Feminism and Its Fictions : The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement /
Hogeland, Lisa Maria
Feminism and Its Fictions : The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement / Lisa Maria Hogeland. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (202 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Feminism and/as Literacy -- 2. Consciousness Raising and the CR Novel -- 3. Sexuality -- 4. Men -- 5. Strategies of Futurity -- 6. The Sex/Race Analogy -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work "consciousness raising." Women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness-raising. Lisa Maria Hogeland contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually engaged in consciousness-raising with their readers. Using a broad range of fiction--including works by Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Alix Kates Shulman, Alison Lurie, Joanna Russ, and Joan Didion--Hogeland explores the ways in which consciousness-raising novels addressed some of the most important questions raised by second-wave feminism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812234299 9781512804157
10.9783/9781512804157 doi
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Feminism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Group identity in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
PS374.F45
813
Feminism and Its Fictions : The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement / Lisa Maria Hogeland. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (202 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Feminism and/as Literacy -- 2. Consciousness Raising and the CR Novel -- 3. Sexuality -- 4. Men -- 5. Strategies of Futurity -- 6. The Sex/Race Analogy -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
During the 1970s, thousands of American women met regularly in small groups to talk about the injustices they experienced in their private lives and how those personal injustices related to the broad-based political oppression of women. They called this cultural work "consciousness raising." Women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness-raising. Lisa Maria Hogeland contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually engaged in consciousness-raising with their readers. Using a broad range of fiction--including works by Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Alix Kates Shulman, Alison Lurie, Joanna Russ, and Joan Didion--Hogeland explores the ways in which consciousness-raising novels addressed some of the most important questions raised by second-wave feminism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812234299 9781512804157
10.9783/9781512804157 doi
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Feminism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Group identity in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
PS374.F45
813