Sources of the Self

Highlights the issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with reflections, this title focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differential ...

Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

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The teaching of literature.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1\"Beyond\" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2\"Beyond\" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3\"Beyond\" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at \"Home\" - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6\"Routes/Roots\": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303

Geography Lessons@@@Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land .

The Land before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860.

Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community

Feminism, Bakhtin, and the dialogic

In just about half of a colleague's teaching evaluations (twelve of twenty-six evaluations) from two first-year composition and introduction to literature sections, she read objections to her feminist stance, especially her discussions of feminism and pedagogy. Most of the objections came from students who insisted that the classroom ought to be an ideologically neutral space free from the instructor's interests and concerns. The following samples, copied verbatim, suggest the drift of the students' complaints:

The Other "F" Word: The Feminist in the Classroom

The field of American women’s writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories, and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of Americanwomenwriters – fromNativeAmericans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women’s literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.

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The Cambridge history of American women's literature

Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels ""The House of Mirth"" and ""The Age of Innocence"", dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In ""Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics"", Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications. Bauer examines the social and political critique implicit in Wharton's later works, from ""Summer"" (1917) to her last novel ""The Bucaneers"" (published posthumously in 1938). She integrates historical, political and feminist concerns to recast Wharton's antimodernism and to recover the novelist's understanding of public life and private morality. ""Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics"" illustrates how literary criticism can change the course of a literary career. In her refutation of the dominant interpretations of Wharton's literary work, Bauer challenges the prevailing conception of this genteel woman of letters, showing that to read Wharton's works in isolation from her complex politics is to misunderstand Wharton's aims and to miss entirely the exhilarating power of these later fictions.

Dale M. Bauer

Papers

Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community

Feminism, Bakhtin, and the dialogic

The Other "F" Word: The Feminist in the Classroom

The Cambridge history of American women's literature

Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics