Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture
This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to...
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This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country’s leading scholars of American Studies.
Introduction 1I Changing the StoryThe Borderlands of Culture 15Making a Change 33Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic 47Changing the Story 63Essentialism and Its Discontents 81II Men Reading and Writing Women/Women Reading and Writing MenDreiser and the Discourse of Gender 91Mark Twain and Women 109An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston 131The Bondwoman's Escape 139III Humor and ChutzpahFeminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman 149Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker 167Erica Jong 177Epilogue 203Notes 209Bibliography 235Acknowledgments 267Index 269
