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  2. Reconstructing Womanhood - Wikipedia

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    The book documents the history of writing by American black women in fiction, feminist writings, literary criticism, and their lives throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. Other chapters detail the thoughts of black women having exotic sexuality and how black women were separated from white women in American politics.

  3. Jodi Picoult’s New Historical Fiction Takes on Sexism ... - AOL

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    Bestselling author Jodi Picoult, 58, has tackled a lot of big topics over her three-decade career.In her 29 books to date, she's taken on racism, the death penalty, abortion, school shootings and ...

  4. List of American feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...

  5. List of feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [195] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [196] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [197] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...

  6. Cecelia Holland - Wikipedia

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    Floating Worlds (1976), is a science fiction novel written in a similar style. It is an epic novel set in approximately the 40th century AD, by which time a colonized Solar System hosts a variety of political systems. Paula Mendoza, an ex-prisoner from anarchist Earth, becomes a diplomat and the lover of one of the Styth, a variant human ...

  7. Feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    The feminist movement produced feminist fiction, feminist non-fiction, and feminist poetry, which created new interest in women's writing. It also prompted a general reevaluation of women's historical and academic contributions in response to the belief that women's lives and contributions have been underrepresented as areas of scholarly ...

  8. Women's writing (literary category) - Wikipedia

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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."

  9. Witness (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Witness [2] is a free poetry book of historical fiction written by Karen Hesse in 2001, concentrating on racism in a rural Vermont town in 1924. Voices include those of Leanora Sutter, a 12-year-old African American girl; Esther Hirsh, a 6-year-old [3] girl from New York; Sara Chickering, a quiet spinster farmer; Iris Weaver, a young restaurant owner, bootlegger and illegal booze runner ...