Freshly Printed - allow 7 days lead
Couldn't load pickup availability
Gender and Theory
Dialogues on Feminist Criticism
Linda Kauffman (Edited by), L Kauffman (Author)
9780631163565, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 9 February 1989
272 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.397 kg
The political force of feminism cannot be separated from the theories which give it that force. an effective feminist literary criticism must negotiate its relationship to the dominant male voice of traditional practices. Can it change that voice for new ends, or is it robbed of purpose by the inevitably partiarchal nature of traditional discourse? The essays in this book address this question in a complex set of exploratory dialogues between men and women. They open with interchanges on the philosophical foundations of feminist criticisms and questions about the mechanisms of representation. A second group of essays focus on the gendered body in the act of writing and on individual identity and experience in critical theory. Does theory elide questions of gender, race and class? Or does it help illuminate those differences by historicizing and politicizing the body? The further dialogues initiated here probe the network of relations between author, reader, critic and society in discussing the feminization of genres and the problematic of race. Rather than striving for pluralistic consensus as they interrogate the relations of feminism and theory, the many voices presented here employ a dialogic model to create a productive and enlivening debate.
Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction PART I REPRESENTING PHILOSOPHY 9 1 Revolution in Bounds: Wollstonecraft, Women, and Reason 2 Wollstonecraft Our Contemporary 3 The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms 4 Solidarity or Perspectivity? PART II THE BODY WRITING/WRITING THE BODY 119 5 Me and My Shadow 6 Citing the Subject 7 Of Me(n) and Feminism: Who(se) is the Sex that Writes? 8 Men Against Patriarchy PART III TRANSFORMING TEXTS AND SUBJECTS 189 9 Toward a Female Sublime 10 At Risk in The Sublime: The Politics of Gender and Theory 11 The Race for Theory Barbara Christian 225 12 Appropriative Gestures: Theory and Afro-American Literary Criticism Index 247
Linda Kauffman 1
Timothy J. Reiss 11
Frances Ferguson 51
Ellen Messer-Davidow 63
David R. Shumway 107
Jane Tompkins 121
Gerald M. MacLean 140
Joseph Allen Boone 158
Toril Moi 181
Patricia Yaeger 191
Lee Edelman 213
Michael Awkward 238
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
