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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.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction. New Literary Perspectives on Women's Work
Charlotte J. Fabricius and Emily J. Hogg
PART I. THE LABOUR OF LITERATURE
1. Feminist Bibliography: Aki Hayashi, Literary Assistant
Nicola Wilson
2. Reading Women's Work in the Karen Brahe Library
Lucie Duggan
3. The Labours of Shakespeare's Sisters
Varsha Panjwani
PART II. THE WORK OF CHANGE
4. Comics in the RESISTance: Modelling the Feminized Work of Activism
Leah Misemer
5. Mothers of Invention: New Maternal Writings, Women, and Precarious Work Culture
Roberta Garrett
6. Terror as Usual: Gender Based Violence and Women's Work in Cherie Jones' How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Leighan Renaud
PART III. THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORM
7. Scrappy Time: Domestic Work and Adrienne Rich's Literary Fragment
Lindsay Turner
8. Cheap Talk: Conversation, Gender, and Labour in Talking to Women, The Pumpkin Eater, and The Golden Notebook
Helen Charman
9. Problems with Progress: Reading Transhistorically for Feminized Work in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen Ida
Aaskov Dolmer and Emily J. Hogg
Afterword: Women's Work Across Contexts
Christina Lupton
Index



