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Book Synopsis"An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and theory."--Susan Squier, 'Women's Review of Books.'
Trade ReviewAn unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism... I found Gender and Reading a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and theory. -- Susan Squier Women's Review of Books.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part I. Research and Theory
Chapter 1. The Reader's Consturction of Meaning: Cognitive Research on Gender and Comprehension
Chapter 2. Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading
Chapter 2. Ourself behind Ourself: A Theory for Lesbian Readers
Part II. Texts
Chapter 4. Taking the Gold Out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman
Chapter 5. Fathers and Daughters:" Women as Readers of the Tatler
Chapter 6. Malraux's Women: A Re-vision
Chapter 7. Reading about Reading: "A Jury of Her Peers," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Chapter 8. "As the Twig Is Bent . . .": Gender and Childhood Reading
Part III. Readers
Chapter 10. Gothic Possibilities
Chapter 11. Gender Interests in Reading and Language
Chaper 12. Gender and Reading
A Selected Annotated Bibliography
Contributors
