The Feminist Bestseller

Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women''s writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women''s Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones'' Diary and Sex and the City . Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing over the past 30 years and suggests that even so-called ''post feminist'' writing owes an enormous debt to feminism''s second wave.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sex and the Single Girl
Burnt Offerings: The Emergence of Radical Feminism
Mad Housewives
Women's Spaces: Marilyn French, Erica Jong and Marge Piercy
Flying: Erica Jong and Lisa Alther
Forbidden Fruit: Sexuality
Crashing of the Superwoman: the 1980s
Where Have all the Feminists Gone?: The Anxiety of Affluence
Hooray for the Singletons!
Urban Sex
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

About the author

Imelda Whelehan

Product details

• Authors: Imelda Wheelan, Imelda Whelehan
• Assisted by: Imelda Whelehan (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2005
• EAN: 9781403911223
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-1122-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 215 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Social Sciences