Feminism as a social movement has its roots in the nineteenth century, starting with evangelical feminism, still conservative in its attitude to women, up to modern day feminism, including its more radical forms. Critically assess: the relative merits of liberal, socialist and radical feminism unspo...
multiciplicity of feminisms, genres, and identities shaping and inscribed in US literature in second half of twentieth centuryearly participation in Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women ‐ affiliation with MLA's Radical Caucus...
This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened...
Monique Wittig was a French avant-garde novelist and radical feminist whose works include unconventional narratives about utopian nonhierarchical worlds, often devoid of men. Wittig attended the Sorbonne and immigrated to the United States in 1976. Her f
My Feminist Joy Lies In My Unwillingness To Give In To The Dominant Biradari Culture ByNashra Rehman Reading, Exchanging And Discussing Books: My Feminist Joy ByFaga Jaypal Rambhai Being Feminist column ‘Tinkering From Within’: Being Feminists Of An English Literature Classroom ...
ELIZABETH JACKSON is a Sessional Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teaches courses on Victorian, colonial and postcolonial literatures. She has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2007. ...
Within sociology there has been a growing literature on the position of women in society and the development of a specifically feminist research methodology (Stanley and Wise, 1983). Whilst there is no single ideological position uniting all feminists, most would accept that the subordination of ...
These strands include her claim that ostensibly misogynistic texts can nonetheless give voice to female perspectives (Part 1: 'Debating Gender'); her claim that clothes comprise complex symbolic systems in medieval literature and culture (Part 2: 'Sartorial Bodies'); her examination of silk, as ...
In the same way Victorian literature reflects certain themes such as character and fate, hubris, social mobility, and gender roles in society, Modern literature exemplifies the same ideas. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse not only revolves around the typical gender roles women played at the tim...
The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy Cott Read 4 Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States by Premilla Nadasen Read 5 Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement by Linda Gordon & Rosalyn Baxandall ...