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It's my party reading twentieth-century women's writing edited by Gina Wisker

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London Pluto Press 1994Description: 219 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745306799
Subject(s):
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book School of Social Work Library Open Shelf PR116.I8 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 156033 Available BK142130
Book Book School of Social Work Library Open Shelf PR116.I8 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 151313 Available BK138784

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.

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