TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wisker, Gina
TI  - It's my party: reading twentieth-century women's writing
SN  - 0745306799
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  -  History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Women and Literature
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and critism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -