New Woman Fiction Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

The symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality, the New Woman epitomized the spirit of the fin-de-siegrave;cle. This monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between the first-wave feminist literature, the 19th-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book places the debate about femininity, feminism, and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context exploring New Woman fiction as a genre, whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.Heilmann, Ann is the author of 'New Woman Fiction Women Writing First-Wave Feminism', published 2000 under ISBN 9780312236274 and ISBN 0312236271.