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A collection of essays that represent the range of feminist literary criticism.

Trade Review
"Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *
"Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons."
* Feminist Formations *
"Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *
"Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons."
* Feminist Formations *

Table of Contents
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)

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      Publisher: MW - Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/9/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813546209, 978-0813546209
      ISBN10: 0813546206
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of essays that represent the range of feminist literary criticism.

      Trade Review
      "Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *
      "Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons."
      * Feminist Formations *
      "Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended." * Choice *
      "Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons."
      * Feminist Formations *

      Table of Contents
      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)

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