Women's Movement : : Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction / / Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson.
Women's Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambigu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : BRILL,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus New Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Transiency and Transgression: Feminist Literary Escape. Part One: (En)Gendering Escape. Chapter One: Escapist Literature and the Literature of Escape. Chapter Two: The Literature of Adventure. Chapter Three: The Literature of Quest Part Two: Charting the Disappeared. Chapter Four: Breaking the Ties that Bind: Escaping the 1970s. Chapter Five: From Hoboes to Handmaids: Divergent Impulses in the 1980s. Chapter Six: Patriarchy and Postfeminism: Refiguring the Ties that Bind.