Title: Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions /
Authors: Reisman, Mara E.,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Weldon, Fay Criticism and interpretation.; Weldon, Fay; Women in literature; Women and literature.; Sex role in literature; Feminism; Feminism; Manners and customs; Sex role in literature.; Women and literature; Women in literature; England Social life and customs.; England
Abstract: "This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. Mara Reisman provides in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fiction and contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain"--
Contents: Feminism, women's fiction, and The Fat Woman's Joke -- Articulating the concerns of women's liberation -- Complicating a feminist reading of Fay Weldon's fiction -- Fay Weldon as a social critic : ethics and morality -- Fay Weldon's public persona -- Art, economics, and the politics of purity -- Challenging narrative truth.