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Feminist Literary Theory
A Reader
Mary Eagleton (Edited by), M Eagleton (Author)
9781405183130, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2010
512 pages
23.1 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.739 kg
“Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader is an indispensable guide, companion and handbook for students and teachers of women’s literature. No other anthology offers so many bite-sized tasters of work on gendered authorship, literary production, critical reception, sexuality and genre – from romantic fiction to travel writing. Mary Eagleton’s clear and informative introductions contextualize the debates represented by each extract, suggest connections between them and point to further reading. This third edition maintains and develops the irreplaceable breadth of the previous editions with several new pieces on such areas as autobiography, science fiction and border talk. The extra section, ‘Writing “Glocal”’, investigates dynamically evolving dialogues between feminism and postcolonialism, diaspora narratives and transculturalism. Whether you read from start to finish or choose to sample selectively, this rich collection will expand your knowledge and understanding of feminist thought, both as an historical discipline and as an excitingly relevant and progressive set of ideas.”
—Jane Dowson, De Montfort University
Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field.
Preface xii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Finding a Female Tradition Introduction 1 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’ Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory ‘The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies’ ‘Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties’ ‘Telling Feminist Stories’ Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture ‘Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought’ Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon ‘Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986’ ‘What Women’s Eyes See’ ‘Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy’ Writing Women’s Literary History The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain 2 Women and Literary Production Introduction 61 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own ‘Professions for Women’ Silences The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination ‘Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics’ The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen ‘Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics’ ‘Toward a Black Feminist Criticism’ ‘Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading’ ‘Conversations’ ‘Mapping Contemporary Women’s Fiction after Bourdieu’ Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730 ‘Black Woman Talk’ ‘Introduction’, Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics ‘Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore’ 3 Gender and Genre Introduction 135 A Room of One’s Own Literary Women ‘Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis’ Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel ‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’ Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms ‘Introduction’, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems ‘Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights’ ‘Varieties of Women’s Writing’ Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism ‘Afterword: The New Woman’s Fiction’ Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction 4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing Introduction 191 ‘“This Novel Changes Lives”: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article “Summer Reading”’ ‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’ ‘What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon’ ‘American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction’ ‘Introduction’, Feminism Meets Queer Theory ‘Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’ ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity ‘Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism’ ‘Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism’ ‘Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern’ Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter The Radical Aesthetic What is a Woman? And Other Essays Undoing Gender ‘The Race for Theory’ ‘Woman Can Never Be Defined’ ‘Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey’s Feminism’ 5 Writing, Reading and Difference Introduction 266 Literary Women Thinking about Women ‘Writing Like a Woman’ Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism ‘Talking about Polylogue’ Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing The Resisting Reader ‘Reading as a Woman’ ‘Reading Like a Man’ ‘How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book’ The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England Reading Groups ‘The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’ ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ ‘Castration or Decapitation?’ ‘Language and Revolution: The Franco–American Dis-connection’ ‘Made in America: “French Feminism” in Academia’ Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing 6 Locating the Subject Introduction 325 ‘A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview’ ‘Femininity and Its Discontents’ Critical Practice What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire ‘Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation’ ‘Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory’ ‘Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory’ Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject ‘The Straight Mind’ Epistemology of the Closet ‘Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology’ 7 Writing ‘Glocal’ Introduction 381 En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem ‘French Feminism in an International Frame’ ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism ‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’ Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855–1902 ‘Introduction’, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985 Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Bibliography of Extracts 439 Index 447
Virginia Woolf 9
Elaine Showalter 11
Adrienne Rich 15
Chris Weedon 19
Ann Ducille 21
Paul Lauter 26
Clare Hemmings 33
Rita Felski 37
Linda R. Williams 41
Jane Spencer 45
Nancy K. Miller 47
Viviane Forrester 50
Shoshana Felman 51
Margaret J. M. Ezell 52
Betty A. Schellenberg 56
Virginia Woolf 70
Virginia Woolf 75
Tillie Olsen 77
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82
Terry Lovell 90
Jane Spencer 93
Carol Ohmann 95
Barbara Smith 98
Isobel Armstrong 103
Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106
Mary Eagleton 110
Claire Squires 115
Graham Huggan 119
Paula Mcdowell 123
Black Woman Talk Collective 126
Lauretta Ngcobo 127
Simone Murray 129
Kathryn Mcgrath 131
Virginia Woolf 143
Ellen Moers 145
Juliet Mitchell 147
Nancy Armstrong 151
Susan S. Lanser 154
Marilyn R. Farwell 158
Robyn R. Warhol 161
Cora Kaplan 163
Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166
Clare Brant 167
Rosemary Jackson 172
Rosalind Coward 173
Alison Light 177
Nicola Humble 182
Shari Benstock 186
Susan Sellers 187
Rosalind Coward 199
Michèle Barrett 203
Lillian Faderman 207
Cheri Register 210
Elizabeth Weed 216
Annette Kolodny 219
Elaine Showalter 222
Toril Moi 225
Alice A. Jardine 228
Rachel Bowlby 230
Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234
Robyn Wiegman 235
Bell Hooks 238
Madhu Dubey 241
Susan Stanford Friedman 244
Isobel Armstrong 248
Toril Moi 251
Judith Butler 254
Barbara Christian 257
Julia Kristeva 261
Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262
Ellen Moers 275
Mary Ellmann 277
Peggy Kamuf 280
Mary Jacobus 282
Julia Kristeva 284
Nancy K. Miller 286
Judith Fetterley 288
Jonathan Culler 291
Robert Scholes 294
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296
Kate Flint 300
Jan Fergus 303
Jenny Hartley 306
Luce Irigaray 308
Hélène Cixous 311
Hélène Cixous 314
Domna C. Stanton 316
Claire Goldberg Moses 318
Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321
Julia Kristeva 333
Jacqueline Rose 335
Catherine Belsey 340
Shoshana Felman 343
Janice A. Radway 347
Seyla Benhabib 349
Linda Alcoff 352
Teresa De Lauretis 355
Diana Fuss 358
Donna Haraway 361
Gloria Anzaldúa 366
Carole Boyce Davies 369
Monique Wittig 372
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375
Kate Soper 378
Sangeeta Ray 389
Avtar Brah 391
Reina Lewis 393
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396
Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399
Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402
Sara Suleri 405
Rey Chow 407
Mary Louise Pratt 411
Laura E. Franey 415
Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417
Benita Parry 420
Adrienne Rich 423
Caren Kaplan 425
Anne Mcclintock 428
Susan Strehle 432
Elleke Boehmer 434
Rosi Braidotti 437
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
