Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing
Author | : S. Jansen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 023011881X |
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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.