Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing

a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own

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Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing

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Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

Reading Nafisi at the YMCA
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.933522
Library of Congress
PN471 .J36 2011, PN3311-PN3503HQ1190-

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24479583M
Internet Archive
readingwomenswor00jans
ISBN 13
9780230110663
LCCN
2010040753
OCLC/WorldCat
667213170

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