Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

Author: S. Jansen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/31/2011
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230110663

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011

About the Author
Sharon Jansen is the author of Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter, The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe, and Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII.