Honey-Mad Women : Emancipatory Strategies in Women'S Writing

Challenges the notion that women writers are unable to write about their pleasure and are 'estranged from language' by identifying contexts in which women find language empowering and in which women speak of their pleasure and find pleasure in speech. Contents Acknowledgments ONE: Honey-Mad Women TWO: The Bilingual Heroine: From “Text” to “Work” THREE: The Animality of the Letter FOUR: Alice Can FIVE: Writing as Action: A Vindication of the Rights of Women SIX: The Novel and Laughter: Wuthering Heights SEVEN: Toward a Theory of Play EIGHT: Emancipatory Strategies Notes Bibliography Index