This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics
Jaime Harker
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Description for This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics
Hardback. Editor(s): Harker, Jaime; Farr, Cecilia Konchar. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. ... Read more
The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039805
SKU
V9780252039805
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About Jaime Harker
Jaime Harker is an associate professor of English at The University of Mississippi. She is the author of America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars and Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America. Cecilia Konchar Farr is a professor of English and women's studies at St. Catherine University. She is the author of Reading Oprah: How ... Read more
Reviews for This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "The volume’s contribution to feminist print history is an obvious strength."
Orbit "Attends not only to familiar 'consciousness-raising' works such as Kate Millet's Sexual Politics , Erica Jong's Fear of Flying , and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing , but also treats previously unexplored but no less important issues and topics vital to feminist ... Read more
Orbit "Attends not only to familiar 'consciousness-raising' works such as Kate Millet's Sexual Politics , Erica Jong's Fear of Flying , and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing , but also treats previously unexplored but no less important issues and topics vital to feminist ... Read more