Title Spectacular confessions : autobiography, performative activism, and the sites of suffrage / Barbara Green

Edition First edition Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997

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Description viii, 232 pages ; 22 cm Contents 1. From Visible Flaneuse to Spectacular Suffragette: The Street, the Prison, and the Sites of Suffrage -- 2. Advertising Feminism through Ornamental Bodies and Docile Bodies -- 3. Suffrage and the Sickroom: Fasting Bodies, Domestic Spaces, and Feminist Communities -- 4. Feminism in the Archives: Virginia Woolf, Fascism, and Revisions of Spectacle -- Conclusion: Remapping Modernism: Djuna Barnes and Feminist Masquerade Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-230) and index Subject English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women political activists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism. Suffragists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain. Spectacular, The, in literature. Women's rights in literature. Autobiography -- Women authors. Suffragists in literature. Confession in literature. Suffrage in literature. LC no. 97021441 ISBN 0312172672

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