Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
The Middle of Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a...
Keeping up Her Geography
Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and...
Eugenic Feminism
Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic project—sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United...
by Aubrey Tang, Fang-yu Li, Yenna Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Li Ang (1952–) is a famous and prolific feminist writer from Taiwan who challenges and subverts sociocultural traditions through her daring explorations of sex, violence, women’s bodies and desire, and national politics. As a taboo-breaking writer and social critic, she uses fiction to expose...
by Florence Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas; 25 May 1855 – 7 November 1905), was a Scottish traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist. Her account of travelling Across Patagonia, her children's books The Young Castaways and Aniwee, or, The Warrior Queen, and her feminist utopia Gloriana,...
by Kate Zambreno
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order―pretending an objectivity where...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
Tainted Witness
Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony...
by Sharon Patricia Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...
Motherhood in Literature and Culture
Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers...
by Sherry Ceniza
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.
Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850s, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling...
by Olive Higgins Prouty
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film that concludes with Bette Davis’s famous words, reaffirmed Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins...
by Kate Millett, Rebecca Mead
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths...
Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open...