Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing [electronic resource] : a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own / Sharon L. Jansen.
Jansen, Sharon L., 1951-
2011
PN471 .J36 2011eb
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Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing [electronic resource] : a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own / Sharon L. Jansen.
Author
Jansen, Sharon L., 1951-
ISBN
9780230118812 (electronic bk.)
9780230110663
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
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1 online resource (x, 243 p.) : ill.
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PN471 .J36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.933522
Summary
Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing 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 even, or may be more ambitious, such as the dream of an entire country created for and inhabited exclusively by women. Sharon L. Jansen places these texts in conversation with one another, pairing them in ways that reveal the writers' distinctive voices even while they speak of the dream they share.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
We need to 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
Paradise lost: men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Doris Lessing's The cleft
Hell hath no fury: rage in Arcangela Tarabotti's paternal tyranny and Valerie Solanas's Scum manifesto
Madwomen in the attic: madness and suicide in Perkins Gilman's The yellow wallpaper and Doris Lessing's To room nineteen
Brave new worlds: sexual slavery in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale and Slavenka Drakuli's S. A novel about the Balkans
Still crazy after all these years: Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran.

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