women in literature

Presents a collection of literary writings that looks at rebellious females.

"Takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of essays in which Kate Zambreno draws on research and personal experience to examine the influence of women, such as Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, and Jean Rhys, on famous male authors and the treatment of female authors during the twentieth century, who she believes were exiled and silenced for going against theories of what literature should be.

A guide to reading and understanding William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" which includes the complete unabridged text, detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters.

Contains fourteen essays that explores how women's issues are presented in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale;" provides information the author's life and the writing of the text; and looks at contemporary perspectives on various women's issues. Includes discussion questions, a list of suggested reading, and a bibliography.

A collection of essays exploring the women's issues depicted in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening," with background information about the author, historical and contemporary views on women's issues, and a time line of the author's life and work.

"Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with [Louisa May] Alcott's [Little Women] novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters" -- Amazon.

Presents the author's argument concerning sexism in the Harry Potter series, covering themes of rule following, intelligence, validating, enabling, mothering, and resistance and exploring the construction of gender roles in the books, and discusses possibilities for school curriculums that incorporate a critical analysis of the texts.

"Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may provide propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, and to appropriating new spaces of freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda L?e, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today"--Source other than the Library of Congress.

A brief biography of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.