Bookbot

Feminism and Its Fictions

The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement

Mehr zum Buch

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.

Buchkauf

Feminism and Its Fictions, Lisa Maria Hogeland

Sprache
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Einband
(Paperback),
Buchzustand
Beschädigt
Preis
10,02 €inkl. MwSt.

Lieferung

  • Gratis Versand ab 14,99 € in ganz Deutschland! Mehr Infos.

Zahlungsmethoden

Keiner hat bisher bewertet.Abgeben

Titel
Feminism and Its Fictions
Untertitel
The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement
Sprache
Englisch
Einband
Paperback
Seitenzahl
224
ISBN10
0812216407
ISBN13
9780812216400
Reihe
Beschreibung
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.