Titlebook: Reading Women‘s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing; A Guide to Six Centu Sharon L. Jansen Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a divi

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,I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan’s , and Virginia Woolf’s ,,ers is in vain. Instead, in one of the most poignant phrases to be found in her book, Woolf describes her narrator, standing in the British Library, “looking about the shelves for books that were not there.”

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,Design for Living: Women’s Communities in Margaret Cavendish’s , and Mary Astell’s ,, even if a woman has a room of her own, she can’t write all the time. How will women occupy themselves when—or if—they achieve a space of their own? In pairing Margaret Cavendish’s . and Mary Astell’s ., we will find answers to these questions.

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Book 2011f men.  These imagined "women‘s worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

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,Hell Hath No Fury: Rage in Arcangela Tarabotti’s , and Valerie Solanas’s ,,n who has deceived and betrayed her. Vowing revenge, she warns him that “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d,/Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.” But Zara’s anger is quickly forgotten when she thinks that the man she loves is dead—in her despair, she kills herself.

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Reading Nafisi at the YMCA,selves, and fell into unexpected place. It was as if I had twisted the smooth, round barrel of a kaleidoscope and watched as the individual shards of color dissolved and then resolved into a new and unexpected pattern. And yet, even now, I am still a little disappointed, because it hardly seemed the

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,I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan’s , and Virginia Woolf’s ,,th about any and every subject: she goes to the British Library, then housed inside the famed British Museum. She is determined to find the answers to the “swarm of questions” she has about women—she has “a thousand questions” but not a single answer. Surely the answers are there in the library, jus

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,We Need to Talk: Conversation in Moderata Fonte’s , and Marjane Satrapi’s ,,irror is most often associated with female vanity, and both Pizan and Woolf write back to this stereotype, reinterpreting this image for their readers. For Pizan, the mirror is not about female self-love but a powerful symbol of self-knowledge, wielded by Lady Reason. For Woolf, women are not lookin