Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing - The New Audacity

Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction. The new audacity; 1. Autobiography as feminist praxity: new audacity in the writing of rape; 2. Ugly audacities in auto/biography: genius, betrayal, and writer's block; 3. Stripping off for the first time: recasting vulnerability in the writing of hetero-sex and desire; 4. Breaking the binaries: new audacity in the writing of trans lives; 5. The dangers of audacity: Vanessa Place's contradictory feminism; Afterword. After audacity?; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jennifer Cooke is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the editor of New Feminist Studies (Cambridge, forthcoming), Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature (2013), a special issue of Textual Practice (September 2013), and author of Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory, and Film (2009). She chairs the Gendered Lives Research Group.

Summary

Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life. It discusses texts that feature rape, struggles with mental health, sexual and chemical experimentation, transitioning, sex work, and women's self-authorship, and challenges conventional discourses of women's victimhood.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Cooke, Jennifer (Loughborough University) Cooke, Cooke Jennifer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108489911
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48991-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-Fi; Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000