Twentieth-century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory Into Practice

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This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

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  • Year: 2,000

  • Pages: 218

  • Pages In File: 244

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 102

  • Identifier: 0333683455,9780333683453

  • Paginated: 1

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  • Toc: Contents Introduction First-Wave Feminism Liberal Feminism Marxist Feminism Psychoanalytic Feminism Poststructuralist Feminism Postmodernism and Feminism Lesbian Feminism and Queer Theory Black Feminism and Post-Colonial Theory Concludin Note Notes Bibliography Index