This collection of essays discloses the different ways in which Spanish women writers have described and resisted socially imposed limitations on their gender. The contributions provide a balance between writers well known in Spain and those who have only recently received critical attention, from Santa Teresa de Jesús and Maria de Zayas to Emilia Pardo Bazán and Montserrat Roig. The last three essays in the volume focus on Spain's 'double minorities' : Catalan women writers.
This publication traces the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. The volume is supported by reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works. Table of Contents: Introduction Adele Barker and Jehanne M Gheith: 1. Women's image in Russian medieval literature / Rosalind McKenzie. 2. Sappho, Corinna and Niobe: genres and personae in Russian women's writing, 1760-1820 / Catriona Kelly: 3. The inexperienced muse: Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century / Judith Vowles: 4. Women of the 1830s and 1850s: alternative periods / Jehanne Gheith 5. 'A particle of our soul': pre-revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers / Mary Zirin: 6. The women of Russian Montparnasse, Paris, 1920-1940 / Catherine Ciepiela: 7. Women in Russian symbolism: beyond the algebra of love / Jenifer Presto: 8. The Eastern path of exile: Russian women's writing in China / Olga Bakich and Carol Ueland: 9. Realist prose writers, 1881-1929 / Rosalind Marsh: 10. Women and gender in post-symbolist poetry and the Stalin era / Katherine Hodgson: 11. Writing the female body politic (1945-1985) / Beth Holmgren: 12. In their own words? Soviet women writers and the search for self / Anna Krylova: 13. Women's poetry since the sixties / Stephanie Sandler: 14. The persistence of memory: women's prose since the sixties / Adele Barker: 15. Perestroika and post-Soviet prose: from dazzle to dispersal / Helena Goscilo.