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Journal articles on the topic "Dystopias in literature. Women in literature. Feminist literature"

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Abdelbaky, Ashraf. "A Perfect World or an Oppressive World: A Critical Study of Utopia and Dystopia as Subgenres of Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 4, no. 3 (March 28, 2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v4i3.1201.

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In this article, I investigates the concept of utopia and dystopia in literature since the time of Plato and Thomas More and how it became a significant subgenre of science fiction. I present the kinds of utopia and its fundamental purposes as well as the different explanations for the term utopia and dystopia by numerous critics. I stress the function of science fiction as a literary tool to depict the grim picture and the weaknesses of current societies, dystopias, and to provide a warning for the future of these societies by presenting alternative peaceful societies; utopias. Therefore, I seek to investigate how utopian writings play a central role in uncovering the shortcomings of societies and presenting a formative criticism towards them. I also discuss how utopia and dystopia give women the chance to present their feminist demands using science fiction.
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Gilarek, Anna. "Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0066-3.

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In patriarchy women are frequently perceived as “the other” and as such they are subject to discrimination and marginalization. The androcentric character of patriarchy inherently confines women to the fringes of society. Undeniably, this was the case in Western culture throughout most of the twentieth century, before the social transformation triggered by the feminist movement enabled women to access spheres previously unavailable to them. Feminist science fiction of the 1970s, like feminism, attempted to challenge the patriarchal status quo in which gender-based discrimination against women was the norm. Thus, authors expressed, in a fictionalized form, the same issues that constituted the primary concerns of feminism in its second wave. As feminist science fiction is an imaginative genre, the critique of the abuses of the twentieth-century patriarchy is usually developed in defamiliarized, unreal settings. Consequently, current problems are recontextualized, a technique which is meant to give the reader a new perspective on certain aspects of life they might otherwise take for granted, such as the inadequacies of patriarchy and women’s marginality in society. Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split the narrative into a science fictional and a realistic strand so as to contrast the contemporary world with utopian and dystopian alternatives. Both texts are largely politicized as they expose and challenge the marginalized status of women in the American society of the 1970s. They explore the process of constructing marginalized identities, as well as the forms that marginalization takes in the society. Most importantly, they indicate the necessity of decisive steps being taken to improve the situation.
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Gurung, Lina. "The Digital Divide: An Inquiry from Feminist Perspectives." Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 12 (December 31, 2018): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v12i0.22179.

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Exponential use of ICT has brought colossal opportunities as well as challenges to the present society. In spite of increasing women’s involvement in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) , gender inequality has yet remained critical across the nations and globe. The uneven access and skills to technology has intensified the degree of digital divide specially for the women. Further the multifaced attribute of ICT and its relation with women is changing discourses among the feminist scholars. This is a conceptual paper which focuses on the deliberations of different feminists based on optimistic and pessimistic perspectives. Some studies show that the gender digital divide is getting intense while some have reported of alleviating gaps with more involvement of women. The concept of digital divide is beyond the access and includes various dimensions such as perception, usage, motivation, participation and skills. The paper deals with the tension between utopian and dystopian views on technology benefits. Through literature review this conceptual paper examines and discusses the diverse standpoints of feminist scholars from west and east which buzzes to redefine the relationship of gender with technology. It recommends that empowerment of women in technological domain is equally important as social, economic and political. Further women should be motivated from within to embrace ICT and get benefitted from its prospects. Resisting modern technology in the digital era would further widen the digital gap and thus make difficult to observe gender equality. More studies are required to explore the strategies for technological empowerment of women.
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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.04.

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After the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.
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Baccolini, Raffaella. "The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 518–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20587.

