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Women and madness: the critical phallacy / Shoshana Felman --<br/>Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar --<br/>A mindless man-driven theory machine: intellectuality, sexuality, and the institution of criticism / James J. Sosnoski --<br/>The highs and lows of black feminist criticism / Barbara Christian --<br/>Confinements: the domestic in the discourses of upper-middle-class pregnancy / Helena Michie --<br/>What has never been: an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism / Bonnie Zimmerman --<br/>Anomalousness ; Aesthetics / Joanna Russ --<br/>Treason our text: feminist challenges to the literary canon / Lillian S. Robinson --<br/>Caste, class, and canon / Paul Lauter --<br/>Reflections on black women writers: revising the literary canon / Nellie McKay --<br/>Dancing through the minefield: some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism / Annette Kolodny --<br/>Archimedes and the paradox of feminist criticism / Myra Jehlen --<br/>A criticism of our own: autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory / Elaine Showalter --<br/>Recycling: race, gender, and the practice of theory / Deborah E. McDowell --<br/>The wild zone thesis as gloss in Chicana literary study / Cordelia Chávez Candelaria --<br/>Storming the toolshed / Jane Marcus --<br/>The madwoman and her languages: why I don't do feminist literary theory / Nina Baym --<br/>Feminist politics: what's home got to do with it? / Biddy Martin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty --<br/>Black feminist theory and the representation of the other / Valerie Smith --<br/>Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis --<br/>The laugh of the Medusa / Hélène Cixous --<br/>This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray --<br/>Writing the body: toward an understanding of l'Écriture féminine / Ann Roselind Jones --<br/>Mama's baby, papa's maybe: an American grammar book / Hortense J. Spillers --<br/>Women of color writers and feminist theory / Margaret Homans --<br/>Another cause: castration / Luce Irigaray --<br/>Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey --<br/>The situation of the looker-on: gender, narration, and gaze in Wuthering Heights / Beth Newman --<br/>When Virginia looked at Vita, what did she see; or Lesbian: feminist: woman : what's the differ(e/a)nce? / Elizabeth Meese --<br/>The father's seduction / Jane Gallop --<br/>Introduction from Between men ; Gender asymmetry and erotic triangles / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick --<br/>Sylvia Townsend Warner and the counterplot of lesbian fiction / Terry Castle --<br/>Male heroes and female sex objects: sexism in Spike Lee's Malcolm X / Bell Hooks --<br/>Introduction: on the politics of literature / Judith Fetterley --<br/>The readers and their romances / Janice Radway --<br/>Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading / Patrocinio P. Schweickart --<br/>Feminism, new historicism, and the reader / Wai-Chee Dimock --<br/>Constructing the subject: deconstructing the text / Catherine Belsey --<br/>Toward a feminist narratology / Susan S. Lanser --<br/>Apostrophe, animation, and abortion / Barbara Johnson --<br/>Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival / Dale Bauer --<br/>When a long poem is a big poem: self-authorizing strategies in women's twentieth-century long poems / Susan Stanford Friedman --<br/>Kochinninako in academe: three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale / Paula Gunn Allen --<br/>La conciencia de la mestiza: towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa --<br/>I'm here: an Asian American woman's response / Amy Ling --<br/>The truth that never hurts: black lesbians in fiction in the 1980s / Barbara Smith --<br/>Feminist and ethnic theories in Asian American literature / Shirley Geok-lin Lim --<br/>Black writing, white reading: race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel --<br/>Women's time / Julia Kristeva --<br/>Power and the ideology of woman's sphere / Judith Lowder Newton --<br/>Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak --<br/>Some call it fiction: on the politics of domesticity / Nancy Armstrong --<br/>The queen of America goes to Washington city: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant --<br/>Pandora's box: subjectivity, class and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism / Cora Kaplan --<br/>Romance in the age of electronics: Harlequin Enterprises / Leslie Rabine --<br/>I shop therefore I am: is there a place for Afro-American culture in commodity culture? / Susan Willis --<br/>Discourses of gender, ethnicity and class in Chicano literature / Rosaura Sánchez --<br/>Reading woman (reading) / Mary Jacobus --<br/>Masculinity as excess in Vietnam films: the father/son dynamic of American culture / Susan Jeffords --<br/>Creation by the father's fiat: paternal narrative, sexual anxiety, and the deauthorizing designs of Absalom, absalom! / Joseph A. Boone --<br/>Pedagogy and sexuality / Joseph Litvak --<br/>Me and my shadow / Jane Tompkins --<br/>Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman warrior: filiality and woman's autobiographical storytelling / Sidonie Smith --<br/>Authorizing the autobiographical / Shari Benstock --<br/>The long goodbye: against personal testimony, or an infant grifter grows up / Linda S. Kauffman. |
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Feminisms is the first fully comprehensive anthology of feminist literary criticism and theory, including 58 essays by 53 well-known critics. Classic and representative essays from the mid-seventies to 1990 are included, covering a spectrum of views from Marxist, deconstructionist, New Historicist, psychoanalytic, structuralist and other approaches to literature and film. The thirteen sections arrange the essays thematically, focusing on issues central to feminist literary theory. |
