Sandra M. Gilbert Knihy

In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition. schovat popis

A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it

Virginia Woolfová sa v románe Orlando vyrovnáva s problémom pohlavnej identity, ktorým sa zaoberá celý život. Knihu venovala svojej dlhodobej priateľke (a krátkodobej milenke) Vite Sackville-Westovej. Príbeh anglického šľachtica Orlanda sa odohráva za vlády kráľovnej Alžbety I. Kráľovná prisľúbi Orlandovi obrovský majetok, ale len pod podmienkou, že ostane večne mladý. Orlandovi sa darí pomocou záhadných síl túto podmienku plniť, avšak len do času, kým sa z neho stane niekto úplne iný. Svoj život začína ako šľachtic v 16. storočí a po mnohých historických a zemepisných premenách skončí ako moderná spisovateľka v dvadsiatom storočí.

Published in France as Le jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women’s sexuality and unconscious shape their imagination, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.