An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and theory.--Susan Squier, 'Women's Review of Books.'
An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book t...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent and astute manner by first distinguishing between postmodern and antimodern feminisms and then reclaiming postmodern feminism by reconfiguring its relationship to modernism.Too often postmodern feminism is unfairly identified as opposed to modernism and associated with subjectivism and relativism. Flynn" "addresses these problems by provisionally defining postmodern feminism as problematizing and critiquing modernism without directly opposing...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent and astute manner by first distinguishing between postmodern and antimodern feminisms and then reclaiming postmodern feminism by reconfiguring its relationship to modernism.Too often postmodern feminism is unfairly identified as opposed to modernism and associated with subjectivism and relativism. Flynn" "addresses these problems by provisionally defining postmodern feminism as problematizing and critiquing modernism without directly opposing...
Misunderstanding and denigration of postmodern feminism are widespread. Elizabeth Flynn s "Feminism Beyond Modernism "comes to its defense in a cogent...
Reading Sites explores how social differences condition and shape reader response. Bringing to the fore a key but long-unexplored issue, this volume extends reader-response theory and unites it with more recent discussions on the ethics of reading to consider how readers from different class, gender, racial, and ethnic positions respond to texts, authors, and other real or imagined readers. Integrating scholarship from literary studies and composition and rhetoric, Reading Sites examines a host of genres, from nineteenth-century working-class autobiographies and twentieth-century women's...
Reading Sites explores how social differences condition and shape reader response. Bringing to the fore a key but long-unexplored issue, this volume e...
Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience offers an important new conceptual frame for feminist rhetoric, with emphasis on agency, change, and hope in the daily lives of individuals or groups of individuals disempowered by social or material forces. Collectively, these chapters create a robust conception of resilience as a complex rhetorical...
Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection ...
