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Determined Women

Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900–90

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Jennifer Birkett

    1. University of Strathclyde, UK

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  2. Elizabeth Harvey

    1. University of Salford, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jennifer Birkett, Elizabeth Harvey
    Pages 1-37

  3. Private Fantasy and Public Intervention: Girls’ Reading in Weimar Germany

    • Elizabeth Harvey
    Pages 38-67

  4. Doubly Determined: the Ambition of Storm Jameson

    • Jennifer Birkett
    Pages 68-94

  5. The Negative of a Person: Media, Image and Authenticity in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

    • Stan Smith
    Pages 95-107

  6. A Question of Inheritance: Canadian Women’s Short Stories

    • Coral Ann Howells
    Pages 108-120

  7. Whistling like a Woman: the Novels of Alice Walker

    • Jennifer Birkett
    Pages 121-145

  8. Beyond Paper Heroines: Maxie Wander’s Guten Morgen, du Schöne and its Reception in the GDR

    • Patricia Harbord
    Pages 146-172

  9. Sexism in French: a Case Study

    • Robin Adamson
    Pages 173-194

  10. The Castration of Cassandra

    • Helga Geyer-Ryan
    Pages 195-207

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 208-213
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About this book

The essays in this collection look at some of the images and categories which have shaped Western women's sense of themselves in the twentieth century. The approach of the collection is interdisciplinary, bringing together the perspectives of literary criticism, social history and linguistics. Its focus is international, with contributions on Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Canada. The collection shows both the similarity and the diversity of women's experience in a world determined by patriarchal assumptions, where women's only hope of change lies in developing a determination of their own.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Strathclyde, UK

    Jennifer Birkett

  • University of Salford, UK

    Elizabeth Harvey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Determined Women

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900–90

  • Editors: Jennifer Birkett, Elizabeth Harvey

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21292-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-44839-7Published: 23 April 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21292-7Published: 23 April 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 213

  • Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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