Edited by Sharon M. Harris and Linda K.
Hughes
Deliberately global in scope, this
1900-page edited anthology places feminist writing by Anglo-American authors in
dialogue with French, German, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, African, Japanese,
Egyptian, Indian, Australian, and Iranian feminist writings. It also
features multiple genres, such as letters and poems in addition to essays,
dialogues, manifestas, and a concluding excerpt from a graphic novel, opening new
possibilities for the study of genre and feminist discourse. Each text
features an editorial headnote and annotation, while the general introduction
sets feminism in its historical and global contexts.
The Victorian writers represented in the
collection include Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence
Nightingale, Mary Seacole, John Stuart Mill, Helen Taylor, Emily Davies,
Frances Power Cobbe, Josephine Butler, Sophia Jex-Blake, Augusta Webster, Edith
Simcox, Mona Caird, Amy Levy, Olive Schreiner, Dollie Radford, Sarah Grand,
Nora Hopper, Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee, and Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy.
