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Author:

Philips, Deborah, 1954-

Title:

Women's fiction, 1945-2005 : writing romance / Deborah Philips.

Publisher:

Continuum,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

162 p. ; 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.

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Contents:

Index. Introduction -- 8. What did women want? : post-war masculinity in the woman's novel of the 1950s -- 2. 'Mothers without partners' : the single mother novel of the 1960s -- 3. 'She's leaving home' : the college novel of the 1970s -- 4. Shopping as work : the sex and shopping novel of the 1980s -- 5. Keeping the home fires burning : the Aga-sage and the domestic romance of the 1990s -- 6. Shopping for men : the single woman novel -- 7. Resentful daughters : the post-feminist novel? -- 8. Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

Continuum literary studies

ISBN:

0826499961 (pbk.)
9780826499967 (pbk.)

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)