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  • Sex, Class and Culture

    by Lillian Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Sex, Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original critical theory and applies it to literature, the visual arts, and mass media. Lillian Robinson was the first American critic to suggest the essential connections among sex, class, and race as forces that shape works of art and the critical response to them. In applying her theory ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Wonder Women

    Feminisms and Superheroes

    by Lillian Robinson ...
    Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Sexual Politics

    by Kate Millett, Rebecca Mead ...
    A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edited by Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

    Selected Prose 1966-1978

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work.At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Between Men

    English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

    by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Feeling Backward

    Loss and the Politics of Queer History

    by Heather Love ...
    Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    by Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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  • Fictions of Authority

    Women Writers and Narrative Voice

    by Susan Sniader Lanser ...
    Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, ... Read more

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  • Academic Instincts

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Paraliterary

    The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

    by Merve Emre ...
    "[Emre's] intellectual moves . . . are many, subtle, and a pleasure to follow. . . . None of her bad readers could have written this very good book." — Los Angeles Review of BooksLiterature departments tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    by Carolyn Heilbrun ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... Read more

    $25.19 USD