Thomas Hardy Femininity and Dissent Author:Thomas Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory "Thomas Hardy's Women: Femininity in Crisis" offers detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: "Desperate Remedies", "A Pair of Blue Eyes", "The Hand of Ethelberta", "A Laodicean", "Two on a Tower" and "The Well-Beloved", demonstrating Hardy's appreciation of how individuals negotia... more »te the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary debate and the woman question, this book reveals a politically engaged rather than a pessimistic Hardy. The book is aimed at departments of literature (courses on Thomas Hardy); womens studies, and feminist theory.« less