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Literature and the development of feminist theory /
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New York;
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- "Original Spirit": literary translations and translational literature in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft / Laura Kirkley
- Jane Eyre, incidents in the life of a slave girl, and the varieties of nineteenth-century feminism / Margaret Homans
- Progressive portraits: literature in feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner / Judith A. Allen
- Feminist poetics: first-wave feminism, theory, and modernist women poets / Linda A. Kinnahan
- Woolf and women's work: literary invention in an obscure hat factory / Robin Truth Goodman
- Walking in a man's world: myth, literature, and the interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex / Ashley King Scheu
- Decapitation impossible: the hundred heads of Julia Kristeva / Maria Margaroni
- Shattering the gender walls: Monique Wittig's contribution to literature / Dominique Bourque
- Hélène Cixous: writing for her life / Peggy Kamuf
- Subversive creatures from behind the Iron Curtain: Irmtraud Morgner's The life and adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as chronicled by her minstrel Laura / Sonja E. Klocke
- Christa Wolf: literature as an aesthetics of resistance / Anna K. Kuhn
- Naked came the female extraterrestrial stranger: applying Linda M. Scott's Fresh Lipstick to Sue Lange's The Textile Planet / Marleen S. Barr
- Captive maternal love: Octavia Butler and sci-fi family values / Joy James
- More than theatre: Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman and the feminist phenomenology of excess / Lakey
- Nawal El Saadawi: writer and revolutionary / Miriam Cooke
- "The woman who said "no": colonialism, Islam, and feminist resistance in the works of Assia Djebar / Jane Hiddleston.