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It is widely accepted todaythat, whenever we receive or produce culture, we do so from a certain position and that such location influences how we theorize about and read the world. Because I am an Italian trained in the United States (specializing in American modernism) in the 1980s, my reading of science fiction has been shaped by my cultural and biographical circumstances as well as by my geography. It is a hybrid approach, combining these circumstances primarily with an interest in feminist theory and in writing by women. From the very beginning I have foregrounded issues of genre writing as they intersect with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. Such an approach, however, must also come to terms with the political and cultural circumstances that characterize this turn of the century.
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Bracke, Astrid. "Feminist Ecocriticism: Women, Environment, and Literature." English Studies 96, no. 4 (February 26, 2015): 483–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2014.998042.

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Musgamy, Awaliah, Muhammad Rusydi, and Kurniati Kurniati. "Gender Mainstreaming in Arabic Literature." Jurnal Al Bayan: Jurnal Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Arab 12, no. 2 (September 2, 2020): 245–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/albayan.v12i2.6468.

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Arabic literature is a means of gender mainstreaming which is very rich in gender issues. This is based on the social fact that Arab society in its historical footsteps has a stereotype as a community that is very thick with its patriarchal culture. Consequently, the social condition which is less responsive to gender influences the birth of Arabic literary works in various types in which gender issues such as marginalization of women, subordination of women to men, violence, negative stereotypes, and others. This article is qualitative research by using feminist Arabic literary criticism as a perspective, gender mainstreaming in Arabic literature is carried out by tracing the gender issues that exist in Arabic literature in its various forms. Through feminist Arabic literary criticism, various theories of feminist literary criticism consisting of ideological criticism, gynocritical criticism, socialist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, ethnic criticism, and lesbian criticism, are applied in transforming and reconstructing gender-responsive relations between men and women.
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Shuddhodhan P. Kamble. "Repression and Resistance in Dalit Feminist Literature." Creative Launcher 6, no. 3 (August 30, 2021): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.3.16.

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Feminist movements and Dalit feminist movement in India are mainly based on the experience of Repression and gender discrimination. Patriarchy, gender disparity and sexual violence are the basic reasons for these movements and they also find place prominently in the writings of Dalit women as they have come forward to write their experiences from women's point of view around 1980s. Baby Kamble, Urmila Pawar in Marathi, Geeta Nagabhushan in Kannada, P. Shivakami, Bama in Tamil have got national level consideration. Dalit women were raped; insulted and abused by the upper caste people. They are insecure in the society as they have been exploited on the various levels. This feeling of insecurity of the Dalit women is the central theme of their writings. These women writers have come forward to express their ideas, their experiences in social violence as well as in domestic violence and thus they protest their traditional existence with anger and anguish. Geeta Nagabhushan’s dalit novels, Barna’s Sangati (2005), P. Shivakani's Grip of Change (2006) are initial important writings of dalit feminism; Datit feminism writing is different from the conventional way of Feminist writing. Their experiences, expression, method of narration are extremely different from the upper caste women writers. It is found that every woman in the world has been degraded to second grade citizenship. The Dalit women in India suffer more due to their Dalit identity.
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S. Sahib, Dr Suhad. "Women in Literature (Fadila Faruq)." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 212, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 241–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v212i1.661.

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After the finishing of the research, we found the following results: The writer has sought to search for what they were through the heroines were often open text voice of equality, and take the heroines of women's rejecting voices the marginalization and persecution and to advocate openness to the world, it owes a world governed by traditions and superstitions. Touched on topics of interest to women crossing of the suffering of Arab women that hurt of sexual oppression, spinsterhood, and the violence of the man, her novel represent a cry against feminist ideas of traditional and stereotypical suffered by mothers in the stillness and silence. Taken from the body axis of subjects and penetrated the depth of the social relations and psychological generated through it, but most of her novels are breaking taboos has boldly as high in the description of intimate relations. - The masculine power is considered as the strategic entrance to the persecution of feminist is the central authority and control over the oppressed in society and especially the Algerian society, especially as this was the authority is the authority of the Father. Did not denounce the authority of the Father, but long-pen authority of the husband and brother. Masculine authority is in the eyes of the writer is the authority racist dictatorship, they are calling for the lost harmony between the female and masculine power, they are rejecting the personality of the woman in Haramlik or Psychological tension which is necessary characters and suffering from spiritual unity in spite of the presence of the man, the husband. Then enter into a world of utopia to achieve what cannot be achieved on the ground. At the level of the language we note that it choose the language appropriate to the contents of that address Sometimes it tends to discipline and sometimes tend to slang, but it did not disturb the nerve, especially with male photographed moments of intimate relationships.
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Wajiran, Wajiran. "Polygamy and Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesian Literature." Jurnal Humaniora 30, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.34821.

