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"Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds. The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women." "A number of essays illuminate ways in which writing can be employed in women's workshops and college classrooms. They bridge the interdisciplinary distances among the fields of literary criticism, creative writing, psychology, sociology, social welfare, history, journalism, education, and others in which feminist scholars have worked to draw public attention to, and provide solutions to, the various kinds of abuse women endure."--Jacket.

American literature --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Child abuse in literature. --- Sex crimes in literature. --- Feminism and literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Women --- Incest in literature. --- Literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Crimes against women --- Femicide --- Women victims of crime --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Crimes against. --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- Crimes against --- Feminism and literature --- Violence in literature --- Incest in literature --- Child abuse in literature --- Sex and crimes in literature --- United States --- Literature and feminism