Ebook: This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics
- Tags: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, Second-wave feminism -- United States, Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century, LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, American literature -- Women authors, Books and reading, Feminism and
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Language: English
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"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The Read more...