This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics
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Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
ISBN
9780252039805, 0252039807, 9780252081347, 025208134X
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Prairie State College - Stacks | PS228.F45 T48 2016 | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Second-wave feminism -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Second-wave feminism -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780252039805, 0252039807, 9780252081347, 025208134X
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harker, J., & Farr, C. K. (2016). This book is an action: feminist print culture and activist aesthetics . University of Illinois Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harker, Jaime and Cecilia Konchar Farr. 2016. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics. University of Illinois Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harker, Jaime and Cecilia Konchar Farr. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics University of Illinois Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harker, Jaime,, and Cecilia Konchar Farr. This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics University of Illinois Press, 2016.
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