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Feminism & Women's Writing: an Introduction
[Paperback - 2018]
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Sub-category: Literary Criticism
Publisher: Edinburgh University | ISBN: 9781474415606 | Pages: 224
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This book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected thecontentof women's literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on theformof women's literature.

Catherine Riley is a feminist historian and writer, and an expert on contemporary feminist publishing in the UK. She has taught English Literature and Gender Studies at Lancaster and Northumbria Universities and Birkbeck College in London, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the feminist publisher Virago.Catherine has published two books on women's writing and publishing, and has contributed chapters and articles to edited collections on these themes

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