Mary Eagleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 421335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Eagleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Eagleton |
| SIGNATURE | EAGLETON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wicked Women, Wicked Fictions, Wicked Laughter: An Interview with Fay Weldon
The History of British Women’s Writing, 1970-Present: Volume Ten
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement
Women's writing, Englishness and national and cultural identity: The mobile woman and the migrant voice, 1938-1962 Maroula Joannou
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Like many contemporary women's life narratives—those of Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Mantel, Linda Grant and Jackie Kay, for example—Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is not a
Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia
Journal Article Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia. Get access Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia. Alice Ridout. 2010. Continuum, London, pp. 1. £60, $110, hardback Mary Eagleton Mary Eagleton Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 6, Issue 2, 19 July 2011, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vps0…
When Old is New: Diana Athill and Literary Value
The focus of this essay is the work of Diana Athill. It seeks to account for the extensive media attention paid, in the last few years, to her life and work. The essay considers three main aspects: firstly, the discourses of age in contemporary culture and how age can be marketed as “new”; secondly, the readerly effect of Athill's writing; thirdly, the evaluation of Athill's work in reviewing and literary journalism. Making use throughout of idea…
Mapping Contemporary Women's Fiction after Bourdieu
Nice work? representations of the intellectual woman worker
This article offers an exploration of the intellectual woman worker in the inter-war years through reference to Rosamond Lehmann's novel, Dusty Answer, and Virginia Woolf's essays, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. These texts are read in relation to a number of theorists of the intellectual – Joan Riviere, Pierre Bourdieu, Antonio Gramsci and Edward Said. The article recognises the validity of Sonya Andermahr, Terry Lovell and Carol Wolkowi…
A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory
Ethical reading: The problem of Alice Walker’s ‘Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
The focus of this article is two texts, 'Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells' (1982) by Alice Walker and Disgrace(1999) by J.M. Coetzee, both of which present ethical problems for the reader. The texts share a common event, an incident of black-on-white, male-on-female rape. In each case the white woman keeps silent about the rape and the narrative is troubled by that silence. I read the dilemma of these texts as at once ethical, political and aest…
Adrienne Rich, Location and the Body
This article offers a new reading of Adrienne Rich's essay 'Notes toward a Politics of Location' (1984), one of the key documents in feminist discussions of 'locatedness'. Its focus is the specific location of the body and it responds to Rich's exploration of the body, her body, as female, as white, as Jewish and as a body in a nation. Taking as its starting point Rich's concern with the relation between the pronouns 'I' and 'we', the individual …
Women writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History
Reading Between Bodies and Institutions
Two articles in Gender and Education Volume 10, Number 1 (March 1998) - Pauline Leonard's 'Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation' and Alison Bartlett's 'A passionate subject: representations of desire in feminist pedagogy' - suggested to the author the fruitful potential of 'reading between' positions. Though, at first, the differences between the two articles - in situation, content, critical perspective-loo…
Who's Who and Where's Where: Constructing Feminist Literary Studies
This article is concerned with the construction of feminist literary studies in the last twenty years and points out how we have created a literary history which is both selective and schematic. It suggests that we should be more critically aware of what we are constructing, how we are constructing it and of the political consequences of those constructs. It stresses three critical modes which might help us to complicate our history: a greater aw…
Reports
Reading Between Bodies and Institutions
Two articles in Gender and Education Volume 10, Number 1 (March 1998) - Pauline Leonard's 'Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation' and Alison Bartlett's 'A passionate subject: representations of desire in feminist pedagogy' - suggested to the author the fruitful potential of 'reading between' positions. Though, at first, the differences between the two articles - in situation, content, critical perspective-loo…
Who's Who and Where's Where: Constructing Feminist Literary Studies
This article is concerned with the construction of feminist literary studies in the last twenty years and points out how we have created a literary history which is both selective and schematic. It suggests that we should be more critically aware of what we are constructing, how we are constructing it and of the political consequences of those constructs. It stresses three critical modes which might help us to complicate our history: a greater aw…
