Description
Product ID: | 9781108458603 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions |
Title: | The New Feminist Literary Studies |
Authors: | Author: Jennifer Cooke |
Page Count: | 270 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Sexual abuse and harassment, Disability: social aspects, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Sexual abuse & harassment, Disability: social aspects, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Gay & Lesbian studies |
Description: | This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions. The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , ''Frontiers'', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, ''Fields'', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, ''Forms'', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-08-18 |