Author

Publication

2000 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

47,750 words, Guess

Page Count

191 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads6251300

Classifications

  • DDC823/.91099287
  • LCCPR888.F45 H36 2000

Description

"The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught between identification with a male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of culturally derogated female embodiment. Using a variety of philosophical perspectives, she analyses the gendering of thought and culture and the complex ways in which the female body is coded as 'outside' or as preceding culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Hysterical fictions: the "woman's novel" in the twentieth centurySt. Martin's Press2000-01-01

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