| Description |
xii, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Story So Far / Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore -- 2. Women and Literary History / Dale Spender -- 3. The True Story of How I Became My Own Person / Rosalind Coward -- 4. Disturbing nurses and the kindness of sharks / Toni Morrison -- 5. Queer Desire in The Well of Loneliness / Line Pouchard -- 6. The Differences of View / Mary Jacobus -- 7. Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past / Gillian Beer -- 8. Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays / Helene Cixous -- 9. Feminist, Female, Feminine / Toril Moi -- 10. Women and Madness: the Critical Phallacy / Shoshana Felman -- 11. Promises, Promises: the Fictional Philosophy in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Jane Moore -- 12. Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- 13. Cross-dressing, Gender and Representation: Elvis Presley / Marjorie Garber -- 14. Feminism and the Postmodern: Theory's Performance / Diane Elam |
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15. Women's Time / Julia Kristeva -- 16. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side / Luce Irigaray |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism and literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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| Author |
Moore, Jane, 1962-
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| LC no. |
97012145 |
| ISBN |
1577181298 (cloth) |
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1577181301 (paperback) |
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