It's my party reading twentieth-century women's writing
It's my party reading twentieth-century women's writing
edited by Gina Wisker
- London Pluto Press 1994
- 219 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part One Sexuality and representation: 1- Authenticating romantic; 2- It's My Party: American Bestsellers of the 1970s; 3- Jean Rhys: Race, Gender and History; 4- Acts of Defiance: Celebrating Lesbians; 5- Weaving Our Own Web: Demythologising/Remythologising and Magic in the Work of Contemporary Women Writers; 6- From Vases to Tea-sets: Screening Women's Writing; Part Two Gender and genre: 7- Love and marriage in the Works of Winifred Holtby; 8- Croquet and Serial Killers: Feminism and Agatha Christie; 9- Life on the Street: Pat Barker's Realist Fictions; 10- Radical Taoism: Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction
This volume focuses on the writing, reading and reception of "popular" fiction by women in the 20th century. The essays survey the myriad forms of women's fiction - including the work of Dorothy Sayers, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Barbara Cartland, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing and Judy Blume.
0745306799
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Women and literature-- History--Great Britain--20th century
Women and Literature--History--United States--20th century
American literature--Women authors--History and critism
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part One Sexuality and representation: 1- Authenticating romantic; 2- It's My Party: American Bestsellers of the 1970s; 3- Jean Rhys: Race, Gender and History; 4- Acts of Defiance: Celebrating Lesbians; 5- Weaving Our Own Web: Demythologising/Remythologising and Magic in the Work of Contemporary Women Writers; 6- From Vases to Tea-sets: Screening Women's Writing; Part Two Gender and genre: 7- Love and marriage in the Works of Winifred Holtby; 8- Croquet and Serial Killers: Feminism and Agatha Christie; 9- Life on the Street: Pat Barker's Realist Fictions; 10- Radical Taoism: Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction
This volume focuses on the writing, reading and reception of "popular" fiction by women in the 20th century. The essays survey the myriad forms of women's fiction - including the work of Dorothy Sayers, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Barbara Cartland, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing and Judy Blume.
0745306799
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Women and literature-- History--Great Britain--20th century
Women and Literature--History--United States--20th century
American literature--Women authors--History and critism