Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.
Isabella Lucy Bird (1831–1904) of Tattenhall, Cheshire, became one of the 19th century's most respected travel writers. Surveying the indigenous Ainu of Japan in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), Bird declares the Japanese imperial ...
Fisher's and Halley's essay collection, Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Writings, ... most important new work in medieval feminist studies addresses devotional writing, and especially religious texts by women.
Each entry is written by an expert contributor and closes with a brief bibliography. The volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.
"Spanish literature includes some of the world's greatest works and authors. It is also one of the most widely studied. This reference looks at the literature of Spain from the...
Encyclopedia of Feminism
The Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature surveys 400 years of North American frontier literature. Within this literary context, the roles of women and minorities are given special attention, as is the...
Entries for authors, works, themes, and other topics trace the feminist response to Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably written by French writers. As early as the 12th century, women troubadours in the south of France were...
Consolidates feminist research in the field of German studies and German literature and culture.
After Carol Gilligan published her research on patterns of ethical thinking in women's psychological development, the term `feminist ethics' was widely applied to feminist analyses and appraisals of that research.