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Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449210826
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--T.p. verso.
Author : Magali Cornier Michael
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430163
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse written by Magali Cornier Michael and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction.
Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Author : Erin McKenna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742513198
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Task of Utopia written by Erin McKenna and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of a static perfect world. In this book, Erin McKenna argues that utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of utopia.
Author : Alice Elaine Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481611
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Reproducing the Womb written by Alice Elaine Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice E. Adams crafts a subtle new response to the controversies surrounding reproductive freedom and the implications of medical technology. She explores a spectrum of competing visions of childbearing, from misogynistic nightmares of matriarchal control to feminist utopias. Firmly rooted in political reality, Adams offers innovative answers to the questions posed by the intimate interconnections, and the perceived conflicts, between fetus and mother, individual and collective.
Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307756394
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Linda A. M. Perry
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791410097
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender written by Linda A. M. Perry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted analysis of gender.
Author : Martin Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848130619
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Alternatives written by Martin Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.
Author : Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813917153
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Subject to Negotiation written by Elaine Neil Orr and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the "subversive" model of feminist criticism and argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities, presenting an empirical method for a negotiating feminist criticism and demonstrating the model with analysis of the writing of five American women authors: Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and Marge Piercy. For scholars of feminist literary theory and 20th-century American literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520205789
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Mother Without Child written by Elaine Tuttle Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a conceptually innovative book which expands the meaning of motherhood to include mothers 'without child'; it is also a compassionate political book which refuses the boundary between 'good enough' and 'bad' mothers. Mother Without Child is an engaging, witty, and provocative literary study which should fascinate anyone who is interested in mothering or in looking for new ways to talk about motherhood without erasing some women's experience or dividing mothers from each other."--Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace "Hansen positions her study in a genuinely new space . . . taboo ground, which demands not only a great deal of courage to address, but also enormous intelligence and insight. Hansen is up to this task. . . hers is a pioneer study that will have a significant impact on the ways that non-procreative motherhood is discussed and understood." --Madelon Sprengnether, author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis "Since the beginnings of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, feminist scholars have been obsessed with motherhood. Mother Without Child takes us to the next stage in this fascinated and fascinating exploration. Through illuminating readings of contemporary stories of thwarted motherhood, Hansen challenges the persistent and constraining definitions of the good and even the good-enough mother. She enjoins us to listen to the moving, devastating, and often inspiring stories of mothers who survive the loss of their children and she urges us to find there not the angry voices of feminist daughters who cannot forgive their patriarchal mothers, but alternative stories of a different maternity that can lead us to alternative plots and visions of women's lives. We need this book."--Marianne Hirsch, author of The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism "A careful, committed, and freshly clarifying voice. Hansen's graceful prose and finely interwoven explorations are much needed at this time. Through readings of contemporary fiction, she enriches our vocabulary for discussing the overdetermined topic of motherhood and deepens our understanding of both its psychological and contemporary political dimensions. Mother Without Child is a book for historians and social scientists as well as literary scholars."--Laura Doyle, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture
Author : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Women's Writing written by Maroula Joannou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.
Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209832
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book To Write Like a Woman written by Joanna Russ and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." —Passion "Russ' essays are witty and insightful. An excellent book for any writer or reader." —Feminist Bookstore News "In her new book of essays . . . Russ continues to debunk and demand, edify and entertain. . . . Appreciative of surface aesthetics, she continually delves deeper than most critics, yet in terms so simple and accessible that her essays read like lively, angry, humorous dialogues conducted face-to-face with the author. Russ is the antithesis of the distant critic in her ivory tower." —Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post Book World " . . . 20 years of the author's feisty reports from the front lines of literature." —The San Francisco Review of Books "This is a book of imaginative and provoking essays, but you should read it for the sheer fun of it." —The Women's Review of Books "Collects more than two decades of criticism by Joanna Russ, one of the most perceptive, forthright and eloquent feminist commentators around." —Feminist Bookstore News " . . . a super book. . . .This is a book that, for once, really will appeal to readers of all kinds." —Utopian Studies "If you enjoy science fiction, this is definitely a book that you'll want to talk about. I found myself sneaking a few pages at times when I really didn't have time to read." —Jan Catano, Atlantis Classic essays on science fiction and feminism by Nebula and Hugo award-winning Joanna Russ. Here she ranges from a consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of the lesbian identity of Willa Cather. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural, feminist utopias, popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"), and the feminist education of graduate students in English.
Author : Lisa Maria Hogeland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512804150
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Feminism and Its Fictions written by Lisa Maria Hogeland and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work "consciousness raising." Women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness-raising. Lisa Maria Hogeland contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually engaged in consciousness-raising with their readers. Using a broad range of fiction—including works by Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Alix Kates Shulman, Alison Lurie, Joanna Russ, and Joan Didion—Hogeland explores the ways in which consciousness-raising novels addressed some of the most important questions raised by second-wave feminism.
Author : Greta Claire Gaard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067082
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Ecofeminist Literary Criticism written by Greta Claire Gaard and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.
Author : Mary Elene Wood
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063893
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)
Download or read book The Writing on the Wall written by Mary Elene Wood and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781844670338
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Archaeologies of the Future written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016575
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
