The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing - Couverture souple

Dawson, Hannah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241633974 ISBN 13 : 9780241633977

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2023

Synopsis

'A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography... endlessly fascinating' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times

'A tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents' Jennifer Thomson, Review 31

'The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicity of voices from various times and spaces allows women of the past alongside women of the present to be noisy about why feminism matters. It is a collective masterpiece' Helen Carr, BBC History, Books of the Year

'Bulging with brilliant and exciting writing. Its vast sweep takes us from the 15th century, when Christine de Pizan, a court writer in medieval France, imagined a City of Ladies where women would be safe from harassment, through to the present day, with work by Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy and Lola Olufemi' Rachel Cooke, Observer

Edited with an Introduction by Hannah Dawson

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hannah Dawson is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at King's College London. Her previous book was Life Lessons from Hobbes. She read hundreds of thousands of words to whittle down to the sublime selection represented here.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Feminism is the insight that sexism exists, and the struggle against that oppression. The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a global anthology of feminist writers, edited and introduced with a major new essay by Hannah Dawson.

Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men, the book reaches around the earth and through the years to us, now, splashing about in the fourth wave. It goes beyond the usual whi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241633974
• ISBN 13: 9780241633977
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas