Women’s Writing in Modern Times

Dear Colleagues,

Women have written for thousands of years. However, modern times separate women from earlier times following unprecedented changes. In some parts of the world, women only emerged on the horizon of society via writing. Writing was not public for some women until modern times, which facilitated and also incumbered women’s writing. Furthermore, factors such as industrialization, capitalism, urbanization, politics, public space, printing brought about new features of women’s writing. In the Special Issue, we investigate the dynamic relationship between women’s writing and modern times.

This Special Issue focuses on the issues and perspectives that arise from the complexities the modern period has brought to women’s writing. The approaches and areas of study include but not limited to the following: cultural studies, arts and science, comparative literature, world literature, literary relations, literary theory, postcolonial and migration, children, and gender studies.

Suggested themes and topics:

• Women’s writing, feminism, and women’s liberation; 
• Women’s writing, city, and metropolitan;
• Women’s writing and postcolonialism;
• Women’s writing and gender issue;
• Women’s writing and society;
• Women’s writing and (inter-/trans-) cultural/regional/national relationship;
• Women’s writing and capitalism;
• Women’s writing and translation;
• Women’s writing and space in modern times.

We request that interested authors initially submit a title and abstract of 200–300 words summarizing their intended contribution prior to submitting a manuscript. Please send the title and abstract to the Guest Editor, Dr. Xiaoqing Liu ([email protected]) or to the Assistant Editor, Ms. Joyce Xi ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purpose of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Xiaoqing Liu
Guest Editor

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• women’s writing
• feminism
• modern
• modernity
• translation
• postcolonialism
• gender
• space
• history
• society