Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature : New Literary Perspectives on the Times, Spaces and Forms of Women's Work / Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogg, Emily J., editor.

Fabricius, Charlotte J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Women in literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores literary representations of 'women's work' to generate new understandings of contemporary working conditions.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: New Literary Perspectives on Women's Work

PART I: THE LABOR OF LITERATURE

1. Feminist Bibliography: Aki Hayashi, Literary Assistant

2. Reading Women's Work in the Karen Brahe Library

3. The Labors of Shakespeare's Sisters

PART II: THE WORK OF CHANGE

4. Comics in the RESISTance: Modeling the Feminized

5. Mothers of Invention: New Maternal Writings, Women, and Precarious Work Culture

6. Terror as Usual: Gender-based Violence and Women's Work in Cherie Jones's How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

PART III: THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORM

7. Scrappy Time: Domestic Work and Adrienne Rich's Literary Fragment

8. Cheap Talk: Conversation, Gender, and Labor in Talking to Women, The Pumpkin Eater, and The Golden Notebook

9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

Afterword: Women's Work Across Contexts

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781399541350

1399541358

OCLC:

1514634918

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399541350

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access