Creating safe space : violence and women's writing

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Label

Creating safe space : violence and women's writing

Title remainder

violence and women's writing

Statement of responsibility

edited by Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp

Title variation

Violence and women's writing

Contributor

• Kuribayashi, Tomoko
• Tharp, Julie Ann

Subject

• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Child abuse in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Feminism and literature
• Incest in literature
• Sex crimes in literature
• Violence in literature
• Women -- Crimes against
• Women and literature -- English-speaking countries
• Women and literature -- Great Britain
• Women and literature -- United States

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds. The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women." "A number of essays illuminate ways in which writing can be employed in women's workshops and college classrooms. They bridge the interdisciplinary distances among the fields of literary criticism, creative writing, psychology, sociology, social welfare, history, journalism, education, and others in which feminist scholars have worked to draw public attention to, and provide solutions to, the various kinds of abuse women endure."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/9287

Index

index present

LC call number

PS147

LC item number

.C74 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography