Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

New Literary Perspectives on the Times, Spaces and Forms of Women’s Work

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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In a world wherein work is increasingly feminized, historical and contemporary literature can reveal what ‘women’s work’ entails. Reading across different genres, time periods and geographical locations, this book explores gendered working lives through novels, poetry, comics, editorial work and book collecting. It moves from the library of an early modern noblewoman to protest comics in the 2017 Women’s March, from Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich and Buchi Emecheta to writing from the 2020s about motherhood and explores topics as various as gossip, poetic scraps and household management as well as gender-based violence and the creation of feminist solidarity. In doing so, it shows how literary perspectives on labour and gender can provide insights into work that is otherwise made invisible and can help us to better understand the challenges of today’s insecure work-lives.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399541343

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Emily J. Hogg is Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark. She is the co-editor of Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2021). Charlotte J. Fabricius is a Postdoc with the project ‘Feminized: A New Literary History of Women’s Work’ at the Center for Uses of Literature, University of Southern Denmark. She holds a PhD in cultural studies and works in the intersection of global and digital anglophone literature, comics studies, and feminist critique. She is the author of Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics (2023).

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction. New Literary Perspectives on Women’s WorkCharlotte J. Fabricius and Emily J. HoggPART I. THE LABOUR OF LITERATURE1. Feminist Bibliography: Aki Hayashi, Literary AssistantNicola Wilson2. Reading Women’s Work in the Karen Brahe LibraryLucie Duggan3. The Labours of Shakespeare’s SistersVarsha PanjwaniPART II. THE WORK OF CHANGE4. Comics in the RESISTance: Modelling the Feminized Work of ActivismLeah Misemer5. Mothers of Invention: New Maternal Writings, Women, and Precarious Work CultureRoberta Garrett6. Terror as Usual: Gender Based Violence and Women’s Work in Cherie Jones’ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her HouseLeighan RenaudPART III. THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORM7. Scrappy Time: Domestic Work and Adrienne Rich’s Literary FragmentLindsay Turner8. Cheap Talk: Conversation, Gender, and Labour in Talking to Women, The Pumpkin Eater, and The Golden NotebookHelen Charman9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen IdaAaskov Dolmer and Emily J. HoggAfterword: Women’s Work Across ContextsChristina LuptonIndex