Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing : a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jansen, Sharon L., 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading Nafisi at the YMCA
  • I have a dream: Christine de Pizan's The book of the city of ladies and Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own
  • We need to talk: conversation in Moderata Fonte's The worth of women and Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries
  • Design for living: women's communities in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and Mary Astell's A serious proposal to the ladies
  • Paradise lost: men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Doris Lessing's The cleft
  • Hell hath no fury: rage in Arcangela Tarabotti's paternal tyranny and Valerie Solanas's Scum manifesto
  • Madwomen in the attic: madness and suicide in Perkins Gilman's The yellow wallpaper and Doris Lessing's To room nineteen
  • Brave new worlds: sexual slavery in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale and Slavenka Drakuli's S. A novel about the Balkans
  • Still crazy after all these years: Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran.