Women's Fiction
Women's Fiction

Author: Rebecca Vnuk

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

Women's Fiction
Women's Fiction

Author: Deborah Philips

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1441150226

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Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Women's Fiction from Latin America
Women's Fiction from Latin America

Author: Evelyn Picon Garfield

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780814318584

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Evelyn Picon Garfield has chosen selections from the prose works of twelve female authors representing seven Latin American countries to create a collection which speaks to a variety of issues and exhibits a pastiche of richly varied artistic styles. Containing short stories, a one-act play, and excerpts from novels, the volume touches on such topics as political commitment and persecution, regional ethnicity of African and Indian cultures, social issues between classes and races, misogyny, the complexities of the human psyche, and female solidarity. Garfield includes works from the six authors she interviewed for her Women's Voices from Latin America, and has added selections from six other writers including Isabel Allende and Clarice Lispector.

Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Women's Fiction 1945-2005

Author: Deborah Philips

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1441149511

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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the 'canon' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the post-war period. Their analysis offers new insights into the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of what a woman could and should be over the last half century. Through her analysis of women's writing and reading, Philips sets out to challenge the distinction between 'popular' and 'literary' fiction, arguing that neat categories such as 'popular', 'middle brow' and 'serious fiction' need more careful definition.

Witch Way Tomorrow: A Sexy Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance
Witch Way Tomorrow: A Sexy Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance

Author: Jennifer L. Hart

Publisher: Elements Unleashed

Published: 2023-06-12

Total Pages: 201

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Enjoy this steamy paranormal women’s fiction romance novel by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart! Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, especially when it comes to magic. Alys, Maeve, and Siobhan Silver are rocking their midlife changes. Alys has started a school for mystical education and ls living it up with her werewolf lover. Maeve is studying to become a supernatural midwife and planning a move. Siobhan has been successfully running a magic artifact rental business and acclimating to motherhood. Invited to be the guests of honor at a supernatural banquet, the sisters accept, unaware of a lurking threat that wants them out of commission. When the sister witches lose access to their powers, will they have to give up their legacy and relearn life as human middle-aged women? Or can the curse be reversed before it’s too late? Witch Way Tomorrow is the sixth book in the Silver Sisters’ paranormal women’s fiction series. If you like stories about strong women over forty, embracing the power within, and love conquering all, you don’t want to miss Jennifer L. Hart’s enchanting tale. Buy Witch Way Tomorrow and conjure your coven now! Read all of the Silver Sisters PWF series Book 1: Witch Way After Forty Book 2: Witch Way Did She Go Book 3: Witch Way is Up Book 4: Jingle All the Witch Way Book 5: Witch Way Today Book 6: Witch Way Tomorrow Book 7: Witch Way Ever After Fans of C.N. Crawford, Wendy Wang, and Tia Didmon will love this small town pwf romance series!

Legacy Witches of Shadow Cove: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance Boxset
Legacy Witches of Shadow Cove: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance Boxset

Author: Jennifer L. Hart

Publisher: Elements Unleashed

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 666

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A forty something home organizer with ADHD has no choice but to return to her bizarre childhood home with her sister witch this enchanting series by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart. This supernatural-sized omnibus collection includes the following titles. Book 1 Midlife Magic Mirror Book 2 Midlife Magic Monster Book 3 Midlife Magic Malady Buy Legacy Witches of Shadow Cove: The Complete Series and summon the fun today! Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this later-in-life slow burn pwf romance series: K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, and Robyn Peterman.

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction
The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction

Author: Joyce G. Saricks

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0838997198

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This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres.

A Southern Weave of Women
A Southern Weave of Women

Author: Linda Tate

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780820318509

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A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction
Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Author: Christine Bayles Kortsch

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780754665106

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Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing, what Kortsch terms dress culture. Focusing on novels by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Margaret Oliphant, and Gertrude Dix and periodicals like The Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.