Feminism and Its Fictions : The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement / Lisa Maria Hogeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogeland, Lisa Maria, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

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

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

Feminism and literature.

Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, American.

Group identity in literature.

Interpersonal relations in literature.

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

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Feminism and/as Literacy

2. Consciousness Raising and the CR Novel

3. Sexuality

4. Men

5. Strategies of Futurity

6. The Sex/Race Analogy

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512804157

1512804150

OCLC:

979585383