Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415752312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Jane Gallop

Opis

Jane Gallop's book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being 'academic'?

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Around 1981  1. The Difference Within (Writing and Sexual Difference)  2. The Problem of Definition (The New Feminist Criticism)  Part 2: Sidetracks  3. "French feminism" (L’Arc 61)  4. The Monster in the Mirror (Yale French Studies 62)  5. Reading the Mother Tongue (The (M)other Tongue)  6. The Coloration of Academic Feminism (The Poetics of Gender)  Part 3: Going Back  7. Writing About Ourselves (Images of Women in Fiction)  8. An Idea Presented Before Its Time (Feminist Literary Criticism)  9. A Contradiction in Terms (Feminist Criticism)  Part 4: Going On (In)  10. Tongue Work (Conjuring)  11. The Attraction of Matrimonial Metaphor (Making a Difference)  12. History is Like Mother (Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship) Afterword

O autorze

Jane Gallop