The New Feminist Literary Studies

Jennifer Cooke is author of Contemporary Feminist Life-writing: The New Audacity (Cambridge, forthcoming) and Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory, and Film (2009) and edited Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature (2013) and a special issue of Textual Practice (September 2013). She chairs the Gendered Lives Research Group.

• Introduction Jennifer Cooke; Part I. Frontiers: 1. Radical transfeminism: trans as anti-static ethics escaping neoliberal encapsulation Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift; 2. Graphic witness: visual and verbal testimony in the #me too movement Leigh Gilmore; 3. Trapped in the political real: imagining black motherhood beyond pathology and protest Candice Merritt; 4. Feminism at the borders: migration and representation Emily J. Hogg; 5. Sex work in a post-work imaginary: on abolitionism, careerism, and respectability Helen Hester and Zahra Stardust; 6. The new plutocratic (post)feminism Diane Negra and Hannah Hamad; Part II. Fields: 7. Feminism and literary disability studies Susannah B. Mintz; 8. Feminism's critique of the Anthropocene Samantha Walton; 9. Queer feminism Sam McBean; 10. Social reproduction: new questions for the gender, affect, and substance of value Marina Vishmidt and Zöe Sutherland; Part III. Forms: 11. Feminist dwellings: imagining the domestic in the twenty-first-century literary novel Karen Schaller; 12. Who rules the world?: reimaging the contemporary feminist Dystopia Sarah Dillon; 13. Transnational feminism and the young adult novel Jill Richards; 14. Feminist manuals and manifestos in the twenty-first century Jennifer Cooke; 15. 'This is not a memoir': feminist writings from life Kaye Mitchell; 16. New feminist poetries: the open wound Julie Carr; Bibliography; Index.

'The prose is elegant, sophisticated, and accessible and the text as a whole will be useful for both teaching and research.' E. R. Baer, Choice