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This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

American fiction --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction --- French fiction --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sexology --- Human rights --- Depth psychology --- Fiction --- Community organization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- French literature --- English literature --- American literature --- Literature --- Women authors&delete& --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Feminist fiction - History and criticism --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Comparative literature --- Marxism --- Postmodernism --- Psychoanalysis --- Socialist feminism --- Theory --- Second feminist wave --- Black feminism --- Book --- Deconstruction --- First feminist wave

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‘This is an impressive study, homing in on a notable gap in writing within the apocalyptic tradition. It is engagingly written, extensive in its choice of texts and, throughout, the textual analysis is in productive dialogue with critical theory. Repeatedly, we learn how the fiction of elsewhere and the fiction of the future urgently speak to our here and now.’ — Mary Eagleton, author of Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility (2018) This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much maleauthored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality. Susan Watkins is a Professor of Women’s Writing at Leeds Beckett University. Her key publications include Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (2001), Doris Lessing (2010) and (as co-editor) Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2006), Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2009) and The History of British Women’s Writing Vol 9: 1945–1975 (2017).

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Literature --- literatuur --- schrijfvaardigheid --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099

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Fertility, Human --- Nationalism --- Regionalism --- Fecondite --- Nationalisme --- Régionalisme --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Population --- EUROPE -- 930.3 --- POPULATION -- 930.3 --- NATIONALISM -- 930.3 --- REGIONALISM -- 930.3 --- NATION-BUILDING -- 930.3 --- History. --- Régionalisme --- Fertility [Human ] --- Fertility, Human - Europe - History. --- Europe - Population - History. --- Nationalism - Europe - History. --- Regionalism - Europe - History. --- Démographie --- Demography --- EUROPE --- HISTOIRE --- NATIONALISME --- FECONDITE HUMAINE --- 19E-20E SIECLES --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- Démographie

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‘This is an impressive study, homing in on a notable gap in writing within the apocalyptic tradition. It is engagingly written, extensive in its choice of texts and, throughout, the textual analysis is in productive dialogue with critical theory. Repeatedly, we learn how the fiction of elsewhere and the fiction of the future urgently speak to our here and now.’ — Mary Eagleton, author of Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility (2018) This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much maleauthored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality. Susan Watkins is a Professor of Women’s Writing at Leeds Beckett University. Her key publications include Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (2001), Doris Lessing (2010) and (as co-editor) Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2006), Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2009) and The History of British Women’s Writing Vol 9: 1945–1975 (2017).

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