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This paper will examine the ways in which polygamy is addressed in contemporary Indonesian literature. The literature that will be analysed is that published after the reformation era, whereby new freedoms have encouraged many Muslim writers to raise this controversial issue. This paper will apply feminist theory especially that of the Muslim feminist Amina Wadud. Furthermore, in order to understand the contextuality of the works, a cultural materialist approach is also applied. There are some Indonesian writers who overtly depict polygamy in their literature, such as Habiburrahman El Shirazy and Alfina Dewi. Although they are all Muslims they have different perspectives in presenting the issue of polygamy in their works. These differences reflect Indonesian Islamic society where polygamy is controversial. Some Muslims accept polygamy as Islamic teaching but others do not.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Dystopias in literature. Women in literature. Feminist literature"

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Townsend, Jessica A. "How to save the future anxiety and social criticism in feminist dystopia /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lindstrom, Alexandra Elizabeth Anita. "A skeptical feminist exploration of binary dystopias in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2742.

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In Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of the Arthurian legends, The Mists of Avalon, she creates two dystopic cultures: Avalon and Camelot. Contrasting Bradley's account of the legends with the traditional version, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, reveals that Bradley's sweeping revisions of the tradition do little to create a feminist ideal. A skeptical questioning of the text's plot and characters with the Women's Movement in mind opens an interpretation of the text as a critique of feminism itself.
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Cooke, Nicole Lynn. "Feminist Dystopias and Ecofeminist Representation: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors154481823575487.

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Parent, Robin A. "A Feminist Examination of How Girls and Women Engage with a Female Protagonist in Dystopian Young Adult Literature." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4483.

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This qualitative research study used a theoretical framework of third-wave feminism and reader response theory to examine two research questions: How do girls and women relate to the female protagonist in dystopian young adult literature (YAL)? and How are the responses to dystopian YAL similar and different for the targeted teen audience and the adult audience? A group of four teenaged girls and another group of three adult women read and discussed the YAL dystopian text Uglies. For this project, I collected participant journals and transcripts from individual interviews and book club discussions. I selected quotations from each data source that highlighted the participant’s reactions to the protagonist. Data were analyzed in two phases. In phase one, I used discourse analysis, and in phase two I used constant comparative analysis. The analyses revealed that participants from both groups identified with the protagonist’s attempts to improve society, which aligns both groups’ responses with inclusive aspects of third-wave feminism. However, other aspects of feminism were incorporated into their answers as well. The women participants demonstrated a broader societal concern, such as those shared by second wave feminists. The girls, in contrast, were firmly situated within individualist aspects of third-wave feminism. Whereas, the women related to the protagonist on both a personal and broader societal level, the girls related only on a personal level. Findings from this research extend reader response theory by showing that responses to literature are strongly shaped by generational position.
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Lewis, Abby N. "“It could have happened to any of you”: Post-Wounded Women in Three Contemporary Feminist Dystopian Novels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3883.

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My goal for this thesis is to investigate the concept of (mis)labeling female protagonists in contemporary British fiction as mentally ill—historically labeled as madness—when subjected to traumatic events. The female protagonists in two novels by Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure (2018) and Blue Ticket (2020), and Jenni Fagan’s 2012 novel The Panopticon, are raised in environments steeped in trauma and strict, hegemonic structures that actively work to control and mold their identities. In The Panopticon, this system is called “the experiment”; in The Water Cure, it is personified by the character King and those who follow him; and in Blue Ticket, it is the social structure as a whole reflected in the character of Doctor A. To simply label these novels’ woman protagonists as ill would be to ignore that their behavior is not mental illness but in fact rational behavior produced by the traumatic dystopian environments.
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Spriggs, Bianca L. "Women of the Apocalypse: Afrospeculative Feminist Novelists." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/56.

