Feminism and its fictions : the consciousness-raising novel and the women's liberation movement / Lisa Maria Hogeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogeland, Lisa Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Interpersonal relations in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998]

Summary:

During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work "consciousness raising." Women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness-raising. Lisa Maria Hogeland contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually engaged in consciousness-raising with their readers. Using a broad range of fiction--including works by Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Alix Kates Shulman, Alison Lurie, Joanna Russ, and Joan Didion--Hogeland explores the ways in which consciousness-raising novels addressed some of the most important questions raised by second-wave feminism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-190) and index.

ISBN:

0812234294

0812216407

OCLC:

37910118