Herspace
Subtitle: women, writing, and solitude
By: Jo Malin, Victoria Boynton, editors.
Contributors: Malin, Jo, 1942-; Boynton, Victoria.
Series: Haworth innovations in feminist studies
Publisher: Haworth Press; Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Authorship -- Sex differences.; Personal space in literature.; Solitude in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: About the Editors vii; title: Contributors ix; title: Acknowledgments xiii; title: Introduction 1; title: Jo Malin; title: SECTION I: WOMEN THEORIZING HERSPACE- SOLITUDE AND WRITING 19; title: 1. Women Alone: The Spinster's Art 21; title: Suzette A. Henke; title: 2. With Sure and Uncertain Footing: Negotiating the Terrain of a Solitude in May Sarton's Journals 39; title: Lisette Schillig; title: 3. Unknown Women: Secular Solitude in the Works of Alice Koller and May Sarton 73; title: Christina Pugh; title: 4. A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self 95; title: Lisa Johnson; title: 5. Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self 105; title: Kristina Deffenbacher; title: 6. The Domestic Politics of Marguerite Duras 123; title: Annabelle Cone; title: SECTION II: WOMEN'S WRITING SPACES- SOLITUDE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS 143; title: 7. Writing Women, Solitary Space, and the Ideology of Domesticity 147; title: Victoria Boynton; title: 8. Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing 165; title: Claudia Mon Pere; title: 9. Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others 179; title: Eleanor Berry; title: SECTION III: WOMEN WRITING HERSPACE- PERSONAL TAKES ON HOME 201; title: 10. What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction) 205; title: Jan Wellington; title: 11. The Little Gray House and Me 231; title: Claudia A. Limbert; title: 12. The Colors and the Light 239; title: Maria Brown; title: 13. A Woman's Place 245; title: Anne Mamary; title: 14. Reframing My Life 261; title: Mary Rose; title: 15. An &/or Peace Performance 275; title: H. Kassia Fleisher &/or Joe Amato; title: Afterword 283; title: Victoria Boynton.