Women's writing
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Women's writing may refer to the general study of women writers or women's literature as a genre in general, or in particular languages. See:
"Women's literature" may be used to mean literature targeted at women, regardless of the gender of the writer:
- Women's writing in EnglishWomen's writing in EnglishWomen's writing as a discrete area of literary studies is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study...
- Écriture féminineÉcriture féminineÉcriture féminine, literally "women's writing," more closely, the inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text, is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the early 1970s and included foundational theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Monique...
- List of women writers
- List of women rhetoricians
- List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
- List of early-modern women poets (UK)
- Women science fiction authors
- List of biographical dictionaries of women writers
- List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
- List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
"Women's literature" may be used to mean literature targeted at women, regardless of the gender of the writer:
- Chick litChick litChick lit is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly. The genre sold well during the 1990s and 2000s, with chick lit titles topping bestseller lists and the creation of imprints devoted entirely to chick lit...