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Persuasive Fictions
Anna Wilson
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Description for Persuasive Fictions
Hardback. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 435.
Challenges the current orthodoxy in feminist criticism and pedagogy that "books change lives" by reexamining key feminist texts that attempted to be instruments for both personal and social change in the lives of their readers. The book uses reception studies of writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to Marilyn French to show that feminists' faith in the power of written or filmic texts as principal means to social change has been misplaced. It emphasizes important "second wave" works of popular feminism in order to argue that the cultural moment for belief in consciousness-raising texts has now passed, critiques feminist criticism's continued ... Read more
Challenges the current orthodoxy in feminist criticism and pedagogy that "books change lives" by reexamining key feminist texts that attempted to be instruments for both personal and social change in the lives of their readers. The book uses reception studies of writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to Marilyn French to show that feminists' faith in the power of written or filmic texts as principal means to social change has been misplaced. It emphasizes important "second wave" works of popular feminism in order to argue that the cultural moment for belief in consciousness-raising texts has now passed, critiques feminist criticism's continued ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9780838754825
SKU
V9780838754825
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