Feminisms

by Warhol, Robyn R.; Herndl, Diane Price

• ISBN13: 9780813523897
• ISBN10: 0813523893
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

Table of Contents

About Feminism
Acknowledgments
Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy	p. 7
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship	p. 21
A Mindless Man-driven Theory Machine: Intellectuality, Sexuality, and the Institution of Criticism	p. 33
The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism	p. 51
Confinements: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy	p. 57
What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism	p. 76
"Anomalousness" and "Aesthetics" from How to Supress Women's Writing	p. 97
Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon	p. 115
Caste, Class, and Canon	p. 129
Reflections on Black Women Writers: Revising the Literary Canon	p. 151
Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism	p. 171
Archimedes and the Paradox of a Feminist Criticism	p. 191
A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory	p. 213
Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory	p. 234
The 'Wild Zone' Thesis as Gloss in Chicana Literary Study	p. 248
Storming the Toolshed	p. 263
The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary Theory	p. 279
Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do with It?	p. 293
Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the 'Other'	p. 311
Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory	p. 326
The Laugh of the Medusa	p. 347
"This Sex Which Is Not One" from This Sex Which Is Not One	p. 363
Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Ecriture feminine	p. 370
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book	p. 384
"Women of Color' Writers and Feminist Theory"	p. 406
"Another 'Cause' - Castration" from Speculum of the Other Woman	p. 430
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema	p. 438
'The Situation of the Looker-On': Gender, Narration, and Gaze in Wuthering Heights	p. 449
When Virginia Looked at Vita, What Did She See; or, Lesbian: Feminist: Woman - What's the Differ(e/a)nce?	p. 467
"The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction	p. 489
"Introduction" and "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire	p. 507
Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction	p. 532
Male Heroes and Female Sex Objects: Sexism in Spike Lee's Malcolm X	p. 555
Introduction: On the Politics of Literature	p. 564
"The Readers and Their Romances" from Reading the Romance	p. 574
Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading	p. 609
Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader	p. 635
Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text	p. 657
Toward a Feminist Narratology	p. 674
Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion	p. 694
"Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival" from Feminist Dialogics	p. 708
When a 'Long' Poem Is a 'Big' Poem: Self-Authorizing Strategies in Women's Twentieth-Century 'Long Poems'	p. 721
"Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop	p. 746
La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness	p. 765
I'm Here: An Asian American Woman's Response	p. 776
The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s	p. 784
Feminist and Ethnic Theories in Asian American Literature	p. 807
Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation	p. 827
Women's Time	p. 860
"Power and the Ideology of Woman's Sphere" from Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860	p. 880
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism	p. 896
Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity	p. 913
The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill	p. 931
Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism	p. 956
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises	p. 976
I Shop Therefore I Am: Is There a Place for Afro-American Culture in Commodity Culture?	p. 992
Discourses of Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Chicano Literature	p. 1009
"Reading Woman (Reading)" from Reading Woman	p. 1029
Masculinity as Excess in Vietnam Films: The Father/Son Dynamic of American Culture	p. 1046
Creation by the Father's Fiat: Paternal Narrative, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Absalom, Absalom!	p. 1068
Pedagogy and Sexuality	p. 1087
Me and My Shadow	p. 1103
"Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior: Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling" from A Poetics of Women's Autobiography	p. 1117
Authorizing the Autobiographical	p. 1138
The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up	p. 1155
About the Authors	p. 1173
Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms	p. 1187
Author/Title Index	p. 1199
Text Permissions	p. 1203
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