User:Peacock134340/Feminist literature/Bibliography

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Bibliography

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Bibliography

Gay, Roxane. “Theses on the feminist novel - Dissent Magazine.” Dissent Magazine, 4 May 2018, www.dissentmagazine.org/article/theses-on-the-feminist-novel/#:~:text=A%20feminist%20novel%20explores%20what,stories%20of%20who%20we%20are.&text=Throughout%20Walker's%20novel%2C%20we%20are,experience%20the%20trauma%20of%20grief.
Dammann-Matthews, Jody A. ]. “Proto-Feminism in Ancient Global Texts.” UW Tacoma Digital Commons, digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=gh_theses#:~:text=Analysis%20of%20Shaharazad,in%20Persia%20where%20Shaharazad%20lived.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Ding Ling | Chinese Feminist Author and Novelist.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Oct. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/Ding-Ling.
“Modernity, Sexuality, and Colonial Fantasyin Ding Ling’s “ ...” Studies on Asia. Accessed October 12, 2024. https://castle.eiu.edu/studiesonasia/documents/seriesIV/Wong_Studies_Fall14.pdf.
Smith, Hilda and Berenice Carroll. “When I Was in Xia Village (1941).” Project Muse, muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_monograph/chapter/3990974#:~:text=The%20story%20portrays%20the%20physical,explores%20their%20complex%20con%20sequences.
Yu, Zhengjun, and Yitong Liu. “Space and Romance: A Study of Feminist Position in Miss Sophia’s Diary and Sealed Off.” SHS Web of Conferences, vol. 123, Jan. 2021, p. 01007, doi:10.1051/shsconf/202112301007.
Cai, Keru. “Looking, Reading, and Intertextuality in Ding Ling’s ‘Shafei Nüshi De Riji’ 莎菲女士的日記 (Miss Sophia’s Diary.” Duke University Press, read.dukeupress.edu/prism/article-abstract/17/2/298/167814/Looking-Reading-and-Intertextuality-in-Ding-Ling-s. Accessed 12 Oct. 2024.
Purdue University Press. “Book Details - Purdue University Press.” Purdue University Press, 7 Feb. 2023, www.press.purdue.edu/9781612496443.
Problems With Feminist Ethics. www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialSciences/ppecorino/ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_12_Feminism/Problems.htm.
Feminist Approaches to Literature | Great Writers Inspire. writersinspire.org/content/feminist-approaches-literature.

Examples:

Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.

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Outline of proposed changes

In my article I will be discussing about Chinese feminist literature and proto-literature in the early republic of China, and I will be using these sources to demonstrate and explain the significance of feminist literature and proto-feminist literature. I will choose two specific authors, Ding Ling and Qiu Jin, and their works, Miss Sophia's Diary and Stones of the Jingwei Bird, as an example of feminist literature and proto-feminist literature in the early republic of China, and how they impacted feminism with their works.

Then, I will elaborate more on how these works connect with the history of China during their time through point of view, symbolism, and major themes, and lastly conclude with possible limitations and critiques of feminist literature and proto-feminist literature.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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