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Literary Feminisms
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Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism's blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist, psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wallpaper, she also points out how the student reader can begin to make her or his own feminist criticism, and can learn to engage with both the politics and poetics of the literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Gestures Towards Definitions
SECTION ONE: HISTORIES
Liberal, Materialist and Socialist Literary Feminisms
Images of Women Criticism
The Woman as Writer: Forging Female Traditions
SECTION TWO: (PSYCHO)ANALYSES
Psychoanalysis and/or Feminism?
Julia Kristeva: Rewriting the Subject
'Mirror, Mirror...': Luce Irigaray and Reflections of and on the Feminine
Helene Cixous: Laughing at the Oppositions
SECTION THREE: DIFFERENCES
Differences of View and Viewing the Differences: Challenging Female Traditions
SECTION FOUR: READINGS
Reading the Boys' Own Stories
Reading the Writing on the Wall: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
The Mark on the Wall: Marking Differences, Marking Time
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.
Product details
| Published | 09 Feb 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 290 |
| ISBN | 9780333689196 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | Transitions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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