{"title":"Political Memoir, Celebrity, and the Reclamation of Feminism: Gendered Self-representation in Julia Gillard’s <i>My Story</i> and Hillary Clinton’s <i>What Happened</i>","authors":"Anthea Taylor","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Offering a close textual analysis of My Story (2014), the memoir of Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and What Happened (2017), by the 2016 US Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, this article explores their attempts—as is becoming common for celebrities—to use the memoir form to attempt to regain some control over their public personas and their feminisms. Focusing on the kind of feminist selves they seek to bring into being through these memoirs, this article examines the rhetorical strategies they each deploy to disrupt the dominant gendered narratives that came to circulate during their time in power and beyond.","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134991625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rachel Cusk’s New Realism: Gender, Power, Voice, and Genre in the <i>Outline</i> Trilogy","authors":"Mary K Holland","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rachel Cusk creates a new narrative form in the Outline trilogy—distanced, displaced first-person point of view—to create a safe position from which to speak truths about marriage and motherhood that she has been criticized for expressing in her nonfiction work. Eschewing linear plot and dominating perspective in favor of overheard stories, the novels also represent a new form of social realism that illustrates how listening and collaborative storytelling can communicate social critique. By incorporating elements of her life and nonfiction in the trilogy, Cusk creates a nexus of autobiography, fiction, essay, and memoir in which the suffering of women and the cruelty of misogyny register as visible and undeniably real, changing the fabric of social reality by rewriting the forms that represent it.","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"6 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135037797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized Subjects in Transit in Post-9/11 America: Salwa and Jassim’s Perpetual Quest for Belonging in Laila Halaby’s <i>Once in a Promised Land</i>","authors":"Rachid Lamghari","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on the identity construction of Arab Americans in the post-9/11 moment in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land. Drawing on postcolonial feminism and intersectionality, the article examines the cumulative ways in which race, gender, religion, and class intersect to determine the experiences of the characters Salwa and Jassim and their perpetual quest for belonging, which is further problematized by the ambiguity of Arabs in American ethno-racial discourses. A neo-orientalist discourse came to the surface after the 9/11 attacks, to justify discriminatory treatment of Arabs and denial of their heterogeneity—labeling them instead as if identical. Its manifestation is illustrated in the transformation of the lives of Salwa and Jassim when they fall under suspicion after the attacks.","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian-American Life Writing","authors":"Zeinab Ghasemi Tari","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad012","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian-American Life Writing Get access Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian-American Life Writing. By Hossein Nazari. I. B. Tauris (Bloomsbury Publishing), 2022. Print. $115. Hardback. Zeinab Ghasemi Tari Zeinab Ghasemi Tari Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ghasemitari@ut.ac.ir https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8335-0230 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, vpad012, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad012 Published: 28 October 2023","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136158960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, Security, and Atomic Destruction in Louisa Hall’s <i>Trinity</i>","authors":"Susan Kollin","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Louisa Hall’s Trinity examines environmental risk and responsibility, restoring to memory the networks of power and security that shaped the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called “father of the atomic age.” Extending work in feminist theories of exposure, Indigenous critiques of nuclear colonization, and studies of environmental agency and accountability, I trace the author’s use of fictional biography as a means of investigating disavowal, detachment, and the drive for mastery. Focusing on systems of silence and security underwriting the development of the bomb, Hall addresses everyday experiences of gender, race, and sexuality as meaningful in the world of atomic science and as useful tools for grappling with the uncertainties and vulnerabilities of environmental risk in the atomic age.","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135548748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<b> <i>Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries</i> </b>.","authors":"Michelle Ryan","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad010","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries . Get access Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. Edited by Charlotte Crofts and Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Print. £76.50. Hardback. Michelle Ryan Michelle Ryan University of Angers, Angers, France michelle.ryan-sautour@univ-angers.fr Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, vpad010, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad010 Published: 03 October 2023","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing. Making Love, Making Worlds","authors":"Marco Medugno","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad014","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing. Making Love, Making Worlds Get access Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing. Making Love, Making Worlds. By Jennifer Leetsch. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Print. £109.99. Hardcover. Marco Medugno Marco Medugno Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK marco.medugno@newcastle.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8986-8268 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, vpad014, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad014 Published: 25 September 2023","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation","authors":"Pippa Marland","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad015","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation Get access New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation. By Timothy C. Baker. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Print. £76.50. Hardback. Pippa Marland Pippa Marland University of Bristol, Bristol, UK pm0035@bristol.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, vpad015, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad015 Published: 25 September 2023","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135770013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison","authors":"Alice Sundman","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad016","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison Get access The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. Edited by Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Print. £130.00. Hardback. Alice Sundman Alice Sundman Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden alice.sundman@english.su.se Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, vpad016, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad016 Published: 21 September 2023","PeriodicalId":291192,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Women's Writing","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}