Feminist Engagements Forays into American Literature and Culture

by Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

• ISBN13: 9780312238582
• ISBN10: 0312238584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars of American Studies.

Author Biography

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Changing the Story
The Borderlands of Culture	p. 15
Making a Change	p. 33
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	p. 47
Changing the Story	p. 63
Essentialism and Its Discontents	p. 81
Men Reading and Writing Women/Women Reading and Writing Men
Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender	p. 91
Mark Twain and Women	p. 109
An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston	p. 131
The Bondwoman's Escape	p. 139
Humor and Chutzpah
Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 149
Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker	p. 167
Erica Jong	p. 177
Epilogue	p. 203
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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