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Honey-Mad Women : Emancipatory Strategies in Women'S Writing /

Yaeger, Patricia

Honey-Mad Women : Emancipatory Strategies in Women'S Writing / Patricia Yaeger. - 1 online resource - Gender and Culture .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Honey-Mad Women -- TWO: The Bilingual Heroine: From "Text" to "Work" -- THREE: The Animality of the Letter -- FOUR: Alice Can -- FIVE: Writing as Action: A Vindication of the Rights of Women -- SIX: The Novel and Laughter: Wuthering Heights -- SEVEN: Toward a Theory of Play -- EIGHT: Emancipatory Strategies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Challenges the notion that women writers are unable to write about their pleasure and are 'estranged from language' by identifying contexts in which women find language empowering and in which women speak of their pleasure and find pleasure in speech.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231914567 9780231883832

10.7312/yaeg91456 doi


LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.