ABSTRACT

This work investigates women’s emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. Philosophers, poets, writers, and journalists were concerned with this problem and began popularizing wholeheartedly the so-called "burning" questions. The new femininity was represented not only in the Christian context; many other traditions and cultures opened the discussion about the women’s lot. This volume analyzes women’s literary voices from different parts of the world—Turkey, England, the U.S., Italy, Russia, Spain, and others.  Imagination, as it is believed, has no borders and is dialogical in its nature.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

The New, but New with G*d

chapter 2|22 pages

“I Have Been Wronged, and I Long to Right Myself at Once”

Revenge, Deceit, and Female Power in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Short Fiction

chapter 5|26 pages

The First “New Woman” in Modern Hebrew Literature

Finalia Adelberg in Love of the Righteous, or, the Persecuted Families by Sarah Feiga Meinkin 1

chapter 6|38 pages

Gendering the Empire

The Discourse on the New Woman and Emergence of Ottoman Feminism, 1860–1918

chapter 7|13 pages

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

A Feminist Life and Its Discourse

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion