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The New Feminist Literary Studies

Jennifer Cooke editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Dec '20

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Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.

'The prose is elegant, sophisticated, and accessible and the text as a whole will be useful for both teaching and research.' E. R. Baer, Choice

ISBN: 9781108471930

Dimensions: 155mm x 235mm x 20mm

Weight: 530g

260 pages