Encyclopedia of feminist literature
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Encyclopedia of feminist literature
Greenwood Press, 2004
Available at 17 libraries
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many women writers have secured a solid place in the literary canon, while others have remained marginalized. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 70 women writers whose works are widely read in English, and on some 20 related topics. While some of the writers profiled are widely known, others have not yet received as much attention. And while most of the writers are from England and America, the volume also profiles Chilean, Brazilian, Indian, South African, Australian, French, and German authors. The writers selected are feminist, in that their works have challenged traditional gender roles, explored female oppression, or critiqued patriarchal social structures. In addition to providing biographical information, the entries include interpretative summaries of major works.
Each author entry includes biographical information, an extensive summary treatment of at least one of her works, an list of her other major works, cross-references to related entries, and a list of works for further reading. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the many other volumes addressing feminist literature or literature by women is the interpretative summary in each entry. The volume closes with a list of works cited. Entries are clearly written and are accessible to high school students and undergraduates.
Table of Contents
- Abolition
- Allende, Isabel
- Allison, Dorothy
- Androgyny
- Amazon
- Angelou, Maya
- Arnow, Harriette
- Atwood, Margaret
- Austen, Jane
- Austin, Mary
- Autobiography
- Barnes, Djuna
- Behn, Aphra
- Blixen, Karen
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Bronte, Emily
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Burdekin, Katharine Castillo, Ana
- Chopin, Kate
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz
- Community
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- de Pizan, Christine Dinesen, Isak
- Domesticity Erdrich, Louise Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Fern, Fanny
- Foster, Hannah Webster
- Friendship Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gothic Hall, Radclyffe
- Hooks, Bell
- Hulme, Keri
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hysteria Iron, Ralph Jacobs, Harriet Ann
- Jones, Gayl Kelley, Edith Summers
- Kingston, Maxine Hong Lim, Shirley
- Geok-Lin
- Lispector, Clarice
- Lorde, Audre Markham, Beryl
- Marriage
- Marshall, Paule
- McCullers, Carson
- Morrison, Toni
- Motherhood
- Mukherjee, Bharati Naylor, Gloria
- "New Woman"
- Nightingale, Florence
- Novel Olsen, Tillie Petry, Ann
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Piercy, Marge
- Pseudonyms Regionalism
- Rich, Adrienne
- Rowson, Susanna Schreiner, Olive
- Sedgwick, Catherine Marie
- Sentimentalism
- Sexuality
- Shange, Ntozake
- Silence and Voice
- Shelley, Mary
- Spirituality
- Stefan Verena
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Suffrage Tan, Amy
- True Woman Walker, Alice
- Walker, Margaret
- Wittig, Monique
- Wharton, Edith
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Wolf, Christa
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- The Woman Question
- Woolf, Virginia Yamamoto, Hisaye
- Yezierska, Anzia
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