Title: Creating safe space
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.
Subjects: Feminism and literature, English literature, Incest in literature, Violence in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Crimes against, Women authors, Sex crimes in literature, Women and literature, Child abuse in literature, Women, American literature, women authors, English literature, women authors, Women, crimes against, Écrits de femmes américains, Histoire et critique, Écrits de femmes anglais, Femmes et littérature, Enfants, Violence envers, dans la littérature, Crimes sexuels dans la littérature, Violence dans la littérature, Femmes, Crimes contre, Inceste dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General