Creating safe space
Subtitle: violence and women's writing
By: edited by Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp.
Contributors: Kuribayashi, Tomoko.; Tharp, Julie Ann.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries; Child abuse in literature; Sex crimes in literature; Feminism and literature; Violence in literature; Women -- Crimes against; Incest in literature
Other titles: Violence and women's writing
Description: Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds.

The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women.

A number of essays illuminate ways in which writing can be employed in women's workshops and college classrooms. They bridge the interdisciplinary distances among the fields of literary criticism, creative writing, psychology, sociology, social welfare, history, journalism, education, and others in which feminist scholars have worked to draw public attention to, and provide solutions to, the various kinds of abuse women endure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.