Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe
Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah and Abigail Lee Six
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Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion....
Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
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Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black...
Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century
Lyn Marven and Stuart Taberner
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After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and...
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers: 2017
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This collection is the first to focus on the iconoclastic and transformative power of American...
The Dutch House
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Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime - the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett...
Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC's Parks and Recreation
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Widely hailed as one of the best feminist-oriented series on television, NBC's Parks and Recreation...
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-class Meals at the Turn of the Century
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second...
ClareR (5577 KP) rated Herland, the Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings in Books
Jun 6, 2018
An all-female society is discovered in the middle of nowhere (I envisioned deepest, darkest South America, in the jungle somewhere) by three male explorers. They arrive with their male preconceptions, and two of them change their way of thinking for the better.
It's an idyllic life in Herland (the men's name for the country, not the women's - they never mention a name). There is someone in charge, but she's elected. No (or little) conflict, no crime, everyone does their share. Motherhood is sacred and limited to one child. They conceive magically, it seems, as there are no men, and all women share the parenting. It's idyllic all right!
A short little novella, and an easy, quick read. It's interesting to see what a woman in the early part of the twentieth century thought would be an idyllic society - and rather telling that men didn't actually feature in it at all!
Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920
Frank Q Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy
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From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century,...