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Gender and Genre [or The end of his story]

Sheehan, Helena (1992) Gender and Genre [or The end of his story]. Graph (12). pp. 21-25. ISSN 0790-8016

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Abstract

A series of profound cleavages run through the history of writing - the fault lines opened by the social division of labour. This paper examines the consequences in terms of gender, taking a sweeping view of the historical panorama of writing and a closer look at the trajectory of my own writing.

Item Type:	Article (Published)
Refereed:	No
Additional Information:	This is a paper originally given at a seminar on women's writing at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin in 1992. It was subsequently published in Graph.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gender; feminism; division of labour; ideology; world view; autobiography; zeitgeist; social history; epistemology;
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Sociology Humanities > Philosophy Social Sciences > Social psychology Humanities > History Humanities > Literature
DCU Faculties and Centres:	DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Communications
Use License:	This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:	The Arts Council, Ireland
ID Code:	4686
Deposited On:	08 Jul 2009 10:54 by Helena Sheehan. Last Modified 08 Jul 2009 10:56

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