Still mad : American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020 / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Sandra M., author.

Gubar, Susan, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature.

History.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--21st century.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature--United States--History--21st century.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 441 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave. In Still Mad, they offer lively readings of major works by such writers as Sylvia Plath, Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. To address shifting social attitudes over seven decades, they discuss polemics by thinkers from Kate Millett and Susan Sontag to Audre Lorde, Andrea Dworkin, and Judith Butler. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains-including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality-they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Glass Ceilings and Broken Glass

How the Seventies Changed Our Lives

The Schooling of Hillary Rodham and Her Generation

The Cultural Chaos We Face

Keeping Things Going

SECTION I STIRRINGS IN THE FIFTIES

1. Midcentury Separate Spheres

Sylvia Plath's Paper Dolls

His And Her Time

Anatomy and Destiny

2. Race, Rebellion, and Reaction

Diane di Prima as a Feminist Beatnik

Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville

The Stages of Lorraine Hansberry's Militancy

Audre Lorde's Lesbian Biomythography

Joan Didion's Vogue versus Betty Friedan's Problem That

Has No Name

SECTION II ERUPTIONS IN THE SIXTIES

3. Three Angry Voices

Plath Despairs While Ariel Takes Wing

Adrienne Rich as a Cultural Daughter-in-Law

Nina Simone, Diva

4. The Sexual Revolution and the Vietnam War

Sex in New York City: Gloria Steinem versus Helen Gurley Brown

Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and San Francisco

Women Strike for Peace

Valerie Solanas and the Rise of the Second Wave

SECTION III AWAKENINGS IN THE SEVENTIES

5. Protesting Patriarchy

Kate Millett's Touchstone Book

Susan Sontag as Feminist Philosopher

Best Sellers in the Womanhouse: From Toni Morrison to Marilyn French

Plath's Electric Take on the Fifties

6. Speculative Poetry, Speculative Fiction

The Metamorphoses of Adrienne Rich

Dystopias and Utopias

Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr.

Joanna Russ's Misandry

Ursula Le Guin's Androgyny

7. Bonded and Bruised Sisters

Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker at Mr.

Audre Lorde Dismantles the Master's House

Maxine Hong Kingston's Ghosts and Warriors

The Dinner Party

SECTION IV REVISIONS IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES

8. Identity Politics

Andrea Dworkin and the Sex Wars

Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Consciousness

Adrienne Rich's Judaism

The Intersectionality of Toni Morrison

9. Inside and Outside the Ivory Closet

The Culture Wars

The Queer Theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler

Anne Carson's Poetics of Love and Loss

Postmodernism/Transsexualism

Who Owns Feminism?

SECTION V RECESSIONS/REVIVALS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

10. Older and Younger Generations

The New Millennium

Alison Bechdel's Literary Genealogy

Are You My Mother?

Eve Ensler's V-Days

Transgender Visibility: From Susan Stryker to Maggie Nelson

11. Resurgence

Claudia Rankine Makes Black Lives Matter

The Broken Earth of N. K. Jemisin

Patricia Lockwood Sends Up the Church and the Family Romance

Headlining Feminism: From Rebecca Solnit to Beyonce

Keeping Things Stirring.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-412) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780393651713

0393651711

OCLC:

1196173051