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Like many contemporary women's life narratives—those of Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Mantel, Linda Grant and Jackie Kay, for example—Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is not a
Adrienne Rich, Location and the Body
This article offers a new reading of Adrienne Rich's essay 'Notes toward a Politics of Location' (1984), one of the key documents in feminist discussions of 'locatedness'. Its focus is the specific location of the body and it responds to Rich's exploration of the body, her body, as female, as white, as Jewish and as a body in a nation. Taking as its starting point Rich's concern with the relation between the pronouns 'I' and 'we', the individual …
Reports
Who's Who and Where's Where: Constructing Feminist Literary Studies
This article is concerned with the construction of feminist literary studies in the last twenty years and points out how we have created a literary history which is both selective and schematic. It suggests that we should be more critically aware of what we are constructing, how we are constructing it and of the political consequences of those constructs. It stresses three critical modes which might help us to complicate our history: a greater aw…
Reading Between Bodies and Institutions
Two articles in Gender and Education Volume 10, Number 1 (March 1998) - Pauline Leonard's 'Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation' and Alison Bartlett's 'A passionate subject: representations of desire in feminist pedagogy' - suggested to the author the fruitful potential of 'reading between' positions. Though, at first, the differences between the two articles - in situation, content, critical perspective-loo…
Women writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History
Adrienne Rich, Location and the Body
This article offers a new reading of Adrienne Rich's essay 'Notes toward a Politics of Location' (1984), one of the key documents in feminist discussions of 'locatedness'. Its focus is the specific location of the body and it responds to Rich's exploration of the body, her body, as female, as white, as Jewish and as a body in a nation. Taking as its starting point Rich's concern with the relation between the pronouns 'I' and 'we', the individual …
Ethical reading: The problem of Alice Walker’s ‘Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
The focus of this article is two texts, 'Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells' (1982) by Alice Walker and Disgrace(1999) by J.M. Coetzee, both of which present ethical problems for the reader. The texts share a common event, an incident of black-on-white, male-on-female rape. In each case the white woman keeps silent about the rape and the narrative is troubled by that silence. I read the dilemma of these texts as at once ethical, political and aest…
A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory
Nice work? representations of the intellectual woman worker
This article offers an exploration of the intellectual woman worker in the inter-war years through reference to Rosamond Lehmann's novel, Dusty Answer, and Virginia Woolf's essays, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. These texts are read in relation to a number of theorists of the intellectual – Joan Riviere, Pierre Bourdieu, Antonio Gramsci and Edward Said. The article recognises the validity of Sonya Andermahr, Terry Lovell and Carol Wolkowi…
Mapping Contemporary Women's Fiction after Bourdieu
When Old is New: Diana Athill and Literary Value
The focus of this essay is the work of Diana Athill. It seeks to account for the extensive media attention paid, in the last few years, to her life and work. The essay considers three main aspects: firstly, the discourses of age in contemporary culture and how age can be marketed as “new”; secondly, the readerly effect of Athill's writing; thirdly, the evaluation of Athill's work in reviewing and literary journalism. Making use throughout of idea…
Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia
Journal Article Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia. Get access Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia. Alice Ridout. 2010. Continuum, London, pp. 1. £60, $110, hardback Mary Eagleton Mary Eagleton Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 6, Issue 2, 19 July 2011, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vps0…
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Like many contemporary women's life narratives—those of Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Mantel, Linda Grant and Jackie Kay, for example—Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is not a
The History of British Women’s Writing, 1970-Present: Volume Ten
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement
Women's writing, Englishness and national and cultural identity: The mobile woman and the migrant voice, 1938-1962 Maroula Joannou
Wicked Women, Wicked Fictions, Wicked Laughter: An Interview with Fay Weldon
Sociology (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)