Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing
A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory
| Author: | S. Jansen | ISBN: | 9780230118812 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | April 25, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | S. Jansen |
| ISBN: | 9780230118812 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | April 25, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.
In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.
