Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing

A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11066-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women:  the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men.  These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansen, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Reading Nafisi at the YMCA * I Have a Dream:  Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own * Let's Talk:  Conversation in Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women and Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries *  Design for Living:  Women's Communities in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure and Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies * Trouble in Paradise:  Men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Doris Lessing's The Cleft * Buried Alive:  Arcangela Tarabotti's Paternal Tyranny and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" * Brave New Worlds:  Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale and Slavenka Drakulic's S.  A Novel about the Balkans * Still Crazy after All These Years:  Doris Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Jansen is the author of Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter, The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe, and Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII.