TY - BOOK ID - 78143649 TI - Women''s Fiction 1945-2005 PY - 2007 SN - 1441149511 9781441149510 0826487467 9780826487469 0826499961 9780826499967 PB - London Bloomsbury Publishing DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - American fiction KW - Women KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Books and reading. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143649 AB - Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the ''canon'' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in... ER -