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008			150610s2016 ilu b 001 0 eng
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245	0	0	_aThis book is an action : _bfeminist print culture and activist aesthetics / _cedited by Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr.
264		1	_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2016.
300			_ax, 250 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aFeminism and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen _zUnited States _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
650		0	_aSecond-wave feminism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPublishers and publishing _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aHarker, Jaime,
700	1		_aFarr, Cecilia Konchar, _d1958-
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