Women's Vision in Western Literature: The Empathic Community

by Laurence M. Porter

From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition. Women's Vision in Western Literature traces the gender gap in literature from 600 B.C. to the present day through an examination of seven extraordinary women writers from Sappho to Christa Wolf. Combining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313318301
• ISBN13: 9780313318306
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"