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Critical Essays on New Feminist Writings

Critical Essays on New Feminist Writings


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I shall speak about women’s writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies-for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history-by her own movement. —Helene Cixous This book Critical Essays on New Feminist Writings attempts to persuade the readers to expand their unde rstanding and knowle dge on ne w feminist discourses, thereby inviting them to take social action. Literature promotes values of women’s rights directly or indirectly. New Feminist literature aims to transform the impact of the reading experience into a motivation for social action. The book also aims to place texts that keep women’s rights at the core of its social liability. Every society should become gender-egalitarian when the voices of all the genders are not only heard, but incorporated into the making of a social system. The book examines how new feminist literature has helped to create a paradigm shift from emancipatory politics to representative praxis. It focuses on the ethical and political questions that arise from this discourse-shift in contemporary works of literature from across the globe. It further investigates what literature can hope to accomplish in the wake of escalating gender violence and examine the new kinds of responsibility that these texts create in a globalizing world. Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. “The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-castetreat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death” (Periyar E.V. Ramasamy) It is only during the 18th century-a period of intense intellectua


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789386655899
  • Publisher: PACIFIC BOOKS INTERNATIONAL
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN-10: 9386655896
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2018
  • Language: English

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