postfeminism

Michael Wutz reviews Bruce Clarke’s Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science

Dora Marsden was not a madwoman in the attic. When she and her female compatriots climbed down from the attic of the Southport Empire theater on 3 December 1909 to disrupt a public appearance by Winston Churchill, she did so as a freewoman agitating for universal suffrage and gender equality. Soon she was to edit a short-lived journal by the same name, the Freewoman, to be renamed and reconceived as the New Freewoman and, eventually, the Egoist - three journals that were to have a formative impact on the literary and artistic configuration of modernism. Bruce Clarke retraces Marsden’s wide-ranging but hitherto largely unacknowledged influence on her modernist contemporaries and, in the spirit of revisionary literary and cultural criticism, seeks to correct “a tradition of misinformation” (4) that has led to a monolithic and largely masculinist construction of modern literature.

From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminism.

I'll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?" is an essay requested by Elisabeth Joyce for the electronic bookreview (2005.01.29). It is described like this: "From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminism.

Lisa Yaszek discusses new terminologies for feminism, and the patriarchy.

Is there such a thing as womens' writing? Or, for that matter, womens' media? Elisabeth Joyce moves through the work of Annie Abrahams and writes against restrictive domestications of electronic media.

(Source: journal abstract)