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Author Reisman, Mara E., author

Title Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions / Mara E. Reisman
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Contents Feminism, women's fiction, and The Fat Woman's Joke -- Articulating the concerns of women's liberation -- Complicating a feminist reading of Fay Weldon's fiction -- Ethics and morality: Fay Weldon as a social critic -- Fay Weldon's public persona -- Art, economics, and the politics of purity -- Challenging narrative truth
Summary "This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. Mara Reisman provides in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fiction and contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Weldon, Fay -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Weldon, Fay fast
Subject Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Feminism.
feminism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Feminism
Manners and customs
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043318
Subject England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018051520
ISBN 9781498581271
1498581277