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“Women of the Apocalypse: Feminist Afrospeculative Writers,” seeks to address the problematic ‘Exodus narrative,’ a convention that has helped shape Black American liberation politics dating back to the writings of Phyllis Wheatley. Novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker undermine and complicate this narrative by challenging the trope of a single charismatic male leader who leads an entire race to a utopic promised land. For these writers, the Exodus narrative is unsustainable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because there is no room for women to operate outside of the role of supportive wives. The mode of speculative fiction is well suited to crafting counter-narratives to Exodus mythology because of its ability to place marginalized voices in the center from the stance of ‘What next?’ My project is a hybrid in that I combine critical theory with original poems. The prose section of each chapter contextualizes a novel and its author with regard to Exodus mythology. However, because novels can only reveal so much about character development, I identify spaces to engage and elaborate upon the conversation incited by these authors’ feminist protagonists. In the tradition of Black American poets such as, Ai, Patricia Smith, Rita Dove, and Tyehimba Jess, in my own personal creative work, I regularly engage historical figures through recovering the narratives of underrepresented voices. To write in persona or limited omniscient, spotlighting an event where the reader possesses incomplete information surrounding a character’s experience, the result becomes a kind of call-and-response interaction with these novels.
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Brennan, Zoe. "Representations of older women in contemporary literature." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271040.

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This study argues that novels by contemporary women writers, such as Doris Lessing, May Sarton, Barbara Pym and Jenny Diski, through their representation of older female protagonists, create alternative discourses of ageing to those that dominate Western society. By placing these figures at the centre of their narratives, the texts counteract the silence and pejorative stereotyping that routinely surrounds the lives of the aged. The technique of studying literary representations of women is not new; in fact, it is a trusted part of feminist methodology. However, one of the assertions of this dissertation is that it is rarely used to investigate texts about the senescent, reflecting feminism's failure to include the older women in their theories. Part one of the dissertation examines such issues in depth, setting out the theoretical orientation of the study. It considers popular representations and paradigms of ageing, as well as considering the power of normalising discourse and dynamics of representation. Part two uses this material to analyse the strategies that British and North American authors have employed, since the 1960's, to challenge common stereotypes of older women. The first three chapters focus on novels that portray protagonists who display emotions, not usually associated with the old, which are revealed in relation to different aspects of ageing: anger and frustration (dependency); passion and desire (sexuality); and contentment (daily life). Chapter 7, 'The Wise and Archetypal Older Woman', shifts its attention away from more realist texts to study characters who emerge from the covers of ratiocinative fiction. It argues that conventional critiques of the genre often negate its more polemical elements, which is a result of their failure to use an age- and gender-aware approach and a problem that generally greets intelligent novels about female senescence. This thesis sees itself as part of a movement that aims to create a space in which older female characters' voices can be heard and recognised. It contends that the authors treated here produce visions of ageing that are not solely concerned with stagnation and decline. They represent a varied and compelling group of protagonists and, in doing so, illustrate that older women are worthy of literary, social and feminist interest.
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Shaw, Debra Benita. "The feminist perspective : women writing science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386254.

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González, María Carmen. "Toward a feminist identity : contemporary Mexican-American women novelists /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148769438939502.

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Bretag, Tracey. "Subversive mothers : contemporary women writers challenge motherhood ideology /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb844.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Dystopias in literature. Women in literature. Feminist literature"

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Kontestacja i banał: Feminizm w kulturze współczesnej. Wrocław: Atla 2, 2005.

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Encyclopedia of feminist literature. New York: Facts On File, 2006.

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Encyclopedia of feminist literature. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004.

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Feminist ecocriticism: Environment, women, and literature. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2012.

