Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms

Adele Jones tutors in English at Swansea University, UK. Her research focuses on feminist theory (particularly psychoanalysis), space, place, gender and sexuality in contemporary literature.  Claire O’Callaghan teaches English at Brunel University, UK, and her research focuses on gender and sexuality in contemporary literature and culture, feminist theory, and neo-Victorianism.

Introduction; Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan.- Part I. Feminist Foremothers.- 1. Teasing (Out) a New Generation;Lucie Armitt.- 2. Quick and Queer; Kathryn Simpson.- 3. “Accompanied by Ghosts”; Natasha Alden.- Part II. Second Wave Hauntings.- 4. Anxious Affinities; Jessica Gildersleeve.- 5. The Feminist Gothic in The Little Stranger;Gina Wisker.- 6. The Feminist Politics of Textuality; Adele Jones.- 7. ‘Better a prison … than a madhouse!’; Mari Hughes-Edwards.- Part III. Beyond the Second Wave.- 8. Written on the Body; Helen Davies.- 9. ‘My dress is not a yes’; Louisa Yates.- 10. ‘Grisley “L” business’; Claire O’Callaghan;- Afterword. Sarah Waters and the Future of Feminisms; Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan.