{"product_id":"water-women-rhi-johnson-9781049800073","title":"Water Women: Fluxes of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWater Women\u003c\/em\u003e explores the relationship that female agency and autonomy have with bodies of water in the cultural imaginary of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a corpus of poetry, poetic prose, and visual culture by more than twenty authors and artists from Spain, Galicia, Catalonia, Cuba, and Colombia, the book is situated at the intersection of gender studies and new materialisms. It uncovers the ways that a bodily or affective relationship with water creates space for female literary figures to exist outside of the structures of contemporary political and scientific thought-structures that depend on a fabricated biological necessity for woman's natural purity and subjugation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, the sea seduces, overwhelms, and provides safe harbor. Women love, lose, labour, end their lives, and live free as monsters who are one with the waves. \u003cem\u003eWater Women \u003c\/em\u003edetails the edge of the water as a space of liminality, an entry into the water as an assertion of freedom, suicide in the water as an inversion of Ophelia's passive madness, and the role of feminine non-human creatures like sirens and undines in creating a commentary on society's impossible expectations. Through the profound relationship between the natural world and the human, this book opens space for diverse embodiments and performances of gender, agency, and eroticism within our understanding of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhi Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1049800079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781049800073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Rhi Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965571023103,"sku":"9781049800073","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ada19f7a-303d-425b-ba2b-a2e7a456365a.jpg?v=1767281437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/water-women-rhi-johnson-9781049800073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}