Women's fiction : from 1945 to today / Deborah Philips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philips, Deborah, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Women authors.

American fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature.

Women--Books and reading.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

[London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. What Did Women Want?: Post-War Masculinity in the Woman's Novel of the 1950s

3. 'Mothers Without Partners': the Single Mother Narrative of the 1960s

4. She's Leaving Home: the 'College Girl' Narrative of the 1970s

5. Shopping as Work: the Sex and Shopping Novel of the 1980s

6. Keeping the Home Fires Burning: the Aga Saga of the 1990s

7. Shopping for Men: the Single Woman Narrative

8. Resentful Daughters: the Post-Feminist Novel?

9. Shopping for Meaning: The Spiritual Quest

10. Having It All: Work and Motherhood

Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441150226

1441150226

9781472593917

147259391X

9781441109040

1441109048

OCLC:

880452560