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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."
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Literature. It includes literature that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Women's writing (literary category) .
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
The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) see List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature; Champion, Laurie and Austin, Rhonda, eds. Contemporary American women fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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 ...
Women's fiction edition of Ms. magazine in 2002. Women's fiction is an umbrella term for women-centered books that focus on women's life experience that are marketed to female readers, and includes many mainstream novels or women's rights books. It is distinct from women's writing, which refers to literature written by (rather than promoted to ...
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