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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."
A great deal of writing has been done on the subject. The subject of the Ideal Woman has been treated humorously, [9] [10] theologically, [11] and musically. [12] Examples of "ideal women" are portrayed in literature, for example: Sophie, a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile: or, On Education (book V) who is raised to be the perfect ...
Gender stereotypes influence traditional feminine occupations, resulting in microaggression toward women who break traditional gender roles. [62] These stereotypes include that women have a caring nature, have skill at household-related work, have greater manual dexterity than men, are more honest than men, and have a more attractive physical ...
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. ISBN 0-300-08458-7. Toril Moi. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. ISBN 0-415-02974-0; ISBN 0-415-28012-5 (second edition). Rita Felski, "Literature After Feminism" ISBN 0-226-24115-7; Annette Kolodny. "Dancing through the Minefield: Some ...
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (TSWL), founded by Germaine Greer in 1982, is devoted to the study of women's literature and women's writing in general. Publishing "articles, notes, research, and reviews of literary, historicist, and theoretical work by established and emerging scholars in the field of women's literature and feminist theory", [1] it has been described as the "longest ...
Cixous aimed to establish a genre of literary writing that deviates from traditional masculine styles of writing, one which examines the relationship between the cultural and psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text. [1]
Feminist children's literature is the writing of children's literature through a feminist lens. Children's literature and women's literature have many similarities. Both often deal with being weak and placed towards the bottom of a hierarchy. In this way feminist ideas are regularly found in the structure of children's literature.
Beatrice Campbell, "Writer's Room With a View," The Guardian, 21 February 1989, image 35 (assembly of women writers from the USSR, the United States, and France" The Persephone Book of Short Stories," Persephone Books Ltd. 2012, ISBN 978-1903-155-905 is a collection of short stories written by women 1909-1986.