The New Feminist Literary Studies

Description

The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.

Jennifer Cooke is author of Contemporary Feminist Life-writing: The New Audacity (Cambridge, forthcoming) and Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory, and Film (2009) and edited Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature (2013) and a special issue of Textual Practice (September 2013). She chairs the Gendered Lives Research Group.

'The prose is elegant, sophisticated, and accessible and the text as a whole will be useful for both teaching and research.' E. R. Baer, Choice