Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms

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Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms is written by Adele Jones and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137506083 (ISBN 10) and 9781137506085 (ISBN 13).

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah Waters’s fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and gender and how her writings reflect the different concerns of contemporary feminist theories. In particular, the collection includes new and innovative readings of how Waters’s novels address issues of patriarchy, female confinement, madness and misogyny, exploitation and oppression, repression and subordination, abortion, marriage and spinsterhood alongside passionate portrayals of female agency, desire, aesthetics, female sexual expression, and, of course, lesbianism.