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Felski, Rita. Beyond feminist aesthetics: Feminist literature and social change. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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Felski, Rita. Beyond feminist aesthetics: Feminist literature and social change. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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Beyond feminist aesthetics: Feminist literature and social change. London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989.

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Constantinescu, Ligia Doina. Feminist issues and approaches. 2nd ed. Iași: Casa Editorială Demiurg, 2005.

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Felski, Rita. Beyond feminist aesthetics: Feminist literature and social change. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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Liberating literature: Feminist fiction in America. London: Routledge, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Dystopias in literature. Women in literature. Feminist literature"

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Dulfano, Isabel. "Canonical Representations of Indigenous Women in Latin American Literature." In Indigenous Feminist Narratives, 14–29. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137531315_2.

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Veve, A. Clark. "14. Talking Shop: A Comparative Feminist Approach to Caribbean Literature by Women." In Borderwork, edited by Margaret R. Higonnet, 267–79. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501723025-016.

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Czermińska, Małgorzata. "Women Writers in Polish Literature, 1945–95: From ‘Equal Rights for Women’ to Feminist Self-Awareness." In A History of Central European Women’s Writing, 220–39. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985151_14.

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Kennedy, Tanya Ann. "Lean In and Tell Me a (True) Story: Sheryl Sandberg’s Revision of Feminist History." In Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films, 65–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9_5.

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Phillips, Christina. "Feminist Perspectives." In Religion in the Egyptian Novel, 219–53. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417068.003.0008.

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This chapter explores feminist engagements with religion in works by Nawal Sa’dawi and Salwa Bakr. It reads Sa’dawi’s Suqut al-Imam (1987) and Jannat wa Iblis (1992) as feminist dystopias which employ unconventional narrative techniques to augment the dystopic effect and take issue with the founding texts of monotheism as historic vehicles for female oppression. It discusses Salwa Bakr’s rehabilitation of Zulaykha in Wasf al-Bulbul (1993) and explores Al-ʿAraba al-Dhahibiyya la Tasʿad ila al-Samaʾ (1991) by the same author as a critique of religion via the trope of madness, paying attention to how religion, as belief, custom, institution and law, is implicated in the plight of women in the text. The discussion also takes in the Alifa Rifʿat’s stories as a rare example of Islamic literature admitted to the canon. Each of these four chapters begins with a contextual introduction.
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Coste, Jill. "New Heroines in Old Skins: Fairy Tale Revisions in Young Adult Dystopian Literature." In Beyond the Blockbusters, 95–108. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827135.003.0007.

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This chapter examines three Sleeping Beauty retellings to illustrate the way dystopian scenarios complicate traditional fairy tale tropes. Dystopian literature and fairy tale retellings often feature elements of embodiment, romance, and political activism, and this chapter uses these key notions to consider how the dystopian fairy tale deploys feminist empowerment. While YA dystopian fairy tales often highlight collective action and social activism to resist the status quo, others reproduce troubling representations of passive heroines. This chapter argues that the dystopian YA fairy tale is uniquely primed to address the potential and power of contemporary young women.
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"The Feminist Drabble." In Women, Philosophy and Literature, 41–58. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315546551-3.

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"Closing the garret door: a feminist reading of Little Women." In Introducing Children's Literature, 47–52. Routledge, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203995372-9.

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"STORYTELLING WOMEN." In Feminist Readings of Native American Literature, 121–38. University of Arizona Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fcf85b.9.

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"METIS WOMEN WRITERS." In Feminist Readings of Native American Literature, 15–42. University of Arizona Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fcf85b.5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Dystopias in literature. Women in literature. Feminist literature"

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Sundari, Wiwik, and Suyanto Suyanto. "Soekarno’s View of Indonesian Women The Memoir of Sarinah: A Critical Feminist Discourse Analysis." In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Culture, Literature, Language Maintenance and Shift, CL-LAMAS 2019, 13 August 2019, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. EAI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-8-2019.2290213.

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