Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900-90

by Jennifer Birkett (Editor), Elizabeth Harvey (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this collection look at some of the images and categories which have shaped Western women's sense of themselves in the twentieth century. The approach of the collection is interdisciplinary, bringing together the perspectives of literary criticism, social history and linguistics. Its focus is international, with contributions on Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Canada. The collection shows both the similarity and the diversity of women's experience in a world determined by patriarchal assumptions, where women's only hope of change lies in developing a determination of their own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333448397
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/23/1991
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1991
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgement - Introduction; J.Birkett & E.Harvey - Private Fantasy and PubliIntervention: Girls' Reading in Weimar Germany; E.Harvey - Doubly Determined: The Ambition of Storm Jameson; J.Birkett - The Negative of a Person: Media, Image and Authenticity in the Work of Sylvia Plath; S.Smith - A Question of Inheritance: Canadian Women's Short Stories; C.A.Howells - Whistling Like a Woman: Alice Walker; J.Birkett - Beyond Paper Heroines: Maxie Wander's Guten Morgen, du Sch na and its reception in the GDR; P.Harbord - Sexism in French: A Case Study; R.Adamson - The Castration of Cassandra; H.Geyer-Ryan

Editorial Reviews

"The consistent insistence on class issues is notable and laudable."
— Angelika Bammer

Choice

...contains articles on German, French, Canadian, and American women writers....for libraries with extensive women's studies collections.

Choice Reviews

The consistent insistence on class issues is notable and laudable.

Choice Reviews - Angelika Bammer

...contains articles on German, French, Canadian, and American women writers....for libraries with extensive women's studies collections.

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