Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Angela Carter and Surrealism
'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation,...
Ambiguous Discourse
Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection...
by Taffy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Myth and misconception have obstructed a clear understanding of the poetry and person of Marianne Moore. In this groundbreaking study, Taffy Martin delves beneath the layers of myth and recaptures the excitement that Moore's contemporaries, particularly William Carlos Williams, felt when they encountered...
The Social Life of Criticism
Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves—in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction—as participants in complex networks of literary exchange....
by Yaël Schlick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s...
Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals)
Feminism and Cultural Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters...
by Mary Daly, Robin Morgan, Mary E. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Makes key excerpts from Daly's work accessible to readers who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.
Outrageous, humorous, inflammatory, Amazonian, intellectual, provocative, controversial, and a discoverer of Feminist word-magic, Mary Daly’s influence on Second...
The Once and Future Queen
Guinevere in Arthurian Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Author's Circle Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Sarton Women's Book Prize Winner
Guinevere’s journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years…and it’s not over yet.
Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal...
by Susan Fraiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity"...
Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Chapter 12
Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby examine how the “post-nerd smart girl”--attractive, intelligent and sexually desirable--is portrayed in The Gilmore Girls, High School...
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as “actually-existing colonialisms.” These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial...
Surfacing the Politics of Desire
Literature, Feminism and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2008
A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects...
Between Image and Identity
Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
What does it mean to insist on the visual as a form of psychic and political violence? And how are women specifically targeted by symbolic violence during periods of war and colonization? Between Image and Identity highlights postcolonial feminist efforts to transform violence into aesthetic and political...