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Honey-Mad Women : Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing / Patricia Yaeger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yaeger, Patricia, author.
- Series:
- Gender and culture.
- Gender and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1988]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Challenges the notion that women writers are unable to write about their pleasure and are 'estranged from language' by identifying contexts in which women find language empowering and in which women speak of their pleasure and find pleasure in speech.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- ONE: Honey-Mad Women
- TWO: The Bilingual Heroine: From "Text" to "Work"
- THREE: The Animality of the Letter
- FOUR: Alice Can
- FIVE: Writing as Action: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- SIX: The Novel and Laughter: Wuthering Heights
- SEVEN: Toward a Theory of Play
- EIGHT: Emancipatory Strategies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231883832
- 0231883838
- OCLC:
- 1100458488
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