Feminist theory and literary practice / Deborah L. Madsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madsen, Deborah L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--United States.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Feminism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of 'women's writing', particularly in American literature.Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate Chopin and Willa Cather to Alice Walker and Ann Beattie, Madsen engages with the major debates within feminist studies. Moving on from Showalter's groundbreaking work to broaden the trajectory of feminist concern, this book is an accessible account of the varieties of feminist thought within the context of the key American texts.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Feminism in America

1 Gender and Rhetoric: Liberal Feminism and Mary Rowlandson

Survey of Liberal Feminist Theory

Liberal Feminism in Praxis

References and Selected Further Reading

2 Gender and Work: Marxist Feminism and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Survey of Marxist Feminist Theory

Marxist Feminism in Praxis

3 Gender and Consciousness: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Kate Chopin

Survey of Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory

Psychoanalytic Feminism in Praxis

4 Gender and Nature: Eco-feminism and Willa Cather

Survey of Eco-feminist Theory

Eco-feminism in Praxis

5 Gender and Sexuality: Radical Feminism and Adrienne Rich

Survey of Radical Feminist Theory

Radical Feminism in Praxis:

6 Gender and Class: Socialist Feminism and Ann Beattie

Survey of Socialist Feminist Theory

Socialist Feminism in Praxis

7 Gender and Race: Feminism of Colour and Alice Walker, Denise Chávez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston

Survey of Feminism of Colour

Third- World Feminism in Praxis

Index

abolition

38

214

227

abolition,

3

4

abortion

7

8

23

99

155

217

Adams, Carol

14

122

131-5

affirmative action

216

AIDS 29

alienation 19

Allen, Paula Gunn

213

218-19

235

Althusser, Louis

70

71-2

America

colonial, 2

colonial, 47-62

Revolutionary, 3

Revolutionary, 35

American Constitution

36

anarchism 67

androgyny

19

128

165

Angelou, Maya 226.

anorexia 26

Anthony, Susan B.

1

6

anthropology 46

Anzaldúa, Gloria

218

219

Aristotle 126

art

24

66

74

159

176

Auden, W.H. 173

Austen, Jane

89

avant-garde

98

backlash

26-7

28

Barrett, Michèle

65

67

69-72

73

Baym, Nina 16

Beattie, Ann

xi

184

196-210

Beauvoir, Simone de

94

191

Benhabib, Seyla 37

Bible

47

51

52

54

57

137

Bigwood, Carol

125

126-9

binary thought

96

104

123

124

biology

16

46

97

bisexuality

Blatch, Harriet Stanton 6

body

103

106

107

feminine, 10

feminine, 153

feminine, 155

feminine, 171

feminine, 191

feminine, 217

maternal, 22

maternal, 130

Brownmiller, Susan 12

bulimia 26

Bunch, Charlotte 156

Butler, Judith

2

20-2

Campion, Thomas 175

canon

x

72

187

capitalism

20

41

43

captivity

49

50

53

56

59

61

captivity narrative 49-62

Cather, Willa

135-47

censorship

25

charity 7

Chicanas

229

childcare

37

78

80

86

171

Chodorow, Nancy

18

95

Chopin, Kate

108-18

Christianity 5

Chávez, Denise

220

229-32

Cisneros, Sandra 220

civil liberty

civil rights

9

15

30

173

Cixous, Hélène

127

Clark, Edward W. 60

class

xii

22

68

71

colonialism

133

134

179

commodity

69

129

131

190

Constitutional Convention 3.

consumer, woman as

consumption 134

contraception

192

covenant, federal

48

Curie, Marie 175

d'Eaubonne, Françoise 122

Daly, Mary

152

156

163-7

168

Davis, Angela

226

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

39

deconstruction

132

democracy

Derrida, Jacques 126

Descartes, René 104

desire

45

105

108

Dickinson, Emily 175

Diderot, Denis 175

discourse

21

discrimination

154

divorce

27

40

domesticity

42

Duras, Marguerite 19

Dustan, Hannah 49

Dworkin, Andrea

160-3

eco-feminism

13-14

122-47

ecology

130

economics

35

education

5

Eisenstein, Zillah

193-6

Eliot, George 89

emancipation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 4

Engels, Frederick

157

Enlightenment, the 47

environmentalism 130

equal rights

77

188

Equal Rights Amendment

Erikson, Erik 100-1

erotic

169

172

erotica

11

essentialism

17

Evans, Sara 8-9

evolution 41

Faludi, Susan

26-8

family

fashion 27

Father, the

femininity

13

44

feminism

cultural, 20

cultural, 21

cultural, 22

cultural, 97

cultural, 98

cultural, 123

eco-feminism, 13-14.

eco-feminism, 122-47

First Wave, 3-7

French, 2

French, 18-20

French, 97

French, 105

liberal feminism, 35-62

liberal feminism, 155

liberal feminism, 216

literary theory, 14-22

Marxist feminism, xi, 65-92

postmodern, 2

postmodern, 20

postmodern, 22

psychoanalytic feminism, 94-118

psychoanalytic feminism, 124

psychoanalytic feminism, 185

radical, 28

radical, 70

radical, 71

radical, 126

radical, 152-80

radical, 193

Second Wave, 7-14

Second Wave, 26

Second Wave, 187

Second Wave, 190

Second Wave, 215

socialist feminism, xi, 36

socialist feminism, xi, 66

socialist feminism, xi, 184-210

Fetterley, Judith

186

Firestone, Shulamith

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 186

Flax, Jane

102-5

Foucault, Michel

126

freedom

109

117

French feminism

18-20

Freud, Sigmund

100

Friedan, Betty

43-7

215

frontier, the

135

136

139

Fuller, Margaret

4-6

Gallop, Jane

gaze, the masculine

gender

essence, 17

essence, 18

essence, 19

essence, 21

essence, 97

essence, 99

xii, 15

xii, 17

xii, 19

xii, 21

xii, 22

xii, 38

xii, 40

Genet, Jean 97

genocide

232

genre 16

Gilbert, Sandra 16

Gilligan, Carol

98-101

102

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

41-3

76-92

Goldman, Emma

67-9

Gothic

76

88

90.

Griffin, Susan 13

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of

233

Gubar, Susan 16

harassment, sexual

29

Harjo, Joy 218

Hartsock, Nancy

83

Hefner, Hugh 9-10

Heidegger, Martin 126

Hemingway, Ernest 186

Herschel, Caroline 175

heterosexuality

167

compulsory 2

compulsory 152

compulsory 154-5

compulsory 170-3

hierarchy, 122

hierarchy, 123

hierarchy, 124

hierarchy, 126

hierarchy, 131

hierarchy, 132

historical materialism

history

Hobbes, Thomas 104

hooks, bell

Howells, William Dean

88-9

90

ideology

91

incest

26

166

221

Indians, American

64

individualism

infertility 27

Irigaray, Luce

James, Henry 75

Johnson, Dr Samuel 175

Jones, Gayle 226

Joyce, James

Judeo-Christianity

Kennedy, John F. 8

King, Ynestra

Kingston, Maxine Hong

153

Koedt, Anne 156

Kolodny, Annette 51

Kristeva, Julia

labour, sexual division of

189

Lacan, Jacques

language

law

12

Lawrence, D.H. 15

legislation

lesbian feminism

170

lesbianism

154-5

liberal feminism

35-62.

155.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645263

1849645264

9780585425863

0585425868

OCLC:

50811087