Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a natural fact but a social construct, a subject to study in any humanistic discipline. This challenging collection of essays by prominent feminist literary critics offers a comprehensive introduction to modes of critical practice being used to trace the construction of gender in literature.
The collection provides an invaluable overview of current femionist critical thinking. Its essays address a wide range of topics: the rerlevance of gender scholarship in the social sciences to literary criticism; the tradition of women's literature and its relation to the canon; the politics of language; French theories of the feminine; psychoanalysis and feminism; feminist criticism of writing by lesbians and black women; the relationship between female subjectivity, class, and sexuality; feminist readings of the canon.

About the Author
Gayle Greene is Associate Professor English at Scripps College, Claremont, Ca. Coppelia Kahn is Professor of English at Brown University, Providence, RI. The other contributors are Nelly Furman, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Ann Rosalind Jones, Cora Kaplan, Sydney Janet Kaplan, Adrienne Munich, Susan Willis and Bonnie Zimmerman.


Book Information
ISBN 9780415010115
Author Gayle Green
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 317g