gender and agency in contemporary Anglo-American and German fiction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jeremiah, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, essays, meisjes, feminisme, vrouwelijkheid, seksualiteit, Verenigde Staten, Duitsland
- Description
- The book examines nonfiction feminist texts as well as novels by Helene Hegemann, Caitlin Moran, Charlotte Roche, Emma Jane Unsworth, Kate Zambreno, and Juli Zeh, among others. These texts illustrate the complex processes by which female subjects become women today. Failure, refusal, disgust, and anger are striking features of these becomings. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and thinkers including Simone de Beauvoir, Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz, the book demonstrates the significance of willfulness for understandings and assertions of female agency.