Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.
Interdisciplinairy reader containing extracts from past and present feminist writers that give a perspective on the variety of feminisms emerged in the twentieth century. Contains a glossary of key terms.