Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah WatersÆs fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and gender and how her writings reflect the different concerns of contemporary feminist theories. In particular, the collection includes new and innovative readings of how WatersÆs novels address issues of patriarchy, female confinement, madness and misogyny, exploitation and oppression, repression and subordination, abortion, marriage and spinsterhood alongside passionate portrayals of female agency, desire, aesthetics, female sexual expression, and, of course, lesbianism.

• | Author: Adele Jones, Claire O'Callaghan
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 259 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137506075
• | ISBN-13: 9781137506078