The New Feminist Literary Studies

The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section ''Frontiers'' contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered if not new then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo Black motherhood migration sex worker rights and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section ''Fields'' specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies eco-theory queer studies and Marxist feminism. Finally the third section ''Forms'' is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity feminist dystopias young adult fiction feminist manuals and manifestos memoir and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.