Feminisms: An Anthology

Robyn Warhol-Down

Published by Rutgers University Press 1991

Feminisms

An Anthology

Robyn Warhol-Down

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813568409

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In the landmark 1991 edition of Feminisms, Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl assembled the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In this revised edition, the editors have updated the volume, in keeping with the expanding parameters of feminist literary discourse. With the inclusion of more than two dozen new essays, along with a major reorganization of the sections in which they appear, Warhol and Price Herndl have again established the measure for representing the latest developments in the field of feminist literary theory. Believing that the feminist movement can only move forward "where difference commands attention, not dismissal or negativism," they have continued the original collection's mission of providing a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches. This revised edition contains three new sections ("Conflict," "Gaze," and "Practice") and includes more selections by and about women of color and lesbians.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
About Feminisms Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Institutions
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Women and Madness:The Critical Phallacy Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History Jane Tompkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
A Mindless Man-driven Theory Machine: Intellectuality, Sexuality, and the Institution of Criticism" James J. Sosnoski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Not One of the Family: The Repression of the Other Woman in Feminist Theory Helena Michie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Methodologies
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Archimedes and The Paradox of Feminist Criticism Myra Jehlen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism Annette Kolodny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism Bonnie Zimmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Storming theToolshed Jane Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary Theory Nina Baym Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
A Criticismof Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989) Elaine Showalter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Canon
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Anomalousness Joanna Russ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon Lillian S. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Caste, Class, and Canon Paul Lauter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Reflections on Black Women Writers: Revising the Literary Canon Nellie Mckay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Tradition
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The Female Tradition Elaine Showalter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English Catharine R. Stimpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's Fiction Barbara Christian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Body
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The Laugh of the Medusa Hélène Cixous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
This Sex Which Is Not One Luce Irigaray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Écriture féminine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Creativity and the Childbirth Metaphor: Gender Difference in Literary Discourse Susan Stanford Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Desire
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Another “Cause” – Castration Luce Irigaray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
The Father's Seduction Jane Gallop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema Laura Mulvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	432
Women's Time Julia Kristeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Introduction from Between men Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Reading
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Introduction: On the Politics of Literature Judith Fetterley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	492
Reading as a Woman Jonathan Culler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading Patrocinio P. Schweickart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
The Readers and Their Romances Janice Radway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Discourse
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Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text Catherine Belsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
Toward a Feminist Narratology Susan S. Lanser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	610
Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion Barbara Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	630
Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: Rosa Coldfield in Absalom, Absalom! Linda Kauffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	644
Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival Dale Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	671
Ethnicity
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s Barbara Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	690
Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" Paula Gunn Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	732
I'm Here: An Asian American Woman's Response Amy Ling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	738
It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues Hazel Carby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	746
History
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Power and the Ideology of “Woman's Sphere” Judith Lowder Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	765
The Domestic Fantasy Goes West Annette Kolodny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	781
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	798
Class
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Working-Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study Paul Lauter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	837
Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism Cora Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	857
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Leslie W. Rabine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	878
The Rise of the Domestic Woman Nancy Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	894
Between Women: A Cross-Class Analysis of Status and Anarchic Humor Regenia Gagnier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	927
Men
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Reading Woman (Reading) Mary Jacobus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	944
Male Independence and the American Quest Genre: Hidden Sexual Politics in the All-Male Worlds of Melville, Twain and London Joseph A. Boone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	961
"Masculinity as Excess in Vietnam Films: The Father/Son Dynamic of American Culture" Susan Jeffords Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	988
Vas Paul Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1011
Autobiography
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Writing Autobiography Bell Hooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1036
Authorizing the Autobiographical Shari Benstock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1040
Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior: Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling Sidonie Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1058
Me and My Shadow Jane Tompkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1079
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1093
Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1105
Author/Title Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1113
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Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Pages
- Main content: 1118

eBook

Published: November 1, 1991
ISBN: 9780813568409