Barnes (Author) , Fiona Barnes (Edited by)
