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Bells and whistles: The mass (re)production of female bodies for male consumption.
(2003)
In this work I examine the way female bodies are constructed by contemporary ethnic U.S. women writers in the clash of cultures, thus involving a process of negotiation between the dominant culture and ethnicity. Of special ...
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)
Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ...
Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)
This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ...
"Our obligation to memory": Home environment, public service and feminism in the works of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Willa Cather.
(1999)
Some turn-of-the-century American women writers such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather use various ideas of memory and domesticity around which to build a "conservative" feminist theory through which to draw women's traditions ...
Dakotapi women's traditions: A historical and literary critique of women as culture bearers.
(1997)
A tradition is established by such early writers as Marie Louise McLaughlin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, and Ella Cara Deloria. These women writers knew early in their lives the importance of women's voices in literature. ...
Go back the way you came :
(2000)
Go Back The Way You Came by Joey Brown is an original, full-length literary novel. The novel is preceded by a critical introduction entitled Writing in the Dirt: A Look at Identity Landscape in the Work of Female Novelists ...