Changing Subjects : The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780415523561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 296 str.

Gayle Greene; Copp Lia Kahn

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gayle Greene (Scripps College, CA, USA), Coppelia Kahn (Brown University, RI, USA)