Episodes from a history of undoing : the heritage of female subversiveness / edited by Reghina Dascal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dascăl, Reghina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Feminism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Episodes from a History of Undoing: The Heritage of Female Subversiveness (paraphrasing Rada Khumar's seminal study of the development of the feminist movements in India: The History of Doing) is a volume purporting to illustrate women's resistance to patriarchal colonization through societal norms and hegemonic discourses. Whether mythical amazons, mediaeval authors or regular cannonesses, Renaissance monarchs, activists and academics, philosophers or politicians, such women have become trai...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; ELIZABETH I; A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS; CHAPTER TWO; "AN ISLAND OF DISSIDENT THOUGHTS"; FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING AND THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SENSIBILITY OF THE 1960S; CHAPTER THREE; HERTA MÜLLER AND UNDOING THE TRAUMA IN CEAUSESCU'S ROMANIA; (RE)ENGENDERING THE PAST/RECOVERING WOMEN'S WRITINGS; (LITTLE) RED RIDING HOOD; CHAPTER FOUR; POWER PLAYS; UNDOING THE HISTORY OF THE ENGENDERED NATION IN THREE NARRATIVES OF CARIBBEAN FEMINISM; CHAPTER FIVE; ENGLISH CULTURAL/GENDER STUDIES; LOITERING WITH INTENT; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-43675-2

9786613436757

1-4438-3617-6

OCLC:

778315013