{"product_id":"little-women-and-the-feminist-imagination-9781138798977","title":"LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and reprints of six classic essays.\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers, and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar, parent, and resisting male reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, \u003cem\u003eJanice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark\u003c\/em\u003e * Meg, Amy, Beth, Jo, and Marmee Face Life in the '80s, \u003cem\u003eVictoria Roberts\u003c\/em\u003e * Waiting Together: (Alcott on Matriarchy), \u003cem\u003eNina Auerbach\u003c\/em\u003e * Alcotts' Civil War, \u003cem\u003eJudith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eFetterley\u003c\/em\u003e * Introduction to \u003cem\u003eLittle Women, Ann Douglas\u003c\/em\u003e * Reading for Love: Canons, Paracanons, and Whistling Jo March, \u003cem\u003eCatharine R. Stimpson\u003c\/em\u003e * The Most Beautiful Things in All the World? Families in \u003cem\u003eLittle Women, Elizabeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLennox Kayser\u003c\/em\u003e * Portraying \u003cem\u003eLittle Women \u003c\/em\u003eThrough the Ages, \u003cem\u003eAnne Hollander\u003c\/em\u003e * Getting Cozy with a Classic: Visualizing \u003cem\u003eLittle Women, Susan R. Gannon\u003c\/em\u003e * Queer Performances: Lesbian Politics, \u003cem\u003eRoberta Seelinger Trites\u003c\/em\u003e * Notes of a Resisting (Male) Reader, \u003cem\u003eJan Susina\u003c\/em\u003e * In Jo's Garrett: The Space of Imagination, \u003cem\u003eSue Standing\u003c\/em\u003e * A Power in the House: The Architecture of Individual Expression, \u003cem\u003eDavid Watters\u003c\/em\u003e * Prophets and Martyrs: Pilgrims and Missionaries, in \u003cem\u003eLittle Women \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eJack and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eJill, Anne K. Phillips\u003c\/em\u003e * Searching for Feminist Utopia, \u003cem\u003eKathryn Manson Tomasek\u003c\/em\u003e * Transatlantic Translations: Communities of Education in Alcott and Bronte, \u003cem\u003eChristine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoyle Francis\u003c\/em\u003e * Alcott's Response to Girls' Miseducation, \u003cem\u003eSusan Laird\u003c\/em\u003e * Rereading and Rewriting Alcott, \u003cem\u003eJanice M.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlberghene\u003c\/em\u003e * Songs to Aging Children: Alcott's March Trilogy, \u003cem\u003eMichelle Masse\u003c\/em\u003e * Alcott in Japan: A Selected Bibliography, \u003cem\u003eAiko Moro-oka\u003c\/em\u003e * Selected Bibliography of Alcott Biography and Criticism, \u003cem\u003eBeverly Lyon Clark and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinnea Hendrickson \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019526406487,"sku":"9781138798977","price":45.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138798977.jpg?v=1750780533","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/little-women-and-the-feminist-imagination-9781138798977","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}