This selection of recent scholarship addresses sexualities in global perspective. The chapters are grouped into five sections: social and historical approaches to sexualities: the gender of sexuality: sexual identities: globalization: power and resistance: and sexual values and life experiments. Oorspr. uitgave: 2003
Feminist writing about literature in English from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Part 1 'Women writers: on writing' represents six centuries of historical documents about female literary creativity. Part 2 'Theory: on gender and culture' focuses on the theoretical debates in the second half of the twentieth century. 42 scholars explore changing literary representations of women, the relationships between gender and genre, and the impact of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, race and ethnic studies and queer theory on contemporary views of literature in English. Part 3 'Practice: representative readings and analyses' include contemporary critical interpretations of the topics: medieval women, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Emily Dickinson, the Harlem Renaissance, Sylvia Plath.