Bibliographies

Gender and the Domestic

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000
From: Sandra Leigh Matthews <slmatthe@ucalgary.ca>
To: Bob Mellin <bmellin@purduenc.edu>

Bob, the main texts that I have found helpful:

Alaimo, Stacy.  Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Blunt, Alison, and Gillian Rose.  Introduction.  Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies.  Eds. Alison Blunt and Gillian Rose. New York: The Guilford Press, 1994. 1-25.

Davidoff, Leonore, Jean LEsperance and Howard Newby.  Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society.  The Rights and Wrongs of Women.  Eds. Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley.  New York: Penguin Books, 1976. 139-175.

Dean, Misao.  Practising Femininity: Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte.  The Frontiers of Womens Writing: Womens Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Higonnet, Margaret R.  New Cartographies, an Introduction.  Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space.  Eds. Margaret R. Higonnet and Joan Templeton.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 1-19.

Kerber, Linda K.  Separate Spheres, Female World, Womans Place: The Rhetoric of Womens History.  The Journal of American History 75 (June 1988): 9-39.

Knobloch, Frieda.  The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West.  Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Hope you find some of these interesting,

S. Leigh Matthews
English Department
University of Calgary
slmatthe@ucalgary.ca

"Nor did I leave [the bush] without many regretful tears, to mingle once more with a world to whose usages, during my long solitude, I had become almost a stranger, and to whose praise or blame I felt alike indifferent"
(Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush)

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bob Mellin wrote:

Interesting.  Could you pass along a few works of theory that you've found helpful in your work on the domestic, esp. in terms of ecocriticism?  I'd recommend Julia Emberely's work, as well as Peter Kulchyski's--both working, at times, in a Canadian context.  Gene Stratton-Porter's early 20th C photographic methods brings "wild" nature into the domestic in a manner somewhat different than you've described here.  That is, she would venture out into the Limberlost Swamp, despite her husband's entreaties not to do so, and take photos of birds.  When she developed the pictures, she would set up her kitchen as a darkroom and use pans and a turkey baster (a tantalizing image) to develop her bird photos--bringing her work into domestic space.