The world's wife : poems /
by Duffy, Carol Ann.
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BookPublisher: London : Picador, 2000Edition: Paperback.ISBN: 9780330372220.Subject(s): Married women -- Poetry | Women -- Poetry | PoetrySummary: The World’s Wife is Carol Ann Duffy’s first themed collection of poems (published in 1999). The collection takes characters, stories, histories and myths which focus on men, and, in Duffy’s renowned feminist way, presents them anew for the public to look at the women that were previously obscured behind the men. The World’s Wife discusses themes such as sexism, equality, bereavement and birth, and also looks at important events in history from a female perspective and in a controversial way.
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Book | F DUF (Browse shelf) | Item lost | S159885555 | |||
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Book | F DUF (Browse shelf) | Checked out | 22/12/2022 | S118485555 | ||
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Book | F DUF (Browse shelf) | 2 | Checked out | 30/08/2023 | S153365555 |
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The World’s Wife is Carol Ann Duffy’s first themed collection of poems (published in 1999). The collection takes characters, stories, histories and myths which focus on men, and, in Duffy’s renowned feminist way, presents them anew for the public to look at the women that were previously obscured behind the men. The World’s Wife discusses themes such as sexism, equality, bereavement and birth, and also looks at important events in history from a female perspective and in a controversial way.