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Gender Studies

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The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

Embroidering the Scarlet A

Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno

Tactics of the Human

Experimental Technics in American Fiction

By Laura Shackelford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Literature, Digital Projects, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Imagining Adoption

Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited by Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists

Another Part of a Long Story

Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton

By William Davies King
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

The long-neglected story of a literary marriage and the wife who helped America's first canonical playwright launch his career

Susan Glaspell in Context

American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

By J. Ellen Gainor
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

The first in-depth examination of the theatrical achievements of this acclaimed playwright

Coming After

Essays on Poetry

By Alice Notley
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

Mammy

A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory

By Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

The Unraveling Archive

Essays on Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College

Edited by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Jennifer Ann Price
By Olive San Louie Anderson
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, Education, American Studies

A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university

The Body of Poetry

Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self

By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays, reviews, and memoir by one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation

Nimble Believing

Dickinson and the Unknown

By James McIntosh
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Religion

A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily Dickinson's poetry

Soul Barnacles

Ten More Years with Ray

By Gallagher
Edited by Greg Simon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Documents that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong

The Black Female Body in American Culture

Edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

The Instant of Knowing

Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose

By Josephine Jacobsen
Edited by Elizabeth Spires
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A rich assortment of the writings of rediscovered octogenarian poet Josephine Jacobsen

Susan Glaspell

Essays on Her Theater and Fiction

Edited by Linda Ben-Zvi
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, 19th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The first book-length critical assessment of American playwright and fiction writer Susan Glaspell

On Gwendolyn Brooks

Reliant Contemplation

Edited by Stephen Caldwell Wright
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Under Discussion

A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize

Telling Incest

Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard

Becoming a Poet

Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell

By David Kalstone
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Literature, Modern Literature

A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams

By Rachel Hadas
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, European Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet

Dancing at the Devil's Party

Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic

By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present

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