Read articles from the inaugural issue of CWW for free!
The editors of Contemporary Women's Writing, in conjunction with Oxford Journals, are pleased to announce the first ever special double issue of the journal. Edited by Mary Eagleton and Susan Stanford Friedman, this exciting new fast-turnaround journal, unique in its field, critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present. The journal reflects retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women's writing. To celebrate this exciting launch, two of the articles have been made available for you to read free online - please see below for more information. We hope you will find the articles of interest, and if so, encourage you to sign up for Email Table of Contents Alerts so we can keep you informed about forthcoming issues.
Editorial Statement
Mary Eagleton (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Susan Stanford Friedman (University Wisconsin-Madison)
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Roundtable
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University)
Quodlibet: or the Pleasures of Engagement
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Brinda Bose (University of Delhi)
The (Ubiquitous) F-word: Musings on Feminisms and Censorships in South Asia
Stephanie Harzewski (University of Pennsylvania)
New Voice, Old Body: The Case of Penelope Fitzgerald
Marina Camboni (University of Macerata, Italy)
Impure Lines: Multilingualism, Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Women’s Poetry
Liedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Is Contemporary Women’s Writing Computational? Unravelling Twenty-First Century Creativity with Penelope at her Loom
Meena Alexander (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Writing Space
Essays
Margaret Homans (Yale University)
Origins, Searches and Identity: Narratives of Adoption from China
Lynne Pearce (Lancaster University)
Women Writers and the Illusive Urban Sublime: the View from Manchester, England
Debra Castillo (Cornell University)
I Call it New Orleans
Gabriele Griffin (University of York)
Unknown Others: South Asian Theatre and Its Audiences in Britain Today
Pin-chia Feng (National Chao Tung University, Taiwan)
National History and Transnational Narration: Feminist Body Politics in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Joss and Gold
Stephen Morton (University of Southampton)
The Formation of a Feminist Counter-Public in the Poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt
Clare Hanson (University of Southampton)
Reproduction, Genetics and Eugenics in the Fiction of Doris Lessing
Review Essays
Rita Felski (University of Virginia)
Object Relations
Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton)
Going ‘Glocal’: The Local and the Global in Recent Experimental Women’s Poetry
Short Reviews from Lucie Armitt, Becky Munford, Edith Frampton, Alice Ridout