Feminisms Redux

by Warhol-Down, Robyn; Herndl, Diane Price

• ISBN13: 9780813546209
• ISBN10: 0813546206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

The 1991 landmark edition of Feminisms presented the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In 1997, to remain within the expanded parameters of feminist literary discourse, the volume was updated to include more than two dozen new essays.

Author Biography

Robyn Warhol-Down is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University. She is editor-in-chief of Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing, and the author of Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Rutgers University Press) and Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms. Diane Price Herndl is a professor of English and director of women's studies at lowa State University. She is the coeditor of Women's Worlds and the author of Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940.

Table of Contents

About Feminisms Redux	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Canons	p. 3
"Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" from The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (1979)	p. 9
"Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (1980)	p. 21
"What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism" (1981)	p. 40
"Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983)	p. 61
"Caste, Class, and Canon" (1981/1987)	p. 70
"A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989)	p. 92
"Introduction" from Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, Difference (1997)	p. 113
Readings	p. 131
"Introduction: On the Politics of Literature" from The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (1978)	p. 136
"The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982)	p. 146
"Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text" (1985)	p. 164
"Introduction" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985)	p. 181
"Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985)	p. 198
"Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986)	p. 206
"Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do with It?" (1986)	p. 220
"The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (1990)	p. 238
"Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (2002)	p. 244
Histories	p. 277
"Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986)	p. 284
"La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" from Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)	p. 303
"Me and My Shadow" (1989)	p. 314
"The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up" (1992)	p. 328
"Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature" (1993)	p. 345
"Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999)	p. 365
"Introduction" from En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000)	p. 390
Bodies	p. 411
"The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975)	p. 416
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975)	p. 432
"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987)	p. 443
"Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions" from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1999)	p. 465
"Reconstructing the Posthurnan Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals" (2002)	p. 477
"Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2002)	p. 487
"The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence" from Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (2003)	p. 514
About the Authors	p. 525
Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms Redux	p. 533
Author/Title Index	p. 539
Permissions	p. 541
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