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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History Personal correspondence Correspondence |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jolly, Margaretta. In love and struggle. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)652213679 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Margaretta Jolly |
ISBN: | 9780231137928 0231137923 9780231510752 0231510756 |
OCLC Number: | 156845815 |
Awards: | Winner of UK & Ireland Annual Book Prize 2017 |
Description: | ix, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: The feminist world of love and ritual -- Love letters to a new me -- Feminist epistolary romance -- Velvet boxing gloves -- Theorizing feminist letters -- Mothers and daughters in correspondence -- Writing the web : letters from the women's peace movement -- Do webs work? : letters and the clash of communities -- Care versus autonomy : the problem of (loving) men -- The paradox of care as a right -- How different is e-mail? -- Care ethics online -- On burning and saving letters -- Stealing letters : the ethics of epistolary research -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Gender and culture. |
Responsibility: | Margaretta Jolly. |
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This is a smart and savvy book--a fascinating study of what letters have meant to women as writers and readers over the past four decades. Situating letter writing as both demand and gift and mapping the feminist ethic of care that developed from this vast personal archive, In Love and Struggle is essential for feminist cultural projects. -- Julia Watson, Ohio State University In Love and Struggle is a lively story of second-wave British and American feminists, revealed through their public and intimate letters. From the women's encampments at Greenham Common and beside the Seneca Army Depot to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Margaretta Jolly shows how vital epistolary testimony has been. She provides an overview of feminist literary criticism of epistolarity, and she analyzes letters between mothers and daughters, lesbian love letters, email novels, memoirs, and feminist activist communities on the Web. Drawing on archival research, feminist theory, and ethics, Jolly examines a wide range of social, literary, and political practices in which letter writing plays a pivotal role. -- Linda S. Kauffman, professor of English, University of Maryland Jolly's fascinating book... makes a major contribution to the available literature. -- June Purvis Times Higher Education An important work... Highly recommended. Choice An important contribution to the history of second-wave feminism and offers valuable new insights into letter writing as a feminist literary practice. -- Emma Parker Feminist Review lively, engaging and often poignant... -- Sarah Poustie Life Writings Read more...


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