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Gothic feminism : the professionalization of gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Gothic feminism and the professionalization of "femininity" -- Gendering the civilizing process: the case of Charlotte Smith's Emmiline, the orphan of the castle -- Gendering victimization: Radcliffe's early Gothics -- Gendering vindication: Radcliffe's major gothics -- Hyperbolic femininity: Jane Austen, "Rosa Matilda" and Mary Shelley -- The triumph of the civilizing process: the Brontës and romantic feminism.…”
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Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions /
Table of Contents: “…Feminism, women's fiction, and The Fat Woman's Joke -- Articulating the concerns of women's liberation -- Complicating a feminist reading of Fay Weldon's fiction -- Ethics and morality: Fay Weldon as a social critic -- Fay Weldon's public persona -- Art, economics, and the politics of purity -- Challenging narrative truth.…”
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Critical alliances : economics and feminism in English women's writing, 1880-1914 /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Women and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain /
Table of Contents: “…Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690-1760 : self-love, reason and social benevolence -- From savage to Scotswoman : the history of femininity -- Roman, Gothic and medieval women : the historicisation of womanhood, 1750-c.1804 -- Catharine Macaulay's histories of England : liberty, civilisation and the female historian -- Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The history women and the population men, 1760-1830.…”
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Engendering the subject : gender and self-representation in contemporary women's fiction /
Table of Contents: “…Angela Carter and the circus of theory: writing woman and women's writing -- Derrida: the affirmative woman and the feminist -- Irigaray: mimicry, contradiction and the subject of feminism -- The anti-hero as Oedipus: gender and the postmodern narrative -- Difference as spectacle: deconstructing mythologies of gender -- 3. …”
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Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 /
Table of Contents: “…New woman's appetite for "riotous living": Rebecca West, modernist feminism, and the everyday /…”
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Revising women : eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement /
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Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel /
Table of Contents: “…Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale: Homes for Women, Feminism, and Nationalism.…”
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