TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own A1 - Jansen, S. LA - English PP - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan YR - 2011 ED - 1st ed. 2011. UL - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-0-230-11881-2 AB - In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women:  the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men.  These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women. OP - 243 CN - PN3311-3503 SN - 9780230118812 KW - Fiction. KW - Feminist theory. KW - British literature. KW - Sociology. KW - Feminism. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Gender Studies. ER -