S. Jansen 
Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing [PDF ebook] 
A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

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In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined ‘women’s worlds’ may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

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Reading Nafisi at the YMCA * I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own * Let’s Talk: Conversation in Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women and Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries * Design for Living: Women’s Communities in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure and Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies * Trouble in Paradise: Men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Doris Lessing’s The Cleft * Buried Alive: Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paternal Tyranny and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ * Brave New Worlds: Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Slavenka Drakulic’s S. A Novel about the Balkans * Still Crazy after All These Years: Doris Lessing’s ‘To Room Nineteen’ and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran

About the author

Sharon Jansen is the author of
Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter,
The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe, and
Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 243 ● ISBN 9780230118812 ● File size 4.5 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4855784 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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