Feminist Literature & Theory Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Making a Difference

   Edited by Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. New Woman Hybridities

   Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930

   Edited by MARGARET BEETHAM, Ann Heilmann

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

   Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

   By Sam Lopez

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

   By Kenneth Cervelli

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature

   Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities

   By Alma Rosa Alvarez

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf

   By Joanne Tidwell

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings

   Disturbing Differences

   Edited by Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen

   Series: Transformations

   Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Aesthetic Hysteria

   The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

   By Ankhi Mukherjee

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine,...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

   A Study of Contemporary Fiction

   By Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Girl Reading Girl in Japan

    Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social...

    Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge