Review of *The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism*, edited by Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettelbeck, and *Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing*, by Alison Bartlett.

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Women's Writing ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Women’S Writing

scholarly journals Becoming articulate: women writing on the visual arts in Renaissance Italy

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 251-272
Author(s):  
Mary Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Women’S Writing

Despite continuing interest in the contribution made by women to the material culture of Renaissance Italy, little attention has been devoted to their writings on the subject, although there is much material, both informal and intended for publication. This paper will attempt a preliminary charting of the area, by selecting letters and poems from c1450-1580 by a range of women which speak of actual or fictional artifacts. Although these are predominantly from those categories of objects which especially appealed to women in the period, namely small devotional works, textiles and portraits, the primary aim will not be to argue for a specifically feminine taste influenced by social and cultural factors. Rather, the paper will try to place women’s writing within the context of a developing critical language for discussing the art of which at least some women could be aware. Three broad phases will be identified within this evolving discourse.

British Women Writing War

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Katherine Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
War Novels ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Gender Boundaries ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Female Experience

Katherine Cooper reveals how contemporary assessments of gender, war and writing are shaped by preconceptions concerning experience and authority. Storm Jameson’s key war novels are at odds with conventional appraisals of war writing, which has contributed to her undeserved critical neglect. Her challenge to such prescribed gender boundaries has led to a perception of her work as ‘unwieldy’ and unrepresentative. Second and third-wave feminist studies, untrammelled by overriding concerns with gender, authority and experience, have reassessed women writers of the period. Nevertheless, Jameson’s critique of the systems of war through the male viewpoint lends her narratives a certain authority leading to their marginalization in those critical endeavours dedicated to the privileging and recovery of ‘female’ experience through women’s writing. Jameson’s exposé of the limits of insular nationalism has also hampered her full and proper reassessment within the canon of war writing.

scholarly journals "Aur, aur… aurat" or Contemporary Autobiographies by Women in Hindi

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Monika Browarczyk
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
Opening Section

The article in the opening section foregrounds theoretical debate on autobiography with particular reference to women’s writing in South Asia. Subsequently, it presents motivations for recent interest in the genre amongst women writing in Hindi and, eventually, it looks into the narrative strategies employed by Krishna Agnihotri (Lagtā nahī ̃ hai dil merā (‘My heart is not in it’), 1996; Aur, aur... aurat (‘And, and… woman’), 2010) and Maitreyi Pushpa (Kasturī kuṇḍal basai (‘Kasturi and Her Jewel of a Daughter’), 2002; Guṛiyā bhītar guṛiyā (‘A Doll within a Doll’), 2008). Agnihotri and Pushpa authored two volumes of autobiographies and the article further analyses their various strategies of constructing their ‘narrative selves’ and of particular arrangement of their life stories in two separate volumes.

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