Books written by Margaret R. Higonnet
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Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars
Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
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Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture
Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men?
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Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism
A third source is Consuelo García's biographical novel Las cárceles de Soledad Real (1982, Soledad Real's Prisons), built on the life of the Catalan communist freedom fighter. However, the most influential source is Tomasa Cuevas's ...
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Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I
Most books written about World War I generally focus on combat and the experiences of men. Lines of Fire challenges the restrictions of official history and traditional ideas of "war...
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British Women Poets of the 19th Century
A comprehensive anthology to give modern readers access to 48 exciting women who wrote and published poetry in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina...
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Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
A eloquent pair of observers illuminate the role of women in wartime and add significantly to the literature on the Great War.
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Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I
In works by well-known authors like Rebecca West and Edith Wharton, as well as writers from India, Armenia, Hungary, and the Cameroons, we hear women speaking out on such issues as politics, economic justice, and social reform.