Feminism's family drama

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367383
AutoresNadine Muller (0000-0001-8047-7180, Liverpool John Moores University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas17-34
Data de publicação2017-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700116683655
OpenAlexW2563575486
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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