Feminist Theory and Literary Practice
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Feminist Theory and Literary Practice

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Feminist Theory and Literary Practice

About this book

This book is an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of 'women's writing', particularly in American literature. Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate Chopin and Willa Cather to Alice Walker and Ann Beattie, Madsen engages with the major debates within feminist studies. Moving on from Showalter's groundbreaking work to broaden the trajectory of feminist concern, this book is an accessible account of the varieties of feminist thought within the context of the key American texts.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780745316024
eBook ISBN
9781849645263
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Index
Social Sciences
Rowlandson, 
Mary, 
1682. 
The 
Sovereignty 
and 
Goodness 
of 
God,
Together 
with 
the 
Faithfulness 
of 
His 
Promises 
Displayed, 
Being
a 
Narrative 
of 
the 
Captivity 
and 
Restoration 
of 
Mrs 
Mary
Rowlandson
, 
ed. 
Neal 
Salisbury. 
Boston: 
Bedford 
Books,
1997.
Vaughn, 
Alden 
T. 
& 
Edward 
W. 
Clark, 
eds, 
1981. 
Puritans
Among 
the 
Indians: 
Accounts 
of 
Captivity 
and 
Redemption,
1676–1724
, 
Cambridge, 
MA 
& 
London: 
Belknap 
Press.
Wollestonecraft, 
Mary, 
1792. 
A 
Vindication 
of 
the 
Rights 
of
Women
, 
New 
York: 
Dover, 
1996.
64
Feminist 
Theory 
and 
Literary 
Practice

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Feminism in America
  4. 1 Gender and Rhetoric: Liberal Feminism and Mary Rowlandson
  5. 2 Gender and Work: Marxist Feminism and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  6. 3 Gender and Consciousness: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Kate Chopin
  7. 4 Gender and Nature: Eco-feminism and Willa Cather
  8. 5 Gender and Sexuality: Radical Feminism and Adrienne Rich
  9. 6 Gender and Class: Socialist Feminism and Ann Beattie
  10. 7 Gender and Race: Feminism of Colour and Alice Walker, Denise Chávez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston
  11. Index