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Cultural politics volume 10
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over
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Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The feminist folktales collected in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. In these classic tales, heroines unflinchingly wade monstrous rivers, escape ogres' nests, and outsmart desperate sharks and hungry tigers. And while defending their families and villages, they always determine their own fate. Ethel Johnston Phelps (1914-1984) held a master's degree in medieval literature, coedited a Ricardian...
15) Feminist writers
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of feminist writers from all time periods, written by subject experts.
