Episodes from a history of undoing : the heritage of female subversiveness / edited by Reghina Dascăl.

Includes bibliographical references.

Unwinding narratives of gender and the weaving of antistructures / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Elizabeth I: creativity, authorship, and agency / Dana Percec -- A woman for all seasons: Christine de Pizan / Reghina Dascăl -- "An island of dissident thoughts": Orwell versus Three guineas by Virginia Woolf / Nóra Séllei -- Feminist consciousness-raising and the psychotherapeutic sensibility of the 1960s: rethinking the connection / Voichița Năchescu -- Herta Müller and undoing the trauma in Ceaușescu's Romania / Adriana Răducanu -- (Re)engendering the past/recovering women's writings: the works of feminist criticism in Brazil / Rita Terezinha Schmidt -- (Little) Red Riding Hood: a British-American history of undoing / Andreea Șerban -- Power plays: two Black feminist playwrights (en)counter intersectionality / Amber West -- Undoing the history of the engendered nation in three narratives of Caribbean feminism / Izabella Penier -- English cultural/gender studies: an Eastern European perspective / Nóra Séllei -- Loitering with intent: gender studies and English studies in the Romanian academe / Reghina Dascăl.

Episodes from a History of Undoing: The Heritage of Female Subversiveness" (paraphrasing Rada Khumar's seminal study of the development of the feminist movements in India: "The History of Doing") is a volume purporting to illustrate women's resistance to patriarchal colonization through societal norms and hegemonic discourses. Whether mythical amazons, mediaeval authors or regular cannoneses, Renaissance monarchs, activists and academics, philosophers or politicians, such women have become trail-blazers in their fields, attempting to forge new epistemes through strategies of undoing, refashioning, rewriting or revising political and cultural concepts, practices and institutions. The volume comprises 11 essays authored by academics from Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turkey and USA and addresses a wide readership of academics, students, historians, NGO activists, etc. The volume is prefaced by Professor Margaret R. Higonnet from Connecticut University

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