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9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen
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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Acknowledgments viii
- Notes on Contributors x
- Introduction: New Literary Perspectives on Women’s Work 1
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PART I: THE LABOR OF LITERATURE
- 1. Feminist Bibliography: Aki Hayashi, Literary Assistant 31
- 2. Reading Women’s Work in the Karen Brahe Library 47
- 3. The Labors of Shakespeare’s Sisters 66
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PART II: THE WORK OF CHANGE
- 4 Comics in the RESISTance: Modeling the Feminized Work of Activism 85
- 5. Mothers of Invention: New Maternal Writings, Women, and Precarious Work Culture 101
- 6. Terror as Usual: Gender-based Violence and Women’s Work in Cherie Jones’s How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 119
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PART III: THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORM
- 7. Scrappy Time: Domestic Work and Adrienne Rich’s Literary Fragment 139
- 8. Cheap Talk: Conversation, Gender, and Labor in Talking to Women, The Pumpkin Eater, and The Golden Notebook 156
- 9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen 174
- Afterword: Women’s Work Across Contexts 191
- Index 200
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Acknowledgments viii
- Notes on Contributors x
- Introduction: New Literary Perspectives on Women’s Work 1
-
PART I: THE LABOR OF LITERATURE
- 1. Feminist Bibliography: Aki Hayashi, Literary Assistant 31
- 2. Reading Women’s Work in the Karen Brahe Library 47
- 3. The Labors of Shakespeare’s Sisters 66
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PART II: THE WORK OF CHANGE
- 4 Comics in the RESISTance: Modeling the Feminized Work of Activism 85
- 5. Mothers of Invention: New Maternal Writings, Women, and Precarious Work Culture 101
- 6. Terror as Usual: Gender-based Violence and Women’s Work in Cherie Jones’s How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 119
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PART III: THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORM
- 7. Scrappy Time: Domestic Work and Adrienne Rich’s Literary Fragment 139
- 8. Cheap Talk: Conversation, Gender, and Labor in Talking to Women, The Pumpkin Eater, and The Golden Notebook 156
- 9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen 174
- Afterword: Women’s Work Across Contexts 191
- Index 200