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Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine
Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French
feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and
contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse.
It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist
literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary
feminism, including "male feminism".
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine
Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French
feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and
contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse.
It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist
literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary
feminism, including "male feminism".
This book follows the figure of 'the clever girl' from the post-war
to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of
contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of
meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining
social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of
'opportunity', 'aspiration' and 'choice' is often experienced as an
anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book
explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional
notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with
women's embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions;
the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational
conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration
of feminism's place as a phantom presence in this history of clever
girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women's
writing and to those interested in what has been one of the
dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to
declining mobility.
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of
British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in
fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's
engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays
in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing
since 1970.
This book follows the figure of 'the clever girl' from the post-war
to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of
contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of
meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining
social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of
'opportunity', 'aspiration' and 'choice' is often experienced as an
anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book
explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional
notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with
women's embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions;
the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational
conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration
of feminism's place as a phantom presence in this history of clever
girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women's
writing and to those interested in what has been one of the
dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to
declining mobility.
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of
British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in
fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's
engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays
in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing
since 1970.
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