Annotated bibliography on the treatment of women in literature

Storni, Alfonsina. "You Want Me White." The Norton Anthology of World

Vol. F. Ed. Sarah Lawall and Mayard Mac. New York: Norton, 2002. 2124-2125

The poem titled "You Want Me White" written by Alfonsina Storni explores the issue of women mistreatment by men. The women complain how men expect them to be virgins when they (men ) are not.

Atwood, Margaret and Martin, Valerie.The Handmaid's Tale . Anchor.1998

In this book the author portrays how women are only valued for their fertility and they are allowed access to education in the patriarch society. This work is important to the research since it shows how women were mistreated by being regarded as sex symbols as well as not being allowed access to education.

Staves, Susan. Married Women's Separate Property Rights in England, 1660(1833. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.

This work is a recollection of the actual case studies and examples of various property settlements from several literary works. It analyzes the situation of women from the socialist, liberal, neo-Marxist as well as feminist perspectives by portraying that the ideology of the then dominant male supremacy was somehow blatantly preserved even while the legal status of women was changing. This work is important to the research since it shows how women were mistreated in regard to property ownership.

Stewart, Maaja A. Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions: Jane Austen's Novels in Eighteenth-Century Contexts. Athens: U. Of Georgia P, 1993.

In this work, Stewart clearly indicates the connections that exist between imperialism and domestic life. Female domesticity is indicated to serve in counteracting as well as hiding the very aggressive nature of colonialism. This work is important to the research since it shows how women were mistreated in regard to being denied equal opportunities as men.

Straub, Kristina Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

In this book just as Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987, the author employs Foucault's theories in analysis of the eighteenth century sexual politics. This work is important to the research since it shows how women were mistreated in regard to being regarded as sex tools.

Sulloway, Alison G. Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhood. Philadelphia: U. Of Pennsylvania P, 1989.

This work performs an in-depth examination of the Austen's relationship to the then 'women issues'. Austen then employs a satiric perspective of a complete outsider in making a criticism of the existing patriarchal institutions. This work is important to the research since it shows how women were mistreated in regard to being treated harshly in the male dominated society.

Winter, Kari J. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865. Athens: U. Of Georgia P, 1992.

This book analyzes the historical contexts within which slave narratives and female Gothic novels were composed. The writer indicates that both forms of writings were full of sexual politics which formed the very heart of the Women were given same status as slaves.