Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2012
300 pages
978-1-136-32160-3 (ISBN)
Description
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia and without, as students, professors, scholars, political activists, women. From these diverse histories a collective history emerges of the development of feminism as an intellectual and social movement, as a heuristic tool, as the redefinition of knowledge and power.
This book presents a history of the field through the eyes of those who have created it. Offering a spectrum of experiences and critical positions that engage with current debates in feminism, it will be valuable to teachers and students of feminist theory, women's studies, and the history of the women's movement. It will interest female writers and scholars in all disciplines and anyone who cares about feminism and its future.
This book presents a history of the field through the eyes of those who have created it. Offering a spectrum of experiences and critical positions that engage with current debates in feminism, it will be valuable to teachers and students of feminist theory, women's studies, and the history of the women's movement. It will interest female writers and scholars in all disciplines and anyone who cares about feminism and its future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
9,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-32160-3 (9781136321603)
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Persons
Gayle Greene (Scripps College, CA, USA), Coppelia Kahn (Brown University, RI, USA)
Content
Introduction 1. Looking At History Part 1: Decades 2. Decades 3. History/My History 4. Imaginary Gardens with Real Frogs in Them: Feminist Euphora and the Franco-American Divide, 1976-88 5. Radical Optimism, Maternal Materialism and Teaching Literature Part 2: Reading/Writing Against the Grain 6. Reader, I Married Me: A Polygynous Memoir 7. In Academia, and Out: The Experience of a Lesbian Feminist Literary Critic 8. Except Thou Ravish Me: Penetrations into the Life of the (Feminine) Mind Molly Hite 9. The Long Goodbye: Against the Personal Testimony or, an Infant Grifter Grows Up 10. Feminism, the Roaring Girls and Me Part 3: Legacies 11. Mother 12. Getting Gendered 13. Loss and Recovery: Homes Away from Home 14. Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-American Women's Novels 15. Generational Differences: Reliving Mother-Daughter Conflicts Part 4: Connections and Contradictions 16. Stormy Weather: A Memoir of the Second Wave 17. On Having a Personal Voice 18. Asians in Anglo-American Feminism: Reciprocity and Resistance 19. Growing Up Theoretical: Across the Divide. Afterword
