The Feminist Reader (2nd Edition)
Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism
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21 May 1997
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The second edition of this highly successful anthology makes available to the feminist reader a collection of essays which does justice to the range and diversity, as well as to the eloquence and the challenge of recent...
Show MoreThe second edition of this highly successful anthology makes available to the feminist reader a collection of essays which does justice to the range and diversity, as well as to the eloquence and the challenge of recent feminist critical theory and practice. The new, enlarged Feminist Reader includes Toni Morrison's brilliant discussion of a Hemingway short story, Line Pouchard's reading of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian classic, The Well of Loneliness, Marjorie Garber on Elvis and cross-dressing, and Diane Elam on the relation between feminist and postmodernism, in addition to a selection of influential essays by prominent feminist critics and theorists. The book arose directly from the editors' experience of teaching feminist criticism, and their sense of the need for a fully annotated, representative selection of essays for discussion. They have included a summary of each essay, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, new suggestions for further reading and an updated introduction, mapping the field of feminist critical theory.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Story So Far; C.Belsey & J.Moore
Women and Literary History; D.Spender
The True Story of How I Became My Own Person; R.Coward
Disturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks; T.Morrison
Queer Desire in The Well of Loneliness; L.Pouchard
The Difference of View; M.Jacobus
Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past; G.Beer
Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays; H.Cixous
Feminist, Female, Feminine; T.Moi
Women and Madness: the Critical Phallacy; S.Felman
Promises: the Fictional Philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman; J.Moore
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism; C.Spivak
Cross-dressing, Gender and Representation: Elvis Presley; M.Garber
Feminism and the Postmodern: Theory's Romance; D.Elam
Women's Time; J.Kristeva
The Looking Glass, from the Other Side; L.Irigara.- Summaries and Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors Index.