Feminist Criticism and Social Change : Sex, class and race in literature and culture

ISBN-13: 9780415633147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012

Deborah Rosenfelt; Judith Newton

Opis

This lively collection of essays sets out to theorise and practice a 'materialist-feminist' criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society.Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centurys

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Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Preface.  Introduction: Toward a materialist-feminist criticism Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt.  Part 1: Theory  1. Toward a black feminist criticism Barbara Smith  2. Race and gender in the shaping of the American literary canon: a case study from the twenties Paul Lauter  3. Constructing the subject: deconstructing the text Catherine Belsey  4. Ideology and the cultural production of gender Michele Barrett  5. Writing the body: toward an understanding of l’ecriture feminine Ann Rosalind Jones  Part 2: Applied Criticism  6. Villette Judith Newton  7. Aurora Leigh Cora Kaplan  8. Inverts and experts: Radclyffe Hall and the lesbian identity Sonja Ruehl  9. Shadows uplifted Barbara Christian  10. From the thirties: Tillie Olsen and the radical tradition Deborah Rosenfelt  11. Romance in the age of electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Leslie W. Rabine  12. Real Women Annette Kuhn.  Index.

O autorze

Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton