Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice

ISBN-13: 9780333683460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 218 str.

S. Watkins

Opis

This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- First Wave Feminism: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own, Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex, Doris Lessing: 'To Room 19'.- Liberal Feminism: Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique and The Second Stage, Alison Lurie: The War Between the Tates.- Marxist Feminism: Sheila Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness; Man's World, Michèle Barrett: Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist Feminist Encounter, Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook .- Psychoanalytic Feminism: Juliet Mitchell: Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Nancy Chodorow: The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Margaret Atwood: Lady Oracle.- Poststructuralist Feminism: Hélène Cixous: 'The Laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray: 'When our Lips Speak Together', Julia Kristeva: 'From One Identity to Another', Virginia Woolf: Orlando.- Postmodernism and Feminism: Alice Jardine: Gynesis: Configurations of Women and Modernity, Seyla Benhabib: 'Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism', Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus .- Lesbian Feminism and Queer Theory: Adrienne Rich: 'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence', Monique Wittig: 'One is Not Born a Woman', Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry .- Black Feminism and Post-Colonial Theory: Barbara Smith: 'Toward a Black Feminist Criticism', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography', Bell Hooks: 'Postmodern Blackness', Toni Morrison: Sula.- Concluding Note/Postscript.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

SUSAN WATKINS is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.