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Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah Waters’s fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and gender and how her writings reflect the different concerns of contemporary feminist theories. In particular, the collection includes new and innovative readings of how Waters’s novels address issues of patriarchy, female confinement, madness and misogyny, exploitation and oppression, repression and subordination, abortion, marriage and spinsterhood alongside passionate portrayals of female agency, desire, aesthetics, female sexual expression, and, of course, lesbianism.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Second-Wave Hauntings
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Beyond the Second Wave
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adele Jones tutors in English at Swansea University, UK. Her research focuses on feminist theory (particularly psychoanalysis), space, place, gender and sexuality in contemporary literature.
Claire O’Callaghan
teaches English at Brunel University, UK, and her research
focuses on gender and sexuality in contemporary
literature and culture, feminist theory, and neo-Victorianism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms
Editors: Adele Jones, Claire O'Callaghan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50608-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50607-8Published: 08 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50608-5Published: 26 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 248
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Feminism