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Sleuths in Skirts

A Bibliography and Analysis of Serialized Female Sleuths

By Frances A. Della Cava, Madeline H. Engel

Basing their analysis on a detailed bibliography of more than 2,280 books featuring 522 characters of American mystery fiction, the authors explore how the female…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3884-0 (Routledge)

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Judith Butler

By Sara Salih

Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21519-0 (Routledge)

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The Cold Counsel

The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

Edited by Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history,…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1966-5 (Routledge)

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Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

Edited by Peter I. Barta

Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27130-1 (Routledge)

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Regendering the School Story

Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys

By Beverly Lyon Clark

In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92891-5 (Routledge)

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Women Claim Islam

Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

By Miriam Cooke

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92554-9 (Routledge)

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Arthurian Women

A Casebook

Edited by Thelma S. Fenster

This collection gathers recent criticism focusing on female characters in Arthurian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Touching on important characters from Morgan…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92889-2 (Routledge)

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On the Winds and Waves of Imagination

Transnational Feminism and Literature

By Constance S. Richards

This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb.…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3366-1 (Routledge)

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Going Global

The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

By Amal Amireh, Lisa Suhair Majaj

This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception.…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-8153-3606-8 (Routledge)

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Profit and Pleasure

Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism

By Rosemary Hennessy

Drawing on an international range of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the discussion of sexuality to a consideration…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92426-9 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Genders
By David Glover, Cora Kaplan
To be published December 11th 2008

Genders
By David Glover, Cora Kaplan
To be published December 11th 2008

Shakespeare in Children's Literature: Gender and Cultural Capital
By Erica Hateley
To be published December 12th 2008

German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
By Jocelyn Holland
To be published March 23rd 2009

Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism: Tracing Nightwood
By Monika Faltejskova
To be published July 15th 2009

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