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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."
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. Biographies in Portuguese, English and ...
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 script (disambiguation), variation of syllabic characters in some writing systems; Women's writing (literary category), academic discipline within literary studies; Lists. List of biographical dictionaries of women writers; List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English; List of early-modern British women novelists
Women & Literature was an American feminist scholarly journal. Janet Margaret Todd, a British academic and author, founded the journal around the 1970s while she was teaching at Rutgers University. [1] Women & Literature wrote about feminist film and literature and sought to support the feminist work of the 1970s. [2]
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) entries for over 2700 women writing in English (in various national traditions) Bloom, Abigail B. Nineteenth-century British Women Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30439-2
Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women. It often addresses the roles of women in society particularly as regarding status, privilege, and power – and generally portrays the ...
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)