The New Feminist Literary Studies
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1839
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108599504
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108471930
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book took over three years to research, commission, edit, and prepare for publication. It contains sixteen essays by twenty established and emerging scholars (four chapters are co-authored), all addressing contemporary feminist debates. Each takes a different angle, contemporary problem, sub-area of feminist scholarship, or literary genre as their topic to produce a sustained investigation of contemporary feminism from multiple perspectives. It features a chapter and an introduction written by the editor.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This collection investigates how feminisms have responded to very recently highlighted phenomena such as transfeminism and the #MeToo movement’s confrontation with sexual violence. It explores the ways and means by which contemporary feminist thought is evolving in the rapidly shifting socio-political contexts of the Anglo-American West during the twenty-first century in sixteen essays commissioned from established and emerging scholars and activists.
In bridging the gap between ‘academic’ feminisms and activism beyond the academy, much of it online, the collection draws upon literary criticism, disability and queer studies, eco-theory, and Marxist feminism, along with analysis of visual and digital material. Rather than simply offering a survey of contemporary thinking, the collection is a dynamic intervention in its fields, with contributors tasked with the research questions, ‘How has feminism and feminist scholarship reacted to this contemporary issue or challenge?’ and ‘How does your feminist scholarship extend our knowledge and understanding of this issue or challenge?’
The editor places literary and political discourses in dialogue with each other in order to facilitate fresh readings of novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoirs, and poetry. This means that instead of being a series of discrete chapters, the book’s editing and introduction establish a reflexive relationship between individual contributions, allowing cohesion and clear critical focus.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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