769 records matched your query       

Author:

Philips, Deborah, 1954- author.

Title:

Women's fiction : from 1945 to today / Deborah Philips.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

211 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
American fiction.
American fiction--Women authors.
English fiction.
English fiction--Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Women and literature.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Continuum, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.

Contents:

What did women want?: post-war masculinity in the woman's novel of the 1950s -- "Mothers without partners": the single mother novel of the 1960s -- "She's leaving home": the college novel of the 1970s -- Shopping as work: the sex and shopping novel of the 1980s -- Keeping the home fires burning: the Aga-saga and the domestic romance of the 1990s -- Shopping for men: the single woman narrative -- Resentful daughters: the post-feminist novel? -- Having it all? Women, work and motherhood -- Shopping for meaning: the spiritual quest.

Summary:

"Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering two new genres, which include such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of women's writing from 1945 to the present."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1441104267
9781441104267

OCLC:

(OCoLC)876289036

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)