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Are Girls Necessary?

Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories

By Julie Abraham

"Are girls necessary?" asks Julie Abraham in this provocative study of 20th-century lesbian writing.

Examining the development of lesbian writing in…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91457-4 (Routledge)

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Imperial Leather

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

By Anne McClintock

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90890-0 (Routledge)

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Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature

The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect

Edited by Dr Ruth Evans, Ruth Evans, Leslie Johnson

This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05819-3 (Routledge)

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Sordid Images

The Poetry of Masculine Desire

By Steve Clark

In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English…

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1994 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06801-7 (Routledge)

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The Discourse of Slavery

From Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison

By Carla Plasa Nfa, Carl Plasa, Betty J. Ring

The Discourse of Slavery is an innovative collection of fascinating essays addressing the problematic of slavery within literary, cultural and political writings. For the first…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08152-8 (Routledge)

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Between Women

Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women

Edited by Carol Ascher, Louise DeSalvo, Sara Ruddick

First published in 1984, Between Women provides groundbreaking analyses of women's writing about women. A compilation of stories from biographers, novelists, scholars and artists about…

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1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90770-5 (Routledge)

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The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

By Jack Zipes

Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm…

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1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90835-1 (Routledge)

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Gender in the Theater of War

Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

By Barbara E. Bowen

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-0042-7 (Routledge)

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Elemental Passions

By Luce Irigaray

Elemental Passions explores the man/woman relaitonship in a series of meditations of the senses and the formal elements. Its form resembles a series of love…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90692-0 (Routledge)

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Romanticism and Gender

By Anne K. Mellor

Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90664-7 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

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

Representing Mixed Race Women: THE 'BROWN WOMAN' IN JAMAICA AND ENGLAND FROM THE ABOLITION ERA TO THE PRESENT
By Sara Salih
To be published February 1st 2010

Rhetoric, Body, Style: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Religion and Race
By Patricia PARKER
To be published March 1st 2010

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