Women Writing Culture

Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."

Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."

This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers took active roles in negotiating cultural ideas and systems to gain power by participating in politics through writing, shaping the aesthetics of genre, and fashioning feminine gender, despite constraints on women. Through the lens of cultural studies, the authors explore the ways in which women of this era worked to actually create culture. Articles cover five areas: women, writing, and material culture; women as objects and agents in reproducing culture; women's role in producing gender; popular culture and women's pamphlets; and women's bodies as inscriptions of culture.

Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Irish Women's Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of Austerity -- Cycles of Boom and Bust: Austerity as Violence -- Social Change -- Irish Women's Writing and Austerity -- Woman as Nation -- Pregnancy and Motherhood -- Waking the Feminists: A Women's Protest -- Chapter Outlines -- Austerity, Feminism, and Conflict -- Arts and Austerity -- Race and Austerity -- Spaces of Austerity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section 1 Austerity, Feminism, and Conflict -- 2 Two Opposing Narratives?: The Field Day and LIP Pamphlets -- Disparate Fields of Power: The Field Day (1983-1988) and LIP Pamphlets (1989-1992) -- Overcoming Austerity By Opening Up the Irish Cultural Sphere -- Upholding and Dismantling Austerity: The Habitus of the Field Day and LIP Pamphlets -- "Compositional Codes": The LIP and Field Day Pamphlets -- The Aftermath of the Field Day Anthology I-III -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of Ireland -- Introduction -- Forming Charabanc Theatre Company -- Illuminating Shared Herstories -- Second-Wave Feminism On the Island of Ireland -- Feminist Politics and the Female Gaze -- Consciousness-Raising Through Performance -- Artistic and Commercial Success -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4 #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry - A Personal Reflection -- Introduction -- Interlude: Reflections From the Background(s), Or the Hall of Mirrors, Or How We See Ourselves Disappear -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start?.

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value.