The New Feminist Literary Studies (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions)

The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism. 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 06.0_pp_vii_vii_Illustrations 07.0_pp_viii_xii_Contributors 08.0_pp_1_10_Introduction 09.0_pp_11_96_Frontiers 09.1_pp_13_24_Radical_Transfeminism_Trans_as_Anti-static_Ethics_Escaping_Neoliberal_Encapsulation 09.2_pp_25_40_Graphic_Witness_Visual_and_Verbal_Testimony_in_the_MeToo_Movement 09.3_pp_41_54_Trapped_in_the_Political_Real_Imagining_Black_Motherhood_Beyond_Pathology_and_Protest 09.4_pp_55_68_Feminism_at_the_Borders_Migration_and_Representation 09.5_pp_69_82_Sex_Work_in_a_Postwork_Imaginary_On_Abolitionism_Careerism_and_Respectability 09.6_pp_83_96_The_New_Plutocratic_PostFeminism 10.0_pp_97_154_Fields 10.1_pp_99_112_Feminism_and_Literary_Disability_Studies 10.2_pp_113_128_Feminisms_Critique_of_the_Anthropocene 10.3_pp_129_142_Queer_Feminism 10.4_pp_143_154_Social_Reproduction_New_Questions_for_the_Gender_Affect_and_Substance_of_Value 11.0_pp_155_235_Forms 11.1_pp_157_168_Feminist_Dwellings_Imagining_the_Domestic_in_the_Twenty-first-century_Literary_Novel 11.2_pp_169_181_Who_Rules_the_World_Reimagining_the_Contemporary_Feminist_Dystopia 11.3_pp_182_193_Transnational_Feminism_and_the_Young_Adult_Novel 11.4_pp_194_207_Feminist_Manuals_and_Manifestos_in_the_Twenty-first_Century 11.5_pp_208_221_This_is_not_a_memoir_Feminist_Writings_from_Life 11.6_pp_222_235_Feminist_Poetries_of_the_Open_Wound 12.0_pp_236_253_Bibliography 13.0_pp_254_258_Index "New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section, 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco- theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, The third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism"-- Provided by publisher This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.