The Muses of Resistance
Subtitle: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 17391796
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780521021951
Subjects: Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Social Science; Poetry; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; English poetry--18th century--History and cri; English poetry--18th century--History and criticism; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies
First sentence: For a materialist feminism, engaged in historicizing the categories of class, race, and sexuality as well as gender with an eye towards intervening in their historical effects, working-class women's histories constitute an important site of investigation.