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The “Persistent Rebels” of Maternal Modernism
Asking “What Does Motherhood Mean?” in a 1928 article for the Manchester Guardian, British author Vera Brittain observes, “Motherhood of late years...
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New Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Italy’s Modern Intellectual History
This introductory chapter offers new tools for reconsidering women’s roles in Italy’s modern intellectual history from 1861 to today. Setting out the...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter unpacks for the reader several key concepts and contexts of queer and theatre studies along with French philosopher Didier...
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Trauma on Display: Women’s Wilderness Writing and Animal Ciphers in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979)
This chapter brings together two of Margaret Atwood’s novels, Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979) to demonstrate that it is possible to pull...
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“The ‘Momentousness’ of Motherhood”: Maternal Discourses and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review
“As we are now living in a period which tends by general consent to apotheosise the ‘mother,’ it is necessary to say that, while we believe...
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Poststructuralism and the “Death” of the White Male
This chapter focuses on the effects of poststructuralist thinking on the analysis of white heterosexual masculinity. In questioning fixed racialized...
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Reading the Reception History of Charlotte Yonge
Charlotte M. Yonge’s reception history is a revealing test case for the history of feminist scholarship. Yonge was one of the most popular, prolific,...
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Introducing Bodies
This section begins with an introduction composed by Roberta Magnani, in response to—and in dialogue with—chapters by Meagan Khoury, Sophie Sexon,...
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Mothers in New Woman Fiction: Map** “the Terra Incognita of Herself”
In New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism, Ann Ardis documents that from 1883 to 1900, more than one hundred novels by both female and...
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Point of view in Alice Munro's “Runaway”: A cognitive study
This study concerns itself with Joanna Gavins's text world theory (Gavins, Text world theory: An introduction, Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and...
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Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century
“The New Woman was born in the Eighteen Nineties, and she is the mother and grandmother of us all.”1 So Margaret Drabble declares in her 1991...
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Secret Tapes and Their Intra- and Extratextual Circulation Routes. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
This essay examines Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and its sequel The Testaments (2019) with regard to intra- and...
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Marcella Campagnano and the Invention of Femininity
In 1974, Marcella Campagnano decided to leave the field of painting and begin working on a photographic series. She asked her husband to take their...
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The Posthuman Problematic: Gender Coding the Cyborg
This chapter briefly explores the interconnectedness of Neuromancer, postmodernism, and critical posthumanism. I’ll then turn to Molly Millions as a...
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Locating “Selfhood” in Dalit Autobiographies
The caste system had an all-pervasive effect on the self-perception of Dalits and how others viewed them, till very late upper castes constructed and...
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New Wine in Old Bottles: Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter described her work-in-progress, Nights at the Circus, as “a bit like psychedelic Dickens.” Set in 1899, an attempt to uncover the scam...
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Publishing Natalia Ginzburg in the Anglophone World
Natalia Ginzburg is one of the most acclaimed twentieth-century Italian novelists. After the publication of her masterpiece, Family Lexicon (Lessico...
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Posthumanist Perturbations
In this chapter I take up with some of the difficult considerations of feminist posthumanist work regarding the nature of identity to ask what...
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Posthumanist Perturbations
In this chapter I take up with some of the difficult considerations of feminist posthumanist work regarding the nature of identity to ask what...