03555nam 2200637 450 991046076990332120200520144314.00-252-09790-4(StDuBDS)EDZ0001651955(OCoLC)929829603(MdBmJHUP)muse47758(MiAaPQ)EBC4306057(Au-PeEL)EBL4306057(CaPaEBR)ebr11137422(CaONFJC)MIL839906(OCoLC)935254972(EXLCZ)99371000000049981620160119h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThis book is an action feminist print culture and activist aesthetics /edited by Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr ; contributors, Jill E. Anderson [and twelve others]Urbana, [Illinois] :University of Illinois Press,2015.©20151 online resourcePreviously issued in print: 2015.0-252-08134-X 0-252-03980-7 Includes bibliographical references and index."The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960's. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"--Provided by publisher.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomenUnited StatesIntellectual life20th centurySecond-wave feminismUnited StatesPublishers and publishingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryWomenIntellectual lifeSecond-wave feminismPublishers and publishingHistoryBooks and readingHistory810.9/352042Harker JaimeFarr Cecilia Konchar1958-Anderson Jill E.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460769903321This book is an action1948864UNINA