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Inventing herself : claiming a feminist intellectual heritage / Elaine Showalter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Showalter, Elaine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminists--History.
- Feminists.
- Women intellectuals--History.
- Women intellectuals.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2001]
- Summary:
- "Inventing Herself" is an expansive exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a determination to alter the world by experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. Focusing on figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, Showalter uncovers common themes of women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied.
- Notes:
- "A Lisa Drew book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-364) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0684822636
- OCLC:
- 44084238
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