Synopses & Reviews
"... an important and valuable collection... the essays are at the cutting edge of post modernism." --Maggie Humm, Women's Studies International Forum
"This well-written, carefully edited anthology provides an excellent overview of the thicket of contemporary feminist literary theory... No library should be without it." --Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review
"In all, this is a rich and varied collection." --Journal of Modern Literature
Explores the aesthetic and political issues inherent in feminist critical theory and practice. Contributors include Shari Benstock, Elaine Showalter, Nina Baym, Paula A. Treichler, Jane Marcus, Josephine Donovan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Judith Newton, Lillian S. Robinson, Nina Auerbach, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Hortense J. Spillers, and Susan Stanford Friedman.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Catharine R. Simpson
Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris
Shari Benstock
Women's Time, Women's Space: Writing the History of Feminist Criticism
Elaine Showalter
The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary Theory
Nina Baym
Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in The Yellow Wallpaper
Paula A. Treichler
Still Practice, A/Wrested Alphabet: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic
Jane Marcus
Toward a Women's Poetics
Josephine Donovan
Gender, Values, and Lessing's Cats
Judith Kegan Gardiner
Making-and Remaking-History: Another Look at "Patriarchy"
Judith Newton
Feminist Criticism: How Do We Know When We've Won?
Lillian S. Robinson
Engorging the Patriarchy
Nina Auerbach
To Write My Self: The Autobiographies of Afro-American Women
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
A Hateful Passion, A Lost Love
Hortense J. Spillers
Modernism of the Scattered Remnant: Race and Politics in H.D.'s Development
Susan Stanford Friedman
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX