Books in the Gender and Genre in Literature series

A collection of feminist critical essays by South African women, many written after the lifting of the organizational ban in 1990, document the realization that a just society cannot be created without freedom from gender oppression. Against a backdrop of political and social change, the 21 contrib

Looks at the work and lives of three of the most significant women writers of the American radical movement of the 1930s, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst, drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory as well as new feminist theory. Analyzes their key literary works, and places th

An examination of AIDS fiction revealing how AIDS discourses have shaped society's understanding of the disease. Kruger (Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes scientific texts, arguing that their language has made AIDS an exclusively gendered, gay disease. From this vantage point, he critic

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.