A Reader
Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 723 g
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8313-0
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field - Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade
- Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies
- Features a new section, Writing 'Glocal', which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies
- Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xvi
1 Finding a Female Tradition
Introduction 1
Extracts from:
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf 9
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing
Elaine Showalter 11
‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’
Adrienne Rich 15
Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
Chris Weedon 19
‘The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies’
Ann Ducille 21
‘Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties’
Paul Lauter 26
‘Telling Feminist Stories’
Clare Hemmings 33
Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture
Rita Felski 37
‘Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought’
Linda R. Williams 41
Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon
Jane Spencer 45
‘Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986’
Nancy K. Miller 47
‘What Women’s Eyes See’
Viviane Forrester 50
‘Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy’
Shoshana Felman 51
Writing Women’s Literary History
Margaret J. M. Ezell 52
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Betty A. Schellenberg 56
2 Women and Literary Production
Introduction 61
Extracts from:
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf 70
‘Professions for Women’
Virginia Woolf 75
Silences
Tillie Olsen 77
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82
‘Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics’
Terry Lovell 90
The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
Jane Spencer 93
‘Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics’
Carol Ohmann 95
‘Toward a Black Feminist Criticism’
Barbara Smith 98
‘Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading’
Isobel Armstrong 103
‘Conversations’
Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106
‘Mapping Contemporary Women’s Fiction after Bourdieu’
Mary Eagleton 110
Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain
Claire Squires 115
The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins
Graham Huggan 119
The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730
Paula Mcdowell 123
‘Black Woman Talk’
Black Woman Talk Collective 126
‘Introduction’, Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Lauretta Ngcobo 127
Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Simone Murray 129
‘Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore’
Kathryn Mcgrath 131
3 Gender and Genre
Introduction 135
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf 143
Literary Women
Ellen Moers 145
‘Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis’
Juliet Mitchell 147
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Armstrong 151
‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’
Susan S. Lanser 154
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives
Marilyn R. Farwell 158
Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms
Robyn R. Warhol 161
‘Introduction’, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Cora Kaplan 163
‘Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights’
Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166
‘Varieties of Women’s Writing’
Clare Brant 167
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
Rosemary Jackson 172
Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today
Rosalind Coward 173
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Alison Light 177
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism
Nicola Humble 182
‘Afterword: The New Woman’s Fiction’
Shari Benstock 186
Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Susan Sellers 187
4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing
Introduction 191
‘“This Novel Changes Lives”: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article “Summer Reading”’
Rosalind Coward 199
‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’
Michèle Barrett 203
‘What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon’
Lillian Faderman 207
‘American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction’
Cheri Register 210
‘Introduction’, Feminism Meets Queer Theory
Elizabeth Weed 216
‘Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’
Annette Kolodny 219
‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’
Elaine Showalter 222
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
Toril Moi 225
Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity
Alice A. Jardine 228
‘Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism’
Rachel Bowlby 230
‘Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism’
Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234
‘Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern’
Robyn Wiegman 235
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Bell Hooks 238
Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism
Madhu Dubey 241
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter
Susan Stanford Friedman 244
The Radical Aesthetic
Isobel Armstrong 248
What is a Woman? And Other Essays
Toril Moi 251
Undoing Gender
Judith Butler 254
‘The Race for Theory’
Barbara Christian 257
‘Woman Can Never Be Defined’
Julia Kristeva 261
‘Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey’s Feminism’
Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262
5 Writing, Reading and Difference
Introduction 266
Literary Women
Ellen Moers 275
Thinking about Women
Mary Ellmann 277
‘Writing Like a Woman’
Peggy Kamuf 280
Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism
Mary Jacobus 282
‘Talking about Polylogue’
Julia Kristeva 284
Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing
Nancy K. Miller 286
The Resisting Reader
Judith Fetterley 288
‘Reading as a Woman’
Jonathan Culler 291
‘Reading Like a Man’
Robert Scholes 294
‘How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book’
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296
The Woman Reader, 1837–1914
Kate Flint 300
Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England
Jan Fergus 303
Reading Groups
Jenny Hartley 306
‘The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’
Luce Irigaray 308
‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ Hélène Cixous 311
‘Castration or Decapitation?’
Hélène Cixous 314
‘Language and Revolution: The Franco–American Dis-connection’
Domna C. Stanton 316
‘Made in America: “French Feminism” in Academia’
Claire Goldberg Moses 318
Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing
Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321
6 Locating the Subject
Introduction 325
‘A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview’
Julia Kristeva 333
‘Femininity and Its Discontents’
Jacqueline Rose 335
Critical Practice
Catherine Belsey 340
What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference
Shoshana Felman 343
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
Janice A. Radway 347
‘Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation’
Seyla Benhabib 349
‘Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory’ Linda Alcoff 352
‘Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory’
Teresa De Lauretis 355
Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference
Diana Fuss 358
‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’
Donna Haraway 361
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Gloria Anzaldúa 366
Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject
Carole Boyce Davies 369
‘The Straight Mind’
Monique Wittig 372
Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375
‘Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology’
Kate Soper 378
7 Writing ‘Glocal’
Introduction 381
En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
Sangeeta Ray 389
Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities
Avtar Brah 391
Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem
Reina Lewis 393
‘French Feminism in an International Frame’
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396
‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’
Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402
‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’
Sara Suleri 405
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
Rey Chow 407
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
Mary Louise Pratt 411
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855–1902
Laura E. Franey 415
‘Introduction’, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers
Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417
Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique
Benita Parry 420
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985
Adrienne Rich 423
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Caren Kaplan 425
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context
Anne Mcclintock 428
Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland
Susan Strehle 432
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Elleke Boehmer 434
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Rosi Braidotti 437
Bibliography of Extracts 439
Index 447
