This Book Is an Action : Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics /

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"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in T...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Farr, Cecilia Konchar, 1958- (Editor), Harker, Jaime (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Intellectual life.
Second-wave feminism.
Publishers and publishing.
Feminism and literature.
Books and reading.
American literature > Women authors.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminisme de la deuxieme vague > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Books and reading > United States > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Second-wave feminism > United States.
Women > United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Feminist publishing/publishing feminism: experimentation in second-wave book publishing / Jennifer Gilley
  • A revolution in ephemera: feminist newsletters and newspapers of the 1970s / Agatha Beins
  • What made us think they'd pay us for making a revolution?: women in distribution (WinD), 1974-1979 / Julie R. Enszer
  • Closely, consciously reading feminism / Yung-Hsing Wu
  • The element that shaped me, that I shape by being in: alternative natures in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The edible woman / Jill E. Anderson
  • The second-wave sandbox: Anne Roiphe's monstrous motherhood / Lisa Botshon
  • Desire and fantasy in Erica Jong's Fear of flying / Jay Hood
  • Coming out and tutor-text performance in Jane Chambers's lesbi-dramas / Jaime Cantrell
  • Creating a nonpatriarchal lineage in Bertha Harris's Lover / Laura Christine Godfrey
  • The color purple and the wine-dark kiss of death: how a second-wave feminist wrote the first American AIDS narrative / Phillip Gordon
  • This really isn't a job for a girl to take on alone: reappraising feminism and genre fiction in Sara Paretsky's crime novel Indemnity only / Charlotte Beyer.

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