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The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom, Phyllis Chesler (2005) The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, Susan J. Douglas with Meredith Michaels (2005) Women's Lives, Men's Laws, Catharine MacKinnon (2005) Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big, Mary Daly (2006)
The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [11] There is little printed recordings on women's writing in the Western United States because establishing the field involved measures that were not seen as scholarly achievement.
Women's writing may refer to a variety of topics related generally to women writers or women's literature: Chick lit, popular fiction targeted at younger women; Écriture féminine, postmodern feminist literary theory; Feminist literary criticism; Women in speculative fiction, including science fiction
Literature by African-American women (31 C, 147 P) Literature by Asian-American women (18 C, 40 P) Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women (14 C, 32 P)
[1] [3] [4] Most genres and subgenres have undergone a similar analysis, so literary studies have entered new territories such as the "female gothic" [5] or women's science fiction. According to Elyce Rae Helford, "Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice."
A Celebration of Women Writers; SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil.
Virginia Woolf Maya Angelou Pride and Prejudice Women's writing (literary category) High: Subject is very notable or significant within the study of women writers, women's literature or the public's perception of women writers. J.K. Rowling Ursula K. Le Guin British women's literature of World War I Leslie Marmon Silko: Mid