Hysterical fictions

Description:

"The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught between identification with a male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of culturally derogated female embodiment. Using a variety of philosophical perspectives, she analyses the gendering of thought and culture and the complex ways in which the female body is coded as 'outside' or as preceding culture."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Body, Human, in literature,  Books and reading,  English Feminist fiction,  English fiction,  Femininity in literature,  Feminism and literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Mind and body in literature,  Sex role in literature,  Women,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Women in literature,  Human body in literature,  English fiction, history and criticism,  Sex in literature,  Criticism and interpretation

Places: Great Britain

Times: 20th century