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Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"First christened 'camp' by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing juggernauts The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973), and Dolores (1976), the comedy of Jackie Susann illuminated conflicting positions about gender, sexuality, and esthetic value.-- Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed with camp...
6) Departure
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
In 1851 Amanda Bright sails from Boston with her husband, Jonathan, captain of the merchant ship Maria M. Warned that it is no place for a woman, she finds instead a challenging new world, one she discovers a talent for. On the leg from Hawaii to North America, disease strikes, leaving Jonathan and the first mate delirious with fever. When a storm sweeps the last officer and a sailor overboard, Amanda is the only one left with even a novice's understanding...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press/Gale
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Provides background on the life of Ernest Hemingway and the influences that shaped his life, features articles that explore gender roles as portrayed in his novel "The Sun Also Rises," and examines issues of gender roles in the twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein...
