Literature and the development of feminist theory /
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New York, NY :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to literature and the development of feminist theory / by Robin Truth Goodman
- "Original spirit": literary translations and translational literature in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft / by Laura Kirkley
- Jane Eyre, incidents in the life of a slave girl, and the varieties of nineteenth-century feminism / by Margaret Homans
- Progressive portraits: literature in feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Olive Schreiner / by Judith A. Allen
- Feminist poetics: first-wave feminism, theory, and modernist women poets / by Linda Kinnahan
- Woolf and women's work: literary invention in an obscure hat factory / by Robin Truth Goodman
- Walking in a man's world: myth, literature, and the interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex / by Ashley King Scheu
- Decapitation impossible: the hundred heads of Julia Kristeva / by Maria Margaroni
- Shattering the gender walls: Monique Wittig's contribution to literature / by Dominique Bourque
- Hélène Cixous: writing for her life / by Peggy Kamuf
- Subversive creatures from behind the iron curtain: Irmtraud Morgner's The life and adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as chronicled by her minstrel Laura / by Sonja E. Klocke
- Christa Wolf: literature as an aesthetics of resistance / by Anna K. Kuhn
- Naked came the female extraterrestrial stranger: applying Linda M. Scott's Fresh lipstick to Sue Lange's The textile planet / by Marleen S. Barr
- Captive maternal love: Octavia Butler and science fiction family values / by Joy James
- More than theatre: Cherríe Moraga's The hungry woman and the feminist phenomenology of excess / by Lakey
- Nawal El Saadawi: writer and revolutionary / by Miriam Cooke
- "The woman who said "no": colonialism, Islam, and feminist resistance in the works of Assia Djebar / by Jane Hiddleston.