Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women’S Writing

Patricia Yaeger

Published by Columbia University Press 1988

Honey-Mad Women

Emancipatory Strategies in Women’S Writing

Patricia Yaeger

In the series Gender and Culture

https://doi.org/10.7312/yaeg91456

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Challenges the notion that women writers are unable to write about their pleasure and are 'estranged from language' by identifying contexts in which women find language empowering and in which women speak of their pleasure and find pleasure in speech.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
ONE: Honey-Mad Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TWO: The Bilingual Heroine: From “Text” to “Work” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
THREE: The Animality of the Letter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
FOUR: Alice Can Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
FIVE: Writing as Action: A Vindication of the Rights of Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
SIX: The Novel and Laughter: Wuthering Heights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
SEVEN: Toward a Theory of Play Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
EIGHT: Emancipatory Strategies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 318

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231883832