Feminism's family drama

Female genealogies, feminist historiography, and Kate Walbert'sA Short History of Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367383
AutoresNadine Muller (0000-0001-8047-7180, Liverpool John Moores University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen18
Número1
Páginas17-34
Fecha de publicación2017-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700116683655
OpenAlexW2563575486
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

This article considers Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women (2009), a novel that tells the stories of a hunger striking suffragette and four generations of her female descendants. Tracing feminist history through female genealogy, Walbert's historiographic metafiction helps us think through the perils and potentials of the generational methods that have long dominated feminist historiography. Critically engaging with what has arguably become a feminist family drama, the novel makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary feminist theory and feminist historiography, illustrating of feminist genealogies as simultaneously fruitful and fraught, limiting and liberating and yet inescapable and useful

Art · Drama · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Historiography · Literature · Sociology · Women's history · American and British Literature Analysis · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · History · Short Stories in Global Literature