the sexual language of 1970s feminist fiction
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2003
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Altman, Meryl
- Thesaurus
- derde feministische golf, literatuur, Amerikaans, seksualiteit, 1970-1979
- Description
- This article examines novels by Alix Kates Shulman, Marge Piercy and Erica Jong. These novels published in the early seventies were inspired by existentialism and Beauvoir, but reached mass audiences because they were also novels of the (hetero)sexual revolution. These texts carved out a radical terrain of subjectivity for women as they fought individually and collectively to reject a medicalised vocabulary and to discover their own sexual language