Nina Baym

Feminism and American Literary History

Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings uninteresting or irrelevant to theory. Birke argues that these static views of biology do not serve feminist politics well. As a trained biologist, she uses ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780813518558
• ISBN-10: 0813518555
• Artikelnr.: 22394681

Autorenporträt

Baym, Nina

Inhaltsangabe

Pt. 1. Revising Old American Literary History.
1. Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude
Women Authors.
2. Putting Women in Their Place: The Last of the Mohicans and Other Indian
Stories.
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Mother: A Biographical Speculation.
4. Concepts of the Romance in Hawthorne's America.
5. "Actually, I Felt Sorry for the Lion": Reading Hemingway's "The Short
Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
6. Early Histories of American Literature: A Chapter in the Institution of
New England
Pt. 2. Writing New American Literary History.
7. From Enlightenment to Victorian: Toward a Narrative of American Women
Writers Writing History.
8. Women and the Republic: Emma Willard's Rhetoric of History.
9. The Ann Sisters: Elizabeth Peabody's Gendered Millennialism.
10. Reinventing Lydia Sigourney.
11. Sarah Hale, Political Writer.
12. The Myth of the Myth of Southern Womanhood
Pt. 3. Feminist Writing, Feminist Teaching: Two Polemics.
13. The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary
Theory.
14. Matters for Interpretation: Feminism and the Teaching of Literature