Critical condition : feminism at the turn of the century / Susan Gubar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gubar, Susan, 1944-

Series:

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Given a feminism now ensconced within higher education as specialized or fractious scholarship, Susan Gubar's "Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century" demonstrates that an invigorated concentration on activism and artistry can accentuate not the clinical or disparaging meaning of "critical" but its sense of compelling urgency and irreverent vitality.

Contents:

Part I Enormous Changes At The Last Minute

2. Women Artists and Contemporary Racechanges 21

3. Lesbian Studies 101 (As Taught by Creative Writers) 45

4. Eating the Bread of Affliction: Judaism and Feminism 69

5. The Graying of Professor Erma Bombeck 91

Part II Contending Forces

6. What Ails Feminist Criticism? 113

7. Feminist Misogyny; or, The Paradox of "It Takes One to Know One" 135

8. A Chapter on the Future 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231115806

OCLC:

41564928