This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been ...
This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of 'women's writing', particularly in American literature. Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate Chopin and Willa Cather to Alice Walker and Ann Beattie, Madsen engages with the major debates within feminist studies. Moving on from Showalter's groundbreaking work to broaden the trajectory of feminist concern, this book is an accessible account of the varieties of feminist thought within the context of the key American texts.
作者简介
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Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature at the University of Geneva, and the author of numerous books on aspects of literature, genre, gender and allegory, including Beyond the Borders (Pluto Press, 2003) and Feminist Theory and Literary Practice (Pluto Press, 2000).
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Preface
Introduction: Feminism in America
1. Gender and Rhetoric: Liberal Feminism and Mary Rowlandson
2. Gender and Work: Marxist Feminism and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. Gender and Consciousness: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Kate Chopin
4. Gender and Nature: Ecofeminism and Willa Cather
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Preface
Introduction: Feminism in America
1. Gender and Rhetoric: Liberal Feminism and Mary Rowlandson
2. Gender and Work: Marxist Feminism and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. Gender and Consciousness: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Kate Chopin
4. Gender and Nature: Ecofeminism and Willa Cather
5. Gender and Sexuality: Radical Feminism and Adrienne Rich
6. Gender and Class: Socialist Feminism and Ann Beattie
7. Gender and Race: Feminism of Colour and Alice Walker, Denise Chávez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston
Bibliography
Index
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she remarks that in our patriarchal society erotica and pornography are categorised indistinguishably as obscenity: because sex and violence are so dangerously intertwined and confused. After all, it takes violence or the threat of it to maintain the unearned dominance of any group of human beings over another (pp. 219 220).
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I have seen the extreme vanity of this world. One hour I have been in health and wealth, wanting nothin
Ig, but the next hour in sickness and wounds and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it. I should sometimes be jealous lest I should have my portion in this life, and that scripture would come to mind, Heb 12:6, For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But now I see the Lord had His time to scourge and chasten me (p. 75) (查看原文)
0 有用 Fay Kellum 2012-01-20 19:49:28
感觉不如Elaine Showalter写的
0 有用 Cc_ 2024-01-09 13:11:19 江苏
<女性文学>课程用书
0 有用 妙吉祥虚空藏 2018-09-12 15:54:12
全书的框架非常清晰，先是女性主义史的导论介绍，然后分章具体介绍各种女性主义流派。每章节首先是介绍理论和主要理论家的作品，然后是具体文学文本分析。Deborah说明为了accessibility，她有意将语言简化，整个作品的思路很好，但似乎文本分析浮于表面，过多内容介绍，深入分析不足。而且很多分析似乎与章节主题不同。
0 有用 向上青年小孔 2022-02-06 10:12:17
一本不错的西方女性主义理论入门书 语言简单易懂 章节按照不同流派分类 所以后期再回来引用对应的理论也很方便 参考书目同样有使用价值 大概在一年之前看的 博一期间对我自己的theoretical framework很有帮助！