Women's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction

by Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson

Women's Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape - the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and Women's Movement argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042013621
• ISBN13: 9789042013629
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 272 Pages