| A Feminist Reader 4 Volume Set: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi Contributor(s): Harris, Sharon M. (Editor), Hughes, Linda K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521513812 ISBN-13: 9780521513814 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $274.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Series: 4 Vol Set |
| Physical Information: 4.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (7.30 lbs) 1904 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modern feminism has deep roots. Over the past 2500 years, female writers and thinkers across the world have expressed their feelings about gender roles, their frustrations and successes, their struggles for equality. This four-volume anthology brings together the richest collection of feminist texts available with over 120 entries, most of them complete essays or chapters, arranged broadly chronologically. Readers can juxtapose seventeenth-century 'New World' feminist writing with European counterparts, historical with poststructuralist feminist writing, Asian with Anglophone voices and 'difference feminism' with universalist statements. Each text features an editorial headnote and annotation, while the general introduction sets feminism in its historical and global contexts. The anthology's inclusion of multiple genres - letters and poems as well as philosophical or polemical prose - offers new possibilities for the study of genre and feminist discourse. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hughes, Linda K.: - Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.Harris, Sharon M.: - Sharon M. Harris is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. |