The New Feminist Literary Studies

Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Jennifer Cooke (Edited by)

9781108471930, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 December 2020

260 pages
15.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

'The prose is elegant, sophisticated, and accessible and the text as a whole will be useful for both teaching and research.' E. R. Baer, Choice

The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.

Introduction Jennifer Cooke
Part I. Frontiers: 1. Radical transfeminism: trans as anti-static ethics escaping neoliberal encapsulation Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
2. Graphic witness: visual and verbal testimony in the #me too movement Leigh Gilmore
3. Trapped in the political real: imagining black motherhood beyond pathology and protest Candice Merritt
4. Feminism at the borders: migration and representation Emily J. Hogg
5. Sex work in a post-work imaginary: on abolitionism, careerism, and respectability Helen Hester and Zahra Stardust
6. The new plutocratic (post)feminism Diane Negra and Hannah Hamad
Part II. Fields: 7. Feminism and literary disability studies Susannah B. Mintz
8. Feminism's critique of the Anthropocene Samantha Walton
9. Queer feminism Sam McBean
10. Social reproduction: new questions for the gender, affect, and substance of value Marina Vishmidt and Zöe Sutherland
Part III. Forms: 11. Feminist dwellings: imagining the domestic in the twenty-first-century literary novel Karen Schaller
12. Who rules the world?: reimaging the contemporary feminist Dystopia Sarah Dillon
13. Transnational feminism and the young adult novel Jill Richards
14. Feminist manuals and manifestos in the twenty-first century Jennifer Cooke
15. 'This is not a memoir': feminist writings from life Kaye Mitchell
16. New feminist poetries: the open wound Julie Carr
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Gay & Lesbian studies [JFSK], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Feminism & feminist theory [JFFK], Disability: social aspects [JFFG], Sexual abuse & harassment [JFFE2], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA]