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(Re)Writing the Future/Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism(s) in The Power and The Handmaid’s Tale
Adele Jones’s chapter ‘(Re)Writing the Future/Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism(s) in The Power and The Handmaid’s Tale’ offers a timely reading...
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‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves
The Waves reveals much about Woolf’s ongoing dialogue with the visual arts and aesthetics. Although the text is often considered abstract, vague, and...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868)
La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868) by Cecilia Böhl de Faber is a cuadro de costumbres that has received little attention from scholars. Written...
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Marlen Haushofer als SF-Autorin? Science Fiction, String Figures und Speculative Feminism
Das unerklärliche Auftauchen einer durchsichtigen Wand ist, wie man weiß, die Ausgangssituation in Marlen Haushofers Bestseller Die Wand, aber auch...
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Utilizing Cosmic Feminism and Critical Organic Writing to Deconstruct Female Oppression: A Connection with Women in Things Fall Apart
This chapter uses the tools of Cosmic feminism—organic writing, indigenous knowledge, and meditation—to deconstruct oppression and to connect to the...
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Conclusion: Feminism After Poetry
Theinová argues that in its time scope and broad thematic material, Irish women’s poetry of the past fifty years documents the Kristevan concept of...
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‘Growgirls’ and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South
Working at the interstices of food studies, intersectional ecofeminism, and science fiction studies, this chapter maps new directions in feminist...
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“A Mother, a Wife, a Worker and a Wonder-Woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London Narratives
In 1972, Nigerian-born British author Florence “Buchi” Emecheta (1944–2017) published her first book, In the Ditch. It was first serialized in 1971...
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The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and the Politics of Choice
The costume invented by Margaret Atwood to signify women’s oppression in The Handmaid’s Tale has been adopted by a new wave of feminism in the wake...
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Gender Codes in Art and Industry: Beverly Pepper, an American in Postwar Italy
Since the 1960s, a new generation of Italian women developed an increased awareness of their neglected role in society. Many Italian women artists...
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Learning from the 1970s: Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home
This chapter discusses the activism and writings of Italian autonomist feminists of the 1970s, to ask what contemporary feminism can learn from the...
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Fanny Fern’s Significance in the American Comic Tradition
This chapter argues that Parton offers a unique model for antebellum comic writers. Her Fanny Fern persona dramatizes a woman writing satire without...
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Social Darwinism, Feminism, and Performative Identity in Wharton’s “The Last Asset”
This chapter reads Wharton’s story, “The Last Asset,” from the perspectives of literary naturalism and social Darwinism, feminism, and...
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In Defense of Women’s Progress and Freethinking: Amalia Domingo Soler, Eugenia Estopa, and Dolores Navas
In nineteenth-century Spain, hundreds of female freethinkers were actively contributing to the press. Among them, two writers from the southern...
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Boys Don’t Cry? Masculinity and the Politics of Emotion
This chapter analyzes the close, though often neglected, relationship between masculinity and emotion in culture and history and, in doing so, the...
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Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi
Feminist Carla Lonzi’s diary, Taci, anzi parla. Diario di una femminista, includes topics regarding the relationship that feminist women had with the...
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Who is at the helm? Mary Wollstonecraft’s contribution to the romantic construct of the imagination
In my essay I pursue the line of inquiry which has recently been proposed by scholars who have reconstructed the historical context of...
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Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema
Time Travel in World Literature and Cinemadiscusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter...
