Philosophy's traditional "man of reason"--Independent, neutral, unemotional - is an illusion. That's because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing - the woman. As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and 1990s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tr…
Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. This book charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides an analysis of three of the region's prominent contemporary authors such as Assia Djeba (Algeria…
Grounded in social history, this text refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the tales told by the "conteuses" (French story-telling women in the 1690s) and the late 20th-century tales by women writers that derive in part from this centuries-old tra…