1st Edition

Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals) European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century

By Helena Forsas-Scott Copyright 1991
354 Pages
by Routledge

354 Pages
by Routledge

354 Pages
by Routledge

Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts. The contributors emphasize the wider... Read more

Notes on contributors;  Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction  2. Landscape for a literary feminism: British women writers 1900 to the present  3. Egalitarianism and feminine consciousness: feminist writing in Scandinavia  4. The limits of patriarchy: German feminist writers  5. Feminist writing in Eastern Europe: the problem solved?  6. The birth, death, and rebirth of feminist writing in Russia  7. Aux armes, citoyennes!  8. Feminist writers in Spain since 1900: from political strategy to personal enquiry  9. Women’s viewpoint: expectations and experience in twentieth-century Italy  10. Unmuffled voices in the shade and beyond: women’s writing in Turkish;  Index

Biography

Helena Forsas-Scott