The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism (Routledge Literature Companions)

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Endrosements Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing Women\'s Rights – From Enlightenment to Ecofeminism
Part I: Rights
	1 Like Nobody Else: Women and Independence in the Novels of Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft
	2 Romantic Women Travel Writers, Politics and the Environment: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Swiss Landscape
	3 Feminism and Animal Advocacy in the Long Nineteenth Century: Anne Brontë and the \'abuses of society\'
	4 \"They all revolved about her\": Disability, Femininity, and Power in Mid-Victorian Women\'s Writing
	5 The \"quest for harmony\"? Utopia, Matriarchal Communities, and Feminist Self-Critique
	6 Jan Morris and the Territory Between: Interrogating Nation and Normality in Contemporary Welsh Trans Writing
Part II: Networks
	7 \"Men shall not make us foes\": Charlotte Brontë\'s Letters and her Female Friendship Networks
	8 Transatlantic Feminism and Antislavery Activism: Women\'s Networks, Letter Writing, and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
	9 Forgotten Feminist Fiction: Netta Syrett, New Woman Writing, and Women\'s Suffrage
	10 \"It was Little more than a dining club\": Examining the Epistolary Networks of Willa Muir and Helen B. Cruickshank in the Founding of Scottish PEN
	11 \"What means a frontier?\" Nancy Cunard, Feminist Internationalism, and the Spanish Civil War
Part III: Bodies
	12 Reputation of [her] pen: Retrieving the Black Female Body From the Margins of the Page and the Stage
	13 \"We wear the bandages, but our limbs have not grown to them\": Eugenic Feminism and Female Economic Dependence in Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
	14 Lesbian-trans-feminist Modernism and Sexual Science: Irene Clyde and Urania
	15 \"Beauty in Revolt\": Fashioning Feminists in Rebecca West and Jean Rhys
	16 \"The rule of three\": Textual Triads, Trialogues, and Women\'s Voices in Sylvia Plath, Jackie Kay, and Debbie Tucker Green
	17 Feminism, Eugenics, and Genetics: From Convergence to Contestation
Part IV: Production
	18 \"O Happiness, thou pleasing dream, / Where is thy substance found?\" Anne Steele\'s Public and Private Eighteenth-Century Writings on Happiness
	19 \"Dearest Norah…\": The Professional and Personal Relationships Forged Between an Editor and her Authors
	20 Feminist Citation in Buchi Emecheta\'s Early Fiction and Autobiography: Publishing Race, Class, and Gender
	21 \"Working with the cloth\": Materialising Women\'s Creative Labour in the Work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge, and Joan Riley
	22 \"To the sisters I always wanted\": Women, Writers\' Groups, and Print Culture in Glasgow, 1980–1988
	23 Mother Country: Leonora Brito Writes Wales – Black British Identity, Maternity, and Memory in the Welsh Short Story
Part V: Activism
	24 In a Circle with Mary Hays: Writing Novels to Reform Society in the 1790s
	25 In the Advance Guard of Victorian Literary Feminism: The Actress as an Independent Woman and Social Reformer in Eliza Lynn Linton\'s Realities: A Tale (1851)
	26 \"Rice puddings, made without milk\": Mother Seacole Reforms \"home habits\" in the Crimea
	27 \"Your Great Adventure is to report her faithfully\": The Centring of Women\'s Voices and Stories in Suffrage Theatre
	28 A Life Can Be a Manifesto: Connecting Bernadine Evaristo to a History of Feminist Manifestos
	29 Holding Women\'s Voices: Open Clasp as an Example of Feminist Theatre Practice
	30 Protecting the Land, Safeguarding the Future: Ecofeminism, Activist Women\'s Writing, and Contemporary Publishing in Wales
Index