Title: Women's Fiction 1945-2005
First published: May 27, 2006
Description: "Organized around each decade of the postwar period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period, and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the 'canon' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership and so offer a means of charting the changes in ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the postwar period."--Jacket.
Subjects: Books and reading, Women authors, English fiction, American fiction, History and criticism, Women, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, English fiction, history and criticism, 21st century, American fiction, history and criticism, 21st century, English fiction, women authors, Women and literature, Feminism and literature