{"product_id":"womens-movement-9789042013629","title":"Women's Movement","description":"\u003ci\u003eWomen’s Movement\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eambiguous\u003c\/i\u003e escape – the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Movement\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental “backlash” and is refigured as the potentially less threatening “postfeminism”.\u003cbr\u003e\nResisting the automatic association of “escape” with “escapist,” \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Movement\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, including \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeliverance\u003c\/i\u003e, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Movement\u003c\/i\u003e more often acts as a channel for offering different ways of approaching familiar feminist texts, including, among others, Marian Engel’s \u003ci\u003eBear\u003c\/i\u003e, Atwood’s \u003ci\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Joan Barfoot’s \u003ci\u003eGaining Ground\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Tyler’s \u003ci\u003eEarthly Possessions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLadder of Years\u003c\/i\u003e, Marilynne Robinson’s \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, Erica Jong’s \u003ci\u003eFear of Flying\u003c\/i\u003e and Margaret Laurence’s \u003ci\u003eThe Diviners\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269131088123,"sku":"9789042013629","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d7c74285-6884-4d2a-ae90-753f0117099e.jpg?v=1770949303","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/womens-movement-9789042013629","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}