Feminist Review: Issue 42: Feminist Fictions

by The Feminist Review Collective (Editor)

Overview

This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues; it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have been taken up by feminist writers - lesbian romance and stories for teenagers.
The central concern is with the problems of putting across feminist ideas in popular crative writing. Which ideas can be presented in this form? How will they be read? Are some forms more amenable to fiminism than others? Is feminism being distorted by popularization? Does feminism come across as a ‘message' that spoils the pleasure of reading?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415080262
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/1992
Series:	Feminist Review Journal
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Feminist Review Collective

Table of Contents

Editorial: Feminist Fictions, Angela Carter's ‘The Bloody Chamber' and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality Merja Makinen; Feminist Writing: Working with Women's Experience Frigga Haug; Three Aspects of Sex Kornelia Hauser; Are They Reading Us? Feminist Teenage Fiction Julia Bard; Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Joke Hermes; A Psychoanalytic Account for Lesbianism Stephanie Castendyk; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery Moira Ferguson Plus: Reviews: Women, Islam and the State Nira Yuval-Davis; Plotting Women: Women, Gender and Representation in Mexico Carmen Ramos-Escadon; The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution Ethel Crowley; Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate Janet Sayers; Luce Irigaray: Philosophy and the Feminine Jean Grimshaw; The Rites of Man: Love,s ex nd Death in the Making of the Male Gill Allwood; Noticeboard and Back Issues