Download or read book Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing written by S. Jansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.