Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
The 1991 landmark edition of Feminisms presented the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. By 1997, realizing the need to update the work to remain within the expanded parameters of feminist literary discourse, the volume was revised to include more than two dozen new essays.\ Now, at the dawn of a new century of thought and action, it is important once again to revisit the canon of feminist literary criticism and theory and...
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The 1991 landmark edition of Feminisms presented the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In 1997, the volume was revised to include more than two dozen new essays. Now Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl revisit the canon of feminist literary criticism and theory once again and re-establish the measure for representing the latest developments in the field. Feminisms Redux provides academics and general readers with a newly revised and indispensable collection of essays representing the range of feminist literary criticism.
About Feminisms Redux Robyn Warhol-Down Diane Price Herndl ixAcknowledgments xixCanons 3"Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" from The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (1979) Sandra M. Gilbert Sesan Gubar 9"Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (1980) Annette Kolodny 21"What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism" (1981) Bonnie Zimmerman 40"Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) Joanna Russ 61"Caste, Class, and Canon" (1981/1987) Paul Lauter 70"A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989) Elaine Showalter 92"Introduction" from Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, Difference (1997) Juliana Makuchi Nafh-Abbenyi 113Readings 131"Introduction: On the Politics of Literature" from The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (1978) Judith Fetterley 136"The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982) Jane Gallop 146"Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text" (1985) Catherine Belsey 164"Introduction" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) Eve Kosofsky Sedwick 181"Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) Eve Kosofsky Sedwick 198"Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986) Barbara Johnson 206"Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do withIt?" (1986) Biddy Martin Chandra Talpade Mohanty 220"The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (1990) Barbara Christian 238"Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (2002) Lauren Berlant 244Histories 277"Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986) Paula Gunn Allen 284"La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" from Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) Gloria Anzaluda 303"Me and My Shadow" (1989) Jane Tomplins 314"The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up" (1992) Linda S. Kauffman 328"Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature" (1993) Shirley Geik-Lin Lim 345"Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 365"Introduction" from En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) 390Bodies 411"The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) Hélène Cixous 416"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) Laura Mulvey 432"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) Hortense J. Spillers 443"Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions" from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1999) Judith Butler 465"Reconstructing the Posthurnan Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals" (2002) Diane Price Herndl 477"Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2002) Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 487"The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence" from Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (2003) Robyn Warhol-Down 514About the Authors 525Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms Redux 533Author/Title Index 539Permissions 541
\ Choice"Providing rich material for academic users, this volume is perhaps even more accessible to readers outside the academy than earlier editions were. Recommended."\ \ \ \ \ Feminist Formations"Feminisms Redux reflects a pluralistic approach to feminist literary history. The editors invite readers to remap the nexus of women's literatures and their commentaries on canons."\ \ \
