Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

by Sharon L. Jansen

Book Overview

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349293148
• ISBN13: 9781349293148
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"