LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

<p>Raising key questions about race class sexuality age material culture intellectual history pedagogy and gender this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response and the collection presents 11 new essays two new bibliographies and reprints of six classic essays.<br>The contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar parent and resisting male reader.</p>