Feminisms Redux

An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
Herausgeber: Warhol, Robyn; Herndl, Diane Price

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Produktbeschreibung

Praise for previous editions: "Admirably comprehensive, intelligently organized and introduced, with a wide array of challenging yet accessible essays...For the theoretically inclined this would be an idea book to take to a desert island.-Bells Lettres

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546209
• ISBN-10: 0813546206
• Artikelnr.: 26526947

Autorenporträt

Robyn Warhol-Down is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. In addition to coediting the prior two editons of Feminisms with Diane Price Herndl, she is editor-in-chief of Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing, and the author of numerous works, including Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Rutgers University Press). Diane Price Herndl is a professor of English and director of women's studies at Iowa State University. Along with Robyn Warhol-Down she is the coeditor of the prior two editions of Feminisms, and author of several articles and books, including Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840–1940.

Inhaltsangabe

Canons
* Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of
Authorship" (1979)
* "Dancing Through the Minefield" (1980)
* "What Has Never Been:An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary
Criticism" (1981)
* "Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983)
* "Caste, Class, and Canon "(1981/87)
* "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American
and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989)
* "Introduction" from Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity,
Sexuality, Difference (1997)
Readings
* "Introduction: On the Politics of Literature" from The Resisting
Reader (1978)
* "The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction (1982)
* "Constructing the Subject, Deconstructing the Text" (1985)
* "Introduction" and "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985)
* "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986)
* "Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do With It?" (1986)
* "The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (1990)
* "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (2002)
* "Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres
Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop (1986)
* "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" (1987)
* "Me and My Shadow" (1987)
* "The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter
Grows Up" (1992)
* "Feminist and Ethnic Theories in Asian American Literature" (1993)
* "Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985, 1999)
* "Introduction" from En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial
and Postcolonial Narratives (2000)
Bodies
* "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975)
* "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975)
* "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987)
* "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions" from Gender Trouble
(1999)
* "Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre
Lorde's Cancer Journals" (2002)
* "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2002)
* "The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence"
from Having a Good Cry (2003)